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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Four doctors visited Israeli soldier held in Gaza Strip: Report
EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 3:46 am ETGaza/Tel Aviv - A team of four French doctors visited the Gaza Strip last week to examine an Israeli soldier held there for three-and-a-half years, ahead of a possible prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. There was, however, no official confir...
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Israel eyes pullout from border village
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 6:23 pm ETJERUSALEM, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The 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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Russia wants more Israeli spy drones
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 11:48 am ETTEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Russia is seeking to acquire more Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles under a $100 million deal that has more to do with bribing Moscow not to supply Iran with state-of-the-art air-defense missiles that could skewer any Israeli air assault than it has with dollars and cents.
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Church leader opposes Lebanese resistance
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 1:15 pm ETBEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The armed resistance movement associated with Hezbollah should integrate into the national Lebanese military, a leading Christian cleric said Tuesday.
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Netanyahu: Israel ready to negotiate with Syria
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Mon Dec 7, 10:43 am ETIsrael is ready for direct negotiations with Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
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Captive Helps Close the Distance Between Israelis
International Herald Tribune - Tue Dec 8, 6:18 pm ETSociologists, politicians and religious scholars 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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Iran urges Riyadh to aim at Israel
UPI - Mon Dec 7, 1:50 pm ETTEHRAN, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The military of Saudi Arabia should turn its weapons on Israel rather than take on Shiite rebels battling the Yemeni government, Iranian officials said.
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Israel, Lebanon, and the Middle East Conflict
Foreign Relations - Tue Dec 8, 1:53 pm ETNew York - Lebanon finally has a new government after five months of political bickering. But Western policymakers should not shift their attention away from this small country that has been the staging ground of proxy wars in the Middle East.
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Fear grips Gaza amid first swine flu deaths
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 1:12 pm ETHospital masks and anti-bacterial hand gel vanished from shelves in the Gaza Strip as fear gripped the besieged Hamas-ruled territory after the first deaths of swine flu.
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Israeli stalling blocks Shalit deal: Hamas
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 8:27 am ETIsraeli objections to releasing certain prisoners are blocking a swap deal in which an Israeli soldier captured three years would be freed, an official of the Palestinian movement Hamas said on Friday.
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Four doctors visited Israeli soldier held in Gaza: Report - Summary
EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 9:31 am ETGaza/Tel Aviv - A team of four French doctors visited the Gaza Strip last week to examine an Israeli soldier held there for three-and-a-half years, ahead of a possible prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas, media reports said Sunday. Hamas stron...
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Did group raise funds for Hamas on college campuses?
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Mon Dec 7, 6:13 pm ETA U.S. congressman is the latest to call for a Justice Department investigation into whether a pro-Palestinian group has been raising money on college campuses for Hamas.
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EU pushes Israel to accept Jerusalem as shared capital - Summary
EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 3:31 pm ETBrussels/Jerusalem - European Union foreign ministers on Tuesday pushed Israel to accept Jerusalem as a shared capital of a future Palestinian state, urging the two sides in the Middle East conflict to return to negotiations as soon as possible. The ...
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Palestinians boycott Israeli settlement goods
WKBT La Crosse - Tue Dec 8, 9:23 am ETThe Palestinian government announced Tuesday that it isenforcing a boycott of goods made in Israel's West Bank settlements and has confiscated more than $1 million in merchandise from shops and companies.
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Hamas: Shalit not visited by doctors
UPI - Sun Dec 6, 1:50 pm ETGAZA, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Mahmoud Zahar, described as a strongman for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, says doctors have not visited abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
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Syria and Iran expand energy, economic cooperation
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 3:46 am ETDamascus - Syria and Iran agreed to expand their cooperation in the fields of energy, technology and utilization of water resources, state media in Damascus reported Monday. Iranian Minister of Energy Majid Namjou met in the Syrian capital with Syria...
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EU urges Israel, Palestinians to make Jerusalem joint capital
Sun-Sentinel - Tue Dec 8, 6:19 am ETBRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign ministers urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to make Jerusalem their shared capital, prompting a swift, angry reaction from Israel.
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ADL: Egypt ignores anti-Jewish press
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Tue Dec 8, 2:29 pm ETPolitical and civic leaders largely turn a blind eye to flourishing anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment in Egypt, a new report said.
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Opinion: Obama's Nobel Prize Should Benefit 2003 Iranian Laureate
The Chronicle of Philanthropy - Tue Dec 8, 2:11 pm ETOpinion: Obama’s Nobel Prize should benefit 2003 Iranian laureate
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EU mulls proposal on Jerusalem as joint capital
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 6:02 am ETEuropean Union foreign ministers discussed a proposal Tuesday for the 27-nation bloc to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state.
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