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Israel's top court backs bar on Palestinian spouses

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:33:28 +0000

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s top court has upheld a law denying citizenship to Palestinians married to Israelis, with one judge saying it helped the Jewish state fend off “national suicide”. By a 6-to-5 vote, the Supreme Court late on Wednesday rejected petitions against the 2003 ban, which civil liberty groups denounced as racist for potentially forcing members of Israel’s 20-percent Arab …

Report: Lebanese suspected of spying for Israel

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:26:08 +0000

Lebanese media report the army has detained a Lebanese man on suspicion of collaborating with Israel’s Mossad spy agency.

Israels prime minister shelves contentious bill on selection of supreme court judges

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:44:54 +0000

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Israel kills al Qaeda-linked chief in Gaza strike

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:42:45 +0000

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters)- Israel killed the leader of an al Qaeda-inspired faction in the Gaza Strip on Friday, accusing him of involvement in firing rockets and a planned attack on the Jewish state from the neighboring Egyptian Sinai. The deadly air strike was Israel’s second against a Salafi Islamist militant this week. Militants identified him as Momen Abu Daf, chief of the Army of Islam …

Speculation that Israel has nuclear weapons deters Iran

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:53:20 +0000

President Peres says that mystery, rumors surrounding Dimona nuclear facility serves as a powerful deterrent against Israel’s enemies: “Iran is very dangerous, but there is no need to get hysterical.”

Karlik to be sentenced for Oshrenko family murder

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:48:57 +0000

Prosecutors have asked for six life sentences in what they dubbed the “worst murder case in Israel’s history.”

Israel mustn't politicize the Armenian genocide – Haaretz

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:35:52 +0000

Sydney Morning Herald
Israel mustn’t politicize the Armenian genocide
Haaretz
The possibility of officially recognizing the Armenian genocide was for years weighed in terms of Israel’s foreign-policy interests in Turkey, on the one hand, and fear over the loss of the concept of “Holocaust” as an exclusive Jewish “property” on …
Israel’s Turkish dilemma: To lead with head or heart?Jerusalem Post
Israel Risks New Turkish Ire with Recognition of Armenian GenocideNew York Times
Israel hints that Turkey was guilty of its own ‘holocaust’The Independent
CNN

Clarification: Israel's National Security – TIME

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:40:12 +0000

Press TV
Clarification: Israel’s National Security
TIME
By Joe Klein | @JoeKleinTIME | December 19, 2011 | + ‘

Obama says support for Israel unshakable

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:16:01 +0000

President Barack Obama told a Jewish group Friday that his administration has done more than any other in support of Israel’s security, and he declared his commitment to Israel to be “unshakable.”

Shooting Israel / 'Sad beauty' – Haaretz

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:32:37 +0000

Haaretz
Shooting Israel / ‘Sad beauty’
Haaretz
Jungjin Lee’s photo of Midreshet Ben-Gurion reveals her interpretation of the Land of Israel as a metaphor – as something that can be anywhere, she says. By Ofer Aderet “In this picture I show Israel’s sad beauty,” the Korean photographer Jungjin Lee …

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