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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Jason Reed / Reuters Differences within parties not just between them 01/11/2012 01:46 Analysis: There won't be territorial breakthrough during US election year and the debates are for policymakers only. After 16 months of no negotiations, Israeli...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
Disagreements have already emerged in nascent negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, an Israeli official said Tuesday, but he said his government remains committed to a year-end target to reaching a final peace deal.
The...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
Israel stepped up settlement building in the West Bank in the first nine months of last year, an Israeli watchdog group said Tuesday, underlining the issue that has deadlocked peace talks with the Palestinians.
The anti-settlement group...
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Canada.com
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama will host Jordan's King Abdullah II on January 17 and discuss "our shared goal of a negotiated peace between Israel and the Palestinians," the White House said on Tuesday. The announcement came after Washington praised the...
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Examiner
| over 1 year ago
Krishna is on an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. India's foreign minister says his country will step up cooperation with Israel in a common battle against terrorism...Krishna says the visit is intended to "work out a...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| over 1 year ago
Less ideology, more pragmatic centrism Likud, Lieberman, Kadima, Labor, Lapid, Shas, Deri, Meretz. The red columns simulate elections in which Tzipi Livni is the head of Kadima, the blue columns simulate election in which Shaul Mofaz is the head of...
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Haaretz
| over 1 year ago
Israel started construction work on 1,850 new housing units in the West Bank in 2011, a 19 percent rise from a year earlier, an Israeli settlement watchdog said Tuesday. Peace Now attributed the rise to a partial, 10-month moratorium on new...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators met Monday in Jordan for their second meeting in a week aimed at finding a way to get back to peace talks after a hiatus of more than 15 months, officials said. "At our second meeting today we continued our efforts...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Seven years have passed since Mahmoud Abbas was elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority, and many Palestinians appear to be as confused as ever regarding their leader's true intentions. Abbas ran in the January 2005...
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Israel National News
| over 1 year ago
Israeli negotiator Yitzchak Molcho met with PA negotiator Saeb Erekat in Amman...This was the second meeting between the two since talks were revived several weeks ago. Another meeting is set to take place over the weekend, sources in the Israeli...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| over 1 year ago
Breaking News Israeli representative Yitzhak Molko and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat have concluded their meeting in Amman, Jordan. The first round of talks in the latest effort to restart the peace process took place last week and was...
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Israel National News
| over 1 year ago
Battling rumors that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is planning to offer Barak a reserved spot as one of the top members of the Likud list, Danon suggested that Barak instead join the new party being started by now-former Channel 2 talk show host...
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Zee News
| over 1 year ago
Following a debate in the Knesset parliament, the new bill garnered the support of 21 cabinet ministers while eight voted against it, Xinhua reported. "This is a historic decision that changes the order of priorities. (The year) 2012 is the year of...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told his Likud faction Monday that Independence Party chairman Ehud Barak will not be on the Likud's Knesset slate in the next election. When asked about the matter by MK Tzipi Hotovely, Netanyahu said "Despite the...
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Arab News
| over 1 year ago
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman dismissed newly rekindled diplomatic contacts with the Palestinians on Monday, accusing them of poor faith in peacemaking. Firing back as Israeli and Palestinian envoys prepared a second round of the low-key...
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Haaretz
| over 1 year ago
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday that that "the Palestinians are preparing the ground" to blame the failure of peace talks on Israel. Speaking at the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Lieberman said that "as...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Palestinians have been downplaying significance of second round of direct talks since Jordanians renewed channel last week; officials in Ramallah say they don't expect current talks to achieve a breakthrough. Israeli and Palestinian officials are...
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Globes Online
| over 1 year ago
11, Lilach Weissman Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu achieved a majority in the cabinet today to approve the law granting free education to Israeli schoolchildren from the age of three...Israel Beitenu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Atzmaut...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
When I was a student at the Hebrew University a lecturer in journalism told our class that one day we would be invited to a cocktail party and think to ourselves: Oh, no...Despite the warning, I was vaguely surprised several years later when a visit...
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Ynet News
| over 1 year ago
Top political adviser Dennis Ross called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday to formulate a way for the Palestinian economy to integrate in Area C of the West Bank in a manner that would help the PA's situation without compromising Israel's...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
A new report by Israeli experts with tougher guidelines for negotiations on abducted soldiers is a turnabout for the country that recently freed 1,027 prisoners for one soldier, analysts said Friday. "The Shamgar Committee report on the issue of...
