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Israel News 68% of Israelis Support Two-State Solution: J Street Poll
Apparently, the the two state solution isn’t dead just yet. That’s according to a poll conducted by the dovish pro Israel lobby J Street, which found that 68% of Israelis favor an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, reported by Haaretz. Pundits have been sounding the death knell for the two state solution for years. That…
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Fast Forward World Warns Trump Not To Dump Two-State Solution at Paris Peace Conference
Some 70 countries on Sunday reaffirmed that only a two-state solution could resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and warned they would not recognize any unilateral steps by either side that could prejudge negotiations. The final communique of a one-day international Middle East peace conference in Paris shied away from explicitly criticizing plans by U.S. president-elect Donald…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Calls for New Peace Talks After Meeting Mahmoud Abbas
ROME (JTA) – Pope Francis and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for renewed direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority during a meeting at the Vatican. Abbas warned against moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, telling reporters: “If this is the decision, to transfer the embassy to Jerusalem, it will not help peace and…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Reassures Israel About Paris Peace Conference
Israel said on Sunday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had sought to reassure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a Middle East peace conference being held in Paris, which neither Israel nor the Palestinians are attending. Some 70 countries, including key European and Arab states as well as the permanent members of the…
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Fast Forward Polish President Meets Jewish Leaders Ahead of Israel Trip
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Polish President Andrzej Duda met with representatives of the country’s Jewish community, ahead of an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Duda, during his meeting with Jewish officials on Thursday explained that this year there was no traditional Hanukkah meeting at the presidential palace because Hanukkah coincided with Christmas….
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Derides Paris Peace Talks as ‘Yesterday’s World’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu derided the Paris conference at the weekly cabinet meeting, calling it a “futile conference.” Netanyahu said that the event, which brings together 70 nations, was actually a plot hatched up by the Palestinians — and suggested President-elect Donald Trump would force a new approach. “These are the death throes of…
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Fast Forward Jewish Gay Man Wearing Israel T-Shirt Attacked by Chile Neo-Nazis
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A young Jewish gay rights activist was attacked at a park in Santiago, Chile by three men who carried neo-Nazi symbols. Jorge Arce was walking Thursday at the Bustamante park wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the flag of Israel that his mother had given him recently. The attackers yelled…
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Fast Forward YNET: U.S. Intel Officials Tell Israel Not To Share Info With Trump Administration
(Haaretz) — Israeli intelligence officials are concerned that the exposure of classified information to their American counterparts under a Trump administration could lead to their being leaked to Russia and onward to Iran, investigative journalist Ronen Bergman reported by Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot on Thursday. The intelligence concerns, which have been discussed in closed forums…
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