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Fast Forward Turkish Group Plans New Gaza Flotilla
A Turkish aid group said on Monday it would send ships again to challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza, four years after Israeli commandos stormed its flotilla bound for the Palestinian territory and killed 10 people. The incident wrecked diplomatic ties between Turkey and Israel, once close Middle East allies but whose relationship had been…
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Fast Forward Daniel Barenboim Holds ‘Peace Concert’ With Arabs
Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim performed a free outdoor “peace concert” in his native Argentina with an orchestra he co-founded featuring Israeli and Arab musicians. Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performed a program of Vivaldi’s music on Sunday before a crowd of thousands at a neo-colonial bridge connecting Buenos Aires and the city of Valentin…
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Fast Forward Frankfurt Jews Drop Out of Interfaith Council
Frankfurt’s Jewish community has dropped out of the city’s interfaith “Council of Religions” due to anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements by local Islamic leaders. At issue is the failure of the interfaith group to condemn statements by members of the Islamic Religious Association of Hessen, according to Leo Latasch, head of social affairs for the Jewish…
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Opinion Israel’s Moral Dilemma in Waging Gaza War
The far-reaching implications of the war in Gaza was recently driven home to me when I observed Israeli paratroopers preparing to take out missiles hidden in homes — in Lebanon. On June 11 I was part of a group of students of international affairs who were invited to an Israel Defense Forces base, Eliakim, near…
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Fast Forward Israel Returns to Talks as New Gaza Truce Starts
Israel and the Palestinians began talks in Cairo on Monday to try and end the conflict in Gaza and lift the blockade on the coastal enclave, Egypt’s state news agency MENA said. The indirect talks are being mediated by Egypt and began a day after the two sides agreed to begin a new 72-hour truce….
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Opinion Orwell Would Ask Where ‘Pro-Israel’ Leads Us
“Thought can corrupt language,” George Orwell wrote in the 1943 essay I referred to in my column, “but language can also corrupt thought.” Gil Troy’s response to my piece offers a concise portrait of this process. But his critique is more than a helpful example of the rhetorical phenomenon I wrote to challenge. In form…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Backs Israel’s Handling of Gaza
Hillary Rodham Clinton defended Israel’s handling of the Gaza conflict and said anti-Semitism was possibly behind some of the criticism of Israel. Clinton also appeared to back Israel’s insistence on maintaining a security presence in the West Bank and stopping Iranian uranium enrichment. The former U.S. secretary of state made her remarks in an interview…
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Fast Forward Sprawling Anti-Israel Rallies Hit London and Cape Town
Tens of thousands of people protested Israel’s operation against Gaza in both London and Cape Town. Demonstrators in central London marched though the West End shopping area and on to Hyde Park for a rally on Saturday. It is the third major demonstration on behalf of Gaza in London in the last month. Organizers said…
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