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Fast Forward Palestinians Halt Security Cooperation With Israel After Minister’s Death
The Palestinian Authority said it will cease all security coordination with Israel in response to the death of a senior Palestinian official following a confrontation with Israeli soldiers. Jibril Rajoub, a Palestinian political official, said Wednesday afternoon that the P.A. will end “all forms of security coordination with Israel for deliberately killing Minister Ziad Abu…
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Israel News Ashton Carter Brings Record of Friendship With Israel to Pentagon
(JTA) — Ashton Carter has championed the sale to Israel of state-of-the-art combat aircraft, has aligned himself with Iran hawks and was observed becoming misty-eyed when serenaded by Israeli soldiers. Carter, 60, President Obama’s secretary of defense nominee, has been depicted in the media as the un-Chuck Hagel. He’s assertive and a bureaucratic in-fighter where…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Worst-Ever Oil Spill Could Damage Environment for Years
Ecologists said on Wednesday it could take years to clean up a massive oil spill that flooded an Israeli nature reserve with up to five million liters of crude and threatened to spread to the Red Sea shore and neighboring Jordan. A breached pipeline started spewing oil into Evrona desert reserve – famed for its…
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Fast Forward American Christian Extremist Charged in Plot To Blow Up Muslim Holy Sites
An American Christian extremist has been indicted in Israel on weapons charges and told investigators he had been weighing the possibility of attacking Muslim holy sites, the Israeli domestic security service Shin Bet said on Tuesday. The man’s lawyer told reporters that the Shin Bet was exaggerating the security implications of the case, which coincides…
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Fast Forward Anthropologists Won’t Oppose Israel Boycott
The American Anthropological Association rejected a proposed resolution that would oppose the academic boycott of Israel. The association, an organization of 12,000 scholars and practitioners, voted on the motion Friday at its annual business meeting, which had 700 attendees. Just 52 participants voted in favor of the resolution and the no votes were not tabulated…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Upgrade Status at International Criminal Court
The Palestinians have become a non-state observer at the International Criminal Court based in The Hague. The ICC upgraded the Palestine Liberation Organization on Monday, during a summit meeting of the 122 countries that are members of the court. The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, told the Palestinian Maan news agency that…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Makes Bread-and-Butter Push
In nearly nine years as Israel’s prime minister spread over three terms, Benjamin Netanyahu has been a security hawk, promising to do whatever it takes to combat the threat from Palestinian militants or a nuclear-armed Iran. But as he opened his campaign for a fourth term ahead of elections set for March 17, Netanyahu stepped…
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Israel News Ultra-Orthodox Women Threatened for Demanding Israel Political Voice
(Haaretz) — The backlash against ultra-Orthodox women who are daring to demand a public voice in government didn’t come as a big surprise, but it did come swiftly and harshly. Last week a formal campaign called “No Female Candidate, No Female Vote” was launched to pressure ultra-Orthodox political parties Shas and the United Torah Judaism…
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