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Haaretz
| 11 months ago
Tensions have been rising over the past few days between Israel and Hezbollah following Israel's claim that the Shiite group was behind last week's suicide bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. It is also feared that the...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
A security video has captured the man believed to have carried out a suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers at Burgas International Airport. But investigators are now looking at the possibility that he had help. The CNN has quoted a...
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Novinite
| 11 months ago
The situation in Syria is the tensest since unrest against the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad started early 2011, with heavy fighting now going on in capital Damascus. At the same time, Wednesday a suicide bombing in the Bulgarian city of Burgas...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
The White House says Mr Obama "offered his support for the ongoing investigation, and for the Bulgarian people in this challenging time" during a telephone call with Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borissov. It says the two leaders discussed the "...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
Syrian government attempts to hands missiles or chemical weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Photo: IDF Spokesman's Office Israel is preparing for a possible military intervention in Syria in case the Syrian government hands missiles or chemical weapons...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
There are signs Lebanon's Hezbollah may have orchestrated a suicide bombing attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria this week, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday. The attack does bear some of the hallmarks of Hezbollah but we're not in a position to...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 11 months ago
The suicide bomber was acting under broad guidance to hit Israeli targets, an unnamed senior U.S. official told The New York Times. Other U.S. officials confirmed to the newspaper that the bomber was a member of Hezbollah. Theattacker, who killed...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 11 months ago
Funerals were held for Maor Harush, 25; Itzik Kolengi, 28; Amir Menashe, 28; Elior Priess, 26; and Kochava Shriki, 44, who was pregnant with her first child. Seventeen injured Israelis are still hospitalized across the country after being flown back...
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Ynet News
| 11 months ago
AFP US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro says Washington will assist Israel, Bulgaria in probe of Burgas terror attack; adds those responsible will be brought to justice Attila Somfalvi US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro commented Friday on the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
Pentagon spokesman George Little was quoted as saying by AFP on Friday that while the US was not prepared to say with certainty that the Israeli claims were true, there was evidence to that effect. "The attack does bear some of the hallmarks of...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 11 months ago
The way Obama managed the Israeli-Palestinian issue exhibited many of the hallmarks that have defined his first term, Scott Wilson wrote...But it foundered ultimately on his political and tactical misjudgments, on a lack of trusted relationships and...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
U.S. officials say that the suicide bomber who attacked Israeli tourists in Bulgaria is a member of a Hezbollah cell operating in the country, the New York Times reported Thursday. It added that the cell's task was to look for Israeli targets. One...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
US officials say the suicide bomber who targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria this week was part of a Hezbollah cell, the New York Times reported, after Israel made similar allegations. The Times on Thursday cited two US officials as saying that...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 11 months ago
Lebanon, Jordan and Israel would benefit if Syria's new leadership ceases to provide a conduit for arms and assistance from Iran to terrorist groups in Lebanon and along the Israeli border, such as Hezbollah, officials and analysts said...Gvosdev...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
That's why I'm running for a second term," Obama said yesterday in his campaign speech in West Palm Beach, Florida. "One of the ways we can do it is instead of giving tax breaks to companies that are shipping jobs overseas, let's give tax breaks to...
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Asia Times Online
| 11 months ago
It also speculates that the closely timed attack against Israeli tourists in Bourghas, Bulgaria, which cost seven lives, may have been an Iranian warning to the West not to be excluded from negotiations over the Syrian transition. Whether or not...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Jean Kahwagi said the military is primed for defense following Israeli threats in the wake of the suicide attack against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria. In a meeting with senior Lebanese Army officers in Yarze Thursday, Kahwagi stressed the need to be...
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Novinite
| 11 months ago
American intelligence assessment was that the bomber, who struck Wednesday, killing five Israelis, had been "acting under broad guidance" to hit Israeli targets when opportunities presented themselves, and that the guidance had been given to...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
The five victims have been identified as Kochava Shriki, 42, from Rishon Lezion; Itzik Colangi, 28, and Amir Menashe, 28, both from Petah Tikva; and Elior Price, 26, and Maor Harush, 25, both from Acre. In a brief statement he delivered to the nation...
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Novinite
| 11 months ago
The Economist THE image of a blackened bus , its roof blown off , its walls and floor soiled with blood, casts every adult Israeli back a decade to 2001-3 , the worst years of the Palestinians' second intifada (uprising). Then, a sustained wave of...
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Israel National News
| 11 months ago
Over Bulgaria Attack Israel filed a complaint with the UN Security Council on Thursday, following the terror attack in Bulgaria which claimed the lives of five Israelis. Haim Waxman, Israel's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, wrote in the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
US president condemns "ruthless terrorist attack," touts record of strengthening Israel during his term in office. US President Barack Obama cited the "ruthless" suicide bus attack in Bulgaria and upheaval in Syria as reasons to fortify support for...
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The Courier-Mail
| 11 months ago
US President Barack Obama has told voters his nation's staunch support for Israel is not up for partisan. As he hit the campaign trail in swing state Florida, Obama reiterated his condemnation for what he called the "barbaric" bomb attack on a bus...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Even before the blast in Bulgaria, intelligence officials were seeing signs of a dangerous escalation in what had until recently been a campaign of covert, tit-for-tat strikes targeting diplomats and inside Iran nuclear scientists . Earlier this...
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Haaretz
| 11 months ago
Design by Roni Arie Accelerated by cotendo Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East. Haaretz.com provides extensive and in-depth coverage of Israel, the Jewish World and the Middle...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
President Obama on Thursday said strategic cooperation between the United States and Israel has never been closer, as he defended his handling of the key Mideast alliance in advance of his rival's planned trip to the region. In an evening speech at...
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Israel National News
| 11 months ago
On July 6, after much speculation, the Presbyterian Church (USA) narrowly rejected a proposal to divest its portfolio from companies that supply equipment to Israel, which, it alleges, enforce Israeli control in the occupied territories. What was...
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Reuters
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at West Palm Beach Century Village in Florida July 19, 2012. President Barack Obama cited the "ruthless" suicide bus attack in Bulgaria and upheaval in Syria as reasons to fortify support for...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
8 recent attacks Israel blames on Iran Yesterday's attack on Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian town of Burgas is the eighth major incident in which Israel has accused the Iranian government and its allies of planning to attack, or of attacking,...
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j.
| 11 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters in Jerusalem. She reiterated during a July 16 news conference that the U.S. commitment to Israel is rock solid...In meetings with Israeli leaders the same day, Clinton called on them to take...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan are worried about refugees streaming across their borders. Photograph: Lucie Parseghian/EPA Uncertainty about Syria 's fate is jangling nerves across the Middle East as events conspire to threaten violence and instability...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Iran (AP) Iran on Thursday denied it was involved in a suicide attack against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria that killed at least seven people. Israel has blamed the blast on Iran and its proxy group Iranian-backed Hezbollah , a Lebanese Shiite Muslim...
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Novinite
| 11 months ago
Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution proposed by Western powers designed to impose sanctions on the Syrian regime of embattled President Bashar Al-Assad . The resolution, tabled by France, Germany, Portugal, the UK and USA,...
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Haaretz
| 11 months ago
The attack in Bulgaria on Wednesday in which five Israelis were killed was carried out by Hezbollah with Iranian backing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday afternoon in a televised statement. We will pursue the attackers and extract a...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Israel has accused Iran of being behind the attack in Burgas As the Syrian crisis worsens, if you thought that things in the Middle East were already complicated and unstable enough, then the attack on an Israeli tourist...
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Haaretz
| 11 months ago
Accusing Iran is baseless and makes no sense, except that some politicians in the Israel & the US (who somehow were already sure that Iran is behind it) are trying to serve Western political interests...This is a cowardly act and a crime against...
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News 24
| 11 months ago
A suicide bomber committed the attack that killed eight people in a bus transporting Israeli tourists at a Bulgarian airport, the country's interior minister said on Thursday, and Israel accused Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants of responsibility. "...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 11 months ago
Elliott Abrams about the state of affairs in Israel, including the possibility of new elections, unease over Syria and whether a strike on Iran is imminent. The Israelis would like to postpone having to make a decision as long as possible, on the off...
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Haaretz
| 11 months ago
Israel was the aggressor when it chose to targeted Hezbollah's military chief Imad Mughniye in 2008, putting Iran on the defensive, and Iran knows how to defend, former National Security Adviser Uzi Arad said on Thursday, a day after an attack on an...
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Open Democracy
| 11 months ago
The core ingredient of the standoff is the rooted suspicion on both sides. Tehran has become ever more convinced that Washington is uninterested in reaching any kind of (to it) remotely acceptable deal , and rather is intent on demanding a near-total...
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Arab News
| 11 months ago
www.rebelarmy.com/news/newsrelease66.htm Friday 12 July 2002 Rankin County, MS Jim Giles, who is running for a congressional seat in the 3rd District of Mississippi advocates cutting the $10 million a day that the US gives to Israel to slaughter...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah renewed his support Wednesday for the regime of embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad and praised the three generals killed in a bombing in Damascus, describing them as comrades-in-arms to the resistance...
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Canadian Free Press
| 11 months ago
Gen Shawkat was the deputy defense minister and was among the most feared figures in Assad's inner circle...The Telegraph (UK) July 18, 2012 The best thing now for Syria would be a dead Bashar al-Assad and events are pointing toward that conclusion.
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Haaretz
| 11 months ago
Former United States Ambassador to the UN John Bolton believes that Israel is poised to launch a direct attack on Iran in the wake of yesterday's terrorist bombing in Bulgaria. Appearing on Fox News, Bolton said that Prime Minister Netanyahu's...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
So many nations notably Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia claim interests in Syria. It's easy to forget what still drives the civil war there: the seed of freedom planted even before the Arab Spring.
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Novinite
| 11 months ago
He said the attack was probably initiated by a group under the auspices of "either Iran or other radical Muslim groups," and named Hezbollah and Hamas as likely suspects. We have been tracking the intentions of terrorist groups such as Hezbollah,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
The European Union needs to prepare for a humanitarian crisis in Syria with the potential for displacing huge numbers of people, Cyprus, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, said Wednesday. Cyprus has put the topic on the agenda for talks in...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 11 months ago
25 am House hopeful Sinema responds to criticism: I will be a strong voice for Israel in Congress Kyrsten Sinema (Photo: Courtesy of Kyrsten Sinema for Congress) A couple of days ago I wrote about the Israel-related record of AZ-09 House candidate...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton capped off her 12-day foreign tour with a stop in Israel on Monday to confer with Israeli leaders on the latest developments in Egypt , Syria and Iran. Share This Story Her visit to Israel is one of several this...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 11 months ago
Posted by Karmel Melamed Follow JewishJournal.com on Mohammad Reza Rahimi In Tehran last month, during a ceremony marking the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Iran's current vice president, Mohammad-Reza Rahimi ,...
