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Ahmadinejad says Tehran will not cooperate with P5+1 talks in Jan. Iranian president: U.N. Security Council members are “retards” Israeli Dep. PM: Iran has problems with weapons program Jerusalem, Dec. 30 – The United States, United Kingdom and the Zionist regime are an “ominous triangle of terrorism and warmongering in the world,” Iranian Defense Minister [...]
December 30th, 2010 | Posted in Iran,Latest | Read More »

Israel’s economy did better than expected, expanding by 4.5% this year, according to preliminary estimates. The average among the OECD nations is reportedly 2.7%. While living standards apparently contracted in most of the West, here an index tracking the standard of living increased by 2.7% in 2010, officials from the Central Bureau of Statistics stated [...]
December 30th, 2010 | Posted in Israel,Latest | Read More »

Five men planning to shoot as many people as possible in a building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were arrested Wednesday in an operation that halted an imminent attack, Danish intelligence officials said. Denmark’s intelligence service said it arrested four men in two raids in suburbs of the [...]
December 30th, 2010 | Posted in Latest,Terror | Read More »

Palestinians expect wider recognition of their statehood in the coming year and it will mean more than the mere “Facebook state” predicted by an Israeli minister, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday. Fayyad said recognition by many countries would “enshrine” the Palestinians’ right to a state in all of the West Bank and Gaza [...]
December 30th, 2010 | Posted in Latest,Palestinian Authority | Read More »

WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama has bypassed the US Senate and directly appointed four new ambassadors, including Robert Ford, who will become the first US envoy to Syria since 2005. Specific senators had blocked or refused to consider the confirmations of the nominees for various reasons, including questions about their qualifications. But in the most [...]
December 30th, 2010 | Posted in International,Latest | Read More »

The US is against efforts to bring the settlement issue to the UN Security Council, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday, soon after PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Palestinians intended to ask the Security Council to condemn the settlements as “illegal.” “We have consistently opposed taking these kinds of issues to the UN [...]
December 30th, 2010 | Posted in International,Latest | Read More »

Israel Defense Forces reserve officer are urged to take extra precautions following the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists: A detailed letter was sent Wednesday to a series of reserve officers, instructing them how to conduct themselves in Israel and abroad. The officers were asked to replace the supermarket they shop in frequently and to avoid travelling [...]
December 29th, 2010 | Posted in Iran,Latest | Read More »

A draft resolution prepared by the Palestinian Authority will ask the UN Security Council to declare Israeli settlements illegal and call for a full freeze in their construction. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the draft on Wednesday. It calls settlements a “major obstacle to the achievement of peace.” It does not, however, call [...]
December 29th, 2010 | Posted in Latest,Palestinian Authority | Read More »

The largest reserve of natural gas, over 16 trillion cubic feet, has been discovered off the coast of Israel, and is estimated to be worth more than $95 billion, U.S. company Noble Energy Inc. announced on Wednesday. Noble Energy owns 39.66% of the prospective discovery, alongside Israeli partners Delek Group Ltd. units Avner Oil and [...]
December 29th, 2010 | Posted in Israel,Latest | Read More »

On the eve of 2011, Israel’s population stands at 7,695,000, according to figures released Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), ahead of the start of the new year on Saturday. In terms of ethnic divisions, Israel’s Jews now count for some 5,802,000 or 75.4 percent of the population; Arabs 20.4% or 1,573,000 people [...]
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