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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu Lashes Out at Hamas — But Real Enemy Is Elsewhere
On Monday afternoon, June 9, the research director of Israel’s military intelligence corps appeared before an international audience of defense experts and policymakers at a conference near Tel Aviv and delivered an hour-long, rapid-fire outline of the strategic threats and opportunities facing the Jewish state in 2014. Speaking in a terse, emotionless Hebrew, Brigadier General…
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Opinion Twisting a Palestinian’s Three-Finger Salute
Arab Idol winner Mohammed Assaf, left; Palestinian student Mohammad AlQadi, right Since the kidnapping of three Israeli teens last Thursday, the Israeli media has been engaged in a full court press to fill in the blanks and tell a compelling story — whether or not it’s true. Today, I came across a Facebook post from Mohammad…
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Fast Forward Kidnapping of Teens Puts Strain on Palestinian Unity
(Reuters) — The disappearance of three Jewish youths in the occupied West Bank has rocked reconciliation between Palestinian political factions and risks sinking a new unity government, analysts and officials have said. Israel has accused the Islamist group Hamas of orchestrating the kidnapping of the three teenagers last Thursday and has detained at least 240 Palestinians…
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Fast Forward Israel Arrests 51 Prisoners It Freed in Gilad Shalit Swap as Crackdown Widens
Israel re-arrested 51 Palestinians freed in a 2011 prisoner swap deal, the army said on Wednesday, in the sixth day of a hunt for three missing teenagers believed abducted in the occupied West Bank. Israel accuses Hamas Islamists of kidnapping the seminary students, who disappeared on Thursday while hitchhiking from a Jewish settlement. There has…
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Opinion Kidnapping of West Bank Teens Points To Worse To Come
As June opened, it was easy to joke that an honest headline writer could only proclaim “Hamas Gives Up Control of Gaza; Israel Outraged.” But with the abduction of three Israeli teenagers who were reportedly hitchhiking in the West Bank, it is clear that the implications of the current political situation are not funny. Yes,…
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Fast Forward American Jews United in Support for Missing Israeli Teenagers
(JTA) — The Reform movement posted a prayer. Chabad asked followers to pledge to do a mitzvah. The Jewish Federations of North America set up a Web page to express solidarity. The disappearance of three Israeli teens in the West Bank last week is being taken as a call to action uniting many disparate elements…
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Opinion My Life Revolves Around Kidnapped Boys
Prayer vigil for the three missing Israeli teens / Getty Images (JTA) — Four days into the search for three kidnapped Israeli teens, I attended a group prayer session dedicated to their safe return. Dozens of women gathered together to read responsively psalms seeking God’s mercy and intervention before the start of our morning Jewish studies…
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The Schmooze Israeli Actress Takes to Times Square to #BringBackOurBoys
Twitter isn’t the only place Israelis have taken a stand to #BringBackOurBoys. Israeli actress Moran Atias took to Times Square on Sunday to bring attention to the abduction of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank. The actress, who is currently starring in “Third Person” with Liam Neeson and Mila Kunis, held a sign which…
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