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Iran’s president-elect may shift country’s policies toward Persian Gulf Israel
TEHRAN, Iran - To understand the changes likely to occur under Iran’s new president, Hasan Rowhani, consider this summation of the outgoing regime by a veteran foreign policy analyst. Iran’s approach to the world was ideological and focused attention on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Lebanon – issues far from the country’s vital interests, said Davood Hermidas Bavand, a ...
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Cyprus Aims for LNG Facility Deal with US-Israeli Interests
NICOSIA - The Cypriot cabinet approved on Wednesday plans to sign for a deal with a U.S.-Israeli partnership to build a liquefied natural gas plant on the island to exploit untapped energy riches. "The cabinet has approved the decision to sign the memorandum of understanding between Cyprus and companies Noble Energy Inc., Delek Drilling L.P. and Avner Oil Exploration Ltd. Partnership for ...
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Israeli Arab village targeted in racial attack
(MENAFN - Arab News) Vandals daubed "Arabs out" graffiti and punctured tires in an Arab village near Jerusalem yesterday, targeting a community widely seen in Israel as a showcase for Jewish-Arab coexistence. Unlike similar attacks that have damaged Arab mosques, homes, vehicles and olive groves, the vandalism took place in an Arab village in Israel popular with Jewish visitors, rather ...
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Entrepreneurs launch initiative for Palestinian future
RAMALLAH - Young Palestinians who are fed up with the existing leaders' attempts to establish an independent Palestinian state launched their own initiative designed to give the young people a voice in determining the Palestinian future.Several Palestinian entrepreneurs launched NEWpal, a youth group based in this city, which got started this week by hosting a full day "Future ...
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Palestine portrayed as plastic state in new art show
— an exhibition in Liverpool — came from Syrian photographer Issa Touma, who has also said "they cannot cancel me, so they need to accept me." Looking at the images in this show, however, one can’t help feeling that it is a record of constraints — and, admittedly, of attempts to overcome them — rather than of freedom. To illustrate: one of the most ...
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Hamas Syria conflict impacting Iranian financial aid
Hamas's deteriorating relations with Iran and Syria have impacted financial aid to the Islamist movement, Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, was quoted Wednesday as saying.Noting that Syria had supported Hamas financially and politically, Hamad said that his movement's support for the Syrian "revolution" has resulted in the loss of financial aid from both ...
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Babies behind bars A Palestinian fertility doctor has become an unlikely hero by helping women conceive – even though their husbands are in jail
A normal story repeated anywhere in the world perhaps, but what is special about Lydia is that her husband is 12 years into a 25-year prison sentence in an Israeli jail.There are certainly no conjugal visits for Palestinian security prisoners, who the Israelis consider to be terrorists. Instead, Lydia - whose first child was born before her husband was jailed for being a member of the Al-Aqsa ...
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Arab Israeli village shocked after hate crime
View Photo AFP/Ahmad Gharabli - An Arab Israeli man points to Hebrew graffiti that reads "Arabs out" (L) and "assimliation" (R), a negative reference to Jews and non-Jews mixing, on the wall of a house in the Arab ...
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If your name is Ahmed or Fatima you live in fear of NSA surveillance
One of the most common responses from the 66% of American citizens in favor of the NSA’s data-collection programs is, ';I have nothing to hide, so why should I have anything to fear?'; But what if you have nothing to hide but are targeted as a suspect nevertheless? By that I mean, what if your name is Ahmed, Jihad, Anwar or Abdulrahman? Fatima, Rania, Rasha or Shaima? What if ...
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Every time the FBI investigates itself it discovers it’s innocent
After contradictory stories emerged about an F.B.I. agent's killing last month of a Chechen man in Orlando, Fla., who was being questioned over ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, the bureau reassured the public that it would clear up the murky episode. "The F.B.I. takes very seriously any shooting incidents involving our agents, and as such we have an effective, time-tested ...
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Pentagon shoots down Kerry’s Syria airstrike plan
Twenty years ago, in a debate over the war in Bosnia, Madeleine Albright, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, issued a challenge to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell. Albright wanted the U.S. to confront an aggressive Serbia; Powell and the Pentagon were hesitant. Albright grew frustrated: "What's the point of having this superb military that ...
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Erdoğan is fighting the last war
Erdogan’s rise to power is inextricably connected with changes in Turkey’s society and economy in the 1980s and 1990s that challenged the old power structures and created new spaces for conservative businessmen, media and politicians. The self-made man from Kas?mpasa is the most successful among a new generation of pious Muslims who went into politics, especially after he realized ...
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Our conflicting interests in knowing what others think
Recently I received an e-mail that wasn't meant for me, but was about me. I'd been cc'd by accident. This is one of the darker hazards of electronic communication, Reason No. 697 Why the Internet Is Bad -- the dreadful consequence of hitting "reply all" instead of "reply" or "forward." The context is that I had rented a herd of goats for reasons that ...
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Israel To Seek US-Backed Loan for Mega Arms Deal
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: the idea is to devout incredible resources for a second squadron of F-35Is - a platform whose very justification of existence is predicated on the working assumption that in the coming decades no one is going to come up with a gizmo that facilitates identifying, targeting and shooting down what at this time is hard to pick up using instruments now deployed in the ...
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Israeli intel Hamas using Qatar as base to plot terror strikes
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV -- Israel’s intelligence community has determined that Qatar was serving as an operational base for Hamas. Officials said the intelligence community has tracked an increasing number of Hamas operations to Qatar. They said the Hamas presence in the Gulf Cooperation Council emirate, which included much of the political bureau, has led to initiatives ...
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Teva exec Israels IP tax regime is costing it billions
"We have not asked for any tax benefit from anyone in the government in relation to registration of intellectual property for Teva. We have had an open dialogue with the government for three years on the tax regime, because we think that the tax rules on intellectual property cause Israel damage in the billions of shekels. This is because it encourages companies, both foreign and Israeli, ...
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Israel marks national science day
Accra, June 19, GNA - The State of Israel has marked its National Science Day with lectures by professors in the most unlikely ...
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Cisco to invest in Israeli venture capital funds
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) will invest $15 million (9 million pounds) in Israeli venture capital funds as part of a broader plan to expand its operations in Israel and outside the United States, the company said on Wednesday. ...
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Israel to export only 40 of natural gas finds
An oil-drilling platform in Maanit, north of Tel Aviv, in 2009. Israel is to export only 40 percent of the natural gas it extracts from newly discovered gas fields off its Mediterranean coast, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on ...
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Israel honors Bill Clinton for work on two-state solution
Bill Clinton said "there are no perfect solutions" for Middle East peace as he received Israel's highest civilian honor Wednesday. Israeli ...
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Palestinians toughen line on Israel talks
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- The Palestinian president and his Fatah movement on Wednesday signaled a tough line on talks with Israel, casting new doubt on U.S. efforts to revive long-stalled ...
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Jerusalem Bureau Team Wins Photo Contest
JERUSALEM, Israel -- A photograph by the CBN News Jerusalem Bureau team won one of the top awards at this year's Festival of Lights in the capital's Old City. "Jonathan, Yehuda and Annika are proud to announce their winning of the "People's Choice" award at the Jerusalem Festival of Lights," Annika wrote on behalf of the team. The three didn't find out ...
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Limited US arms to Syria unlikely to harm Israel experts
An Israeli army Cannon Unit maneuvers during a drill in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria on June 12, 2013. US plans to arm Syrian rebels have raised fears in Israel that the weapons could fall into the wrong hands, but analysts played down the threat -- provided no big guns are ...
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UPDATE 2-Israel to keep most of its natural gas for domestic use
Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:57am EDT * Exports will make up 40 percent of reserves * Israel will get $60 billion from 20 years of gas sales By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM, June 19 (Reuters) - Israel said on Wednesday it will keep most of its newfound natural gas for domestic use but will still allow enough exports to satisfy exploration companies seeking access to the global market. The decision to keep 60 ...
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Intl Meeting on Israel-Palestine Peace Process Concludes in Beijing
Beijing, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) China today urged to seek a gradual and pragmatic solution in order to reach tangible results in the complex peace process between Israel and Palestine, during an international meeting sponsored by the United Nations in this capital. This annual UN meeting to promote peace between Israel and Palestine concluded in Beijing today, organized by the UN for the first ...
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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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