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Fast Forward Syria Says Israeli Planes Hit Military Sites Near Damascus
The Syrian government claimed that Israeli planes attacked military sites near Damascus. The attacks, also reported on Syrian television, took place on Sunday night, Syria said. Israeli planes are reported to have hit several military facilities near Damascus International Airport and in Dimas, located north of Damascus near the border with Lebanon. Syrian state television…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Endorses Obama’s Middle East Policy at Saban Forum
(JTA) — From the drive for Israeli-Palestinian peace to nuclear talks with Iran, Hillary Rodham Clinton is endorsing President Obama’s Israel-related positions. Clinton, who was Obama’s secretary of state during his first term, spoke Friday night with Haim Saban, the Israeli-American entertainment mogul who through the Brookings Institution convenes an eponymous annual forum of Israeli and…
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Fast Forward IDF Opens Criminal Investigations Into Gaza Operation Killings
The Israel Defense Forces has opened criminal investigations into eight deadly incidents that occurred during its 50-day Gaza operation. The investigations, announced Saturday night by the IDF Magistrate Advocate General, involve the deaths of 30 Gazan Palestinians, including 27, believed to be mostly civilians, killed in a July 20 air strike on the home of…
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Israel News Iconic Mideast Photo Is a Fake — and Heartbreaking One at That
One week into Israel’s war with Gaza this past summer, superstar Rihanna tweeted a photo of an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy with their arms around each other facing away from the camera: “Let’s pray for peace and a swift end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict!” she wrote. “Is there any hope?….” The photo was…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden Says Iran Nuclear Talks Working
Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday there was a “less than even shot” of a nuclear deal with Iran but that it was still worth pursuing. Biden, speaking at a forum on the Middle East at the Brookings Institution think tank, rejected calls for more sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program because “this…
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Fast Forward British Architects Backtrack on Israel Boycott
The leading association for British architects has rescinded a previous policy to suspend its Israeli counterparts from an international architects group. On Thursday, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) concluded that a motion to suspend the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA) from the International Union of Architects (UIA) was “not in furtherance of…
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Fast Forward Like Birthright for Jewish Moms?
(JTA) — On the surface, the tour looked much like a standard Birthright Israel trip: Participants celebrated Shabbat in Jerusalem’s Old City, swam in the Dead Sea and ascended the ancient mountain fortress at Masada. The trip was mostly free and organizers were prepared with follow-up programming after the participants returned home. But the nearly…
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Fast Forward Killer Frenchman Gets 5 Years in Israel Hit-and-Run
A French Jew who in 2011 fled a fatal hit-and-run in Tel Aviv was sentenced in Paris to five years in jail. A passenger who also fled was sentenced to 15 months. Eric Robic, who confessed to driving at the time of the accident, fled Israel with passenger Claude Khayat shortly after hitting Lee Zeitouni,…
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