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Fast Forward French President Francois Hollande Calls for End to West Bank Settlements
French President Francois Hollande called on Israel on Monday to halt settlement building on occupied territory, saying it hampers chances for a peace agreement with the Palestinians. Israel has announced plans for thousands of new settler homes since U.S.-brokered peace negotiations with the Palestinians began in July after a three-year break. “For the sake of…
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Opinion Terror Crosses the Green Line
When an Israeli soldier was murdered on a bus last week, it didn’t just mark the continuation of a wave of Palestinian-perpetrated killings of Israelis. It moved the violence to a new setting. It’s now crossed the Green Line. Since the summer, a soldier was murdered in Hebron, a restaurant worker was murdered by a…
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Fast Forward Kerry To Visit Israel Amid Tension on Iran Deal and Stalled Peace Talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Israel at the end of the week to discuss the proposed nuclear agreement between Iran and the world powers, and stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Kerry’s visit planned for Nov. 22 on Sunday at the beginning of the weekly Cabinet meeting. The…
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Opinion Remember Gaza
Gaza is more desperate than I have ever seen it. Vast stretches are ruined, trashy, derelict, little work, few consumer goods, much idleness. Construction projects half finished for lack of building materials and fuel. A huge cement factory, former employer of 114 workers, gathering dust. Geographically separated from the rest of Palestine by Israel and…
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Israel News For White House, Bitter Split With Israel Undoes Years of Careful Progress
In just a few days, the Obama administration’s years-long effort to mend fences with Israel and build a working relationship with its prime minister seems to have crumbled, as Jerusalem and Washington seem caught up in a brutal and deepening exchange of mutual accusations. The disagreements erupted with the looming arrival of decision points for…
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Fast Forward Gaza Drowns in Sewage as Egypt Cuts Fuel Supplies in Hamas Feud
Children waded through sewage submerging the streets of a central Gaza neighbourhood on Thursday, a day after one of the blockaded Palestinian enclave’s largest waste water treatment plants stopped for lack of fuel. Fetid muck, which bubbles up from manholes and overflows from the idle plant when waste goes untreated, could soon spill into the…
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Fast Forward Naturalized Palestinian Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Lying About Bomber Past
A naturalized American citizen of Palestinian descent pleaded not guilty to charges that she lied about her conviction in the deadly bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket in order to gain U.S. citizenship. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 66, appeared Wednesday in federal court in Detroit, where she was granted citizenship in 2004. She was released on bond,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Stabs Israeli Soldier Dead on Bus
An 18-year old Israeli soldier was stabbed to death by a Palestinian residing in Israel illegally while on a bus in northern Israel. Police are calling the Wednesday morning incident a terrorist attack. The assailant was a 16-year-old Palestinian boy from Jenin. The attack occurred in Afula on a bus traveling from Nazareth to Tel…
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