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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu’s Favorite Poet — and Ours
First at the November 2012 memorial ceremony for the victims of the Toulouse school massacre, and again in response to news of the three murdered Israeli teenagers earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaned on the same line of the same poem “On the Slaughter” by Hayyim Nahman Bialik: “The vengeance for a…
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Fast Forward 3 Jewish Suspects Confess in Revenge Killing
Three of the six suspects arrested in the July 2 kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Mohammad Khdeir of eastern Jerusalem to avenge the slaying of three Israeli teens have confessed to the crime and reenacted burning and dumping the body in the Jerusalem forest, Israeli media reported Monday. The suspects, reportedly from Jerusalem and the…
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Opinion Why Jewish Revenge Murder Should Shake Us Up
Relatives of Mohammed Abu Khdeir carry his body during his funeral / Getty Images Already, the details emerging about the gruesome death of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian teen burned alive in a revenge attack, are causing soul-searching among Israelis who would not or could not acknowledge that this unforgivable act was perpetrated by some…
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Opinion Who Won in Bibi-Liberman Divorce?
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman / Getty Images Who was the winner in the Liberman-Netanyahu divorce? The ruling party in Israel has just split, with Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman pulling his Yisrael Beytenu party out of its year-and-a-half-old alliance with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. Liberman said he was leaving Bibi because the latter…
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Fast Forward Israel Denies Killing 6 Hamas Militants in Gaza
Israel called up reserve troops on Monday for a possible escalation of hostilities with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip where Hamas said six of its fighters were killed by air strikes, something Israel denied. Hamas vowed revenge for what it said were deadliest attacks in a surge of violence since the kidnapping and killing of…
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Opinion The Pinkwashing of Mohammed Abu Khdeir
An undated family handout picture of Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Now that Israeli police have arrested six Jewish suspects for the kidnap-murder of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir, it’s safe to say that the teen was not killed by his own family for being gay. Of course, Mohammed’s family has been saying that all along. They’ve…
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Fast Forward Sweden Man Beaten for Hanging Israel Flag
A man who hung an Israeli flag outside his window in the Swedish city of Malmo was severely beaten for it and taken to the hospital, police said. Several unidentified men assaulted the 38-year-old man with metal bars after they hurled a stone at his window on Sunday evening, the Svenska Dagbladet daily reported Monday….
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Fast Forward California Jewish Campus Leader Blames Conflict Probe on ‘Pro-Israel’ Stance
A Jewish UCLA student nominated to serve as a regent for the statewide University of California system alleged that a conflict-of-interest probe against him is “an attack against me as a pro-Israel student.” Avi Oved released a statement before a July 1 emergency meeting via teleconference of the University of California Student Association, or UCSA,…
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