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Fast Forward Detroit ‘Walk for Israel’ Insist Anti-Occupation Groups Are Anti-Israel
For the second year in a row, the Detroit area’s Walk for Israel has rebuffed the sponsorship of left-wing pro-Israel groups because of their support for boycotting settlements. At the heart of the dispute is a question of definitions: Is support of a boycott targeting Jewish enterprises beyond Israel’s 1967 borders the same as backing…
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Opinion Let Israelis and Palestinians Be Enemies
Despite what many people may believe, humanization between individuals does not resolve conflict between groups. And yet against all the hard evidence, most conflict management or simulation exercises still put this forward as their primary objective. The Forward recently ran two articles about conflict negotiation simulations dealing with the Israel/Palestine dispute. Both mention the challenges…
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Opinion Donald Trump’s Rise Shows How Much Pro-Israel Politics Has Changed in 5 Years
Five years ago this Friday, President Obama threw Israel “under the bus.” At least, that’s how Mitt Romney, who formally announced his presidential run just a few weeks later, described Obama’s call for a two-state solution based on the 1967 lines. Romney’s indignation was shared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and virtually every member…
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Opinion All Quiet on the Israel-Gaza Front? All the More Reason To Act Fast
Israel celebrates its independence the day after it mourns the citizens killed in its conflicts. The festivities are a welcome liberation from the grief those deaths caused. This pattern is built into the Israeli conception of the wars, too: Once the violence ends, it’s time to celebrate, not focus on the causes of the violence….
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Fast Forward 1,600-Year-Old Statues of Gods Found in Rare Shipwreck Find Off Israel Coast
Archaeologists in Israel have recovered bronze statues and thousands of coins from a merchant ship that sank off the Mediterranean coast some 1,600 years ago during the late Roman period. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said two divers had made the discovery several weeks ago in the ancient harbor of Caesarea in the eastern Mediterranean….
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Opinion Why Is the Left Silent About Gaza Tunnels?
The recent discovery of yet another Hamas tunnel from Gaza into Israel elicited shock and condemnation throughout the Jewish world. Not. Actually, though widely reported in Israel, and sporadically here in the United States, you could hear a pin drop in much of the progressive world, especially among those organizations pressing Israel to pursue peace…
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Fast Forward Trump Says He Will Visit Israel ‘Soon,’ Avoids Question About Military Aid
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said he would visit Israel soon and dodged a question about whether the United States would continue subsidizing defense assistance to the Jewish state in an interview with an Israeli newspaper. “I’ll be there soon,” the presumptive Republican nominee told Israel Hayom in an posted Wednesday when asked about reports he…
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Fast Forward Israeli-American Soldier Killed in Stabbing Attack Awarded Bravery Medal
JERUSALEM — A dual Israel-American citizen killed in a West Bank supermarket terror attack was one of three Israeli soldiers honored by the Israel Defense Forces for bravery. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, along with Sgt. Lihi Malka and Matan Shamir, was cited for thwarting a terror attack, the IDF announced Tuesday. The awards were approved…
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