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Fast Forward 3 Jewish Israelis Wounded In West Bank Terrorist Attack
(JTA) — A teenage terrorist stabbed and wounded three Israelis in a Jewish settlement near Jerusalem. The assailant mounted the security fence surrounding Adam Thursday evening and stabbed two men before being shot to death by a third, who also suffered stab wounds. One of the residents, in his 50s, was in serious condition, the…
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Israel News They Walked Out On Birthright To See Palestinians — And Created Their Own Conflict
Katie Fenster says that she wasn’t planning on walking out on her Birthright Israel tour when she arrived. But during the free 10-day trip, she grew increasingly frustrated that the answers to her questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “all came from one perspective” and did not include Palestinian views. “We felt like we weren’t being…
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Fast Forward Birthright Participants Publicly Walk Off Trip To Visit West Bank
Five participants on a Birthright Israel program left early Thursday in public protest of its education curriculum, which they say didn’t touch on the occupation of the West Bank. Danielle Raskin, one the participants who protested the trip, created a Twitter account to document her experience, which she had been skeptical about upon arriving, according…
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Opinion Jared Kushner’s Peace Efforts Will Only Make Things Worse
Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, the Trump administration’s Middle East peacemakers, just completed another round of Middle East visits. Their most important interlocutors were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu and Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), the revolutionary new Saudi leader. Together, the four appear to be launching a project to create a Palestinian Islamist mini-state…
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Fast Forward ‘Large And Active’ Hamas Cell Uncovered In West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security forces uncovered an “extraordinarily large and active Hamas infrastructure” operating in the West Bank. The terror cell located near Nablus in the West Bank was active from October 2017 until April 2018, when the cell was detained, the Israel Security Agency, also known as the Shin Bet, said Sunday in…
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Fast Forward 11 Police Officers Injured By Settlers In Evacuation Of West Bank Outpost
JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least 11 police officers were injured and six Jewish teens arrested during the clearing of a West Bank outpost. The evacuation of the Tapuach West outpost began on Saturday night and continued into Sunday. The Supreme Court had ordered the evacuation of the ten mobile homes located on privately owned land….
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Fast Forward Bomb Planted At Entrance To Hebron’s Tomb Of The Patriarchs
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A bomb was found planted at an entrance to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The improvised explosive device, which was made up of two small gas canisters, was blown up by police sappers in a controlled explosion on Sunday evening. It was discovered near an entrance used by the Muslim…
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Fast Forward U.S. Will ‘Unquestionably Veto’ Draft Resolution Protecting Palestinians
(JTA) — The United States said it would veto a U.N. draft resolution calling for the protection of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Ambassador Nikki Haley said the United States will “unquestionably veto” the draft resolution, which Kuwait has put forward on behalf of other Arab countries, in the Security Council vote scheduled…
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