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Fast Forward China Offers To Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace
China offered to broker a meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be in Beijing next week on separate visits, each at the invitation of the government. “If the leaders of Palestine and Israel have the will to meet in China, China is…
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Music Church of Scotland Denies Jewish Claim to Land of Israel
A report by the Church of Scotland, published this week, denies any special privilege for the Jewish people in the land of Israel. The church, which in recent years has jettisoned its once philosemitic character, opened a wide rift with the Scottish Jewish community with the report. Among other controversial statements, the report argues that,…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says Israelis Would Vote on Any Peace Deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he would put any peace deal with the Palestinians to a referendum, raising expectations that direct negotiations might soon resume following a two-year stalemate. It was the second time in just three days that Netanyahu has publicly mentioned the possibility of holding a nationwide vote on an…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Parents Say Son Who Stabbed Jewish West Bank Settler ‘Did Duty’
Ali Zaghal read the mysterious text message early on Tuesday morning with dread: “Forgive me, brother.” Minutes later, his 21-year-old brother Salam stabbed an Israeli settler waiting at a traffic circle in the occupied West Bank, killing him before being shot and arrested by soldiers. While the family of the dead settler mourned their loss,…
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Fast Forward Israel Pushes Plan for ‘Greener’ Green Line
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority on Wednesday proposed to the High Court of Justice that the Defense Ministry erect a simple chain-link fence backed by security systems instead of the concrete wall the ministry wants to build near the West Bank village of Batir, south of Jerusalem. The ministry is planning the 500-meter segment…
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Fast Forward BBC Yanks Documentary Claiming Story of Jewish Exile From Palestine Is ‘Myth’
An Israeli-born filmmaker is slamming the British Broadcasting Corp. for pulling his documentary on the Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Ilan Ziv said in a blog post on April 27 that the BBC exhibited “a mixture of incompetence, political naivete, conscious or subconscious political pressure and ultimately, I believe, a lack of courage…
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Fast Forward Frustrated Palestinian Youth Seek New Outlets To Push Change
Far from the children who beg for change from idling cars and the teenagers who hurl rocks at armed Israeli troops, a different spectacle of Palestinian youth is playing out in the ballroom of a luxury Ramallah hotel. Young contestants are gathered for a taping of “The President”, a game show that aims to select…
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Opinion Is Arab (League) Glass Half Full?
Skeptics point out that all that happened yesterday was that Arab leaders acknowledged what everyone already knows — that if and when Israel makes a final peace agreement with the Palestinians, it won’t return exactly to 1967 borders. This is true. When the Arab League indicated that it is updating its position from its Arab…
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