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Fast Forward Israeli Soldiers Clash with Outpost Settlers in West Bank
Some 200 settlers clashed with Israeli security forces attempting to evacuate the West Bank outpost of Oz Zion. The Jerusalem Post reported that the settlers threw stones at security forces, who eventually abandoned the evacuation attempt near the Beit El settlement on Friday, prior to the start of the Sabbath. The news site NRG reported…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Building Committee Approves 1,200 Apartments
A Jerusalem building committee has approved the construction of more than 1,200 apartments in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem. Gilo is located in southern Jerusalem beyond the pre-1967 Israeli borders and is considered a settlement by the international community. The approval late Monday by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee comes less than a…
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Fast Forward Anti-Occupation Groups Make Case at Limmud
A group which encourages Jews to oppose the Israeli occupation has sparked a lively debate at its debut session at the 2012 Limmud Conference on Jewish life and identity. Yachad, which was founded in 2010, “aims to discuss the occupation not with the outside world, but within Jewish communities,” the group’s chairman, Daniel Reisel, told…
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Fast Forward Israel Ups Ante With 6K More Settler Homes
Israeli officials said they would press on with plans this week to build 6,000 homes for settlers on land claimed by Palestinians, defying criticism from Western powers who fear the move will damage already faint hopes for a peace accord. Stung by de facto recognition of Palestinian sovereignty in a U.N. General Assembly vote last…
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Fast Forward More Than 400 Jewish Clergy Press Netanyahu on E1
More than 400 American Jewish clergy asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to go ahead with new construction in a corridor connecting eastern Jerusalem to the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim. “We fear that building settlements in E1 would be the final blow to a peaceful solution,” read the letter released Monday and…
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Fast Forward Israel Approves 1,500 More Settlement Homes in East Jerusalem
Israel approved plans to build 1,500 more Jewish settler homes in east Jerusalem on Monday, an official said, days after provoking international protests against a project for another 3,000 such homes on land it captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. Washington had condemned the latest plans, for ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood Ramat Shlomo, when they were published…
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Fast Forward Two-State Solution Hangs in Balance, Obama Waits
President Barack Obama may have believed he had at least until his inauguration next month to renew efforts to forge a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but events since he won re-election have put fresh demands on the president. Since the U.S. election, we have witnessed another mini-war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza;…
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Opinion Fizzing for Trouble With Super Bowl Ad?
Move over Bud Lite and GM, SodaStream is coming to the Super Bowl XLVII. While the Israeli-made home soda maker will not be seen in the stands, it will be viewed on TV screens across the country and around the world, making it the first Israeli product to be advertised in a Super Bowl commercial….
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