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Friday, September 14th, 2007By Tim Butcher in Tel Aviv A US official has confirmed that Israeli warplanes carried out an air strike "deep inside" Syria, escalating tensions between the two countries. Israel considers retaliation in Gaza The target of the strike last Thursday remained unclear but Israeli media reported that a shipment of Iranian arms crossing Syria for use by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon was attacked....
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Israel told to let Arab farmers onto their land
Thursday, September 6th, 2007By Tim Butcher
Palestinians celebrate Israel's high court order that the West Bank security barrier should be moved
Israel's high court caused jubilation among Palestinian human rights campaigners when it ordered yesterday that a section of the West Bank security barrier should be ...
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West Bank boys survive on Israeli settlers’ garbage
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007By Steven Erlanger As the truck unloaded, the children pounced on the garbage like flies. Some swung aloft on the hydraulic pistons that opened the back, then dropped onto the mound of trash to grab a piece of metal, a crushed can, a soda bottle or a stinking T-shirt. One boy slipped and disappeared for a moment beneath the garbage as the truck lumbered forward to ...
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Israel Assassinates 11 Yr Old Sitting In A Fig Tree
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007By Mahmoud Al Qarnawi The Israeli occupying forces shot intensively at a child on Friday, while he was sitting in a fig tree in Seida village, near the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem. 11-year-old Mahmoud Al Qarnawi was left bleeding on the ground by the Israeli troops. When his mother asked the soldiers if her son was alive, they said "maybe". The child had Israeli ...
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Nazi Death Documents Given to Museums
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007By Ed Johnson An international body documenting Nazi atrocities against Jews during World War II sent millions of files to Holocaust museums in the U.S. and Israel, as it prepares to open its archive to the public. The documents, from more than 50 concentration camps, include transportation lists, medical reports and ``death books'' detailing those who perished, the International Tracing Service said in a statement yesterday. ``These documents reflect the most ...
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Britain cuts arms to Israel due to feers of Human rights violations
Thursday, August 16th, 2007The British government has blocked almost one third of British military exports to Israel this year, citing possible threats to regional stability and fears the equipment might facilitate human rights violations. According to official figures, the value of UK military sales arms to Israel declined by one third last year, and has fallen by a drastic 75 percent since 2005. "There is evidence that the British government's export control policy to ...
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Israel ‘delays’ in shooting inquiry
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Al Jazeera and agencies
Israel has responded to British demands for a new inquiry into the death of a British journalist shot dead by an Israeli soldier.
The Israeli attorney-general asked for more information from Britain on Tuesday as a deadline passed for him to respond to a letter requesting he consider expert analysis of a videotape of James Miller's death.
But the family ...
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Israel receives new British request over 2003 journalist killing
Sunday, August 5th, 2007AFP Israel said on Sunday it has been asked by Britain to reopen the case of the 2003 killing of a British journalist in Gaza by suspected Israeli fire. A month and a half ago we received a new request from British justice authorities," the justice ministry said in a statement, without elaborating. "This request is being examined by organisations and institutions concerned and a response will be provided in accordance with the ...
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Israel Seems Determined to Dig its own Grave
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007By Patrick Seale What would it take to persuade Israel to rethink its attitude towards its Arab neighbours - and primarily towards the Palestinians? The Hamas victory in Gaza is surely a clear signal that an Israeli change of direction is urgently needed. All Israel's efforts to break the democratically-elected Hamas government have failed. Its policies of boycott, siege and starvation, of bombing and shelling, of extra-judicial murder, of withholding ...
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Egyptian spy dies in UK
Friday, June 29th, 2007![Marwan is reported to have feared for his life after being accused of being a spy for Mossad [AFP]](http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2007/6/28/1_223187_1_5.jpg "Marwan is reported to have feared for his life after being accused of being a spy for Mossad [AFP]")
An Egyptian billionaire who allegedly spied for Israel in the 1970s has been found dead outside his home in London.
Ashraf Marwan, the ...
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Egyptian convicted of spying for Israel
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007![Ali admitted taking documents from his work, but pleaded not guilty to the charge of spying [EPA]](http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2007/6/25/1_222979_1_5.jpg "Ali admitted taking documents from his work, but pleaded not guilty to the charge of spying [EPA]")
A nuclear engineer at Egypt's atomic energy agency has been convicted of spying for Israel and sentenced to life in prison.
Mohamed Sayed Saber Ali was accused ...
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Israel Launch New Satellite To Spy On Iran
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007AP Israel launched an advanced spy satellite into orbit yesterday, giving it a sophisticated new tool in its efforts to collect intelligence on archenemy Iran and other regional adversaries. Israeli space officials said the Ofek-7 satellite can pick up even small objects from space, and that information will be shared with the U.S. Senior officials from Israel's space program said the satellite will significantly improve Israel's intelligence capabilities, allowing it to view objects ...
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Israel knew Six Day War was illegal, Secret Memo Reveals
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Donald Macintyre A senior legal official who secretly warned the government of Israel after the Six Day War of 1967 that it would be illegal to build Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories has said, for the first time, that he still believes that he was right. The declaration by Theodor Meron, the Israeli Foreign Ministry's legal adviser at the time and today one of the world's leading international jurists, ...
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Israel to continue assassinations
Monday, May 14th, 2007
Israel's security cabinet has approved more assassinations of suspected Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip.
Officials say the decision is necessary to stop rocket attacks on southern Israel, but the operations have been condemned by human rights groups for putting Palestinian civilians at risk.
The move comes after the Israeli ...
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‘War is peace’
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007Orwellian theories are being acted out in Israel - as persecution against Palestinians begins to echo 1984. Nimer Sultany It is one thing to read George Orwell and Franz Kafka, it is quite another to live their texts. For us - Palestinians - Orwell and Kafka are not works of fiction but concrete reality. Israel's persecution of Azmi Bishara, the prominent Palestinian scholar, ...
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