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Fast Forward Bibi to Congress: Israel Ready for Compromise, But Jerusalem Will Not Be Divided
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened his speech at the United States Congress on Tuesday by reiterating Israel’s strong ties with the U.S., saying “Israel has no better friend than the U.S. and the U.S. has no better friend than Israel.” The prime minister’s speech was briefly disrupted by a heckler, who was quickly escorted out…
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Fast Forward Israeli Director Wins Big at Cannes
Israeli director Joseph Cedar won the best screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday for his film “Footnote.” Already having left Cannes, Cedar was suddenly called back to receive his prize. His film, “Footnote,” is a dramedy about the relations between a father and son, who are competing researchers of Kaballah at the…
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Fast Forward Coen Brothers: Boycotting Israel Is a Mistake
While on a visit to Israel to collect a million-dollar award from Tel Aviv University, American filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen said that they did not believe that boycotting Israel would solve political problems. The production-direction team responsible for a string of successful Hollywood dramas in the last two decades, from “The Big Lebowski” to…
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Fast Forward Israel Independence Day: Jewish State Marks Its 63rd Birthday
President Shimon Peres congratulated Israel on its 63rd birthday during Tuesday’s Independence Day celebration at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, stressing that Israel has come a long way since its establishment. “We proved we can create a budding garden out of obstinate ground,” Peres said during a ceremony with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister…
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Fast Forward Report: In Final Tape, Bin Laden Warned U.S. About Security of Palestine
An Islamist website said that Osama bin Laden warned the United States they would not be secure until Palestine is secure, AFP news agency reported on Sunday. According to the news agency, the al-Qaida website Shamikh1.net quotes bin Laden as saying “America will not be able to dream of security until we live in security…
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Fast Forward Following Pipeline Blast, Israeli Officials Urge Energy Independence
Israel needs to prepare itself for a future without Egyptian natural gas supplies, an senior Israeli official said on Wednesday, following an earlier explosion at the Sinai pipeline carrying gas from Egypt into Israel. An explosion rocked a natural gas terminal near Egypt’s border with Israel earlier Wednesday sending flames shooting into the air and…
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Fast Forward Report: U.S. Plans Sanctions on Syria, Amid Brutal Crackdowns
The Obama administration may level sanctions against Syria as punishment for President Bashar Assad’s government’s violent crackdown on protesters, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The U.S. is currently drafting an executive order that will empower President Obama to freeze the assets of senior Syrian officials and bar them from engaging in any business…
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Fast Forward Report: N.Y. Times Turned Down Different Version of Goldstone Op-Ed
The New York Times has denied rumors that it refused to print an opinion piece authored by jurist Richard Goldstone in which he retracted some of the statements made in his UN Human Rights Council report on the war between Israel and Gaza in 2008-2009, political columnist Ben Smith reports in Politico. A New York…
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