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Israel: Attacker has hostages at Turkish Embassy (AP)

August 17th, 2010

AP - An Israeli official says a man is holding hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv after shots were fired outside.

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In Israel, Commerce amid Conflict (Time.com)

August 15th, 2010

Time.com - In Israel, Commerce amid Conflict

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Israel: No conditions for talks with Palestinians (AP)

August 15th, 2010

An Israeli army crane loads a part of a concrete wall in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. Israel removed Sunday a concrete wall placed in 2001 in order to protect Israelis against gunfire from the nearby Palestinian village of Beit Jala. The military said the removal was due to a reduced security threat and increased coordination with the Palestinian security forces. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Israel will not accept conditions for resuming direct negotiations with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Cabinet ministers affirmed in a meeting late Sunday, reflecting a…

In sign of calm, Israel removes gunfire barrier (AP)

August 15th, 2010

An Israeli army crane loads a part of a concrete wall in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. Israel removed Sunday a concrete wall placed in 2001 in order to protect Israelis against gunfire from the nearby Palestinian village of Beit Jala. The military said the removal was due to a reduced security threat and increased coordination with the Palestinian security forces. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Israeli army cranes on Sunday began removing a concrete barrier that shielded a Jewish neighborhood bordering the West Bank from gunfire — a sign that calm is taking…

In Israel, A Fight to Make the Wall More Inclusive (Time.com)

August 14th, 2010

Time.com - Women and other Jewish groups are fighting for the right of full religious access at the Jerusalem’s Western Wall

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Underneath Lebanon, Israel sees hidden battlefield (AP)

August 14th, 2010

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 21, 2010, an Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade takes position during training in a forest simulating military posts in south Lebanon, at the Elyakim training grounds in northern Israel. With tensions mounting along their shared border, Israel's military says Hezbollah is moving fighters and weapons into the villages of south Lebanon, building up a secret network of arms warehouses, bunkers and command posts in preparation for war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - With tensions mounting along their shared border, Israel’s military says Hezbollah is moving fighters and weapons into the villages of south Lebanon, building up a secret network of…

Police: Israeli also suspect in stabbing in Israel (AP)

August 13th, 2010

Elias Abuelazam, 33, attends an extradition hearing in Fulton County Superior Court on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, in Atlanta. Abuelazam, an Israeli citizen, is suspected in several stabbing attacts in Michigan, Ohio and Virginia. He was arresting at Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport before boarding a flight to Israel.(AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser, Pool)AP - The man accused of going on a three-state stabbing spree in the United States was also a suspect in a stabbing near his hometown in Israel. But what…

Hezbollah accuses Israel of Hariri assassination (AP)

August 9th, 2010

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a press conference through a video link held in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Aug. 9, 2010. Nasrallah offered up documents and other material that he said implicates Israel in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Among the material presented was what Nasrallah described as Israeli reconnaissance footage intercepted by Hezbollah of areas frequented by Hariri.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants presented aerial reconnaissance footage Monday that he said implicates Israel in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.


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Israel threatening to quit UN probe into flotilla (AP)

August 9th, 2010

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits before testifying in front of  a state-appointed inquiry commission into the Israeli naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Netanyahu testified Monday before his country's inquiry commission into the bloodshed aboard a Turkish ship that tried to break the Gaza blockade in May 2010, defending Israel's actions and suggesting Turkey had been seeking a confrontation. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)AP - Israel threatened Monday to pull out of a U.N. inquiry into a deadly raid on a Turkish flotilla heading for Gaza, after the U.N. chief said there is…

Rockets Fired from Sinai to Israel, Jordan: By Hamas or Bedouin? (Time.com)

August 6th, 2010

Time.com - After cities in Israel and Jordan suffered attacks, suspicion fell on Egypt’s Sinai as a launchpad. But who launched the rockets?

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