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Benjamin Netanyahu On Iranian Threat: "The Issue Is Not The Security Of Israel But Of The World"

Newsweek | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Holocaust, Gaza, Palestinian, Fatah, Iran, Obama, Human Rights Abuses, Hamas, Nukes, War Crimes, West Bank, Jerusalem, Nuclear Weapons, Two State Solution, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Geneva, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas Fatah, Goldstone Report, Red Cross, Israel, Un, Gilad Shalit, War Crime, World News

NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke to Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week. Excerpts: WEYMOUTH: What did you think of the Goldstone report? NETANYAHU: I tho...

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Working for Peace is a Form of Prayer

Bradley Burston | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islam, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mideast, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Peace, Gilad Shalit, Judaism, Gaza, World News
Bradley Burston

The exchange of several Palestinian women prisoners for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit could signal a tectonic shift in Israeli-Palestinian peace relations.

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How To Kill Your Friends, Big and Small

Amjad Atallah | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Human Rights Council, War, Richard Goldstone, Russia, Fatah, Israel, Plo, Political Prisoners, Hamas, Gilad Shalit, Al Qaeda, World News
Amjad Atallah

Palestinians today woke up to two news stories -- one that made them celebrate and one that made them cringe. Unfortunately, the U.S. was not involved in the celebratory story.

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Gilad Shalit Video Handed Over By Hamas In Exchange For Prisoners

AP/Huffington Post | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 10.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gilad Schalit, Gilad Shalit Video, Israel, Hamas, Gilad Schalit Video, Gilad Shalit, World News

JERUSALEM (AP)-- In the first glimpse of him since his capture more than three years ago, a thin but healthy-looking Israeli soldier said in a video r...

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Gilad Shalit Video To Be Released In Exchanged For Palestinian Prisoners

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Kidnapped Israeli Soldier, Israel, Gilad Shalit, Gilad Shalit Video, Hamas, Press, Shalit, Gaza City, 20 for Gilad Shalit Video, World News

JERUSALEM — In a surprise deal announced Wednesday, Hamas will give Israel a videotape providing a first glimpse of a captured Israeli soldier t...

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Gilad Schalit Letter Details His "Intolerable And Inhumane Nightmare"

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 09.09.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gilad Schalit, Israel, Gilad Schalit Letter, Gilad Shalit Letter, Gilad Shalit, World News

JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier seized by Palestinian militants more than three years ago described his captivity as an "intolerable and inhumane...

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Gilad Shalit Health Unknown To Mubarak: Hamas Claims

Haaretz | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian President, Egyptian President Mubarak, Hamas Official, Hosni Mubarak, Gilad Shalit Kidnapped, Hamas, Abducted Israeli Soldier, Gilad Shalit, Israeli Defence Forces, Israel, World News

A Hamas official on Wednesday said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak didn't know what he was talking about when he said abducted Israel Defense Forces ...

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Mubarak: Gilad Shalit Is In Good Condition, Issue Will Hopefully Be Resolved Soon

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli Settlements, Mubarak Peres, Mubarak Gilad Shalit, Cairo, Egypt, Shimon Peres, Gilad Schalit, Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, Mubarak Gilad Schalit, Israel, Gilad Shalit, Schalit Mubarak, World News

CAIRO — An Israeli soldier being held in Gaza by Hamas militants is alive and in good condition, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Tuesday, ...

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Gilad Shalit Mocked By Hamas TV Cartoon

AP | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, Hamas Gilad Shalit, Hamas, Gilad Shalit Cartoon, Gilad Shalit, Hamas Tv, Israeli Media, Hamas Shalit Cartoon, World News

JERUSALEM — Hamas TV in Gaza has broadcast a short animated movie mocking an Israeli soldier captured by the militant Islamic group three years ...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Lebanon, Somalia, Pakistan, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ingushetia, Gilad Shalit, Foreign Affairs Roundup, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : The End of Iran's Post-Electoral Uprising... for now Facts: Protests initially spread from Tehran to the t...

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Gilad Shalit To Be Transfered To Egypt: Europeans

Haaretz | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Egypt, Gilad Shalit Egypt, Palestinians, Hamas, Israel, Kidnapped Israeli Soldier, Gilad Shalit, World News

European diplomatic sources said Thursday that kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit will be transferred to Egypt in the coming hours o...

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Israel Pulling Forces Out Of 4 West Bank Cities After Obama Pressure

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Jericho, Bethlehem, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Obama, West Bank, Israeli Settlements, Qalqilya, Israel Us, Ramallah, Israel, Gilad Shalit, Obama Israel, Us Israel, World News

JERUSALEM — Bowing to pressure from Washington, Israel granted U.S.-trained Palestinian security forces greater autonomy in four main West Bank ...

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Gilad Shalit: 3 Years In Captivity Marked By Student Rally

Haaretz | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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Dozens of students from kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit's old high school held a rally in his village of Mitzpe Hila Tuesday to mark three year...

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Gilad Shalit Father, Noam Shalit, Says Son Won't Be Freed Soon

Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Father of Gilad Shalit, Noam Shalit Son Alive, Gilad Schalit, Foreign Affairs, Gilad Shalit Kidnapped, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Corporal Gilad Shalit, Israel, Gilad Shalit, Noam Shalit, Gilad Shalit Alive, Binyamin Netanyahu, Advocacy, World News

His son Gilad is unlikely to be freed from Gaza any time soon, Noam Schalit told reporters after he left his first meeting with Prime Minister Binyami...

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The Right To Freedom Of Movement In The Holy Land Must Be Restored

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Israel, West Bank, Ehud Olmert, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Foreign Affairs, Palestinian Deportation, Israel, Israel Gaza, Israel Hamas, Israel Hamas Truce, Gilad Shalit, Advocacy, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Israel's willingness to abort the Shalit deal by insisting that some Hamas prisoners must be deported reveals a long-term problem, namely Israel's intention to hold on to the West Bank indefinitely.

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Free Gilad Shalit

Shunit Harpaz | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Isreali-Palestinian Crisis, Israel, Gilad Shalit Alive, Gilad Shalit, World News
Shunit Harpaz

A new approach is needed in dealing with militant groups such as Hamas -- the world needs to engage them constantly, challenge their ways. Over two-thousand years ago, Sun-Tzu said "keep your friends close and your enemies closer".

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.20.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Al-Qaeda, Recinciliation Talks, Sarkozy, Moussavi, Choudhry, France, Netanyahu, Iran, Sadc, Hamas, Zardari, Choudry, S-300, Detains, Pyongyang, Cheney, Nato, Madagascar, Aids, South Korea, Israel, Water Forum, Gilad Shalit, Ravalomanana, Yemen, Bush, Pakistan, North Korea, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Rearmament, Us, Khatami, Pope Benedict, Gilani, Rice, Medvedev, Rajoelina, Moscow, Condoms, Foreign Affairs Roundup, Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Quagmire of the year: Hamas-Israel There is an endless amount of news this week dealing with Israelis and P...

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Let Shalit Go

Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.20.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, War Crimes, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel War Crimes, Middle East, Ehud Olmert, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Hamas, Israel, Hamas Israel, Gilad Shalit, World News
Jamal Dajani

Israel has been negotiating with Hamas, almost a thousand days have passed, more than a thousand lives have been lost. Let the prisoners and Shalit go home.

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Israel-Hamas Prisoner Talks Fail

Al Jazeera English | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Egyptian Talks, Olmert Shalit, Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prisoner, Israel, Hamas, Israel Hamas Prisoner Talks, Foreign Affairs, Gilad Shalit, World News

Israel has accused Hamas of hardening its stance in Egyptian-brokered talks on exchanging hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a captured Israeli sol...

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In the Shadow of Gilad Shalit's Captivity

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Jerusalem, Terrorism, Ilana Teitelbaum, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas, Idf, Gilad Shalit, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, World News
Ilana Teitelbaum

How can I go to bed at night knowing that kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit probably has no bed?

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Gilad Shalit Deal May Be Reached In Next 24 Hours: Haaretz

Haaretz | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yuval Diskin, Ehud Olmert, Israel Prisoner Exchange, Gilad Shalit Deal, Israel, Ofer Dekel, Gilad Shalit Release, Shin Bet, Gilad Shalit, Palestinian Prisoners, World News

CAIRO ? Sources close to indirect Israel-Hamas negotiations over Gilad Shalit told Haaretz Monday there was a real possibility that a deal for the abd...

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Israel Will Exchange All 450 Hamas Prisoners For Gilad Shalit: Haaretz

Haaretz | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Father of Gilad Shalit, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Wendy Shalit, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Gilad Shalit Kidnapped, Hamas, Corporal Gilad Shalit, Israel, Hamas Shalit, Israel Hamas, Gilad Shalit, Gilad Shalit Alive, World News

Israel has agreed to free all 450 of the prisoners demanded by Hamas in exchange for kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, and the dis...

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Hamas: We Have Video Of Gilad Shalit

The Telegraph | Dina Kraft | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Gaza, Gilad Shalit Video, Hamas Video, Hamas, Corporal Gilad Shalit, Israel, Gilad Shalit, Gilad Shalit Alive, Palestinian Prisoners, World News

Hamas officials have claimed they have made a videotape of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit that proves he is in good condition. But Moussa Abu M...

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Gaza Aid Must Be Dependent On Soldier's Release: Congressional Proposal

Haaretz | By Natasha Mozgovaya | Posted 04.05.2009 | World

Read More: Noam Badin, Robert Wood, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Israeli Offensive in Gaza, United States Congress, Us Aid to Palestine, Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Arab Conflict, Palestine, Israel, Rep. Shelley Berkley, Gilad Shalit, World News

A new initiative from members of the United States Congress calls for the transfer of the $900 million pledged by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton f...

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Can Gaza Be Rebuilt Through Tunnels? The Blockade Continues--No Supplies, No Rebuilding

Ann Wright | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel, Gaza, Gilad Shalit, Palestinian Authority, World News
Ann Wright

How do you rebuild 5,000 homes, businesses and government buildings when the only way supplies come into the prison called Gaza is through tunnels?

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