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February 17, 2014

Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas in Gaza

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Gaza’s Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas on January 7. Church bells were rung and the Christians exchanged seasonal greetings with their Muslim neighbours. Contrary to common misconceptions, Palestinian...

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February 17, 2014

Extreme right-winger says Israelis can’t have peace with Palestinians

The leader of the extreme right-wing Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, has claimed that Israelis “cannot have peace with the Palestinians”, who he called “the enemy”. Bennett was speaking...

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February 17, 2014

Former Mossad chief: truce in Gaza is not the end of fighting

A former head of Mossad said on Tuesday that the recent truce with Hamas does not mean the end of fighting; the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported. Efraim Halevy,...

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February 17, 2014

Qatar announces further $2.5 billion economic aid for Egypt

Qatar has announced that it is to provide another $2.5 billion to support the Egyptian economy; $500 million will be an outright grant and $2 billion will take the...

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February 17, 2014

Israel to build an electrified fence on occupied Golan Heights

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that his country is to build an electrified fence on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The aim, he claims, is to prevent...

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February 17, 2014

Peres acknowledges that Arafat was assassinated by Israel

Hamas has called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stop all forms of negotiations with the occupation authorities following Shimon Peres’s de facto acknowledgement that Israel was behind the...

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February 17, 2014

Netanyahu shows “cowardice” on Palestinian issue as he leads Israel towards isolation

American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who is close to Barack Obama, claims that the US president told him that Benjamin Netanyahu displays “cowardice” on the Palestinian issue and is “leading...

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February 17, 2014

Obama accused of “gross interference” in Israeli internal affairs

Officials from Israel’s Likud party on Tuesday accused US president, Barack Obama, of interfering in internal Israeli affairs after he sharply criticised Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli media...

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February 17, 2014

Jordan “on verge of exploding”

A journalist specialising in Arab affairs has said that the situation in Jordan is on the verge of exploding. Smadar Perry, who writes for Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, noted...

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February 17, 2014

Israelis detain dozens more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

Israeli occupation forces have arrested dozens of Palestinians in a sweep through several towns in the occupied West Bank. The men who were arrested are members of Islamic Jihad,...

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