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Israel and PA Launch So-Called Direct “Peace” Talks in Washington
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct talks in 20 months Thursday, starting the clock on a daunting one-year deadline to reach a so-called “peace” between Israelis and Palestinians. After a day of weighty symbolism and lofty rhetoric at the White House, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. "I want to thank all of ...
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Iranian Ambassador: Ahmadinejad in Beirut during October
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Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi said Thursday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Lebanon during October. Speaking to reporters following a meeting with Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the Grand Serail, the Iranian ambassador said that he has conveyed to Hariri regards from Ahmadinejad and Vice President Mohammad Rida Rahimi and recognition of his efforts to enhance the commercial, economic, scientific and ...
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Assad: No One Should Dare Touch Resistance and Its Arms
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Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar quoted on Thursday Syrian President Bachar Assad as warning that Hezbollah’s rifle was directed at Israel. According to the Lebanese daily, Assad recently told his guests that no one should dare touch the resistance and its arms. The newspaper also quoted Assad as calling for restraint in Lebanon and unification of weapons to confront the Israeli enemy. Damascus visitors told al-Akhbar that the ...
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Political Play-Making: The Hopelessness of Israeli-Palestinian ‘Direct Talks’
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By: Ruqayyah Shamseddine September 1, 2010 Direct talks between the Palestinian Authority and Prime Minister Netanyahu are scheduled to begin on September 2nd in Washington, and already the Israeli government has presented its steadfast and unwavering decision in respect to the settlement freeze in the West Bank: Settlement building would resume on the 26th of September according to Netanyahu. The 10 month Israeli curtailment on construction in ...
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Settlers Resume Settlement Construction Defying “Peace Talks”
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Hours before “peace talks” were set to begin in Washington, Israeli settlers defiantly announced plans on Thursday to launch new construction in occupied West Bank enclaves. Naftali Bennett, director of the settlers' Yesha council, said settlers would begin building homes and public structures in at least 80 settlements, breaking a partial government freeze on building that ends on September 26. "The idea is that de facto it (the ...
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Ahmadinejad to Visit Qatar on Sunday
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to make a brief visit on Sunday to Qatar, Iran's closest ally among the Gulf Arab states, the Iranian ambassador in Doha, Abdollah Sohrabi, said. Ahmadinejad will hold talks with Qatari emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on issues including the Palestinian question and the devastating floods in Pakistan, Sohrabi told reporters on Thursday. "The visit will last for a few hours," he ...
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Israel, US Plotting on Settlement Talks
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It seems that the US is optimistic concerning “peace talks” between Israelis and Palestinians despite the fact that the Palestinian reaction had been resilient on settlements freeze while Israel had rejected it. “Direct peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority can be concluded within a year,” U.S. special Mideast envoy George Mitchell said Tuesday, hours before the talks were set to begin in Washington. ...
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NATO Airstrike Kills 10 Civilians: Afghan Authorities
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An Afghan official said Thursday that 10 election campaigners had been killed in an airstrike by international occupation forces in the relatively peaceful north of the country. Two other people, including a candidate in the September 18 parliamentary elections, were injured in the air raid in Rustaq district, in Takhar province, provincial government spokesman Faiz Mohammad Tawhedi told AFP. The men were travelling in ...
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Lahore Mourns Triple Bombing Victims as Death Toll Rises
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The death toll from suicide attacks that targeted a busy procession in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore rose to 31 on Thursday as six people succumbed to their injuries, officials said. Three suicide bombers targeted a Shiite mourning procession made up of thousands of people on Wednesday at the moment of the breaking of the fast in the holy month of Ramadan, wounding hundreds. It was the first major attack in Pakistan since ...
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The political exploitation of the Burj Abu Haidar incidents aims at covering false witnesses and undermining evidence implicating Israel in Hariri's assassination
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