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Breaking News Contrasting Views: J Street and AIPAC on U.S. Stance Toward East Jerusalem Construction
J Street has launched a campaign supporting Washington’s firm stance against Israel’s latest building plan in East Jerusalem, in sharp contrast to a statement criticizing the U.S. stance by the mainstream American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In a March 16 announcement, J Street, a newer, more dovish but avowedly pro-Israel lobby, said that recent U.S.-Israel…
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News Gaza Tensions Mount After Suicide Bombing
The conflict in Gaza heated up again Tuesday in response to a suicide bombing in the Israeli town of Dimona on Monday. Israel killed nine Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip, while Palestinians fired heavy barrages of rockets at southern Israel that moderately wounded a 14-year-old girl and lightly wounded several other civilians. Tuesday’s rocket…
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Breaking News Syria To Attend Annapolis, Olmert To Present Vision for Peace
WASHINGTON — The implementation of the road map peace plan is imperative, and terminating terrorist activity in the Gaza Strip is an inseparable part of the plan’s first stage. That, according to sources close to the prime minister, will be the theme of Ehud Olmert’s address tomorrow at the Annapolis international peace summit. Olmert, the…
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News Israeli Lecturer Killed Shielding Virginia Tech Students
An Israeli lecturer killed in Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech saved the lives of several students by blocking the doorway of his classroom from the approaching gunman. Students of Liviu Librescu, 76, an engineering and mathematics lecturer at Virginia Tech for 20 years, sent e-mails to his wife that told of how he blocked the…
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News In Minor Breakthrough, Rice Coaxes Olmert, Abbas Toward Bargaining Table
Jerusalem – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have agreed to meet every other week for talks that could include discussions about the formation of a Palestinian state, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said here this week. Rice’s statement came at the end of three days of shuttle diplomacy between the…
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News Newsdesk May 19, 2006
Chomsky, Militants Meet Noam Chomsky met with Hezbollah’s leader, the Al-Manar TV network reported. The terrorist group’s station broadcast that the American linguist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor met with Sheik Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut this week, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. “Hezbollah’s insistence on keeping arms is justified,” Al-Manar quoted…
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News Peres’s Curse: Another Election Is Lost
Let’s put it this way: Even if he were running for head of the tenants committee of an isolated lighthouse in which he was the only tenant, Shimon Peres would lose by 0.6%. And after a long sleepless night of uncertainty, at the end of which he would show up with his face crestfallen —…
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News Rabbi Faces Off With Protesters
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, a prominent leader of Israel’s religious Zionist camp and a staunch critic of the Gaza withdrawal, found himself in a violent tussle — with other opponents of the pullout. The trouble started Monday night at about midnight, when hundreds of youngsters in Neve Dekalim came to the entrance gate and blocked Gush…
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