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Israel News Families of Slain Israeli and Palestinian Teens Turn to Each Other for Comfort
The families of murdered Israeli teen Naftali Fraenkel and murdered Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir are drawing comfort from an unexpected source: each other. Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat took to Facebook on Sunday to write about an “emotional and special telephone conversation between two families that have lost their sons.” He said that during his…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: American Cousin of ‘Revenge’ Victim Speaks Out After Beating
“They hit me — and they kept hitting me,” said 15-year-old Palestinian American Tariq Abu Khdeir of Israeli police, who beat him during a protest at the home of his slain cousin Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Tariq Abu Khdeir spoke about his experience in a video published by Addameer after he was released from Israeli custody on…
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Fast Forward Florida Cousin of Revenge Victim Put Under House Arrest
An Israeli judge on Sunday released from jail and placed under house arrest a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent whose apparent beating by Israeli police in East Jerusalem has drawn U.S. concern. Tariq Khdeir from Tampa, Florida, is a cousin of Mohammed Abu Khudeir, 16, whose abduction and killing in Jerusalem on Wednesday sparked violent…
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Opinion Bulldoze Homes of Jewish Terrorists, Too
Israel regularly destroys homes of Palestinian terror suspects, calling it a deterrent. But it never uses the same tactic against Jewish extremists. / Getty Images (Haaretz) — There is only one sane and truly halakhic way to tackle our current situation: Take the well-known members of the Orthodox Price Tag gang and lock ‘em up, for…
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News Protests Over Revenge Slay Spread to Arab-Israeli Towns
Violent protests sparked by the abduction and killing of a Palestinian teenager spread to Arab villages in Israel on Saturday, presenting a new challenge to the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel has stayed silent on the investigation into the death of an East Jerusalem youth who Palestinians believe was kidnapped and killed by…
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Fast Forward Martin Indyk Says Israeli Settlements Killed Middle East Peace Talks
Martin Indyk, the former chief U.S. envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, said Israeli settlement activity caused the Palestinians to walk away from negotiations. Indyk, who quit his post as peace envoy last week after the breakdown of talks, blamed settlement activity for the failure in an interview published Thursday by The Atlantic. “The Israeli attitude…
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Fast Forward 7 Israel Soldiers Jailed for ‘Revenge’ Calls
Seven Israeli soldiers were sentenced to prison for posting photos calling for retaliation for the murder of three Israeli teenagers. The military handed down a 10-day term for the soldiers on Thursday after they posted the photos on Facebook calling for revenge for the killing of Gilad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrach. Thousands of…
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Fast Forward Kurds Wary of Israel Boost for Independence
(Reuters) — A Kurdish diplomat has played down the significance of Israeli advocacy of independence for her people, saying it was not coordinated with the autonomous Kurdish government in Iraq and may be intended to served Israel’s interests. While acknowledging that Israel had sway in Washington, which wants to prevent a break-up of sectarian war-torn Iraq,…
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