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Israeli police accused of targeting Jerusalem's Arab residents
A leading civil-rights group has accused Israeli police of systematic discrimination against the Arab residents of East Jerusalem as growing numbers of hardline religious Jews take up residence in Palestinian areas.
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Twelve dead after Baghdad attacks
Monday, 6 September 2010
Twelve people were killed yesterday when suicide bombers attacked a military headquarters in Baghdad – two weeks after an attack on the same base pointed to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security.
Middle East peace process: High-level talks but with low expectations
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Donald Macintyre: On the ground, there is little agreement over the way forward
Rocket fired from Gaza hits Israel
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel today, two days after the start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, causing no injuries or damage, the Israeli military said.
Is Netanyahu ready to make peace? The test is yet to come
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Hardliner would have to break with his own ideology to deliver a deal
Familiar themes dominate first day of peace talks
Friday, 3 September 2010
Rupert Cornwell: Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, yesterday opened the first face-to-face Middle East peace talks in two years by demanding an end to Jewish settlements in the West Bank
Israeli and Palestinian leaders face talks critics
Friday, 3 September 2010
Analysts on both sides questioned the ability and desire of their leaders to negotiate a peace accord.
Settlers reveal deep disdain for events in Washington
Friday, 3 September 2010
Yaniv Mor, 30-year-old father of a one-month-old baby girl, and a settler was blunt: "We don't care about Washington. Nothing will come out of it, like always. This is a war of religions – we want everything, they want everything. There is no way there will ever be agreement. That is the reality."
Crowds attack home of Iranian opposition leader
Friday, 3 September 2010
Pro-government militiamen attacked the home of an Iranian opposition leader with homemade bombs and beat one of his bodyguards unconscious, an opposition website reported, in an apparent attempt to keep him from attending a key rally today.
Israel and Palestinians set for face-to-face talks
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Talks overshadowed by scepticism on all sides and violence in the volatile West Bank.
Obama's high-stakes gamble on peace deal that eluded predecessors
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Rupert Cornwell: He has invested much in succeeding where others have failed, but doing so could fatally harm his re-election bid
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