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Fast Forward Palestinian Says He Was One Shot By Israel Soldiers In Viral Video
A 28-year-old Palestinian said on Wednesday that he was the man whose shooting by an Israeli sniper was captured on a leaked video, and he denied the army’s allegations that he had been organizing a violent demonstration at the Gaza border. Tamer Abu Daqqa, an unemployed resident of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip,…
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Fast Forward Geraldo Rivera Regrets Not Backing Palestinians During Second Intifada
Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera said last week that one of the biggest regrets of his journalistic career was not “backing the Palestinians” during the Second Intifada. Appearing on the channel to promote his new autobiography, Rivera was asked if he ever regretted one of his stories. “I regret in 2002 backing down from backing…
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Opinion Carnage In Gaza Is A Disaster For Israel Too
The Israel Defense Forces are currently confronting masses of Gazans along the Gaza-Israel boundary fence. Sadly, the confrontation brings into focus the abject lack of a viable strategy on the part of all sides to this conflict. Accordingly, when the smoke clears a month or so from now, there will be no winners. And everybody…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Calls Killing Of 15 Palestinian Demonstrators ‘Tragic’
(JTA) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders criticized Israel’s use of force on the border with Gaza in a tweet. “The killing of Palestinian demonstrators by Israeli forces in Gaza is tragic. It is the right of all people to protest for a better future without a violent response,” Sanders, who was a candidate for the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldiers ‘Deserve A Medal’ For Deadly Gaza Clashes: Defense Chief
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman asserted that there will not be an international into the Gaza border clashes that left at least 16 Palestinians dead and hundreds injured. “Israeli soldiers did what was necessary. I think all our soldiers deserve a medal,” Lieberman told Army Radio Sunday. “As for a commission of…
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Fast Forward 13 Palestinians Wounded On Gaza Border
Israeli troops fired warning shots towards Palestinian youths gathered at the Gaza-Israel border on Saturday, wounding 13 people, health officials said. Tension remained high in the area a day after deadly violence broke out in one of the biggest Palestinian demonstrations there in years. An Israeli military spokesman said he was checking the details of…
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Fast Forward 15 Palestinian Protesters Shot Dead By Israel On Gaza Border
At least 15 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured by Israeli security forces confronting one of the largest Palestinian demonstrations along the Israel-Gaza border in recent years, Gaza medical officials said. Tens of thousands of Palestinians, pressing for a right of return for refugees to what is now Israel, gathered at five locations along the…
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Fast Forward Israeli General Warns Soldiers Will Shoot Gaza Protesters Who Cross Border
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is preparing for a mass Palestinian protest on the border with Gaza for the annual Land Day observance. The army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, said in interviews Wednesday ahead of the planned protests of an estimated 100,000 Palestinians and another six weeks of protests that soldiers could use…
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