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Syrian army Hezbollah sweep into key rebel city
Hezbollah fighters of a contested city Monday after some of the civil war's most intense fighting. The opposition Syrian National Coalition warned of an "impending massacre" and called for an emergency Arab League session after the Syrian and Hezbollah fighters pushed into parts of the western Syrian city of Qusayr, the hub of an important supply route for rebels fighting Syrian ...
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Israel is worlds largest exporter of drones Report
Israel is the world's largest exporter of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in terms of number of systems sold, earning a whopping USD 4.6 billion in sales during the last eight years, excluding a major deal with India for the upgrade of unmanned aircrafts, according to a study by a business consulting firm. Frost & Sullivan business consulting firm in a study have noted that UAVs, or ...
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PMW Bulletin UNRWA rejects PMW report exposing map erasing Israel
PMW Bulletin May 17, 2013 False claim by UNRWA in response to PMW report: Map without Israel that official posed with does not represent today but "pre-1948" Palestine UNRWA's name still appears in logo of youth center that currently glorifies suicide bomber on its Facebook page Israeli representative to the UN cites PMW's UNRWA story in complaint to UN ...
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Hezbollah MP Iran-Saudi Arabia behind vote law deadlock
Hezbollah’s MP Kamel al-Rifai blamed the lack of Saudi-Iranian understanding for Lebanon's inability to form a government and for the current deadlock over reaching an agreement between the rival politicians on an electoral law for the upcoming elections, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa reported on ...
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Iran Tightening Control of the Internet as Elections Loom
on Sunday. The regime is mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired after the last elections over claims of fraud, the report said. The authorities deny such claims, but have not explained exactly why service has become slower. Businesses, banks and even state organizations are not spared by the widespread disruption in the Internet, local media say. "The Internet ...
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Morsi Rejects Negotiations with Bedouin Kidnappers
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday barred negotiations with the kidnappers of three policemen and four soldiers who appeared to plead for their release in an online ...
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EU Postpones Plan to Label Settlement Products
The European Union has postponed plans to introduce separate labeling for products from Israeli communities in Judea, Samaria and eastern ...
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Scenery of Israels el-Wad Cave
Sites of human evolution at Mount Carmel, including the caves of Tabun, Jamal, el-Wad and Skhul, were recognized as World Heritage Site by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in ...
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France Seeks to Buy Drones from Israel
France is in talks with the United States and Israel to buy intelligence-gathering drones, the country’s Defense Minister said on Sunday. "We need this capacity in the short term. There are currently two countries in the world that build drones, the United States and Israel," Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told ...
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More Israeli attacks inside Syria possible Israel
/enpproperty--> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging action to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. Although Israel has not publicly taken sides in the civil war between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels trying to topple him, Western and Israeli sources say ...
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Protesting Egyptian police close Israeli border
Egyptian police on Sunday blocked their Awja border with Israel in protest of the abduction of several of their colleagues by suspected Israeli militants on ...
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Fresh Israeli Face Plays Down Political Decline
An avowed centrist, Mr. Lapid nevertheless took a hard line on policy toward the Palestinians, the issue that has defined Israeli politics for decades but that was overshadowed by domestic concerns in the recent campaign. He said that Israel should not change its policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank in order to revive the stalemated peace process, and that Jerusalem should not serve as ...
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Lens Blog Israeli Report Casting New Doubts on Shooting in Gaza
JERUSALEM -- The images seen around the world were shocking: a young boy being shot dead as he crouched behind his father at a dusty junction in Gaza in September 2000. But the facts behind the images have been disputed almost from the start, and on Sunday, the Israeli government asserted that there was no evidence for the original account of the event, which was that the boy was hit by Israeli ...
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Israel favors interim deal with Palestinians
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at the current time and the sides should instead pursue an interim ...
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Intertwined fates The Lebanon-Syria-Iran axis
The instability rocking Syria has caused three critical security arenas - Lebanon, Syria and Iran - to become more closely intertwined than ever before.As has been widely reported, Hezbollah, acting on Iranian orders, has mobilized a significant portion of its fighting force to Syria to help secure a turnaround for the regime of President Bashar ...
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Palestinian lost speech ability after PA torture
A Palestinian man who was detained by the Palestinian Authority security forces in Hebron has lost the ability to speak as a result of severe torture, according to a report released by the Independent Commission for Human Rights.Mohamed Abdel Karim Dar of Hebron was hospitalized after being tortured while in detention, the report, which documented 28 cases of torture in PA prisons in the ...
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Jamal Al-Dura Israeli Report was Fabricated
a report by an Israeli investigative committee which determined that allegations that the IDF killed his son were untrue, and that his son may not even be dead. Speaking ...
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Assad Hezbollah forces advance into Qusair
Hezbollah fighters have reportedly advanced into the main square of besieged Qusair, with fierce battles continuing overnight Monday for control of the strategic city near the Lebanese border. At least 40 people were killed, activist organizations said, in battles that saw forces loyal to ...
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South Korea deploys Israeli Spike missiles
South Korea has deployed to its western frontline islands the Israeli-made Spike missiles capable of launching precision strikes on North Korea's coastal artillery pieces hidden in mountain caves and tunnels, Seoul officials said Sunday. "We have recently deployed scores of Spike missiles and vehicles to carry them to the border islands including Bangnyeongdo and Yeonpyeongdo," ...
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Tunisia 1 Dead in Clashes Between Security Forces and Salafists
reported. The clashes took place after local authorities banned extremist Salafists from staging their annual congress. The confrontations infuriated moderate Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, who for the first time linked the Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group, which is considered close to Al-Qaeda, to "terrorism". "Ansar al-Sharia is an illegal organization which defies and ...
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Rabbi Mertzbachs Family Jewish Blood Will Not be Ignored
. The tragic event took place in the early morning hours of November 11, 2011. IDF soldiers in the south Hevron area were placed on alert and told to watch out for a Skoda-type car and stop it. The video shows the soldiers setting up a roadblock, but the Skoda can be seen passing them, apparently without being noticed. Fifteen seconds later, Rabbi Mertzbach's car appears. The IDF ...
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Netanyahu says further strikes on Syria a possibility
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu: "The Israeli government is acting in a responsible and measured way". Reuters/Ronen ...
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Israelis Targeted by Rock Throwers in Northern Israel
A group of Israelis was targeted by rock-throwing Arab youths in the northern Israel city of Nazareth Illit during the holiday of Shavuot last week, proving that rock terrorism is not only a problem for Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria. Yossi Farber, a resident of the city, ...
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Senior Hizbullah Official Killed in Syria Fighting
that dozens of Hizbullah members were wounded during the fight and had been taken to hospitals in Beirut, Lebanon for treatment. The Hizbullah official who was killed is Fady al-Jazzar, according ...
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Egypt-Israel border blocked in support of kidnapped soldiers
Egyptian police climb the gates at the main Egyptian crossing point into the Gaza Strip on May 19, 2013. Egyptian police closed a commercial passage with Israel in support of colleagues who shut down a crossing with Gaza to protest the abduction of policemen, state media reported. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty ...
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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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