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ACLU lawsuit takes on FBI surveillance of news organizations including Antiwar.com
Today the ACLU sued the FBI in a freedom of the press lawsuit on behalf of two editors at a libertarian online magazine. After learning that their Bay Area-based site, Antiwar.com, was the subject of FBI surveillance, Eric Garris and Justin Raimondo sought the documents the government had compiled on both them and the site. After a year, the FBI has failed to produce any documents, so Garris and ...
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Foreign fantasies and Syria
';So many foreign fighters have joined the Syrian insurgency that one wonders if their [sic] is role left for any indigenous Syrian ...
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Why China’s riches won’t bring it freedom
Modern history is the story of how liberal democracy, originating in the U.K. and America, spread around the world. This may sound like an absurd fantasy. In actuality, this Whiggish narrative of progress underpins most newspaper editorials, political commentary and speeches in the West, and frames larger views of political developments in the non-West. It accounts for the gloomy undertone to ...
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Israel Intel Divided Over Syria
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's intelligence community has been divided over thecivil war in Syria, a report said. The Institute for National Security Studies asserted that Israel'smilitary and intelligence community was divided over the Sunni revoltagainst Syrian President Bashar Assad. In a report, the institute said manyin the community prefer that Assad remain in power rather than be ...
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Livni says stalemate harmful for Israel as Palestinian narrative gains traction
JERUSALEM // Israel's chief peace negotiator with the Palestinians said yesterday the current stalemate was harmful for Israel. Tzipi Livni told a parliamentary committee that resuming negotiations was "first and foremost an Israeli interest". She spoke days before the US secretary of state John Kerry was expected to arrive in Israel for his latest push to restart long-dormant ...
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Palestinian group Ruler rights abuses increasing
The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights said in its annual report Tuesday that incidents of abuse are up 10 percent since last ...
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Hamas to close tunnels if Egypt will open border
Hamas said it would be willing to close all smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border upon opening of a commercial crossing, Palestinian news agency Ma'an cited Ghazi Hamad, Hamas undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying Tuesday. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues Thursday by Islamist ...
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Terra Sancta Museum to Open in Jerusalem
In 2015, in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Terra Sancta Museum – the only museum in the world dedicated to the roots of Christianity and the preservation of the Holy Places – will open: a permanent exhibit established by the Custody of the Holy Land to shed light on the history of this extraordinary land in which for millennia the destinies of many peoples living ...
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Greek Cypriot leader meets Israeli minister
Anastasiadis and Netanyahu discussed cooperation in field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday met with leader of the Greek Cypriot administration Nicos Anastasiadis in Jerusalem.Cooperation in the field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean were discussed during ...
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Greater efforts resources needed to improve health of Palestinian refugees - UN report
Print 21 May 2013 – Health programmes carried out by the United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees has helped to improve their lives, but greater efforts and more resources are needed to effectively tackle health challenges, particularly during times of conflict, says a new report. ';There is no doubt we still have considerable ways to go to realize our ...
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Qualcomm CEO We seek Israels technology leaders
Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) CEO Paul Jacobs, currently in Israel, spoke about the chipmaker's strategy at a press conference today at Qualcomm Israel's R&D center in Haifa. The message around the visit was the upgrading of importance of Qualcomm Israel's R&D center to one of Qualcomm's major strategic centers. Jacobs said that the company had no clear plans to expand ...
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Israel warns Syria after attack near border
Israeli soldiers march during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria. Syria claimed it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan ...
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Muhammad al-Dura and Israels obsession with the propaganda war | Rachel Shabi
If Israel's government is to be believed, Palestinians have sunk so low as to be capable of faking their own deaths. Or wait, maybe the Israeli accusation of fakery is itself the indication of a horrifying new nadir. An Israeli report has concluded that Muhammad al-Dura, the 12-year-old Palestinian whose death in 2000 in Gaza was captured by a French public TV channel, was not killed by ...
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Peace debate exposes deep rifts in Israeli government
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, head of the centrist Hatenuah party, during their joint statement at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 19, ...
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Syrian Military Fires at Israeli Vehicle
May 21, 2013 12:19pm TEL AVIV– The Syrian military said on Tuesday that it fired on an Israeli army jeep in the contested Golan Heights in the early hours of the morning, destroying it. Israel said the jeep was slightly damaged and there were no casualties, but the incident raised fears that the long-time enemies could soon once again find themselves embroiled in renewed conflict. Just ...
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Assad regime confirmed carrying out artillery firing into Israel
Assad regime confirmed carrying out artillery firing into Israel JERUSALEM - Syria fired artillery into Israel damaging a military vehicle Monday night, said Israeli administration.Israeli army said in a written statement that Syria fired shells into Golan Heights adding "Israel fired missiles at a target inside Syria in response to Syrian fire."The United Nations Disengagement ...
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Syrian FM stresses right to respond to Israeli attack
Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al- Moallem on Monday underlined his country's right to respond to the Israeli attack against the Syrian military sites in the capital Damascus earlier this week, the state-run SANA news agency reported. In a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, al- Moallem stressed "Syria's right to respond to the Israeli criminal aggression ...
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Ryanair mulls Poland-Israel route for Auschwitz trips
LONDON (AFP) - Low-cost European airline Ryanair is looking at introducing flights between Israel and Poland to cater for Israeli schoolchildren visiting the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz."It seems that every Israeli child has to go to Poland to go and see Auschwitz. We can help them with that," said the carrier's deputy chief executive, Howard Millar.Although Ryanair is ...
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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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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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