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Fast Forward Senior U.S. Officials Refuse To Meet With Israel’s Yaalon: Reports
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon was denied meetings with senior Obama administration officials during his U.S. visit, according to media reports citing senior U.S. officials. While in Washington last week Yaalon requested and was denied meetings with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Advisor Susan Rice, according to Israeli…
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Fast Forward After Sinai Attacks, Egypt Postpones Talks On Gaza’s Future
(Reuters) – Egypt announced on Sunday it was postponing talks in Cairo on cementing the Gaza war ceasefire after closing its border with the Palestinian enclave in response to deadly attacks in the Sinai peninsula. Two attacks on Friday in Sinai, which borders the Gaza Strip and Israel, killed at least 33 Egyptian security personnel…
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Fast Forward Rivlin Attends Ceremony Marking Arab-Israeli Massacre
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited the Israeli-Arab village of Kfar Kassem and attended the memorial ceremony marking the 1956 massacre that killed 47 town residents. Rivlin on Sunday became the first sitting Israeli president to participate in the annual ceremony. “We must look straight at what happened in the Kfar Kassem massacre and teach all…
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Fast Forward Riots Rage in East Jerusalem — Terrorist’s Funeral Postponed
Riots broke out throughout eastern Jerusalem for the third consecutive day, while the funeral for the Palestinian man who carried out a terror attack in Jerusalem was postponed. Palestinian rioters threw Molotov cocktails and rocks, and burned trash bins in communities throughout eastern Jerusalem on Saturday, including targeting the Beit Orot yeshiva located on the…
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Culture The Only Thing Worth Working For, Worth Fighting For, Worth Dying For
● Palestine in Turmoil: The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933-1939 By Monty Penkower, Touro College Press, 348 pages, $39 Monty Noam Penkower, in the latest of his fine works on the genesis of the State of Israel, examines in detail the history of 1930s Palestine. But counterintuitively, Penkower’s context for “Palestine in Turmoil: The Struggle for…
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Opinion Why AIPAC Is Anti-Israel
American Jews who support Israel have been fighting one another in an asymmetrical way: Hawks routinely accuse doves of being anti-Israel, but doves do not accuse the hawks. I’m not sure how this pattern has come about — maybe it just feels ironic for pro-peace people to pick a fight — but it needs to…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Boy Shot Dead During Clashes in the West Bank
A Palestinian boy was shot dead during clashes between Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing protesters in the occupied West Bank on Friday, medics and residents said. Orwah Hammad, 14, was shot in the head in the village of Silwad, north of the Palestinian seat of government in Ramallah. An army spokesman told Reuters Israeli forces “managed…
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Fast Forward SodaStream Will Sell Some of PepsiCo’s Brands On a Test Basis
Soda machine maker SodaStream International Ltd said it would sell some of PepsiCo Inc’s brands through its soda machines on a test basis later this year. SodaStream shares surged almost 19 percent to $25.15 in afternoon trading on Friday. The Israeli company was not currently in talks with Pepsi for a broader agreement, it said…
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