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As opposed to three men and a baby, right? Guess where, readers!"Several reported dead in air strikes"GAZA CITY - Three Israeli air strikes and a raid in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip yesterday killed three Hamas militants and two Palestinian civilians, local medical workers and the Islamist...
The Bush administration, with waning influence and regional allies pursuing their own agendas, has little choice but to swallow Lebanese and Israeli talks with U.S. adversaries Hezbollah and Syria.Washington appeared resigned to twin developments Wednesday that represent a setback and a...
by Ezzedine Said 18 minutes ago BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) - A conference seeking investment in the Palestinian territories opened on Wednesday in the biblical city of Bethlehem with calls for international business leaders to pump money into the struggling economy. Moderate Palestinian president...
From IsraelNN.com:Israel Radio's Paris correspondent Gil Michaeli is reporting that a French Court of Appeals overturned on Wednesday the libel judgment against Phillipe Karsenty in which he was convicted of libeling France-2 TV news journalist Charles Enderlin. Karsenty said the 'death' of...
An image very much in question: Jamal al-Dura shielding his son Muhammad, 12, during a gun battle in Gaza area in 2000. (Photo: Agence France-Presse) A fierce debate over an iconic Palestinian image was jolted anew today by a French appeals court ruling. In a ruling that buoyed the skeptics,...
John wrote about this already, but I want to put in my two cents. Less than a day has passed since the Israeli Supreme Court dealt a major blow to Ehud Olmert’s bid to stay out of jail, by ruling that Israeli Police may take a deposition from the New York businessman who allegedly bribed [...]
Knowing that the verdict in the Karsenty-Enderlin trial is due today, I looked for some news. But when I googled “Karsenty” I got precisely one result in the news section. It had to do with a talk Phillipe Karsenty gave a few weeks ago. However when I did a blog search, there were plenty of...
A Paris appeals court ruled in favor of a self-styled media watchdog accused of libel for claiming that French footage of the shooting death of a Palestinian boy was faked, his lawyer said. In acquitting Philippe Karsenty, the court ruled that he had acted in good faith and "exercised his free...
By Mohammed Assadi and Rebecca Harrison BETHLEHEM, West Bank, May 21 (Reuters) - International business executives pledged to invest in the Palestinian economy at a conference in Bethlehem on Wednesday but said Israeli restrictions must be eased for the economy to flourish. At least two major...
Preparing the next “image” for Gaza's popular pastime. Obviously, all the fault of the Zionist enterprise, code for: Jooz. A popular pastime in Gaza is swapping gruesome footage of dead or dying victims of the Strip's incessant violence. The images used to be almost exclusive legacies of clashes...
