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Fast Forward Nikki Haley ‘Making A List’ Of Trump Jerusalem Opponents At United Nations
Ambassador Nikki Haley, in a letter to dozens of U.N. states on Tuesday seen by Reuters, warned that the United States would remember those who voted for the resolution criticizing the U.S. decision. “The president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those countries who voted against us. We…
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Fast Forward Two Men Plead Guilty To ISIS Terror Plot Against Israeli Soccer Team
PRISTINA, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Two Kosovo men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to planning attacks at a World Cup soccer match in Albania against the visiting Israel team last year. Kosovo police arrested 19 people in November 2016 on suspicion that they had links with the Islamic State militant group and were planning attacks in…
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Fast Forward UN: Israeli Probe Of Palestinian Amputee Protester’s Death ‘Insufficient’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The U.N. human rights chief said an Israeli military probe that cleared troops of any wrongdoing in the death of a paraplegic Palestinian protester was “insufficient.” Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the world body’s high commissioner for human rights, said “facts” gathered by his staffers strongly suggest that excessive force was used against Ibrahim…
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Fast Forward U.N. Will Hold Rare Emergency Session On Trump’s Jerusalem Recognition
NEW YORK (JTA) — The United Nations General Assembly will hold an emergency session on President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, according to a Palestinian official. The main representative organ of the U.N., which includes all 193 of the international body’s members, is holding a rare emergency meeting on Thursday…
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Fast Forward Technion Opens Israel’s First University Campus In China
(JTA) — The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology became the first Israeli university to open a campus in China. On Monday, the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology opened in Shantou, in the Guangdong province on the southeast coast. The university is a partnership between the Haifa-based university, the Li Ka Shing Foundation, and the Guangdong provincial…
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Fast Forward Israeli Mayor Names Park After Trump, POTUS Says He’s ‘Moved’ By Gesture
The Israeli city of Kiryat Yam does not usually come up in the context of international politics. But word of the small working-class town of 40,000 near Haifa recently made it to the desk of the President of the United States. The reason: Kiryat Yam’s mayor, David Even Tzur, named a park in the city…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Palestinian Girl Arrested After Videotaped Scuffle With Israeli Soldiers Goes Viral
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian teenager who was filmed slapping and harassing Israeli soldiers in the West Bank was arrested. Israeli security forces made the arrest overnight Monday. The girl, identified by Hebrew media as 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi, and two other girls were caught on camera Friday slapping and harassing the soldiers in an apparent…
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Life How Birthright Fixed My Jewish Imposter Syndrome
The El Al security officer’s dark gaze bored into mine, then flicked over the middle name on my passport. “Shay. That’s Arabic, isn’t it?” “No, it’s Irish.” I was being questioned for my Birthright boarding pass for my first trip to Israel and it wasn’t going well. The rapid-fire inquiries left me reeling: Was I…
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