Bid to arrest Ehud Barak in Britain rejected

A Palestinian bid to have Israeli defense chief Ehud Barak arrested for alleged war crimes during a visit to Britain has failed, a lawyer for the groups involved said Tuesday.

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Israeli Defense Minister Won't Resign

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that he would not pull his faction from the government over its handling of the 2006 war against Hezbollah guerillas, an announcement that removed any immediate threat to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's administration.

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Barak Says Israel May Go Back Into Gaza

Israel's defense minister said Thursday his government has not ruled out a large-scale military operation to counter continuing rocket attacks from Gaza. He added that Israel would not rush "to reconquer" the teeming, impoverished seaside strip.

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Barak Turns His Back on Dovish Past

For Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the future seems to be about the past — and how to disown it.

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We are turning every stone in an effort to set peace talks in motion again," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday following a US visit during which he met with government officials and members of Congress in Washington.

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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli naval commandos seized an arms ship Wednesday near Cyprus that was carrying missiles and anti-tank weapons from Iran to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, defense officials said.

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The camera shows a group of Afghan soldiers standing on a cold dusty plain, listening to an American instructor. He is showing them how to use a new American rifle.

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The person who headed the Palestinian desk in the research division of Military Intelligence, Ephraim Lavie, along with his counterpart in the Mossad, Yossi Ben-Ari, and Matti Steinberg, then an adviser to the Shin Bet security forces chief, told me there was no intelligence-rela …

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Defense Minister Ehud Barak was quoted on Thursday as saying he does not view Iran as a threat to Israel's existence, a view that would seem to depart from Israeli statements of the recent past.

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Presidant Barak Obama will deliver a major prime time heath care address to congress next week, opening an urgent autumn push to gain controlof the debate that has been slipping through his grasp under withering Republican-led attacks.

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Defense Minister Ehud Barak will approve the construction of some 500 new housing units in the West Bank by Monday evening, following an agreement reached with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

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Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday that the United States would present a Middle East peace plan within weeks and that Israel should accept it.

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The 3 A.M. Rant

I remember in the movie Jerry McGuire the main character authoring a scathing manifesto towards his industry, his bosses, and the demeanor of his co-workers at well past the midnight hour. It was at once well received, applauded, and the key to his professional demise.

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Defense Minister Ehud Barak met Middle East envoy George Mitchell for the second time in a week on Monday, and promised that Israel would evacuate 23 illegal outposts in the West Bank in a matter of weeks or months, as opposed to years, Army Radio reported.

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The Maskiyot project was first mooted some three years ago, and was intended to house Jewish settler families evacuated from Gaza following Israel's 2005 unilateral pullout from the strip.

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Realizing that the Administration did not have any fresh, updated photos of earthquake disasters, chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel today secretly ordered the destruction of most of Los Angeles by dropping a thermonuclear bomb in order to trigger a massive earthquake.

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Is this the government of Biberman (Bibi Netanyahu and Avigdor Liberman) or perhaps of Bibarak (Bibi and Ehud Barak)? Neither. It is the government of Bibiyahu...

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Holder's Statements True or False

So many people have stated opinions here without knowing how truly ignorant they are on this subject. Most of the problems the black community in the United States faces can be directly related to the progression of race relations since blacks were first brought to this country.

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An artist is currently creating a building size mosaic of Barack Obama using photos submitted by the public.

Columbus, OH An artist in Columbus, Ohio is currently creating a building size mosaic of Barack Obama using photos submitted by the public.

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Israel Election Aftermath: Hope Is Lost

I admit to being a bit depressed about the political situation in Israel. A few days before the election, it seemed like Netanyahu and Likud were going to have a massive victory and that was bad as far as I am concerned, but I was preparing myself for it.

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"The best way to achieve territorial continuity between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank is by digging a tunnel that would connect the two areas, Defense Minister and Labor party head Ehud Barak said on Monday.

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With two weeks to go before the Israeli elections, the politicians who seem to have benefited the most from the military offensive against Hamas in Gaza are those who were not involved in planning or carrying out the war.

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Obama Inaugurations Brings Hope for True Patriotism

Today my friends, I watched the ending of an era of self-induced terrorism and the beginning of the most hopeful America since the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. Today Barak Obama became president of the United States.

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What is the strategic purpose behind the present fighting? After two weeks of combat Olmert, Livni, and Barak have still not said a word that indicates that Israel will gain strategic or grand strategic benefits, or tactical benefits much larger than the gains it made from select …

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The legend, lest it be a true story, tells of how the late mathematician, Professor Haim Hanani, asked his students at the Technion to draw up a plan for constructing a pipe to transport blood from Haifa to Eilat.

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Some were troubled by pictures of children and women among the casualties, others voiced trepidation about a ground invasion, but the overwhelming view among Israelis on the streets of Jerusalem yesterday was that their government was right to attack Gaza and the offensive shou …

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The public does not trust government leaders to defend the State of Israel without being influenced by politics, according to a new Geocartographia poll. Most respondents also expressed no confidence in Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

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I have begun to wonder if Barak Obama has any friends or advisors with clean hands. Seems like to me most of his friends and associates have a history of malcontent, terrorism, criminal or some type of fraudulent behavior.

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President-elect Barack Obama has helped America turn the corner. He has made Americans see beyond the colour of his skin to the content of his character. Martin Luther King's dream comes true, at last.

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