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Fast Forward American Parents Sue Pro-Palestinian Groups Over 1996 West Bank Killing
(JTA) — The American parents of a teen-age yeshiva student shot in 1996 at a bus stop near the West Bank city of Beit El, have filed a lawsuit to recover the damages it was awarded by a jury in federal court in Chicago. Stanley and Joyce Boim on Friday filed the lawsuit in Chicago…
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Fast Forward Is A Palestinian Bitcoin On The Way?
Palestinians are planning to create a Bitcoin-style currency that would help the Palestinian economy operate independently of Israeli influence. According to a report in Reuters, the Palestine Monetary Authority is designing the currency, which would be called the Palestinian pound. It aims to have the currency in use in the next five years. The PMA…
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Fast Forward White House Social Media Director Says Trump Will Travel To ‘Palestine’
Update, 5:01 p.m.: The post in question was edited to refer to “Palestinian Territories.” President Trump’s upcoming foreign tour later this month, his first trip abroad since his inauguration, will take him to many locations, including Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican. Also on his agenda, according to the White House’s director of social media:…
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Fast Forward Pizza Hut Apologizes For Joking About Palestinian Hunger Strike
Pizza Hut is facing calls for a boycott after its Israel branch mocked Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti for breaking his prison hunger strike with a candy bar and some cookies. “Barghouti: If you’re going to break the strike, isn’t pizza better?” Pizza Hut in Israel tweeted, showing footage from the Israel Prison Service showing Barghouti…
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Fast Forward Israeli Police Show 5th Graders How To Kill Palestinian Attackers
Israeli police taught elementary school students how to kill Palestinian terrorists as part of an event on Monday highlighting police-community relations in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Hasharon. Using a dummy, police officers used active fire to demonstrate how to take down an assailant armed with a knife and then verify that the assailant…
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Fast Forward Dublin City Council Votes To Fly Palestinian Flag
(JTA) — The Dublin City Council voted to fly the Palestinian flag above City Hall in a show of support for Palestinian statehood. Forty-two councilmen in the Irish capital voted in favor of the motion, 11 voted against and seven abstained on Monday evening. The flag reportedly was raised over City Hall and will remain…
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Fast Forward Should Trump Visit Palestinian Model City Of Rawabi?
Former Israel ambassador Dan Shapiro is urging President Trump to make a stop at Rawabi, the new gleaming middle class Palestinian city outside Ramallah, when he visits the Holy Land later this month. Idea: Aides say on his trip, Trump wants to highlight “efforts to unlock the potential of the Palestinian economy.” He should visit…
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Fast Forward Did Right Wingers Ruin Ron Lauder’s Dinner With Mahmoud Abbas?
Ron Lauder, cosmetics heir and president of the World Jewish Congress, prepped Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for his meeting with President Trump last week, a move that irked right-wingers and may have even led them to ruin the leaders’ dinner plans, according to a report in Israel’s Maariv newspaper. The report said that Lauder’s office…
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