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5 hrs ago | KXMA-TV Dickinson

Palestinians, US, UK criticize Jerusalem plan

Palestinians, Britain and the U.S. are critical of a proposal to build 900 more housing units in a Jewish neighborhood in the part of Jerusalem claimed by Palestinians.

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14 hrs ago | EUobserver.com

EU rebukes Israel for Jerusalem settlement expansion

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Israel's decision to push ahead with settlement expansion in East Jerusalem in defiance of international community opinion generated a rebuke from the EU on Wednesday .

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

Gulf Times

Settlements are marginal issue: Peres

A Palestinian worker sits amid the rubble in a metal workshop destroyed by an Israeli missile strike in Jabaliya town in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday Israel's president said yesterday expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank was a "marginal" issue blocking resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Shimon Peres,

Ynetnews

Fayyad: Eastern border of Palestine is Jordan

As opinions are being voiced in Jerusalem that the Jordan Valley will remain under Israeli control even after a Palestinian state is formed, Palestinian Prime Minsiter Salam Fayyad said Sunday that Jordan will be the eastern border of the state that will be established.

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The State

Palestinian nun takes step toward sainthood

A Palestinian nun who co-founded a charity dedicated to educating Arab girls on Sunday took an important step toward sainthood.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Roman Catholic Church, Religion

Daily Times

Foreign

China mine explosion kills 42, traps 66 * 400 of 528 workers get out safely * Blast shakes surrounding area HARBIN: A gas explosion killed 42 miners in a Chinese mine on Saturday and 66 remain trapped hundreds of metres underground after the latest accident to hit the world's deadliest mining industry, state media said.

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Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Palestinians to set new date for elections

Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

Palestine Chronicle

Frustration with Obama Increasing

Articles 21:18 11/18/2009 Frustration with Obama Increasing Hopes of Obama's 'change' are continuously raised but have yet to be fulfilled.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Palestine, TX, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, US Military, US Army, Fort Hood

Global Politician

Unilateralism is the only option

Last August, PM Salam Fayyad released a Plan to a oeestablish Palestine as an independent, democratic, progressive, and modern Arab state, with full sovereignty over its territory in the West Bank and Gaza, on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.a within two years.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Likud (Israel)

Ramallah Online

Jerusalem Light Railway: Effects And Legal Implications

A http://www.bdsmovement.net A A Construction on the Jerusalem Light Railway began in 2006 with the pretext of, a oebringing immediate relief to traffic congestiona and a oerevitalizing the center of Jerusalema .

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Star Phoenix

Sarkozy urges relaunch of Middle East talks

Reviving Middle East peace talks is an absolute priority and the present stalemate only serves extremists, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in remarks published on Tuesday before a visit to Saudi Arabia.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Voice of America

US Dismayed at Israeli Building Plan for East Jerusalem

A Palestinian boy in the yard of his house in front of a new housing development in east Jerusalem's Jewish Har Homa neighborhood, 21 Sep 2009 The United States says it is dismayed that Israel has authorized the construction of new housing units in occupied east Jerusalem.

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Malaysian National News Agency

China Opposes Over Israel's Housing Plan In East Jerusalem

China on Thursday voiced its serious concern over the recent plan of Israel to build housing units in East Jerusalem, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Foreign Ministry spokesperson Qin Gang as saying.

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Ynetnews

Abbas: People must resist, like in Bilin

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated Friday that there would be no peace talks with Israel as long as the settlement construction continued.

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Foreign Policy

Why Palestine Should Declare Independence

Mahmoud Abbas is in a bind. Faced with a seemingly insurmountable impasse to negotiations with Israel, the Palestinian Authority president can either resign from his PLO chairmanship or come up with some serious, unilateral action to break the deadlock.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama,

Thu Nov 19, 2009

The Irish Times

Abbas vows to pursue declaration of statehood

PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to press ahead with plans to win United Nations backing for a unilateral declaration of independence despite yesterday's rejection of the initiative by the European Union.

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Pajamas Media

The Jewish Taliban in Jerusalem

On Wednesday, Nofrat Frenkel, a Jewish woman, was arrested in Jerusalem for the crime of trying to pray with a Torah and for wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall .

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Free Republic

A Hamas victory in 2010?

You cannot sit in Des Moines or Los Angeles or Washington for that matter, and think you know the streets of Ramallah, Gaza or Jerusalem.

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Arizona Daily Star

Israel presses ahead with housing project in disputed area

JERUSALEM a ' Israel broke ground on a new housing complex for Jews in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, brushing off President Obama's criticism that construction in the disputed part of the holy city undermines efforts to relaunch Mideast peace talks.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Reuters

Recognizing Palestinian state would be premature: EU

Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said EU foreign ministers would discuss support for the Palestinians at a meeting on Tuesday but that it was premature to discuss recognizing a Palestinian state.

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