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China Has Change of Heart On Transplants

Puts a stop to lucrative transplant tourism

Apr 6, 07 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - China is rethinking a major medical cash cow: providing organ transplants for Westerners on overcrowded waiting lists at home. "Transplant tourism" has been a particularly popular option in Israel, where insurers are required to pony up  for overseas operations. But health officials recently ruled that organs should not be... More »

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China • Israel • health • organ harvesting • organ transplants • transplant • waiting list

Israel Begs to Differ
With Pelosi Statement

PM's office distances itself from
speaker's promise of talks

Apr 5, 07 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Israeli PM is backing off from Nancy Pelosi's suggestion yesterday that an Israeli-Syrian summit is in the offing. Pelosi told reporters that she had conveyed to  Syria's Bashar al-Assad a message that Ehud Olmert was "ready to engage in peace talks." Olmert's office quickly responded that it... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Israel • Middle East • Syria • Ehud Olmert • Bashar al Assad

Pelosi Says Syria Is Ready for Peace Talks

House Speaker ends US boycott and meets with Syrian president

Apr 4, 07 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Syria is ready to resume peace talks with Israel, based on her meeting with President Bashar al-Assad, the BBC reports. Flying in the face of Bush's Syrian boycott, Pelosi and a congressional delegation are in Damascus meeting with top leaders. Bush said the visit undermined... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Israel • Syria • Ehud Olmert • Bashar al Assad • George W. Bush

Olmert Offers Talks With
Arab Leaders

Cites Saudi peace
plan as positive step

Apr 2, 07 1:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ehud Olmert says he's keen for multilateral talks with Arab leaders, after a Saudi summit last week produced the outlines of a peace plan, Haaretz reports. "The readiness to accept Israel as a fact and to debate the terms of a future solution is a step that... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • politics • Angela Merkel • Ehud Olmert • Palestine

Klein: War on Terror Has Hurt Israel

Hawks in the Bush administration were pro-Israel, but the results weren't

Mar 26, 07 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - "As a Jew, I am embarrassed by the role that so many prominent Jews have had in empowering the enemy," Joe Klein writes in a blog from Jerusalem, noting the number of neoconservatives in the Bush  war machine who had close ties to the Israeli government. Klein says... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Lebanon • Gaza • Hamas • Jews • Hezbollah • Jerusalem • West Bank • Islamic extremists • neocon

A Generation Is Lost to Violence

Palestinians coming of age have no jobs, no hopes, no agenda but resistance

Mar 12, 07 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The generation of Palestinians now coming of age—and 56.4 percent of the population is under 19—have no hopes for peace, only of a lifetime of “resistance.”  Growing up through two intifadas, they are isolated from the world, divided amongst themselves, and surrounded by violence,... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Palestine • children • West Bank • US troops • violence • militant • gun violence

(Newser) - The U.S. must lead negotiations to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, King Abdullah II of Jordan told a joint session of Congress yesterday. Abdullah chided the U.S. for favoring Israel, saying Palestinians question "whether the West really means what it says about equality and respect and universal justice.... More »

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Iraq • Congress • Israel • Jordan • Middle East • King Abdullah II

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