Photo Caption: “PLEDGES: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas conferred yesterday in Paris, where Israel came under fire for expanding West Bank settlements.”
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“U.S. joins rebuke of Israel”
By Nicholas Kralev
December 18, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “PARIS — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined her counterparts in the international “Quartet for Middle East peace” yesterday in a rare formal rebuke of Israel for its plans to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Meeting at a donors conference in Paris that won $7.4 billion in pledges for the Palestinians, the Quartet also warned that the money will help improve the Palestinian economy only if Israel lifts some of the physical and administrative obstacles to Palestinian travel and trade.”
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3483980,00.html
Lebanon sentences two over Germany bomb plot
Published: 12.18.07, 11:45 / Israel News
A Beirut court sentenced one Lebanese man to life in prison and another for 12 years on Tuesday for their roles in a failed attempt to detonate bombs on two trains in Germany in 2006, judicial sources said.
One of the two, Youssef al-Haj Deeb, was sentenced in absentia in Beirut to death but the judgement was reduced to life in prison. Identified by German authorities as Youssef Mohamad E. H. D, he is being held in Germany where he went on trial on Tuesday. Jihad Hamad was handed a 12-year sentence in Beirut. Both were convicted of attempted mass murder.(Reuters)