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Moroccans protest Israeli's visit

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Several hundred people including Islamists demonstrated in Morocco's northern city of Tangiers on Thursday against the presence of former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni. The demonstrators, 250 according to police, 1,000 according to the organisers, condemned Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories ...

Israel's richest woman on vision-driven world peace quest

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Israel's wealthiest woman, Shari Arison, is on a vision-driven mission to lead the world to universal peace and inner harmony while her companies seek to bring about higher consciousness. "I think if the business world doesn't get it, they will eventually," says ...

Israel, Egypt squeeze Gaza tunnel business

Reuters US Online Report World News yesterday

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Fearing loss of life and money, Palestinians are abandoning tunnels that supply the blockaded Gaza Strip with everything from food to fridges to weapons. On the Gaza side of the border with Egypt, there is little activity ...

Israeli air strikes wound three in Gaza: Hamas

Reuters US Online Report World News 2 days ago

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes bombed two smuggling tunnels and a military training compound in the Gaza Strip Thursday, wounding three people, said officials in the Palestinian territory ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement. An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the air strikes ...

Little behind Obama's tough Mideast talk: analysts

AFP American Edition 2 days ago

The Obama administration is hardening its tone against Israel, but analysts warned Wednesday the tough talk was mere bluster hiding the lack of a viable plan to revive the Middle East peace process. "You've had three 'no's' to an American president in ...

Obama betrays frustration with Mideast stalemate

AFP American Edition 2 days ago

The Obama administration's rebuke of new Jewish settlements betrays growing frustration over the Arab-Israeli stalemate as the White House gropes for a way to revive peace negotiations, analysts said Wednesday. President Barack Obama's administration appears to have hit a brick wall 10 ...

Israel rebuffs criticism on settlements

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

Israel defended on Wednesday its decision to build hundreds of new Jewish homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem as US President Barack Obama warned the "dangerous" move pushed peace further away. New settlement construction "embitters the Palestinians in a way that could ...

MIDEAST ISRAEL INDIA MUMBAI ATTACK

AP News 2 days ago

Moshe Holtzberg, center, an Israeli child whose parents were killed at the Mumbai attack a year ago, receives his first cut for his third birthday in Kfar Chabad, Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty) Copyright 2009 AP News

Rejecting Obama, U.S. Jews push West Bank settlement

Reuters US Online Report World News 2 days ago

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President Barack Obama may be telling Israelis that building settlements round Jerusalem risks dangerously fuelling Palestinian anger, but some of his fellow Democrats brought the opposite message to the city on Wednesday. Dov Hikind, a member of New York ...

Israel fends off criticism of settlement expansion

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

Israel on Wednesday defended its move to build hundreds of new homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem amid warnings that it was undermining US-led efforts to relaunch Middle East peace talks. US President Barack Obama warned that new settlement construction "embitters the ...

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