Shlomo Shamir (Haaretz)
By Shlomo Shamir (Haaretz)
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Fast Forward Bibi To Obama: Jerusalem is Not a Settlement
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a statement Tuesday responding to criticism by the United States over Israel’s plan to build 1,300 new homes in East Jerusalem, emphasizing that Israel is doing nothing to harm the peace process. “Jerusalem isn’t a settlement – Jerusalem is the capital of Israel,” the statement by the Prime Minister’s…
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Fast Forward U.S. Jews on Alert in the Wake of Bomb Discovery
Leaders of Jewish communities in the United States said Sunday that the discovery of a parcel bomb targeting a Chicago-area synagogue indicates a rising possibility of future attacks of the kind. Dov Hikind, a New York state assemblyman and prominent member of the Brooklyn Jewish community, told Haaretz that local police had increased their security…
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Fast Forward Judge Hands Madoff 150-Year Sentence
Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison on Monday for perpetrating Wall Street’s biggest and most brazen investment fraud. Madoff pleaded guilty in March to running the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, in which investors were paid returns from money paid by later investors. Emotional victims who spoke at Madoff’s sentencing asked U.S….
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