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Palestinians Demand Clarification of Israeli Minister Statements
Ramallah, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The Palestinian presidency demanded from Israel today clarification of statements in recent hours by Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennet, according to which the independent Palestinian State is at a dead end. The main hindrance to clarify this is reticence in the heart of the cabinet, said Bennet in a meeting of Israeli settlers, among which his party ...
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Abbas Palestinians keen to see Kerrys peace efforts succeed
US Secretary of State John Kerry may return to the region next week as part of his efforts to revive the stalled peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, Palestinian officials in Ramallah said Tuesday.PA President Mahmoud Abbas emphasized that the Palestinians were keen on ...
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Israel replicating apartheid SA envoy
Jerusalem - The recently retired South African ambassador to Israel has taken a parting shot at the country's treatment of Palestinians, calling it a "replication of ...
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Vandals Strike in Quiet Jerusalem Suburb
Children played on Tuesday in front of graffiti sprayed on a wall in Abu Ghosh, an Arab-Israeli suburb of Jerusalem. The graffiti reads "Arabs out" at left and "racism or ...
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Barbra Streisand criticises Israeli treatment of women – video
Singer, actor and director Barbra Streisand addresses an audience at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Streisand says she finds it hard to read about women being made to sit at the back of buses or being prevented from praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall. Streisand, was picking up an honorary PHD, during a tour of Israel which includes a performance at President Shimon Peres's 90th ...
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Ex-South Africa ambassador criticizes Israeli policies as replication of apartheid
JERUSALEM - The recently retired South African ambassador to Israel has taken a parting shot at the country's treatment of Palestinians, calling it a "replication of apartheid." Ismail Coovadia made the statement in a letter to pro-Palestinian activists. In it, Coovadia explained his decision to reject a symbolic gift from the Israeli government -- planting trees in his honour ...
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Irans shock election result poses challenge for Israel
The election of Hassan Rowhani as the new president of Iran seems to have stunned everyone – his supporters and staff, and analysts and decision-makers around the world. No-one expected that the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei would allow a moderate to occupy the presidency at a time when Iran is under pressure, under sanctions and under suspicion.And nowhere is the shock of ...
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U.S. Woos Israel With V-22
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has been pressing Israel to becomethe first foreign client of the V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft. Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama has beenlobbying Israel's military and Defense Ministry to purchase the MV-22Osprey. They said Osprey was offered as part of a 10-year military packagereported at more than $30 ...
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Israel has frozen building in settlements housing minister says
JERUSALEM // Israel has frozen nearly all housing starts in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the housing minister Uri Ariel said yesterday, in an apparent bid to help US efforts to revive peace talks with the Palestinians. The step, confirmed several weeks ago by the Israel's anti-settlement Peace Now movement, has had no impact on construction already under way in ...
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Israels tax chief warns on unreported capital abroad
"Despite the tax authority's voluntary reporting campaign uncovering NIS 12 billion in capital held abroad by Israelis, this is only the tip of the iceberg. We are in constant contact with various bodies to receive further lists of Israeli activities overseas," Tax Authority head Moshe Asher told the annual STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) conference today. Asher ...
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Israeli Budget Passes 1st Knesset Reading
JERUSALEM, Israel -- The 2013-2014 State budget passed its first reading Monday night by a 58-44 vote. Finance Minister Yair Lapid told legislators the "vision of the working man" is the basis for the decisions that went into it. Lapid said the budget is aimed at "letting go of the culture of welfare and introducing a culture of labor," turning the problem of addressing the ...
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Israel Dismayed By U.S. Assessments
JERUSALEM [MENL] -- Israel has become increasingly dismayed over U.S.intelligence assessments on the Middle East. Officials said Israel's government and intelligence community havedetermined huge gaps between U.S. assessments and developments in the MiddleEast. They said Israel's government and intelligence community were underconstant pressure by the administration of President Barack ...
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Barbra Streisand courts controversy in Israel before Shimon Peres party
Barbra Streisand to deliver her own version of Happy Birthday Mr President more than 50 years after Marilyn Monroe's ode to JFK.But for the world's oldest head of ...
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Nick Turse Blowback central
buddied up with the Saudis and Pakistani intelligence and backed a set of extreme fundamentalist Afghan rebels against the Soviets, the U.S. has been, advertently or not, promoting Islamic radicalism in the Greater Middle East. As Karzai said of that long-forgotten moment, "The more radical we looked and talked, the more we were called mujahedin. The consequence of that was a massive effort ...
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G8 leaders work to develop Syria statement acceptable to all
Group of Eight leaders worked to develop a statement on Syria acceptable to nations wanting a transition of power and Russia, an ally of the Syrian government. Accounts differed from officials Tuesday morning at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland on the prospects of developing a substantive agreement on Syria and the fate of its president, Bashar Assad, to which Russia might sign on, The New ...
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Israeli leaders condemn hate crime against Arabs
An Israeli-Arab and children are seen on a street next to a graffiti in the village of Abu Gosh near Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Israeli police have launched an investigation to find perpetrators who vandalized cars and sprayed hate graffiti in an Arab town near Jerusalem. The Hebrew graffiti reads, "Racism or assimilation" and "Arabs out." (AP Photo/Mahmoud ...
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Shimon Peres US can curb Irans nuclear threat – video
The president of Israel, Shimon Peres, says Barack Obama's administration has the greatest hope of preventing Iran from becoming a large-scale international threat. In the interview with Reuters, Peres also says it is 'necessary and possible' for Israel to make peace with the Palestinians. The 90-year-old criticises terror groups working in Syria, Lebanon and Gaza for damaging the ...
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Celebrities head to Jerusalem for Peress birthday
Israel's President Shimon Peres meets with US actor Robert De Niro at the President's residence in Jerusalem, on June 18, 2013. A slew of stars, politicians and public figures were flocking to Jerusalem to take part in Peres's 90th birthday celebrations to be held ...
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Reports say Hamas preventing rocket fire
Gaza has deployed a 600 member military force to prevent rocket attacks on Israel, an Arab source told The Times of Israel. Hamas formed a special force to "safeguard public order" and operates along the border with Israel, the source told the Israeli website. Recent months have seen a dramatic decline in the number of rockets fired at Israel compared to a similar period last year, ...
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Barbra Streisand Women shouldnt sit in back of bus in Israel
Barbra Streisand: American actress Barbra Streisand said Orthodox Jews in Israel shouldn't treat women as second class citizens. Streisand was in Israel getting an honorary doctorate at Hebrew University of ...
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Israeli-Palestinian peace talks must resume China
BEIJING (AFP) - China called for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians at a conference in Beijing Tuesday, as the rising global power seeks greater diplomatic influence in the Middle East."We need to redouble efforts to promote peace talks," assistant foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu said at the United Nations International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian ...
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Israel seeks $5b US loan guarantees - report
Israel's Defense Ministry will ask the US to guarantee $5 billion in bridge loans that Israel plans taking from US commercial banks to finance procurement of advanced weapons systems that the Obama administration is offering Israel including the Osprey aircraft-helicopter and smart munitions. In the long term procurement will be financed by US military aid, and the loans will bridge the ...
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Jewish Extremists Spray Graffiti Damage Cars in Jerusalem
Occupied Jerusalem, June 18 (BNA) - Israeli vandals from the so-called 'price tag' group slashed late Monday night tires of 28 cars in the Arab town of Abu Ghoush, west of Jerusalem, according to local sources. Price tag refers to an underground anti-Arab Israeli group that carries out terrorist acts against Palestinians in the occupied territories and inside Israel, as in the ...
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Israeli Forces Begin Demolishing School in Azzun Atmah Village
Bethlehem, June 18 (BNA) - Israeli forces began demolishing a school on Tuesday in the village of Azzun Atmah in the northern West Bank district of Qalqiliya, the school's administration said. A day earlier Israeli forces entered the Azzun-Beit Amin School to take measurements as they prepare to enforce the further construction of Israel's separation wall in the district. The ...
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Summer Camp in the Gaza Strip
JERUSALEM, Israel -- It's summertime again and for kids in the Gaza Strip, that means dressing up like jihadists and learning how to fight the Zionist enemy. Every summer, Islamic Jihad, a Gaza-based terror group, sponsors free military training camps for kids between the ages of six and 16 to indoctrinate the next generation in the fine art of "popular resistance." The target ...
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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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