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BBC

(As if they are worried) Israel probably violated the terms of its arms deals with Washington by using US-made cluster bombs in Lebanon last year, a US government report says. The state department looked into Israel's use of cluster bombs in civ

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AP

The Israeli air force has decided to buy smart munitions kits from Boeing for an estimated $100 million. Purchase was for the Joint Direct Attack Munition which converts conventional 2,000 pound bombs into satellite-guided, precision weapons.

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Reuters

The Bush administration will notify Congress on Monday that Israel may have violated agreements with Washington when it fired U.S.-supplied cluster munitions into Lebanon in its war with Hezbollah last summer. [we rearmed them]

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AP

For decades, the Jewish community just barely tolerated a small, fiercely anti-Zionist sect as its members traveled the world, denouncing Israel's existence and embracing its enemies. But when a delegation from Neturei Karta hugged Iranian Pre

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Christian Science Monitor (kudos Joe A.)

What drives much of congressional support for Israel is fear – fear that the pro-Israel lobby will either withhold campaign contributions or give money to one's opponent. As a US senator in the 70s, I saw the lobby humiliate or embarrass members

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AP

Police are investigating him for corruption. His military chief has resigned. His office manager is under house arrest, and an inquiry commission is looking into his alleged mishandling of last summer's Lebanon war. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert*

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Democracy Now - YouTube

"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy", by Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago. The United States has willingly set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of Israel.

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Christian Science Monitor

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that in a series of secret meetings that were held in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006, participants formulated "understandings" for a peace agreement between Israel and Syria.

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Independent

Israeli officials have confirmed that the Foreign Ministry knew about a series of peace talks that have taken place in Europe between Syrians and an Israeli team headed by a former senior diplomat. The teams discussed Israel handing back

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Ynet News

Channel 10 reported Tuesday evening that Attorney General Menachem Mazuz plans to instruct Israel Police to launch an investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over 3 affairs he is allegedly connected to

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BBC

A senior official in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been placed under house arrest as part of an alleged corruption scandal. Mr Olmert's personal secretary, is being investigated by police over alleged bribe taking.

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ICAHD

Let's be honest (for once): The problem in the Middle East is not the Palestinian people, not Hamas, not the Arabs, not Hezbollah or the Iranians or the entire Muslim world. It's us, the Israelis. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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AP

Israeli Prime Minister Olmert rejected a US advisory group's conclusion that a concerted effort to resolve Israel's conflict with its neighbors will help stabilize the situation in Iraq, saying there is no connection between the 2 issues.

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UPI

Prosecutors must show the two lobbyists charged under espionage laws knew that the disclosure of the material they allegedly passed to reporters and Israeli officials would hurt the United States. [Israel lobby gets judges too.]

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Reuters (kudos Steve A.)

The Iraq war was a boon for Israel's security, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, voicing fresh endorsement for a Bush administration sapped by the unpopularity at home of its Middle East policies.

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www.stuff.co.nz

Brigadier-General Gal Hirsch is the second Israeli general to quit amid widespread public criticism of military failures during the 34-day war that ended with a UN-brokered ceasefire in mid-August.

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ynetnews.com

Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn told the Jewish Federation of Chicago that the Lebanon war was an unprecedented test to Israel's military and withing a year or two the Jewish State will no longer be Washington's center of attenti

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