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Fast Forward Tlaib’s Grandmother Curses Trump Over Cancelled West Bank Visit
(JTA) — Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother cursed President Donald Trump after he tweeted that she should be happy that her granddaughter was not coming to visit her in the West Bank. “Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down,…
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Fast Forward Tlaib Gets Israel’s OK To Visit Her Grandmother, Then Decides Against It
(JTA) — After being barred from entering Israel on Thursday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib submitted a humanitarian request to visit her aging grandmother in the West Bank, and Israel’s interior minister approved it. But Tlaib changed her mind Friday morning, saying that in the end she could not enter Israel “under these oppressive conditions.” “Silencing me…
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Fast Forward Israeli Student Found Stabbed To Death In West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A 19-year-old yeshiva student was found stabbed to death in the West Bank’s Etzion settlement bloc. Dvir Sorek of the Ofra settlement was reported missing on Wednesday evening, hours after he had said he was returning from a shopping trip to Jerusalem. His body was found at about 3 a.m. Thursday on…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Workers Arrested For Rape Of 7-Year-Old Jewish Girl From West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Palestinian men were arrested on suspicion of raping a 7-year-old girl from a West Bank settlement. The men, who are residents of the Palestinian village of Qibya, work in the settlement where the girl lives, the Kan public broadcaster first reported Tuesday night. The arrests come more than a month after…
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Fast Forward Pipe Bomb Found At Joseph’s Tomb As 1,200 Jewish Worshippers Arrive
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli soldiers found a pipe bomb hidden at the Jewish holy site of Joseph’s Tomb prior to the visit of 1,200 pilgrims. The bomb was neutralized in a controlled explosion, according to the Israel Defense Forces, which had been carrying out a security check prior to the late Monday night visit. Palestinian…
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Israel News Netanyahu Will Decide If Tlaib And Omar Will Be Allowed To Enter Israel
Democratic U.S. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are planning a visit to Israel and the West Bank in the coming weeks, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have to decide whether they would be let in to the country, over the support they have voiced for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. The…
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Fast Forward U.S. Ambassador Says Israel Has The Right To Annex Part Of West Bank
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Israel did not rule out an Israeli move to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, land that the Palestinians seek for a state, in an interview with the New York Times published on Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the run-up to an April election…
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Fast Forward Extremist Israeli Party Offers Bibi A Deal: Immunity For Annexing Settlements
A far-right Israeli party that includes avowed followers of the racist rabbi Meir Kahane is offering to help Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secure immunity from prosecution. In return for immunity, according to a report in the Times of Israel, the Union of Right-Wing Parties want the annexation of all Jewish settlements in the West…
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