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Israel-Syria tensions reminder of pre-1967 war period says ex-intel chief
Underlining growing concerns over friction between Jerusalem and Damascus, the highly-respected former head of the Israeli army's Military Intelligence hierarchy on Friday compared current Israeli-Syrian tensions to the strains that presaged the 1967 Israel-Arab war. He also said Moscow, by continuing to stand by President Bashar Assad, was signaling to that it was not going to let the US ...
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U.S. should heed Russia include Iran in Syria talks
After opposing the inclusion of Iran in negotiations over Syria for more than two years, the administration of US President Barack Obama may finally decide to change course. Secretary of State John Kerry, appearing on Wednesday, May 15, at ...
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Israel Women and the Wailing Wall
There was this Israeli man who, from time to time, put a slip of paper in the cracks between the stones of the Western Wall, asking God for favors -- as Jews have been doing for centuries. They believe that the gates of heaven are located directly above the Wall, making it easy for their missives to arrive quickly. The man always wondered what all the other petitioners were requesting from the ...
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PA continues crackdown on Palestinian journalists in W.Bank
In past week Palestinian Authority security forces interrogated, detained two journalists, despite promises to honor freedom of media; interrogators forced reporter to provide them with email and Facebook ...
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On the American Association of University Professors’ opposition to academic boycotts
Statement on Academic Boycotts " which states, not for the first time, its "opposition to academic boycotts as a matter of principle." The statement was issued in response to two recent victories for the movement for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel: physicist Stephen ...
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Saudi Arabia’s new crackdown on dissent
been shackled , though other witnesses supported Hussan’s account. The Saudi government didn’t appreciate Hussan drawing attention to his clients’ case. In less than 24 hours, the 32-year-old American-educated lawyer found himself the target of the same crackdown that had claimed his clients. He was summoned for interrogation over his tweets, targeted by pro-government media, ...
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Erdogan and the PKK
Last week, two car bombs exploded in Reyhanli in southern Turkey, close to the Syrian border, killing almost 50 people and injuring more than 100. While nobody claimed responsibility for the deadly incident, it raised the immediate question of whether Turkey would escalate its intervention in Syria, either alone or with others. However, that reaction was too narrow and missed the wider ...
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Muharraq Governor Receives MP Abbas Al-Madhi
Manama, May 18. (BNA) -- Muharraq Governor Salman bin Isa bin Hindi said that his governorate spared no effort to provide the best services for the citizens, and always welcomed constructive cooperation with members of the Representatives Council, members of the Muharraq Municipal Council and the local inhabitants in order to remove all obstacles facing the citizens in Muharraq. This came as ...
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High hopes for Palestinian 3-D animated film The Scarecrow
Filmmakers in Gaza have finished making what is believed to be the first Palestinian animated feature in 3-D, in a bid to show a fresh perspective on life through a child's ...
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Enraged by kidnapping Egyptian police block Gaza border
Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said. The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the abductions. Gunmen demanding the release of jailed Islamist militants had seized seven policemen and soldiers on a road between the Sinai towns of ...
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Report Israel pays $127K for bedroom on PMs jet
A public flap has erupted after the Israeli government spent more than $127,000 to build a bedroom for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and his wife Sarah on a flight to attend the funeral of British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in ...
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Israeli official Assad preferable to extremist rebels The Times of London reports
May 18, 2013 Israel prefers the regime of President Bashar Assad in Syria to continue than see a takeover of the country by rebel Islamist ...
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Israeli restaurateur goes viral with online meltdown
An explosive American TV appearance by an Israeli expat and his wife, and their subsequent aggressive online reaction, have gone viral and made headlines in the US news. Samy and Amy Bouzaglo let rip at critics in a spectacularly public fashion after they and their restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona was panned by Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares reality show. Ramsay had few good ...
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Taste of outside world Smugglers sneak KFC into Gaza
The demand for KFC in the Gaza strip has led one company to beat the Israeli blockade by smuggling the fast food through tunnels from Egypt. NBC's Annabel Roberts ...
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Report Israel prefers Assad survive Syria conflict
Israeli intelligence officer tells 'Times of London' that Israel prefers a "devil it knows than demons it can only imagine"; another source said Assad's staying power had been ...
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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Talks to State 194 Director Dan Setton
May 5th Interview, Posted on TakePart TV http://youtu.be/f8_TkG04bHU is One of Few Fayyad Has Given since Resigning from Office LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- On May 5th, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad sat down for a short interview with Dan Setton, director of Participant Media's documentary State 194, which opens in theaters today in New York and Los Angeles. Their conversation, ...
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest in Jerusalem over army enlistment plans
Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators pack the streets in Jerusalem to protest against government plans to force students at yeshiva religious seminaries to enlist in the Israeli army. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty ...
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World Briefing | Middle East Angry Egyptian Police Close Gaza Crossing
Egyptian police officers blocked the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen, witnesses said. Officers strung barbed wire across the border post and chained up the gates, leaving hundreds of Palestinians stranded on both sides of the fence, residents said. Gunmen abducted the seven security officers ...
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Video Kidnapping prompts Egypt-Gaza border closure
Egyptian police close Rafah border crossing to protest against government's inaction over the kidnapping of security forces in Sinai. Lindsey Parietti ...
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New gas reserves found off coast of Israel
Israel’s Delek Group said it found significant quantities of gas at the offshore Karish-1 well, located 75 kilometers northwest of Haifa. Delek, which holds a 53 percent interest, said tests conducted at Karish, located in the Alon C basin, would be released by mid-July 2013. ';This is proof of the power of the Israeli gas industry and of the great gas potential that exists off ...
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Erdogan Palestinian unity is imperative for peace process
A reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas is imperative to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, AFP reported."The process of unity between Fatah and Hamas, this has to be achieved. If this reconciliation is not achieved, then I don't believe that a solution or result will come out of the Israeli-Palestinian discussions," ...
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Settlers attack West Bank farmer twice a week
IPS ) ASIRA AL-QIBLIYA, West Bank (IPS) - Ibrahim Makhlouf reached for two wooden planks lying in the hallway and placed them expertly in an L-shape along the seams of his front door. "Open [the door]," he beckoned, knowing that doing so was nearly impossible. "Every night, we put this here," he said. "For ...
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Ultra-Orthodox in Israel protest military draft 8 arrested
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem protested a proposal to remove their exemptions and draft them for the first time into military service. The protesters, estimated by various news sources as 15,000 to 30,000, gathered Thursday evening at a military recruiting office in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem. The demonstration included stones thrown at police and garbage cans ...
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Gaza business smuggles in KFC from Egypt
Gaza across the Egyptian border. Mohammed al-Madani, financial manager of al-Yamama company, said the business idea came when employees contacted a friend who works at the KFC in al-Arish, Egypt, with some orders and they were able to smuggle the food through a tunnel within three hours, The Christian Science Monitor reported Friday. "Then we asked ourselves, 'Why don't we ...
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Netanyahu pulls back on Israels defense cuts
Binyamin Netanyahu has greatly reduced planned defense budget cuts. But officials remain worried that Israeli military capabilities will still be weakened. "The big worry is that we'll have to reduce defense procurements and orders from defense industries," observed Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon. Defense contractors "will be the first to get hurt," he said. ...
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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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