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PALESTINIAN BID FOR STATEHOOD

SO THE PALESTINIANS MADE SUCH A BIG DEAL ABOUT STATEHOOD. IN THE END IS THAT WHAT... more

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THE REASON FOR MUBARAK'S SLOW EXIT: PLUNDERING 30 YEARS OF GOLD

"It is easer for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle, that it is for a... more

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Former Israeli President convicted of rape

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UK, September 17, 2009 (Pal Telegraph)- Could anyone imagine as a result of your own actions you are killing your own troops and your own population? This is now the case in Israel.

Many weapons used by the IDF in Gaza contained uranium components and upon impact set off huge volumes of aerosol particles that then drifted back over the border into Israel with devastating results.

It has been some time since the Israelis bombed Lebanon and the Gaza Strip and in both cases the weapons used left behind a trial of misery for all those that lived downwind. We can now start to see the results of those actions and I must say the term "What goes around comes around" rings true in the ears of the residents of Israel. Some interesting health statements have been released that prove when you play with dirty weapons it can all come back to you. It would now appear that we have a situation whereby Israelis are killing Israelis.

In May this year we saw the following headline appear in the Haaretz:
"Quality of Israeli sperm down 40% in past decade" The quality of Israeli sperm has declined alarmingly in the last decade, according to recent research conducted at Jerusalem's Hadassah University Hospital, Mount Scopus. The cause for the decline is not known, but it's believed by some researchers to be connected to the exposure of children and pregnant women to hormones and other contaminants in food and water.

This month started to see some more statistics appear out of Israel which again indicates that contamination by DU may well be the cause. The next headline was even more alarming: "More women diagnosed with cancer in Israel than in Europe" Israel's health ranking is dropping compared to those of developed European nations, the Israel Medical Association said yesterday. Israel lags behind the European average in disease prevention.

The report gave a clear message that something in the environment may be causing these dramatic increases. The comparison gave the number of new female cancer patients as follows: 290 per 100,000 compared to an average of 179 in Europe. The report went of the say that for men the average was much the same but again was showing a steady rise since 2005.

When you think you have heard the last of the bad news you are then confronted with another shocking headline from the IMA: Hodgkin's lymphoma is a distinct primary solid tumour of the immune system that shows wide variation in incidence among different geographic regions and among various races. It was previously suggested that susceptible people living in certain parts of Israel had a higher risk of HL because of exposure to unidentified environmental factors in these regions. Compared with other parts of Israel, these regions were characterized by a higher proportion of Israeli-born Jews.

A total of 4812 Jewish cases of HL were reported to the Israel Cancer Registry during the study period 1960-2005. There has been a persistent increase in the age-standardized incidence rate of HL, all subtypes pooled, in Israeli-born Jews in both men and women. The age distribution pattern in both genders was bimodal in all periods. The highest incidence was observed in the 20-24 year age group: for women (9.13 per 100,000 per year) during the period 1988-1996, and for men (6.60 per 100,000 per year) during the period 1997-2005.UK, September 17, 2009 (Pal Telegraph)- Could anyone imagine as a result of your own... more

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Likud MK boycotts July 4th celebrations

July 4th in Israel and New York.

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Daniel Levy Interview (On Israel) Pt. 3/3 @ BreakRoomLive.com

breakroomlive.com The final installment of Sam Seder interviewing Daniel Levy, a... more

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Daniel Levy on Israeli Politics Part 2 - BreakRoomLive.com

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Kadima Party wins in Israel, Likud could still run the country

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Netanyahu pulls ahead in Israeli poll

Early Polls suggested that Tzipi Livni was leading the race to become the next Israeli... more

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Netanyahu vows rapid Palestinian economic growth

Likud's prime ministerial candidate Bibi Netanyahu has promised a dramatic... more

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Poll shows Livni leading Netanyahu

Tzipi Livni has seen a sharp turnaround in fortunes for Israel’s ruling Kadima... more

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Netanyahu: Israeli blood wasn't spilt so Hamas could move into Jerusalem

Likud chairman and opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu told Army Radio on Wednesday that he has no intention of joining a national unity coalition led by Tzipi Livni that would "relinquish the Golan Heights and divide Jerusalem."

"I don't want to build an Iranian base in the Golan Heights or in the heart of Jerusalem," Netanyahu told Army Radio. "This will be a government that will relinquish the Golan Heights and will divide Jerusalem. This is not a government with our (the Likud's) guidelines."

The Likud chair blasted the Kadima chairwoman for pledging to continue negotiations for a final settlement with the Palestinian Authority. "We know what we are dealing with on the other (Palestinian) side," Netanyahu said. "Today, there is no partner. There is a partner to talks but not to deeds. There is no Palestinian alive today who will kill a terrorist operative."

"I won't let Hamas enter East Jerusalem," the opposition chief told Army Radio. "Jerusalem is ours. We did not spill blood so that Hamas can settle in Jerusalem."

When asked how he reconciled his opposition to a withdrawal from the Golan Heights with the fact that he negotiated with Syria during his term as prime minister, Netanyahu replied that his steadfast stance led to key Syrian concessions on the issue of land.

"My first course of action as prime minister was to nullify the famous Rabin deposit," Netanyahu said, referring to Yitzhak Rabin's reported pledge to U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher stating that Israel commits to a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights in exchange for firm security guarantees from Damascus.

Since Livni's narrow victory over Shaul Mofaz in the Kadima primary on Thursday, Netanyahu has sought to play up the difference between Kadima under Livni, who is prepared for territorial compromises, and Likud, which has pledged to keep Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the Western Wall and the Temple Mount under Israeli sovereignty.

Netanyahu on Tuesday publicly rejected the call by Livni, Kadima's new chairwoman, to join a national unity government headed by her. Speaking at a news conference at Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, together with Likud MKs, Netanyahu launched an all-out attack on a future Livni cabinet and its expected coalition with Labor and Shas.

"We are not joining a failure and we are the alternative to the failure," Netanyahu told the press. He also reiterated the Likud argument that "it is inconceivable for a small group of Kadima members to decide for the citizens of Israel." Netanyahu declined to divulge the content of his Saturday-night meeting with Labor chairman Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

"We are told that elections will undermine the stability of the government, but the opposite is true. As long as there are no elections there will be no stability. It will be a transitional government constantly preoccupied with its survival," Netanyahu said.

MK Silvan Shalom accused Livni of favoring "her chair over ideology," mentioning the period after the Winograd Committee report on the Second Lebanon War, "when she called on Olmert to resign but remained foreign minister. And after Talansky she mumbled something and stayed in the government."

Likud whip MK Gideon Sa'ar said that within the first 24 hours of coalition talks Livni "had broken all her promises." He said she had given in to Shas' demand to restore cuts made to monthly child allowances. Likud chairman and opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu told Army Radio on... more

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Binyamin Netanyahu: It's time for general elections

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Polls show Livni winning race to replace Olmert as Israel PM

Polls show Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni winning next week's party primary and positioning herself to become Israel's first female prime minister since Golda Meir.

A survey in Israel's Yediot Ahronot daily on Friday showed Livni with a 15 per cent lead over her main rival, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, in the ruling Kadima Party's Sept. 17 primary.

The poll included 850 Kadima members and had a margin of error of 4.5 points.

Kadima is choosing a new leader to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is stepping down because of a series of corruption investigations. Elected in 2006, Olmert was supposed to serve until 2010.

A poll in the Maariv daily gave Livni an 18.8 per cent lead over Mofaz, a former military chief of staff and defense minister. The poll included 400 Kadima members and the margin of error was 4.9 points.

In the race, Mofaz has played up his defense credentials and cultivated a tough image. Livni owes her popularity mainly to her reputation for honesty, which resonates with Israelis fed up with a string of corruption charges against public figures.

A fifty-year-old former lawyer who served a brief stint in the Mossad spy agency, Livni has served in a number of Cabinet posts and is currently Israel's lead negotiator in peace talks with the Palestinians.

She spent much of her career as a member of the hawkish Likud Party, and she is the daughter of a famous fighter of the early militant Zionist group Irgun.

However, she has carved a niche for herself as a leading moderate since leaving Likud along with former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon when he set up the centrist Kadima Party in 2005.

Whoever wins next week's primary would have to cobble together a new coalition in order to become prime minister. If not, the country will hold national elections and Olmert will remain as a caretaker leader in the meantime.

Polls show that if elections were held now the winner would be Benjamin Netanyahu and his hardline Likud Party. That would cast doubt on the continuation of the peace talks Olmert and Livni have been holding with the Palestinians.

If she does become prime minister, Livni would become only the second woman to lead Israel. The first was Meir, a member of Israel's founding generation who governed from 1969 to 1974. Polls show Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni winning next week's party primary and... more

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Sides agree to divide Jerusalem?

Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to negotiate on the issue of Jerusalem, as... more

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Livni: Rising star of Israel's troubled political establishment

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who on Thursday challenged the Kadima party... more

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