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ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: DEMONSTRATION RALLY HELD CALLING FOR PEACE
English/Nat
A big rally - calling for peace - has been held in Jerusalem in advance of the reopening of Israeli/Palestinian negotiations on Sunday.
While some Israelis protested for peace - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met his top...
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Israel - Cabinet Discusses Arab Land Confiscation
The Israeli Cabinet met on Sunday (21/5) to discuss the
controversy over Israel's plans to confiscate Arab land in east
Jerusalem to build mostly Jewish housing and a police station.
In east Jerusalem, about 150 Palestinians demonstrated...
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GNS WEEKLY NEWS: NORWAY: OSLO WRAP
English/Nat
U-S President Clinton has urged both Israelis and Palestinians at the Oslo summit to honour Yitzhak Rabin by re-committing to peace in the region.
The former Israeli prime minister was assassinated four years ago.
At a...
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EGYPT: 3RD MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA ECONOMIC SUMMIT PREVIEW
English/Nat
Businessmen and politicians will be gathering in Cairo next week for the third annual Middle East and North Africa Economic summit.
In previous years the summit was seen as a focus for the on-going Middle East peace process...
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USA: CALIFORNIA: BOB HOPE CELEBRATES HIS 94TH BIRTHDAY
English/Nat
For more than fifty years movie star and stand-up comedian Bob Hope travelled the world entertaining U-S troops.
And as he celebrated his 94th birthday on Thursday, he was thanked for the memories with a prestigious award...
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WEST BANK: LEADERS PAST & PRESENT GATHER FOR PEACE FORUM (2)
Arabic/Eng/Nat
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said the deadline of May the 4th must remain for completing the permanent peace agreement.
He was speaking before a conference of more than 150 past and present world leaders, financiers...
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RR9415/A - ISRAEL: DIVIDED
RR9415/A - ISRAEL: DIVIDED (dur: 8 min 28 sec/eng.sot: 1 min 7 sec)
Despite the horror of the Hebron massacre when 29 Arab worshippers were killed by a fanatical Israeli settler, and recent acts of Palestinian retribution which have...
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MIDDLE EAST: US SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER, VISIT ENDS
English/Nat
US Secretary of State Warren Christopher's shuttle diplomacy has paid off in the Middle East.
He said today (Tuesday) that Israel and Syria are going to reopen talks very soon aimed at reaching a peace agreement.
At the end...
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ISRAEL: BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY RIFKIND MEETS SHIMON PERES
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British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind met Israel's acting prime minister Shimon Peres on Thursday, a day after securing a commitment to Middle East peace from Syrian leaders in Damascus.
The two men met in an atmosphere...
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USA: AUTHOR OF "THE BIBLE CODE" MICHAEL DROSNIN DEFENDS HIS BOOK
English/Nat
The author of controversial book - The Bible Code - Michael Drosnin has vigorously defended his work following criticism from the mathematician on whose calculations it was based.
Dr Eliyahu Rips used computers to discover...
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ISRAEL: ARRIVAL OF US PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
English/Nat
US President Bill Clinton flew into Israel Wednesday surrounded by tight security amidst threats of attack from terrorist bombers.
The President commenced the second leg of his Mideast tour with a promise of support for...
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Israel/Hebron/Gaza - Shamgar Commission Report
Israel's official inquiry into the Hebron mosque massacre of
February 25th published on Sunday (26/6) concluded that a Jewish
settler acted alone when he shot dead some 30 Palestinians.
0.00 cs flicking through pages of Shamgar...
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ISRAEL: ARGUMENT OVER WATER RIGHTS INTERRUPTS PEACE PROCESS
Arabic/Eng
The Middle East peace process is again in trouble, this time over water.
Palestinians are demanding a greater share of the water being pumped from aquifers in the occupied West Bank.
The dispute is the latest snag in...
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Opinion poll says most Israelis oppose any Palestinian rule in Jerusalem
Jerusalem - 3 October, 2007
1. Various aerials of Jerusalem
Jerusalem - 21 September, 2007
2. High wide of Western Wall (also known as the Wailing Wall)
3. Various of Jewish people praying at Western Wall
Jerusalem - 8 October, 2007
4....
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USA: BILL CLINTON/NIGERIAN PRESIDENT PRESS CONFERENCE
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President Clinton spoke of the Chechnyan and Palestinian conflicts at a news conference with visiting Nigerian President Obasanjo on Thursday.
Clinton urged Russian and Chechen leaders to move beyond conflict and find a...
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+4:3 Former Israeli PM Shamir dies at 96, Netanyahu reax, file
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid tribute on Sunday to Yitzhak Shamir, who died on Saturday.
Shamir was Israel's seventh prime minister, serving as premier for seven years, from 1983-84 and 1986-92, leading his party to...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : French Prime Minister promises to protect jews at Rabin memorial
CLEAN : French Prime Minister promises to protect jews at Rabin memorial
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West Bank - Rabin Accuses PLO Of Violating Accord
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin accused the PLO on Tuesday (14/6) of violating their self-rule accord by arresting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who cooperated with Israel. Speaking at a news conference at the Jewish settlement of...
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Israel minister to set up own party, analyst, Palestinian reax
Jerusalem - 17 January 2011
1. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak entering room
2. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ehud Barak, Israeli Defence Minister:
"Israel is facing serious challenges, mainly the political process with the Palestinians and...
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USA: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN VISIT
English/Nat
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Sunday supported Washington's ban on U-S trade with Iran.
He said Middle East peace was threatened by extremist Islamic radical groups who are assisted by countries like Iran.
The Israeli...
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ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: NORWEGIAN FM JAGLAND VISIT
Natural Sound
Thorbjoern Jagland, the foreign minister of Norway, the country which helped broker the breakthrough Israeli-Palestinian Oslo peace accords in 1993, has begun a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Last month's...
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+4:3 Look at status of MidEast peace process, 20 years after Oslo accords
Twenty years on, the hopeful words that launched Israeli-Palestinian talks on partitioning the Holy Land into two states ring hollow to many on both sides.
The Oslo agreement, sealed with a handshake by Israeli and Palestinian leaders on...
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Israel - Inquiry Into Security Breakdown
An official commission of inquiry on Thursday (28/3) blamed Israel's prestigious Shin Beth intelligence agency for the tragic security breakdown which permitted the murder of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, but it demanded only token...
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Various - PLO Prepares To Police West Bank
PLO prepares to police West Bank
Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the town of Dura Al-Qara
early on Tuesday morning (15/8) to pay their last respects to a
23-year-old man killed by Jewish settlers. Khair Mohammed Abdel
Hafeez was...