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Fast Forward Hamas Holds Gaza Military Parade, Vows Israel’s Destruction
Vowing to destroy Israel, Hamas paraded some 2,000 of its armed fighters and truck-mounted rockets through Gaza on Sunday, marking its 27th anniversary with its biggest show of force since the end of the Gaza war this summer. A ceasefire in August halted 50 days of fighting with Israel in which local health officials said…
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Fast Forward Congressional Spending Bill OKs Israel Defense Aid
The massive spending bill passed by Congress includes defense assistance for Israel along with tightened oversight of Palestinian funding and Iran nuclear talks. Included in the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill passed in the Senate by a 56-40 vote on Saturday night was the $3.1 billion in annual defense spending for Israel under a 2007 memorandum…
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Fast Forward Israel Names Officer Accused of Killing Palestinian Teen With Live Fire
An Israeli Border Police officer indicted for the killing of a Palestinian teen during a Nakba Day protest in the West Bank has been named. The Jerusalem District Court on Sunday named Ben Deri, 21, as the officer who was indicted last month for manslaughter in the death of Nadeem Nawara during a violent demonstration…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: Israel Will Rebuff U.N. Moves Towards Palestinian State
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would tell U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel will rebuff any moves at the United Nations to set a timeframe for a withdrawal from territory Palestinians seek for state. The State Department has said the two men will meet in Rome on Monday to discuss various proposals…
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Fast Forward Will Michael Oren Run in Upcoming Israeli Elections?
Former Israeli envoy to the United States Michael Oren has not decided whether he will become a candidate on any political party’s list in Israel’s upcoming elections. Israeli media reported over the weekend that Oren would join the new Kulanu party of former Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon. Kahlon left the Likud Party and politics in…
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Fast Forward Gadi Eisenkot Approved as Next IDF Chief of Staff
Maj.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot was approved as the Israel Defense Forces’ next chief of staff. Israel’s Cabinet approved Eisenkot’s appointment on Sunday during its regular meeting. “Gadi Eisenkot is the right man in the right place at the right time,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the meeting. “Gadi has been a soldier…
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Culture I Spent 18 Hours In Tel Aviv’s Bus Station
I arrived at the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station at 5:34 a.m. on the rainiest day of the year. The concrete building was just yawning open; shopkeepers placed bourekas onto particleboard pallets and dressed mannequins in discount winter coats as they prepared for the 60,000-plus passengers who would pass through the station that day. But…
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Israel News Anti-BDS Professors Launch Push To Ban 4 Far Right Israeli Leaders
A nascent group of well-known academics is calling on the U.S. government and European Union to impose personal sanctions on four prominent Israelis “who lead efforts to insure permanent Israeli occupation of the West Bank and to annex all or parts of it unilaterally in violation of international law.” Scholars for Israel and Palestine (SIP)…
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