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Madonna in holy land to kick off world tour

Israelis are gearing up to get down at Madonna's show as the pop diva landed in the holy land ahead of her world tour which kicks off here next week. Complete Story...

Congress approves visas for Israeli investors

Congress has passed legislation adding Israel to the list of more than 75 countries eligible for temporary visas given to foreign nationals who invest in U.S.-based businesses.

Israeli archaeologists find rare ancient jewelry

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare trove of 3,000-year-old jewelry, including a ring and earrings, hidden in a ceramic jug near the ancient city of Megiddo, where the New Testament predicts the final battle of Armageddon.

Top US negotiator on Iran visiting Israel

The United States' top negotiator in Iran nuclear talks is visiting Israel to consult on regional issues, the U.S. State Department said Friday.

Backlash against African migrants in Israel

Recent rapes blamed on African migrants have ignited a political and emotional backlash against their ballooning numbers, with Israelis and their leaders stridently — and in an alarming new development, violently — calling for their expulsion.

Israel steps up security ties with China

After a prolonged chill, security ties between Israel and China are warming up.

Israeli peace movement to launch online university

Organizers of an online Mideast peace movement say they are launching the Internet's first university for Israelis and Arabs across the Middle East

Turkey proposes charges against Israeli military

A Turkish court was asked Wednesday to approve murder charges against members of Israel's military for the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish ship trying to break an Israeli blockade of Gaza in 2010, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.

Turkey proposes charges against Israeli military

A Turkish court was asked Wednesday to approve murder charges against members of Israel's military for the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish ship trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza in 2010, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.

Ancient Bethlehem seal unearthed in Jerusalem

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription "Bethlehem," the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe to be the oldest artifact with the name of Jesus' traditional birthplace.

Police: 10 Israelis arrested for organ-trafficking

Police say they have arrested 10 Israelis over the past few weeks on suspicion they trafficked in organs.

Israel: Iran deal doesn't rule out possible strike

Israel's defense minister says Iran's preliminary agreement to open its nuclear facilities to U.N. inspectors doesn't rule out a possible Israeli military strike.

Israel skeptical of Iranian nuke deal with UN

Israel's defense minister voiced skepticism on Tuesday over an agreement by Iran to open up its nuclear facilities to U.N. inspectors, saying the Iranians are trying to create a "deception of progress" to stave off international pressure.

Israeli PM urges 'just' replacement of draft law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waded into one of Israel's deepest political morasses on Monday, urging lawmakers to find a "just" replacement for a law that has exempted tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews from compulsory military service.

Israel convicts Palestinian protest leader

An Israeli military court on Sunday convicted a Palestinian protest leader of urging youths to throw rocks at Israeli soldiers, ruling in a case that sparked international criticism of Israeli practices in the West Bank.

Palestinian shot, wounded in settler attack

Palestinians say dozens of Israeli settlers set Palestinian-owned fields on fire in an attack that left a farmer wounded by a gunshot.

Jailed Israeli president freed briefly

A prison spokeswoman says Israel's jailed former president has been freed for a few hours to attend his son's wedding.

Former Israeli PM: Jerusalem must be partitioned

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is urging Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace.

Qatar's ruler: Arab Spring a loss for Israel

Qatar's ruler says Israel is more isolated by the Arab Spring and will face increasing pressures over issues such as its presumed nuclear arsenal.

Netanyahu: African migrants could overrun Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning that Israel could be swamped by illegal migrants from Africa.

Israel blasts foreign proposal on settlement goods

The Palestinian campaign to boycott goods produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank has received a boost from abroad with an unprecedented South African proposal to have the name of Israel dropped from labels on merchandise made in the settlements.

Family of Hamas figure seeks to block Israel movie

Relatives of a slain Hamas operative seek to block the release of a movie being made in Israel about his 2010 assassination in a Dubai luxury hotel, a family member said Sunday.

Electric car network gets first test in Israel

Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come?

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Israeli settler shoots Palestinian in West Bank - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Source: Haaretz

Residents said about 25 settlers, some of them carrying guns, set fire to wheat fields in the village of Orif, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.  

Amnesty International: Israel frequently uses excessive force against Palestinians - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
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The Amnesty International 2012 annual report was released on Wednesday, detailing the violation of human rights worldwide. The report is highly critical of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians, charging that the Israel Defense Forces frequently uses excessive, sometimes le …

Israel lobby's favorite senator tries to erase Palestinian refugee status for millions
Source: mondoweiss.net

Philosemites  and AIPAC are controlling our government.

Iran talks end in harsh lesson for west. By James Blitz in in London. May 25, 2012 6:38 pm
Source: FT.com

Over the past few weeks, there has been growing optimism in western capitals that Iran might be forced into a compromise over its nuclear programme and avoid a war with Israel and the US. However, after two days of anguished talks this week between Iran and world powers i …

Israeli Mob Attacks Black Immigrants, Netanyahu Vows to Send Blacks ‘Home’ | Your Black World
Source: Your Black World

Right wing Jewish mobs attack African neighborhoods

Affirming a Judaism and Jewish Identity without Zionism
Source: Mondoweiss

Rabbi Brian Walt wrote:  A month ago, I was invited by American Jews for a Just Peace to give a talk in Boston in memory of Hilda Silverman z'l, a friend, congregant and passionate advocate for justice for Palestinians. In honor of Hilda, I wrote a talk that described my jou …

Defending Israel's borders from 'climate refugees'
Source: JPost.com

To combat increased waves of illegal migration that will likely accompany climate change, Israel must secure its borders with impassable barriers, including “sea fences” along the Mediterranean and Red seas, experts have concluded. “The lack of water, warming …

Rabbi (Dovid Weiss) speaks out against Israel (at Muslim Students Convention in CA)
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Rabbi Dovid Weiss spoke out against Zionism and the State of Israel to a scattered crowd of Cal State Long Beach students and Long Beach community members Tuesday.(May 3 2011)

Sharia Supremacists Take First and Third Place in Egypt's Presidential Elections
Source: Andrew Bostom

Reports from the NY Times and Reuters confirm that the Muslim Brotherhood’s late entry “replacement” candidate, Mohammed Morsi, and a rival Muslim Brotherhood member candidate, Aboul Fotouh, garnered first and third place, 25% and 20% of the vote tally, respec …

(Israeli) Likud MK Danny Danon Wants to Put African Migrants in Israel into Concentration Camps | MyFDL
Source: Firedoglake

As violence against illegal and legal African migrants to Israel has escalated this past week in and around Tel Aviv, so has the rhetoric coming out of recently elevated figures in Netanyahu’s new coalition power structure:  

The IOC Denies Israel's Request For A Minute of Silence to Remember the Munich '72 Tragedy
Source: TIME

Why not pay tribute to the victims at the Olympic Games themselves? If the  Munich tragedy, as Rogge writes, spurred the Olympic movement to build “a  peaceful and better world,” shouldn’t that crucial moment be remembered? Rather  than airbrush …

Not All Op-Eds Are Equal in the New York Times
Source: | HonestReporting

Could the New York Times possibly publish an opinion piece that didn’t paint Israel in the worst possible light? Seemingly not as column inches are given over to Yousef Munayyer in a piece damningly titled “Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal”.

Nearly weapon-grade uranium traces found at Iranian nuclear site
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VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic agency has found evidence at an underground bunker in Iran that could mean the country has moved closer to producing the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles, diplomats said Friday.The International Atomic Energy Agency has found  …

US Senate Redefines 'Palestinian Refugee'
Source: Arutz Sheva News Briefs

The US State Department and Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan are trying to block a Senate bill that would require an accurate accounting of how many 'Palestinian refugees' receive American aid dollars.The push came after the US Senate Appropriations Committee approved on Thursday la …

The number one threat to America is its debt burden
Source: New Statesman Contents

New Statesman - Jewish British Ed Miliband: the patriotism of a refugee
Source: New Statesman Contents

Ed Milliband, Jewish British leader of the British Labor Party Opposition describes himself as "The first Jewish leader of the Labour Party" in an essay in an issue of the New Statesman devoted to British Jewry.

Pakistani Security Analyst Zaid Hamid: '[After Constantinople] Prophet Muhammad's Second Hadith Is Regarding Ghazwa-e-Hind, That The Army Which Would Capture India Would Go To [Conquer] Israel'
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In a 7:47 minute video, Pakistani security analyst Zaid Hamid reminds an audience in Pakistan that Muslim military generals continued to launch numerous attacks on Constantinople for 900 years just to prove a hadith (saying) of Prophet Muhammad that the Muslim army would eventu …

Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

Tragically for Palestinians, Zionism requires the state to empower and maintain a Jewish majority even at the expense of its non-Jewish citizens, and the occupation of the West Bank is only one part of it. What exists today between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is  …

Start-up map makes Israeli tech easy to find
Source: | The Times of Israel

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the Israeli Start-Up Map – a graphic illustration of where Israeli start-ups are located, who runs them, and what they do — is probably worth the several hundred thousands of words you would need to analyze the informatio …

Rice: Israel is where the US learned about homeland security
Source: | The Times of Israel

The world changed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice told an audience in Israel Sunday, and so did the relationship between the United States and Israel. While Jerusalem and Washington were always good friends, after the attacks they …

The Ultimate Obama-Islam-Sharia-Agenda 21-Immigration-Debt Conspiracy
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The number of right-wing conspiracy theories relating to President Obama, Islam, Sharia Law, immigration, Agenda 21 and the debt seems to be growing exponentially…but finally now there is one conspiracy theory that brings them all together. Avi Lipkin, who on speaking t …

Terrorizing Through Lawfare by Philip Giraldi -- Antiwar.com
Source: AntiWar.com

Israel is corrupting our courts as they have corrupted our Legislative Branch.

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