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Israel Invites Foreign Envoys to Inspect Iran Arms Shipment
World (tags: middle-east, israel, iran, conflict, weapons, politics, terrorism, world )

Cal
- 2 days ago - jpost.com

Following the seizure of a massive shipment of Iranian arms bound for Hizbullah, the Foreign Ministry stepped up diplomatic efforts on Thursday, inviting foreign ambassadors stationed in Israel to come and inspect the container-loads of weapons captured b

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Palestinian Scare Tactic in Talks With Israel?
World (tags: world, middle-east, israel, news, politics, interesting, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', conflict )

Cal
- 2 days ago - msnbc.msn.com

Negotiator floats idea few like: one state where all live together

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Mousavi Supporters Clash With Police in Tehran
World (tags: iran, HumanRights, humanrights, repression, brutality, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', middle-east, violence, interesting, news, world )

Cal
- 3 days ago - reuters.com

Police clashed with supporters of Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi in Tehran on Wednesday when a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the storming of the U.S. embassy turned violent, witnesses said

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Clinton in Pakistan Encounters Widespread Distrust of U.S.
World (tags: world, war, violence, american, terrorism, politics, middle-east, pakistan, afghanistan, drones, missile, strikes, death, killing, questions )

Tom
- 6 days ago - latimes.com

Not only radicals, but college students and respected journalists question Washington's intentions in Pakistan. The U.S. government is seen as arrogant, domineering and insensitive to their plight, and drone missile strikes are likened to to terrorism.

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Take Action- Call On The U.N. To Act On Goldstone Gaza War Crimes Report
World (tags: petition, UnitedNations, war, terrorism, israel, middle-east, palestine, humans, humanrights, crime, children, death, violence )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - change.org

On October 16, the United Nation's Human Rights Council in Geneva voted to endorse the Goldstone report -- the report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict headed by Justice Richard Goldstone. The Report was the produc

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IRAN, ISRAEL: Avowed Enemies Allegedly Held Secret Nuclear Talks
World (tags: world, middle-east, israel, iran, conflict, government, interesting, war, politics )

Cal
- 12 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com

Reports are surfacing about a meeting that allegedly took place between an Israeli atomic expert and a senior Iranian official in Cairo in September to discuss the possibility of making the Middle East a nuclear-free zone.

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Kuwaiti Women Win Passport Rights
World (tags: world, society, humanrights, government, middle-east )

Daphna
- 15 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk

Kuwaiti women will be able to obtain their own passport without the consent of their husbands, following a ruling by the country's constitutional court. The court, whose decisions are final, said the previous requirement was in violation of g

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Saudi-Iranian Hostility Hits Boiling Point
World (tags: middle-east, conflict, world, interesting, politics, violence )

Cal
- 16 days ago - atimes.com

Conventional wisdom suggests that the terrorist strike by Jundallah in southeastern Iran on Sunday might have had the backing of the United States or Britain. But Jundallah today holds "fatal" attraction for a number of foreign powers that are interested

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Obama: US-Israel Ties Are 'More Than Strategic Alliance'
World (tags: world, israel, middle-east, politics, palestine, obama, u.s )

Cal
- 17 days ago - jpost.com

With the US continuing to have difficulty putting together a package that would relaunch Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, US President Barak Obama sent some warm words toward Israel on Tuesday night, saying Israeli-US relations were "more than a strategi

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GOOD NEWS---Banks Start Returning Holocaust Victims' Assets
World (tags: israel, news, middle-east, world, interesting, goodnews )

Cal
- 17 days ago - jpost.com

For the first time, local banks that have held the assets of Jewish Holocaust victims for more than six decades have begun to return the accounts to their heirs.

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Hamas Bails Out Gaza's Losing Tunnel Investors
World (tags: world, middle-east, israel, politics, palestine, war, conflict, interesting, news )

Cal
- 27 days ago - reuters.com

Palestinian Islamists who run the Gaza Strip find themselves in the odd position these days of bailing out speculators who went from boom to bust when Israeli warplanes blew up their smuggling tunnels into Egypt.

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Mideast Sliding Into 'Darkness': Jordan King
World (tags: world, middle-east, israel, politics, conflict, government, news, interesting )

Cal
- 29 days ago - news.yahoo.com

The impasse in the Middle East peace process is sending the region back "into the darkness," Jordan's King Abdullah II said in an interview with an Israeli daily,

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Tehran Says U.S. Had Role in Nuclear Scientist's Disappearance
World (tags: world, middle-east, iran, politics, interesting )

Cal
- 30 days ago - latimes.com

Shahram Amiri, who might have worked at a recently disclosed nuclear plant, went missing during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Iran's foreign minister says Tehran has proof of U.S. interference.

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Temple Mt. Access to Remain Restricted
World (tags: world, middle-east, israel, news, politics, violence, conflict, society )

Cal
- 32 days ago - jpost.com

Following another day of Arab violence in Jerusalem, access to the Temple Mount was to remain restricted on Tuesday to Muslim men over the age of 50 and women, police said.

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Afghanistan's "Black Hawk Down" II: It Just Happened Again!
World (tags: Afghanistan, Americans, military, war, Taliban, Al Queda, terrorism, violence, middle-east, government, militants, insurgents death, investigation )

Tom
- 32 days ago - latimes.com

Eight Americans and six Afghan troops died Saturday after being outnumbered in an attack strikingly similar to an insurgent assault 15 months ago in which nine U.S. soldiers died in an outpost in the same northeastern province, Nuristan.

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