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Hezbollah in big Syria battle Obama concerned
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas have fought their biggest battle yet for Syria's beleaguered president, prompting international alarm that the civil war may spread and an urgent call for restraint from the United ...
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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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Hezbollahs heading for sectarian showdown
Hezbollah has taken heavy losses while backing regime forces in Syria, heightening concerns the Shiite movement's heading for a showdown with Sunni ...
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Syrian Rebels Suffer Setbacks From Fighting in Town Near Lebanon Border
TRIPOLI, LEBANON -- Syrian government troops backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement have been in fierce battles in the rebel-held town of Qusair after weeks of fighting. Many wounded rebels are being treated across the nearby border in northern Lebanon. Eighteen year-old Obeida Abdel Nabi is recovering from a shrapnel wound to his lower abdomen. He was hurt several days ago ...
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Erekat throws his weight behind Kerrys bid to revive talks
Chief negotiator tells UN in New York settlement freeze, release of prisoners not conditions to resume talks, but obligations Israel must fulfill; says Palestinians exerting "every possible effort" to ensure ...
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Min. to add 1000 kindergarten assistant jobs
The Education Ministry plans to open between 600 to 1,000 additional kindergarten assistant positions for three- and four-year-olds, Education Minister Shai Piron announced Monday morning at a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee.The positions will be dedicated to people completing their national service.During the meeting, which was aimed at formulating objectives ...
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Activists say 30 Hezbollah fighters Syrians killed
AMMAN - About 30 fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar Assad were killed in heavy fighting with rebels in the town of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday.Opposition sources and state media gave sharply differing accounts of the outcome of Sunday's ferocious battles in the town, long used by rebels as a supply ...
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Syrian rebels target Hezbollah militia
NEW: Obama stresses his concern to the Lebanese president over Hezbollah's "active and growing role" Across Syria, at least 62 people have died in violence Monday, opposition says Qusayr is strategically valuable to rebels and government forces Israeli vehicle reportedly seized; Israel calls claim "cheap ...
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Iran Hangs Spies Accused Of Providing Information To CIA Israel
Iran is a dangerous place for anyone who might even be remotely in contact with foreign countries. That danger was clearly demonstrated over the ...
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Syria Hezbollah in front line of battle for town held by rebels
Funnels of dirty grey smoke erupted silently from the centre of Qusayr, followed seconds later by the ground-shaking thump of exploding artillery shells. The Syrian army and Lebanese Hezbollah militants pressed on yesterday with a gruelling offensive to capture the strategic rebel-held town just five miles inside Syria from Lebanon's northern border in the Bekaa Valley. Qusayr ...
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Gaza father offer to exhume son after Israel damns film
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Israel No evidence Palestinian boy in infamous photo killed by IDF
By Martin Fletcher, Correspondent, NBC News TEL AVIV, Israel - It is an extraordinary image that became a global symbol of Palestinian victimhood at the hands of the Israelis: A 12-year-old old boy cowering behind his father moments before he was killed during a gunbattle in Gaza.But a new Israeli government report out on Sunday asserts that there is no evidence that the child, Mohammed al-Dura, ...
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Kerry announces new anti-Semitism envoy
Ira Forman, who led President Obama's reelection campaign in the Jewish community, was appointed as the State Department's envoy to combat anti-Semitism. US Secretary of State Kerry made the announcement as he released the 2012 International Religious Freedom Report.The State Department announced the appointment on Monday -- the same day it released its 2012 report on religious freedom ...
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Activists Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria
AMMAN/BEIRUT - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday.Sunday's reported death toll was the highest for Hezbollah in a single day's conflict in Syria, highlighting the increasing intervention by ...
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Storming the Bastille of Israel’s religious bureaucracy
This past Sunday, a press conference was held in Jerusalem which may yet come to signify the start of a revolutionary change in the provision of religious services in the Jewish state.Speaking to reporters, Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett and Deputy Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan announced a series of long-overdue reforms that will, for the first time, introduce elements such as ...
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An aliya reunion 40 years and going strong
I am not a person who frequents weekend seminars and group events, so it was with some trepidation that last week I attended a reunion of ex-British olim, mostly, but not exclusively, who had come to Israel in the 1970s and 1980s and had been friends and acquaintances in the Bnei Akiva movement in the UK during that period.A small group, some 20-plus couples, assembled for a Shabbat at a ...
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Social protests A redux
Last Saturday night, thousands of Tel Avivians took to the streets in a repeat of the 2011 social protests that captivated both the nation and international media, but which garnered few tangible results.At that time, makeshift tent "cities" were erected throughout Tel Aviv, most prominently on the posh Rothschild Boulevard, to protest social and economic inequality, particularly ...
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No holds barred Was the Holocaust punishment for sin
Do those who argue that European Jewry were nearly wiped out by God as a consequence of sin really believe they are doing God a favor with this ...
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Jordan’s king trying to play on Israel’s fears
Jordan's King Abdullah II is in trouble.Protests against him have been continuous for over two years now, and the theme of toppling the king has become well-established, as confirmed by Al Jazeera, The Independent and other media sources.To add to the king's woes, both his Palestinian majority and the formerly loyal East Bankers have joined forces against him. This has sent shock ...
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Report US Apologized to Israel for Leak
The United States has apologized for leaking information about Israel's alleged attack on a convoy of weapons in Syria bound for Hizbullah terrorists several weeks ago. According to reports that appeared in the Jerusalem Post over the weekend, the "leak" about the U.S. leak came from an Israel Radio correspondent, who listed details of the leak, and the apology. The tweet came ...
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Palestine-Israel peace pressing Qatar
He made no mention, however, of the Arab League's acceptance last month that Israelis and Palestinians may have to swap land in any peace deal, to allow Jewish settlements in occupied territory to become part of ...
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Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war
BEIRUT (AP) -- Hezbollah was pulled more deeply into Syria's civil war as 28 guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite militant group were killed and dozens more wounded while fighting rebels, Syria activists said ...
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World Brief | Middle East Gunman Kills Four in Bank in Southern Israel
An unemployed former security guard shot and killed four people in a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Monday hours after the bank had refused his request for financial assistance, the police said. The gunman committed suicide after holing up in the bathroom of the bank with a female hostage for about an hour. The hostage escaped unharmed. The gunman, who lived nearby, had ...
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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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