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Jerusalem Post
| 3 months ago
At the United Nations, peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said he hoped a brief ceasefire could be reached between the rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar Assad to allow the UN men to be taken to safety. "Our 21 peacekeepers are detained in the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 3 months ago
The president started by saying he was not interested in delivering a peace plan. He wants to listen to where the parties stand and focus on regional issues" such as Syria and Egypt, according to one person familiar with the meeting who spoke to The...
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Miami Herald
| 3 months ago
President Barack Obama's coming trip to Israel will focus as much on looking to restart a frosty relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as on any other issue. Though Obama once considered peace between the Israelis and...
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Israel National News
| 3 months ago
Soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces and the U.N.'s Disengagement Observer Force received the soldiers. They were evacuated to the U.N.'s Ein Zivanit camp next to the Kuneitra Crossing near the middle of the Israeli-Syrian frontier.
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Israel National News
| 3 months ago
47 Reported News Brief 3/8/2013, Adar 26, 5773 Hamas Won't Oppose Obama Visit to Gaza Chairman Aziz Dweik of the Palestinian Authority's legislative council says Hamas won't oppose a visit to Gaza by United States President Barack Obama when he...
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Israel National News
| 3 months ago
The demonstrators are protesting against the death sentences that a court imposed on 21 people who participated in a riot after a soccer match in Port Said last year.
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Washington Post
| 3 months ago
The meeting was described by nearly a half-dozen participants as cordial, led by a president who, after an early setback attempting to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, appeared far more self-assured and with a policy more in line with...
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Jerusalem Post
| 3 months ago
Gallup survey finds that nearly 9 out of 10 Americans have an unfavorable view of Islamic Republic, putting it below North Korea and Pakistan on list of 22 countries; 66% of respondents view Israel favorably. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at...
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The Courier-Mail
| 3 months ago
Petroleum has played down suggestions that its gas project in Israel is under threat as it faces regulatory hurdles. Chief executive Peter Coleman told reporters in Houston on Thursday he was confident the Leviathan deal would go ahead, despite...
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Israel National News
| 3 months ago
Israeli and Syrian troops on the Golan Heights), requesting that the forces' activity not be impaired due to the kidnapping of 21 peacekeepers by Syrian rebels.
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CNN
| 3 months ago
Obama said at a White House meeting with Jewish American leaders that he will still work toward a diplomatic resolution with Iran over its nuclear program, but repeated that no options are off the table, including military ones, one of the sources...
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Jerusalem Post
| 3 months ago
Administration official hints that US president will not bring a specific plan for peace with Palestinians to Israel. US President Barack Obama hosted leaders of major American Jewish organizations at the White House on Thursday as he sought to...
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The Daily Star
| 3 months ago
A senior Israeli officer warned Thursday that the Syria conflict could ignite a war with Hezbollah, as Israel's president urged the European Union to add the group to its list of designated terrorist organizations. Israeli President Shimon Peres said...
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Ynet News
| 3 months ago
US President Barack Obama said Thursday that his upcoming trip to Israel will serve to illustrate the United States' unshakable commitment to Israel in the backdrop of the turmoil in the Middle East. The visit will also provide him with an...
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j.
| 3 months ago
Follow j. on and Vice President Joe Biden speaks about Iran at the conference. photo/maxine dovere Away from the podium, along with speeches that restated the critical talking points of Israel advocacy to standing ovations and thunderous applause...
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The Economist
| 3 months ago
Worse for the Gazans, Egypt's government recently took unusually severe measures to stop goods, including all the strip's fuel needs and much of its material for building, being transported through tunnels under its border. Since late January,...
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Inter Press Service
| 3 months ago
IPS Articles The report, Through Women's Eyes', notes Gazan women's continued struggle as they attempt to come to terms with their grief and their injuries; with the loss of their children, their husbands, their relatives, their homes, and their...
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United Press International
| 3 months ago
Israel is a partner to the European Union, though it must remain committed to honoring Palestinian aspirations, European Commission President Jose Barroso said. Israeli President Shimon Peres arrived Thursday in Brussels to meet with European Barroso,...
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Globes Online
| 3 months ago
44, Adrian Filut and Yuval Azulai US military aid to Israel for fiscal year 2013 will be reduced by 5%, instead of the 8% initially planned, amounting to $155 million, rather than $250 million, out of $3.1 billion. Minister of Finance Yuval...
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Israel National News
| 3 months ago
53 Reported News Brief 3/7/2013, Adar 25, 5773 Expect no additional Locust Swarm The Ministry of Agriculture has completed the deployment of anti-locust pesticide in southern Israel Thursday morning. The Ministry asserts that most of the swarm was...
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NewKerala
| 3 months ago
UN spokesperson Eduardo del Buey told reporters that approximately 30 armed fighters had stopped and detained the peacekeepers. "The mission is dispatching a team to assess the situation and attempt a resolution," he said.
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Ynet News
| 3 months ago
The Egyptian movement takes pride in the image it has managed to portray, which has encouraged the international community to accept it as Egypt's legitimate leadership. Now the Muslim Brotherhood wants Hamas to follow the same path. Egyptian...
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National Public Radio
| 3 months ago
Peacekeepers by Krishnadev Calamur March 06, 2013 9:58 PM The U.N. Syrian opposition in the disputed Golan Heights area between Syria and Israel...Security Council also demanded the "unconditional and immediate" release of the peacekeepers. "A video...
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Scoop
| 3 months ago
I want to first start with the policy shift that you announced on Syria, direct aid to the Syrian Opposition Council. Do you think that's really going to be enough to change Bashar al-Assad's calculus?...The important thing is to look at the series...
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Epoch Times
| 3 months ago
March 6, 2013 Israeli forces stand guard in the disputed village of Ghajar on the northern border of Israel with Lebanon and Syria's Golan Heights on Nov. 17, 2010. On Wednesday, 21 U.N. peacekeepers monitoring the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire in this...
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Taiwan News
| 3 months ago
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the current Security Council president, said talks are under way between U.N. officials from the peacekeeping force and the captors...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also condemned the capture of the 21 peacekeepers, U.N.
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The Daily Telegraph
| 4 months ago
UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel, a UN spokesman says. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said the peacekeepers were from the Philippines...UN deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey told reporters...
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Times of Oman
| 4 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi is unlikely to find the political support needed to win a full-fledged International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout before elections begin in April, but he might be able to secure temporary IMF aid. Emergency aid would...
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
Pro-Israel advocates lobbied U.S. congressional members for tighter sanctions against Iran and protection of aid to Israel from the sequester's automatic cuts. After the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ended,...
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Israel National News
| 4 months ago
The swarm, a small group that broke off from a massive plague that struck neighboring Egypt, crossed the border into the country from Sinai, reaching the Ramat HaNegev region two days ago.
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
Locusts fly near a car belonging to experts as they map the swarms of locusts near Kmehin in Israel's Negev desert March 5, 2013. Israel: Israel began battling a swarm of locusts from Egypt on Wednesday to prevent crop damage in the south of the...
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Asia Times Online
| 4 months ago
China, Russia, Iran, Israel, Turkey, the Philippines - are going to be more affected than others. China appears quietly pleased that Kerry has cast aspersions on the United States' "pivot" to Asia. Russia would like to estimate that Kerry and Hagel...
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Israel National News
| 4 months ago
01 Reported News Brief 3/6/2013, Adar 24, 5773 Agriculture Ministry Begins Spraying Against Locusts Aircrafts begin spraying pesticides in the Negev early Wednesday morning to to kill a swarm of locusts that have made their way over to Israel from...
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Zee News
| 4 months ago
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that despite the continued diplomacy and tough sanctions being leveled against Iran, the country continues to get closer to possessing nuclear arms. He pointed out that lines have been drawn before and they'...
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Israel National News
| 4 months ago
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Russia Today
| 4 months ago
The move is intended to solidify ties between the two states in the run-up to a potential strike against Iran despite US reluctance to use the military option. Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports. The major strategic ally' bill which would grant...
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Canadian Free Press
| 4 months ago
U.S. helping to install another Muslim Brotherhood government on Israel's borders?...Assad forces taking part in the Syrian conflict. This has been reported for a while, but always using anonymous sources. According to Fox : Secretary of State John...
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Israel National News
| 4 months ago
07 Reported News Brief 3/5/2013, Adar 23, 5773 Kerry Confident that Arms Not Falling in Wrong Hands Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday expressed confidence on the part of Washington that weapons being to the Syrian opposition were landing in...
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International Business Times
| 4 months ago
Another user, Yara El-Gendy, posted this on Saturday: As of Tuesday Egyptian authorities claimed they had eradicated 95 percent of the hordes, Egypt Independent reported. Locusts swarms are not uncommon in Egypt, but this year's crop is...
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Canadian Free Press
| 4 months ago
So soon after warning us that doomsday was at hand, the interests of Islamic totalitarians apparently come ahead of American ones...Many were rightly incensed, then, that last Thursday, only one day before the devastating sequester cuts were...
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Scoop
| 4 months ago
signals interception' and 'direction finding' for electronic surveillance ...Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations , to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have...
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Inter Press Service
| 4 months ago
IPS Articles U.S. backing of Israel in recent decades, coupled with official Arab acquiescence, served Israel well without inflicting too much damage on U.S...Popular upheavals have toppled pro-Western regimes and are threatening others...New Arab...
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Canadian Free Press
| 4 months ago
That $250 million was only a down payment on $1 billion pledged by Obama in 2011. Kerry broadcast his delusions about being hopeful about working with a Muslim Brotherhood government back before he became our Secretary of State. Kerry may think the...
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
There is deepening concern in Israel that U.S. sequestration signals cuts of up to $500 million in U.S. military aid in the months ahead, slowing a crucial missile defense program at a time when sanctions-battered Iran could strike. "While exact...
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Jerusalem Post
| 4 months ago
IDF Spokesman Unit Sequestration, an across-the-board cut in America's fiscal budget, kicked in on March 1. Israel is one of the many countries expected to be adversely affected. US aid to Jordan and Egypt is expected to be cut while the direct...
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Jerusalem Post
| 4 months ago
Amir Cohen Yarmulkes off to Secretary of State John Kerry who pushed back against the repellent, nauseating comments of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had said, at a UN-organized conference in Vienna (where else?) on February 27,...
