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Israel court puts 60-day hold on settlement razings
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April 29, 2012 10:44 PM
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JERUSALEM: Israel's Supreme Court postponed the demolition of five unauthorised buildings on the West Bank on Sunday, a ruling that gave the government more time to argue against their destruction and placate pro-settler political partners. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government...
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Nuclear talks don't exempt Iran from attack: Barak
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April 17, 2012 12:51 PM
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel's defense minister said on Tuesday that Israeli military action against Iran remains an option even while nuclear negotiations are under way, and voiced strong doubts whether the talks would succeed. Asked whether the negotiations, which began in Turkey on Saturday,...
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Israel punishes Palestinian inmate for uprising call
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April 02, 2012 09:58 AM
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel has placed a high-profile Palestinian prisoner in solitary confinement for a week after he called from his cell for a new wave of civil resistance, the Prisons Authority said on Monday. Marwan Barghouti, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 after being convicted of...
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Cyprus accuses Turkey of bullying over gas find
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February 15, 2012 04:47 PM
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Cyprus on Wednesday accused neighboring Turkey of using "bullying behavior" in some of its harshest criticism yet of its old foe, locked in a decades-old standoff over the division of the island and recent natural gas finds. Gas production is set to climb in the...
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Bats occupy Israeli army ghost bunkers
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January 27, 2012 09:58 PM
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QASR AL-YAHUD, West Bank: Abandoned Israeli army bunkers along the Jordan River are providing a lifeline for bats on the endangered species list, researchers say. Soldiers left Israel's underground forts along the frontier with Jordan after a 1994 peace treaty between the two countries....
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Iran calls for Israel to be "punished"
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January 20, 2012 04:49 PM
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TEHRAN/JERUSALEM: An ally of Iran's supreme leader called on Friday for Israel to be "punished" for killing a nuclear scientist and the top U.S. general urged his Israeli ally to coordinate with Washington as crisis builds in the Middle East. Alarmed Arab neighbors in the Gulf made a...
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Israel builds record number of settlements
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January 11, 2012 01:25 AM
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel’s government broke all its settlement-building records in 2011, diminishing prospects for establishing a viable Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s anti-settlement activist group “Peace Now” said Tuesday. The group’s annual...
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Talks on prisoner swap ‘began in July’
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October 13, 2011 01:22 AM
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/GAZA: Prospects of a deal with Hamas to secure the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners began to take off in July, Israel’s negotiator said Tuesday. David Meidan, who did the talking for Israel, said Israeli intelligence...
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Israelsends 2 extra warships to patrol the Red Sea
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September 02, 2011 02:05 AM
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel said Tuesday it had sent two extra warships to patrol the Red Sea but it downplayed reports that they were connected to an Egyptian sweep of the Sinai peninsula for militants. A military official said the deployment of the warships was routine but declined to say what...
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Israeli navy seizes Gaza-bound yacht
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July 19, 2011 01:06 PM
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JERUSALEM: The Israeli navy Tuesday seized a French yacht carrying pro-Palestinian activists heading for the blockaded Gaza Strip and forced it to go to Israel’s Ashdod port, a military spokeswoman said. “I can confirm that the yacht has been boarded and that everything went smoothly,...
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Lieberman: Flotilla activists seek confrontation and blood
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June 29, 2011 01:01 AM
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday participants in an aid flotilla planning to challenge an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip were seeking “confrontation and blood. ”Pro-Palestinian activists have said around a dozen ships carrying aid to Gaza,...
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