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Turkeys Erdogan meets top Hamas officials for talks on Palestinian reconciliation
In this photo released by the Turkish Prime Minister's Press Office, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, seen during a meeting with Khalid Mashaal, the Hamas chief in exile, center, and Gaza’s prime minister Ismail Haniyeh in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The meeting is expected to focus on talks on Palestinian reconciliation.(AP Photo/Yasin Bulbul, Prime ...
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Israeli premier pressure on Iran nuclear program must not ease despite election of reformist
JERUSALEM - Israel's prime minister says the international community must not ease pressure on Iran because of the election of a reformist president. Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he believed Iran's president-elect Hasan Rowhani spoke moderately but backs enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. The comments came after Russia's foreign minister was quoted as saying Iran was ...
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Tel Aviv-based group threatens Australian professors over Israel
Tel Aviv-based group threatens Australian professors over Israel boycott Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center June 13, 2013: A Tel Aviv-based civil rights group warned Australian supporters of a proposed boycott against Israel on Thursday that their activities were racist, and in violation of Australian Federal anti-discrimination laws. Recently, faculty and students at Sydney University ...
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Palestinians ‘aiding US peace drive’
JERUSALEM - The Palestinian administration in the West Bank has tried to help the latest US peacemaking drive by quietly cutting off funds for grassroots campaigners against Israel's occupation of the territory, a senior Israeli general said on ...
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These ‘build build build’ comments go to the heart of Israel’s problems
Naftali Bennett has just become the latest Israeli official to declare the two-state solution a dead end. Speaking at a conference for Jewish settlers, he said the idea of negotiating for an independent Palestinian state alongside an Israeli one was ';futile'; and ';hopeless'; and that the only Israeli approach to this conflict should be to ';build, build, build'; ...
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Israel should give Rouhani a chance
toward Iran in recent years, we really don't know much about what is going on in the Land of the Ayatollahs. The United States, Israel and other Western nations have launched sophisticated cyber-attacks against the nuclear reactor systems in Bushehr. Intelligence agencies know the exact role of every nuclear scientist in Iran, and where they can be found at any given moment. But despite ...
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Israeli leaders respond with scowls to Rouhani’s election
For most Israeli politicians, the news of the election of moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran, is not good. That it is considered good news by anyone else makes it that much worse. In Poland last Wednesday, two days before Iranians went to the polls, Israeli Prime Minister ...
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Why Rouhani won — and why Ayatollah Khamenei let him
One explanation is that the Ayatollah simply miscalculated and found himself, once again, overtaken by events when Rouhani's candidacy surged with little forewarning. Indeed, it is likely that Khamenei really did expect Iranians to vote for the conservatives. After all, the conservatives have held all the cards in Iran since 2005; they dominate its institutions and dictate the terms of the ...
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An emerging Sunni-Shiite alliance in Baghdad
An alliance combining Shiite and Sunni currents in Baghdad succeeded last Saturday, June 15, in forming a local government without the participation of the State of Law Coalition. The latter was the largest winning bloc in ...
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Hamas and Hezbollah’s strained relations
The conflict in Syria has stressed the relationship between the Palestinian Sunni Hamas movement and the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah organization, transforming it from one of ';intimacy'; between allies to a tension-inducing ';quarrel'; after Hamas took a position against the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad ...
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Israel installs digital ‘Multi-Sensor’ system on Lebanon border
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV -- Israel’s military has been installing a digital security system along the border with Lebanon. Military sources said the network was comprised of advanced sensors that could detect infiltration attempts from several kilometers. They said the so-called Multi-Sensor System, a project reported at $60 million, was led by prime contractor Elbit ...
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Palestinian writers refused visas for travel to UK
Two Palestinian writers have been refused visas to travel to the UK and speak at a festival celebrating contemporary Arab art.The Gaza-based husband and wife writers, Ali Abukhattab and Samah al-Sheikh, were due to talk about their writing at London's ICA on 28 June but have been barred from coming - to the disappointment and frustration of festival organisers.Omar al-Qattan, chairman of ...
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Barbra Streisand Jumps Right Into Delicate Subjects In Israel
Barbra Streisand is touring Israel right now and has broached a very delicate subject on her first major stop: the treatment of women by Orthadox Jews. The iconic singer was there to receive an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and will perform two concerts in Tel Aviv, as well as sing for Israeli President Shimon Peres’ birthday, but on Monday she spoke ...
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Egypt Brotherhood backs Syria jihad denounces Shi’ites
Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood blamed Shi’ites for creating religious strife throughout Islam’s history, as the movement joined a call by Sunni clerics for jihad against the Syrian government and its Shi’ite allies. In a striking display of the religious enmity sweeping the region since Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah committed its forces behind Syrian President ...
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How the microbiome provides food for thought
UCLA researchers now have the first evidence that bacteria ingested in food can affect brain function in humans. In an early proof-of-concept study of healthy women, they found that women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics through yogurt showed altered brain function, both while in a resting state and in response to an emotion-recognition task. The study, conducted ...
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Arab village in Israel targeted in racial attackVandals daubed Arabs out graffiti and punctured tyres in an Arab village near Jerusalem on Tuesday targeting a community widely seen in Israel as a showcase for Jewish-Arab coexistence.
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 than in a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. Abu Ghosh, where the tyres of 28 cars were punctured and anti-Arab slogans scrawled on walls, is located along the main Tel ...
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Flow of arms to Syria alarms Israel
Israel is worried about continued arms supplies to the Syrian regime from Russia, which has ignored Israeli pleas not to deliver promised shipments of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles which could target planes taking off from Israeli territory, according to a senior Israeli official. But officials also say that Israel is also cautious about Western plans to supply weapons to the divided ...
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Israeli general warns of unrest if no peace talks
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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Israeli Maneuver to Annex Part of Belen Denounced
Ramallah, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Israeli occupation authorities authorized the confiscation of nearly six acres of land of Belen city, where the Christian tradition locates the birth of Jesus Christ, denounces a non-governmental organization today. The procedure bases on the Israeli law of absent owners that allows the government to transfer the property of lands and the technicality consists on ...
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Teva to stop filing for patents in Israel
TEVA ) is stopping filing for patents in Israel for products developed in the country and will file for them in Switzerland instead. The step will enable the pharmaceutical giant to benefit from tax exemptions and incentives that are granted in Switzerland but are not available in Israel for development, manufacturing and registering patents, sources inform "Globes." As ...
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Israeli leaders divided over new Iran president
Hassan Rouhani served as the country's chief nuclear negotiator from 2003-2005. But some observers have hailed the new leader as pragmatist that will lift Iran out of international ...
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Israel Think Tank Deems Iran Vote Fair
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's leading strategic think tank has deemed Iran'spresidential elections as fair. The Institute for National Security Studies determined that Iran'spresidential elections on June 14 were not tampered by the mullah regime. Ina report by Ephraim Kam, the institute said the landslide victory by HassanRowhani marked a surprise and reflected a desire for change ...
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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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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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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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