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Fast Forward Trump Says Both Israel And Palestinians Ready To ‘Reach For Peace’
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were prepared to “reach for peace,” even as he cautioned that a deal will not be easily achieved. “I had a meeting this morning with President Abbas and can tell you that the Palestinians are ready to reach…
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Fast Forward Trump Calls Holocaust ‘Savage Crime’ At Yad Vashem
President Donald Trump paid tribute at Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial on Tuesday to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, calling it an indescribable act of evil. Holding hands, the president and First Lady Melania Trump walked solemnly to lay a wreath together upon the ashes of Holocaust victims, buried at the site’s…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Stabs Israel Police Officer In Netanya
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israel Police officer in the central Israeli city of Netanya was stabbed in the neck by a Palestinian man in what is being described by police as likely a terror attack. The police officer, 26, was able to use his gun to shoot the attacker, who was moderately wounded. A female…
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Film & TV Fundamentalism And Feminism Square Off In ‘The Women’s Balcony’
‘The Women’s Balcony,” the Israeli film written by Shlomit Nehama and director Emil Ben-Shimon, could easily have turned into a polemic, awash in stereotypes, about the ultra-Orthodox versus the more liberally minded in one small, closely knit Israeli Orthodox congregation. But thanks to the talents of the actors and the creative team, the film is…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Packs Emotion Into 30-Minute Trump Stop — With One Young Victim’s Tale
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Donald Trump will spend just 30 minutes at Yad Vashem on the second and last day of his visit to Israel, but the leadership of the Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem plans to use the brief time to deliver a powerful message. Rather than bombarding Trump with facts or analysis, they will tell him…
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Israel News ANALYSIS: Trump Keeps Everyone Happy By Ignoring Details — But Leaves Israel Emptyhanded
For once, it was not what President Trump said. It was what he didn’t say. 28 hours of talks, meetings and ceremonies in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority have left both sides with a vague message of hope, but with scant details. Trump, who offered a clear commitment to take on Middle East peacemaking,…
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Life Ivanka’s Frum Skirt And Melania’s Hand-Dodge
The Trumps are in Israel, which is of course very reassuring to American Jews, every last one of us. Below, the highlights of the lady-news aspects of this voyage. (The menfolk are at work on the serious business of bringing “peach” to the region.) -Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump prayed at the women’s section of…
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Fast Forward Is Trump’s Real Sweet Goal ‘Lasting Peach’ In Middle East?
A White House press release meant to accompany President Trump’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority claimed that the foreign tour will help “promote the possibility of lasting peach.” Press statement @WhiteHouse says 1 goals of @POTUS Israel trip is “promote the possibility of lasting peach” pic.twitter.com/HE1l2lThg8 — Matthew Levitt (@Levitt_Matt) May 22, 2017…
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