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Israel to withhold tax transfers to Palestinians
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday roundly rejected the United Nations' endorsement of an independent state of Palestine, announcing it would withhold more than $100 million collected for the Palestinian government to pay debts to Israeli companies....
Tags: United Nations, National Government, Government, Construction, Politics
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Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim film
CERRITOS, Calif. (AP) — While the man behind an anti-Islam movie that ignited violence across the Middle East would likely face swift punishment in his native Egypt for making the film, in America the government is in the thorny position of...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Social Media, Punishment, Movies, Islam
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Israel toughens law against anti-Palestinian vandals
ReutersJERUSALEM, June 16 (Reuters) - Israel approved new measures on Sunday against Jewish ultranationalists who vandalise Palestinian property in a drive to mire security forces in sectarian violence in the occupied West Bank. Saying they sought to avenge...Tags: Punishment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Israel, Judaism
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Israel presses ahead with settlement expansion plans
ReutersJERUSALEM, June 13 (Reuters) - Israel is pressing on with plans for more than 1,000 new homes in two West Bank settlements, officials said on Thursday, moves that could complicate U.S. efforts to persuade Palestinians, seeking a construction freeze, to...Tags: Israeli Settlements, John Kerry, Ehud Barak, Israel, Construction
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Israel advancing large settlement construction plan
JERUSALEM -- As U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry is poised to return to the region, Israel is advancing a plan for a large-scale expansion of a West Bank settlement, according to Israeli media reports. Plans for more than 600 housing units in the...
Tags: John Kerry, Israel, Ehud Barak, Palestinian National Authority, National Government
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Israel shouldn't have to sacrifice for peace
Regarding the June 10 op-ed, "Olmert's peace plan shows deal in Israel is possible," by Trudy Rubin: Rubin, of the Philadelphia Inquirer, puts forth another give-back scheme for Israel to swallow, this one concocted by former Israeli Prime Minister...Tags: Israel, Woodrow Wilson, Government, Bashar Assad, Ehud Olmert
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J Street without spin
J Street describes itself as the "pro-Israel, pro-peace" lobby, and many news outlets accept that self-portrait without scrutiny. That's a mistake. Rabbi Daniel Gordis challenged J Street's 2011 leadership mission to Israel and the Palestinian Authority....Tags: Gary L. Ackerman, Religious Conflicts, Wars and Interventions, Politics, Palestine
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Trudy Rubin: Olmert's peace plan shows deal in Israel is possible
For skeptics who doubt a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians is still possible, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert argued passionately last week that now is the moment — and his plan is the answer. Olmert's plan, which is the...Tags: Peace Negotiations, Government, Ehud Olmert, Politics, Saudi Arabia
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Palestinian Authority picks Rami Hamdallah as prime minister
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The new Palestinian Authority prime minister is a British-educated academic with no political experience who will be charged with forming the fifth Palestinian government since 2006. But the tenure of Rami Hamdallah, 54,...
Tags: National Government, Government, Politics, Salam Fayyad, John Kerry
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Abbas names academic as new Palestinian prime minister
ReutersRAMALLAH, WEST BANK, June 2 (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has named a new prime minister to replace Western-favoured economist Salam Fayyad who quit in April and formally leaves office this month, a Palestinian official told Reuters on...Tags: Government, Fatah, Politics, Salam Fayyad, Mahmoud Abbas
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