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Abbas in Egypt says no deal yet on Israeli Shalit

Reuters - Wed Dec 9, 7:46 am ET

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday there was no deal for now between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas on freeing an Israeli soldier held in Gaza.

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No elections in W.Bank if vote rejected in Gaza: Abbas
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 11:23 am ET
Palestinian elections will not take place in the West Bank if Hamas refuses to allow voters to take part in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on a visit to Beirut on Tuesday.
Four doctors visited Israeli soldier held in Gaza Strip: Report
EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 3:46 am ET
Gaza/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...
Israel eyes pullout from border village
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 6:23 pm ET
JERUSALEM, 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.
Russia wants more Israeli spy drones
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 11:48 am ET
TEL 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.
Secret Friends
Strategy Page - Wed Dec 9, 5:17 am ET
December 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.
Egypt’s iron wall to deter smuggling
JTA - 2 hours 8 minutes ago
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Egypt has started to build an iron wall on its border with Gaza, an Israeli newspaper reported. The iron wall is being constructed to shut down smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported.
Iran says former deputy defense min held by U.S.
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 6:10 am ET
Iran 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.
Church leader opposes Lebanese resistance
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 1:15 pm ET
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The armed resistance movement associated with Hezbollah should integrate into the national Lebanese military, a leading Christian cleric said Tuesday.
Israeli settlers step up fight against West Bank freeze - Feature
EARTHtimes.org - 1 hour 27 minutes ago
Tel Aviv - For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the 10-month freeze on construction in West Bank settlements, which he announced on November 25, is a move that will hopefully rekindle peace talks with the Palestinians suspended one years ag...
Captive Helps Close the Distance Between Israelis
New York Times - Wed Dec 9, 3:08 am ET
Experts 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.
Netanyahu: Israel ready to negotiate with Syria
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Mon Dec 7, 10:43 am ET
Israel is ready for direct negotiations with Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Translating Violence Into Beauty
New York Times - 52 minutes ago
Born in Beirut, Ranya Sarakbi and Selim Mouzannar are children of displacement and war who have joined forces to export their talents in jewelry design.
Christian leader in Syria for talks with Assad
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 6:16 am ET
Beirut - Michel Aoun, leader of the Christian Free Patriotic Movement, arrived in Damascus on Wednesday for talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, a source close to Aoun said. Aoun, whose movement has close links with the fundamentalist Hezbollah ...
Iran urges Riyadh to aim at Israel
UPI - Mon Dec 7, 1:50 pm ET
TEHRAN, 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.
Israel, Lebanon, and the Middle East Conflict
Foreign Relations - Tue Dec 8, 1:53 pm ET
New 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.
Fear grips Gaza amid first swine flu deaths
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 1:12 pm ET
Hospital 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.
EU's urging to share Jerusalem as capital angers Israel
Arizona Daily Star - Wed Dec 9, 2:12 am ET
BRUSSELS, 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.
Israeli stalling blocks Shalit deal: Hamas
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 8:27 am ET
Israeli 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.
BACKGROUND: Who are the Israeli settlers?
EARTHtimes.org - 1 hour 27 minutes ago
Jerusalem - Nearly half a million of Israel's 7.5-million population live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, but they live there for vastly different reasons. Although under international law all settlements are illegal, in Israel many peo...
Four doctors visited Israeli soldier held in Gaza: Report - Summary
EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 6, 9:31 am ET
Gaza/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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