Will Israel Attack Iran?

For the first time since the Iranian nuclear threat emerged, the conditions for an Israeli assault have been met.

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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Israeli Bulldozers Demolish Residence, Shed South of Hebron

HEBRON, January 25, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Wednesday demolished a residence that housed orphans and a shack in Khirbet Umm al-Khair, a locale in the Hebron south of West Bank, according to a Palestinian activist.

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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Newspapers Review: Israeli Measures against Lawmakers Dominate Dailies

RAMALLAH, January 25, 2012 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies Wednesday highlighted Israeli measures against arrested Palestinian lawmakers.

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Bombs in the Sinai Fuel Israel Fence-Building on Egyptian Border

January 24, 2012, 10:58 PM EST By Calev Ben-David Jan.

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Israel gives Intel ultimatum on fab grant

The Israeli government is attempting to force Intel’s hand on a decision to potentially build a new fab in the north of the country in exchange for a 1 billion shekel ($264.37 million) grant View the full article HERE .

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Palestine politician jailed without trial

JERUSALEM – An Israeli military court has ordered the speaker of the Palestinian legislative body to be jailed for six months without trial after he was arrested at a checkpoint near Ramallah last Thursday.

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Israel seeks to turn gas to gold

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is putting together a plan for a national investment fund that would put to work an anticipated natural gas bonanza to fuel both an export-geared economy and provide a nest egg of $10 billion in under a decade for future generations . The proposed Israeli sovereign wealth fund is still in the planning phase, but officials have said some of the revenues would be invested in critical areas such as education and health. Also being discussed are using some of the proceeds to endow a new set of export-oriented, technology-based industries that would build on what has traditionally been the country's greatest resource: human capital.

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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Parliament Speaker Gets Six Months Administrative Detention

RAMALLAH, January 24, 2012 (WAFA) – An Israeli military court in Ofer army camp, near Ramallah, Tuesday sentenced Palestinian parliament speaker from Hamas, Aziz Dweik, to six months administrative detention, according to his attorney, Fadi Qawasmi.

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Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza Strip overnight, no casualties

GAZA : Israeli aircraft on early Tuesday morning carried out a series of airstrikes targeting a suspected weapons manufacturing site and several tunnels in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. There were no reports of casualties.

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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Israeli Army Fires Live Ammunition at Gaza Demonstrators

GAZA , January 24, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition and tear gas on Tuesday at a peaceful demonstration near the northern Gaza borders with Israel , according to a statement by the International Solidarity Movement.

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Alon Holdings Blue Square – Israel Ltd. Announces Downgrade of Rating by Midroog Ltd.

ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel, January 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Alon Holdings Blue Square – Israel Ltd. (NYSE: BSI – News) (the “Company”), announced today that Midroog Ltd. (an Israeli rating agency, a 51% subsidiary …

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Israel detains Palestinian speaker for six months

An Israeli military court on Tuesday ordered the Hamas speaker of the Palestinian parliament be held in administrative detention for six months, his office told AFP.

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Police: Extremist Jews throw stones at woman putting up posters in tense Israeli city

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say a group of ultra-Orthodox extremists have attacked a woman who was putting up posters in a troubled town near Jerusalem.

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Israeli Police: Extremist Jews Attack Woman

Police: Extremist Jews throw stones at woman putting up posters in tense Israeli city

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Rocket fired from Gaza into Israel: army

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Tuesday, causing no damage or injuries, an Israeli police spokesman said.

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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Israeli Forces Arrest Lawmaker in Ramallah

RAMALLAH, January 24, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Tuesday arrested Palestinian lawmaker Abdel Jaber Fukaha’, after raiding his house in al-Masyun area, in Ramallah governorate, according to WAFA correspondent.

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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Israeli Soldiers Arrest Palestinian Teacher Near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, January 24, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian teacher from Aurora, a village near Ramallah, according to a statement released by Mandela Human Rights Group on Tuesday.

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Israel arrest Hamas lawmaker in West Bank

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Israeli forces arrested a Hamas lawmaker at his home in the West Bank city of Ramallah overnight, a source from the Islamist movement told AFP on Tuesday.

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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Israel Demolishes House near Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, January 24, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Tuesday demolished a Palestinian-owned house in Anata, a town northeast of Jerusalem, under the pretext that it was build without a permit, said the house owner.

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2 Palestinian Legislators Are Arrested in East Jerusalem Protest

JERUSALEM — Israel arrested two Palestinian legislators affiliated with Hamas as they staged a protest in the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in East Jerusalem on Monday, an act criticized by the Palestinian leadership as a blow to the first direct meetings between the Israeli and Palestinian sides in more than a year now under way in Jordan.

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Israel arrests two Hamas officials at Red Cross office

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police Monday two senior Hamas members at an International Committee of the Red Cross building in East Jerusalem where they had taken shelter for some 18 months, Red Cross and Israeli officials said.

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Gaza furniture exported to Jordan for the first time since Hamas took power

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says Gaza furniture makers have exported goods to neighboring Jordan, the first non agricultural exports since Hamas militants seized the territory.

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Gaza furniture exported to Jordan

The Israeli military says Gaza furniture makers have exported goods to neighboring Jordan, the first non agricultural exports since Hamas militants seized the territory.

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Hamas lawmakers arrested at Red Cross in Jerusalem

Two lawmakers from the militant Palestinian party Hamas were arrested after hiding for over a year inside a Red Cross compound in Jerusalem, an Israeli police spokesman said Monday.

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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Erekat Calls for Release of All Palestinian Prisoners

JERICHO, January 23, 2012 (WAFA) – Fatah Central Committee member and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat Monday called on the international community to immediately intervene to release all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to a press release published by his office.

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