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Agent allegedly helped Mabhouh killers obtain fake German passport. Jerusalem Post: BERLIN – A spokesman for the federal public prosecutor told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday that Poland had arrested an intelligence officer involved in the assassination of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. According to the spokesman, Germany’s top prosecutor has issued an extradition order ...
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Times Online: Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal. In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to ...
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Jerusalem Post: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that they don’t plan to export natural gas to Israel via a new pipeline to Turkey. “There is no such thing on our agenda,†Erdogan said at a news conference with Putin in Istanbul when asked about the gas. Russia has held talks ...
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Gov’t likely to ok probe of flotilla raid with two int'l observers. Jerusalem Post: Israel said on Monday it would not let Iranian ships sail to Gaza after the Iranian Red Crescent announced it would send two vessels to the region in the coming week. “If we didn’t let an Irish ship reach Gaza, we are certainly not ...
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Jerusalem Post: Israeli Navy commando killed five armed Palestinian frogmen early Monday morning in the Nahal Aza area. The terrorists were wearing diving suits and were heavily armed, IDF spokesperson said. The terrorists were trying to swim to an Israeli city along the Mediterranean coast, when they were detected by the commandos and a firefight erupted. ...
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Jerusalem Post: The Egyptian authorities over the weekend turned down a request by Arab physicians to bring aid into the Gaza Strip. Hamas, meanwhile, announced that it won’t allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit as a condition for the lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip. Khalil al-Hayyah, ...
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Los Angeles Times: Supporters of Israel rallied in front of the country's consulate in Los Angeles on Sunday as the Jewish state continued to defend itself against an international outcry over a deadly raid on a pro-Palestinian aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip last week. "Today we call all the world to wake up," said Israeli ...
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Haaretz: Senior White House Press Corps member Helen Thomas may have apologized for her recent on-camera remarks calling on Jews to "get the hell out of Palestine" and go home to Europe, but her reputation seems beyond repair amid the abounding calls for her resignation. In the wake of the incident, Thomas' agent Nine Speaker Inc. announced ...
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Agencie France Presse: Israel moved swiftly on Sunday to expel the latest group of activists trying to break its naval blockade on Gaza, as it resisted pressure for an international probe of a raid that killed nine Turks. Israel's powerful inner forum of seven ministers was to meet behind closed doors to seek ways to calm the ...
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's prime minister claimed that the Turkish activists who battled Israeli naval commandos in a deadly clash last week prepared for the fight ahead of time, before boarding the ship in a different city from the rest of the passengers. Benjamin Netanyahu's charges highlight Israel's frantic efforts to portray the activists as terrorists ...
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Hojjatoleslam Ali Shirazi The Guardian: Iran has warned that it could send Revolutionary Guard naval units to escort humanitarian aid convoys seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza – a move that would certainly be challenged by Israel. Any such Iranian involvement, raised today by an aide to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would constitute a ...
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Jerusalem Post: The IDF flotilla raid should be investigated by a New Zealand-lead committee, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday. Ban called for the commission to be lead by former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer, and advised that Israeli and Turkish deputies join. The UN-backed proposal was given to Israel over the weekend, and awaits ...
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Jerusalem Post: Shuki Weiss, the producer of the upcoming concert by the "Pixies", an American alternative rock band, announced on Sunday that the band had canceled its Wednesday June 9 performance in Tel-Aviv. The latest cancellation follows earlier cancellations by the 'Klaxons' and 'Gorillaz' following the killing of 9 Turks, when the Navy boarded ships belong ...
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Jerusalem Post: Organizer tells Gaza crowd: Everything is heading towards Islam. Radio messages sent from the Turkish Gaza flotilla to the Navy contained chilling
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New York Post: The imam behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is a prominent member of a group that helped sponsor the pro-Palestinian activists who clashed violently with Israeli commandos at sea this week. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a key figure in Malaysian-based Perdana Global Peace Organization, according to its Website. Perdana is the single biggest ...
Continue ReadingJun 4, 2010 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel vowed Friday to keep an Irish aid ship from breaching its blockade of the impoverished Gaza Strip, appealing to pro-Palestinian activists to dock at an Israeli port and avoid another showdown at sea. The new effort to break the blockade will test Israel's resolve as it faces a wave of ...
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HERZLIYA, Israel, May 17 (Reuters) - A nuclear-armed Iran would blunt Israel's military autonomy, a wargame involving former Israeli generals and diplomats has concluded, though some players predicted Tehran would also exercise restraint. Sunday's event at a campus north of Tel Aviv followed other high-profile Iran simulations in Israel and the United States in recent months. ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Al-Qaida operatives who have been detained for years in Iran have been making their way quietly in and out of the country, raising the prospect that Iran is loosening its grip on the terror group so it can replenish its ranks, former and current U.S. intelligence officials say. This movement could indicate that ...
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Jerusalem Post: Israel’s ties with the European Union remain strong, but are unlikely to be upgraded when the action plan for its bilateral relations expires in June, diplomatic sources told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. That plan, which exists under the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy that seeks to tie countries to the east and south ...
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Tokyo (AP) - - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday declared North Korea, Syria and Iran the new axis of evil, claiming that North Korean weapons seized in Bangkok in December were bound for Middle Eastern militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Lieberman said during a visit to Japan that the three countries are cooperating and pose ...
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Jerusalem Post: WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama urged the Palestinians to move to direct negotiations as soon as possible, in a phone call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday. Obama said the two sides needed to “negotiate seriously and in good faith,†and stressed his intention “to hold both sides accountable for actions that undermine ...
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