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Fast Forward U.S. Attitudes Towards Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Haven’t Changed Since 2002
Americans’ attitudes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are little changed from 2002, a new Gallup poll found. The poll published Tuesday and conducted Aug. 2-3 found that Americans’ views of the conflict have changed little over the past 10 days — or the past 12 years. Respondents are about evenly divided over whether Israel’s actions in…
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Fast Forward TV Crews Expose Hamas Rockets in Residential Areas of Gaza
French and Indian TV stations broadcast footage showing Hamas rocket launching facilities in a civilian area. The French TV station, France 24, showed a rocket launching pad located about 100 yards from a United Nations building flying the blue U.N. flag. A hotel housing journalists covering the Gaza conflict was located about 50 yards from…
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News Ringleader in 3 Teens’ Kidnapping Is Nabbed
A West Bank man said to be the leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers in June was arrested. A gag order on reporting the arrest, which took place more than three weeks ago, was lifted Tuesday evening, according to Israeli media. Hussam Kawasme of Hebron was apprehended while attempting…
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News Israel Claims Arrest of Ringleader of Kidnapping of 3 Teens
A West Bank man said to be the leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers in June was arrested. A gag order on reporting the arrest, which took place more than three weeks ago, was lifted Tuesday evening, according to Israeli media. Hussam Kawasme of Hebron was apprehended while attempting…
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Opinion 6 Ways To Spin the Gaza War
Getty Images (JTA) — Now that the latest Gaza conflict appears to be nearly over it’s time to take stock of the winners and losers. Who won the war? Perhaps more than the other two Gaza conflicts in the last six years, Israel is the clear winner this time. The Israel Defense Forces dealt a…
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Fast Forward Mission Accomplished? Don’t Tell Israelis Near Gaza
(Reuters) — Many Israelis living on the Gaza border were unconvinced by their military’s announcement that its mission was accomplished in a nearly month-long campaign aimed at ending rocket strikes and tunnel infiltration. Israel’s government, they said, had taken too long to deal with the network of underground passages Palestinian militants had been digging for…
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Opinion Jews Shouldn’t Blame Palestinians for Getting Killed
Getty Images For Israelis and Palestinians, as well for their friends and family around the world, these past few weeks have been torture. Each day for Israel brings new rocket attacks, new cross-border terrorist raids, new funerals and shivas for IDF soldiers. Each day for Palestinians in Gaza brings new rounds of artillery shelling, fresh…
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Fast Forward Will Israel Tourism Bounce Back Quickly?
Tourism to Israel, badly damaged by rocket fire from Gaza during an Israeli offensive against Islamist militants in the enclave, should bounce back later in the year, Tourism Minister Uzi Landau said on Tuesday. More than 3.5 million visitors came to Israel in 2013, pumping some 40 billion shekels ($12 billion) into the economy and…
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