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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Associated Press | An Iranian envoy said Monday his government will not submit to extensive nuclear inspections while Israel stays outside the global treaty to curb the spread of atomic weapons.
"The existing double standard shall not be tolerated anymore by non-nuclear-weapon states," Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh told a meeting of the 190 countries that have signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Nuclear safeguards are ...
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Bush And Sharon Had Secret Deal To Expand West Bank
Friday, April 25th, 2008
By Glenn Kessler |
A letter that President Bush personally delivered to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon four years ago has emerged as a significant obstacle to the president's efforts to forge a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians during his last year in office.
Ehud Olmert, the current Israeli prime minister, said this week that Bush's letter ...
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Breaking the Silence - Israeli Soldiers Speak Out
Friday, April 25th, 2008
By Stephen Lendman - RINF |
They're called "Refuseniks" but not for refusing to serve. They've done it proudly and courageously, and here's how "Courage to Refuse" members state their position:
"We, reserve officers and soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)....have always served in the front lines....were first to carry out any mission, light or heavy, (and we did it) to protect the ...
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Fisk: Hizbollah turns to Iran in war on Israel
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008By Robert Fisk in Teir Dibba, south Lebanon Tuesday, 8 April 2008 The Shia "martyrs" of this hill village are normally killed in the dangerous, stony landscape of southern Lebanon, in Israeli air raids or invasions or attacks from the sea. The Hizbollah duly honours them. But the body of the latest Shia fighter to be buried here – from the local Hashem family – was flown back ...
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Israel threatens Iran with destruction
Monday, April 7th, 2008An Israeli minister has threatened Iran with destroying the country if the Islamic Republic launches 'an attack on the regime'. "An Iranian attack against Israel would trigger a tough reaction that would lead to the destruction of the Iranian nation," National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said, AFP reported Monday. The minister, a member of prime minister Ehud Olmert's security cabinet, stressed however that Iran was unlikely ...
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Israel’s airport security questioned
Thursday, March 20th, 2008JERUSALEM - A civil rights group is challenging Israeli airport security practices. The group says Israel singles out Arabs for closer inspection, and that's racisim. But experts say the practice, which is known as profiling, is vital to security and saves lives. They say attackers aiming at Israeli aircraft are most likely to be Arabs. The Israeli civil rights group challenged the practice before the Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday. Israeli-Arabs ...
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‘Israel must be tried for war crimes’
Friday, March 14th, 2008DAKAR: The head of the world’s biggest Muslim body, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), called yesterday for Israelis to be tried by an international war crimes court for “heinous” attacks against Palestinians. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the 57-nation body - the second largest inter-governmental bloc after the UN - told an OIC summit in Senegal that Israel was repeatedly seeking to undermine foreign-brokered peace plans. “The situation ...
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The Story The Press Didn’t Have Time For
Friday, March 14th, 2008SAFA ABU SEIF, 12, was fatally wounded as she stood in an upstairs room of her home in the Gaza City district of Jabaliya 10 days ago. She was one of 27 children identified by United Nations staff among the 107 Palestinians who were killed in five days last week. Another 25 dead, including five women, were identified as unarmed non-combatants. The status of 13 more dead victims could not be ...
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Israel to boycott Al-Jazeera
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Israel will boycott Al-Jazeera over what it calls the channel's 'biased coverage' of the regime's military operation in Gaza. The regime's foreign ministry has held discussions on the matter and decided to impose an official embargo on the Qatar-based station in the coming days, deputy foreign minister Majali Wahbe told Army Radio on Wednesday. The ministry claimed that Al-Jazeera, in cooperation with Hamas, is inciting the ...
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Gaza conditions ‘at 40-year low’
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Gaza's humanitarian situation is at its worst since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, say UK-based human rights and development groups. They include Amnesty International, Save the Children, Cafod, Care International and Christian Aid. They criticise Israel's blockade on Gaza as illegal collective punishment which fails ...
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Israeli troops withdraw from Gaza
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Israel has pulled back its troops from the Gaza Strip with an army spokesman saying that military operations in the territory were "winding down". The move came after an intense Israeli assault that killed eight more Palestinians overnight on Monday, adding to the more than 100 people killed in the past six days. The Israeli army spokesman said: "Almost all our forces have already returned to Israel." Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, said ...
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UN rights chief urges probe into Gaza killings
Monday, March 3rd, 2008APP The top UN human rights official, reacting to the recent violence between Israel and the Palestinians,has called for an investigation into the reported killing of dozens of civilians, including children, in Gaza by Israeli military. While recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour condemned the Israeli Defence Force’s “disproportionate use of force,” in a statement issued ...
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Saudi Arabia accuses Israel of ‘Nazi war crimes’
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Daily Mail US ally Saudi Arabia compared Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip to Nazi war crimes on Sunday and called on the international community to stop what it called the "mass killings" of Palestinians. Israeli forces killed 61 people in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, the bloodiest day for Palestinians since an uprising against Israeli occupation began in 2000. Almost half the dead were civilians, including children. "Saudi Arabia, which condemns the ...
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Israelis kill 60 in Gaza offensive
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008The death toll of the Israeli assault on Gaza rises to 60 people on Saturday, marking it the deadliest day of fighting in the coastal region. Palestinian IMEMC news website quoted head of Gaza's emergency services, Dr Muawiya Hassanein as saying that there were at least 26 civilians among those killed. The dead included 5 children, the youngest of whom was just 2 days old, he ...
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Israeli War Minister Threatens Palestinian Holocaust
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Paul Joseph Watson | Propaganda Matrix Israel's Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai has provoked outrage after threatening Palestinians with a "holocaust," but the same media who obsessed about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "wipe Israel off the map" misquote are ...
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