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Fast Forward 8,000 March in Paris To Support Israel
Thousands of people attended France’s largest pro-Israel rally since Israel launched the war in Gaza. The crowd, estimated by police at 8,000, gathered near Israel’s embassy in Paris’ 8th Arrondissement under heavy police guard Thursday, shouting “long live Israel” and singing the French and Israeli anthems while waving both countries’ flags. The gathering Thursday was…
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The Schmooze Joan Rivers Has Advice for Israel: Nose Jobs
Getty Images Joan Rivers is trading in her “Fashion Police” badge for some international relations credentials. The comedian, who just last week was seen passionately defending Israel to a TMZ reporter, is at it again. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 10 on Wednesday, Rivers had some words of advice for Israel’s PR team. “We…
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Fast Forward White House Blasts Israeli Attack on Gaza School as ‘Indefensible’
The shelling of a U.N.-run school in Gaza this week by the Israeli military is “totally unacceptable and totally indefensible” and Israel needs to do more to protect innocent civilians, a White House spokesman said on Thursday. Israel talks frequently about the importance it places on sparing civilian lives but the United States believes its…
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Opinion Open Letter to Penelope Cruz From Her Jewish Doppelganger
Inna Vernikov, left; Penelope Cruz, right / Courtesy of the author; Instagram Dear Penelope, You are a remarkable actress and a strikingly beautiful model. I have been following your successful career for years. Your performance in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” was an inspiring work of art. In fact, I am often complimented on just how much…
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The Schmooze Penelope Cruz Just Wants Peace in Gaza
Getty Images Penelope Cruz didn’t exactly say “I didn’t know what the heck I was doing,” but she did issue a clarification to an open letter — written by husband Javier Bardem — which she signed along with nearly 100 Spanish actors and filmmakers. The original letter called for an end to “the genocide perpetrated by…
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Opinion Actually, George Orwell Would Support Israel
Illustration by Yoni Weiss In these pages, Daniel May’s “What Would George Orwell Say About the Gaza War?” used totalitarianism’s great enemy to criticize democratic Israel’s justified struggle against totalitarian Hamas. May’s argument, misreading Israel’s self-defense justification, and echoing Hamas’s propaganda points, peppered with clever quotations from George Orwell, was itself Orwellian. Deciding how dead…
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Israel News Israel and Palestinians Locked in Vicious Circle of War, Terror and Occupation
When Israel ended its 38-year ground occupation of the Gaza Strip by withdrawing settlers in 2005, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hailed it as a “disengagement” from conflict with Palestinians in the densely populated coastal enclave. But the conflict did not end, it only changed. Israel kept expanding settlements in the West Bank where the Palestinians…
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Israel News Is Fido Suffering From Gaza War, Too?
(Haaretz) — It’s a lazy afternoon. It’s hot and the family’s hanging out. Suddenly a rocket siren shatters the peace. Everybody, including the family’s five dogs, heads promptly but calmly to the reinforced “safe room.” Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, as the siren wails, D.’s dog pees on the floor in terror. Jasmine’s three cats twitch an…
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