After war in Lebanon, Israeli settlements growing again
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West Bank expansion may complicate Secretary Rice's aim for Israeli-Palestinian talks.
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A black coat of oil now covers the Lebanese capital's once-beautiful sandy Mediterranean shore, spilled from a power plant that was knocked down by Israeli warplanes two weeks ago.
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Israel's army chief said Saturday that Israel has tripled the number of forces in Lebanon as part of its expanded ground offensive and will keep fighting until a cease-fire is implemented.
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Israel pounded southern Lebanon with airstrikes and artillery and sent ground troops over the border for the first time in six years Wednesday after Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in an explosion of violence between the neighboring countries.
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AITA AL-SHAAB, Lebanon  - He passed all his school exams, helped out in his father's sandwich bar, ran a bicycle shop and still found time to train with local Hezbollah guerrillas in this village on Lebanon's border with Israel.
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After HezbollahÂs war with Israel, there was a surge of music, video, sculpture, poetry and theater in Beirut, examining the issues raised by the 34-day war.
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BEIRUT -- A racket filled the air outside Mohammed Jassar's shop in a swath of Beirut devastated in this summer's war with Israel. Hammers delivered a cadence to the clamor of bulldozers, saws and drills trying to rebuild. The noise was almost as loud as the invective these days in Lebanese...
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Washington -- The Bush administration, moving to lend political support to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at a time of political turmoil, has signaled approval of growth in at least some Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, American and Israeli
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Hope and skepticism as Israel and the Palestinians try again
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JERUSALEM -- Nearly two months after the rest of its army left southern Lebanon, Israel agreed yesterday to pull its few dozen remaining soldiers from the Lebanese part of a village divided by the border, yielding control to UN peacekeepers.
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As suddenly as it fell apart four years ago, the Middle East peace process sprang back to life this week in a rapid-fire series of dramatic developments that left Israelis rubbing their eyes in disbelief.
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IN ADVANCE of a showdown with Likud party hard-liners, the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s government yesterday issued its largest authorisation of new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank since the unveiling of the international peace ...
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Israel is building more than 3,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank despite a commitment under a U.S.-backed peace plan to stop such expansion, the Peace Now group said in a report on Wednesday.
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli government was accelerating its settlement program with plans to build hundreds of new homes in the West Bank, bolstered by a US softening of opposition to new construction projects.
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The Lebanese people have made remarkable progress rebuilding their small, war-shattered country over the past decade. The economy has grown past the $40 billion mark and Beirut, once known as the Paris of
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Seven months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s astonishing announcement of a plan to withdraw all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip ignited a tiny spark of hope among people searching for some way out of another ghastly intifada.
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Israel examines plans for a new settlement in East Jerusalem, an area considered occupied land.