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Father of shot Gaza boy disputes Israel report
The father of a Palestinian boy shot dead in Gaza in 2000 said Monday he was willing to have his son exhumed to disprove an Israeli report denying he was killed by Israeli ...
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Steinitz Al-Dura probe will spur honest Israel coverage
revelations in the al-Dura case will discourage the foreign press from forging stories about Israel in the future, Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday."Even if we should have looked into the incident long ago, it was important to finish the investigation so that it would deter international media organizations that ...
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Kuperwaser defends gov’t findings on al-Dura’s death
government report published Sunday that claimed that IDF fire did not kill or injure Muhammad al-Dura in 2000, the report's main author, Strategic Affairs Ministry director-general Brig.-Gen. (res) Yossi Kuperwaser, defended its findings on Monday.The 12-year-old al-Dura was allegedly killed, and his father Jamal injured, by IDF fire during the second intifada as he crouched behind his ...
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Rahat mayor seeks media apology for false report
mass murder in Beersheba on Monday to two residents of the city, and are asking for a public apology, Rahat Mayor Faiz Abu-Seheban said Monday."There is a lot of anger in the city because they blamed the city of Rahat and its residents for this despicable act that we condemn ...
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Lapid clarifies stance after NY Times interview
Yesh Atid favors an immediate return to peace talks toward a two-state solution, Finance Minister Yair Lapid clarified Monday.Lapid set off waves of opposition within his party and others, after saying settlement construction should not be frozen ahead of peace talks and Jerusalem will not be ...
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Analysis Words vs. pictures in al-Dura affair
Al-Dura says he is willing to exhume son's body After the piece - which showed favorable footage of Reagan over negative commentary - aired, Stahl did indeed receive a call from White House advisor Dick Darman. But he called to praise, not berate, her."Way to go, kiddo. What a great piece. We love it," he told the correspondent.Stahl, confused because her piece was highly ...
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EU Denies it is Postponing Labelling of Settlement Products
newspaper reported that the EU had delayed labelling the products to the end of June at the request of the United States. "Contrary to what was recently reported in the Israeli media, work on the effective enforcement of EU legislation with regard to the labelling of settlement products has not been delayed. Nor has the EU been asked to postpone such work," a statement said, according ...
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Concern over Hezbollahs growing role in Syria after fierce fighting in al-Quasir
Mourners carry the coffin of 18-year-old Hezbollah member Hasan Faisal Sheker after the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of ...
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Israel and Palestine Consequences of Deterrence
"Deterrence has to be maintained," said Gabi Siboni, a colonel for strategic affairs at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. "It was only a question of time until this moment arrived." It seems the Palestinians are of like mind. As things stand, this latest round of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was probably inevitable. Escalation and ...
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Mesika Why is the Blood of Those in Israel Proper Redder
Dozens of Arabs attacked the new community of Havat Gilad in Samaria on Monday afternoon. The Arabs gathered outside fenced-in fields next to the community, and were about to set the fields on fire. They were foiled by a community patrol, which arrived just seconds before they set fire to the fields. In response to the frustration of their plan, the Arabs began throwing stones at the patrol, ...
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Lapid I Wont Fall for Lefts Negotiating Mistakes
Although he never claimed to be one – and during the election campaign, took great strains to emphasize that he viewed the peace process in a radically different way than Labor's Shelly Yechimovich and Hatnua's Tzippy Livni, among others – leftists were still sorely disappointed with comments Finance Minister Yair Lapid made in an interview with ...
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When It Comes to Syria Israel Frequently Redrawing Red Lines
- Israel is being drawn into Syria’s quagmire as it threatens to act further on transfers of ';game-changing'; weapons to hostile protagonists involved in Syria’s civil war, be they Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, Jihadist Sunni rebels, or loyalist forces of President Bashar al ...
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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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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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