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Palestinians pessimistic about Kerrys peace prospects
TEL AVIV // A senior Palestinian official yesterday expressed pessimism about returning to negotiations with Israel as John Kerry, the US secretary of state, continued his efforts to revive the deadlocked peace process. Hanan Ashrawi, an official on the Palestine Liberation Organisation's executive committee, said that the Palestinians were "sceptical" Israel would agree to stop ...
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Kerry urges Netanyahu Abbas to compromise for peace
Kerry to Peres: This moment is critical for Israel, region The two met spoke in the evening after a long day of back-to-back meetings that included talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.It is likely that Kerry will meet Netanyahu again on Friday before departing for Ethiopia. Kerry is expected to meet Abbas again in Jordan on Sunday, ...
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US and Israel raise hopes of peace restart in the Middle East
May 23, 2013: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. The United States and Israel are raising hopes for a restart of the Middle East peace process after more than four years of hardly any ...
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Israeli leader says UN pressure having no effect on curbing Iranian nuclear program
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague, left, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint news conference before their meeting in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, ...
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Israel eyes Syrian missile threat to gas fields
Hezbollah , has heightened Israeli concerns about protecting its offshore natural gas fields. Israel began production in March from its second largest field, Tamar discovered 40 miles off northern Israel in 2009. The field, jointly operated by Nobel Energy of Houston, and its Israeli partners, Delek Group, Isramco and Dor Alon, has reserves of around 8 trillion-10 trillion cubic feet -- enough ...
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Abbas Israel must act before returning to table
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday reiterated his demand for a full cessation of settlement construction and the release of Palestinian prisoners before returning to the negotiating table with Israel.Abbas raised with visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry the issues of continued construction in settlements, Israeli assaults on Jerusalem, settler assaults and the ...
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Israel - Israels accusations against TV stations coverage of boys death are unsupported
's coverage of 12-year-old Palestinian Muhammad al-Durrah's death during rioting in the Gaza Strip on 30 September 2000 and the disputed claim that he was killed by a shot fired from Israeli ...
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Kerry heads back to Israel for fourth time since February continuing peace push
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives for a joint press conference between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ...
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John Kerry makes unscheduled shawarma sandwich stop in West Bank
John Kerry shows delight at his shawarma sandwich in Ramallah. Photograph: Fadi Arouri /Xinhua It's enough to give the healthy eating lobby a heart attack. US secretary of ...
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John Kerry acknowledges failures over Israeli-Palestinian peace process
John Kerry , has acknowledged years of disappointment over the Israeli-Palestinian peace process at the start of his fourth recent visit to the area, but added that he hoped to confound sceptics and cynics.Kerry met the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and won strong support for his peace mission from the British foreign secretary, William ...
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Syria conflict uproots a half-million Palestinians
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday.The Palestinians in Syria are particularly vulnerable because of their refugee status, ...
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Israeli Military Road Graders Cross into Gaza Strip
Gaza, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Israeli soldiers driving road graders crossed the Gaza strip demarcation line at Khan Younis, said Palestinian witnesses. The heavy engineering vehicles advanced several hundred meters and their crew began firing, witnesses told the Maan news agency. In recent weeks, Israeli armored vehicles had approached but not crossed the border, site of a sea-ground and air ...
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How Lebanons Palestinians Are Being Pulled Into Syrias War
Refugee Camps as War Zones How Lebanon's Palestinians Are Being Pulled Into Syria's War by FRANKLIN LAMB Homs Palestinian Refugee Camp Historically, Palestinian refugees, wherever they have sought temporary sanctuary following the ethnic cleansing of their country by the 19th century Zionist colonial enterprise, and pending their return to Palestine, have insisted on ...
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Kerry stops for shwarma after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Secretary of State John Kerry says he's all in for Palestinian shwarma.Kerry chomped one of the meat sandwiches after meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank.Asked what toppings he wanted, Kerry said, quote, "I want everything. I'm all in."After the first bite, Kerry declared, "Fantastic."Kerry has been promoting ...
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Kerry samples Palestinian sweets shawarma
RAMALLAH, West Bank) - US Secretary of State John Kerry stepped off the diplomatic track on Thursday and onto a West Bank street where he sampled a shawarma sandwich and a pistachio-sprinkled Palestinian sweet.In a rare gesture for a US secretary of state - but a staple of US political campaigns - Kerry dropped by the Samer Restaurant in the Palestinian city of Ramallah to enjoy typical ...
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Israel Corp. mulling closure of Better Place
ILCO ), Better Place's main investor, on the electric car venture's future, and whether or not it will continue will depend upon its ability to continue raising cash. In that regard, Idan Ofer, who controls Israel Corp., recently approached potential investors. Better Place said in response to the report, "In the past few months Better Place has continued its many efforts to ...
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Disputed deaths in Palestinian territories
Palestinian woman in the West Bank village of Bili'in died following a protest in which Israeli soldiers fired teargas . According to witnesses, Jawaher Abu Rahma collapsed after inhaling the gas, vomiting, convulsing and foaming at the mouth. After Palestinian leaders described her death as a war crime, anonymous IDF sources briefed the Israeli media to suggest she was not present at the ...
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No-drama counter-terrorism what Ingrid Loyau-Kennett can teach America
Behind most acts of political violence there are statements that the perpetrators imagine can be heard by no other means. Sometimes, all that de-escalation requires is simply to listen to whatever they have to say. Politicians and some security experts often argue that to listen to terrorists is to capitulate to terrorism — that it is akin to being manipulated by a child’s tantrum ...
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Tom Engelhardt The biggest criminal enterprise in history
treacherous waters off Alaska. Call it irony, if you will, or call it a nightmare, but Big Oil evidently has no qualms about making its next set of profits directly off melting the planet. Its top executives continue to plan their futures (and so ours), knowing that their extremely profitable acts are destroying the very habitat, the very temperature range that for so long made life comfortable ...
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Woolwich attacker named ‘Mujahid’ was known to banned Islamist organisation Al Muhajiroun
has learned. Anjem Choudary, the former leader of the group, Al Muhajiroun, confirmed that he had known the man who was seen on video in the immediate aftermath of yesterday’s horrific killing waving a cleaver with bloodied hands and making political statements. Details began to emerge as Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the Government emergency committee Cobra at 10 ...
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UK provided more support for CIA rendition flights than thought says study
The UK’s support for the CIA’s global rendition programme after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US was far more substantial than has previously been recognised, according to a new research project that draws on a vast number of publicly available data and documentation. Evidence gathered by The Rendition Project - ...
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Iran presidential campaign begins without two big names
barred from running in next month's presidential election, face a new challenge: persuading shocked and skeptical Iranians to turn out to vote. With the field of hopefuls clear, the mostly conservative nominees whose candidacies were approved by Iran's Guardian Council officially launched their campaigns Wednesday, apparently free from the challenges of the most talked-about ...
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Amnesty Both Israel Hamas guilty of war crimes
Both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law during Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza in November of last year, Amnesty International concluded in a report released on ...
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Israel is fighting a regional war in Syria
The changing internal situation in Syria is putting a new set of plans into motion, which involve Israeli aggression against Syria. Not only have the US and its allies been trying to militarily buttress the retreating anti-government militias, but now they aim to create a new phase in the conflict where states start asserting leverage against Syria in place of the weakening anti-government ...
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Kerry Embarks on Meetings with Israeli and Palestinian Officials
JERUSALEM -- As he embarked on another round of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Thursday in an effort to revitalize the peace process, Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged the doubts being expressed on both sides over his chances of ...
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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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