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Israel News Inside the West Bank Settlement That Trump’s Envoy David Friedman Loves Best
On a weekday night in Beit El, dozens of teenage boys were packed into the study hall at the settlement’s new yeshiva, a tan stone building with a zig zag facade. It was a brisk night on the hilltop, and their coats and backpacks were scattered in the hallway. The yeshiva is Beit El’s crown…
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Fast Forward Chicago’s Congress Members Were Closely Divided on U.N. Anti-Settlements Resolution
When the U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to condemn a U.N. Security Council resolution denouncing as illegal Jewish settlements in the Israeli occupied West Bank, the voting profile of Chicago-area members differed markedly from the House as a whole. While the House overwhelmingly backed the condemnation of the U.N. by a lopsided vote…
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Fast Forward Obama: ‘No Basis’ to Accusations US Orchestrated UN Vote
(JTA) — Accusations that the United States orchestrated last month’s U.N. Security Council anti-settlements resolution have no basis in fact, President Barack Obama said. In one of his final interviews as president, Obama spoke to Ilana Dayan, the reporter for Israel’s Channel 2, who has interviewed him in the past. The interview is to be broadcast…
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Opinion John Kerry’s Leaned Over Backward to Praise Israel — and the Numbers Prove It
Israel’s prime minister has claimed that John Kerry’s recent speech, given in response to U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334, was “unbalanced and anti-Israeli.” A quantitative and qualitative review of the the December 28 speech, however, shows the opposite. From the very beginning, Kerry was clearly making the case for Israel. During the speech, “Israel” received…
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Fast Forward French Supermarket Sorry for ‘Made in Israeli Settlement’ Fruit Labels
(JTA) — Following complaints, a French supermarket store apologized for applying labels reading “made in Israeli settlements” to some of its products. The labels that appeared last month on pomegranates and Tangerines at the store belonging to the Auchan supermarket chain in the Paris suburb of Kremlin-Bicêtre were the result of a “an error” by…
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Israel News Can TED Talks Sell 50 Years of Israeli Occupation?
Israeli settlers are taking inspiration from TED talks to make their case to the world on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 War. A new online video lecture series, called Talk17, features 18-minute talks from Israeli settlers and their supporters and even a few Palestinians about issues regarding the West Bank, the…
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Opinion Was John Kerry’s Speech a Swan Song to Israel — or a Last Gasp Peace Push?
There are two ways to interpret the speech (text here, video here) that Secretary of State John Kerry delivered December 28 on his vision of Israeli-Palestinian peace. One interpretation is that it was his swan song, his angry farewell to the global community and the Middle East that he tried to reshape, Through four years…
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Fast Forward Palestinian President: Peace With Israel Still Achievable
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas responded to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Middle East speech in Washington on Wednesday by saying he was convinced peace with Israel was achievable, but continuing to demand that Israel halt settlement building before talks restarted. Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat read out a statement saying Abbas had “reiterated his…
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