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Israeli troops in Golan return fire from Syria army
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 ...
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Gaza’s Assaf The Arab World’s New Singing Sensation
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 ...
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Imprivata eyes IPO adds Beth Israels Halamka to board
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 ...
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US discussing religious freedom worries with Israel
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 ...
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Israel bars UNESCO from entering Jerusalem
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 ...
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Al-Quds Open University receives $250000 grant from Kuwait
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 ...
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Israeli man storms bank kills four people before committing suicide
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 ...
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Tensions rise as Israeli jets bomb Syria again
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 ...
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Pam Murtaugh Get a Bucket of Feelings Smuggling KFC in Gaza
, 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 ...
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Op Ed on Hamas website Assad regime no less evil than Israel
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 ...
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Excerpts Fatah-Hamas agree to form Palestinian unity government.
Excerpts: Fatah-Hamas agree to form Palestinian unity government. IAEA-Iran nuclear talks fail again. Proposed Syrian peace talks May 15, 2013 +++SOURCE: Saudi Gazette 15 ...
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The Lede Complete Text of Israel’s Report on the Muhammad al-Dura Video
A frame from a video shot in Gaza in September 2000 showed Jamal al-Dura attempting to shield his son Muhammad, 12, during a gun battle between Israelis and Palestinians. As my ...
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Ten Years After US Invades Iraq Israel Eager to Take the US Into Round Two
Ten years after the US invaded Iraq in 2003, another Middle East war looms large between the West and Muslim states. Signs point to the strong possibility that Israel, and its US Zionist supporters, remain determined, first, to draw the US into the Syrian Civil War, and second, to lead Israel in a joint attack against Iran. All from the skies, of course. Boots on the ground have not served ...
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Israel questions Gaza boy’s death
The father of Muhammad el-Dura, a Palestinian child killed in Gaza in 2000 during an exchange of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian police, says he is willing to exhume his son's body to refute Israeli claims that he was not shot by ...
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Palestinians in Syria caught in the middle
The UN agency aiding Palestinians gives 3,000 Syrian pounds ($2.15) to every registered refugee family, "but this is not enough. A kilo of tomatoes is 100," she ...
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Walking tours highlight West Banks shrinking landscape
IPS ) DEIR GHASSANEH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - A reddish-brown dome sits atop an ancient stone house, used hundreds of years ago for prayer. It peeks out from the surrounding trees as the rolling green valleys and hills of the ...
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Im afraid of dying without returning home says Nakba survivor
role was meeting strangers who come over to the village, welcoming government representatives and intervening in family feuds," Abu Khaled said. Weddings were important community occasions. "People in the village often held their wedding ceremonies in the beginning or in the middle of September. This was due to the fact that harvest season had just ended. When someone wanted to get ...
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Father of shot Gaza boy disputes Israel report
The father of a Palestinian boy shot dead in Gaza in 2000 said Monday he was willing to have his son exhumed to disprove an Israeli report denying he was killed by Israeli ...
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Hamas slams delays in rebuilding Nahr al-Bared
Hamas Movement slammed UNRWA for delays in the reconstruction of buildings destroyed in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp following the end of fierce battles in 2007 ...
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Palestinian refugee counsels Syrians
Lebanon for the next several weeks. "I know what it’s like to feel like the ‘other’ and be different in the world. This gives me compassion for people who don’t feel at home," says Ashtan, a warm and outgoing woman who takes an immediate interest and empathy in those around her – an invaluable trait for someone who is working with refugee children as well ...
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Israel and Palestine Consequences of Deterrence
"Deterrence has to be maintained," said Gabi Siboni, a colonel for strategic affairs at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. "It was only a question of time until this moment arrived." It seems the Palestinians are of like mind. As things stand, this latest round of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was probably inevitable. Escalation and ...
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When It Comes to Syria Israel Frequently Redrawing Red Lines
- Israel is being drawn into Syria’s quagmire as it threatens to act further on transfers of ';game-changing'; weapons to hostile protagonists involved in Syria’s civil war, be they Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, Jihadist Sunni rebels, or loyalist forces of President Bashar al ...
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Official Palestinians holding off on UN agency membership mainly to give US effort a chance
A top official says Palestinians have done all the legal work necessary to join 63 U.N. agencies, conventions and treaties, but haven't applied yet mainly to give the U.S. peace effort a chance to succeed. Chief Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat said Monday that Palestinians have done "everything" to enable President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to ...
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Israel and Palestinians still battling over how boy who became symbol was killed in 2000
Baraa al-Dura, sister of Mohammed al-Dura poses with a picture of Mohammed at her home in Bureij Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip, Monday, May 20, 2013. Mohammed al-Dura was killed during an exchange of gunfire between Israeli troops and Palestinian police on Gaza Strip on Sept. 30, 2000. More than a dozen years later, the death of a Palestinian boy allegedly shot by Israeli troops in Gaza ...
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Palestinian Presidency Spokesman Rudeyne Israels decision is to sabotage the …
Palestinian Presidency Spokesman Rudeyne: "Israel's decision is to sabotage the peace efforts which Obama and Kerry are trying to start in the region" JERUSALEM/CAIRO - Palestinian Presidency Spoekesman Nabil Abu Rudeyne said Israeli settlements which would be built in West Bank would sabotage the peace efforts in the region."Israel's decision is to sabotage the peace ...
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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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