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Fast Forward Israeli Man Shot And Seriously Injured At West Bank Junction
An Israeli man was shot and seriously injured while waiting at a West Bank junction. The Israel Defense Forces identified the shooter in Monday night’s incident at the Rechalim Junction as a Palestinian terrorist and said its forces were searching the area for the shooter. The junction is located near the West Bank city of…
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Fast Forward Kibbutzes Empty as Gaza Rockets Rain
(Reuters) — ’Residents stay in your homes! Do not go outside!’ read the text message sent at dawn to the Israelis living on a kibbutz near the Gaza border, as soldiers searched the grounds for Palestinian gunmen. While the Nir Am kibbutz was under lockdown on Monday, a deadly battle ensued between the Israeli troops and…
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The Schmooze Jon Stewart on What It’s Like To Talk About Israel as a Jew
Making jokes about Israel can be tricky. No one knows this better than Jon Stewart, who has been criticized for remarks he made on ?The Daily Show? pointing out the asymmetrical distribution of force in Operation Protective Edge. So in a segment on Monday night, Stewart responded using what he does best ? comedy. Every time…
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Fast Forward Christians United For Israel Urge Congress to Cut Funding to Palestinian Authority
With sharp jabs at the Obama administration, Christians United for Israel launched its annual Washington rally with appeals to Congress to impose new sanctions on Iran and to cut off funding to the Palestinian Authority. David Brog, the group’s executive director, said the group regarded the Iran nuclear talks as a failure and would back…
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Fast Forward Rocket From Gaza Strikes Israeli Home in Suburb of Tel Aviv
A rocket or part of a rocket fired from Gaza scored a direct hit on a house in a suburb of Tel Aviv. The house in Yehud was seriously damaged on Tuesday, in the first direct hit on a home in Israel’s center since the start of Operation Protective Edge 15 days ago. At least…
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Fast Forward Israeli Professor Suggests Rape Would Serve as ‘Terror Deterrent’
(Haaretz) — “The only thing that can deter terrorists, like those who kidnapped the children and killed them, is the knowledge that their sister or their mother will be raped.” This assertion was made by Middle East scholar Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University on an Israel Radio program. “It sounds very bad, but that’s…
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Fast Forward Israel Says Gaza ‘Ceasefire Not Near’ as Carnage Mounts and Airlines Halt Flights
Israel pounded targets across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, saying no ceasefire was near as top U.S. and United Nations diplomats pursued talks on halting the fighting that has claimed more than 600 lives. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held discussions in neighboring Egypt, while U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Fast Forward Israel Says Missing Soldier Is Dead — Not Captive — as Gaza Fighting Rages
(Reuters) — Israel said on Tuesday it had failed to trace any remains of one of its soldiers whom it believes died in the Gaza Strip two days ago, and whom Hamas has said it captured. The Israeli military named the missing man as Oron Shaul, 21, who was traveling in an armored vehicle that…
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