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Fast Forward Israeli Policeman Charged With Assault Over Violent Arrest of Tariq Abu Khdeir
An Israeli policeman was charged on Wednesday with assault causing bodily harm against a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent during a protest over the revenge killing of the teenager’s cousin days before the eight week war with Gaza. The indictment submitted to a Jerusalem court charged the policeman with grabbing the youth and throwing him…
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Opinion VIDEO: Israel Is the Answer to Your Love Handles
A still from the Israeli Ministry of Absorption’s new aliyah ad / YouTube Dear young American Jews: Israel is the answer to the s***|ty life you see before you. That’s the takeaway from the Israeli Ministry of Absorption’s new aliyah ad, a ridiculously kitschy video that urges U.S. Jews to trade in their boring American…
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Fast Forward Reuven Rivlin Greets Conservative Jews as ‘One Big Family’
Reuven Rivlin, who drew criticism before becoming Israel’s president for his broadsides against non-Orthodox Jewish streams, told a group of Conservative Jews that Jews are “one big family.” “We cannot agree on everything, but we are brothers and we are one big family,” The Jerusalem Post quoted Rivlin as telling the delegation Wednesday from the…
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Fast Forward Islamist Militants Leave Signed Note on Beheaded Corpse in Sinai
Residents in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula said on Wednesday they found a beheaded corpse bearing a note signed by an Islamist militant group linked to the Syria and Iraq-based Islamic State, accusing the victim of being an Israeli spy. The beheading is the eighth claimed by the group in Sinai in under a month in a…
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Fast Forward Protestors Call on Minnesota Governor to Divest State Investment Funds From Israel Bonds
Protesters called on Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton to divest state investment funds from Israel Bonds. The protesters, from the divestment group Break the Bonds, attended a Minnesota State Board of Investment meeting Tuesday to call on the governor, who is chairman of the committee, to pull the funds from Israel, according to the Star Tribune….
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Fast Forward Moshe Yaalon Makes Surprise Visit to Azerbaijan
Moshe Yaalon became the first Israeli defense minister to visit the central Asian country of Azerbaijan. Yaalon began an unannounced two-day visit on Wednesday, landing in Baku for meetings with top government officials. Azerbaijan, which has had bilateral relations with Israel for many years, is located next to Iran. “I am happy to be hosted…
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Fast Forward U.N. Will Investigate Israel’s Targeting Of Its Schools During Gaza Conflict
The United Nations is preparing to investigate the targeting of its schools in Gaza during Israel’s recent operation in Gaza, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an Arabic newspaper. Several United Nations workers were kicked in airstrikes on the schools, which were housing internally displaced Palestinians. Weapons were found by the U.N. to be stored by…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Killed By IDF During Raid on West Bank Refugee Camp
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man during a raid on a West Bank refugee camp. The man was shot in the chest early Wednesday morning as he threw an explosive device at the soldiers in the al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah. The soldiers were in the camp to arrest a wanted Hamas operative,…
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