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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Plots Unilateral Changes to Status Quo
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly consult with advisers on alternative options to change the Israeli-Palestinian status quo in the West Bank. Netanyahu’s shift, reported by Haaretz, came as Secretary of State John Kerry met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday in London regarding the possibility of restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which were suspended…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Push for Soccer Sanctions on Israel
The Palestinians will urge delegates at next month’s FIFA Congress to take sanctions against Israel while it continues to act “like the neighborhood bully”, FA president Jibril Rajoub told Reuters on Tuesday. Rajoub, speaking at the Soccerex Asian Forum being held on the banks of the Dead Sea, said the relationship between the two Middle…
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Opinion Was Amos Oz Right About ‘Hebrew Neo-Nazis’?
An extremist Jew is arrested at a 2012 rally for ‘price tag’ attacker comrades / Getty Images Over at Tablet, Liel Leibovitz is unhappy that Israeli author Amos Oz is going around calling violent Israeli settlers “Hebrew neo-Nazis.” He claims Oz’s statement suffers from “a logical flaw,” one that has “more to do with philosophy…
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Music John Kerry to Meet With Mahmoud Abbas in London on Thursday
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet in London on Thursday, the U.S. State Department said, less than a month after a U.S. effort to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal collapsed. The focus of the talks is the U.S.-Palestinian relationship, the State Department said, a possible reference to whether…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Push ‘Terror’ Label for Anti-Arab Attackers
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said on Monday he had asked world powers to classify Israeli settler groups who attack Palestinian communities and holy sites as terrorist organisations. The move comes as part of a Palestinian drive to refer their demands for an independent state in Israeli-occupied territory to more international bodies since U.S.-backed peace…
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Opinion Even Lefties Should Support David the Nahlawi
Israeli soldiers support a comrade punished for pointing a gun at a Palestinian teenager. / Facebook We should all be with David the Nahlawi. Yes, I am talking about the 19-year-old Israeli soldier who pointed a gun and cursed at Palestinian youths in Hebron. Yes, I know that the brass knuckles one of his antagonists…
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Opinion If It Quacks Like Apartheid
Palestinian protesters near Israel’s separation wall in 2013 / Getty Images After getting verbally pistol-whipped for merely suggesting that Israel was sliding head first down the slippery slope to apartheid, Secretary of State John Kerry quickly realized that Israel can’t handle the truth. He backpedaled so fast, he broke Lance Armstrong’s record. While Kerry took…
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Fast Forward Knesset Approves Life Sentence Without Parole for Murderers
A Knesset committee approved a bill that would allow murderers to be sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation passed the bill Sunday by a vote of 7 to 3. Committee members from the Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu and Jewish Home parties voted in favor of the bill, committee members from…
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