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Fast Forward Jared Kushner On Israeli-Palestinian Peace: ‘There May Be No Solution’
NEW YORK (JTA) — If Jared Kushner is the only person who can deliver Middle East peace — as his father-in-law Donald Trump said — he comes off as a reluctant savior. In a speech delivered Monday to a group of congressional interns and leaked to the media, Kushner expounded on the Trump administration’s efforts…
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Fast Forward Slim Majority Of Israelis and Palestinians Still Support Two-State Solution
Small majorities of Israelis and Palestinians still support a two-state solution, a poll conducted jointly by Tel Aviv University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found. According to the poll, 53% of Israelis and 52% of Palestinians expressed support for a two-state solution, where Israelis and Palestinians would have separate countries in…
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Fast Forward New York Sen. Gillibrand Won’t Support Anti-BDS Bill Without Changes
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced Monday that she would push for revisions to a bill that would penalize companies that support boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel, after the American Civil Liberties Union raised free speech concerns about the legislation. “I would never support any bill that chills free speech,” the New York Senate…
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Fast Forward Family Flees After ID Of Israeli Embassy Guard Who Shot Civilian Made Public
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The family of the Israeli Embassy security guard who shot and killed two Jordanians while under attack in diplomatic living quarters has left their home after a publication in Jordan made the guard’s identity public. The identity of the guard, Ziv Moyal, 28, from a moshav in southern Israel, had been censored…
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Fast Forward Israel To Investigate Shooting By Embassy Guard In Jordan
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Shin Bet will investigate the shooting of two Jordanian civilians by an embassy guard in what an initial investigation determined was a self defense shooting during a terror attack. During the incident, which occurred on July 23, the Israel embassy security guard, identified as Ziv, shot and killed an assailant, 17,…
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Fast Forward Blogger Jailed In Azerbaijan Asks To Be Extradited To Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli blogger who was sentenced to three years in prison in Azerbaijan for illegally entering Nagorno-Karabakh has asked to be extradited to Israel. Alexander Lapshin, who also holds Russian and Ukrainian citizenship, appealed to Israel to extradite him from Azerbaijan, Haaretz reported, citing Lapshin’s attorney. He said he did not want…
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Fast Forward Israeli Court Upholds Conviction Of Soldier Who Shot Disarmed Terrorist
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A military appeals court upheld the manslaughter conviction and 18-month prison sentence for Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier convicted of shooting a downed Palestinian terrorist. The panel of five judges on Sunday handed down the ruling, which took more than two hours to read out. The judges rejected the defense’s arguments and…
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Fast Forward Venezuelan Jews Fleeing Chaos Immigrate To Israel
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Twenty-six Jews from Venezuela immigrated to Israel fleeing the South American country’s political, social and economic unrest. After several years of discontent with the far-left government under President Nicolas Maduro and his slain predecessor and political godfather Hugo Chavez, Venezuela has been racked by protests that began in April against…
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