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Culture How 1986 Meetings I Set Up Between Top Israelis and Palestinians Still Offer Hope
Editor’s Note: For more than 30 years, Stephen P. Cohen served as a confidential intermediary between Israeli and Arab leaders including Shimon Peres, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat and Hafez al-Assad. Over the course of a career that took him to all corners of the Middle East, Cohen arranged and participated in historic breakthroughs…
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Fast Forward A Rare Look at Israel’s Torture Methods
Israeli torture methods include slapping prisoners, shouting at them and forcing them to squat against a wall handcuffed for long periods of time, according to a Haaretz report that provided a rare look into torture in the Israeli prison system. Haaretz was witness to a conversation among interrogators that yielded new details about how interrogators…
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Community Tough Love: How America Can Be The Ally Israel Needs — And The World Deserves
As I read the outrage of Israeli and American critics of last month’s U.N. Security Council resolution on Israeli settlement activity and John Kerry’s speech, I recall the day in 2003 when I sat in the office of France’s foreign minister as he explained its opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Dominique de Villepin…
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Fast Forward Trump Plans To Discuss Settlements at Meeting With Netanyahu
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump wants to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about recent settlement expansion plans when they meet next month. “He wants to have a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu and we’ll discuss that,” Sean Spicer, the White House spokesman, said Tuesday at the daily briefing for reporters when asked…
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Fast Forward Ex-Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger Headed to Prison for Fraud
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yona Metzger, a former Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, will be the first Israeli chief rabbi to serve jail time under a plea deal on corruption charges. In the deal with prosecutors announced Tuesday, Metzger will serve 3 1/2 years in prison and pay a $1.3 million fine. He pleaded guilty to…
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Opinion Smearing Fellow Jews as ‘Kapos’ Disqualifies David Friedman from Representing America
President Donald Trump’s nomination of lawyer David Friedman to be the next US ambassador to Israel has provoked alarm and outrage in some quarters, especially among many American Jews. Objections to Friedman have been raised on several grounds. Critics cite the fact that he opposes a two-state solution and supports Jewish settlements in the West…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish’ Golf Club Rolls Out Red Carpet for Barack Obama After All
(JTA) — The Woodmont Country Club, an exclusive, mostly Jewish golf club in Rockville, Maryland has invited former President Barack Obama to join after all. The club had been locked in a fierce debate over whether to admit Obama for membership because of what some called his bad relationship with Israel as president. In an email…
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Fast Forward With Trump in Power, Israel Gives Green Light to Huge Settlement Expansion
Israel announced plans on Tuesday for 2,500 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the second such declaration since U.S. President Donald Trump took office signaling he would be less critical of such projects than his predecessor. A statement from the Defence Ministry, which administers lands Israel captured in a 1967 war, said the…
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