Israeli Committee Presents al-Dura Findings

CBN News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

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 ...

Israel Syria show teeth Third cross-border shootout in week

RT - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

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 ...

Five Dead In Bank Robbery In Southern Israel

Web Pro News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

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. ...

NYT Smugglers sneak KFC across border into Gaza

MSNBC - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

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 ...

After the al Qusayr victory Syria and Hizballah plan war on Israel

Prison Planet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

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 ...

IDF denies Syrian claim Israeli vehicle destroyed in Golan

Jerusalem Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

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 ...

Israel returns fire after gunshots from Syria

China Daily - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

/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 ...

Israel Bank RobberyFour people have been dead Be’er Sheva bank robbers Breaking News

National Turk - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

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 ...

Israeli troops in Syrian border shoot-out

Irish Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Israeli troops shot at a target across the Syrian frontier today in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military ...

Israeli government justifies torture with national security

Pravda - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Six days after Arafat Jaradat was arrested by the Israeli army and the Shin Bet (Israeli intelligence agency), he was dead. Between the day of his arrest, February 18th, and the day of his death, February 23rd, his lawyer, Kamil Sabbagh, met with Arafat only once: before a military judge, the Kishon interrogation center of the Shin ...

Top Palestinian negotiator throws weight behind Kerry peace plan

albawaba - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in the Middle East on Tuesday (AFP) The chief Palestinian peace negotiator has thrown his weight behind John Kerry's efforts in the Middle East, Reuters reported on Tuesday.The US Secretary of State arrives in Oman on Tuesday, the first stop in a week-long regional visit, which will include meetings with Israeli and Palestinian ...

Should Palestine switch from the shekel to Bitcoin

RT - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The money that circulates most in the Palestinian Authority (PA) is the Israeli new shekel; guided by an interest rate policy set monthly by the Bank of Israel, which dictates Palestinian finances. Palestine has tried for decades to establish independence, but Israel has not been willing to give up its colony, so the occupation continues.But for the first time in history, an emerging country ...

Israeli troops in Golan return fire from Syria army

Channel News Asia - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Israeli soldiers patrolling the disputed Golan Heights along the border with Syria fired back after coming under fire overnight, an Israeli Defence Forces statement said ...

Gaza’s Assaf The Arab World’s New Singing Sensation

Mideast Posts - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

with his renditions of love songs and patriotic Palestinian songs. Like ';Song for Palestine, ‘Oh you bird going back home'; (above). It’s easy to understand why Palestinians are going crazy for him. Mohammed Assaf has drawn comparisons to the late ...

Imprivata eyes IPO adds Beth Israels Halamka to board

Business Journal - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Dr. John Halamka, the CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has joined the board of directors at health care IT security firm Imprivata. Lexington-based Imprivata, a IT security firm focused on the health care industry, is expecting an initial public offering within two years after growing to more than $50 million in revenue in 2012, CEO Omar Hussain said in an interview. The ...

US discussing religious freedom worries with Israel

Jerusalem Post - Monday 20th May, 2013

NEW YORK - The US State Department said on Monday that the Israeli government's respect for freedom of religion has remained consistent through 2012, but that it has engaged in "detailed discussions" with Israeli officials over rights concerns that have persisted for multiple years."Governmental and legal discrimination against non-Jews and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism ...

Israel bars UNESCO from entering Jerusalem

albawaba - Monday 20th May, 2013

An Israeli security officer stands infront of Al Haram Al Sharif in Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam. Israelis frequently prevent Muslims from praying and launch attacks against non-Jewish worshippers. AFP Photo Israel on Monday ...

Al-Quds Open University receives $250000 grant from Kuwait

AME Info - Monday 20th May, 2013

Palestine-headquartered Al-Quds Open University (QOU) has received a $250,000 Kuwaiti grant to complete the branch project in Nablus, Kuna has reported. The grant, which aims to develop of university system in Palestine, will benefit some 65,000 students, said the president QOU, Dr Younis ...

Israeli man storms bank kills four people before committing suicide

albawaba - Monday 20th May, 2013

Israeli city of Bersheeba on Monday, engaged in a gunfight which killed four people, took a hostage and then turned his gun on himself. Talking to AP, Israeli police spokesperson Mickey Rosenfeld said that the shootings happened inside the bank and that the man has been identified as being in his 40s and is a resident of Bersheeba. Israeli TV crews soon gathered round the area, showing the bank ...

Tensions rise as Israeli jets bomb Syria again

SINA - Monday 20th May, 2013

ISRAELI jets bombed Syria yesterday, rocking Damascus for hours and sending pillars of flame into the night sky in what a Western source called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah. Local people reported massive explosions and internet video showed the capital's skyline lit by flashes. Syrian opponents of President Bashar Assad rejoiced at Israel's third ...

Pam Murtaugh Get a Bucket of Feelings Smuggling KFC in Gaza

Huffington Post - Monday 20th May, 2013

, Fares Akram unwittingly describes the root of the American obesity epidemic. Akram tells the story of the Gazan population choked off from the world outside its small perimeter. It is a living metaphor for what's happening in the U.S. In an odyssey of determination born of demand and creativity, entrepreneurial Gazan smugglers dig deep, trafficking in something U.S. obesity experts might ...

Op Ed on Hamas website Assad regime no less evil than Israel

IMRA - Monday 20th May, 2013

A regime that has been murdering its own people in the tens of thousands and utterly destroying Syrian towns and villages in order to keep a specific family or sect in power doesn't deserve our sympathy or solidarity. Even in the best possible circumstances, this regime is not less evil than Israel. We condemn the Israeli bombing, but the Assad regime isn't blameless ...