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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007By Ori Lewis Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday played down expectations for a peace deal with the Palestinians before the end of 2008 as laid out at a U.S.-sponsored peace conference last week. "We will make an effort to hold speedy negotiations in the hope we may conclude by the end of 2008, but certainly there is no commitment for a firm timetable for their completion," Olmert said at ...
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The Spy Who Wants Israel to Talk
Monday, November 12th, 2007By David Ignatius Efraim Halevy, the former head of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, titled his memoirs "Man in the Shadows." But now that he's out in the sunlight, the 72-year-old retired spy chief has some surprisingly contrarian things to say about Iran and Syria. The gist of his message is that rather than constantly ratcheting up the rhetoric of confrontation, the ...
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Is Israel About to Attack Hizballah?
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Israeli soldiers secure the gate at the Rosh Hanikra border crossing between Israel and Lebanon October 15, 2007.
Gil Cohen Magen / Reuters
Is Israel laying the ground for preemptive air strikes against targets belonging to the militant Shi'ite group Hizballah in Lebanon?
Tensions have been building along the Lebanon-Israel ...
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Israel arrests West Bank activists
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007Israeli troops have arrested a number of Palestinians in a raid on the Balata refugee camp, east of the West Bank city of Nablus. Dozens of Israeli military vehicles raided the camp early on Wednesday, after a standoff between fighters in the camp and Palestinian security forces, Hassan al-Titi, Al Jazeera's correspondent, reported. The Palestinian Authority had deployed his own troops to ensure security in the area, but Israel said it was ...
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UN document confirms Israel hit Syrian nuclear reactor?
Friday, October 19th, 2007Update: UN caught redacting document; Update: It was a translation error, claims UN By Allahpundit Via Dan Riehl, Fox News has picked up the scent of that bizarre story I linked in the Bush post this morning about the Syrian ambassador to the UN allegedly admitting during a UN committee meeting that Israel’s air raid on September 6 hit some sort of nuclear facility. And they’ve got a ...
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Hizbullah: If Israel attacks Syria, we’ll respond
Friday, September 28th, 2007Senior members of Lebanese, Palestinian organizations vow to stand by Damascus if Jewish state launches war. 'Doors will be open which have not been open before. Israel will pay a heavy price,' they warn Roee Nahmias P { MARGIN: 0px } UL { PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 16px ...
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U.S. Nuclear Weapons Being “Guarded” by Israel
Friday, September 28th, 2007
American supporters of Israel were delighted to learn that an Israeli company, Magal Security Systems-owned in part by the government of Israel-is in charge of security for the most sensitive nuclear power and weapons storage facilities in the United States.The largest perimeter security company in the world, Magal started out as a division of Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI)-which was owned in part ...
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Israel Opens Criminal Probe of Prime Minister
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007By Robert Berger A new corruption scandal is dogging Israel's embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, it could distract him from efforts to revive the peace process with the Palestinians.
Ehud Olmert looks on during cabinet meeting, 25 Sep ...
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Israel Says Tension with Syria Subsiding
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007By Robert Berger Israel is playing down tensions with its arch-enemy to the north - Syria. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, there are new moves to bring Syria into the Middle East peace process.
Ehud Olmert, 24 Sep 2007
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel ...
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North Korea accuses US of helping Israel develop nuclear weapons
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007AP SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of actively providing nuclear weapons assistance to Israel while seeking to deprive other countries of the right to peaceful nuclear programs. North Korea's top nuclear negotiator, meanwhile, denied accusations that his country had cooperated with Syria on a secret nuclear project. The United States is "shutting its eyes" to the nuclear programs of its allies ...
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Syria strike: US shared intelligence with Israel
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007By Leonard Doyle Before it bombed Syria, Israel provided the US with intelligence suggesting that North Korea was secretly supplying Damascus with nuclear technology, The Washington Post newspaper claimed yesterday. However, there is considerable scepticism of the intelligence that prompted Israel's attack, with some proliferation experts querying whether Syria is even attempting to acquire nuclear weapons. The quality of the Israeli intelligence is also unknown, as is the extent of ...
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Iran has plan to take out Israel should they attack Iran
Friday, September 21st, 2007Nazila Fathi A SENIOR Iranian military official has warned that Tehran has prepared a plan to attack Israel if Israel bombs Iran. "We have drawn up a plan to strike back at Israel with our bombers if this regime possibly makes a silly mistake," General Mohammad Alavi, the deputy commander of Iran's air force, said. General Alavi spoke after remarks by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who said on Sunday that ...
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Syrian official: Damascus eager to respond to Israel flyover
Friday, September 21st, 2007Senior Ba'ath official tells Arab-Israeli reporter there is growing consensus among Syrian leadership for need to retaliate to reported Israeli violation of Syrian airspace Roee Nahmias P { MARGIN: 0px } UL { PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 16px } OL { PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; ...
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Arabs push through nuclear vote against Israel
Friday, September 21st, 2007AFP Arab states on Thursday pushed through a resolution at the UN atomic agency clearly aimed at Israel, calling for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons. The UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted an Egyptian-sponsored resolution on a nuclear weapons-free-zone in the Middle East with Israel and the US voting against and EU states except Ireland abstaining. The lack of consensus weakened the impact of the measure, at a general ...
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Syria says Israel aims to torpedo peace
Friday, September 14th, 2007By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria's U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday that Israel's motive in flying warplanes into its airspace was to torpedo the peace process, but he did not make a specific request for the U.N. Security Council to meet. Israel has refused to comment on the air strikes on September 6 but U.S. officials have confirmed them. Analysts say likely targets were weapons ...
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