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The Obama administration’s confrontation with Israel over its colonies inside the Palestine territories began as a test of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s willingness to enter serious negotiations on a Middle Eastern settlement. It actually possesses potential dimensions that few today imagine. Netanyahu first counted on the Likud and settlement lobbies in Washington to produce, as always in the past, a disingenuous formula that would allow the colonies to continue to expropriate Palestinian land and expand the settlements, while the American government oversaw essentially meaningless negotiations with the Palestinians. The prime minister was in Europe this week, and told RAI, Italian state radio, that after President Barack Obama had declared in his Cairo speech that the construction of new settlements must stop,... [read full story]
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SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police arrested 18 people Monday evening during a demonstration in which unionized employees blocked part of Market Street in protest of layoffs and wage reductions. Some of them sat in the street...
HAIFA, Israel, November 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - US$ 27.5 M compared to US$ 12.6 M in the third quarter of 2008; in the first nine months - US$ 57.9 M compared to US$ 21.2 M in 2008 Frutarom (LSE: FRUT, TASE: FRUT, OTC:...
BAGHDAD (AP) - Google is documenting the treasures of Iraq's national museum. Google chief Eric Schmidt says the company took 14,000 photographs of the museum and its artifacts and will put them online early next year. At a...
