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22 min ago | The Washington Post

Peres calls on Palestinian leader not to quit

Israeli President Shimon Peres addresses a mass rally marking the 14th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv on Saturday Nov.

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Related Topix: Middle East, World News, Shimon Peres,

4 hrs ago | National Post

Pro-Israeli Canadian lawyer ejected from UN

Guards ejected an accredited Canadian commentator from the United Nations after she denounced a controversial report that focuses heavily on alleged Israeli war crimes.

3 comments

Related Topix: Middle East, World News, Palestine, TX

9 hrs ago | St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Local police said that ballistics tests showed there had been only one shooter.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan seemed in a hurry to give his worldly belongings to a neighbor.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

13 hrs ago | Jewish Federation of Delaware

France says Abbas' absence a threat to peace

France's foreign minister says Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' decision not to run for re-election is a "threat to peace" in the Middle East.

2 comments

Related Topix: Middle East, World News, Palestinian Territories

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Jewish Federation of Delaware

Norway dismisses Israel war crimes complaint

Prosecutors have dismissed a complaint filed by a group of Norwegian lawyers accusing Israeli leaders of war crimes over its deadly incursion into Gaza last year.

5 comments

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

WTOL-TV Toledo

Cousin: US shooting suspect felt anti-Muslim bias

A cousin of the man suspected of shooting fellow soldiers at a Texas military base says he had little contact with his Palestinian relatives in the West Bank but had told family there that he suffered discrimination in the U.S. Army because he is a Muslim.

12 comments

Related Topix: Palestinian Territories, Middle East, World News, US Army, US Military

The Chronicle Herald

Israel: shipment of weapons by Iran amounts to war crimes

Israel said Thursday that Hezbollah could have bombarded the Jewish state for a month with the weapons confiscated in the country's largest-ever arms seizure, and called on the world to focus on the Lebanese militants' chief backer, Iran, rather than assailing Israel.

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Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Lebanon,

The Jewish News Weekly

Islamist anti-Semitism leading to Kristallnacht sequel?

On Nov. 9, 1938, a massive, nationwide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich.

3 comments

Related Topix: World News, Germany, Middle East

MSNBC

NYT: Hasan was a mortifieda about deployment

Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents' wishes.

23 comments

Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, World News, Middle East, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Fort Hood, TX, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Reuters Video

Israel: arms shipment a "war crime"

Nov. 4 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the seizure of an alleged arms shipment to Hezbollah proves Israel's enemies are guilty of war crimes.

4 comments

Related Topix: Middle East, World News, Video

WICD

General Assembly urges Gaza investigations

The U.N. General Assembly is calling on Israel and the Palestinians to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter's conflict in Gaza.

6 comments

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

Salon

Israeli settlements could cause one-state solution

The West Bank Jewish settlement of Beitar Ilit is seen through a barbed wire fence, Friday, Sept.

3 comments

Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Opinion

Forward

Rachel Shabi's Fight Against Israeli Anti-Mizrahism

Described by Gerald Jacobs in the London Telegraph as "an important document, which should be read by everyone worried about the Middle East," Rachel Shabi's "You Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands" is an impassioned argument against the neglect of the country's Middle Eastern identity, evidenced by the ...

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hosted Christian Science Monitor | Christian Science Monitor

Following murders, Israelis ask if immigration laws too lax

Intense diplomatic efforts aimed at resurrecting peace talks notwithstanding, the issue currently transfixing Israelis is how to come to grips with a series of high-profile, deeply violent crimes committed by immigrants.

In the past week, the arrests of two emigres accused of multiple murders have pressed Israelis to rethink national priorities and relatively lax immigration laws.

In both cases, the alleged perpetrators had previous records in their countries of origin - Russia and the United States - one of them the subject of an open extradition request that Israel never fulfilled.

2 comments

Related Topix: Middle East, World News, Prison

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Epoch Times

Cargo Ship With Weapons Intercepted En Route to Syria

The Israeli military display hundreds of tonnes of arms seized at dawn on a ship bound for Syria and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, around 100 nautical miles from the Israeli coast, at the port of Ashdod on Nov.

5 comments

Related Topix: Terrorism, Shimon Peres

The Columbian

Analysis: For Clinton, tough talk but few results

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's tense exchanges with Pakistani civilians and Arab diplomats over a harrowing week of foreign stops exposed the confining limits of her office.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Asia, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Middle East, Portsmouth, NH

BBC News

Israelis 'seize Iran arms ship'

Israel's navy has seized a cargo ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of weapons which it says was destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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Guardian Unlimited

UN to call for Gaza war investigations

Around 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the three-week war, which saw rocket strikes on a UN school.

21 comments

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T.H.E. Journal

M86 Security Acquires Finjan

Six months after acquiring malware detection company Avinti, security vendor M86 Security has gone shopping again, this time acquiring Finjan, which sells Web gateway appliances and software.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

WHDH

Israel: Gaza rockets can reach metro Tel Aviv

Hamas militants in Gaza have successfully test-fired an Iranian rocket able to reach Israel's largest urban center, the country's military intelligence chief said Tuesday.

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