The illegal settlement of Ariel, south of Nablus and well inside the occupied West Bank, will be part of Israel in any agreement reached with the Palestinians. This claim...
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News An Egyptian expert on Israeli affairs has claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "lives in a house belonging to an Egyptian family". According to Hussein Siraj, the two-storey...
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News Following Israel's announcement of the construction of more settlements in East Jerusalem and the subsequent statements issued by various officials in the US administration, the Israeli ambassador in Washington,...
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News By Samir Abul Haija Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been declared to be the country's "most corrupt", followed by the current occupant of the hot seat, Benjamin...
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News Israeli sources today reported the failure of talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barak Obama. After three hours of negotiations, the two sides failed to reach any...
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News Hopes for the proposed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have been hit by claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not accept any peace agreement...
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News Occupied Jerusalem/Washington The Wall Street Journal has reported that toward the end of last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a formal letter to US President Barak Obama...
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News If as now expected, the delayed "proximity" talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority resume this week, it is expected that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu will demand that...
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News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the formation of a legal panel to examine ways to legalise settlement-outposts in the Occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Media reports in...
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News Israel's Foreign Minister has warned Benjamin Netanyahu that the governing coalition will fall part if the Prime Minister doesn't take punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority for its decision...
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News Israel's Minister of Defence has criticised his country's Prime Minister for the escalating diplomatic crisis with Turkey. Media sources in Israel say that Ehud Barak has for the first...
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News Israeli MPs have held an extraordinary session called by the opposition parties over accusations about who should take the blame for the failure of negotiations with the Palestinians. Opposition...
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News Israel's Prime Minister has expressed his cabinet's readiness to consider any Egyptian request to amend the Camp David accords to allow for an increase in the number of Egyptian...
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News The Palestinian Authority (PA) denounced what it described as an attempt by the Israeli government to escalate the tensions in the occupied West Bank before the PA seeks a...
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News Political sources close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have said that a shift has occurred in Israel's position on the diplomatic crisis with Turkey as efforts continue to resolve...
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News Media sources in Israel have warned about the escalation of international legal campaigns to pursue Israeli officers and officials on charges on war crimes against the Palestinian people. According...
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News Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has confirmed his government's commitment to the construction and development of occupied Jerusalem, through the implementation of a number of Judaization projects supported by...
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News Israel's political elite have welcomed US President Barack Obama's retreat from his call for the establishment of a Palestinian state along the June 4th 1967 borders. In an address...
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News An opinion poll conducted by Israel's Dahaf Institute has revealed that just over half of Israelis do not reject the release of any number of Palestinian detainees, including those...
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News Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the Palestinian Authority and its security apparatuses to regulate Palestinian rallies commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), the name given...
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News The people's revolutions sweeping the Arab world "undermine stability and add possible threats" to the state of Israel, according to the Zionist state's Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny...
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News A leading member of Fatah's Central Committee has claimed that the latest intense Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip "prove that Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is trying to...
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News The ex-Chief Negotiator of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation has rejected the Israeli Prime Minister's demand for the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah to choose between Israel or Hamas. Dr. Saeb...
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News The leader of the opposition in Israel, Tzipi Livni, has made a scathing attack on the Israeli government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. She accused him of breaching trust and...
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News The Israeli embassy in Washington has been preoccupied with organising a number of meetings between the Israeli Minister of Defence, Ehud Barak, and several members of the US Congress....
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News The Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, MK Mohamed Baraka, has warned the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, about his government's attempts to exploit existing conditions in Egypt to...
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News Well-placed Israeli sources have disclosed that the Zionist state has offered to place "all its capabilities" at the disposal of General Omar Suleiman, the recently appointed Vice President of...
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News Hebrew newspaper sources have revealed the existence of an "urgent" message sent by the Israeli government at the end of last week to a number of world leaders. Aimed...
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News The International Network for Rights and Development has claimed that Israeli logistical support has been sent to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak to help his regime confront demonstrations demanding that...
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News A member of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, has called the Turkel Report "a professional and moral scandal for the Israeli judiciary". Taleb El-Sana MK, who heads the Arab Democratic...
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News Israel's Prime Minister has held a meeting with the Middle East Quartet Envoy to discuss the latest developments in the region. Media reports claim that Benjamin Netanyahu and Tony...
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News A conference of ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews in West Jerusalem has called for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the building of the "third temple" on its ruins. In response,...
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