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Netanyahu sees difficult talks ahead
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23 - 08 - 2010
Israel sets up Gaza probe, Hamas sees cover-up
Israel's cabinet approved Monday an Israeli inquiry into a deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, responding to international demands for impartiality by putting two foreign observers on the panel. The decision coincided with growing signs that Prime (...)

15 - 06 - 2010
Israel denies report on nuke arms sale offer
Israel described as baseless Monday reported findings in a new book that it offered to sell nuclear warheads to South Africa in 1975. Britain's Guardian newspaper said documents, uncovered by a US academic researching Israel's ties with South (...)

25 - 05 - 2010
Israeli troops kill Palestinians in WB
Israeli troops killed two Palestinians who tried to stab a soldier Sunday, the Israeli army said, in West Bank violence that placed further strain on US efforts to get indirect peace talks under way. The deaths raised to four the number of (...)

22 - 03 - 2010
Israel seals off West Bank amid tension
Israeli forces sealed off the West Bank and massed riot squads around Occupied Jerusalem's Old City and Arab neighborhoods during Friday prayers, facing down Palestinian anger over Jewish settlement expansion. Four Palestinians were detained on (...)

13 - 03 - 2010
Israel, Palestinians set for talks
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday Israel hoped to begin indirect negotiations with the Palestinians next week during a visit by Washington's Middle East envoy. Palestinian officials said they wanted the US-mediated talks to focus (...)

05 - 03 - 2010
Israeli police storm Al-Aqsa compound
Israeli police stormed the compound housing Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem Sunday after Palestinians threw stones at visitors at the most sensitive holy place in the city. The confrontation added to tension running high after Israel's (...)

01 - 03 - 2010
Israel plans to build more homes in East Jerusalem
Israel has plans to build another 600 homes in occupied land that it considers part of East Jerusalem, the Haaretz daily newspaper reported Friday. The plan, approved by a district planning commission, could further hamper US-brokered efforts to (...)

27 - 02 - 2010
Israeli court orders ‘apartheid road' open
Palestinians and human rights activists dubbed it the “apartheid road”. Many Israeli drivers simply called the Palestinian-free route to Occupied Jerusalem safe. Israel's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Highway 443, which cuts through the (...)

31 - 12 - 2009
Palestinians stripped of Jerusalem status
Israel stripped Palestinians of Occupied Jerusalem residency status last year at a faster rate than at any time in the history of the Jewish state, an Israeli rights group said Wednesday, citing official Israeli statistics. “Revocation of residence (...)

03 - 12 - 2009
‘Jewish terrorist' stirs fear of Israeli radicals
confessed killer dubbed “The Jewish Terrorist” has shown how far settlers may go to stop Israel trading land for peace with Palestinians and the risks even lone attackers can pose to stability in a tinderbox region. So concluded many Israelis as (...)

04 - 11 - 2009
Mitchell no closer to deal on M-E talks
US envoy George Mitchell and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended more than two hours of talks Tuesday without any sign of a deal on a settlement freeze crucial to restarting Middle East peace talks. News of the success or failure of (...)

16 - 09 - 2009
US, Israel strike settlement deal – report
An Israeli newspaper said Wednesday Israel had won agreement from the United States for the continued construction of 2,500 housing units in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, despite US calls for a freeze. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev (...)

09 - 07 - 2009
Settlers taking over East Jerusalem
Israeli settlers are waging court battles to evict dozens of Palestinians from homes in an East Jerusalem neighbourhood, a move threatening to widen Israel's rift with US President Barack Obama over settlements. They are trying to claim plots of (...)

02 - 06 - 2009
Israeli commander says rabbis pushed ‘religious war' in Gaza
Rabbis in the Israeli army told battlefield troops in January's Gaza offensive that they were fighting a “religious war” against gentiles, according to one army commander's account published on Friday. “Their message was very clear: we are the (...)

21 - 03 - 2009
Israeli rivals divided over Palestinian state
Differences over Palestinian statehood are likely to scupper Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to forge a broad government with his main rival, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, an official of his Likud party said on Thursday. The hawkish Netanyahu, tapped (...)

27 - 02 - 2009
Israel threatens harsher attacks
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert threatened Sunday a “disproportionate response” to the continued firing of rockets into Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. At least two rockets struck southern Israel Sunday. A wing of Al-Aqsa Martyrs (...)

02 - 02 - 2009
Israeli election seen as coalition talks flop
Israel stepped closer to an early election on Friday when a Jewish religious party refused to join a new coalition under Tzipi Livni, the designated successor to scandal-hit outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Unless reversed, the decision of the (...)

25 - 10 - 2008
Israeli website brands Pope with swastika
A photograph of Pope Benedict emblazoned with a superimposed Nazi swastika appeared Monday on an Israeli website run by self-proclaimed supporters of the governing Kadima party. It was later removed, and replaced with a picture of a smiling (...)

21 - 10 - 2008
Bush rejected Israeli strike plan on Iran
Israel gave serious thought earlier this year to a military strike on Iran's nuclear sites but was told by US President George W. Bush he would not support it, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported Friday. Quoting what it called senior diplomatic (...)

27 - 09 - 2008
Settlers take over more West Bank land
Israeli authorities and settlers have seized large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank for security zones around Jewish settlements beyond an Israeli-built barrier, a human rights group said on Thursday. In a new report, the Israeli B'Tselem (...)

12 - 09 - 2008
Israel detains 12 Palestinians in WB
Israeli security forces detained 12 Palestinians near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron overnight, a military spokeswoman said on Friday. “The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) arrested 12 wanted Palestinians in Beit Kahil,” she said. “The men were (...)

06 - 09 - 2008
Olmert, Abbas to meet in Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet in Jerusalem on Wednesday, a week after Olmert threw US-sponsored peace talks into limbo by announcing that he would step down. Aides said Olmert favored freeing (...)

06 - 08 - 2008
Olmert's rivals jostle for leadership
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's rivals jostled for Israel's leadership on Thursday after his decision to resign but aides said he could remain in office long enough to forge a statehood deal with the Palestinians. Dogged by corruption scandals, Olmert (...)

01 - 08 - 2008
Full Israel-Palestinian deal not in reach: Olmert
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told parliament on Monday a full Israeli-Palestinian peace accord that includes Jerusalem was not within reach this year but said differences over borders and refugees were bridgeable. US President George W. Bush had (...)

29 - 07 - 2008
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