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Lax Egypt border lets Hamas rearm: Israeli official (Reuters)

November 14th, 2010

Reuters - Egypt is not doing nearly enough to clamp down on arms smuggling into Gaza, allowing the Palestinian militant group Hamas to build up a potent arsenal of rockets,…

Israeli government seen accepting new settlement freeze (Reuters)

November 14th, 2010

An Israeli soldier holds a Palestinian boy during a protest by foreign, Israeli and Palestinian activists against a nearby Jewish settlement north of the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Hebron last month. Israel's cabinet will on Sunday consider a US incentives package designed to persuade it to impose a new settlement freeze that could kick-start stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.(AFP/File/Hazem Bader)Reuters - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will probably win narrow approval from his coalition government for a U.S. proposal to extend a freeze on West Bank settlement building, Israeli political…

Behind an Israeli Strike in Gaza, Help from Egypt (Time.com)

November 11th, 2010

Time.com - An Israeli missile assassinates a Gaza militant allegedly plotting against US forces in the Sinai Peninsula. Did Cairo provide the key assist?

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Israeli police, Arabs clash over rightist march (Reuters)

October 27th, 2010

Israeli riot police restrain a protester during clashes in Umm el-Fahm October 27, 2010. Israeli police on Wednesday fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse Arabs who were protesting against a rally by ultranationalist Jews in the Israeli-Arab city. Riot police charged about 200 Arabs who threw stones at them before retreating, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. REUTERS/Ammar AwadReuters - Israeli police on Wednesday fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse Arabs who were protesting against a rally by ultranationalist Jews in an Israeli-Arab town.


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Slain US activist’s parents face Israeli killer (AP)

October 21st, 2010

AP - The parents of an American protester crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip got their first chance Thursday to hear from the man…

Israeli settlers building 544 new homes after building ban lifted (AP)

October 20th, 2010

A Palestinian worker stands on a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. Israeli settlers have begun work on at least 544 new homes since Israel's 10-month-old moratorium on West Bank housing starts expired three weeks ago, according to an Associated Press count based on an extensive tour of settlements and interviews with mayors, construction workers and a contractor. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - Israeli settlers have begun building new homes at an extraordinary pace since the government lifted its moratorium on West Bank housing starts — almost 550 in three weeks,…

Palestinians say 1 dead in Israeli strike in Gaza (AP)

October 17th, 2010

Palestinian workers collect iron for use in new buildings from the ruins of a Gaza City beach front hotel that was destroyed during Israel?s 22-day military offensive in 2009. A delegation of the Elders group of retired world figures on Saturday visited the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and called Israeli restrictions on the Palestinian enclave both illegal and an obstacle to peace.(AFP/File/Mohammed Abed)AP - Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike has killed one and wounded two in northern Gaza.


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Israeli premier weighing new settlement curbs (AP)

October 6th, 2010

A Palestinian man carries broken branches of an olive tree which farmers say was cut overnight by Jewish settlers, in the northern West Bank village of Hawara, near Nablus, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. Palestinian farmers say Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar cut more than 50 olive trees overnight. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - Israel’s prime minister has been sounding out key Cabinet members on extending a freeze on new construction in West Bank settlements in hopes of keeping peace talks with…

Israeli PM weighing new settlement curbs (AP)

October 6th, 2010

A Palestinian man carries broken branches of an olive tree which farmers say was cut overnight by Jewish settlers, in the northern West Bank village of Hawara, near Nablus, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. Palestinian farmers say Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar cut more than 50 olive trees overnight. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - Israeli officials say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been sounding out key Cabinet ministers on extending a freeze on new construction in West Bank settlements but is encountering…

Israeli settlers to resume West Bank construction (AP)

September 27th, 2010

A bulldozer works in a construction site in the Jewish settlement of Adam outside Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. With a midnight deadline looming, Israel's prime minister on Sunday called on West Bank settlers to 'show restraint' after the end of a government-ordered construction slowdown, attempting to lower tensions with the Palestinians and prevent a breakdown in newly relaunched Mideast talks. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Israeli settlers say they will slowly resume building new Jewish homes in West Bank settlements — just hours after a construction ban that helped jump-start Mideast peace talks…

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