Lebanon's Hariri keen on improving ties with Syria
AFP - Tue Dec 8, 9:58 am ETLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday his government was keen on improving its ties with Syria, strained since the killing of his father Rafiq Hariri in 2005.
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Iran says former deputy defense min held by U.S.
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 34 minutes agoIran believes the United States is holding a former deputy defense minister who disappeared in 2007 and 10 other Iranian nationals, according to a list carried by the semi-official Mehr news agency on Wednesday.
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Netanyahu Bars Dignitaries From Gaza
OfficialWire - 48 minutes agoPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has blocked high-profile foreign leaders from entering Gaza from Israel, officials say.
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Palestinians struggle to build in West Bank
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 10 minutes agoIn the occupied West Bank, a bedouin community whose school is made out of car tires and mud faces the same problem as a developer planning a whole new Palestinian town: building controls imposed by Israel.
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Secret Friends
Strategy Page - 1 hour 27 minutes agoDecember 9, 2009: Negotiations to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Hamas captivity continue to be stalled. Hamas wants fifty hard core terrorists with, as Israel calls it, "blood on their hands" freed in exchange for Shalit.
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ADL: EU Conclusions on Middle East Peace “Deeply Flawed and Counterproductive”
PRWeb - 1 hour 30 minutes agoThe Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today criticized the conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process adopted by foreign ministers at the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union, calling them “deeply flawed, based on a distorted view of the current situation and counterproductive to moving the peace process forward.” (PRWeb Dec 9, 2009) Read the full story at http ...
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Israel Eyes Pullout From Border Village
OfficialWire - 1 hour 32 minutes agoThe Israeli military is considering a withdrawal from a village on the Lebanese border before the end of January, the Israeli prime minister said.
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Church Leader Opposes Lebanese Resistance
OfficialWire - 2 hours 3 minutes agoThe armed resistance movement associated with Hezbollah should integrate into the national Lebanese military, a leading Christian cleric said Tuesday.
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This day in history
Worcester Telegram & Gazette - 2 hours 4 minutes agoFormer Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, arrested a year ago today for allegedly trying to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, attends his book signing for "The Governor" in Chicago yesterday.
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AP-AM Prep-Today in History
FOX 11 Tucson - 2 hours 12 minutes ago! TODAY IN HISTORY ! Today is Wednesday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2009. There are 22 days left in the year. On Dec. 9, 1854, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England.
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Palestinian Leaders May Seek UN Backing for Independent State
Bloomberg - 2 hours 15 minutes agoDec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Palestinian leaders will meet Dec. 15 to discuss healing the rift between the Hamas and Fatah factions and a plan to seek United Nations recognition of an independent Palestinian state.
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The almanac
UPI - Wed Dec 9, 3:32 am ETBy United Press International UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009.
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Captive Helps Close the Distance Between Israelis
New York Times - Wed Dec 9, 3:08 am ETExperts say that rescuing captives has deep Jewish and Israeli roots and has helped place Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit at the heart of nearly every Israeli Jew.
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Israel parliament to vote on land-for-peace law
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 3:03 am ETThe Israeli parliament was set to vote Wednesday on a bill requiring a referendum to approve a pullout from annexed east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as part of any peace deal, officials said.
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Coming of Age
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Wed Dec 9, 2:59 am ETIt’s been 21 years since I landed in Israel, in December 1988. I say “landed” and not “ascended.” I flew from Los Angeles, touched down at Ben-Gurion Airport, and that was that.
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A Genetic Screening Could Save Lives Among Iranian Jews
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Wed Dec 9, 2:59 am ETAt age 34, Jennifer has a life many women would envy: a loving husband, a beautiful 2-year-old son and a flourishing career. But every morning when she wakes up, the first thing she asks herself is what might have deteriorated in her body overnight.
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EU's urging to share Jerusalem as capital angers Israel
Arizona Daily Star - Wed Dec 9, 2:12 am ETBRUSSELS, Belgium — European Union foreign ministers on Tuesday urged Israel and the Palestinians to make Jerusalem their shared capital, prompting a swift, angry reaction from Israel.
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Eight Nights, Eight Illuminating Reads
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Wed Dec 9, 1:43 am ETHere are some gift ideas for the eight nights of Chanukah, each one full of wisdom, pleasure or provocation, and all of them between covers — a fitting present for the “People of the Book” to give or receive!
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EU Seeks to Avoid Confrontation With Israel Over Jerusalem
Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 1:37 am ETDec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union sought to avoid a confrontation with Israel by toning down a declaration that called for the recognition of east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
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Today in History - Dec. 9
News Chief - Wed Dec 9, 1:01 am ETPublished: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Today is Wednesday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2009. There are 22 days left in the year.
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Iran levels kidnapping charges against U.S., Saudis
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Wed Dec 9, 12:26 am ETBEIRUT -- Iran's top diplomat yesterday accused the United States and Saudi Arabia of having kidnapped one of its nuclear scientists.
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