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Palestinians Killed in Israeli Air Strike
Two Palestinians have been killed in air strikes on the Gaza Strip after they had clashed with Israeli troops crossing into the territory, medical sources ...
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Excerpts Syrian Government quadruples price of fuel oil. Hamas influencein Egypt Iran to head UN Conference on Disarmament 13 May 2013
Excerpts: Syrian Government quadruples price of fuel oil. Hamas influence in Egypt? Iran to head UN Conference on Disarmament 13 May 2013 +++SOURCE:The Syria Report 13 ...
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The Bank of Israel will purchase foreign exchange in order to offset theeffect of natural gas production on the exchange rate
The Bank of Israel will purchase foreign exchange in order to offset the effect of natural gas production on the exchange rate 13/05/2013 Natural gas production in Israel is causing an improvement in the current account, which is leading to appreciation pressures on the shekel. This phenomenon, often referred to ...
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The West Bank Wall What Life Is Like For Palestinians And Israelis Divided By The Barrier
JERUSALEM -- From Al-Walajah, a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank, Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium, one of the venues for the European Under-21 Football Cup in June, is only a few hundred meters away. But this village on a hill couldn't be further from the city and the international audiences watching games broadcast from so close. Soon, it will be enclosed by the separation ...
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2 journalists say Palestinian Authority interrogated them
Two Palestinian journalists said they were detained and questioned this week by the Palestinian authority, despite a promise to respect freedom of the press. One of the journalists, a documentary filmmaker, said he was forced to reveal the passwords to his personal email and Facebook page, the Jerusalem Post reported. Haroun Abu Arrah said he was questioned for more than 2 hours by agents of ...
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Egyptian police close Rafah crossing after colleagues kidnapped
Gaza . The action left hundreds of Gaza residents stuck at the border, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported. Police refused to open the crossing even after Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim sent an assistant to Rafah to intercede. Police said they would only open the crossing when their colleagues are released. The seven police officers and soldiers, including four who ...
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Israelis Palestinians battle over access to religious site
Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian protesters Saturday near a mosque in East Jerusalem, Palestinian officials said. Israeli security forces arrested five people and fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets on Palestinians protesting an Israeli decision to close Aqsa Mosque to Muslims Thursday and Friday in Jerusalem's Old City so ultraorthodox Jews could enter the compound to ...
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Sheep attack hiker on Israel National Trail
A hiker was hospitalized after a sheep attacked him Saturday on the Israel National Trail, authorities said. The attack occurred near Kfar Qara, south of Haifa, Ynetnews.com reported. The hiker, a 56-year-old man, was conscious and was able to call for help on his cellphone. Paramedics treated the hiker at the scene and he was then transported to the Hillel Yaffa Hospital in Hadeera. He had ...
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Assad Israel supporting terror groups in Syria
Syrian President Bashar Assad accused Israel of "directly supporting terrorist groups" in Syria, referring to rebels fighting against his regime, in an exclusive interview with Argentinian ...
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Egypt keeps Gaza border closed due to kidnapping
CAIRO - Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the 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 ...
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Israel warns against Russian arms supply to Syria
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Saturday that advanced weapons supplied by Russia to war-torn Syria could end up in the wrong hands and be used against the Jewish ...
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AP PHOTOS Palestinians in Egypt village exhibit consequences of 65 years of mass displacement
In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo, Palestinian refugee Sulaiman al-Namodi, 92, sits outside of his house in Gezirat al-Fadel village, Sharqiya, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) east of Cairo, Egypt. As Palestinians around the world recently marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, the refugees in Gezirat al-Fadel say they have it ...
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First Saudi woman to climb Everest reaches peak
A 25-year-old climber who this weekend become the first Saudi woman to scale Mount Everest said she hopes her accomplishment inspires others. Raha Moharrak was among a four-member team of climbers from the Middle East that reached the summit of Mount Everest. She has said she hoped the climb would "inspire someone else to be the second," CNN reported. The university graduate made ...
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Is Obama already a lame duck president
It is not a comparison that many people thought would ever get much traction. But, assailed this week by multiple scandals and at the mercy of a furious press, President Obama has endured a legion of pundits wondering if he is the 21st-century Richard Nixon - and whether his second term is already a lame-duck disaster. Certainly conservative writers have leapt at the idea that the now ...
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Bashar al-Assad ‘We can’t negotiate with fragmented rebels’
‘s reporter Marcelo Cantelmi from the library of his palace, said that a continuing lack of unity between the myriad rebel groups meant that opposition leaders would be unable to implement any ceasefire measures agreed at a summit, such as surrendering arms. ';They are not a single entity,'; he said. ';They are different groups and bands, not dozens but hundreds. They are a ...
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Palestinian activists sue Israel for the return of 6000 books
Anahid Melikian, left, and her niece Anahid Melikian Helewa have tried to find out about their family's books from the Israeli Embassy in Ottawa. Marianne Helm for The ...
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Gaza tunnel collapse kills Palestinian
A smuggler carries food from Kentucky Fried Chicken to be delivered through an underground tunnel linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt, on May 13, 2013 in Rafah. AFP ...
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‘Israel prefers Bashar al Assad to Islamist rebels’
A weakened Bashar Assad is preferable for Syria and the whole region, to a takeover by rebel forces increasingly ruled by Islamic extremists, Israeli officials said overnight Friday-Saturday. "Better the devil we know than the demons we can only imagine if Syria falls into chaos and the extremists from across the Arab world gain a foothold ...
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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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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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