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Fast Forward Israeli opposition, pro-democracy protesters press unity in face of attacks from Hamas
Pro-democracy protests were cancelled and Netanyahu’s Knesset critics said “in days like these there is no opposition"
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Fast Forward ‘We are at war,’ Netanyahu declares after deadly attacks from Gaza
More than 250 Israelis killed, dozens kidnapped after barrage of rockets and ground invasion of Southern Israel
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Letters Columnist ignores Palestinian complicity in recent Gaza fighting
A third of Gazans who were killed died from errant Islamic Jihad rockets, not Israeli airstrikes
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Opinion The bloody truce between Israel and Hamas
'The safest place to hide from Israeli airstrikes is a Hamas military site,' Gazans joked during the most recent round of violence. It was so tragically accurate.
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Culture Netflix’s newest Israeli hit is simplistic and racist, no matter how many times it name-drops the Oslo Accords
The Liam Neeson movie “Taken,” a high drama of exotic, Muslim traffickers and the great lengths parents will go to in order to protect their children, was an enormous hit. Netflix’s “The Girl From Oslo,” is built more or less identically, and it looks destined for the same success – it appeared on Netflix’s Top…
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Opinion A tragic murder in Jerusalem reminds us: Jewish Israelis face deadly antisemitism every day
Israel is often reminded by its critics that its status quo is unsustainable. Like a procrastinator in shul at the end of Yom Kippur, time is running out for it to do the right thing: to withdraw from the territories, midwife a Palestinian state, dissolve itself into nonbeing. To figure out the problem of its…
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Fast Forward Rep. Ilhan Omar refuses to apologize for comments on Israel, Hamas
Rep. Ilhan Omar declined to apologize on Tuesday for comments she made earlier this month listing the United States and Israel alongside Hamas and the Taliban as entities that needed to be held accountable for what she called “unthinkable atrocities.” Asked by Jake Tapper of CNN whether she regretted the comments, Omar said: “I don’t.”…
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Opinion How did Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get Israel so wrong?
As a Haredi Jew, I harbor politically and socially conservative views, very unlike those of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But my belief system includes a mandate to be committed to the ideal of truth. That mandate is what compelled me to rise to the defense of the progressive Congresswoman, on multiple occasions, when I felt she…
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News Joe Biden entered the White House pledging to fight antisemitism. He leaves with it at historic levels.
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Fast Forward In Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, Hamas looms large even as tension turns to celebration
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Fast Forward Trump, hailing release of hostages, signals that he is committed to ceasefire
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