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Fast Forward Obama Not Bringing New Peace Plan to Israel
President Obama’s visit to Israel will focus on Syria and Iran, and he will not initiate new peace moves, the White House said. “This is a trip the president looks forward to making that is timed in part because we have here obviously a second term for the president, a new administration and a new…
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Fast Forward Is Barack Obama’s Visit to Israel a Sign He Wants Mideast Peace Progress?
Is President Obama’s plan to visit Israel a sign that he’s ready to take another shot at Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking? The White House announced Tuesday that Obama would visit Israel in the spring, his first trip there as president. He did visit in 2008, when he was a candidate for the Oval Office. This trip also…
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Fast Forward Under Kerry, US May Move Cautiously Towards Mideast Peace-Making
The United States has hinted it might try Middle East peace-making once again, but Secretary of State-designate John Kerry is likely to move cautiously, in contrast to U.S. President Barack Obama’s failed, high-profile first-term initiative. While the possibility of another failure may hang over the White House, Kerry suggested this week that time was running…
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Opinion Shimon Peres Talks with NYT About Iran and Bibi
“There are two things that cannot be made without closing your eyes — love and peace. If you try to make them with open eyes, you won’t get anywhere,” Shimon Peres tells Ronen Bergman in an illuminating interview in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. While the 89-year-old President of Israel tells the journalist he…
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Fast Forward Pope Calls for ‘Year of Peace’ in 2013
Pope Benedict said in his New Year’s message on Tuesday he hoped 2013 would be a year of peace and that the world was under threat from unbridled capitalism, terrorism and criminality. The 85-year-old pope rang in the new year with a mass for about 10,000 people in St Peter’s Basilica on the day the…
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Fast Forward Pope: Dump Gadgets and Make Room for God
Pope Benedict, leading the world’s Roman Catholics into Christmas, on Monday urged people to find room for God in their fast-paced lives filled with the latest technological gadgets. The 85-year-old pope, marking the eighth Christmas season of his pontificate, celebrated a solemn Christmas Eve mass in St Peter’s Basilica, during which he appealed for a…
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Fast Forward Pope Warns Mideast Conflict Could Spread
Pope Benedict on Wednesday urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make “courageous decisions” to end the Gaza conflict, saying it risked spilling over into the rest of the Middle East. He told pilgrims and tourists at his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square that he backed efforts to negotiate a ceasefire. “I appeal to…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jews Gunned Down by Same Killer
New York police released a security video of a potential suspect in the killings of three Brooklyn shopkeepers, two of whom were Jews. The video depicts a ‘person of interest’ in the murders, which investigators believe were carried out with the same .22-caliber weapon. Police have dubbed the man ‘John Doe Duffle Bag.’ The FBI…
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