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Fast Forward McCain: U.S. Should Rethink U.N. Funding If Palestinian Resolution Approved
The U.S. Congress should reconsider funding for the United Nations if the Security Council approves a resolution on Palestinian statehood, Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday. McCain, in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” show, said President Barack Obama should not even be considering such a resolution. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s…
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Fast Forward U.N. Commission On Women Singles Out Israel for Condemnation
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women approved a resolution blaming “the Israeli occupation” for the lack of advancement of Palestinian women in their society. The vote taken Friday, on the last day of the commission’s two-week meeting, was one of four draft resolutions acted on by the commission, and the only to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Dems Demand Apology from Iowa’s King for Questioning Their Faith
Jewish Democrats demanded an apology from Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) for saying many American Jews are “Democrats first and Jews second.” King, a conservative Republican who is important to Republican viers for the presidential nomination in part because of his influence in Iowa, the first caucus state, was asked Friday by Boston Herald Radio about…
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Fast Forward E.U. May Sanction Israel Over Settlements, Says Leaked Report
Sanctions may be imposed on Israel for its increased settlement in the eastern part of Jerusalem, a leaked European Union report warns. The report, as described by the Guardian on Friday, blames Israeli settlement in eastern Jerusalem for a “vicious cycle of violence … increasingly threatening the viability of the two-state solution.” It said Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward J Street Cheers U.S. Rebuke of Benjamin Netanyahu
J Street leaders said they would back the Obama administration as it reconsiders how it deals with Israel in international arenas. Jeremy Ben-Ami, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group’s president, lauded the new approach at the outset of its annual conference Saturday in Washington. “We are very glad to hear the Obama administration is…
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Fast Forward President Obama Says Bibi Recalcitrance Makes It ‘Hard To Find’ Path to Peace
In a fresh rebuke to Benjamin Netanyahu, President Barack Obama said the Israeli leader’s pre-election disavowal of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes it “hard to find a path” toward serious negotiations to resolve the issue. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Obama also scolded Netanyahu over his remarks about Arab Israelis…
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Fast Forward Will the Real Bibi Please Stand Up?
(JTA) — There are two Benjamin Netanyahus. To his detractors, Netanyahu is arrogant, a dissembler and a racist. To his defenders, he is intrepid, politically astute and singularly devoted to Israel’s security. Netanyahu’s critics blame him for alienating Israel’s closest ally — snubbing the U.S. president, using Congress as a backdrop for electioneering and hurting bipartisan…
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Fast Forward Finns Mark 25 Years of Aiding Russian Aliyah
Christian Zionists in Finland celebrated the 25th anniversary since their community began helping Russian-speaking Jews immigrate to Israel, or make aliyah. The commemoration took place earlier this month, with the arrival to Helsinki of the second bus this year of Russian-speaking Jews who came from St. Petersburg to make aliyah through what is known as…
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