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Hezbollah Syria push for gains in rebel stronghold
seize more rebel territory in the border town of Qusair on Saturday, sources on both sides of the conflict said.Rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad said additional tanks and artillery had been deployed around opposition-held territory in Qusair, a Syrian town close to the Lebanese ...
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Abbas under pressure to start talks without preconditions
PA official: Western FMs pressure Abbas to return to negotiating table even if Israel doesn't commit to settlement freeze, accept pre-1967 lines; PA president fails to update PA officials on meetings with ...
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Israel and Palestine Consequences of Deterrence
"Deterrence has to be maintained," said Gabi Siboni, a colonel for strategic affairs at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. "It was only a question of time until this moment arrived." It seems the Palestinians are of like mind. As things stand, this latest round of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was probably inevitable. Escalation and ...
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New book tells untold stories from Iraq
Photojournalist Michael Kamber joins MSNBC's Craig Melvin and fellow photojournalists Carolyn Cole and Ed Kashi to talk about his new book, "The Untold Stories From Iraq: Photojournalists on War" (University of Texas Press, May ...
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Apology to Professor Amiram Goldblum
Apology to Professor Amiram Godlblum In July 2008 I published in my information site (www.imra.org.il) a piece against Prof. Amiram Goldblum, wrongly attributing to him activity to bring back a convicted terrorist to continue his PhD studies at Hebrew University. The source of this false information was the journalist Gil Ronen, who quoted in part a totally wrong story by the journalist ...
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Hague on Syrian Crisis Hezbollah and Iran
Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat--During his Middle East tour last week, British Foreign Secretary William Hague focused on one major issue, namely the on-going Syrian crisis. Asharq Al-Awsat spoke with Hague at the residence of Peter Millett, the British Ambassador in Jordan. In this interview, Hague talked about the "Geneva 2" conference's chances of success, the difficultly of finding a ...
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Baghdad likes to live from crisis to crisis Civil war looms in Iraq
As Iraq edges closer to all-out sectarian civil war, with 400 people killed so far this month, Najmaldin Karim, governor of one of the country's most violent provinces, is pessimistic about the ability of the government in Baghdad to prevent greater turmoil. "This government is incapable," he says. "It likes to live from crisis to crisis, without managing any one of them. You ...
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Hezbollah confirms involvement in Syria conflict for the first time
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is fighting alongside the government troops in Syria. Hezbollah is a Shi’ite Muslim group and it is backing Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad who is from the minority Alawite sect – an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam. During a televised speech, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah confirmed for the first time the group’s involvement in the ...
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Syria’s River of Death
clashing along the frontline. Mohammed’s problem was that the frontline ran between the two places where he was buying and selling the clothes for his shop. So one morning in early March, Mohammed set out toward government-controlled territory, through checkpoints and the no-man’s land separating the two fighting forces, to buy merchandise. Many people cross the frontlines this way ...
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Excerpts Egypt Central Bank exceptional $ auction. Abbas hails
Excerpts: Egypt Central Bank exceptional $ auction. Abbas hails Kerry's efforts. Erdogan blames Syria for bombings.Failed Syria cyber attack on Haifa water.Israel re Syria border clashes. Hizbullah backs Assad troops in airport fighting May 25, 2013 +++SOURCE: Egypt Daily News 25 ...
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Syria opposition says kidnapped bishops in good health
In this undated combo picture released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church, left, and John Ibrahim of the Assyrian Orthodox Church, right, who were kidnapped Monday, in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria. (AP ...
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Kerry presses Egypt on economic reform says aid depends on it
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry urged Egypt to act swiftly on economic reforms to secure a $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan, saying the measures were needed to get further aid from the U.S. Congress, an American official ...
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Bahrain Journalists Association Holds Workshop
Manama-May-25(BNA) Bahrain Journalists Association (BJA) held a workshop under the theme "The Official Spokesperson .. Communication Skills with the Media". Culture Ministry Media Advisor Dr. Elie Flouty conducted the training in the presence of officials, journalists, students and public relations officers working in both the public and private sectors. The lecturer stressed ...
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Hezbollah leader vows victory in Syria for Assad
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah will fight to keep Syria's Bashar Assad in power. He also said Hezbollah fighers are fighting in Syria against Sunni Islamic ...
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Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) -- The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark ...
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How Baghdad Fuels Iraqs Sectarian Fire
The Iraqi government has hurled the country to the brink of a new civil war. In under a month, Baghdad launched a vicious assault on a Sunni protest camp, resulting in 44 deaths; executed 21 alleged Sunni terrorists in one day, and suspended the licenses of 10 satellite channels, 9 of them deemed pro-Sunni. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s message to his country’s extremely ...
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Syria rebels fight on as peace talks pressure mounts
Hezbollah-backed assault on a strategic central town as pressure grew on the opposition to attend a peace conference after the regime agreed to do so. The main opposition National Coalition has met in Istanbul for three days trying to overcome deep divisions over Russian and US proposals to convene a conference to which representatives of President Bashar al-Assad would be invited without any ...
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State Secy Kerry Tackles Benghazi Syria
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry promised Monday the Obama administration will do everything possible to protect U.S. diplomats serving overseas, vowing to spare no expense in the effort. "The dangers of diplomacy are not unique to this moment in time: our diplomatic missions didn't become dangerous that night in Benghazi," Kerry told a group of State Department trainees. ...
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Shaikha Jawaher visits Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Sharjah: Shaikha Jawaher Bint Mohammad Al Qasimi, Wife of the Ruler of Sharjah and Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs, recently visited Syrian refugees in Lebanon on her first humanitarian visit following her designation as Eminent Advocate for refugee children by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees ...
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Mid-air sightseeing tour turns into tragedy in Turkey
ISTANBUL - Two Brazilian tourists died Monday and 23 other people were hurt after two hot-air balloons collided in a beauty spot in central Turkey, officials ...
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Excerpts Hariri re Hizbullah fighting in Syria.Preventing weapons fromSyria reaching Hizbollah.Israel re weapon to Hizbullah via Syria.Qatar-funded Al Jazeera U.S. launch.Syrian May 20 2013
Excerpts: Hariri re Hizbullah fighting in Syria.Preventing weapons from Syria reaching Hizbollah.Israel re weapon to Hizbullah via Syria. Qatar-funded Al Jazeera U.S. launch.Syrian May 20, ...
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Syrias Electronic Army attempted attack on Haifas water system
an Israeli official announced Saturday . Professor Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, chairman of Israel's National Council for Research and Development, said that hackers loyal to Assad launched an attack on the computers that control the Israeli city's water. It appears to be retaliation for Israeli attacks on Damascus targets earlier this ...
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Syria Qusayr under heavy army shelling
The Syrian border town of Qusayr came under heavy shelling on Saturday as the country's army launched a three-pronged attack on the rebel-held town. The army offensive to recapture Qusayr began last Sunday, and the rebels in the town said they ...
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Terrorists to Get Game-Changing Syria Weapons
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Just days after alleged Israeli airstrikes near Damascus, the head of the Lebanese terrorist group, Hezbollah, says he's ready to receive "game-changing" weapons from Syria. "Syria's response to Israel's airstrikes is to tell Israel that if your goal was to prevent boosting the resistance's capabilities, then take note," Sheikh Hassan ...
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Nasrallah says Hezbollah will bring victory to Syrian ally Assad
Israel 's interests in the region. "We will not rely on anyone like all the battles before this one: We will be its people, its men, and we will be the ones who bring it victory," he said, speaking from an undisclosed location. "We will continue to the end of the road, we accept this responsibility and will accept all sacrifices and expected consequences of this ...
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Israel and Palestine as one country?
Peace in the Middle East, it’s as illusive now as it was ten years ago and ten years before that. For many commentators, peace in the Middle East has become a myth, something local and international governments strive for or claim to support without any real hope of realization of the goal. With the current impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ongoing, an old theme is being kicked around again, that of a single state that incorporates Israel and Palestine.
A single state solution is an idea that grew up in the 1920s and then died with the Six-Day War when divisions between the newly-founded Israeli state and the rest of the region were too entrenched for the idea to retain any traction. The political landscape after the war and even today is what many Jewish groups feared when Jewish Zionists were calling for a return to the biblical homeland to develop a Jewish state. Read more
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