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Opinion David Friedman, What Do Your Donations to Radical Jewish Settlements Pay For?
Dear David Friedman, Congratulations on your nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to Israel. I must say that I was alarmed to hear this news, as your rejection of decades of U.S. policy regarding a two-state solution and your smear of some liberal Jews as kapos should disqualify you from this position. T’ruah, the organization I…
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News ANALYSIS: Obama Gets Last Word at UN on Settlements — but Israel Turns Page to Trump
President-elect Donald Trump did not even need to use all 140 characters on Twitter to blast the Obama administration for allowing the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution condemning Israel’s settlement activity. “As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th,” Trump tweeted less than an hour after the vote. It…
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Opinion That ‘Shameful’ UN Resolution Actually Blasts the Settlements — Not Israel
Relations between Israel and the United States sank on Friday to their lowest point in years after the Obama administration declined to veto a resolution in the United Nations Security Council (full text here) declaring Israel’s settlements in the West Bank, “including East Jerusalem,” to be illegal under international law. Israeli leaders reacted with fury….
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Breaking News Sen. Chuck Schumer, World Jewish Congress Urge Veto of UN Anti-Settlement Resolution
(JTA) — The World Jewish Congress joined calls by lawmakers in Israel and the United States, including incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, urging the Obama administration to veto an anti-settlement resolution at the U.N. Security Council. The WJC statement Friday by its president, Ronald Lauder, followed vigorous lobbying for a veto in Jerusalem and…
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Israel News Amona Settlers Who Flouted Law Get $35M Windfall From Israel
The Israeli government will spend more than $35 million to resettle and compensate residents of Amona, the West Bank outpost slated for demolition this week, as part of a deal to peacefully relocate to other parts of the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli media reports. In order to finance the deal, the government has…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Appeals to Amona Settlers To Spare Children in Evacuation Fight
— Calling his Cabinet “more committed than any other” to West Bank settlements, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the residents of Amona to leave peacefully ahead of the evacuation of their illegal outpost. Netanyahu made the plea Friday on his Facebook page, where he posted an open letter addressed to the some 40 settler…
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Opinion Like Houdini, Netanyahu Is a Great Escape Artist — Just Look at His Contortions On Settlements
October 31 marked 90 years since the death of Harry Houdini, the rabbi’s son who became the world’s most famous magician. Houdini dazzled audiences around the globe by conjuring up unforgettable performance art out of the most essential practice in Jewish tradition: escaping danger. It’s appropriate, then, that in the month since Houdini’s yahrzeit we’ve…
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Breaking News Israel Advances Bill to Legalize Settlements on Palestinian Land
Israel’s parliament gave initial approval on Monday to a revised bill that would legalize Israeli settlement homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The proposed law has already drawn sharp international condemnation and strained relations within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing right-wing coalition. Israeli critics and Palestinians have called it a…
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