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Opinion Israel’s Next Big War
Israel’s next big war is almost certainly going to pit it against some combination of Iranian, Syrian and Hezbollah forces along its northern borders with Syria and Lebanon. To be sure, an additional confrontation with Hamas in Gaza (Israel’s opponent in the costly 2014 Gaza War. which led to the death of roughly 2,100 Palestinians…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Promises New Homes For Illegal Amona Settlers
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured the residents of the evacuated outpost of Amona that he would honor his commitment to them to “build a new community,” hours before a meeting with an envoy of the Trump administration. Netanyahu was scheduled to meet Thursday, for the second time this week, with Jason…
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Fast Forward The Israeli In Middle Of Buzzfeed Fake News Probe Into Trump And Russia
An Israel “cyber consultant” has reportedly been circulating fake documents that purport to show a shady deal between President Trump and Exxon Mobil to appoint the company’s former chief executive Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. According to BuzzFeed News, which obtained the false papers, the trove claims the Trump Organization real estate firm was…
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Fast Forward Israel Crashes Out Of World Baseball Classic With Loss To Japan
(JTA) — Israel ended its Cinderella run at the World Baseball Classic, after losing to Japan’s national team at home in Tokyo. More than 40,000 fans packed the Tokyo Dome on Wednesday to cheer the home team to an 8-3 victory over Israel. The game remained scoreless until the sixth inning when Japan scored five runs….
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Fast Forward WATCH: Vice Co-Founder Makes ‘10 Things I Hate About Jews’ Video
Following a visit to Israel, Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes — who left Vice a decade ago — launched into a rant against Jewish people and the Jewish state, in a post inventively titled “10 Things I Hate About Jews.” According to McInnes, Hebrew is “spit talk” and “whole language is clearing your throat, it’s like…
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Fast Forward FBI Warns Investors About Fraudulent, Lucrative Israeli Online Trading Business
The FBI is singling out a thriving business in Israel — two firms alone do $8 billion in business annually— that’s also ripe for fraud. Headlining the bureau’s website this week is an advisory against binary options trading, in which customers buy and sell shares of stocks — but many of the 100 companies operating…
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Fast Forward Trump Mideast Envoy Meets With Mahmoud Abbas
President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy held his first talks on Tuesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, amid Palestinian concerns that the new administration in Washington is more favorably disposed towards Israel. Jason Greenblatt’s talks with Abbas took place in Ramallah, the Palestinian seat of government, a day after he held a lengthy meeting with…
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News On Mideast Peace, Trump The Bomb-Thrower Starting To Looks Like Mr. Normal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Trump administration rhetoric about Israeli-Palestinian peace is typical of a president who would make everything great: President Donald Trump is going to bring about a “historic” deal, the White House has said, one that would “reverberate positively throughout the region and the world.” What isn’t typical, at least for a president who has…
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