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Fast Forward Israeli Killed by Palestinian in West Bank
An Israeli civilian was killed and another wounded in the occupied West Bank on Friday in an attack apparently carried out by a Palestinian gunman, a hospital spokeswoman and security forces said. Police and the military said the attack took place near the Jewish settlement of Dolev in the central West Bank and that the…
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Fast Forward Extremists Hope To Convert Ruined Church Into Illegal Settlement
An Israeli settler who claims to have purchased an abandoned church near Hebron is planning to turn it into a Jewish settlement, according to a report. Right-wing activist Aryeh King bought the church near the Aroub refugee camp between Hebron and Jerusalem three years ago, and in recent weeks began refurbishing it ahead of establishing…
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Fast Forward Israel Mocks Europe Labels for Settlement Products as ‘Yellow Star’
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman suggested stamping settlement goods with yellow stars to condemn demands for special labeling in Europe. Liberman sarcastically suggested the move in an interview Friday with Israel Radio about a letter sent out earlier this week by foreign ministers of 16 of the European Union’s 28 member states, in which they…
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Fast Forward Americans for Peace Now Calls Illegal Israeli Settlements ‘Plague’
Americans for Peace Now called the expansion of Israeli settlements a “plague” in a Facebook post. On March 30, the group posted a photo to its Facebook page showing the expansion of the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit between 1997 and 2014. Evoking the upcoming Passover holiday, the photo featured a caption calling the…
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Fast Forward Israel Freezing Eastern Jerusalem Construction, Report Says
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is freezing the construction of 1,500 housing units in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, an Israeli newspaper is reporting. The report of the construction freeze, by the popular Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week visited the suburban Jerusalem Jewish neighborhood, where as prime…
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Israel News Zionist Group’s Vote Could Bare Israel’s Secret Funding of Settlements
It’s an unwritten arrangement Diaspora Jewish leaders and Israel have kept for decades — though few Jews know about it: The government of Israel uses one of world Jewry’s main Zionist funding instruments to hide money that it channels secretly to exclusively Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The funding body is the World…
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Fast Forward Hate Vandals Attack Christian Seminary in Jerusalem
An arson attack damaged a Greek Orthodox seminary near Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday and anti-Christian graffiti in Hebrew at the scene suggested the incident was a hate crime. Police said no one was injured by the blaze in a bathroom of the seminary, which came a day after part of a Palestinian mosque was…
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Opinion Is It Even Possible to Vote Against Israeli Occupation?
Getty Images In the latest news to come out of this already-strange Israeli election, the Jewish Press stated on Sunday that the ballots for the upcoming election will be printed in Karnei Shomron by Yisrapot, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank considered illegal under international law. The pro-settler writer at that publication claimed that…
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