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Opinion Why Is One Pro-Israel Group Desperate To Keep You From Watching This Video?
When it comes to Palestinians, the American Jewish establishment is in the ignorance business. The average American synagogue has never hosted a Palestinian speaker. The average “pro-Israel” activist has never read a book by a Palestinian author. The American Jewish philanthropists who fund Birthright send thousands of young American Jews to Israel each year, on…
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Fast Forward Ehud Olmert Suffers Suspected Heart Attack In Prison
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, currently serving a 27-month prison sentence for corruption, was rushed to the hospital with a suspected heart attack. Olmert experienced chest pains and felt ill. After being seen by a prison doctor he was transferred to Tel Hashomer Hospital near Tel Aviv. Olmert appeared before the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Kids Help Excavate 900-Year-Old Crusader Fortress
Israel is home to some of the world’s richest archaeological treasures – from the Iron Age, to the time of the Hebrews, to the Middle Ages, through the modern period. Now, students in the Modiin-Maccabim-Re’ut are helping uncover some of those antiquities, participating in excavation efforts near their hometown. Recently, the kids participated in the…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Killed After Trying To Stab Israeli Soldiers
(http://jta.org “”)) — A Palestinian man who attempted to stab Israeli troops at a checkpoint north of Jerusalem was shot and killed, the Israeli army said. On Tuesday, the soldiers were manning the checkpoint between the Jewish settlement of Adam and the Palestinian city of Qalandiya in the central West Bank when the assailant, who…
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Fast Forward Israel Breaks Ground On New Settlement — Even As Kushner Jets In To Push Peace
Israel broke ground on Tuesday on its first new settlement in the occupied West Bank for two decades, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, announcing the symbolic move on the eve of a peace mission by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. “Work began today on-site, as I promised, to establish the new settlement,” Netanyahu wrote…
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Fast Forward Haim Saban Backs Bill To Slash Funds To Palestinians
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Haim Saban, a major donor to the Democratic Party, is backing a bill that would slash funding to the Palestinian Authority unless it stops payments to Palestinians jailed for attacks on Israelis. The participation of the Israeli-American entertainment mogul in the initiative of the lobbying affiliate of the Israeli-American Council is significant…
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Fast Forward American Teachers Slam Israel’s Classroom Ban On Political Opinions
NEW YORK (JTA) — The heads of the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors jointly condemned a law proposed by Israel’s education minister that would bar the expression of political views in classrooms. “The ‘code of ethics’ that the government of Israel is considering for the country’s academic institutions is a…
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Fast Forward Is Islamic State Plotting To Bring Terror To Israel?
JERUSALEM (JTA) – When the Islamic State claimed credit for an attack on Israeli soil for the first time Friday and vowed to strike again, the response here was not fear but incredulity. Israeli officials generally dismissed the militant Islamist group’s assertion that it was behind the shooting and stabbing in Jerusalem that left a 23-year-old…
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