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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 ...
Army: Palestinian Kills 5 in West Bank Settlement
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- The Israeli military says a Palestinian has infiltrated a Jewish West Bank settlement and killed five people. Israeli media is reporting that the dead are all members of the same family - parents and three children. The military says it is sweeping the area in search of the perpetrator and has set up checkpoints throughout the West Bank. The overnight attack early Saturday in the northern West Bank settlement of Itamar is the first of its kind in years. It marks a rare outburst of violence during a relatively calm period. Itamar is home to some of the West Bank's most fervent ...
31 Chilean Miners Give Thanks in the Holy Land
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Richard Villaroel, 26, spent most of his time underground praying that he would see his wife, who was pregnant with their first child, again. Six days after he was rescued, his son, also named Richard, was born. Today the elder Richard seemed to find it hard to believe that he, his wife, Dana, and their baby were in the Holy Land. "It is really a dream to be here and to see the Jordan River, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western Wall," he told AOL News after a tiring, 16-hour flight from Chile to Israel. "I lost count of the number of Ave Marias and Our Fathers I said ...
US Vetoes UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements
By not in system - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States vetoed a U.N. resolution Friday that would have condemned Israeli settlements as "illegal" and called for an immediate halt to all settlement building. The 14 other Security Council members voted in favor of the resolution. The Obama administration's veto is certain to anger Arab countries and Palestinian supporters around the world. An abstention would have angered the Israelis, the closest U.S. ally in the region, as well as Democratic and Republican supporters of Israel in the U.S. Congress. The U.S. opposes new settlements but says taking the ...
Opinion: Could This Be the Map to Mideast Peace?
By Barbara Slavin - AOL NewsIt's a cliche among foreign policy circles that everyone knows what an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will look like. Now a Washington think tank with close connections to officials in both Israel and the United States has sketched out realistic borders for a new Palestinian state. On Thursday, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy published a series of maps showing detailed options for removing most of the West Bank from Israeli occupation. While Robert Satloff, the think tank's executive director, and David Makovsky, the author of the study, said they were not endorsing any one ...
Opinion: Time to Draw a Map For Mideast Peace
By Barbara Slavin - AOL NewsA difficult political year for President Barack Obama ended with a flourish, not a whimper, as he piled up bipartisan victories with the ratification of a new Strategic Arms ReductionTreaty with Russia, the tax cut agreement, the repeal of the discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays in the military. Now it's time for Obama to chart bold new moves for 2011, including, first and foremost, a renewed effort to achieve a Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement. Nothing else would bring as many collateral benefits for U.S. national security. And no other issue is as ripe for ...
Palestinian Protester Dies From Tear Gas Inhalation
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsBIL'IN, West Bank -- Friday was supposed to be a special day for Jawaher Abu Rahmah. Her cousin was having an engagement party that night and she had brought a case of Coke as a special gift. Standing outside her small cinder-block home in this village near the West Bank town of Ramallah, she saw the weekly demonstration against the Israeli "wall" pass by. Jawaher and her mother, Subhiyeh, decided to join them. "We weren't even very close to them and the soldiers fired tear gas at us," said Subhiyeh, sitting on a bed in her small home, the room packed with women sitting on plastic chairs who ...
Israeli Companies Will Help Build Palestinian City
By not in system - AOL NewsRAMALLAH, West Bank -- About 20 Israeli suppliers will help build the first modern Palestinian city in the West Bank but only after promising they will not use products or services from Israeli settlements, the project's developer said today. The announcement angered the Jewish settlers, who accused the suppliers of caving in to an international boycott of settlement goods and businesses. The West Bank city of Rawabi, going up 20 miles north of Jerusalem, is a key part of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's plans to lay the groundwork for a future Palestinian state, regardless of ...
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 crčche 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 ...
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