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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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Israel News Presidents Conference Eases Membership Rules After J Street Flap
The Jewish community’s umbrella organization is about to undergo structural changes following complaints by members that in its current makeup fails to fully represent the community. Under the proposed changes, which will be brought to a vote next week, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations will lower the threshold for membership, provide…
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Fast Forward U.N. ‘Alarmed’ by Downward Spiral in Mideast
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is alarmed that the Israelis and Palestinians are engaged in a downward spiral of actions and counter actions and calls on both sides not to exacerbate existing divisions, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday. Israel is withholding critical tax revenue and seeking ways to bring war crimes prosecutions against Palestinian leaders…
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Israel News Rand Paul Makes Headway in Longshot Bid To Win Jewish Support
Senator Rand Paul’s still unofficial presidential campaign reached a small but significant milestone in early January: The executive director of the Orthodox Union’s advocacy center, Nathan Diament, publicly praised him in an official press release. For many candidates, that might not mean much. But for Paul, the O.U.’s January 6 statement, lauding his sponsorship of…
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Israel News Sad-But-True Farce Behind Israel’s Funeral for Paris Kosher Market Terror Victims
The burial in Jerusalem of four French Jews murdered in last week’s terror attacks in Paris turned into an embarrassment when the victims’ families and the French Jewish community were asked to pay tens of thousands of shekels for the graves while the burial site itself was changed three times. Because the victims weren’t Israeli…
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Fast Forward Avigdor Lieberman Slams Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan as ‘Anti-Semitic Bully’
Israel’s foreign minister called Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan an “anti-Semitic bully” in a meeting with Israeli ambassadors on Wednesday and said Europe was being cowardly in not taking him on. In an address to Israeli envoys based in Europe and Asia, Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of far-right party Yisrael Beitenu, was withering about Erdogan, a…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Rides Paris Terror Stance to Lead at Polls
(Reuters) — In the cold reality of politics, the killing of four French Jews in a Paris supermarket seems to have helped Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliver a strong message to Israeli voters that he has their back. With two months to go until Israel’s national election, Netanyahu – who marched with dozens of world…
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