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President Obama Talks to Thomas L. Friedman About Iraq, Putin and Israel ... Asked whether he should be more vigorous in pressing Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinian Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, to reach a land-for-peace deal, the president said, it has to start with them. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “poll numbers are a lot higher than mine” and “were greatly boosted by the war in Gaza,” Obama said. “And so if he doesn’t feel some internal pressure, then it’s hard to see him being able to make some very difficult compromises, including taking...

Israeli, Baby Girl Murdered in Rosh Shana Terror Attack Israel News Agency Palestinian Terrorism - targeting babies and children File photo of recent Jerusalem bus terror attack Jerusalem----September 27......A Palestinian terrorist broke into a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Friday and opened fire in a home where a family was marking the Jewish New Year, murdering a man and a toddler and shattering Israel's peace and security efforts to maintain calm over the holiday. The Palestinian terrorist was shot and killed by soldiers guarding the settlement, said Capt. Jacob Dallal, an Israeli army spokesman. Two other Israelis also...

Our Newspapers Fail Us Editorial - Israel News Agency There is no public relations or public affairs without a carrier. The most established carrier is called a newspaper. And in Israel the only newspapers which enjoy abundant readership and wealth are the Hebrew dailies – Yediot, Maariv and Haaertz. As for the English newspapers here in Israel – one is a mere translation of the Hebrew edition and the other is fifty percent wire service copy. Yes – there are some brilliant writers on these papers but their voices become deluded when you have a lack of proper leadership integrated...

WESTERN WALL MASSACRE 20 DEAD, INCLUDING CHILDREN, BABIES, 120 WOUNDED By Israel News Agency Jerusalem-------August 19...... A Palestinian terror suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday on a bus packed with Jewish worshippers returning from the Western Wall, murdering at least 20 people, including seven children. This was not an attack on Israel or Zionists. This was a direct attack on Jews. Many ultra-Orthodox do not believe in a Jewish state or in Zionism - a Jewish homeland. Even worse, it was not as if the bomb was planted on the bus and detonated with a timing device. This was a...

Terror returns: Two suicide bombers kill two, wound dozen By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF Yechezkiel Yakutieli, 42, killed in the suicide bombing at Rosh Ha'ayin on Tuesday, 12th August, 2003. (Bar Tal Shalom) Suicide bombers killed two Israelis and wounded more than a dozen in two attacks within a half hour of each other this morning. A shopping mall in Rosh Ha'ayin, an eastern suburb of Tel Aviv, was the scene of the first attack at about 9 a.m. One Israeli was killed. Rosh Ha'ayin is several miles west Elkana, where the security fence that is under construction ends...

IDF expands humanitarian officers program By JOEL LEYDEN It's 2 p.m. at the Kalandia checkpost on a boiling summer's day. A long, crowded line of Palestinians wait to enter Ramallah. Young Israeli combat soldiers are positioned in front of them, standing behind grey concrete barriers and above on a dusty hilltop sweating inside guard towers. The 18-year-old troops appear ready for anything. They have been trained for terrorism and war and keep a watchful eye out for the unusual. It could be a car with a sniper, a young boy holding a package or a women suicide bomber just waiting...