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Fast Forward Netanyahu Sets Preconditions For Two-State Solution After Trump Meeting
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday said that he wanted to focus on “substance” and not “labels,” when asked about support for a two-state solution for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. “Rather than deal with labels, I want to deal with substance,” Netanyahu said during a news conference with President Donald Trump at the…
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Community Through Eggplant And Tahini, A Path To Mideast Peace
Several weeks ago I enjoyed a delicious lunch at Café Zamn with a group from our congregation. A couple of things stood out about the meal. First was the tangy, citrusy green juice. Second was the impossibly creamy eggplant with tahini sauce. Third, was the fact that Café Zamn is in Ramallah. And, finally, the…
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Fast Forward Dan Shapiro Predicts Chaos At Trump Meeting With Bibi
Dan Shapiro, former President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Israel, isn’t keeping quiet now that he’s out of office, predicting chaos as that country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House on Wednesday. It is, he told Politico, “an absolutely crazy time to hold a meeting with the president of the United States,” citing President…
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Fast Forward UN Chief Says ‘No Alternative’ To Two-State Solution
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday against abandoning the idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying there was “no alternative.” “There is no alternative solution for the situation between the Palestinians and Israelis, other than the solution of establishing two states and we should do all that can be done to…
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Fast Forward Israel Envoy Blames Russia For Blocking International Anti-Semitism Definition
(JTA) — Israel’s ambassador in Moscow criticized Russia for blocking the international adoption of a definition of anti-Semitism, which he linked to a recent string of allegedly racist statements about Jews by Russian politicians. Gary Koren’s unusual statement on anti-Semitism in Russia was in an interview for Interfax, the news agency reported Wednesday, in which he singled out…
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Fast Forward Will David Friedman Apologize For Calling Liberal Jews ‘Kapos’?
President Trump’s pick for Israel envoy, David Friedman, is expected to apologize for calling liberal American Jews “worse than kapos” at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, the New York Times reported. Friedman doubled down on the disparaging comments about supporters of J Street, the dovish Israel lobby, in an op-ed last year on the…
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Fast Forward Trump To Meet Netanyahu Amid Doubts Over Two-State Solution
President Donald Trump prepared to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for talks that could shape the contours of future Middle East policy as Palestinians warned the White House not to abandon their goal of an independent state. For decades, the idea of creating a Palestine living peacefully alongside Israel has been a…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Warn Trump Not To Dump Two-State Solution
Palestinians warned the United States on Wednesday against abandoning a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel after a White House official said peace did not necessarily have to entail Palestinian statehood. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet later in the day for the first time since the U.S. election in November…
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