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Fast Forward Israel Lawmakers Push Move To Close Sheldon Adelson’s Paper
Israeli lawmakers approved in a preliminary vote a bill that would shut down a free Israeli daily owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson. The vote on the bill intended to shut down the Israel Hayom newspaper passed its first reading by a vote of 43 to 23. There are 120 lawmakers in the Knesset. The…
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Opinion Who’s to Blame for Temple Mount Violence?
Once again Israel faces a deadly spiral of Palestinian violence, as the low-level rioting that began in East Jerusalem in July, following the murder of teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir by a trio of Jewish hoodlums, gave way in late October to a series of lethal attacks with knives, guns and motor vehicles. And once again,…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Signs Vandalized at Cornell
Signs critical of Israel posted by Students for Justice in Palestine on the Cornell campus were torn down several times. SJP originally posted the signs on the school’s Arts Quad on the morning of Oct. 29, according to a report by Cornell’s student newspaper, the Daily Sun. Another student took down the signs later that…
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Opinion ‘Pallywood’ Killing Was Exactly What It Looked Like
Still from CCTV footage of the West Bank killing / Youtube The fatal shooting of two Palestinian teens in the West Bank this summer? Not faked. Not “Pallywood.” Not even close. It was exactly what it appeared to be. On May 15, four Palestinians, three of them children, were shot in the town of Bitunya…
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Fast Forward Israel To Boycott U.N. Gaza ‘Kangaroo Court’ Probe
Israel said on Wednesday it would not cooperate with a United Nations Human Rights Council investigation into this year’s Gaza war because its findings were “pre-determined.” The U.N. panel, due to make its first report by March, is meant to look into the conduct of both Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza,…
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Opinion Israel’s Next Threat — A ‘Car Intifada’?
A #Drive4alAqsa meme, part of the “car intifada” campaign / Twitter The past few weeks have seen widespread incitement to violence among both Palestinians and Jewish Israelis. There have been stabbings, harassments, shootings, stone-throwings, hit-and-runs. And now, there’s the “car intifada.” This campaign, which is drawing significant media attention, calls on Palestinians to run over…
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Fast Forward Reuven Rivlin Tells Reform Leaders ‘We’re One Family’
“We are all one family,” Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin told leaders of the Reform movement at his residence in Jerusalem. “I can say to all of you, we are one family and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel,” Rivlin said Tuesday while hosting over…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Officer Arrested in Videotaped Killing of Palestinian Teen
Israeli police have arrested a paramilitary border policeman over the fatal shooting of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank in May, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Nadim Nuwara, 17, and Muhammad Abu Thahr, 16, were killed during a May 15 demonstration in which Palestinians hurled stones at Israeli forces. Video from security cameras…
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