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Opinion Documentary About ‘The Settlers’ Shows Them as Israeli Left Wants To See Them
Shimon Dotan’s recent documentary, “The Settlers,” currently attracting a lot of attention in Israel, is painfully beautiful. Dotan’s shots capture both the beauty of the West Bank and the complexity of the geopolitics that are tragically tearing it apart. Along with the fantastic production, Dotan’s skills as an interviewer present the settlers, an often-misunderstood segment…
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Fast Forward Two Israelis Lightly Hurt In Car-Ramming, Assailant Killed
— A car-ramming outside the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, lightly injured two Israelis, in an apparent terror attack. The assailant, a Palestinian woman, was shot dead by a soldier at the scene Friday. The two Israeli victims, a couple in their 50s, had pulled over to the side of the road…
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Opinion How Donald Trump’s Israel Adviser Responded To Our 24-Hour Trumpatorium
David Friedman, who advises Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Israel policy, called the Forward’s decision earlier this week to suspend coverage of the Trump campaign for 24 hours “hypocritical” and “devoid of any journalistic integrity.” He didn’t say that to me. Truth is, I didn’t ask the Trump campaign for comment on the “Trumpatorium”…
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News Can New Israel-Jordan Railway Help Bring Peace?
When trains depart from Haifa in the fall along a new Israeli railway that stops only miles from the Jordanian border, it could revive not only trade but dreams of peace. “We always thought that this line symbolizes peace with the region,” Ilan Rozenfeld, the project director told the Wall Street Journal. “We have been…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Plans Diplomatic Pushback Against New Peace Moves
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Rome on Sunday to try to fend off pressure from the United States and Europe over his settlements policy and opposition to a French-led effort to forge peace with the Palestinians. Beginning three days of intense diplomacy, the right-wing premier will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry…
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Opinion J Street Can Fight BDS and Israeli Occupation at the Same Time
Last week, a member of J Street’s senior staff met with Israel’s strategic affairs minister, Gilad Erdan, at his invitation. Their topic of discussion? The fight against the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. This meeting somehow became international news — though it shouldn’t have been newsworthy at all. As the political…
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Fast Forward Israeli Lawmaker Wants Cleveland Cavaliers To Give Championship Ring to David Blatt
JERUALEM — An Israeli lawmaker reportedly has written a letter to the owner of the 2016 NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers asking him to give a championship ring to David Blatt, the team’s former coach. Nachman Shai, of the Zionist Union Party, on Tuesday sent the letter to Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, the Jerusalem Post reported….
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Fast Forward Israel Plans Push To Stifle Terror Incitement on Social Media
Israel’s Justice Ministry is drafting legislation that would enable it to order Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media to remove online postings it deems to be inciting terrorism. “We are working on draft legislation, similar to what is being done in other countries; one law that would allow for a judicial injunction to order…
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