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  • August 2008

    • Israel Releases 198 Palestinians

      AFP  |  Aug 25, 08 9:09 AM CDT

      Israel Releases 198 Palestinians

      (Newser) - Israel today released 198 Palestinian prisoners in an effort to bolster Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, the AFP reports. The release, on the eve of a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, included two prisoners held since the late 1970s who were convicted of murdering Israelis. One of them, a Fatah party member who killed an Israeli settler in Hebron, was elected to parliament in 2006. More »

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      Israel  • Hamas  • Palestine  • Ehud Olmert  • Mahmoud Abbas  • Fatah  • peace talks  • Israeli prisoner release

    • Ban-Busting Sir Paul to Play Tel Aviv

      Haaretz (Israel)  |  Aug 25, 08 3:49 AM CDT

      Ban-Busting Sir Paul to Play Tel Aviv

      (Newser) - Paul McCartney will perform in Tel Aviv 43 years after the Beatles were banned by the Israeli government because officials feared their music would corrupt Israeli youth. The only fear today is that ticket prices for the September 25 concert in Park Hayarkon will be too expensive for most Israelis, reports Ha'aretz . More »

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      Israel  • Paul McCartney  • Leonard Cohen  • Bjork  • Tel Aviv  • The Beatles

    • Ahmadinejad Says Israel to Be 'Removed Soon'

      Associated Press  |  Aug 20, 08 2:07 PM CDT

      Ahmadinejad Says Israel to Be 'Removed Soon'

      (Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel “a germ of corruption” to be “removed soon” in comments on his presidential website today, the AP reports. While the outburst is nothing new for the Iranian leader, the posts were probably meant to reassure hawks enraged by the vice president’s comments last week that Iranians are “friends of all people in the world—even Israelis.” More »

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      Iran  • Israel  • Middle East  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • Muslim  • Jewish  • nuclear missiles

    • Unreleased Kafka Materials May See Light

      New York Times  |  Aug 18, 08 11:23 AM CDT

      Unreleased Kafka Materials May See Light

      (Newser) - Franz Kafka, who died in 1924, is in the news because of the actions of his disobedient literary executor. Max Brod, who fled Prague in 1939, left a valuable collection of the Czech existentialist's papers with his secretary. She died last year at 101, and her daughters may be keeping the materials in a Tel Aviv apartment overrun with cats, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Israel  • writer  • novel  • Franz Kafka

    • Gay Tourism 'Tricky' for Israel

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Aug 13, 08 12:56 PM CDT

      Gay Tourism 'Tricky' for Israel

      (Newser) - Two men kissing near the Mount of Olives isn’t what religious pilgrims expect in Jerusalem, and the boom in gay tourism is making some uneasy, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Thousands of gay travelers—drawn to the beaches, nightlife, and trendy Tel Aviv—have visited Israel this year, spending millions of “pink dollars.” It's a sharp contrast to the industry's lifeblood: evangelical Christians and travelers with Jewish interests. More »

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      Israel  • tourism  • gay  • religious pilgrims

    • Palestinians Forced to Spy for Medical Care

      Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 4, 08 9:09 AM CDT

      Palestinians Forced to Spy for Medical Care

      (Newser) - Israeli authorities are coercing sick Palestinians into spying on their communities in Gaza, according to a report by an Israeli human rights group. Israel's secret police are telling Gazans seeking entry into the country for vital medical care that they must become informants or they won't be allowed in, reports the Guardian. Thirty ailing Palestinians submitted testimony detailing their interrogations. More »

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      Israel  • Palestine  • Gaza  • Israel and Palestinians  • spying  • medical treatment  • collaboration

    • Israeli Parents Forget Toddler at Airport

      Associated Press  |  Aug 4, 08 4:43 AM CDT

      Israeli Parents Forget Toddler at Airport

      (AP) - An Israeli couple leaving on a European vacation remembered to bring their 18 suitcases—but forgot their 3-year-old daughter at the airport, AP reports. The pair and their five kids were late for their flight and made a mad dash for the airport. They didn't relize the toddler was missing until they were told on the flight that she had been found at Ben-Gurion airport. She took the next plane to Paris. More »

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      Israel  • children  • airport  • vacation  • missing child

    • Olmert Move Clouds Future of Peace Deal

      New York Times  |  Aug 1, 08 7:50 AM CDT

      Olmert Move Clouds Future of Peace Deal

      (Newser) - State Department officials are putting on a brave face in the wake of Ehud Olmert's resignation announcement, saying that the departure of Israel's PM will not forestall a peace agreement. But as the New York Times reports, most Middle East observers believe that Olmert's move signals the end of the Bush efforts to broker a deal. One analyst said simply, "It's over." More »

  • July 2008

    • Israelis: Olmert Successor Is Unlikely to Forge Coalition

      Haaretz (Israel)  |  Jul 31, 08 10:18 AM CDT

      Israelis: Olmert Successor Is Unlikely to Forge Coalition

      (Newser) - Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a snap election after Ehud Olmert's sudden announcement that he will resign as Israel's PM. Riding high in the polls, the head of Likud said that "it doesn't matter who heads Kadima. They are all partners in this government's total failure." The call comes as members of the ruling party admitted to Haaretz that Olmert's successor might never take the top job. More »

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      Israel  • Ehud Olmert  • Tzipi Livni  • Kadima  • Knesset  • Benjamin Netanyahu

    • Klein to Jewish 'Extremists': Stop Bullying Me

      Time  |  Jul 30, 08 5:06 PM CDT

      Klein to Jewish 'Extremists': Stop Bullying Me

      (Newser) - The Jewish right-wing "extremists" at Commentary can call Joe Klein anti-Semitic and intellectually unstable all they want, the columnist writes, and they can even call for Time to fire him, but he’s not going stop telling what he calls the “palpable” truth that's "unspoken in polite society": that a group of Jewish neoconservatives provided Bush with the rationale he needed for the Iraq war—and now they’re agitating for a strike on Iran. More »

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      Iraq war  • Iran  • Israel  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • Jews  • Benjamin Netanyahu  • neoconservatves

    • Who Will Replace Olmert?

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 30, 08 3:41 PM CDT

      Who Will Replace Olmert?

      (Newser) - Who will succeed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when he resigns in 2 months? Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, known as "Mrs. Clean," is a top candidate and would likely engage Palestine in peace talks, Ian Black writes in the Guardian . Challenging her will be hawkish Shaul Mofaz, a former defense minister who recently caused a stir by calling an attack on Iran "inevitable." More »

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      Israel  • Ehud Olmert  • Israel and Palestinians  • Tzipi Livni  • Kadima  • Shaul Mofaz

    • Israeli PM to Step Down in 2 Months

      Associated Press  |  Jul 30, 08 1:02 PM CDT

      Israeli PM to Step Down in 2 Months

      (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced today he will resign in September, throwing his country into political turmoil and raising doubts about progress for US-backed Mideast peace efforts. Olmert's brief address included harsh criticism of police investigations of corruption allegations against him. He said he was choosing the public good over his personal justice, the AP reports. More »

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      Israel  • Middle East  • Ehud Olmert