Behind Israel's Delayed Invasion
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In order to really gain control of south Lebanon, Israel is considering a major escalation of ground operations. But up to now that is precisely what it has tried to avoid -- and for good reason
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The Middle East is entering a historic process. Iraq under US occupation, and Palestine under Israeli occupation will hold two critical elections in January (if they are not postponed).
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âBlood and Tears: The Arab-Israeli Conflictâ methodically traces the battle over turf from its biblical origins to the fragile present.
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Israeli pundits make much of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's powers of persuasion, but this was one bit of proof that he might well have wanted to do without.
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The war in Lebanon has badly bruised the Israeli government and boosted Hezbollah's standing in the Arab world. Israel says it has made some gains &#151; the Lebanese army, backed by international troops, is to take control of south Lebanon.
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Ariel Sharon&#39;s massacre in the Gaza Strip is nominated for a dragging continuous phase. The reason is not because the short-range Al-Qassam rockets are thumping targets inside the Hebrew State and impeding
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NEW YORK Israel&#39;s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is approaching its fifth decade. It is an occupation that has inflicted unspeakable cruelty on a civilian population of 3.5 million Palestinians, not
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Sharon is not Charles de Gaulle. He is as far away as ever from the conviction that Israel must recognize the national rights of the Palestinian people and withdraw from territories occupied in 1967, let alone
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Hope and skepticism as Israel and the Palestinians try again
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On the eve of the Jewish New Year, Israelâs national discourse was dominated by talk of potential civil war, but few of those talking dared define the possible dimensions of such a conflict.
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Israel bombed and shelled southern Lebanon and sent ground troops over the border for the first time in six years Wednesday after Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers. The fighting killed eight Israeli soldiers and three Lebanese.
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Israel's PM Ehud Olmert said its Lebanon war strategy was drawn up months in advance, a newspaper claims.
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Ehud Olmert's apparent admission that Israel has nukes calls into question the country's longtime vow of silence.
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By israelinsider staff September 7, 2004. The loss yesterday of the Ofek-6 spy satellite, due to a malfunction in its Shavit rocket launcher, is expected to delay Israel&#39;s plans for more sophisticated surveillance
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Israeli warplanes scrambled as soon as news broke of the Taba bombings. Military sources would not elaborate but analysts suggested the most likely reason was to intercept any hijacked
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Peacekeeping forces are hit and Al-Qaeda allies are likely suspects. Will the border with Israel flare with warfare again?
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For a start, his absence, temporary or permanent, has the potential of throwing a monkey wrench in the Israeli leader&#39;s much-trumpeted plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and evacuate Israeli settlements in this overpopulated Palestinian