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3 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Has the ball been dropped on Iran?

From the looks of things, the ball on Iran has been dropped, or the ball is in the Barack Obama court and Kerry is on the bench.

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8 hrs ago | Ynetnews

Murdered Bedouin sisters laid to rest

Dozens of family members on Friday attended the funeral of the two young sisters murdered in the southern Bedouin village of al-Furah this week.

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12 hrs ago | Jerusalem Post

Hamas: Israel poisoned Gaza patients with gas

Hamas Health Minister Mofeed al-Mokhalalati accused Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients in Gaza by providing the hospitals in the Strip carbon monoxide gas posing as nitrous gas, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday.

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14 hrs ago | Boston Herald

Kerry's focus on peace talks, not settlements

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations.

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14 hrs ago | Lake Wylie Pilot

Kerry blasts Iranian election maneuvering

TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.

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16 hrs ago | Jerusalem Post

Details of Olmert's peace offer to Palestinians exposed

In interview with Jerusalem Post Group Hebrew magazine Olmert says he blames Livni and Barak for breakdown of negotiations with Palestinians; magazine obtains map sketched by Abbas with offered Israeli territorial concessions.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Ehud Olmert, China, Religion, Judaism

Thu May 23, 2013

International Business Times

Israel Condemns Foreign Correspondents' 'Vulture Club' on Muhammad al-Durrah Death

Footage of the incident captured by TV network France 2 showed Palestinian Jamal al-Durrah attempting to shield his 12-year-old son Muhammad from crossfire in Gaza City in September 2000.

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Jerusalem Post

Walking buses: Parents bring kids to school on foot

"It's like a big caterpillar, a lot of legs and a lot of kids," Orit Yoav, one of the parents leading the project at Amirim elementary school in Binyamina, said on Thursday.

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Jerusalem Post

'Israel backing Hungary to chair Holocaust forum'

The Foreign Ministry is backing Hungary's quest to assume the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2015, Hungarian prime ministerial chief adviser Zsigmond Perenyi told .

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Jerusalem Post

UK, Israel agree to expand scientific cooperation

Two sides agree that scientific and research projects will be increased despite calls in Britain for academic boycott of Israel.

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Jerusalem Post

Couple charged with killing woman, melting body

State indicts Ze'ev and Olga Gorelik for allegedly murdering Iris Gorelik Visilib and melting her body with chemicals to cover up the crime.

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Israel in the Gardens | Hotel offers lap of luxury in a breathtaking landscape

Stroll the moonlike terrain along the rim of the Ramon Crater in southern Israel and you'll feel like you're walking on the edge of the world.

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The Charlotte Observer

Israel says Iran unaffected by world pressure

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague, left, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint news conference before their meeting in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 23, 2013.

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Jerusalem Post

Five Cars vandalized in latest 'price tag' attack

Police said five vehicles parked on one of the main streets in the neighborhood of Gilo, in southwestern East Jerusalem, were vandalized in a "price tag" attack early Thursday morning, allegedly by Jewish extremists.

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Nashoba Publishing Online

Back in time

If you decide to check out the new Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston, make sure you don't touch anything -- some of the artifacts are 3,000 years old.

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Jerusalem Post

Prominent Chechen advocate shot dead in Turkish capital

A prominent figure in the Chechen diaspora in Turkey was shot at his Ankara office late on Wednesday, a North Caucasus refugee association said, the latest in a series of killings of Chechens and their sympathisers in the country in recent years.

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Jerusalem Post

Peres sends condolences to British queen over London attack

President Shimon Peres sent a letter of condolences to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, expressing his shock and sadness over the attack on a soldier in London on Wednesday.

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GPB.org

A Decade In The Making, West Bank Barrier Is Nearly Complete

Ibrahim Shomali, a Palestinian priest, offers communion under the olive trees of the Cremisan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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Jerusalem Post

France backs call to put Hezbollah on EU terror list

France is ready to support a British initiative to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist organization, an official said on Thursday, confirming comments by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.

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Wed May 22, 2013

The State

Palestinians have little faith in Kerry effort

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks during a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, right, in Amman Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

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