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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Vows To Talk Peace With Any Israeli Leader Who Backs 2-State Solution
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he will talk to any Israeli government that accepts a two-state solution as the basis for negotiations. “It doesn’t matter to us who the next prime minister of Israel is, what we expect from this government is to recognize the two-state solution,” Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said Wednesday…
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Life 28 Women Elected to Knesset in Record
Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home Party is one of 28 women elected to the Knesset./Flash90 In an election with the highest voter turnout since 1999, a record 28 women were chosen for the 20th Knesset. The percentage of eligible voters who came out Tuesday was 71.8; the turnout 14 years ago was 78.7 percent….
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Backs Bibi While Tel Aviv Votes for Left
The Likud and haredi Orthodox parties dominated in Jerusalem, while the Zionist Union took the most votes in Tel Aviv in Israel’s national elections. Nationally, the right-wing Likud Party garnered 23.3 percent of the vote and the center-left Zionist Union coalition garnered 18.7 percent of the vote, followed by the United Arab List with nearly…
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Fast Forward Seattle Wins Right To Ban ‘Israeli War Crimes’ Bus Ads
(Reuters) — County officials in Seattle can prohibit an advertisement criticizing Israeli policies toward Palestinians from appearing on local buses without violating constitutional protections on free speech, a U.S. appeals court said on Wednesday. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco found that Kings County acted reasonably when it…
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Opinion The Israeli ‘Olive King’ Who’s Also a Political Expert
“Hag sameach!” Vendors at Mahane Yehuda, Jerusalem’s legendary vegetable market, wished each other happy holiday Wednesday morning when they learned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party had swept the election. Mahane Yehuda is considered a Likud stronghold, and shop owners were worried in the weeks leading up to the election. “They believed the polls,”…
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Fast Forward White House Scolds Bibi for Dumping 2-State Solution and Anti-Arab Rhetoric
(Reuters) — The White House on Wednesday scolded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following his re-election victory for abandoning his commitment to negotiate for a Palestinian state and for what it called “divisive” campaign rhetoric toward Israel’s minority Arab voters. Even as U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration congratulated Netanyahu for his party’s decisive win in Tuesday’s…
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Opinion We’re All Letting Bibi Off the Hook for Racism
Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed everyone’s worst fears about him when he launched a last-minute fear campaign on Tuesday, warning that “Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls” — and proving that he is perfectly happy to win an election using racism. Depressingly, predictably, Bibi’s “the-Arabs-are-coming” bugaboo worked like a dream on the Israeli…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Vows To Quickly Form Right-Wing Coalition After Crushing Win
(Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday to form a new governing coalition quickly after an upset election victory that was built on a shift to the right and is likely to worsen a troubled relationship with the White House. In the final days of campaigning, Netanyahu abandoned a commitment to negotiate…
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