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With close to 90% of the votes tallied in Iraq's parliamentary elections, the coalition headed by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has taken a slim lead over the bloc led by his main challenger, Iyad Allawi. A day ago, it was the later. Since...
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The hits keep on coming for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Amid unprecedented tensions with the United States, the prime minister is forced to distance himself from brother-in-law Hagai Ben-Artzi after Ben-Artzi accused US President Barack Obama of being...
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US President Barack Obama will meet with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, DC Tuesday, Fox News reports. The president was originally scheduled to travel to Indonesia and Australia Sunday, but he decided to put off his trips to work on health...
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Almost half of American voters support a total settlement construction freeze in order to secure peace, Haaretz reports. The study, conducted by Rasmussen Reports , released its findings Wednesday. 49% report approving of stopped settlement construction...
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EXCLUSIVE: ABBAS AID TELLS PALESTINE NOTE INJURIES ARE MINOR AND THE PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO RECOVER FULLY A close aid to PA President Mahmoud Abbas told Palestine Note that President Abbas is recovering from minor injuries in an Amman hospital. Abbas...
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have reportedly agreed on a settlement policy to keep their relationship and respective politics in tact, Ynet News reports. Israeli settlement housing Israel is now expected to "refrain...
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Israel is willing to carry out "trust-builing moves" in the West Bank (but says nothing of changes in East Jerusalem) to get peace talks back on track...
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The Quartet on the Middle East met in Moscow Friday and has called on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to take the necessary steps to restart the peace process and prepare for a two-state solution in 24 months, Haaretz reports. Quartet representatives...
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ISRAELI WAR PLANES POUND THE SOUTHERN GAZA STRIP AFTER A 'HOMEMADE PROJECTILE' KILLED ONE IN ISRAEL Israel has responded with air strikes after a projectile launched from Gaza yesterday killed a Thai worker in Ashkelon, Ma'an News Agency reports...
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An activist is a person who feels strongly about a cause and who is also willing to dedicate time and energy towards advancing and realizing this cause. This might be my own limited interpretation of what activism means. I was born and raised in a Gaza...
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Its web site (thelawfareproject.org) calls Lawfare: "The use of the law as a weapon of war." Fact Check Provided they contradict no others, laws are sacrosanct, especially fundamental international ones like the UN Charter, Four Geneva Conventions...
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The Hurva synagogue was destroyed in the 1948 war by the Jordanian army. Before 1948, synagogues were used by Zionist underground forces for illicit activities including hording weapons.* But why is there a furor over building it again? First we must...
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SILWAN, EAST JERUSALEM, Mar 16, 2010 (IPS) - Three thousand heavily armed Israeli security service forces locked down large parts of the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday, as battalions of police fired rounds of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets...
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Pro-Census advocates argue that adding the word "ARAB" to the Census form might make many Arabs believe they will be easier targets for discrimination and profiling. They also argue that there is "no difference" between having the...
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The conventional wisdom in Washington ( and, perhaps, Jerusalem ) is that President Obama wants to blow up Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition. The current governing bloc includes Likud and a smattering of right-wing parties...
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It began with a short press release issued by the US embassy in Amman late last Thursday and has since mushroomed. The 20 words given about the topic were: "Vice President Biden met with civil society representatives to discuss preparations for the...
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Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty have it right here except where Wolf characterizes the shift in public opinion as "anti-Israel." It is not; it is against settlements and for peace and security for Israelis and Palestines. Even more, it is about...
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THE US TREASURY HAS IMPOSED SANCTIONS ON ANY COMPANY WITH TIES TO HAMAS' BANK OR TELEVISION BROADCAST STATION The US government has announced it will freeze any assets held by Islamic National Bank or Al-Aqsa Television, both of which are administered...
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At the annual Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, DC, Vice President Biden tested his comedic chops, Haaretz reports. Having just returned to his troubled visit to Israel, Biden ribbed on the trip the traditionally light-hearted...
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The Palestinian Authority has responded sharply to International Muslim Scholars Union director Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi 's call to "stone Palestinian Authority members if it can be proven that they collaborated with Israel in the Gaza war...
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Due to air March 28, "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" takes the Simpsons to Israel, Haaretz reports. In Israel, Bart and Homer visit the Western Wall with a tour guide voiced by Sascha Baron Cohen. Cohen caused quite a stir when he galavanted...
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PBS correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks to Washington Institute for Near East Policy senior fellow David Makovsky and News America Foundation Middle East Task Force co-director Amjad Atallah about the recent US-Israeli rift and what it means for future...
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Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouti speaks with the Los Angeles Times about the stalled peace process, strained US-Israeli relations, and unrest in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Excerpts from the interview follow: LA Times: We've...
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Most right-wingers claim to be great admirers of General David Petraeus. Bill Kristol has said that he's "America's man of the year." Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) says he is "an exceptionally smart and thoughtful man." House...
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It looks like any other shopping mall. Colorful window displays pull in patrons already overloaded with shopping bags, promotional stands selling mobile phones cater to customers searching for an upgrade and tired shoppers rejuvenate their intense outing...
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Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police continue Thursday, Al-Jazeera English reports. Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak ordered the closure of the West Bank lifted Wednesday, but his gesture has done little dissolve tensions. AJE reporter Nour...
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Fatah Central Committee member Mohammad Dahlan released a statement Wednesday calling on Hamas to join forces with Fatah to defend Muslim holy sites against Israeli occupation, reports Ynet News . Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh and Fatah/PA President Mahmoud...
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ISRAELI PRESIDENT TELLS EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF ASHTON THAT ISRAEL HAS 'EVERY RIGHT' TO BUILD IN JERUSALEM President Shimon Peres told visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton that Israel reserves the right to build in Jerusalem, Haaretz...
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Power-related fires in Khan Younis injured two civilians, including a child, and killed a third Wednesday night, Ma'an News Agency reports. The Israeli siege has kept homes from being rebuilt and keeps enough fuel for the Gaza power plant to run full...
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In spite Gaza's strangled economy, gold sellers in Gaza’s 600 year-old Qaisariya market are thriving, Lebanon's Daily Star reports. Weddings are among the main sources of gold demand. Grooms often use gold as part of the payments they make...
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UNRWA has published the third of a series of articles highlighting Palestinian refugees (or the children thereof) with exceptional success stories, reports the UNRWA website. This edition of “Seeds of Success,” released In celebration of the...
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Washington, DC-based NGO the Jerusalem Fund has honored the Committee for the Advancement of Arab Education in Haifa (CAAEH) as its grantee of the month for April. The organization advocates for prioritizing education for the city’s Arab. The CAAEH...
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Archaeologists have discovered a seventh-century Arab palace was discovered near the occupied Golan Heights, Al-Arabiya reports. Qasr al Bint ruins, Jordan The team, led by the University of Tel Aviv, said Tuesday that ruins on the shores of the Sea of...
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Had Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu been a superstitious man, he would have seen the breaking of a glass-framed ceremonial gift he was about to present to his esteemed US guest, Vice President Joe Biden, as ominous sign of bad things to come...
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Biden visit exposed Israeli settler truthsThis week the US saw Netanyahu's government in all its glorious stubborness-providing a clarity the peace process badly needs There was a moment of rare clarity this week for America's efforts to advance...
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Washington (CNN) -- The current flap over Israeli settlement construction in East Jerusalem is a real humdinger, but it isn't the worst moment in the history of U.S.-Israeli relations. The Suez Crisis (1956), Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's...
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Contrary to speculation that Hosni Mubarak died last week, the Egyptian President is still alive . Following a flurry of rumors that swept Egypt after a series of confusingly worded press releases from the Egyptian government, new video was released of...
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IN THE WAKE OF JERUSALEM CLASHES, JORDAN'S MONARCH URGES THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO PROTECT JERUSALEM'S ARAB RESIDENTS Abdullah II, King of Jordan, has been quoted in Dubai's Khaleej Times saying: "Jerusalem is a red line and the...
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As Gaza's power plant continues to run at cut capacity, residents in the Gaza Strip look to generators, but Israel's siege means few can afford them, BBC reports. The Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip has crippled economic and social capacity...
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Israeli President Shimon Peres said Wednesday both the US and Israel want to see the tensions between them abate, reports Haaretz . Said Peres to a group of high school students: "We have deep respect for [U.S.] parliamentary and executive institutions...
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On a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived in the West Bank Wednesday, Haaretz reports. Lula has since expressed his support for "Palestinian independence and for the creation of a Palestinian...
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As Palestinians and Israeli forces collide violently across the West Bank, Ma'an News Agency captures clashes at Beita, south of Nablus. In these skirmishes, Palestinians are most often armed only with rocks, the only weapons they can legally possess...
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Author Joel Schalit expresses his dismay about the Palestinian-Israeli peace process to Link TV . Author of Israel vs. Utopia , Schalit sheds light on the European viewpoint on the Middle East and peace process. The glass is half-empty for Schalit, but...
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New York congressional representative Anthony Weiner adds his voice to the din lecturing the Obama administration for its strongly worded response to Israel's part in the peace talk breakdown, writes Ben Smith for Politico . US Congressman Anthony...
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ISRAEL ATTEMPTS TO MITIGATE UNREST AMONG PALESTINIANS AS OBAMA ATTEMPTS TO MITIGATE DAMAGE TO US-ISRAELI RELATIONSHIP Israel has lifted the closure on the West Bank and pulled its access restrictions on Al-Aqsa compound, Haaretz reports. The announcement...
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In less than forty-eight hours, U.S.-Israel relations went from "unbreakable," according to Vice President Joe Biden, to "perilous," as ascribed to an "unnamed senior U.S. official." This drastic mood swing risks overshadowing...
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The diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlements is going into its second week and there is no sign that either side is backing down. It started when the Israeli government announced that it would expand settlements in East Jerusalem while Vice President...
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Hundreds of Palestinians in east Jerusalem set garbage bins ablaze and hurled rocks at Israeli riot police Tuesday. The heaviest clashes in months broke out as an American envoy abruptly canceled a visit, deepening a US-Israeli diplomatic feud.