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Israel Attacks Hamas: Euphoria Matured - Reality Settling In
1 day ago ago from APRPEH
Of course the attack on Gaza was the proper course of action. It is the moral thing to do when you are being fired upon indiscriminately to stop the ability of the one firing on you to continue doing so. The situation had become untenable. It is too much to ask border towns to just deal with it . Too much to ask school children, easily frightened into inaction and elderly unable to react with vigor to take cover in 15 seconds for mortars (up ...
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23 hours ago ago from UMD Students for Justice in Palestine
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14 hours ago ago from The Statesmen | Media you can Believe in
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit (L) gestures during his press conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom after their meeting December 1, 2004 in Jerusalem CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit accused Israel on Monday of stalling on a prisoner swap with Hamas for a captured Israeli soldier by refusing to free certain Palestinian prisoners. “Israel is still placing obstacles toward releasing all ...
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7 hours ago ago from Jewlicious
Jpost reports: The 27 EU foreign ministers are scheduled to decide Tuesday on the final wording of a statement on the Middle East that may very well include European recognition of east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. The official said that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was working hard to pass the statement, extremely problematic from an Israeli point of view. He is being supported by British Foreign ...
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Palestinians boycott Israeli settlement goods
8 hours ago ago from PopEater
RAMALLAH, West Bank -The Palestinians on Tuesday announced a boycott of Israeli products made in the West Bank, stepping up their campaign against Israeli settlements. Economics Minister Hassan Abu Libdeh said the Western-backed Palestinian government already has confiscated $1 million worth of products, including foods, cosmetics and hardware, and the goal is to eliminate all settlement-made goods from Palestinian store shelves next year. ...
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10 hours ago ago from Good News Now
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21 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
Distracted by the crucial debate over Afghanistan, many Americans may have missed a pivotal event in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. On Nov. 25, Israel's government announced a 10-month construction freeze in Judea and Samaria the areas generally known as the West Bank. Though some projects already begun will be completed and essential public buildings like medical clinics and schools will be approved, no new housing permits will be ...
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7 hours ago ago from FanHouse
BRUSSELS -European Union foreign ministers called Tuesday for the resumption of talks between Israel and the Palestinians and urged them to make Jerusalem the shared capital of two nations. Israel had strongly objected to an earlier Swedish draft resolution which explicitly stated that east Jerusalem the disputed part of the holy city should be the capital of a Palestinian state, and warned the move would damage the EU's ability to be a ...
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10 hours ago ago from BBC
Until now swine flu has been prevented from spreading to the Gaza Strip Three people have died from swine flu in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry has revealed. A baby and two women were confirmed as the fist deaths from the H1N1 virus in the densely populated Palestinian territory, a spokesman said. Gaza is under a tight Israeli and Egyptian blockade, tightened since Hamas took over the strip in 2007. World ...
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