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If negotiations are out the UN will be in
When US Secretary of State John Kerry first tackled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in late March, he made a serious request of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas: In order to give talks a chance, pledge to temporarily refrain from bringing Israel before the International Criminal Court or taking unilateral actions at the UN. By early April, reports surfaced that Abbas had ...
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North Korea Ruler Distributes Hitlers Mein Kampf
North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to his top officials on the occasion of his birthday celebration last January, urging them to study it as a leadership skills manual, according to a report ...
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Hezbollah fights rebels near Damascus NGO
BEIRUT--Fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah joined Syrian troops battling rebels near Damascus on Wednesday, monitors said, as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime kept up a push to cut off the insurgents' supply ...
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Feds 2 upstate NY men tried to make X-ray weapon so they could secretly harm Israel foes
ALBANY, N.Y. - Federal authorities on Wednesday accused two upstate New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel. Prosecutors said 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight have been charged with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists following a yearlong undercover investigation. Investigators ...
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Lapid criticizes ally Bennett on Palestinian state
Finance Minister Yair Lapid issued rare criticism of his ally, Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday when he said that Israel should make every effort to bring about two states for two peoples.Bennett made waves when he declared ...
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Dagan Arab peace proposal a starting point
Meir Dagan, the former head of the Mossad, said that Israel first needs to make peace with the rest of the Arab world before the Palestinians. He said that the Arab world was in open conflict between Sunnis and Shi'ites and that this is "creating unique opportunities for Israel to seek different alliances." He noted that Israel has common interests with much of the Sunni Arab ...
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Interview with a vampire
With Turkey embroiled in month-long anti-government protests, Istanbul resident Peter Murphy has only been able to watch the events in Taksim Square unfold from afar.The British-born Goth rock pioneer who founded '80s post-punk favorites Bauhaus has been on the road in the US throughout the uprising, and has been forced to rely on information from his family and friends back in ...
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Peres confers Medal of Distinction on Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton the 42nd President of the United States of America is known to be an emotional human being. He has been the recipient of numerous accolades both at home and abroad, but he does not take his arsenal of honors for granted. Thus when President Shimon Peres conferred the Presidential Medal of Distinction on him on Wednesday in recognition for he has done for humanity at ...
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The Kosovo case Punishing friends rewarding enemies
The monument is of the most perfect simplicity. A plain, upright marble slab.In Albanian, Serbian, Hebrew and English it records the site as the ground where the last synagogue in Pristina stood. In Kosovo, the Jewish presence is small, but has been constant since the fateful day in 1492 when the Catholic monarchs of Spain ordered the expulsion of Jews. Many settled in the Balkans, living ...
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Kerry Makes Fifth Visit to Israel
US Secretary of State John Kerry leaves Friday on a 12-day trip during which he will return to the Middle East, hold high-level talks in Southeast Asia and make his first visit to India. At the start of his seven-nation tour, Kerry will head first for Doha to meet with top Qatari leaders and take part in a meeting of the core ministers from the Friends of Syria group, State Department ...
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Arab Israeli village shocked after hate crime
View Photo AFP/Ahmad Gharabli - An Arab Israeli man points to Hebrew graffiti that reads "Arabs out" (L) and "assimliation" (R), a negative reference to Jews and non-Jews mixing, on the wall of a house in the Arab ...
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PM Netanyahu meets Canadian FM Baird
We cannot accept anything less than: 1. A total cessation of all enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels. 2. The removal from Iran of all enriched nuclear material. 3. The closure of Iran's illicit nuclear facilities. PM Netanyahu meets Canadian FM John Baird We cannot let Iran ride out the clock through endless talks. Iran must comply with UN Security Council resolutions. ...
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PM Netanyahu meets with Cisco Chairman and CEO John T. Chambers
PM Netanyahu meets with Cisco Chairman and CEO John T. Chambers (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning (Wednesday, 19 June 2013), met with Cisco Chairman and CEO John T. Chambers. Also participating in the meeting were Prime Minister's Office Director General Harel Locker, Israel National Cyber Bureau (INCB) head Dr. ...
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Israel To Seek US-Backed Loan for Mega Arms Deal
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: the idea is to devout incredible resources for a second squadron of F-35Is - a platform whose very justification of existence is predicated on the working assumption that in the coming decades no one is going to come up with a gizmo that facilitates identifying, targeting and shooting down what at this time is hard to pick up using instruments now deployed in the ...
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Lebanese Men Accused of Terrorism Sue Nigeria for $25 Million
ABUJA, NIGERIA -- Four Lebanese men accused of being Hezbollah members remain imprisoned in Nigeria after a court dismissed weapons and terrorism related charges against them on a technicality. The men are suing the government for nearly $25 million for unlawful detention, but lawyers say the government also may present new charges Friday in a higher court. This story started in May with a ...
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Israeli intel Hamas using Qatar as base to plot terror strikes
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV -- Israel’s intelligence community has determined that Qatar was serving as an operational base for Hamas. Officials said the intelligence community has tracked an increasing number of Hamas operations to Qatar. They said the Hamas presence in the Gulf Cooperation Council emirate, which included much of the political bureau, has led to initiatives ...
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Hizbollahs opponents raise the stakes in Sidon
BEIRUT // A shooting by gunmen loyal to a controversial Salafist sheikh in the southern Lebanese town of Sidon on Tuesday left one man dead and several wounded, officials said. The shooting by armed men loyal to Sheikh Ahmed Al Assir, who is fiercely opposed to the Shiite Hizbollah movement, took place in Abra, a suburb of Sidon, the security source said. "The shooting by armed men led to ...
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Ex-South African Israel ambassador likens Bedouin treatment to apartheid
A former South African ambassador to Israel has invited the fury of the Israeli government by describing its treatment of the country's Palestinian Bedouin community as akin to ...
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Chinese Fund to offer scholarships to Chinese students at Technion
The Chinese Hanqing International Education Foundation signed an agreement with the Technion this week stating that it will offer scholarships in the amount of $8 million to Chinese students who study at the Technion.The agreement, which is valid for 20 years, was signed in the presence of Mayor of Haifa Yona Yahav, Technion President Professor Peretz Lavie, Chinese businessman Zhao Hanqing, and ...
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Yaalon Iran should be forced to choose between nuclear weapons or survival
Defense minister calls on international community to increase pressure on Iran; says Israel examining new developments in Tehran in light of presidential election results; adds that Syria's war is "nearing our ...
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Entrepreneurs launch initiate for Palestinian future
RAMALLAH - Young Palestinians who are fed up with the existing leaders' attempts to establish an independent Palestinian state launched their own initiative designed to give the young people a voice in determining the Palestinian future.Several Palestinian entrepreneurs launched NEWpal, a youth group based in this city, which got started this week by hosting a full day "Future ...
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Dementia will be bigger world plague than AIDS
AIDS, which affects millions of patients around the world, is a relatively minor plague compared to the epidemic of dementia -- especially Alzheimer's disease -- that will occur around the world in the coming decades, Prof. Richard Frackowiak, the director of the department of clinical neuroscience and head of the neurology service at CHUV University Hospital in Lausanne and co-director of ...
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Egyptian Program to Spread Blood-Curdling Genocidal Fantasies
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon the Obama Administration to publicly pressure the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood-backed regime of Mohammed Morsi to cancel the broadcast of a viciously anti-Semitic television series that is due to air in July during Ramadan and to cancel its distribution in the Arab world. The television series, Khayber, celebrates the victory of ...
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Teva exec Israels IP tax regime is costing it billions
"We have not asked for any tax benefit from anyone in the government in relation to registration of intellectual property for Teva. We have had an open dialogue with the government for three years on the tax regime, because we think that the tax rules on intellectual property cause Israel damage in the billions of shekels. This is because it encourages companies, both foreign and Israeli, ...
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Israel marks national science day
Accra, June 19, GNA - The State of Israel has marked its National Science Day with lectures by professors in the most unlikely ...
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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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