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Fast Forward Yeshiva Students Weren’t Targets of New York Firebomb Attack
A firebomb believed to have been thrown at two Israeli yeshiva students in New York City was actually aimed at a Muslim food truck vendor, police said. The students, both 19, were walking in Midtown Manhattan on Friday when a still-unidentified assailant threw a bottle filled with combustible liquid that landed in front of them….
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Opinion How a Vote for Republicans Harms Israel — and Not How You Might Think
Today you’re invited to join me in a thought experiment. Assume for a moment that you’re the sort of American voter who puts Israel’s safety and welfare first when deciding how to vote. Let’s go further and assume that you don’t believe the American government should be dictating Israel’s policies, but should project American power…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Kill Palestinian in Jerusalem’s Old City
Israeli paramilitary police shot dead a Palestinian at an entrance to Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Monday, saying he had tried to stab an officer on patrol during the worst spell of street violence for several years. A Palestinian passerby disputed the police account, saying he had seen police shout at the man, then shoot…
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Fast Forward 5 More Palestinians Killed as Violence Rages — 12-Year-Old Boy Among Dead
Israeli security forces on Saturday shot dead two Palestinians aged 12 and 15 in protests along Gaza’s border fence, Palestinian medics said, and Israeli police said they killed three Palestinian assailants in separate violence in Jerusalem. Eleven days of bloodshed in which four Israelis and 19 Palestinians have been killed in Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West…
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Fast Forward Israel Trades Barbs With Iran at U.N. Disarmament Panel
Israel and Iran exchanged sharp criticisms at a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly’s disarmament committee on Friday, accusing each other of being a major destabilizing force in the Middle East. Israeli Ambassador Alon Roth-Snir told the United Nations’ First Committee that “Iran remains the most significant threat to the security of the Middle East…
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Fast Forward Dennis Ross Points Finger at Susan Rice for Israel Rift
National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s failure to cultivate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contributed to a breakdown in U.S.-Israel communication, a former top U.S. official said. Dennis Ross, who was President Barack Obama’s top Iran advisor from 2009-2011, said frequent communications between the Obama and Netanyahu governments between 2009 and 2012 tamped down the Israeli…
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Opinion It’s Not Quite a Third Intifada — Yet
The violence that’s erupted in Jerusalem and the West Bank in the past few weeks hasn’t reached the level of a new intifada, Israeli officials are saying. And they’re right. There are indeed reasons why, with luck, it might not get that bad. But these days, good luck is in short supply in that part…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says No Quick Fix for Outbreak of Violence
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday there was no quick fix for the latest wave of Palestinian lone-wolf attacks the Jewish state has faced in recent days and that strong steps would be taken against those inciting to violence. “We are in the midst of a wave of terror … the actions (we…
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