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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Set To Deepen Feud With Barack Obama Over Iran Deal
(JTA) — For President Obama, the framework agreement reached Thursday with Iran is a “historic understanding” that does more to roll back Tehran’s nuclear program than any possible alternative and avoids the risk of a destructive war in the Middle East. To Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it’s the complete opposite: a pact that “threatens the…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Now Demands Iran Recognize Israel as Part of Nuclear Deal
(Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that any final nuclear deal with Iran must include a commitment from Tehran recognizing Israel’s right to exist. Netanyahu, whose address to the U.S. Congress last month failed to stop the United States and five other major powers agreeing a framework accord with Tehran on…
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Fast Forward Loyola Chief Rejects Push for Israel Divestment
Loyola University will not address the issue of divestment from Israel despite the student government’s passage of a resolution to divest from companies that do business with Israel, the university president said. Loyola University President Father Michael Garanzini sent an open letter by email to students and the university community on Tuesday morning that said:…
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Fast Forward Toulouse Bans Boycott Israel ‘Apartheid’ Event
The City of Toulouse banned an event organized by far-left activists promoting a boycott of Israel. The canceled event was a lecture by Farid Esack, a South African university lecturer and activist, titled “Apartheid, from South Africa to Israel.” He was scheduled to speak at a municipal event hall on March 31 at an address…
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News Benjamin Netanyahu Angrily Denounces Iran Deal as ‘Path to Bomb’
(Reuters) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his security cabinet on Friday to discuss the framework deal reached between world powers and Iran, after telling U.S. President Barack Obama in a phone call that he “vehemently opposed” the agreement. Obama called Netanyahu within hours of the deal being struck, saying it represented significant…
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The Schmooze Who Buys All That Hametz?
(JTA) — Ever wonder how the Israeli government gets rid of its chametz, or leavened foods, at Passover? For the past 15 years it has been symbolically selling all the chametz from state-owned companies, the prison service and Israel’s national emergency supply to Hussein Jabar, an Arab-Israeli resident of Abu Ghosh. It then buys it all…
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Fast Forward Michigan Students Reject Israel Divestment 25-15
The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government rejected a divestment resolution. The measure was voted down Tuesday, with 25 opposed, 15 in favor and one abstention, the Michigan Daily student newspaper reported. The resolution called for the creation of an ad hoc committee to investigate the university’s investments in four companies accused of violating Palestinian…
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Israel News Did Barney Frank’s Coming Out Kill Chance To Be First Jewish House Speaker?
Barney Frank retired from Congress more than three years ago, but the trailblazing Jewish gay politician has not retired from public life. In a new book, “Frank: A Life in Politics From the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage,” and in a series of interviews and articles, Frank is speaking out, in his own candid and…
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