A classified report drafted by European consuls in East Jerusalem and Ramallah slams Israeli policy in East Jerusalem and recommends that the European Union take steps to strengthen the Palestinian Authority's status in the city. It also advises ta… Continue
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009 08:24 News from Jerusalem
European Union foreign ministers are expected to officially call next week for the division of Jerusalem, to serve as the capitals of both Israel and Palestine. A draft document authored by the current holder of the rotating EU presidency, Sweden, an… Continue
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Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times
Palestinian women tried to hold a gate to a home closed as Jewish nationalists who had taken over the house by court order came to move into the property on Tuesday in East Jerusalem.
By ISABEL KERSHNER
Published: December 1, 2009
JERUSALEM — Jewish national… Continue
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By Anshel Pfeffer and Gili Izikovich, Haaretz Correspondent
The Israel Defense Forces Spokesman's Office is to begin drafting computer experts with an eye toward establishing an Internet and new media department unit, Army Spokesman Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu said Monday.
Speaking at the Eilat Journalists Co… Continue
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A Swiss newspaper said that a number of UN employees in Geneva have concluded that Israel is eavesdropping on UN court sessions. The Neue Zuericher Zeitung (NZZ) added that bugging devices have been found in the organization’s deliberations room in the Swiss capital.
The newspaper pointed that duri… Continue
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The Wikileaks website is publishing pager messages sent on the day by 9/11 witnesses. Photograph: Graham Morrison/AP
The unfolding secret story of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon is being told today when more than 500,000 intercepted pager messages, many from… Continue
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Mossad does not give uniformed police advance notice of training sessions
A trainee spy for Israel's secret service agency Mossad was arrested by Tel Aviv police while taking part in a training operation, media reports say.
The young trainee was spotted by a female passer-by as he plante… Continue
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Recently Americans have begun to read and hear that “Israel receives $3 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid.” That’s true. But it’s still a lie.
One can truthfully blame the mainstream media for never digging out these figures for themselves, because none ever have… Continue
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More international community members condemn Israel over plans to authorize construction of 900 new housing units at Gilo, a settlement built illegally on Palestinian land occupied in the 1967 war.
China criticized the Israeli government’s move to expand a Jewish neighborhood in the part of Jerusalem, Al-… Continue
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At first, the prime minister boarded Navy gunship Eilat, where he spoke with the crew. He was then to meet with a naval commando unit. To do so, he used a ladder to go from the gunship to a rubber boat. He was joined by the IDF chief of staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, and the head of the Israel Navy, Eli… Continue
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Although Israel has been insisting for quite a while that there is no crisis of relations with the United States, Israeli officials were surprised Tuesday by the harsh American, British, regional and International responses to the approval of building 900 new housing units in the occupied Jerusalem neighbo… Continue
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Those who want to suppress the facts have dishonestly contacted YouTube and claimed that the video "If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing!" was a Terms of Service Violation. The video is clearly NOT a TOS violation. You can see why they don't want you to see it. The user "rbdevon4" was a smartass contacting me with this message: "You have violated YouTube terms of use policy with your anti-Semitic hate videos. You must remove them IMMEDIATELY! Thank you for your cooperation."… Continue
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has accused Israel of fabricating evidence it says implicates Egyptian security forces in helping Hamas militants smuggle arms into Gaza, and warned Israel not to ruin its ties with Egypt.
Mubarak's comments were made to Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth and were carried by Egypt's state news agency MENA on Thursday, a day before publication of the interview in Israel.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said this week Egypt was doing a "terribl… Continue
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
20-Year-Old Letterhead points to Israeli Forgery in Francop Affair
Iran's PressTV says it has caught Israel forging documents in an attempt to implicate Iran in arms smuggling.
The Israelis have been maintaining that a ship, the Francop, that their forces boarded near Cyprus originated in Iran and was bringing arms to Hizbullah and Hamas. Many US news outlets published the accompanying picture, which seemed to indicate that the arms were being supplied by the Ministr… Continue
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TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Israeli photos depicting shipping documents pointing to an alleged Iranian arms delivery to Hezbollah are forgeries, Iranian media claims.
The Israeli army in early November said it unloaded 36 containers of weapons at the Israeli port of Ashdod from the Antigua-flagged vessel Francop.
Thirty tons of weapons, rockets, missiles, hand grenades and ammunition were hidden behind thousands of plastic polyethylene bags, the army
said.
Israel claimed the Iranian- and Russian… Continue
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