Seven charged in US conspiracy planned terror attacks in Israel

A father, his two sons and four other men living in North Carolina are accused of military-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" abroad, including against targets in Israel, federal authorities said Monday.

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‘Obama is a racist,’ settler rabbi tells protestors in Jerusalem

The Yesha Council of settlements organized a demonstration in which some 1,500 rightists gathered near the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday to protest the Obama administration’s demand for a total freeze on Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.

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Israel stocks up for seventh day

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) — Israel stocks rose for a seventh session on Tuesday, in line with robust gains in global markets and led by strength in financials, while analysts pored over a pricing decision by Israel Chemicals.

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Europe raises pressure on Israel to stop settlements

JERUSALEM, July 21 (Reuters) – Germany, France and EU president Sweden on Tuesday joined Western nations pressing Israel to stop building settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank under a U.S.-led effort to resume stalled peace talks.

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U.S. eyes Syrian, Palestinian tracks

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Despite the latest clash between Israel and the Obama administration over building — this time in eastern Jerusalem — the United States is pressing ahead with plans to reopen negotiations on both the Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Syrian tracks.

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Palestinian PM to U.S.: Draft new Mideast peace plan

Written: 7-18-2009 Rapture Forum Staff: Chris

Welcome to this edition of the Rapture Report. Today we are seeing news coming out of the Middle East where the Palestinian PM is calling for the United States to draft a new Middle East peace policy, one that puts specific timeframes on implementing a Middle East peace […]

U.S. demand for East Jerusalem building freeze ‘surprised’ Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he had been "surprised" by a recent U.S. demand that Israel halt a construction project in a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

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PA fears U.S. will continue to allow settlement building

WASHINGTON – Palestinian officials said yesterday they were worried the U.S. administration was close to an interim agreement with Israel on settlement construction. According to information that has reached the Palestinian Authority, Israel will not completely halt construction in the settlements but will limit it drastically to the point of almost stopping it. In exchange, […]

Israel informed UN of Hezbollah cache months ago

UNIFIL learned a few months ago about the cache of Katyusha rockets that exploded in the southern Lebanese village of Hirbet Salim last Tuesday, a government source in Jerusalem said. The source said UNIFIL had precise information about the cache and a number of other installations where Hezbollah is storing rockets, but that UNIFIL had […]

Israel: Barack Obama is no friend of ours…

Throughout the political campaign Barack Obama argued that he was a staunch friend of Israel. In Cairo, in his ground-breaking speech to the Islamic world, he asserted America was committed to the security of Israel. Wherever he goes he says he is committed to upholding America’s long history of supporting the Jewish state.

So how […]