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"- Army-backed Jewish terrorists on Monday shot and seriously wounded a Palestinian olive harvester south West of Nablus in the West Bank, Palestinian sources reported. The sources said a group of heavily armed messianic Jewish terrorists from the settlement of Yitzhar near Nablus descended on Palestinian olive growers and began shooting at them. One Palestinian, Hani Shehadeh, was shot in the

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"The war in Iraq did not damage international terror groups, but instead distracted the United States from confronting other hotbeds of Islamic militancy and actually "created momentum" for many terror groups, a top Israeli security think tank says in a report. US President George W Bush has called the war in Iraq an integral part of the war on terrorism, saying that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam

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"Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat hinted on Monday that Israel was behind the suicide attacks in Sinai and said the PA is in touch with the Egyptian government on the issue. Referring to Shin Bet head Avi Dichter's warning of the possibility of an attack on Israeli tourists in Sinai a few weeks before the bombings, Arafat said: "These are important statements. Why didn't he inform

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"Support for Israel is a decisive factor for US evangelicals in choosing between President Bush and Senator Kerry in the upcoming presidential election. The findings are from a new poll conducted by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. The findings will come as little surprise to those who have watched US Evangelicals, and warned that their interpretations of Scripture foster

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"A high-ranking Palestinian Authority official has accused the Israeli army of adopting "Nazi tactics" against Palestinian population centers in the Gaza Strip. The official, PA Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah told PIC that the ongoing Israeli blitz in northern Gaza was "nothing but a Nazi-like rampage of murder and terror against a defenseless civilian population." "Israel is simply

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"The Bush administration is using Israel as its subcontractor to threaten Syria and Iran, carry out military strikes and reorganise the region in its interests. This is why—shielded by its backers in the White House—Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud government is able to operate with impunity. And what is more, world leaders know it... An Israeli attack on Syria had been on the cards for

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"Israeli whistleblower calls on Israel to dismantle its nuclear program never acknowledged by Jewish state. STOCKHOLM - Israel is a greater nuclear threat than Iran, Mordechai Vanunu, who was freed in April after 18 years in an Israeli prison for revealing the country's nuclear program, told Swedish Radio on Thursday. "We can say to Israel that if you're blaming Iran, let's go make Israel and

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"The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, today attempted to distance himself from his earlier comments that there were no links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. In a statement issued several hours after he had told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York that "to my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two", Mr Rumsfeld claimed he had been "misunderstood

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"Asked to describe the connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, the Pentagon chief declined to answer the question but then said: "To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two.''... When asked what he thought was the primary reason for invading Iraq, he said it was important to remove Saddam's regime, but he acknowledged the intelligence ahead of the

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"National Jewish Democratic leaders barnstormed through Broward and Palm Beach counties on Sunday to put presidential candidate John Kerry’s pro-Israel stand on the record. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, state Sen. Ron Klein and famed attorney, lecturer and author Alan Dershowitz spoke to audiences at temples in Boca Raton and Delray Beach. They cited Kerry’s “100 percent pro-Israel” voting record

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"They barely mentioned Israel. But when they did, in their first debate on Thursday night, US President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry both used the platform to assert that success in Iraq is necessary for Israel's security. Most of the 90-minute debate focused on Iraq and the war on terrorism. While the situation in Sudan and Russian President Vladimir Putin's abandonment of democracy

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"It's disturbing enough that whole segments of our society insist on ignoring the holocaust, or denying its reality at all. But it seems even stranger to me that many of a group that has so suffered at the cruel hands of history should choose to jealously guard their tragedy, to the exclusion of other equally tormented groups. This is the case with a certain segment of the world's Jewish

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"Two GOP lawmakers, Senator George Voinovich of Ohio and Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, are pledging to lead the fight for a bill requiring the State Department to create a special office to combat antisemitism and file annual reports on anti-Jewish activity throughout the world. The brainchild of Representative Tom Lantos, a California Democrat and the only Holocaust survivor in Congress

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In an interview in an Israeli newspaper this week, Giora Eiland, Israel's national security adviser, made a startling statement: November will be the "point of no return" for taking out the Iranian nuclear program. "Point of no return" is a phrase with a history. In 1981, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin demanded to know when Saddam Hussein's nuclear plant at Osirak, Iraq, would reach it.

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Press Release, Jewish Voice for Peace, 1 October 2004 "MANY MORE ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS WILL DIE BEFORE THIS INVASION IS OVER." SAN FRANCISCO, September 30, 2004 - Jewish Voice for Peace, a national Jewish-American organization with 10,000 supporters, called for an immediate halt to the massive Israeli invasion of Gaza Strip. The group called for the United States and the international

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Colonel (Res) Gadi Dorchler has said that actions of Disengagement Authority chief Yonatan Basi “chillingly resemble the activities of the Jewish Yudenrat”, according to Maariv. Dorchler, who is still active in the IDF’s Northern Command, went on to say "The pullout plan is extremely similar to the plan to deport Berlin Jews to the crematoriums...His (Basi's) actions chillingly resemble the

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"A Jewish settler who killed a Palestinian driver has been freed from police custody and placed under temporary house arrest, Israeli state-run radio has reported. His release, ordered by the Kfar Sava court on Tuesday, sheds light on the leniency adopted by the Israeli justice system towards Jews involved in serious crimes against non-Jews. The court, presided over by a religious Jew,

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"Jewish settlers immigrants from North America on Wednesday attacked and severely beat American Christian peace volunteers near the village of Yatta south west of Hebron, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. According to the Hebron-based Christian Peace Making Team (CPT), five settlers carrying iron chains and baseball clubs, assaulted two volunteers ( a woman and a man) who were escorting

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"George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His

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" Israeli state-run radio on Monday reported that five Israeli occupation soldiers had confessed to committing "degrading acts" against two Palestinian youths. According to the radio, the soldiers were manning a roadblock outside the Palestinian neighbourhood of Abu Dis earlier this month when they allegedly detained, beat and humiliated two unidentified Palestinian boys. According to press

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"On this much world leaders can agree, peace is good, terrorism is bad. But in speeches delivered by world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly ministerial meetings, differing interpretations on what qualifies as terror have emerged - ones that appear to mirror the Arab-Israeli divide. For the Arabs, the challenge is to encourage a global audience already largely sympathetic to the

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"Four senior officers of an elite Israeli air force unit hit out at the military's "immoral" policies in the occupied territories in a letter published by Israeli newspapers on Tuesday. The four echoed human rights watchdog criticism of Israeli house demolitions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, describing them as "immoral collective punishment operations." The letter was addressed to chief of

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"Syria on Monday accused Israel of inciting the United States to invade Iraq to distract attention from its own actions in the region, where it retains its grip on the Palestinian territories won in a 1967 war. Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara used his country's annual address to the U.N. General Assembly opening debate to deliver a fierce critique of Israeli policy, as the Jewish state

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"Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said he expects ousted President Saddam Hussein to be sentenced to death for his crimes. Saddam and his senior aides are to be tried by a special Iraqi tribunal on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. "We believe that Saddam's crimes are numerous and atrocious and as such he would be sentenced to death," in an interview with the

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"Israel's former prime minister says the U-S made "every conceivable mistake" after its military victory in Iraq... The 62-year-old former leader of Israel says Iraq could be headed for civil war. Barak has done consulting since being defeated by current Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He's considered Israel's most decorated soldier."

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