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Fast Forward Martin Indyk Says Israeli Settlements Killed Middle East Peace Talks
Martin Indyk, the former chief U.S. envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, said Israeli settlement activity caused the Palestinians to walk away from negotiations. Indyk, who quit his post as peace envoy last week after the breakdown of talks, blamed settlement activity for the failure in an interview published Thursday by The Atlantic. “The Israeli attitude…
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Opinion Did Bibi’s ‘Vengeance’ Tweets Provoke Violence?
Getty Images In moments of national tension — Israelis know these all too well — one can expect a leader to measure every word on a scale that calms on one side and inflames on the other. So what are we to make of Benjamin Netanyahu’s tweets on Monday as the country was preparing to…
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Opinion When ‘Death to Arabs’ Rings Out in Holy City
Israel is consumed with calls for revenge for the murders of three kidnapped students. But some are pushing back against the cycle of hate./Getty Images The headlines in Israel this week have been overwhelming. First the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers — Naftali Frenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach — were found, buried,…
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Fast Forward Kidnappers of Teens Celebrate on New Tape
The full recording of the emergency call placed by one of three abducted teens, in which the kidnappers can be heard celebrating, was released. Wednesday’s release of the full audio, which is 2 minutes, 9 seconds, comes a day after the first 49 seconds were released. In the full tape, the kidnappers are heard singing…
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Fast Forward #BringBackOurBoys Billboard Comes to Times Square
An advertisement calling for the return of three kidnapped Israeli teens is running on a digital billboard in Times Square. “On June 12th, 2014, three teenage boys were kidnapped in Israel, one of them an American citizen,” reads the 40-foot-by-40-foot ad purchased by the Young Israel of the West Side, an Orthodox synagogue in Manhattan….
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News Kidnapping of Teens Jangles Nerves in Usually Calm West Bank Settlement
(JTA) — At a shopping center in the middle of Efrat, families eat pizza, a deliveryman unloads a cart and a barista serves coffee. On a passing bus, a banner reads “Gush Etzion – an Israeli home.” In many respects it’s a normal, quiet Monday in this settlement that has grown into a large commuter…
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Fast Forward Why Does Israel Pour Billions Into West Bank Jewish Settlements?
(Reuters) — Israeli lawmakers are pressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lift what they call unjustified secrecy over opaque – and rising – funding for settlements on West Bank land Palestinians want for a state. Unpublished official data reviewed by Reuters suggests state spending on settlers rose by a third after Netanyahu took office in…
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Opinion Would Israelis Be Kidnapped If Not For Settlements?
Jews gather for a mass prayer for the release of three Israeli teenagers / Getty Images On Monday the New York Times reported that the recent abduction of three Israeli teens in the occupied West Bank has raised a “hushed debate [within Israeli society] over the conduct of Jewish settlers.” While I think it’s fair…
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