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Tunnels Lead Right to the Heart of Israeli Fear
The curved concrete top of the tunnel grazes the dark-brown buzz cut of Lt. Col. Oshik Azulai, putting it 5 feet and 7 inches above the sand floor. The walls are about 30 inches apart — wide enough for two people to squeeze past each other, unless both are in body armor. It is cool in the tunnel, 46 feet under, and dark, of course. Cellphones do not work.
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Israel Hasn't Asked for Access to US Arsenal Stored in Israel
Should Israel find itself low on ammunition, it can tap into a stockpile of a billion dollars worth of American weapons stored in Israel by the United States for emergencies. So far, Israel has not requested access to the stockpile during the current hostilities with Hamas in Gaza.
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Gaza conflict: US says Israeli attack on UN school was 'totally unacceptable'
Israel has come under heavy pressure from the US to curtail civilian deaths after concluding that its forces were likely to have been behind the shelling of a UN school.
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Gaza Strip: 'Palestinian Genocide is Permissible' Claims Israeli Writer
A Jewish blogger has advocated genocide as a "permissible" way to achieve the goal of a sustainable peace in Israel. Yochanan Gordon, who is from New York, posted on the Times of Israel an op-ed entitled "When Genocide is Permissible" in which he argues that the only way to deal with Hamas is using an extreme measure of punishment.
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Criticizing Israel ends political careers in US: Rozzo
What Israel is doing in the besieged Gaza strip is the “massacre” and “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians and US officials “can’t say anything because this can end a lot of political careers,” an American political analyst in New Jersey says.
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Amnesty International Calls USA to Stop Arms Transfers to Israel Amid Growing Evidence of War Crimes Gaza
The US government must immediately end its ongoing deliveries of large quantities of arms to Israel, which are providing the tools to commit further serious violations of international law in Gaza, said Amnesty International, as it called for a total arms embargo on all parties to the conflict.
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Inside the tunnels Hamas built: Israel's struggle against new tactic in Gaza war
Israel's military leaders are sending soldiers underground to destroy dozens of tunnels. But if Israeli intelligence knew of their existence for the last two years, why did they not act sooner?
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Israel-Gaza conflict: Israel 'breaks ceasefire in minutes' as eight-year-old girl killed in air strike
Israel has been accused of breaching its own ceasefire a matter of minutes after it was called following widespread international condemnation for the bombing of another UN-run school in Gaza. A spokesperson for the health ministry in Gaza said an air strike on a house in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City was carried out after the start of the “humanitarian window”, scheduled for 10am (8am BST) this morning.
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Jimmy Carter calls for recognising 'terrorist group' Hamas as a legitimate 'political actor'
Jimmy Carter, the former president of the United States, has called on Western powers to recognise Hamas, which America defines as a terrorist organisation, as a legitimate “political actor”. The 39th President said that the Palestinian group, which America defines as a terrorist organisation, cannot be "wished away" in an article he co-wrote with the former Irish president Mary Robinson for Foreign Policy magazine.
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Israeli PM defends conduct of Gaza war as 'justified'
As a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas appeared to be holding, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his country's conduct of the fighting, saying its response was
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Israel, Hamas agree to Gaza policing plan
Both Hamas and Israel threw their support behind a plan calling for the moderate Palestinian Authority to take over policing of the Gaza Strip, a sign that negotiators were prepared to consider sweeping proposals to avert another major military confrontation.
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The Last And First Temptation Of Israel
What is one to make of the fact that the deputy speaker of the Knesset has called for ethnic cleansing in Gaza? He’s not an obscure blogger for the Times of Israel. He is a luminary of the Likud – a man who got 23 percent of the vote in a contest for the Likud Party leadership. He was appointed to his current high position by Benjamin Netanyahu. And this is his proposal for Gaza
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Israel accepts new Gaza ceasefire: Israeli officials
Israel has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposed by Egyptian mediators and will send negotiators to Cairo on Monday if the truce holds, Israeli officials said. Egypt had called on Israel and the Palestinians to commit to a new ceasefire that would start at 1700 ET and be in effect for 72 hours. A previous three-day pause expired on Friday and fighting in a month-old war resumed.
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What if the Arabs had recognized Israel in 1948?
Now, the Palestinians are on their own; each Arab country is busy with its own crisis and has put the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on hold. I have been exposed to Palestinians since I was in first grade in Al- Hassa, Saudi Arabia. They were the most dedicated and intelligent among all my instructors, from elementary to high school...
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‘My wife thinks I will come home in a box’ – and three days later Gaza bomb disposal expert was dead
Rahed Taysir al-Hom was buried in the sandy soil of the cemetery of Jabaliya, the rough Gaza neighbourhood where he had grown up, at 1pm on the third day of the ceasefire. His funeral was quick, attended by a hundred or so mourners, and accompanied by a short sermon from a white-turbaned cleric, a sobbing father and some shots fired from a Kalashnikov by a skinny teenager.
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The 11 biggest myths about Israel-Palestine
This is, in many ways, the Israel-Palestine misconception from which all other Israel-Palestine misconceptions flow: that the conflict is an impossibly complicated mess so far beyond human untangling or comprehension that we should not really try.
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Subtle voices of dissent surface in war-torn Gaza
The group of neighbors surveyed the destruction wreaked on their residential complex by Israeli bombardment, with building after building flattened or punctured by shells. The men then began to voice something almost never heard out loud in Gaza: criticism of its Hamas rulers.
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Malaysian Teen Receives Death Threats After 'Liking' Israel on Facebook
A Malaysian teenager who 'liked' an 'I love Israel' Facebook page has received death threats and is being investigated by police for 'sedition.' A teacher of the 17-year-old in Penang, northwest Malaysia, posted a screen grab of the student's 'like' on her own page, and the teen was forced to seek police protection after receiving a torrent of threatening and abusive emails, reports Malay Mail Online.
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Hamas to Israel: Accept our terms or brace for war of attrition
While Cairo ceasefire talks expected to resume tomorrow, Hamas official says that if demands of Palestinian delegation are not met, Israel should prepare itself for a prolonged war.
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Transplant Brokers in Israel Lure Desperate Kidney Patients to Costa Rica
Aside from the six-figure price tag, what was striking was just how easy it was for Ophira Dorin to buy a kidney. Two years ago, as she faced the dispiriting prospect of spending years on dialysis, Ms. Dorin set out to find an organ broker who could help her bypass Israel’s lengthy transplant wait list. Only 36, she had a promising job at a software company and dreams of building a family.
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