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Fast Forward Protesters Block Israeli Ship Unloading at California Port
Pro-Palestinian activists prevented the unloading of an Israeli cargo ship at the Oakland Port for the second time in less than two months. In Saturday’s incident, the Zim Shanghai was unable to unload its cargo after some 200 activists gathered at the port and prevented workers from getting near the ship, which is owned by…
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Fast Forward Iran’s Rouhani Blames U.S. and Allies for Rise of Extremists
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the United States and its allies for the rise of extremists and terrorists while also reaching out to the West. “Extremism is not a regional issue that just the nations of our region would have to grapple with; extremism is a global issue,” Rouhani said Thursday in an address to…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Infiltrator Armed With Knife and Pick Arrested in Southern Israel
A Palestinian teenager was arrested in southern Israel near the Gaza border armed with a knife and a pick. The 18-year-old was arrested Sunday by local security officers near Kibbutz Alumim. He is believed to have infiltrated into Israel from Gaza near Kibbutz Nahal Oz. A security alert was issued for the area after a…
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Fast Forward Vittorio Dan Segre, Italian-Israeli Writer and Diplomat, Dies at 92
Vittorio Dan Segre, an Italian-Israeli diplomat, a writer and political figure, has died. Segre, a committed Zionist who was also one of the grand old men of contemporary Italian Jewry, died in Turin on Saturday. He was 92. Born near Turin in 1922, he fled to Palestine in 1938 after Italy’s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini…
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Fast Forward Dutch Schools Opt Out of Charity Drive Funding ‘Anti-Israel’ Groups
The schools of a Dutch town opted out of a charity campaign which municipal officials said collects funds for anti-Israeli groups. All six schools in the town of Urk, located 20 miles northeast of Amsterdam, decided this year not to participate in a fundraising campaign organized by the Kinderpostzegels Association, the Omroep Flevoland broadcaster reported…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Heads to U.N. To ‘Refute All the Lies’ About Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would “refute all the lies” being directed at Israel in his upcoming address to the United Nations General Assembly. Netanyahu made the remarks two days after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in his speech to the General Assembly accused Israel of committing a “war of genocide” in Gaza. Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Demands U.N. Timetable To End Occupation
There is no value in peace talks with Israel unless the goal is ending its 47-year occupation of the Palestinian territories within a “firm timetable,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly on Friday. “It’s high time for this settlement occupation to end now,” Abbas told the 193-member world body, which overwhelming…
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Fast Forward U.N. Nuclear Agency Rejects Arab Move To Chide Israel
Member states of the U.N. nuclear agency on Thursday rejected an Arab resolution targeting Israel over its assumed atomic arsenal, in a diplomatic victory for the Jewish state and Western countries opposing the initiative. Arab states had submitted the non-binding text – which called on Israel to join a global anti-nuclear weapons pact – to…
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