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Three-quarters of the rock and gravel quarried in the West Bank are transferred out of Palestinian territory and used by Israelis, a human rights group said Monday, charging Israel's government with violating international law.
Israeli aircraft struck two targets in the Gaza Strip and a militant died in a clash with troops on the border Monday, as an official of the moderate Palestinian government accused Hamas of trying to boost hawkish candidates in Israel's election.
Uniformed Hamas security teams emerged on Gaza City's streets Monday as leaders of the Islamic militant group vowed to restore order in the shattered Palestinian territory after a three-week pummeling by the Israeli military.
A U.N. report says nearly half of all Gazans are unemployed and is calling Israel's stringent closure of the Palestinian territory a "profound human dignity crisis."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Monday with the leader of the radical group Islamic Jihad in an effort to reconcile Palestinian factions, but talks with his government's archrival, Hamas, appeared unlikely.
Clashes on Friday between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip left five militants dead, further undermining efforts to bring a brief truce to the violence-wracked area.
An Israeli aircraft fired a missile late Tuesday at a motorcycle in northern Gaza, killing a Islamic Jihad commander, Palestinians said.
Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza fired more than a dozen rockets at southern Israel early Thursday after Israeli undercover forces killed one of its West Bank leaders, shattering a recent lull in Gaza fighting.
Gaza's Hamas prime minister publicly set his conditions Wednesday for a cease-fire with Israel to end the fighting that has killed dozens in recent weeks.
A powerful blast went off in the house of a senior Islamic Jihad activist Friday, killing him, his wife, three sons and three neighbors, medics and an Islamic Jihad spokesman said.
Gaza's embattled Hamas leaders are seeking a cease-fire after months of Israeli attacks and sanctions, going so far as to make an unprecedented appeal through the Israeli media, a Hamas official confirmed Wednesday.
Israeli aircraft launched an assault on the radical Islamic Jihad organization from the skies over Gaza, killing nine of the organization's men in three fiery strikes overnight.
Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a car in a Gaza refugee camp Thursday, injuring two members of the violent Islamic Jihad group, according to the military and a spokesman for the militants.
The leader of Hamas rejected an American proposal for a detailed timeline to ease Palestinian movement and improve Israeli security, instead threatening new violence against Israel despite wary Palestinian government support for the U.S. plan.
Israeli troops shot and killed three militants from the Islamic Jihad group near the Israel-Gaza border on Tuesday, as soldiers conducted house-to-house searches and made arrests elsewhere in the coast strip.
Israeli troops killed a top leader of the radical Islamic Jihad in a West Bank raid Saturday, the group said, and the Israelis pressed ahead with their offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian woman and wounded her two daughters on Monday when they fired on a West Bank house that an Islamic Jihad militant was hiding in, Palestinian officials and the army said.
An explosion in a car in Gaza City on Wednesday killed Islamic Jihad's top military commander in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian police said.
3 killed in IDF strike in GazaThe IDF Spokesperson's Unit confirmed that the military and the Shin Bet were operating in the area, and that during their activity an Israeli jet struck the vehicle in which the three were riding.
Islamic Jihadis thrice attacked Pakistan nuclear sites - Media virtually ignores terrorist series of attacksPakistan's nuclear facilities have already been attacked at least thrice by its home-grown extremists and terrorists in little reported incidents over the last two years, even as the world remains divided over the safety and security of the nuclear weapons in the troubled country …
Elder of Ziyon: Islamic Jihad's memorial parade!Islamic Jihad held a rally in Khan Younis to memorialize the "martyrs" of Gaza, and it is everything you'd expect it to be.
More pictures of overcrowded Gaza"Islamic Jihad allowed cameras from their Palestine Today mouthpiece to watch their training. Notice how difficult it is for them to find open space in the "most densely populated place on Earth" to practice killing Jews."
Obama's hostility to Israel is clear - The Obama administration seems to have fallen into a pattern: the more outrageous the behavior of the Iranian regime, the more Obama lashes out at... IsraelYesterday, a State Department official confirmed that for the Obama administration, any part of Jerusalem beyond the pre Six Day War boundary is occupied territory. Hence Jews living there are in settlements, which Obama considers illegal.
No real cause for concern? - Obama can make nice to the hunkalicious Iranian supremely supreme leader of leaders (peace be upon him) all he wants, but it won't be reciprocated. The polite explanation for President Obama's diffidence on Iran is that he doesn't want to give the mullahs the excuse to say the Great Satan is meddling in Tehran's affairs.
Al Qaeda says would use Pakistani nuclear weapons - With 'Allah' willing, al Qaeda will continue 'with large scale operations against the enemy' by which he meant the United States.If it were in a position to do so, Al Qaeda would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons in its fight against the United States, a top leader of the group said in remarks aired on Sunday.
Hamas: The Terror Elite - A new pamphlet the details the brutal history of Gaza's jihadist rulers.It is one of the oddities of the global war on terrorism that while al-Qaeda is almost universally condemned, its Sunni terrorist counterparts in Hamas continue to attract a devoted following.
The Brotherhood of Global JihadDespite various assessments over the past decade about the prospects of a decline of violent radical Islamist groups due to better cooperation in countering terrorism in general, and the Islamist brand in particular, it seems that this kind of terrorism is still developing.
Iran and the Bomb - National leaders rely too much upon hopeBenjamin Netanyahu has his work cut out for him. Regarding Iran, both the United States and Israel have yet to act in their own self-interest. Instead, each has already allowed a potentially unique threat to reach a point of possibly no return.
Obama's rhetoric on Islam, Israel, Iran, and the Palestinians is Fanning the flames of anti-SemitismObama's rhetoric on Islam, Israel, Iran, and the Palestinians is not only sowing the seeds for major international disasters, he is fanning the flames of anti-Semitism right here at home. The President is sending a message loud and clear that Jews are the real enemy.
German terror plot suspects offer to confessFour men accused of belonging to a radical Islamic terrorist cell and plotting to attack U.S. targets in Germany announced Tuesday they will confess to some or all of the charges against them.
Dupes - the Left's long history of the "useful idiocy" and cozying up to political murderers The long romance of Western leftists with some of the bloodiest regimes and political movements in history is a story not told often enough ...'United in Hate' begins with a brief survey of the many leftists who since 9/11 have rationalized jihadist terrorism and blamed the Unite …
Israel Foils Attack by Al-Qaeda Jihadis (video)This attack was not carried out by Hamas or Islamic Jihad, but rather a small al-Qaeda group based in Gaza.
Obama's speech to the Muslim world falls short of his promised 'honest' dialoguePresident Obama promised that he wanted his Cairo speech to be the start of an "honest" dialogue with the Muslim world. When it comes to how he handled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he fell short.
Defeating a Hitler with nukes: Nothing else matters - Like it or not, we are being dragged into the Second Age of Nuclear Terror and Obama is the worst person to have in the White House at this time.Forget Obama's grabbing the banks and the car companies. Forget his eleven trillion dollars of new debt for the next generation. Forget his egomania. Eight years after the jihad assault of 9/11, 2001, on New York City and Washington, D.C., we are back to national life or death.
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Isn't Their Goal; The Two-State Solution is a ChimeraWho favors a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict? President Barack Obama does, of course, as he made clear in welcoming Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Monday. So does former President George W.
Midnight in the century in Pakistan Pakistan is the powder-keg of the contemporary world. I said this six years ago, in my investigation of Daniel Pearl's death. I repeated it on September 12th, 2003 in a piece published by the Washington Post.
Muslim Persecution of Christians - A new video shows why Christians may have no future in the Middle East.Christianity, born in the Middle East, is in danger of losing its two millenia-long presence there. If that notion sounds alarmist to Western ears, it is acknowledged by Middle Easterners as a growing likelihood.
Taliban Launches Poison Gas Attack Against Girls SchoolMUHMUD RAQI, Afghanistan -- Officials accused extremist militants of launching a poison gas attack Tuesday that caused dozens of schoolgirls to collapse with headaches and nausea as they waited in line for a Quran reading at their school in northeastern Afghanistan.
Assessing Progress against the Global Jihadist ThreatIn April 2009, the U.S. State Department and the European Union released their annual terrorism reports, which paint a varied picture of international counterterrorism efforts to date, with clear progress in some areas and deterioration in others.
Pakistan's Existential Challenge It would merely be seeking the bomb in pursuit of rational, and limited, national interests, like prestige and self-defense. But if Iran is a cause -- the cause being world-wide radical Islamic revolution -- then there's no telling where its ambitions end.
Israel would inform, not ask U.S. before hitting IranTEL AVIV (Reuters) - When he first got word of Israel's sneak attack on the Iraqi atomic reactor in 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan privately shrugged it off, telling his national security adviser: "Boys will be boys!"
Averting the Caucasus JihadNuclear disarmament has emerged as the first issue to reset U.S.-Russian relations in 2009. Both sides have expressed a willingness to negotiate a new strategic arms reduction treaty to replace the START I treaty that is set to expire in December.
The new enemy within is invisible Within Britain's counter-terrorism community they are known as the "clean skins": highly trained, professional killers whose blameless backgrounds provide not the slightest clue as to their true, evil intent.
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