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Israeli military chief warns Syrian regime
ALTERNATE CROP -- Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Israel, May 19, 2013. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose air force struck suspected weapons shipments to Hezbollah from Damascus twice this month, warned at a weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday that Israel is prepared for any eventuality in Syria. (AP Photo/Ronen ...
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Syria Warns Israel Violation of its Sovereignty Will See Response
Damascus, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The General Command of Syria's Army and Armed Forces warned today that any violation of national sovereignty by Israel will meet with a response, after a vehicle from that country which illegally crossed the border was destroyed. A communique from the high military command explained that early Tuesday morning an Israeli vehicle with its passengers was ...
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Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford Congress Tweeted While America Burned
went before Congress and insisted that the Defense Department couldn't be more "comfortable" with AUMF, as it was written, and that not a word should be altered or amended for changed circumstances. The Pentagon was so comfortable, in fact, that its officials foresee using that resolution to continue its drone-powered ...
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Israeli Government Pledges to End Ports Monopoly
The Israeli government is planning to issue a tender to build a privately run seaport in the coming months, pledging to end the monopolies of the two main ports of Ashdod and ...
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eBay launches Israeli developed purchase manager
Stuff , which was developed in Israel, to enable consumers to manage all their purchases on a single site. eBay's Israel Innovation Center, based on its acquisition of The Gifts Project in 2011, developed Stuff as the next thing in proper consumer management. After the user provide authorization, Stuff scans his or her e-mails to locate receipts for past purchases, whether or not they were ...
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Israel Appears to Have More Natural Gas
Operators of two large Israeli natural gas fields said that another offshore field under exploration shows promise. The Karish field, off Israel's northern coast, contains "significant signs of natural gas," according to a statement from Delek Group Ltd., whose subsidiaries also control the large Tamar and Leviathan fields along with U.S.-based Noble Energy Inc. Although it ...
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Growth seen for Israels UAV exports
Israel's unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers are the world's top UAV exporters, garnering $4.62 billion from 2005-12. A market analysis firm Frost and Sullivan said Britain is Israel's leading customer, with India and Brazil showing strong spending for UAVs from Israeli original equipment manufacturers. "Israeli defense firms rely on exports for the majority of their ...
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Syria says destroys Israeli vehicle on its territory
By Dominic EvansBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said its troops destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed into its territory from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday and warned that any attempt to violate its sovereignty would meet "immediate and firm retaliation".Israel said the incident took place on its side of Golan ceasefire line and the vehicle was damaged but not destroyed, ...
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Israel Syria clash on Golan Heights cease-fire line
By Albert Aji, The Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the cease-fire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said gunfire from Syria had hit an Israeli patrol, damaging a vehicle and prompting its troops to fire back.The two sides appeared to be referring to the same incident.Sporadic fire from Syria's ...
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Israels Facebook community numbers 4m real users
Israel's Facebook community numbers four million real users, who enter the social networking site at least once a month, and are not fake profiles. 60% of the Israeli users, 2.4 million people, enter Facebook daily, according to the company's official figures. 52% of Israeli Facebook users are men and 48% are women. People aged 18-24 are the biggest segment by age, accounting for 30% ...
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Syrian army destroys Israeli vehicle Israel responds with 2 rockets
Syrian army destroyed an Israeli military vehicle that trespassed on Syrian territories and Israel responded by firing two rockets at a military site in Syria, the military general command said in a statement ...
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Syria Destroys Israeli Vehicle In Golan Heights
Syria claims it has destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights. Israel acknowledged a vehicle was hit by gunfire but said it was inside its territory at the time and none of its soldiers had been hurt. "In response, IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) forces returned precise fire at the source of the gunfire. They reported a direct hit," it said in ...
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Israel Syria exchange fire across ceasefire line
Jerusalem - Israel's army and Syrian forces exchanged fire across the sensitive ceasefire line on the Golan Heights on Tuesday, but the Jewish state denied one of its vehicles had been ...
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Syrian Army fires across border into Israel to retaliate for airstrikes
An Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade sleeps as others, seen through a black netting, pray close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, two weeks ago. The Israeli military confirmed Tuesday that their soldiers 'returned precise fire' after Syria fired on Israeli troops in the Golan Heights, former Syrian territory that Israel annexed ...
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Israel Destroys Syrian Army Post
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli and Syrian forces exchanged fire along Israel's northern border overnight Monday, with the IDF scoring a direct hit that destroyed the Syrian army post. There were no injuries, but a military vehicle was lightly damaged. "Overnight, shots were fired at an IDF patrol on the border in the central Golan Heights, damaging a military vehicle," the IDF ...
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Israel Vows to Prevent Weapons to Hezbollah
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israel is vowing to keep up its attacks to prevent advanced weapons reaching Hezbollah via Syria. In meetings earlier this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear Israel would continue to monitor and act against the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah. Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's warning of an ...
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Israels peace negotiator says stalemate in talks with Palestinians would be bad for Israel
JERUSALEM - Israel's chief peace negotiator with the Palestinians says the current stalemate is harmful for Israel. Tzipi Livni told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that resuming negotiations was "first and foremost an Israeli interest." She spoke days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in Israel for his latest push to restart long-dormant talks. ...
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Israeli Committee Presents al-Dura Findings
JERUSALEM, Israel -- A government committee presented its findings Monday on the controversial death of Mohammed al-Dura, an Arab youth allegedly killed by Israeli troops in September 2000 at the start of the second intifada. More than a dozen years after a French television station aired a video clip showing the boy and his father caught in the crossfire that allegedly killed him and wounded ...
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Israel Syria show teeth Third cross-border shootout in week
Syria Israeli troops opened "retaliating" fire at targets across the Syrian border with Syria later claiming it destroyed an Israeli military vehicle stationed in Golan Heights. This is a third consecutive cross-border shooting in a week, Israeli media say. The Israeli military said their troops had "returned precise fire" after a Syrian soldier allegedly caused damage to ...
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Five Dead In Bank Robbery In Southern Israel
Five people are dead after an apparent bank robbery in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba went tragically wrong yesterday. Around lunchtime yesterday, an armed man entered a branch of Bank Hapoalim in a residential area. In the ensuing standoff with police, two bank employees and two customers were killed before the gunman killed himself. ...
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NYT Smugglers sneak KFC across border into Gaza
GAZA CITY — The French fries arrive soggy, the chicken having long since lost its crunch. A 12-piece bucket goes for about $27 here -- more than twice the $11.50 it costs just across the border in Egypt. And for fast-food delivery, it is anything but fast: it took more than four hours for the KFC meals to arrive here on a recent afternoon from the franchise where they were cooked ...
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After the al Qusayr victory Syria and Hizballah plan war on Israel
the strategic town of al Qusayr, Sunday, May 19, are making no secret of their plans for the "great confrontation," i.e. military confrontaiton withIsrael after they win the Syrian civil war. Israel's military leaders are taking with the utmost seriousness the words of Ibrahim al-Amin, editor of the Hizballah organ Al Akhbar, and a close buddy of Syrian president Bashar Assad, who ...
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IDF denies Syrian claim Israeli vehicle destroyed in Golan
Syrian military leadership says on state TV that its armed forces destroyed an Israel vehicle, but the IDF says it was just lightly damaged; soldiers return fire; defense source: "The fire was directed at ...
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Israel returns fire after gunshots from Syria
/enpproperty--> JERUSALEM - The Israeli military fired missiles into Syria after its troops got shot on a patrol near the Syrian frontier on the Golan Heights, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement Tuesday. There were no casualties on the Israeli side but a military vehicle was damaged in the incident, the statement said. Israeli media said an artillery unit fired across the ...
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Israel Bank RobberyFour people have been dead Be’er Sheva bank robbers Breaking News
At least four people – three men and one woman – were killed and several others were injured, including one person in serious condition, during a robbery gone wrong at a Be’er Sheva bank on Monday. The victims reportedly died during a shootout at a branch of Bank Hapoalim in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. A further shot was heard from the bank at around ...
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Palestine is a potential eco-friendly hub
Palestine, occupied Palestine, the Palestinian Territories or the Occupied Territories, call it what you will, this patch of land in the Middle East has many different name according to political opinion, but what many don’t realize about it is the ingenuity that takes place on a daily basis.
Palestine is one of the poorest regions in the world and certainly in the Middle East, the territory which is loosely made up of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is a large refugee camp because none of the inhabitants have sovereignty and therefore do not have a centrally strong government to provide basic services. Much of the areas income is derived through donations and money earned by day laborers within Israel. Read more
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