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A 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah that failed to achieve Israel 's objectives while feeding into Hezbollah's mythology as Lebanon's "liberator." (middleeast.about.com....rofile.htm)
Egyptian security forces shot dead a Sudanese man trying to cross into Israel on Tuesday. A total of five African migrants have now been killed crossing the border so far this year. (www.amnesty.org....r-20080221)
Another man from Ivory Cost bled to death on 19 January after he was shot in the thigh at the border with Israel . A Sudanese and a Guinean were arrested. (www.amnesty.org....r-20080221)
(Beirut, July 28, 2006) Since July 12, when Hezbollah captured two Israel i soldiers, Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in consistent and intense hostilities in which civilians in Lebanon and Israel have overwhelmingly been the victims. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(New York , July 12, 2007) One year after the Israel -Hezbollah war began, serious violations of the laws of war by both sides in the conflict remain unpunished, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(New York , July 5, 2007) One year after the Israel -Hezbollah war began, serious violations of the laws of war by both sides in the conflict remain unpunished, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(Washington, DC, January 29, 2007) Preliminary US government findings that Israel violated agreements with the United States by its use of cluster munitions in Lebanon last summer should lead to an immediate cutoff of all US cluster munitions sales to Israel , Human Rights Watch said today. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
Preliminary US government findings that Israel violated agreements with the United States by its use of cluster munitions in Lebanon last summer should lead to an immediate cutoff of all US cluster munitions sales to Israel . (Run time: 4:14) (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(Jerusalem, October 18, 2006) – Hezbollah fired cluster munitions into civilian areas in northern Israel during the recent conflict, Human Rights Watch reported today. This is the first time that Hezbollah’s use of these controversial weapons has been confirmed. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(New York , August 30, 2006) The critics of reports such as " Fatal Strikes: Israel 's Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon ", have been ferocious. They have not merely deployed the common defense of accusing the accusers of getting the facts wrong. They have gone much further and accused the accusers of bad intent. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(Nabatiyeh, August 17, 2006) United Nations deminers beginning emergency survey and clearance work in the south of Lebanon have identified 10 locations where Israel used artillery-delivered cluster munitions during the recent hostilities, Human Rights Watch reported today. Human Rights Watch researchers in Lebanon have inspected two of those sites in the village of Kfar Roummane. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(New York , August 8, 2006) The United Nations should immediately launch an international investigation into civilian deaths in Lebanon and northern Israel , Human Rights Watch said today. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council today, Secretary -General Kofi Annan concluded that the effects of the conflict on civilians in Lebanon and Israel require a comprehensive investigation. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(New York , August 5, 2006) Hezbollah must immediately stop firing rockets into civilian areas in Israel , Human Rights Watch said today. Entering the fourth week of attacks, such rockets have claimed 30 civilian lives, including six children, and wounded hundreds more. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(Beirut, July 31, 2006) –Day after day, Israel i government spokesmen insist that everything they are doing accords with international humanitarian law. Endless communiqués insist that Israel 's behaviour is "proportionate". Let us be blunt: those claims are fantasy, as the carnage in Qana has shown once again. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(Beirut, July 20, 2006) – Israel must allow relief convoys safe entry into and passage inside Lebanon, and take all feasible precautions to avoid attacking them, Human Rights Watch said today. Border towns in Lebanon are already facing serious shortages of food and medicine, and are in urgent need of supplies. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(New York , July 18, 2006) – Hezbollah's attacks in Israel on Sunday and Monday were at best indiscriminate attacks in civilian areas, at worst the deliberate targeting of civilians. Either way, they were serious violations of international humanitarian law and probable war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
(New York , July 13, 2006) — Hezbollah and Israel must not under any circumstances attack civilians in Israel and Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on all sides to scrupulously respect the absolute prohibition against targeting civilians or carrying out attacks that indiscriminately harm civilians. Read More (hrw.org....l_lebanon/)
There was no sign of progress in the latest round of talks. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Abbas and Olmert "reviewed" the issues without reaching agreement and set another meeting in two weeks. Israel 's government spokesman said the two leaders met privately for an hour and with their teams for another hour. (www.salon.com....estinians/)
Erekat said Abbas raised concerns about Israel 's blockade of Gaza and pushed for the release of Palestinian prisoners. Israel clamped a blockade on Gaza after the Islamic militant Hamas overran the territory last June. (www.salon.com....estinians/)
"Israel is considering what the Palestinians raised and we reiterated our commitment that there should not be a humanitarian crisis in Gaza," said Israel i spokesman Mark Regev. (www.salon.com....estinians/)
A different warning came from Israel i Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, the lead Israel i peace negotiator. She said "the passage of time" is not in Israel 's favor. (www.salon.com....estinians/)
She also said the Palestinians must understand that "the path to a Palestinian state will have to run through Israel i security," restating Israel 's demand that Palestinians crack down on militants attacking Israel . (www.salon.com....estinians/)
Graham, while some people have reported favorably on English-language GPS units in Israel , others have complained that all the English variants in spelling destinations in Israel made them borderline useless. I'd get good maps and save the frustration. (www.tripadvisor.com....srael.html)
The results are that Israel i society has changed beyond recognition. Israel was once a role model, one of the worldâs most advanced and sophisticated social democracies, proud of its modern welfare system and trying to maintain as equal and just a society as possible. (newsweek.washingtonpost.com....srael.html)
Israel is still a vital democracy, but it is a democracy in decay. The champions of social justice and rational distribution of national wealth â the fighters of corruption â struggle to swim upstream. Israel in 2007 has further lost its old ideals and its soul. (newsweek.washingtonpost.com....srael.html)
Israel 's helping with the economics. It currently taxes electric vehicles at 10 per cent and petrol at 72 per cent, and the government has promised to keep the electric car tax at that level until at least 2015. The switchover to electric vehicles is where the mobile phone model comes in. (www.theregister.co.uk....r_project/)
Congregation Tifereth Israel , a two-story, wood-frame structure that was built in 1911 and is believed to be the oldest purposely built synagogue in Queens, received city landmark status last week. (www.nydailynews.com....landm.html)
Feb 21st, 2008 UNITED NATIONS - Iran urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to condemn Israel 's recent warning that it had not ruled out using military force against the country's nuclear program. (www.salon.com....an_israel/)
It was Olmert's clearest sign yet that he would be willing to use force to counter what Israel sees as a threat to its existence. Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has said the Holocaust is a "myth" and called for Israel 's elimination. (www.salon.com....an_israel/)
February 18, 2008 - DOES Barack Obama have an Israel problem? The golden-throated senator has pledged unflagging loyalty to the Jewish state on his campaign Web site, and unequivocal support for Israel &s right to defend itself. As far as his staff is concerned, end of story. (www.nypost.com...._98223.htm)
Issue No. 2: Obama&s had trouble distancing himself from Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter &s national security adviser, who claims the United States& special relationship with Israel is the result of Jewish pressure , not mutual good. (www.nypost.com...._98223.htm)
Feb 20th, 2008 RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinians should follow Kosovo's example and unilaterally declare independence if peace talks with Israel fail, a senior Palestinian official said Wednesday, but the Palestinian president said the proposal was premature. (www.salon.com....estinians/)
Qureia said the negotiations with Israel are serious and are touching on all major issues, but concurred with Abed Rabbo that no progress has been made so far. (www.salon.com....estinians/)
Talks have been troubled by continued Israel i construction in areas the Palestinians have claimed for a future state. Under the internationally endorsed "road map" peace plan, which is the basis of the renewed negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel is to cease all settlement activity. (www.salon.com....estinians/)
The first phase of the road map also requires the Palestinians to dismantle militant groups. The Palestinians say they have made progress in this area, but Israel says they still have a long way to go. (www.salon.com....estinians/)
David's devoted the past two decades of his life to settling Hebron and multiplying as fast as possible, in the hopes of one day "returning Hebron to Israel ." But he fears his country of birth, America, will curb his ambitions if he doesn't act fast enough. (newsweek.washingtonpost.com....ca/israel/)
Israel is a small country with seven million people , unfriendly neighbors, and relatively high taxes. So why does it have the second-largest concentration of startups per capita after Silicon Valley? Jon says the two places are more similar than one would think. (newsweek.washingtonpost.com....ca/israel/)
Migrant shot dead trying to cross Egypt/Israel border 21 February 2008 Egyptian security forces shot dead a Sudanese man trying to cross intoIsrael on Tuesday – a total of five African migrants have now beenkilled crossing the border so far this year. (www.amnesty.org....erritories)
JERUSALEM (AP) Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel cannot trust a Palestinian leadership in which the Islamic group Hamas has a role, his office said Thursday. (www.usatoday.com....amas_x.htm)
Israel has repeatedly asked Abbas to force Hamas and other militant groups to disarm but Abbas has refused, warning such an act could cause civil war. (www.usatoday.com....amas_x.htm)
Israel 's government, caught off guard by the Hamas parliamentary landslide after its vaunted intelligence services predicted a slim victory for Abbas' Fatah Party, said it would have no contacts with a Palestinian government that includes Hamas. (www.usatoday.com....ians_x.htm)
Hamas' unwillingness to change could have a devastating effect on the aid-dependent Palestinian economy, struggling to recover from nearly five years of fighting with Israel . (www.usatoday.com....ians_x.htm)
"At this point, Hamas has to make a choice. The onus is on them," he said. "If you want to be part of the political process . you need to recognize Israel , you need to disarm and you need to renounce terror and violence. The choice is theirs." (www.usatoday.com....ians_x.htm)
A poll published in the daily Yediot Ahronot on Friday showed 48% of Israel is questioned said Israel should negotiate with Hamas, while 43% said Israel should not. The poll of 500 people had a 4.5 percentage point margin of error and was conducted Wednesday, before Hamas' victory was announced. (www.usatoday.com....ians_x.htm)
But those with minds not dominated by religious thinking understand that relations between Turkey and Israel have long been friendly, with basically continuous mutual recognition since 1949 . (www.grokyourworld.com....it_by.html)
The reasons have nothing to do with religion, but rather ethnicity: both Israel and Turkey are NON-Arab countries in the middle of the overwhelmingly Arab 60; ummah 61; nation that stretches from Morocco to the Persian Gulf 51; (www.grokyourworld.com....it_by.html)
where you find the Iranians 51; also a NON-Arab people, who, until the overthrow of the Shah in 1979 by Shiite political Islam, ALSO had excellent relations with Israel . (www.grokyourworld.com....it_by.html)
In this context, the next interesting aspect here is the ambivalence of Turkey towards Israel NOT because of religion, but, rather, reasons of nation-state prerogatives: (www.grokyourworld.com....it_by.html)
On the one hand, Turkey knows their entry into the European Union will be much easier if they make clear they are pursuing their country57;s historically friendly relationship with Israel . (www.grokyourworld.com....it_by.html)
In that context, the extraordinarily close relations between Israel and the leadership of both Kurdish parties in Iraq is a source of MAJOR concern for the Turks, who recognize how valuable Israel i help would be if the Kurds decide to set up their own state . (www.grokyourworld.com....it_by.html)
Therefore, they have to walk a fine line in their dealings with Israel 51; something the Sharon regime will no doubt try to exploit in its deeply misguided effort to hold off the just and inevitable emergence of a Palestinian state. (www.grokyourworld.com....it_by.html)
Relations between Turkey and Israel had been developing steadily since they established full diplomatic relations more than a decade ago. They became strained last year when Mr. Erdogan sharply criticized what he called Israel 57;s violent policies toward the Palestinians, and his government briefly recalled two diplomats. (www.grokyourworld.com....it_by.html)
JERUSALEM (AP) Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared victory for his centrist Kadima party in Israel 's elections Tuesday, vowing to act on his own if necessary to draw Israel 's final borders and "painfully" uproot Jewish settlers if negotiations with the Palestinians are not possible. Related Video Photos ) (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
Building on the vision of Sharon, who formed the party shortly before succumbing to a devastating stroke that left him in a coma, Olmert claimed a mandate to withdraw from much of the West Bank and set Israel 's borders, which he has said he will do by 2010. (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
The turnout was the lowest in Israel 's history, and the results showed voters turning away from conventional political parties to an assortment of third parties with agendas ranging from pensioner rights to the legalization of marijuana. The aftermath will likely be a period of difficult negotiations between Olmert and potential coalition partners. (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
"In the coming period, we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel , a Jewish state with a Jewish majority," Olmert said. "We will try to achieve this in an agreement with the Palestinians." (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
As Israel held its election , the Palestinian parliament approved a new Cabinet led by the Hamas militant group. Incoming Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told Al-Jazeera television that he opposed Olmert's plan. "Such a plan definitely won't be accepted by the Palestinian people or the Palestinian government," he said. (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
Turning to the Palestinians, Olmert said: "We are prepared to compromise, give up parts of our beloved land of Israel , remove, painfully, Jews who live there, to allow you the conditions to achieve your hopes and to live in a state in peace and quiet." (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
"The time has come for the Palestinians . to relate to the existence of the state of Israel , to accept only part of their dream, to stop terror, to accept democracy and accept compromise and peace with us," he said. (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
Israel i officials have ruled out talks with Hamas unless the Islamic group renounces violence and accepts Israel 's right to exist, demands Hamas has so far rejected. It remains unclear whether Olmert would negotiate with Abbas without a change in Hamas' position. (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
''In the coming period we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel , a Jewish state with a Jewish majority. We will try to achieve this in an agreement with the Palestinians. This is our hope and prayer.'' (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
Olmert, the vice prime minister and former mayor of Jerusalem, took over the party after Sharon suffered a devastating Jan. 4 stroke and immediately became the favorite to win the elections. Much of Kadima's campaign was built around Sharon, Israel 's most popular politician, and his legacy resonated with many voters. (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
Likud, which had dominated Israel i politics for decades, was crushed, appearing to capture less than a third of the 38 seats it won in the last election . Netanyahu, the former prime minister and current party head, warned that further unilateral withdrawals would bring Hamas closer to Israel . (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
A strong majority of voters turned away from Likud and Labor, the only two parties that have ever ruled Israel , to vote for the new Kadima and fringe parties. Though other attempts to create a strong centrist party in Israel have failed, analysts said Sharon's personal popularity gave Kadima its edge. (www.usatoday.com....ions_x.htm)
TEL AVIV , Israel (AP) The Israel i military planned a daring assassination attempt against Saddam Hussein in 1992 52; a plot that would have involved landing commandos in Iraq and firing sophisticated missiles at him during a funeral, an Israel i legislator and media said Tuesday. (www.usatoday.com....ddam_x.htm)
The top commanders of the Israel i military were at the base to watch the exercise, including the chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Ehud Barak, later Israel 's prime minister. (www.usatoday.com....ddam_x.htm)
We urge the European Union not to limit its action topurely calling for an end to the siege but also to applypolitical and practical pressure on Israel , Hamas officialSami Abu Zuhri said. (news.yahoo.com....el_gaza_dc)
On Thursday, EU lawmakers urged Israel not to inflict collective punishment on Gaza&s population, saying itsisolation of the territory had failed and its actions wereendangering civilians. (news.yahoo.com....el_gaza_dc)
Israel tightened its blockade on Gaza last June after Hamasrouted forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas &s Fatah movement and seized control of the impoverished coastal territory.Israel said its tightened restrictions were in response tocross-border rocket fire by Gaza militants. (news.yahoo.com....el_gaza_dc)
Shunned by the West for refusing to renounce violence afterbeating Abbas&s Fatah faction in a parliamentary election twoyears ago, Hamas says it would cease fire if Israel stopped itsmilitary operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. (news.yahoo.com....el_gaza_dc)
pbs.org/newshour/images/spacer.gif alt="> A final report on Israel 's 2006 Lebanon war issued Wednesday that had threatened to derail Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government found "failures and shortcomings" by Israel 's political and military leadership. (www.pbs.org....01-30.html)
Winograd, however, said Olmert was acting in what he thought was "the interest of the state of Israel ," quoted the Associated Press - largely sparing Olmert from the lashing some had expected from the report. (www.pbs.org....01-30.html)
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