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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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Fast Forward Pharmacist Sued For Destroying Cancer Drugs Worth $1.2 Million
(Haaretz) — An Israeli HMO filed a 4.5-million-shekel ($1.2 million) lawsuit against a former employee last Tuesday, after he admitted destroying cancer drugs worth 4 million shekels in 2015. The pharmacist, a resident of the southern Bedouin town of Kseifa, had been employed by Clalit Health Services for 10 years. He said in a statement…
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Fast Forward Report: Abbas Met With U.S. Businessmen to Establish Trump Back Channel
(JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with American businessmen in Ramallah earlier this month in an attempt to set up a back channel for contacts with the incoming administration of Donald Trump. On Jan. 2, Abbas met in Ramallah with hedge fund manager Daniel Arbess, who is Jewish, and with the Palestinian billionaire…
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Community To Fight Radical Islamic Terror, Europe Must Move From Gestures To Action
Brandenburg Gate, one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world, once the scene of mass Nazi rallies, emblazoned with swastika flags, was this week lit up with the flag of the Jewish State of Israel. Who would have thought in their lifetime, or even in the space of eighty years, this would ever happen?…
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Fast Forward Hungary’s Ruling Far-Right Faction Pledges to Become More Pro-Israel
BUDAPEST (JTA) — The chairman of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party, whose leaders often have inveighed against Jews, Israel and Zionism, said that his party will no longer single out the Jewish state. Gabor Vona, who last month for the first time sent Hanukkah holiday greetings by Jobbik to at least two Hungarian rabbis, made the unusual…
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Fast Forward Rex Tillerson Blasts BDS and Questions Two-State Solution at Confirmation Hearing
Rex Tillerson, President-elect Trump’s pick to be secretary of state, denounced countries that support the boycott Israel movement and questioned the two-state solution at his Senate confirmation hearing. The former Exxon CEO vowed to make the fight against BDS a key priority. “Countries [that support BDS] need to understand that it does shape our view…
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