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Israel approves barrier, pullout
Los Angeles TimesJERUSALEM - In decisions apparently aimed at shaping future Israeli-Palestinian borders, Israel's Cabinet approved yesterday the removal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank and decided that the separation barrier should...Tags: Judaism, Referenda, Ehud Olmert, Los Angeles Times, Gaza Strip
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Ex-vice president of Iraq captured, turned over to U.S.
Associated PressBAGHDAD, Iraq - Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former Iraqi vice president known as "Saddam's knuckles" for his ruthlessness against regime enemies, was captured by Kurdish fighters Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and turned over to U.S. forces....Tags: The Associated Press, Iraq, U.S. Congress, Saddam Hussein, Religious Festivals
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Deep rifts remain on basics of 'road map'
Sun Foreign StaffAQABA, Jordan - The day before Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet here with President Bush to launch an ambitious peace initiative called the road map, the two sides remain deeply divided over fundamental issues. State Department representatives have...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Colin Powell, Armed Conflicts, United Nations, Refugee
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FEATURE-Violent Arab ghetto shows Israel's seamy underside
Reuters* Family feuds, gang wars over turf and drugs * Widespread poverty, police inaction take toll * Netanyahu says integration of Arabs is key By Jihan Abdalla LOD, Israel, May 30 (Reuters) - "My friend is on the floor, dying, 11 holes in his body, and...Tags: West Bank, Murder, Civil Rights, Dan Williams, Substance Abuse
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Violent Arab ghetto shows Israel's seamy underside
ReutersLOD, Israel (Reuters) - "My friend is on the floor, dying, 11 holes in his body, and I only have 10 fingers," raps Tamer Nafar. "Don't close your eyes, blink if you can hear me." Nafar isn't rapping about violence and crime in urban America, but murders,...Tags: Judaism, West Bank, Murder, Civil Rights, Dan Williams
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Rosenthal: Change in Israel's electoral system is urgently needed
Florida Jewish JournalOn May 6 Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister and the Likud (Unity) party leader, announced that early elections are to be held in September 2012. Yet, two days after Netanyahu's declaration he and Shaul Mofaz, the newly elected leader of Kadima...Tags: Kadima, Parliament, Voting, Labor Legislation, Likud
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Lurie: Finally an Israeli unity government
Florida Jewish JournalA few years ago a veteran Labor member of the Knesset, who had lost her seat in the debacle of Labor in the '09 elections, told me: "Netanyahu can't make any peace moves so long as his father is alive." I thought she was jesting until last week....Tags: Judaism, Kadima, Palestine, Political Corruption, National Government
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Echoes of 1967: Israel unites to face its greatest threat
WASHINGTON In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat (Israel's southern outlet to the world's oceans), abruptly signed a...Tags: Kadima, Mahmoud Abbas, Jerusalem (Israel), Gaza Crisis (2008), Yasser Arafat
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Echoes of '67: Israel unites
WASHINGTON — In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat (Israel'ssouthern outlet to the world's oceans), abruptly...
Tags: Kadima, Mahmoud Abbas, Jerusalem (Israel), Yasser Arafat, Gaza Crisis (2008)
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Bob Dylan to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Soundboard Music Blog - Orlando SentinelWhat does American musical icon Bob Dylan have in common with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and ex-astronaut John Glenn? All are on the list of 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It's the nation's highest civilian honor,... -
Ben-Zion Netanyahu dies at 102; father of Israeli prime minister
JERUSALEM — Historian Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the man said to have had the most profound influence on the conservative Israeli leader, died early Monday in his Jerusalem home. He was 102.
The elder...Tags: Judaism, Palestine, World War II (1939-1945), Radio, Likud
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FACTBOX-Political parties in Israel
ReutersJERUSALEM, May 6 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday an early election on Sept. 4. The 120 seats in the single-chamber Knesset are allocated by proportional representation to party lists, which may secure seats after...Tags: Judaism, Kadima, Parliament, Labour Party (UK), Shas
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