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Israel National News
| almost 2 years ago
Jul/10/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and The Palestinian Authority has protested this week's decision by the United States Congress to cut off funds to the PA if it unilaterally declares itself a sovereign state and seeks United Nations recognition...
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Haaretz
| almost 2 years ago
Immigration and Population Authority officials told Haaretz on Saturday evening that all foreign pro-Palestinian 'fly-in' activists who were refused entry into Israel over the past few days would be deported back to their home countries within 48...
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AP Online
| almost 2 years ago
The Obama administration's furious efforts to relaunch stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks this summer are going nowhere, and a looming U.N. confrontation could further set back prospects for a negotiated settlement any time soon.
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Ynet News
| almost 2 years ago
After failing to resolve their differences during three-day talks this week, Israel and Turkey will resume negotiations later this month in New York, Ozdem Sanberk, the Turkish member of the UN panel investigating the Israeli raid on the aid ship...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| almost 2 years ago
On the surface, the current stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process seems illogical. After all, each side knows the basic framework of a negotiated settlement: a two-state solution based on the 1967 border with land swaps that keep the...
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International Middle East Media Center
| almost 2 years ago
Test fire of Calanit shell (image by Israeli military) Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak awarded the prize, with President Shimon Peres looking on. According to the Israeli military, the Calanit artillery shell reduces the chance for human error...
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Israel National News
| almost 2 years ago
Jul/08/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and The Chairman of the Palestinian Authority's anti-corruption authority announced Thursday that a number of ministers in the cabinet of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad have been stripped of their immunity from...
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Israel National News
| almost 2 years ago
Jul/08/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Bulgaria, usually considered an ally of Israel, rebuffed it on Thursday when it would not commit to voting against the planned unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state. AFP reported that Bulgarian Prime...
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NOW Lebanon
| almost 2 years ago
Israel suffered an unexpected rebuff from close ally Bulgaria Thursday when it failed to get its immediate backing against a planned Palestinian bid for statehood in September. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been travelling around...
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Novinite
| almost 2 years ago
After his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Sofia, Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov has refused to give a clear-cut answer about the country's position in a potential UN vote on the independence of the Palestinian Authority in...
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Novinite
| almost 2 years ago
spoke at a joint news conference with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, right after the governments of Bulgaria and Israel held an unprecedented joint sitting. Netanyahu said the new flotilla organized by several NGOs to reach the Gaza Strip in...
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Jerusalem Post
| almost 2 years ago
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday said that the goal at a Quartet meeting in Washington scheduled for Monday will be "to try and adopt a statement that will help the Israelis and Palestinians to bridge the gap, and...
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International Middle East Media Center
| almost 2 years ago
N The US has once again set out its position against the PA seeking recognition of Palestinian statehood in September at the United Nations. The USs standing envoy to the Middle East David Hale and senior US diplomat Dennis Ross have set out US...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| almost 2 years ago
US demanded Palestinians give up on UN appeal Fatah Central Committee member Saeb Erekat said the United States has demanded the Palestinians withdraw their appeal to the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state come September. According to...
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Al Ahram
| almost 2 years ago
A Once again, Israel appears set to financially strangle the Palestinians in order to get from them the concessions it wants, writes Khaled Amayreh Another financial crisis has hit the Palestinian Authority (PA), affecting its ability to pay salaries...
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Haaretz
| almost 2 years ago
Palestinian leaders had apparently underestimated international opposition, particularly from the U.S., to any Hamas involvement in the government and are afraid that it will derail efforts to win the UN nod in September to establish a Palestinian...
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Israel National News
| almost 2 years ago
Jul/07/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Hamas blamed on Wednesday Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for being not serious about implementing the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas. Hamas leader in Gaza, Salah Bardawil,...
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Jerusalem Post
| almost 2 years ago
The Egyptian-brokered reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah has been put on hold, a senior Hamas representative in the West Bank said on Wednesday. Aziz Dweik, speaker of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council, said that the...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| almost 2 years ago
He says the proof is in the Palestinian Authority's continuing cooperation with Israel on the defense front, as well as the ongoing arrests of Hamas members. (Elior Levy, Ynet's Palestinian affairs correspondent)
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AP Online
| almost 2 years ago
With the chief Palestinian peace negotiator in Washington, the Obama administration on Wednesday repeated its opposition to any unilateral attempt to secure U.N. recognition for an independent Palestine and prepared for a difficult meeting of Middle...
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Bradenton Herald
| almost 2 years ago
tool goes here With the chief Palestinian peace negotiator in Washington, the Obama administration on Wednesday repeated its opposition to any unilateral attempt to secure U.N. recognition for an independent Palestine and prepared for a difficult...
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Israel National News
| almost 2 years ago
Jul/06/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and The financial crisis in the Palestinian Authority does not mean that the PA is unready to manage a state, PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad argued Wednesday. He claimed the crisis was a result of occupation and...
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Israel National News
| almost 2 years ago
No US Boat for Gaza Defense/Middle East 21:35 US flotilla organizers behind the 'Audacity of Hope' have called it quits saying Greek authorities have made their journey impossible.
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Jerusalem Post
| almost 2 years ago
There's more to the story of this year's would-be Gaza flotilla than friends of Hamas going for another Mediterranean cruise just to poke their fingers in Israel's eye. As this is being written, the ships remain bottled up in Greek harbors, stopped...
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Voice of America
| almost 2 years ago
Boc spoke at a joint news conference Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Romanian capital. Netanyahu has been visiting European capitals in recent weeks to urge European leaders to oppose a Palestinian plan to seek U.N.
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Jerusalem Post
| almost 2 years ago
Mohamad Torokman 'Financial crisis doesn't mean we're not ready for state' 07/06/2011 19:34 Salam Fayyad puts blame for crisis on failure of donor countries to meet financial commitments to PA, says only $331m. of $970m. promised to gov't was...
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Haaretz
| almost 2 years ago
With peace talks deadlocked for more than two years, the Palestinians plan to ask the UN to recognize their independence in September and both sides have been lobbying hard around the world for support. The move would be largely symbolic but the...
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Salem News
| almost 2 years ago
Tuesday July 5, 2011 Search About Salem-News.com is the premiere Independent Online Newsgroup in the United States. The odyssey and fate of eight ships, part of the Gaza Flotilla, that carry peaceful human rights activists and journalists along with...
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The independent
| almost 2 years ago
Palestinian officials have expressed outrage at Israel's 11th-hour decision to backtrack on a promise to hand over the remains of 84 Palestinians killed in the Middle East conflict in recent years. The goodwill gesture turned sour yesterday when...
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Qatar English Daily
| almost 2 years ago
Quote of the day Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Wednesday, 06 July 2011 00:55 Pro-Palestinian activists hoping to sail to Gaza this week fully expected their flotilla to be blocked by Israeli marines. Instead, to their shock, the mission was holed...
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Jerusalem Post
| almost 2 years ago
Courtesy Lord of the Flies' mentality plagues Palestinians 07/05/2011 22:49 Extremists, both in America and the Middle East, are holding us back from achieving peace. It's no coincidence that Hamas refuses to support Salam Fayyad remaining prime...
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Jerusalem Post
| almost 2 years ago
Bassam Zakarneh, chairman of the Palestinian Authority Workers' Union, on Tuesday launched a scathing and unprecedented attack on Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, accusing him of squandering public funds and refusing to take action against corrupt...
