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Hockey Provides Unlikely Ice Breaker For Arab, Jewish Teens

AP | By DIAA HADID | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Hockey, Video, Is, Israel Hockey, Golan Heights, Arab Hockey, Middle East Hockey, Golan Heights Hockey, Metulla Junior Ice Hockey Team, Sports News

METULLA, Israel -- An Arab-Jewish hockey team has become an unlikely icebreaker in this remote corner of northern Israel, overcoming barriers of langu...

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Step In The Right Direction: Israel To Clear Land Mines

AP | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Israel Mines, Golan Heights, Israel Military, Daniel Yuval, Land Mines, Ervin Lavi, Israel, Dead Sea, World News

JERUSALEM -- Israel's defense ministry says it will soon begin clearing thousands of mines in southern Israel. In a statement Sunday, defense officia...

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Iran's Proxy War in Syria Is Shoring Up Assad

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Syria, Nokia, Bashar Al Assad, Siemens, Arab League, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Aleppo, Iran, Damascus, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Hama, Golan Heights, Homs, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Qatar, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

If the current trajectory of Syrian street protests continue at their current, bloody pace, last Friday may be remembered as the epic day Syria's Assad dictatorial dynasty began a fateful, accelerating process of unraveling.

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Reviving Resistance in Palestine

Michelle Chen | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Nonviolence, Arab Spring, Military, Human Rights, War on Terror, Gaza, Middle East, Terrorism, Golan Heights, War, Democracy, Hamas, Israel, Peace, World News
Michelle Chen

At the Cinema Cafe in Nablus, hiply dressed youth sip coffee drinks, surrounded by a flashy mall and blaring pop music. It's an odd place to have an e...

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Assad's Dangerous Manoeuvres Deflect Attention From Syria's Internal Crisis

Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Sinai, Jerusalem, Jordan, Egypt, Golan Heights, Six-Day War, Ratko Mladic, Israel, Bashar Al-Assad, Syria, Tiananmen Square, UK News
Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea

The Assad regime plays a very risky game by sending truckloads of Palestinian refugees to the frontier and encouraging them to demonstrate in favour of Israel's withdrawal.

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Israel's 'Faux' Golan Border

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Netanyahu, Geneva Conventions, Maroun Al Ras, Majd Al Shams, Hassan Hijazi, Six Day War, Golan Heights, Annexation of Golan, UNSC Resolution 497, Lebanon, Assad, Israel, Syria, Palestinians, World News
Sharmine Narwani

As the Palestinian nonviolence movement grows in leaps and bounds, Israelis are faced with a real dilemma: what to do in the face of unarmed protesters who are demanding rights that are backed to the hilt by international law?

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Syrian TV: Israeli Forces Kill 6 Protesters

Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Golan Heights, Israel Syria, 1967 Middle East War, Majdal Shams, Israel, Druze, Syria, World News

By Allyn Fisher-Ilan MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights, June 5 (Reuters) - Israeli troops fired on Sunday at demonstrators in Syria who rushed toward...

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Syria's Shame

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Syria, Hamza Ali Al Khateeb, George MItchell, Golan Heights, Homs, Latakia, Bashar Al-Assad, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Syria, u.s. Syria, Syria Protesters, Syria Protests, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Despite economic isolation and growing international outcry, Bashar al-Assad knows he's safe -- by our statements, we have signaled to him that he is "too big to fail."

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On Our Way to Palestine...

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Right of Return, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, West Bank, Politics, Palestine, Lebanon, Erez Crossing, Idf, World News, Palestinain Refugees, Maroun El Ras, Gaza, Arab Spring, Middle East, Nour Samaha, Golan Heights, Israel, Nakba, Qalandia, World News
Sharmine Narwani

Nour Samaha, a 28-year-old freelance Swiss-Lebanese writer based in Beirut for the past 18 months, participated in the Lebanese Nakba march to Palestine. Her story is riveting.

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Israeli Troops Fire On Palestinian Protesters In Deadly Clashes

AP | By ARON HELLER | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Nakba, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestinains, Golan Heights, Israel, Middle East Peace, Syria, Video, World News

ARON HELLER, Associated Press MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights -- Mobilized by calls on Facebook, thousands of Arab protesters marched on Israel's bord...

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Keep Your Eyes on Syria

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Damascus, Golan Heights, Hizbullah, Deraa, Iran, Ba'ath Party, Israel, Syria, Hafez Assad, Bashar Al-Assad, Politics News
Eric Margolis

While world attention was fixed on the crusading drama in relatively unimportant Libya, the biggest, and most ominous bang last week came from Syria, ...

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Time for a Syrian Revolution

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Robert Ford, The New Yorker, Tunisia, Washington, Democracy, Bashar Assad, Barack Obama, America, World News, Tal Al-Mlouhi, Hosni Mubarak, Damascus, Iran, Peace Talks, Egypt, Revolution, Golan Heights, Freedom, Israel, Hafez Assad, World News
Hussain Abdul-Hussain

For Syrians to finally depose their dictator, like Egyptians did, they have to go to the streets, despite the regime's promised violence. Today is the time. The Syrians should not miss their chance.

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Israeli Referendum Bill Could Hinder Peace

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN and DAN PERRY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel Referendum Law, Benyamin Netanyahu, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel West Bank, Israeli Settlements, West Bank, Palestine Israel, Golan Heights, Palestinians-Settlements, Palestine, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Referendum, Settlements, Israel Syrai, World News

JERUSALEM — Israel's parliament passed a bill Monday that could complicate peace efforts with the Palestinians and Syria by making it very diffi...

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Ghost Stories: Israel's Past Comes to Life

Angela Himsel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish Temple, King David, Jerusalem, City of David, Yom Kippur War, Hamas, Six-Day War, Maccabees, Chanukah, Zionism, Benjamin Netanyahu, Golan Heights, Anti-Semitism, Theodore Herzl, Israel, Eilat Mazar, Gilad Shalit, New York News
Angela Himsel

"I'm having a love affair," our cousin Motti confides, "with ghosts." It's a pitch-black night but artificial light glows on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City just beyond us.

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Referendum Law: Don't Give the Israeli Knesset so Much Credit

Ami Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ami Kaufman

If anything kills the withering two-state solution, which could indeed happen very soon, it will be much greater forces than puny legislation passed by the most right-wing government in Israel's history.

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Israel's Latest Gag: Musician Arrested, Accused of Being A Spy

Yermi Brenner | Posted 04.08.2012

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Yermi Brenner

This week, the relationship between the Golan Druze and Israel took a turn for the worst. On Sunday, Majdal Shames resident, musician Fada Sha'ar, was arrested when he landed in Ben-Gurion International Airport.

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Happy Birthday, Dear Israel

Meir Javedanfar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Egypt, Israel-Palestine Conflict, United Arab Republic, Golan Heights, Abba Eban, Mike Walace, Israel, Palestine, Meir Javedanfar, World News
Meir Javedanfar

When Israel celebrates its 62nd birthday, many Israelis will ask themselves, how far have we come since 1948?

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Rethinking Engaging Syria

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vision, Syria, Robert Ford, Foreign Affairs, Washington, Scud Missiles, Lebanon, Bashar Assad, Diplomacy, Hezbollah, Hamas, Engagement, America, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Damascus, Bil Burns, John Kerry, Golan Heights, Israel, US, Nuclear Bomb, Steinberg, World News
Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Reports that Syria has provided Lebanon's Hezbollah with truckloads of Scud D missiles have not dissuaded America from engaging Syria.

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Thomas Friedman and His Mideast Blind Spots

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Thomas Friedman, Resistance Bloc, Salam Fayyad, Politics, U.S., Hezbollah, Hamas, Cold War, Sami Moubayed, Bashar Al-Assad, Palestinian Authority, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Jihad Makdissi, Golan Heights, Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, World, Sarah Palin, World News
Sharmine Narwani

Nothing annoys me more about New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman than his tendency to scuttle his occasionally insightful commentary with fabricated assumptions to fit his narrative.

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Syria Must Be a Top Priority

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Ford, Danny Ayalon, Turkey, Operation Cast Lead, Gaza, Middle East, Avigdor Lieberman, Golan Heights, Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran, Israel, Bashar Al-Assad, Syria, World News
Alon Ben-Meir

As the US finally announced that it is reinstating an ambassador to Syria, Israel needs to consider some gestures to ease the negative attention it has received and start looking to the North to resolve its own disputes with Syria.

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Israeli MPs pass referendum bill

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Golan Heights, Jerusalem-Israel, Israel, Home News

Knesset approves first reading of a law to pull out from east Jerusalem and Golan Heights....

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Arab Responsibility, Not Rhetoric

Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian State, Middle East, Saudi, Golan Heights, Palestinians, Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Middle East Policy, Israel, Barack Obama, Middle East Peace, World News
Edgar M. Bronfman

After decades of using the plight of the Palestinians as a useful stick with which to beat the West and as an excuse for their own domestic illegitimacies, Arab leaders finally need to be held to account.

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No Golan Heights Pullout For Peace: Netanyahu Aide

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — Israel will not withdraw from the entire Golan Heights in return for a peace deal with Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's to...

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Iran and the Syrian Gambit

Howard Schweber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Iran, Bombings, Sunnis, Golan Heights, Jimmy Carter, Obama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran Nuclear Program, Shiites, World News
Howard Schweber

For this week in regards to Iran Obama and his State Department get an A. Maybe even an A+, but the week is not over yet.

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Netanyahu: Israel Will Never Withdraw From Golan

Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lebanon, Israel-Syria Peace Talks, Golan Heights, Foreign Affairs, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Netanyahu Assad, Bashar Al-Assad, Syria, Israel Syria, Binyamin Netanyahu, Advocacy, World News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of Russian-language reporters Thursday that Israel will never withdraw from the Golan Heights. ...

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