Palestinians in Gaza have acquired anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets from Libya during its six-month civil war, enlarging but not significantly improving their arsenal, Israeli officials said on Monday.
London rally for ‘peace’
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Laura Booth, sister-in-law of Quartet envoy Tony Blair, calls on “Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt liberate Al-Quds [Jerusalem].”
JERUSALEM – Underneath the crowded alleys and holy sites of old Jerusalem, hundreds of people are snaking at any given moment through tunnels, vaulted medieval chambers and Roman sewers in a rapidly expanding subterranean city invisible from the streets above.
An Israeli flag is seen back-dropped by the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City
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Defense minister suggested to Washington forum that Israel follow plan laid out by former President Bill Clinton in 2000.
JERUSALEM: An official Palestinian report claiming that a key Jewish holy site — Jerusalem’s Western Wall — has no religious significance to Jews evoked an angry response from Israelis Wednesday, threatening to further inflame tensions over the disputed city.
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Jerusalem and its holy sites, including the Western Wall, are among the most intractable issues of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
JERUSALEM — The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Thursday strongly denounced a Palestinian Authority paper that denies any Jewish connection to the Western Wall, the iconic holy site and place of Jewish worship in the Old City of Jerusalem, describing the report as “reprehensible and scandalous.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) gestures during a news conference with Barakat Al-Farra (R) the Palestinian Authority ambassador to Egypt, and Saeb Erekat (L), the Palestinian chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo November 21, 2010.
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The Palestinian Authority will not return to peace talks with Israel unless there is a freeze on settlement building that includes East Jerusalem, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he was pursuing “intensive contacts” with the United States that might lead to relaunching peace talks with the Palestinians.
JERUSALEM – Israel insisted Thursday it would keep building homes in disputed east Jerusalem, threatening to hold up a U.S.-proposed settlement construction moratorium designed to renew deadlocked Mideast peacemaking.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser arrive for the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.
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The prime minister has previously said any settlement moratorium will not apply to areas around East Jerusalem that Israel captured during a 1967 war and the Palestinians want as the capital of a future state.
Jerusalem now national priority Photo: AFP
New legislation gives capital benefits in housing, employment and education sectors. Minister: Clear message that Jerusalem won’t be divided
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