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Fast Forward Israel Plans To Boycott French Mideast Peace Conference
JERUSALEM — Israel will not participate in an international conference aimed at setting its conflict with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top advisers told the French government’s special envoy to the Middle East peace process. French envoy Pierre Vimont is in the region to discuss the plan for a conference, to be held in…
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Opinion The Middle East: A Daunting Challenge for Hillary Clinton — or Donald Trump
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. The next President has an enormous mess to clean up. Eight years of President Obama’s utopian rationalism has resulted in a sense of global unraveling — both of geostrategic stability and of American interests — and nowhere has it been…
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Fast Forward Turkey’s President Erdogan Paves the Way For Reconciliation With Israel
JERUSALEM — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed the reconciliation agreement with Israel restoring diplomatic ties after a six-year freeze. Erdogan ratified the agreement on Wednesday. The Turkish Parliament approved the deal earlier this month before they left for a summer recess, after being delayed by the July 15 military coup attempt. Israel’s Knesset had approved the…
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News Introducing the Israeli Onion, a Satire Site for the Middle East
The headlines are shocking. Muslim women “Demand Criminalization of Fat White Men in Speedos.” The Islamic State announces “Activities for Kids in Heaven.” “Palestine to Legalize Weed, Become the ‘Occupied Holland of the Mideast.’” And following each headline is a short story — delivered in cool newsroom deadpan. Introducing Israel’s answer to the Onion, the…
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Fast Forward Secret Add-On to Iran Deal May Allow Stepped-up Nuclear Production by 2027
In what reportedly is the only part of last year’s Iran nuclear deal not made public, the Islamic Republic will be able to resume key nuclear production in just over a decade. An Associated Press article published Monday said the news agency had obtained a document saying that when the restrictions are lifted, Iran will…
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Fast Forward France Delays Mideast Peace Push That Israel Has Criticized
French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday an international conference due in late May in Paris to relaunch peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis had been postponed but would take place this summer. With U.S. efforts to broker a two-state accord in tatters and Washington focused on its November presidential election, Paris has lobbied countries…
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Fast Forward Trump ‘Surprised’ That Israel Wants Peace Deal With Palestinians
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Israel appears more ready to make an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal than he previously believed. “From the Israeli side, they would love to see a deal,” Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nod, told The New York Times in an extensive foreign policy Q&A posted over the…
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Fast Forward Obama’s Lament: I Failed To Foster Mideast Peace Deal
BUENOS AIRES – President Barack Obama said he does not expect a breakthrough on Middle East peace before he leaves office and reiterated his support for a two-state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians could live peacefully side by side. Speaking to students and teachers in Argentina, Obama said he expected to continue working on…
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