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Fast Forward Israel Sends Support After Deadly Texas Church Shooting
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli leaders sent messages of support to the United States in the wake of a Texas church shooting that left at least 26 people dead. “Horrified by the savagery in Texas,” Israeli Prime Minister said in a statement that his office also tweeted. “Our hearts are with the victims, their families and…
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Fast Forward Should Israel Pardon Soldier Who Shot Downed Palestinian Terror Suspect?
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman asked the country’s president to pardon an Israeli soldier convicted of shooting and killing an injured Palestinian terrorist as he lay on the ground. In a letter sent on Sunday to President Reuven Rivlin on behalf of jailed soldier Elor Azaria, Liberman said: “We must put an…
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Fast Forward Nikki Haley Tells Israeli Americans Of Strong Stance At UN
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States is ready to pull out of the U.N. Human Rights Council unless it institutes reforms, including removing Israel as a permanent item on its agenda, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told an Israeli American audience. “The Human Rights Council will either adopt these reforms, or the United States will leave,”…
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Fast Forward Is Ivanka Trump Getting Into Kabbalah With Red Thread Bracelet?
Ivanka Trump has been spotted several times since the early summer sporting a thin red thread tied around her wrist. Set against the backdrop of her meticulously styled “looks,” complete with Ivanka Trump-brand jewelry, dresses and shoes, the red threat might seem out of place — even off-brand. But the bracelet has special significance to…
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Fast Forward Christian Zionists See Signs Of The Messiah In Big Israel Anniversaries
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Fifty years since the Six-Day War, 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, 150 years since Mark Twain first visited Palestine. This has been a year of big Israel-related anniversaries. To the Jewish state’s most diehard Christian supporters, the barrage of milestones is not mere coincidence but rather a harbinger of prophecies being…
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Opinion Israel: Take Note — The NYPD Didn’t Kill Manhattan Terrorist
I watched in horror along with the rest of the world as a terror attack unfolded in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, October 31. A 29-year-old from Uzbekistan named Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov intentionally plowed into bicyclists and pedestrians before finally crashing into a school bus and brandishing two imitation firearms. Over the next hour, fatalities began…
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Fast Forward Kushner And Greenblatt Visit Ailing Palestinian Peace Negotiator In Hospital
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his top Middle East negotiator, Jason Greenblatt, made a hospital visit to Saeb Erekat, the top Palestinian peace negotiator who just underwent a lung transplant. “They went to visit him to see how he was feeling after surgery and to show support to Saeb, his…
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Fast Forward 67-Word Balfour Declaration More Controversial Than Ever After Century
In a 67-word statement composed 100 years ago, Britain endorsed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the Middle East, triggering a process that would culminate in the creation of Israel – and with it one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. On Thursday British and Israeli leaders will commemorate the centenary of that statement,…
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