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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Too Many Israelis Ready To Dump Peace Bid
President Barack Obama lamented on Wednesday that “too many Israelis” were ready to abandon Middle East peace efforts and urged them to reflect on the matter, saying the status quo with the Palestinians was unsustainable. As part of a broader speech to the United Nations Assembly, Obama appeared to gently chide close U.S. ally Israel…
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Fast Forward Israel Boosts Defense Spending by 10%
Israel will increase its 2015 defense budget by 6 billion shekels ($1.6 billion) or more than 10 percent to 57 billion shekels, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday. The 50-day Gaza conflict which ended last month has underpinned hefty budget demands by the Defense Ministry. With Israel also preparing for a possible confrontation…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama All But Ignores Iran ‘Threat’ in United Nations Speech
President Obama devoted the bulk of his U.N. speech to the fight violent Islamic extremism and all but ignored the subject of Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran’s nuclear pursuits were a major focus of Obama’s address last year at the U.N. General Assembly, but at this year’s General Assembly, Iran got just a couple of lines…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Lauds Sacrifice for Israel in Rosh Hashanah Message
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Rosh Hashanah greetings spoke of the painful year that passed and pledged his nation’s support to Diaspora Jews dealing with virulent anti-Semitism. “Over the past few months, three of our teenagers were kidnapped and brutally murdered, thousands of rockets were fired at our country and too many of…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism Drives 28% Jump in Aliyah
(JTA) — France leads immigration to Israel. Ukrainian immigration doubles. Surprise, surprise. Not. Aliyah to Israel jumped 28 percent in the past Jewish year, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel, for a total of 24,800 — the highest figure in five years. And driving the increase are Jews who are dying to get out…
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Opinion Do Jewish Actions Ever Cause Anti-Semitism?
Jewish graves daubed with anti-Semitic slogans in a German cemetery / Getty Images Is anti-Semitism ever a response to things that Jews do? Jeffrey Goldberg thinks saying “Jews… Jewish organizations, or the Jewish state” ever cause anti-Semitism amounts to blaming the victim. Thus he attacked Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, for…
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Israel News African Immigrants Cheer Israel Court Decision Shutting Jail
Asylum-seekers Detained in Israel’s Desert from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. For African immigrants living in South Tel Aviv, there is only one fate they dread almost as much returning to their troubled homelands: being sent to Holot, a spartan detention center deep in the Negev desert. Israel’s high court handed the community a huge…
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Fast Forward The Lancet Won’t Retract Anti-Israel Letter on Gaza Despite Authors’ Radical Ties
The Lancet will not retract a letter slamming Israeli policy in Gaza in light of evidence tying two of the authors to support for white supremacist David Duke. The British medical journal’s editor, Dr. Richard Horton, dismissed evidence that two of the five authors of “An open letter for the people of Gaza,” published in…
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