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Hamas says needs time to study Israeli prisoner swap reply - Summary
7 hours ago ago from Al-Darb Diya
Wed, 23 Dec 2009 Gaza/Tel Aviv - Hamas needs time to study Israel's reply to demands to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for an Israeli soldier, a senior official of the Islamist group said Wednesday. "Hamas needs several days to study the Israeli response and then we hand our answer to Israel through the German mediator," Mohammed al-Zahar, among the Hamas leaders who has been indirectly negotiating the swap with Israel, ...
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17 hours ago ago from WalesHome.org | Independent analysis from and about Wales – seven days a week
Thu 24 Dec 2009 By Branwen Niclas International Noor: the human face of life in Bethlehem in the twenty first century LIGHTS DANGLE above the streets as craftsmen try to entice the holiday crowds with carved Nativity figures. Christmas is the peak tourist period for Bethlehem but the seasonal message remains depressingly bleak for Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank. Ask teenager Noor Rabia. He was playing in ...
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6 hours ago ago from Doc's Talk
Led by a Palestinian Lutheran bishop, 16 Palestinians Christians have blasted Israel in a new declaration that the 4.9 million Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is obligingly disseminating. “We…declare that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land is a sin against God and humanity because it deprives the Palestinians of their basic human rights, bestowed by God,” asserted the “Kairos Palestine Document. “It distorts the image of ...
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15 hours ago ago from Israel News
'Where is the Palestinians' Sadat?' Dec. 24, 2009 Abe Selig , THE JERUSALEM POST Israel is ready and willing to hold immediate negotiations with the Palestinians, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told a group of more than a dozen Arab reporters, the bulk of them Palestinian, during a unique press conference held in east Jerusalem on Wednesday. "We are ready to sit down tomorrow morning if you are," ...
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22 hours ago ago from Roberto Scaruffi
Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs View this page at www.dailyalert.org Subscribe Via Smartphone DAILY ALERT Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Daily Alert Needs Your Support In-Depth Issues: Poll: Obama Not Seen as Supportive by Israelis or Palestinians ( Palestinian Center ...
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Hamas: Response to Israel count-offer by next week
11 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Hamas: Response to Israel count-offer by next week DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A senior Hamas official says the group will respond by next week to Israel's latest counteroffer on swapping Palestinian prisoners for a captured Israeli soldier. The Damascus-based official, Moussa Abu Marzouk, says the militant group is currently studying Israel's offer and will deliver its answer "next week at the latest." Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' ...
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9 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Belgian-Israeli dual nationals sue Hamas BRUSSELS (AP) -- Five Belgians living in Israel filed a complaint here Thursday against the Hamas rulers of Gaza, saying militant rocket fire into Israel had violated their human rights. Belgian courts let citizens living anywhere in the world request criminal prosecutions for violations of their human rights. In 1993 Belgium began allowing war-crimes cases to be filed by people in any country ...
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1 hour, 36 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
From an objective point of view, President Obama made the logical decision to focus on settlements as a first step in bringing Israelis and Palestinians to the table. Settlements are not popular among Israelis. There is no issue on which Israel and the United States have disagreed for so long. However, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not only an objective conflict about borders and economic development. At the deepest level, this ...
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