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Fast Forward Netanyahu Dodges Question About Two-State Solution As He Departs For Trump Meeting
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sidestepped a question on whether he still supports the creation of a Palestinian state as he left for the United States on Monday on his first visit since President Donald Trump took office. Netanyahu has never publicly abandoned his conditional backing for Palestinian statehood, which he first stated in 2009,…
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Fast Forward Spanish Courts Rule Against BDS And Order Probe of Matisyahu Ban
(JTA) — Spanish judges scrapped two municipal resolutions on boycotting Israel and approved probing for discrimination organizers of a music festival who sought to bar the Jewish singer Matisyahu. The rulings on the resolutions passed last year by the local councils of Xeraco and Olesa de Montserrat were given independently last month, according to a…
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Fast Forward UN Delays Database Of Companies Backing Israel Occupation
A U.N. report on establishing a database of companies with business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has been delayed, the U.N. Human Rights Council said on Monday. Reuters reported on Friday that the politically sensitive report, due this month from the office of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad…
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Fast Forward Israel Shuns Peru’s Fugitive Ex-President — Faces $20M Bribery Case
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Israel says Peru’s fugitive former president, Alejandro Toledo, who is wanted on corruption charges, would not be allowed to enter the country. Toledo’s arrest was requested in Peru last week over allegations he took $20 million in bribes. He was said to have chosen to flee to the Jewish state because his wife,…
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Fast Forward Israel’s President Backs One-State Solution — With Equal Rights for Palestinians
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said Palestinians should be granted Israeli citizenship should Israel annex the West Bank. Speaking at the pro-settlement B’Sheva Jerusalem Conference on Monday, Rivlin said that “Zion is entirely ours,” including the territory where Palestinians hope to build a state, according to the Times of Israel. Rivlin warned against a piecemeal annexation…
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Fast Forward Church of Loaves and Fishes Reopens After Vandalism by Jewish Radicals
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An historic church in northern Israel has reopened more than a year after an arson and vandalism attack. The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes, where Christians believe Jesus performed a miracle in which he fed thousands of people, reopened on Sunday after renovations costing about $1 million. The…
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Opinion Despite the Smiles, Trump And Bibi May Be Headed For A Clash
A shroud of uncertainty hangs over Wednesday’s meeting when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Donald Trump as president for the first time. And uncertainty is no friend of the fraught American-Israeli relationship, no matter how many Israelis cheered Trump’s election as the coming of the Messiah. To begin with, both men drag a suitcase…
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Fast Forward J Street Steps Up Campaign Against David Friedman as Senate Hearing Looms
(JTA) — J Street is stepping up its campaign to block David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as U.S. ambassador to Israel, as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced it will hold a confirmation hearing this week. The committee announced on Saturday that the hearing is set for Feb. 16, a day after…
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