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Opinion The Intifada Will Be Live Streamed — Is That Bad?
We in the pro-Israel community have spent the past decade bracing for the next intifada — another uprising. And now that it seems to be upon us, we are set with our talking points: why peace talks failed, why the Hamas and Palestinian Authority unity government is to blame, how the Israelis try to protect…
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Fast Forward No Ramadan Joy for Muslims in Gaza
(Reuters) — Instead of enjoying celebrations and night time feasts, Palestinians in Gaza are spending the Islamic holy month of Ramadan cowering in their homes and temporary shleters from Israeli bombs. Muslims fast during the daylight hours in Ramadan and sundown would normally bring a carnival atmosphere to Gaza’s crowded streets, with lanterns strung above…
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Opinion With Israel Feuds Raging, Can’t Jews All Get Along?
Yesterday, Jews and Muslims in Israel, New York and other communities decided to take advantage of a calendric symmetry to assert their connection to one another, if only by breaking bread after a daylong fast. For Jews, it was the 17th of Tammuz, when the walls around the ancient city of Jerusalem were breached, marking…
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Fast Forward Israel Targets Top Hamas Man as Truce Collapses — Warns of Invasion
Israel resumed its air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday a day after holding its fire in deference to an Egyptian-proposed cease-fire deal that failed to get Hamas militants to halt rocket attacks. Attacks in the Gaza Strip killed at least seven Palestinians in the early hours of Wednesday, Gaza health officials said, and…
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Opinion Did Danny Danon Go Too Far?
Getty Images (JTA) — Apparently, Danny Danon went too far. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Danon, a hawkish Likudnik who had been deputy defense minister, from his post after Danon slammed the Israeli Cabinet decision to endorse a proposed cease-fire with Hamas. Danon had called the decision a “slap in the face to all…
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The Schmooze Jon Stewart Needles Israel on ‘Bomb-Better’ War
Our favorite Jewish late-night talk show host tackled the violence in the Middle East last night — with a few sharp-tongued yucks aimed at Israel. In a two-minute segment on the Gaza conflict, Jon Stewart highlighted the “asymmetrical” nature of the two sides pitted against each other. “Both sides are engaging in aerial bombardment, but…
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The Schmooze Want Slice of Hamas Rocket? Just 146 Bucks
Yochay Benarie Want to have your own slice of the war in the Middle East? You can bid on your very own “Hamas Missile Debris” on HappySale, an Israeli based auction website. The seller, Yochay Benarie, is asking for 500 shekels, or $146.70, for the fragment. Benarie, who lives in Tel Aviv, put up the…
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Fast Forward Danny Danon, Far Right Wing Deputy Minister, Fired by Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday fired a deputy defense minister after he publicly criticized government decisions during Israel’s week-long battle with Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from right-wing members of his coalition government to broaden the military offensive against the ruling Hamas in Gaza, including calls to send…
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