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Fast Forward Israel Lobbies Foreign Powers To Cut ICC Funding
Israel is lobbying member-states of the International Criminal Court to cut funding for the tribunal in response to its launch of an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, officials said on Sunday. ICC prosecutors said on Friday they would examine “in full independence and impartiality” crimes that may have occurred since June…
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Fast Forward Israeli Selfie From Miss Universe Contest Causes Stir in Lebanon
An Israeli beauty queen’s selfie has caused a stir in Lebanon, with some Lebanese saying their country’s contestant at the Miss Universe pageant should be stripped of her title for consorting with the enemy. Miss Israel Doron Matalon posted a photo of herself and Miss Lebanon Saly Greige smiling together at pageant preparations in Miami,…
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Fast Forward 7 Israeli Arabs Charged With Joining Islamic State
Israel said on Sunday it had cracked the first Islamic State cell on its soil, made up of seven Arab citizens who would be prosecuted on charges of planning attacks in the Jewish state and communicating with the insurgent group in Syria. The defendants, including a lawyer who was representing himself in court, denied the…
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Culture Why European NGO’s and the Red Cross Are Real Enemies in Israel
My real name, to those of you who know me by other names, is Tuvia. I was born into an extreme anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel known as the “Hazon-Ishnikes,” among people who are certain that they are the people closest to God and that they are his only representatives on earth. Simply put,…
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Fast Forward Hamas Welcomes ICC Probe of Israel ‘War Crimes’
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Saturday it welcomed a decision by the International Criminal Court to launch an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories. ICC prosecutors said on Friday the preliminary examination would scrutinize “in full independence and impartiality” crimes that may have occurred since June 13 last year, opening…
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Fast Forward ICC Opens Preliminary Israel ‘War Crimes’ Investigation
The International Criminal Court opened an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, thrusting it into one of the world’s most chronic, heated conflicts and opening a path to possible charges against Israelis or Palestinians. In a statement on Friday, prosecutors said they would examine “in full independence and impartiality” crimes that may…
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Fast Forward Sweden Pushes Back Against ‘Irritating’ Israel
Sweden’s foreign minister said on Friday Israel had irritated close allies by over-reacting to Stockholm recognizing the state of Palestine, saying its rhetoric over the issue had “crossed all limits.” “It is unacceptable how they have been talking about us and everybody else,” Margot Wallstrom said in an interview in daily Dagens Nyheter. “It has…
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Opinion Is Moshe Kahlon the New Yair Lapid?
Yair Lapid (Getty Images); Moshe Kahlon (Facebook When Yair Lapid skyrocketed to the top of Israeli politics during the last election campaign in 2013, he did it by positioning himself as the most “hevrati” (socio-economically conscious) candidate. He and his party, Yesh Atid, capitalized on the momentum of the “tent protests” that brought half a…
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Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
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Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
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Fast Forward Elon Musk wants your kids to use his chatbot. The same one that praised Hitler.
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Culture In this Holocaust story, there are few words, no swastikas, no yellow stars — just movement, passion and empathy
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