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Fast Forward Rival Palestinian Factions Bury The Hatchet For Now — Israel Wary
Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation deal on Thursday after Hamas agreed to hand over administrative control of Gaza, including the key Rafah border crossing, a decade after seizing the enclave in a civil war. The deal brokered by Egypt bridges a bitter gulf between the Western-backed mainstream Fatah party of Palestinian…
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Fast Forward Israel Joins U.S. In Dumping UNESCO Over ‘Bias’
Israel announced on Thursday it will join the U.S. in quitting the U.N.’s cultural agency UNESCO, after Washington accused it of anti-Israeli bias. The withdrawal of the United States, which is meant to provide a fifth of UNESCO’s funding, is a major blow for the Paris-based organization, founded after World War Two to help protect…
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Fast Forward Trump Loosening Drone Export Rules, Which May Hurt Israeli Economy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is nearing completion of new “Buy American” rules to make it easier to sell U.S.-made military drones overseas and compete against fast-growing Chinese and Israeli rivals, senior U.S. officials said. The changes, part of a broader effort to overhaul U.S. arms export protocols, could be rolled out by the…
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Fast Forward U.S. Plans To Withdraw From ‘Anti-Israel’ UNESCO
The United States plans to withdraw from UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural and educational agency, diplomats said on Thursday, dealing a further blow to an organization hobbled by regional rivalries and a lack of funds. Paris-based UNESCO, which began work in 1946, is known for designating World Heritage sites such as the ancient city of Palmyra…
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Fast Forward Black Israeli Woman Bombarded With ‘Crude’ Racist Slurs On Bus
A black Israeli woman was bombarded by racial slurs while riding a public bus in the southern town of Be’er Sheva in a widely-shared video. “This kind of racism I have never experienced,” Hasedia Bat Israel, a member of the Hebrew Israelite group, told Channel 2 News in Israel, according to the Times of Israel….
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Fast Forward ACLU Sues Kansas Over Law Targeting Israel Boycotters
(JTA) — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Kansas law banning state business with companies that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The ACLU said Wednesday it was representing public school math teacher Esther Koontz, who was denied a state contract because she participates in the anti-Israel boycott….
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Fast Forward Israel Caught Russia Cyber-Snooping For U.S. Secrets
Israeli intelligence caught Russian spies attempting hack out classified American documents in computers across the globe, the New York Times reported. The Russians used a widely used antivirus program to effectively search millions of computers for documents from the FBI, the NSA, the CIA and other branches of government. The antivirus program is made by…
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Fast Forward Brazilian Restaurant Apologizes Over Israel ‘Genocide’ Sign
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Brazilian Arab food restaurant apologized for placing anti-Israel signs at its entrance after a massive Jewish-led boycott campaign on social media. One of the owners of Papaya Verde restaurant, in Recife, sent a note to the Pernambuco Jewish federation stressing that the big and colorful “Free Palestine! it’s not…
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