A community portal about Israel with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The State of Israel is a country in the Western Asian Levant, on the southeastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon on the north...
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A community portal about Israel with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The State of Israel is a country in the Western Asian Levant, on the southeastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon on the north, Syria and Jordan on the east, and Egypt on the south-west. It has a population of over seven million people. Israel declared independence in 1948 and is the world's only Jewish state, although Israeli citizens include many other ethnic and religious backgrounds. Israel is the most industrially developed country in the Middle East and the region's only liberal democracy.
The clock is running out on opportunities to resolve the Israel - Palestinian conflict as right wing Jewish fundamentalists refuse to accept the reality of an independent Palestinian state. Saeb Erakat, chief Palestinian negotiator, confirmed there has been a formal request from his government to the European Union seeking its support for a unilateral declaration of independence. Erakat bluntly accused the Israel government of “stealing Palestinian lands and building settlements and barriers aiming to finish off the two-state project.” His comments resulted in threats from Israel officials that any unilateral action might lead to reprisals such as annexing more of the West Bank. Palestinians ...
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The United States has complained to Israel over rules that keep Palestinian-Americans from entering Israel, officials said Thursday. A travel update posted by the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem says that for some time, Israel has not permitted Palestinians who also hold American passports to enter through Israel's Ben-Gurion international airport, requiring that they use the Allenby Bridge land crossing from Jordan directly into the West Bank. Since spring this year, travelers using the Israeli-controlled bridge crossing have had their passports stamped permitting travel only in Palestinian controlled areas, the update said. Israeli Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabin Hadad said there is a general ban on ...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Fourteen-year-old Jum'a Ismail lives 50 km (30 miles) from the Mediterranean but had never seen the sea. The Palestinian youth had never set eyes on an Israeli civilian or an airport. Juma'a's horizons expanded this summer, when he left Jalazoun refugee camp in the occupied West Bank with "Birthright Replugged" on a trip taking Palestinian refugee children to Israel to visit the villages of their ancestors. "It's an attempt to get out, while they still can," said the program's creator, Dunya Alwan. Once Palestinian children turn 15, they must carry Israeli-issued West Bank identity cards and are no longer ...
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The United States said Wednesday it had complained to Israel about restrictions on the travel of US citizens of Palestinian origin, calling the measures "unacceptable." The State Department said that Israel has been issuing entry stamps for some travelers, mostly those of Arab ancestry, stating that they are only allowed in the Palestinian Authority and cannot transit through Israel. "We have made it quite known to the Israeli government ... that we expect all American citizens to be treated the same regardless of their national origin," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said. "These kinds of restrictions we consider unacceptable," Kelly told reporters. "We will ...
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I'm going to back up my friend Chaim over at Freedom's Cost , who's taking some flack for posting about a truth-telling video the jihadists are trying to get pulled off of YouTube... about Palestine. In my book -- Truth is TRUTH. I always tell the truth and always have facts to back me up. I have never accused anyone of anything without backup. Ever. And I am getting damn sick, too - of people telling me how "horrible" Israel is. I know what it's like to be accused of being abusive - usually by the SAME PERSON OR ENTITY THAT'S ABUSING YOU. It's ...
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The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, led by Mahmoud Abbas of the Fateh party, shut down a radio station on Friday that Israel claimed was causing interference to air control of the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, and arrested the station's ...
'It's not enough'Nov. 26, 2009, THE JERUSALEM POSTWith the patience of a taxi driver at a red light about to turn green, the Palestinian leadership responded to Wednesday's announcement of an Israeli moratorium on new settlement building with: "It's not enough!"Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's unprecedented moratorium is both substantive and symbolic - the appropriate response to a Palestinian settlement freeze demand that is both...
Ha'aretzIAF kills terrorist in northern GazaJerusalem PostThe statement added that some 770 Kassam rockets, mortar shells and Grad missiles had been fired at Israel since the beginning of 2009. ...Gaza based Resistance groups fire home made shells into the NegevInternational Middle East Media CenterPalestinian killed as IAF strikes Gaza rocket launchersHa'aretzGaza Strip: Four wounded in Israeli strikeAl-BawabaJewish Telegraphic Agency...
Israel's right-wing Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday a temporary easing of settlements put "the ball in the Palestinian court" as far as US-led peace efforts were concerned."The ball is now in the Palestinian court and we will see what happens," Lieberman said a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a 10-month easing of new Israeli construction in the occupied West Bank.
She hopes that her husband will be released as a part of a prisoner swap with Israel in exchange for Hamas militants freeing captured soldier Sgt. Gilad Schalit, seized ... day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also cautioned that a ...
Among them would be Marwan Barghouti, a popular ... appears that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to release more hard-core Palestinian militants than his predecessor, Ehud Olmert, fulfilling a key Hamas demand. Hamas also has ...
Unilateralism, diplomacy and nuclear warBy Louis Rene BeresTh Washington TimesTaking advantage of President Obama's "road map" to peace in the Middle East, Palestinian Authority leaders are now launching a new campaign to create "Palestine." Their plan, a diplomatic end-run around Israel, is to venture unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood in the West Bank (Judea/Samaria), Gaza and East Jerusalem. In essence, this plan would seek to...
IAF aircraft bombed two Hamas weapons plants in northern and central Gaza Strip overnight Saturday, as well as an arms smuggling tunnel in the southern Strip. Masked Palestinian terrorists... According to the IDF Spokesperson's Office, the attack was in response to the Kassam rocket launched at Israel on Saturday morning. Palestinian sources said five people were wounded in the attack. On Saturday morning, a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza hit...
Hamas's armed wing on Sunday said that armed groups in its Gaza Strip stronghold had finalised a deal to stop firing rockets into Israel, but said they would respond to Israeli raids."The agreement between (Ezzedine) Al-Qassam (Brigades) and other factions to stop rocket (fire) is not a sign of weakness," the group said in a statement.The agreement is "aimed at keeping together the internal front and the supreme national interest of the...
... rockets into Israel, but said they would respond to Israeli raids, one of which coincidentally happened also on Sunday, injuring seven Palestinians ... central Gaza used to make weapons. Palestinians said the target was a metal foundry.