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Kerry Israelis Palestinians nearing crunch time
Israeli and Palestinian leaders must decide soon on whether to revive long-dormant peace negotiations to end their decades-old conflict, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday.Ending two days of meetings in the region, Kerry said he had had "very productive" talks. But there were no obvious signs of any breakthrough, with neither side offering the sort of compromises needed to ...
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Revealed Olmerts peace offer to the Palestinians in 2008
Former prime minister Olmert says he blames Livni and Barak for breakdown of negotiations with Palestinians; magazine obtains map sketched by Abbas with offered Israeli territorial ...
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Hamas Israel poisoned Gaza patients with gas
Hamas Health Minister Mofeed al-Mokhalalati accused Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients in Gaza by providing the hospitals in the Strip carbon monoxide gas posing as nitrous gas, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday.Four Palestinian patients were reportedly poisoned by the carbon monoxide ...
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Rule of Law Israel’s legal headache
Does throwing African migrants in detention centers for three years without standard legal proceedings violate international law? Or is it just enforcement of Israel's sovereign right to maintain border ...
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Infrastructure Smart customers seek smart grids
At Tel Aviv conference, experts hail smart grids as future of energy management as solutions to conserving energy and money for households and ...
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New book Could Germany have a Jewish chancellor
BERLIN - A new novel about a neo-Nazi plot to assassinate Germany's first Jewish candidate for Chancellor has shed a timely light on the right-wing extremist violence that has plagued the country since 1990 and was swept under the carpet for years.Political ...
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Column One Thank you Hafez Assad
The threats emanating from Syria have become downright frightening. For the past several days, Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan has been warning repeatedly that it is certain that Israeli population centers will be hit by Syrian ballistic missiles and that we have to be prepared for the worst-case scenarios, including Scud missile-launched chemical weapons attacks on Israel's ...
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Into the Fray Can the people trust the government
- Bertrand Russell, 1950 This week, almost a decade and a half after the Muhammad al-Dura incident at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip, the government of Israel has taken a stand, rebuting responsibility for the death of the then-12 year old Palestinian ...
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Savirs Corner Syrian reconstruction
Inside Asia . Since its independence in 1946, Syria has been a theater of confrontation between ethnic and religious groups and a battlefield for outside Arab powers to gain influence in the socalled "mother of Arab nationalism."Syria has been governed since 1971 by the Alawite minority that constitutes only 10 percent of its population. The Assads - father and son - while ...
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My Word The signs and the songs
When I was a boy World was better spot.What was so was so, What was not was not.Now I am a man; World have changed a lot.Some things nearly so, Others nearly not. "WHICH SIDE do you support?" asked a reader recently, inadvertently summing up precisely my dilemma. It has become a matter of "sides" and a "battle" - and I don't think there can be any victors ...
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Israel to Issue Tenders for Two New Ports by July
Yisrael Katz, Israel's transportation minister, has announced that tenders for the construction and operation of two new ports will be issued by July ...
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Netanyahu Firm on Syrian Threat to Tel Aviv
that Syrian President Bashar Assad is preparing to use missiles against Tel Aviv if Israel strikes Damascus. Netanyahu countered that Israel will continue to thwart efforts by Syria to ship weapons to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon. "Our policies are to stop, as much as possible, any leaks of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations. We will ...
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Israel Warns Of Imminent War
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's military, struggling with a shooting war withSyria, has warned of an imminent multi-front conflict. Israel Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel issued one of thestarkest warnings of an imminent war that could include Hizbullah and ...
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Loyalty marketing solution co LoyalBlocks raises $9m
LoyalBlocks , which develops loyalty marketing solutions for small businesses, has closed a $9 million series A round of financing led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from Founder Collective and existing ...
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Google joins race to buy Waze - report
Waze Ltd. . The entry of Google is likely to spark off a bidding war with sources at Facebook already suggesting that talks for the acquisition are for $1 billion. "Bloomberg" reports that, "Waze is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties and is seeking more than $1 billion, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private." ...
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Agricultural Charity Gives Aid to Israels Poor
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Almost two million Israelis live below the poverty level, including more than a third of the country's children. However, one charity is using a biblical principle to fill in the ...
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Two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict slipping away says Hague
William Hague visits E1, the site of a proposed Israeli settlement, during a brief trip to Jerusalem and Ramallah. Photograph: Mahmoud ...
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Kerry says talks with Israel Palestinians very productive
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders are nearing crunch time, when they must decide whether to revive long-dormant peace negotiations to end their decades-old conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on ...
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Kerry says focus should be on peace talks not settlements but seeks Israeli restraint
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, Israel, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The US and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from Kerry's two-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. (AP Photo/Jim Young, ...
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Hague Israel Losing Support in UK Over Settlements
Occupied Jerusalem, May 24 (BNA) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who is currently visiting Israel, said in an interview with Sky News that Israel has lost some support in Britain and in other European countries due to its settlement construction policy. He warned that the window of opportunity for Israel and the Palestinians to agree to form a two-state solution was closing fast, ...
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Insect invasion Israel battles plague of locusts
By Dave Copeland, Cameraman, NBC News TEL AVIV - Israel’s Negev Desert is alive – with locusts.Huge swarms of the newly hatched critters have begun marching across the sand, devouring everything in their path.With the help of high-tech irrigation methods, much of Israel’s desert has been transformed into lush farmland that supplies supermarkets across the country with fresh ...
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Iran denies it has forces in Syria
Tehran withdraw its fighters from Syrian territory. "The true enemies of Syria make up these accusations to provoke the people of this country," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi said, quoted by Iranian state television. At a meeting in Jordan on Thursday, the Friends of Syria grouping of Western and Arab governments called for the immediate withdrawal from Syria of Iranian ...
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Syrian Rebels Continue To Clash With Hezbollah-Backed Forces
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. Today was the fifth day in the battle for Qusayr, a small Syrian city, population normally about 30,000, that lies close to the ...
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Kerry Initiative can create breakthrough in peace process
In a meeting with British Secretary of State Hague, President Peres says that though the process to renewing Palestinian-Israeli talks is long and hard, it is important to note positive developments in the ...
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Hague Israel losing support in UK because of settlements
After Steinitz questions whether Britain is still a friend of Israel, British foreign secretary says settlement activity causing support for Israel to wane in UK, other European ...
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Biggest construction project in Israeli history
The Port of Ashdod is the gateway to the economy of Israel, it has played a central role in the development of the state and will play a central role in future development, hence the reason for an ambitious $500 million expansion project currently underway in two stages (in the picture, green represents stage 1 and brown stage 2).
The Port of Ashdod is currently undergoing the largest construction project ever undertaken in the history of Israel. In 1999, Israel news media reported that the government wanted to double the cargo capacity of Ashdod, an ambitious construction project was therefore envisioned, involving the building of new piers, new docks, warehouses and cargo handling equipment. It was to take place in two stages, with the total project costing around $500 million. Read more
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