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Oil fell below $88 per barrel on Monday November 27, 2012 The price of oil fell below $88 per barrel Monday. Read More

Hamas targets Jerusalem in major escalation November 17, 2012 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants took aim at Jerusalem for the first time Friday, launching a rocket attack on the holy city in a major escalation of hostilities as Israel pressed forward with a relentless campaign of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. Israel called up thousands of reservists and massed... Read More

Dershowitz speaks in Norway, kind of April 02, 2011 Ask Orthodox Jews in Norway where one can find a fresh shoulder of kosher beef and they will give the same answer -- nowhere. There is more to this obscure fact than a clash between Jewish tradition and the concerns of animal-rights activists in today's Europe, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz told a... Read More

Army: Gaza militants fire 2 rockets into Israel March 26, 2011 JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's army said Gaza militants fired two rockets into southern Israel early Saturday, capping a week of intensified Palestinian rocket and mortar launches from the Hamas-run coastal territory and Israeli retaliations. No one was injured in the attacks but one rocket damaged a house, an... Read More

Israel: Palestinian with hostages at Turk Embassy August 17, 2010 TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. Turkey's news agency said... Read More

Condoleezza Rice clings to Mideast peace hopes August 27, 2008 RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday there is hope for a Mideast peace deal but she offered no reason for optimism beyond the fact that the two sides are speaking. "God willing, with the goodwill of the parties, and the tireless work of the parties, we have a good... Read More

Obama tells Israel he's committed to its security July 24, 2008 SDEROT, Israel (AP) -- From the solemnity of a Holocaust museum to a dusty village battered by Hamas rockets, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Wednesday professed "an unshakable commitment to the security" of Israel, whether the threat comes from terrorists, Iran or elsewhere. "The way... Read More

Israeli critics question lopsided prisoner swap July 17, 2008 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Critics of Israel's lopsided prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas said Wednesday that such deals only encourage more hostage-taking - a fear underscored by Gaza militants who said the swap proves that kidnapping is the only language Israel understands. The deal, in which a... Read More

Hezbollah head confirms prisoner swap with Israel July 03, 2008 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Hezbollah's leader on Wednesday confirmed for the first time that his group will hand over two captured Israeli soldiers and information on a missing Israeli airman in exchange for five Lebanese prisoners in Israel. Israeli officials believe the two soldiers are dead, but Sheik... Read More

Rice criticizes Israel on West Bank settlements June 16, 2008 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's persistent building of Jewish homes on disputed land undermines the U.S.-backed attempt to write an Israeli-Palestinian peace draft this year and invites questions about Israel's motives, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. Using exceptionally harsh language, the... Read More

Report: Assad says talks with Israel need US sponsor June 03, 2008 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Syria's president said he was willing to hold direct peace talks with Israel in the future under U.S. sponsorship, laying out his vision of how negotiations could progress. President Bashar Assad said the preliminary stages of negotiations will be conducted indirectly... Read More

Bin Laden lashes out at Arab leaders May 20, 2008 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Osama bin Laden released a new message on Sunday denouncing Arab leaders for sacrificing the Palestinians and saying the head of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah did not really have the strength to take on Israel. In his second audio message in three days focusing on the... Read More

Bin Laden says Palestinian cause at heart of jihad May 19, 2008 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Osama bin Laden vowed Friday to fight Israel for the liberation of the Palestinians, claiming their cause is at the heart of al-Qaida's holy war with the West. The terrorist leader's third statement this year was released to coincide with the Jewish state's 60th anniversary and came... Read More

Suicide Bomber Kills 3 in Israel February 04, 2008 JERUSALEM (AP) -- A suicide bomber on Monday blew himself up in the southern town that houses Israel's secretive nuclear reactor, killing at least three other people and wounding five, Israeli rescue officials said. Police said there were two attackers, though only one managed to detonate his... Read More

Bush Committed to Mideast Peace Process November 28, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush told the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian territories on Wednesday he is personally committed to their mission of peace, urging them to stick with it and not lose sight of their goal. Bush met separately with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime... Read More

Freed BBC Reporter Visits West Bank July 05, 2007 RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Freed British journalist Alan Johnston traveled to the West Bank on Thursday to thank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian people for their support during the 16 weeks he spent in captivity in Gaza. Hamas, Abbas' fierce political rivals who recently seized... Read More

Al-Zarqawi Said Shiites Most Dangerous December 09, 2006 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The slain terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi purportedly believed that Iraq's Shiite Muslims were more dangerous than U.S. forces and more evil than dictator Saddam Hussein, according to a posthumous interview published Friday on the Internet. The 33-page interview, conducted... Read More

Israel to widen ground attack August 10, 2006 JERUSALEM - Israel’s Security Cabinet overwhelmingly decided Wednesday to send troops deeper into Lebanon in a major expansion of the ground war - an attempt to further damage Hezbollah before a cease-fire is imposed. The decision could pressure the United Nations to work faster on a cease-fire deal to try to... Read More

Israeli commandos clash with Hezbollah in northeastern Lebanon, seize five prisoners August 02, 2006 BOURJ AL-MULOUK, Lebanon (AP) - Israel pressed the first full day of a massive new ground attack, sending 10,000 troops into southern Lebanon on Wednesday and seizing five people it said were Hezbollah fighters in a dramatic airborne raid on a northeastern town. Hezbollah retaliated with its deepest strikes yet... Read More

Israel ground forces intensify attacks, air war resumes despite two-day pause August 01, 2006 BOURJ AL-MULOUK, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli forces battled Hezbollah across a broad front in Lebanon's south Tuesday, hours after the government in Jerusalem ordered its army to punch all the way to the Litani River and hold the ground until an international peacekeeping force comes ashore. In announcing the expanded... Read More