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Fast Forward MIT Expert Says Israel’s Much-Vaunted Iron Dome Only 5% Effective
An MIT security expert says that Israel’s famed Iron Dome missile defense system is flawed, with a success rate of under five percent. An analysis posted on the website of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, thebulletin.org, by Theodore Postol, a professor of science technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,…
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Fast Forward 57% of Americans Back Israel in Gaza War
A majority of Americans back Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip, according to a poll. The CNN poll conducted from Friday to Sunday – just as Israel was launching its ground operation in the conflict, which started July 8 – found that 57 percent of Americans see Israel’s actions as justified, with 12 percent among…
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Opinion Staring Into the Void, for Both Israelis and Palestinians
I visited Israel at the end of June, after the three yeshiva students were kidnapped but before their bodies were found, before the Palestinian teen was murdered in a revenge attack, before the air strikes and the ground war and the horrific death toll in Gaza. Before it all fell apart. It seems like a…
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Fast Forward 9 Jewish Protesters Arrested for Gaza War ‘Die-In’ at Friends of IDF
Nine protesters against Israel’s Gaza operation were arrested inside the Manhattan offices of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Some two dozen protesters gathered for the “die-in” at FIDF’s New York office on Tuesday. The incident was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and Jews Say NO, groups opposed to Israel’s treatment of the…
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Fast Forward Israel Pounds Gaza as Truce Pressure Mounts
Israeli forces pounded the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, sending thousands of residents fleeing, and said it was meeting stiff resistance from Hamas Islamists, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Tel Aviv to push ceasefire talks. In a blow to Israel’s economy, U.S. and many European air carriers halted flights to the country…
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Israel News Why Did UCLA Hillel Funnel Cash From Pro-Israel Donor to Student Candidate?
Campus Hillels across the country have distanced themselves from their University of California, Los Angeles affiliate following revelations that UCLA Hillel acted as a pass-through for political donations to pro-Israel student government candidates. Hillel International, the campus centers’ parent body, nevertheless strongly supports the donations, which UCLA’s student newspaper revealed recently. The donations, which came…
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Fast Forward Why J Street Pulled Out of Boston Pro-Israel Rally
J Street withdrew from a pro-Israel rally in Boston because it did not feel the rally would address all the group’s concerns. The liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, a constituent of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, explained its stance on the July 17 solidarity rally in a letter by its Boston…
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Fast Forward Rockets Found at Second United Nations School in Gaza
Rockets were discovered in a second United Nations school in Gaza. The school in which the rockets were discovered on Tuesday is located between two other United Nations Relief and Works Agency schools, that are currently serving as shelter for 1,500 internal Gazan refugees, UNRWA said in a statement. It is not known how many…
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