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Israel's Foreign Minister Told He Will Be Indicted for Fraud
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- The Israeli attorney general today told Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that, pending a hearing, he will be indicted for fraud, money laundering and witness-tampering, a move that could eventually bring the collapse of the government. Lieberman faces up to 10 years in jail if convicted. The draft indictment had been expected this week but caught Lieberman off guard as he sat on the podium of his ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu party in Jerusalem. Lieberman's face tightened as he took the call from his lawyer. AFP / Getty Images Israeli Foreign Minister ...
Rocket Fired From Gaza; Troops Kill 2 Palestinians
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel on Sunday, while Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in a new outburst of violence along the volatile border with Gaza. The violence came a day after Palestinian militants fired some 50 mortar shells into Israel - the heaviest Palestinian assault since a bruising Israeli military offensive two years ago. Mohammed Abed, AFP / Getty Images A relative of Gazsem abu Etwee, 17, and Imad Frajallah, also 17, prays at the morgue in a hospital in Gaza City today. Palestinian medical officials said they found the ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Visit Gaza, Won't Run for Re-Election
By not in system - AOL NewsRAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian president offered on Wednesday to visit the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for the first time in four years in a bid to help reunite the rival Palestinian governments. Hamas welcomed the offer. Mahmoud Abbas said he'd be prepared to make the trip within the coming week. Gaza's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, invited Abbas on Tuesday to visit following parallel rallies in Gaza and the West Bank urging the rival Palestinian leaderships to reunite. Majdi Mohammed, AP Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday in a speech before senior members of ...
Israel Seizes Ship With Iranian Arms Destined for Gaza
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsRAMALLAH, West Bank -- Israeli commandos boarded and seized a Liberian-flagged ship that Israel says was carrying "tons" of weapons from Syria to Egypt. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the weapons originated in Iran and were on their way to Gaza, which is ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement. "'We are currently collecting information, and the one thing that is certain is that these weapons are from Iran with a relay station in Syria," Netanyahu said. "It is our right and duty to stop the smuggling of these weapons." Israeli naval officials said they found several anti-ship ...
Palestinian Cabinet Dissolved as Abbas Demonstrates Political Reform
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- The Palestinian prime minister today dissolved his Cabinet in what some said was an attempt to increase popular support and avoid pro-democracy demonstrations like those sweeping Egypt. Palestinian officials insisted that the move is not a direct response to the events in Egypt and said it was meant to help the Palestinians prepare for elections planned for later this year. "This reshuffle was supposed to happen with or without Egypt," Ghassan al-Khatib, the director of the government media center in Ramallah, told AOL News. "But maybe the events have accelerated ...
In Memoirs, Ex-Israeli PM Regrets Failure of Peace Talks
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a "historic mistake" by rebuffing an Israeli peace offer during negotiations in 2008, Israel's former prime minister wrote in excerpts from his forthcoming memoirs published Friday. The new details from Ehud Olmert's memoirs were published days after the Arab TV station Al-Jazeera released secret documents revealing the details of the Palestinians' positions during the same negotiations, in which both sides appear to have been prepared to make major concessions. Talks have largely been deadlocked since Olmert left office in early ...
Palestinians Angry About Leaks Attack Al-Jazeera HQ
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Palestinians supporting President Mahmoud Abbas smashed windows and sprayed graffiti outside the West Bank headquarters of Al-Jazeera today, angry that it published documents that apparently showed Palestinian officials had agreed to Israeli sovereignty over nearly all Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. About 250 protesters gathered outside the Pan-Arab TV channel office in Ramallah, and a few sprayed graffiti saying "Al-Jazeera are spies" and "Al-Jazeera equals Israel." A few of the protesters then broke security cameras and windows. Amr Nabil, AP According to ...
Pilgrims, Clergy Come to Bethlehem for Christmas
By not in system - AOL NewsBETHLEHEM, West Bank - The traditional birthplace of Jesus is celebrating its merriest Christmas in years, as tens of thousands of tourists thronged Bethlehem on Friday for the annual holiday festivities in this biblical West Bank town. Officials said the turnout was shaping up to be the largest since 2000. Unseasonably mild weather, a virtual halt in Israeli-Palestinian violence and a burgeoning economic revival in the West Bank all added to the holiday cheer. By nightfall, a packed Manger Square was awash in red, blue, green and yellow Christmas lights. Merrymakers blasted horns, bands ...
Dwindling Christians in Bethlehem Hope 'Things Will Get Better'
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsBETHLEHEM, West Bank -- Adel and Sahar Handel have decorated their Christmas tree and tucked a traditional crèche underneath it. They have replaced their everyday tablecloths with special Christmas ones, and Sahar serves visitors special Christmas butter cookies. And yet, they say, their position as Christians and as Palestinians is increasingly difficult in this town where Christianity began. "Jesus was born here, and we pray in the most beautiful church in the world," Sahar said. "But the situation is just not good. I really hope things will get better because I really want to stay ...
Palestinians Express Doubts Over 2-State Future
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM (Dec. 12) -- Conventional wisdom on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking has long held that Israel should relinquish most of the lands it occupied in 1967 in favor of a Palestinian state - the "two-state solution" that much of the world has supported for years. But the utter lack of progress in peace talks and continued Jewish settlement in the West Bank has many people warning that Israel might instead be headed toward a one-state reality, with a permanent occupation of the West Bank and a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority - unless, perhaps, the world forces it to give the ...
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