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Biden: East Jerusalem plan undermines peace talks

Haaretz - 3 min 55 sec ago
Israel's decision to approve 1,600 new homes in an ultra-Orthodox East Jerusalem neighborhood is undermining Middle East peace talks, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said in Jerusalem on Tuesday. ...

European group may probe Israel decision to indict Arab MK

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:18
The Inter-Parliamentary Union is considering sending representatives to oversee the legal proceedings against Hadash chairman Mohammed Barakeh, charged with assaulting a police officer during an anti-separation fence rally in the West Bank. ...

Latest suspect in Dubai hit shares name with Australian-Israeli

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 21:03
The international police agency Interpol has identified the 27th suspect in the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai earlier this year, The Times of London reported on Tuesday, listing his alias as Joshua Aaron Krycer. ...

Egypt to finance renovation of synagogues, Jewish sites

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:49
Egypt will shoulder the costs of restoring the country's Jewish houses of worship said the culture minister Tuesday, two days after a historic synagogue in Cairo's ancient Jewish quarter was rededicated in a private ceremony. ...

Report: New Iran destroyer test fires missile

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 17:44
A newly inaugurated Iranian destroyer test fired a surface-to-surface missile in the Gulf on Tuesday, Iran's Fars news agency reported. ...

Morocco expels Christian orphanage workers

Christian Today - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 17:04
Christian volunteers and foster parents at a Moroccan orphanage were forced to abandon dozens of children on Monday after they were accused of proselytising

Israel says Syria talks not imminent, but lauds Turkey offer to mediate

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 15:37
A senior official in the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Tuesday denied Turkey's announcement that Israel had accepted its offer to resume its role as mediator in peace negotiations with Syria. ...

Peres calls for 'total' world isolation of Ahmadinejad

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 13:24
President Shimon Peres on Tuesday said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must face "total" international isolation, adding that his anti-Israel rhetoric was only a cover for his ambitions for Iranian ...

Both Israel and Syria declare plans to develop nuclear energy

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:29
Both Syria and Israel on Tuesday declared intentions to develop nuclear energy at an energy conference, during a summit in Paris. ...

Israel cannot abandon military option on Iran

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:09
In all the years since nuclear weapons were first developed, they have been used on humans exactly twice: on August 6 and 9, 1945, against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ...

Israel must talk to Hamas before it's too late

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:09
Israel must talk to Hamas. Not secretly. Not indirectly. Not for a politician to rehabilitate himself on the way to taking over the leadership of a party, as Kadima's Shaul Mofaz tried to do, but openly and seriously. Just as the United States regularly talks to the Israeli opposition, Israel should maintain a dialogue with the Palestinian opposition. The dialogue should cover all core issues including a final settlement. ...

Israel envoy offers return to campus where students yelled 'murderer'

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:43
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has offered to return to the University of California, Irvine to exchange views with students who heckled him raucously on campus last month. ...

U.S. Reform rabbis suggest welcoming interfaith couples

Haaretz - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:14
A Reform Jewish task force on intermarriage said Monday that the movement should do more to encourage mixed-faith couples to be active in Jewish life, including creating special blessings for major life events such as weddings and funerals. ...

Interpol seeks arrest of 16 more suspects in Dubai hit

Haaretz - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:48
The international police agency Interpol on Monday issued arrest notices for an additional 16 suspects over the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai earlier this year. ...

Did Nazi 'spyclists' try to recruit the founder of Britain's Boy Scouts?

Haaretz - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:03
LONDON - Clouds of war were gathering over Europe, and the English police officer was concerned. A group of black-clad Germans had been spotted heading for London - by bicycle. ...

Before meeting Biden, Foreign Ministry officials play some ping pong

Haaretz - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:33
Among the throngs of people trying to get into the Foreign Ministry for various reasons Monday was a group of journalists who had come to document a rare show of the ministry dealing with a ball that had been thrown into its court. ...

Israel and U.S. launch indirect peace talks

Haaretz - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 21:54
The United States has already begun to mediate indirect peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the Israeli Embassy in the U.S. confirmed on Monday. ...

Israel agrees to let UN chief, EU commissioner enter Gaza

Haaretz - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 21:33
Israel has agreed to grant United Nations secretary general and the European Union's foreign policy commissioner entry visas into the Gaza Strip, the first time it has acceded to such a request from international officials since Operation Cast Lead in December 2008. ...