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Fast Forward Hezbollah Says Israel Wants To Set ‘New Rules’ in Conflict
An Israeli attack which killed several prominent members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah last week was an attempt by Israel to set “new rules” in the conflict between the two foes, Hezbollah’s deputy leader said at a gathering to commemorate those who died. Sheik Naim Qassem’s comments were the first reaction from the group’s leadership to the…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Rejects Mounting Criticism of Speech to Congress
(Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended on Sunday a planned speech to the U.S. Congress about Iran, saying he had a moral obligation to take every opportunity to speak out on an issue that poses a mortal threat to his country. His visit to Washington in March has opened up a political rift…
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Fast Forward Republicans Claim Benjamin Netanyahu Invitation ‘Bipartisan’ — Democrats Scoff
(Reuters) — When House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, jolted Washington this week by inviting Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, his office said it had been done “on behalf of the bipartisan leadership.” In reality, it was among the most partisan moves so far by America’s newly Republican-controlled Congress. Fuming…
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Fast Forward Israeli Scribes Restore 200-Year-Old Iraqi Scroll
Israeli scribes restored a 200-year old Iraqi Torah scroll that arrived in Israel under mysterious circumstances. The Associated Press reported Thursday that the scroll, written in northern Iraq by two scribes using pomegranate ink, was delivered, water-damaged, to the Israeli embassy in Jordan in 2007, and was transferred to Israel in 2011 when riots were…
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Fast Forward 4 Israeli Arab Parties Unite for Election
Four political parties that mostly represent Israel’s Arab minority have decided to run together in elections on March 17, creating a potential counter-weight to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies. Opinion polls suggest the united Arab list could secure 11 seats in the 120-seat parliament, around the same level as they hold individually…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu’s Shocking ‘Invite-Gate’ Gambit — Will Snubbing Barack Obama Pay Off?
In the musical Funny Girl about Jewish-American entertainer Fanny Brice, Barbra Streisand implored her friend Eddie “Don’t bring a cloud to rain on my parade.” That’s what Benjamin Netanyahu did this week: he rained on President Obama’s parade, marred his victory lap, played party-pooper at the after-party that Obama was holding following his triumphant State…
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Fast Forward Israel ‘Saddened’ by Death of Saudi King Abdullah
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said he was saddened by the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whom he credited with enhancing regional stability. Rivlin expressed his appreciation for the Saudi Monarch in a statement Friday, a day after Abdullah’s died at 90. “I was saddened to hear of the passing of King Abdullah. He…
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Opinion The New York Times and its Israel Bias
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not confined to the battlefield. It is also waged in the media, nowhere more prominently than in The New York Times. In “The Conflict and the Coverage,” a November column she “never wanted to write,” Margaret Sullivan, Times Public Editor, addressed “hundreds of emails from readers on both sides of the…
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