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Gilad Shalit Video Handed Over By Hamas In Exchange For Prisoners

Arye — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:35:22 +0000

In the first glimpse of him since his capture more than three years ago, a thin but healthy-looking Israeli soldier said in a video released Friday that he is being treated well by his Palestinian captors and appealed to Israel’s leader to bring him home.

Israel received the two-minute video of Sgt. Gilad Schalit from Hamas militants after it released 19 female Palestinian prisoners earlier Friday in an exchange that is the first tangible step toward defusing a key flash point in Israeli-Palestinian hostilities.

Israel closes off West Bank for 48hours

Arye — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:48:09 +0000

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak slapped a 48-hour closure on the West Bank, preventing Palestinians from entering Israel, beginning at one minute to midnight Thursday, the Israeli army announced.Humanitarian cases and people in need of medical...

Media Bias on Gaza Crisis Favors Israel

Arye — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:09:29 +0000

The Islamic University in Gaza is destroyed. Few media question this.The Israeli PR offensive leading up to its calculated assault on the Gaza Strip is paying dividends. The Israeli publicity machine has effectively framed this murderous spree against Palestinians and Hamas in Gaza as a reasoned, defensive measure. Even though it has killed 350 Palestinians, most of whom are civilians, and injured one thousand more, Israel is being presented in media as a normal, morally-acting state.

Mumbai attacks: domestic Indian terrorism with a global twist

Arye — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:50:00 +0000

The claim of responsibility came from a group no one had heard of before, the Deccan Mujahideen. The Deccan plateau is a huge area of central and southern India, and mujahideen is the Arab word for Islamic holy...

Israel Braced for Large Scale Incursion

Arye — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:15:15 +0000

Israeli Prime Minister , Ehud Olmert speaking to a crowd of supporters of his Kadima party has threatened a large scale assault in the Gaza Strip against the Hamas government of the...

Internal Security Minister unhurt in sniper attack from Gaza aide wounded

Arye — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:13:12 +0000

Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter’s personal assistant was lightly to moderately injured Friday by gunshots fired by one or more Palestinians at the minister’s entourage visiting the Nizmit hill in Kibbutz Nir Am in southern...

Was the Bible written while high?

Arye — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:23:30 +0000

THE biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology...