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Reuters

Iran threatened to attack Israel in response to any "evil" act by the US and said it had enriched uranium to 4.8%,"ar below the 80 percent level needed for bomb-making. Enrichment above 5% is not on Iran's agenda," Gholamreza

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Forbes.com

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leaked national defense information to a pro-Israel lobbyist in the same manner that landed a lower-level Pentagon official a 12-year prison sentence, the lobbyist's lawyer said Friday

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Israel's U.N. ambassador Dan Gillerman cautioned that a new "axis of terror" - Iran, Syria and the Hamas-run Palestinian government - was sowing the seeds of the first world war of the 21st century. (World War ???)

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UPI

The wife of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard says President Bush is willing to release him if there is a formal request for it from Israel. Ester Pollard told Channel Two's Monday morning television talk program that "someone close

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Agence France Presse

The new Hamas-led Palestinian cabinet was holding its first regular meeting after its foreign minister made an unprecedented Middle East peace overture in a letter to UN chief Kofi Annan. The letter referred to a "two-state solution", was e

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UPI

It will be enough of a challenge given the inability of most members of the Hamas government to transit through Israel, a physical obligation when traveling back and forth between the two territories that comprise the non-contiguous Palestinian Autho

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Middle East Online

Islamist group Hamas offered Israel a 30-year truce in 1997 but it was overtaken by a botched assassination attempt against its now leader, Khaled Meshaal, a former spy chief reveals. Efraim Halevy, who headed Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence

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Agence France Presse

Hamas has vowed to bring the "dangerous" situation on the streets of Gaza under control as the Islamist faction faced its first internal crisis after only three days in government. [Getting a wiff of CIA and Mossad here.]

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Reuters

The Islamist group Hamas [who are now the Palestinian government] defended a suicide bombing that killed 4 Israelis as "resistance" against Israeli "crimes," putting it at odds with Palestinian President Abbas, who condemned the a

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Associated Press

Israelis voted in a historic election seen as a referendum on the future of the West Bank, with the leading candidate, acting Prime Minister Olmert, promising to pull back from most of the territory and draw Israel's final borders by 2010.

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Haaretz

Kadima revealed some details of its vision of a divided Jerusalem yesterday, saying a future Palestinian state would include the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur, but not the Old City.

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UPI

2 of America's top scholars have published a searing attack on the role and power of Washington's pro-Israel lobby, warning that its "decisive" role in fomenting the Iraq war is now being repeated with the threat of action against I

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Reuters

Israel's right-wing Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out joining interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a future government, in protest at Olmert's planned unilateral West Bank withdrawals. Bolstered speculation that Olmert's ce

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Associated Press

After Israel's grab of top Palestinian prisoners from a West Bank jail, angry Palestinians staged a protest strike, their embarrassed president rushed back from Europe, and Israel is determined to try the detainees for the assassination of an Isr

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Reuters

Israeli forces raided a West Bank prison to demand the handover of a top Palestinian militant accused of killing an Israeli minister, blasting their way in after US and British monitors withdrew. [Guess Hamas is correct, they are at war.]

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Agence France Presse

Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz warned the UN Security Council not to stand idly by while Iran did everything in its power to play for time to develop nuclear weapons. "Israel has the right and need to defend itself," the Iranian-born

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