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Fast Forward Jewish Settlers Confident of Israel Election Boost
Entrenched in what they view as their Biblical heartland, the hardline Jewish settlers of Hebron look forward with delight to next week’s Israeli election. Opinion polls forecast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, already at odds with the world over Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, will easily win a third term in office, with coalition…
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Fast Forward E1 Protest Marks New Tactic by Palestinians
The idea of setting up a protest tent village in E-1 gained momentum over the past few weeks among members of the Palestinian Popular Committees – the same committees that for 10 years have been organizing weekly demonstrations in the West Bank against the Israeli occupation in general, and against the separation fence and settlements…
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Fast Forward Israel Clears Palestinians From E1 Camp
Israeli security forces removed about 100 Palestinians early on Sunday from tents pitched in an area of the West Bank as a protest against Israeli plans to build a settlement there. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Palestinian outpost, built in the geographically sensitive area known as E1, could remain for six days…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Pitch Tents on Land Planned for Settlements
Palestinians from villages in the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem pitched tents on Friday on land Israel has earmarked for a new urban settlement, looking to preserve the area for an independent Palestinian state. Scores of Palestinians erected about 20 large, steel-framed tents on a windswept hillside in an area known as E1, a geographically…
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Fast Forward Bibi Runs Against World in Israeli Election Drama
It’s Bibi against the world on a campaign trail that took the combative Israeli prime minister to a Jewish settlement on Tuesday. Enjoying a wide opinion poll lead before a Jan. 22 election, Benjamin Netanyahu has been lecturing the international community – vocal in its criticism of settlement expansion on occupied territory and his hints…
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Israel News New Faces of Israel’s Election
Israel’s January 22 general election looks unlikely to bring a change in who will be heading the government. But it does promise to shake up the Knesset by bringing a large, and in many cases controversial, cohort of new players into politics. Among them are some hard-nosed ideologues whose likely ascension to Israel’s parliament is…
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Fast Forward Israel Far Right Rise Poses Test for Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled on Sunday to hold back an opinion-poll surge by a far-right party, appealing in rare radio interviews for his supporters to stand by him in the Jan. 22 election. There is little doubt in Israel that Netanyahu’s conservative Likud, running jointly with former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman’s nationalist Yisrael…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Rivals Mull Grand Coalition
Israel’s main centre-left parties may join forces against conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Jan. 22 election that he is currently forecast to win easily, one of the challengers said on Saturday. Former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, head of the centrist Hatenuah party, said on Twitter that she would meet counterparts from the kindred…
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