Violent winter storm whips Europe, killing over 50

February 28, 2010 by element115
The violent winter storm, dubbed as "Xynthia," has lashed most eastern European countries as of Sunday with heavy rain and strong gust, leaving over 50 deaths and massive devastation on its routes.
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Slain Hamas Operative Was Drugged, Dubai Police Say

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A Hamas official who was killed in his hotel room here in January was first injected with a fast-acting muscle relaxant and then suffocated, Dubai police officials said Sunday.
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Ahmadinejad once again fails to call for the annihilation of Israel

by element115
It is dreary to see this constant drumbeat of dishonest propaganda. Whatever one thinks of Ahmadinejad or the Iranian regime, one should not misrepresent their statements, since that will lead to bad policy-making.

Ahmadinejad never mentioned Israel as a country at all, and spoke only about what he called the 'Zionist regime.
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THE TRUTH IS THERE FOR YOU TO SEE, BUT NOT NECESSARILY ON YOUTUBE

by element115
If it’s anti-zionist or anti-Israel, you can be sure it will be removed. That is how YouTube operates. After all, they themselves are controlled by zionists so it seems natural for them to defend (by censorship) anything that is true about Israel today.
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8.8-magnitude earthquake hits Chile

February 27, 2010 by element115
If the magnitude of the Chilean earthquake stands, it would be tied as the fifth-strongest earthquake recorded since 1900, when records were first kept. An earthquake off the coast of Ecuador in 1906 also was recorded to have a magnitude of 8.8.

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Hawaii Under Tsunami Warning

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Hawaii braced Saturday for a potentially damaging tsunami, after a massive earthquake off Chile sent waves across the Pacific Ocean.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning — its highest alert — for Hawaii, where incoming waves could cause damage along the coastlines across the island chain. A warning was also in effect for Guam, American Samoa and dozens of other Pacific islands.
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Chile earthquake: tsunami hits New Zealand

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The first waves of the tsunami triggered by the earthquake in Chile have hit New Zealand's eastern Chatham Islands and officials have warned bigger waves are to follow.
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Police recover DNA of Dubai hitmen

by element115
"We have DNA evidence ... from the crime scene. The DNA of the criminals is there," police chief Dhahi Khalfan said on Friday on the Arab satellite television Al-Arabiya.
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Head of IMF Proposes Global Currency

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, suggested Friday the organization might one day be called on to provide countries with a global reserve currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar.

"That day has not yet come, but I think it is intellectually healthy to explore these kinds of ideas now," he said in a speech on the future mandate of the 186-nation Washington-based lending organization.
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British Police Arrive in Israel to Investigate Alleged Mossad Hit

by element115
An international investigation into the assassination of a senior Palestinian militant in the Persian Gulf region has taken British police to Israel.

A special British police investigator has arrived in Israel to probe the use of false British passports in the assassination of a senior Hamas operative in Dubai last month. The investigator will meet with dual Israeli-British citizens whose passports were used by the alleged hit team and who claim they were victims of identity theft.
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UK troops in Afghanistan 'for five years'

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British troops will remain in Afghanistan for the next five years, according to the head of the Army.
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Israel unhappy at UN war crimes vote on Gaza

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Israel suffered a diplomatic setback on Friday when most European Union states backed an Arab resolution at the United Nations that kept alive the issue of its alleged war crimes during the Gaza conflict a year ago.
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More riots in Hebron over shrine dispute

February 26, 2010 by element115
Palestinians have been violently protesting in Hebron since Israel declared this week that it would add the Cave of Patriarchs to its list of national heritage sites.
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Fabricating history

by element115
Israel's attempts to establish historical grounds for its existence include stealing, destroying and substituting Islamic heritage.
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Global Sweatshop Wage Slavery

by element115
Transnational corporations (TNCs) now roam the world to find the cheapest and most vulnerable workers." They're mostly young women in poor countries like China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Haiti, and many others working up to 14 or more hours a day for sub-poverty wages under horrific conditions.
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Why are we surprised that Mossad used fake passports?

by element115
Today's Jewish Chronicle carries a short commentary on the tendency of Israeli security services to "borrow" passports, highlighting two methods by which this could have been done. The first is apparently innocuous, whereby as part of the normal migration procedures any "Oleh" wishing to make the "aliyah" (migration to Israel) parts willingly with his or her identification documents, which can and usually are circulated. The anonymous JC commentator suggests that a more surreptitious method was used for holders of foreign passports who would be approached directly by the security services. This approach is "widely known among new and old immigrants to Israel" according to one man who described how he was approached for his passport while spending a gap year in Israel 40 years ago:
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Israeli forces commemorate Goldstein Massacre with tear gas and sound bombs

by element115
At 2:30pm protest placards and flags were held high and we began our decent towards the Shuhada Street checkpoint. After just a few minutes, about 150 meters from the Shuhada Street checkpoint, interactions with the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) began. Sound bombs and then tear gas canisters were rolled into the nonviolent crowd. As media began donning their gas masks and protective helmets, Israeli activists began linking arms to block the IOF’s attempt to force the crowd to retreat. Sound bombs, Arabic and English chants, negotiations with IOF in Hebrew and the call to prayer filled the air.


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Bad word banned

by element115
Apartheid is an ugly word that just shouldn’t be used, Progressive Conservative MPP Peter Shurman said Thursday.

And he got all of Queen’s Park to agree.

Shurman, the member from Thornhill, moved a resolution to condemn the now annual event on Canadian campuses known as Israeli Apartheid Week.

"The name is hateful, it is odious and that’s not how things should be in my Ontario. It’s a term that frankly I’m sick of hearing. Get rid of this word apartheid.”


The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime."
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RISE UP

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Knesset criminalises the commemoration of the "Nakba"

February 25, 2010 by element115
A new law in Israel makes it a crime to commemorate what Palestinians call the "Nakba", the "catastrophe" of their dispossession by the creation of the Zionist state in 1948. The Knesset, Israel's parliament, has passed "The Nakba Draft Law" after just one reading. Penalties will be imposed on anyone showing signs of sadness and mourning within the (undefined) borders of Israel on 15 May
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Tortillas and the Corporate State

by element115
Transmogrified by industrial materialism, we have become what we own. More specifically, what we are observed by the rest of our society as owning. In the commodified society of industrial materialism, owning is being.
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Listen to the heroes of Israel

by element115
...an extraordinary few in Israel against the repression and lawlessness of the occupation of Palestine. They are the inspiration to break the loud silence in the Jewish diaspora.
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US offered Rigi 'extensive aid' for Iran attacks

by element115
The captured ringleader of the Jundallah terrorist group, Abdolmalek Rigi, has confessed that the US administration had assured him of unlimited military aid and funding for waging an insurgency against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Investigate 9/11 sign on Vancouver 2010 Olympics coverage

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Caught on Tape: Selling America's Secrets

by element115
"60 Minutes" has obtained an FBI videotape showing a Defense Department employee selling secrets to a Chinese spy for cash.
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More Israeli names match new Dubai suspects list

by element115
Eight more people in Israel turned out Thursday to have names matching suspects in the assassination of a top Hamas operative in Dubai, and claimed their identities had been stolen.
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Australian report: Israel warned in past about fake passports

by element115
Former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer confirmed that the Australian government warned Israel, at least once, against using such fake passports.
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Australia summons Israeli envoy over Dubai killing

by element115
Australia has summoned the Israeli ambassador to explain why three new suspects in the case of a Hamas leader killed in Dubai used Australian passports.
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15 New Suspects in Hamas Killing

February 24, 2010 by element115
Dubai police have identified 15 new suspects in the killing of a top Hamas militant in the emirate last month.

The development Wednesday raises the total number of suspects to 26
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Haneyya calls for third Intifada against Israeli decision to seize mosques

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Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya on Tuesday called for a new Intifada (uprising) in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem in light of the Israeli decision to annex the Ibrahimi and Bilal Mosques to the so called Jewish historical sites in Palestine.

Haneyya also condemned the Palestinian Authority (PA) for declaring its intention to return to the negotiation table while Israel, on the ground, escalates its violations against the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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Mossad Death Squad Operations in Austria

by element115
The Israeli Mossad continues to choose Austria, this beautiful and quite country, which appears to be safe for visitors and Austrian residents alike, as a central for its bloody terrorist operations.
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Russia warns West against "crippling" Iran sanctions

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"Call them what you want -- crippling or paralyzing -- we are not got going to work on sanctions or measures which could lead to the political or economic or financial isolation of this country," Rozhkov told reporters in Moscow.

When asked by a reporter what sanctions Russia might be able to support, he said: "Those that are directed at resolving non-proliferation questions linked to Iran's nuclear program."

"What relation to non-proliferation is there in forbidding banking activities with Iran? This is a financial blockade. And oil and gas. These sanctions are aimed only at paralyzing the country and paralyzing the regime," he said.
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Swine Flu deaths - What are the real numbers?

by element115
As of January 30th, only 2,498 confirmed cases have been reported to the CDC. In comparison, the CDC says that in a regular flu season, about 36,000 people in the United States die from seasonal flu.
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EU-Israeli relations set to stay warm in spite of Dubai killing

by element115
Public opinion in Europe is without question more critical of Israel. But for EU governments, maintaining a strong relationship with Israel is essential if they want to have some influence over Middle Eastern affairs and over the problem of how to contain Iran’s nuclear programme.
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Turkish prime minister warns against Israeli strike in Iran

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In an interview to Spanish newspaper El Pais published on Monday, the Turkish PM responded to a question on the results of a pre-emptive Israeli strike in the Islamic Republic saying, "this would have unforeseeable consequences that I would not even want to imagine."
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IRS worker's widow sues Texas suicide pilot's wife

by element115
The lawsuit filed Monday says Sheryl Stack should have warned others about her husband.
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Italy convicts 3 Google execs in abuse video case

by element115
An Italian court convicted three Google executives of privacy violations Wednesday because they did not act quickly enough to pull down an video online that showed bullies abusing an autistic boy.
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Son of Hamas founder spied for Israel for more than a decade

by element115
...supplied key intelligence on an almost daily basis from 1996 onwards.
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Rachel Corrie's family bring civil suit over human shield's death in Gaza

February 23, 2010 by element115
The family of the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago, is to bring a civil suit over her death against the Israeli defence ministry.
The case, which begins on 10 March in Haifa, northern Israel, is seen by her parents as an opportunity to put on public record the events that led to their daughter's death in March 2003. Four key witnesses – three Britons and an American – who were at the scene in Rafah when Corrie was killed will give evidence.
A Palestinian doctor from Gaza, Ahmed Abu Nakira, who treated Corrie after she was injured and later confirmed her death, has not been given permission by the Israeli authorities to leave Gaza to attend.
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Gaza, living in the dark

by element115
Gaza survives on a minimal amount of electricity, leaving residents without power for the most part of the day. No television is one thing; no street lighting and hospital equipment is another.
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Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births

by element115
A fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin Kramer, has called for "the West" to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.

Kramer, who is also a fellow at the influential Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), made the call early this month in a speech at Israel's Herzliya conference.
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US warns Iran 'time and patience is running out'

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White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Iran's recent pronouncements showed "they have no interest in building international confidence that their nuclear program is for peaceful means."

Gibbs reiterated US warnings of "consequences" if Iran continues to develop uranium enrichment capabilities, adding, "Time and patience is running out."
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Why We are Susceptible to Manipulation

by element115
Our brains assume that we can tell truth from fiction, because they evolved in very small groups where we knew everyone extremely well, and usually could see for ourselves what was true.
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Opposition leader praises Hamas commander killing

by element115
Tzipi Livni of the centrist Kadima Party said the death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was good, but she did not indicate who was behind the killing.

"The fact that a terrorist was killed, and it doesn't matter if it was in Dubai or Gaza, is good news to those fighting terrorism," she said at a conference of the Jewish Agency board of governors in Jerusalem.
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Kuwait FM: World should condemn Israel for Dubai hit

by element115
During a press conference with his Portuguese counterpart in Lisbon the Kuwaiti minister accused Israel of being behind the hit and noted that Israel "was responsible for the murder of Palestinians in general."
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Man bulldozes home ahead of foreclosure

by element115
"When I see I owe $160,000 on a home valued at $350,000, and someone decides they want to take it -- no, I wasn't going to stand for that, so I took it down," Hoskins said.
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Israeli immigration officials copied British passports used by hit squad, ministers told

February 22, 2010 by element115
The passport numbers were taken, most likely by photocopy, and then used to create new documents which were used by the hit squad.

The identities of French, German and Irish citizens were also used.

The suspects used fake passports bearing their own pictures, but the names and numbers of the innocent Europeans.
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Chinese consultant wrote code used in Google attack

by element115
US analysts believe a Chinese freelance security consultant with government ties was the author of the code used in cyberattacks on Google and other companies, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
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Israeli FM sidesteps questions on Hamas killing

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Israel's foreign minister sidestepped questions at EU headquarters Monday about his country's alleged role in last week's assassination of a top Palestinian Hamas operative, officials said.

Avigdor Lieberman also avoided discussing the falsified European Union passports believed to have been used by the killers, despite pressure for answers in one-on-one meetings with EU foreign ministers and the bloc's foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton.
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Bank of Israel Governor Fischer to Woo China on Iran

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to send Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer to China to try to convince the government there to support sanctions against Iran in the face of its insistence on developing nuclear weapon capacity.
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U.S. patriot missiles in Poland early April

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Poland is set to host a battery of U.S. Patriot missiles and the American troops to man it from the start of April, PAP news agency said Sunday.
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The Pope condemns body scanners

by element115
Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out against airport body scanners, insisting that "human dignity must be preserved."
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Quake of 4.7 magnitude hits Haiti

by element115
A mild 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Monday 20 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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Nato airstrike kills 27 civilians in Afghanistan

by element115
The airstrike in a remote part of Oruzgan province yesterday capped a bloody week for Afghan civilians that has seen some 60 innocent people killed by Nato weapons.

Afghanistan’s cabinet called the attack "unjustifiable" and condemned the raid "in the strongest terms possible".
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Lieberman: Israel being made scapegoat

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Lieberman added that Israel is often made to be the scapegoat: "The Middle East has a lot of internal struggles between nations and bodies that are not as democratic as Israel," he said, clarifying the he meant Fatah, Hamas and al-Qaeda.
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EU condemns use of forged passports in Dubai hotel killing

by element115
The EU has strongly condemned the use of forged European passports by the hit squad who assassinated a Hamas official in Dubai, but made no direct reference to Israel, whose secret service the Mossad remains the main suspect in the murder.
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US to pursue pressure track on Iran: Petraeus

February 21, 2010 by element115
The US and other world powers are drumming up support for a fourth round of UN sanctions against Iran for its refusal to comply with repeated ultimatums to suspend uranium enrichment and agree to a UN-backed nuclear fuel deal.
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Iran Attack: It’s About Mass Murder, Not Nukes

by element115
If you think this sort of criminal behavior is limited to Republican neocons, think again. Bill Clinton not only bombed Baghdad on June 26, 1993 — killing eight Iraqi civilians, including the distinguished Iraqi artist Layla al-Attar — he also attacked Yugoslavia, targeting civilian infrastructure and civilian facilities, including houses, hospitals, schools, trains, factories, power stations, and broadcasting facilities.
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Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be 'Massacred'

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The chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be "massacred," according to a report released Friday night by the Office of Professional Responsibility.
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Tony Blair: Israeli officials were part of decision to invade Iraq

by element115
In his recent testimony to the UK Committee investigating the Iraq war, British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that Israeli officials influenced and participated in the decision by the US and UK governments to attack Iraq in 2003.
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Teach Your Children Well: There Is No Law but Might and Murder

by element115
This is the lesson that the United States government -- the government of the historic progressive, Barack Obama -- taught the children of America today:

"Children, the law is nothing but a rag smeared with blood and shit.

"It is only for suckers, rubes and losers.

"Claw your way to the top -- by any means necessary -- and the law can never touch you.

"This is the American way."
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Why Britain turns a blind eye to torture

by element115
The torture debate is once again raising the ugliest of heads. Following the revelations of MI5's knowledge of torture in the Binyam Mohamed case, ministers have been hot in denial of any collusion in torture with the US or other allies.
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A Reading into the Conditions of Arab Women in Israel

by element115
Since the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948, Israel has exercised racist policies against minorities living within its borders. This naturally contravenes the democratic principles it claims to pursue and uphold as a way of life. Nevertheless, it continues to consider itself the only democratic state in the Middle East.
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Meir Dagan: the mastermind behind Mossad's secret war

by element115
In early January two black Audi A6 limousines drove up to the main gate of a building on a small hill in the northern suburbs of Tel Aviv: the headquarters of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, known as the “midrasha”.

Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, stepped out of his car and was greeted by Meir Dagan, the 64-year-old head of the agency. Dagan, who has walked with a stick since he was injured in action as a young man, led Netanyahu and a general to a briefing room.
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'Netanyahu authorized Dubai assassination'

by element115
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly authorized the assassination of senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh early January in Tel Aviv.
Citing Mossad sources, the report said "as the man who gives final authorization for such operations, Netanyahu was briefed on plans to kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh."
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Investigations continue to reveal links to Israel

by element115
Tel Aviv has denied that it was behind the assassination, but evidence to the contrary is rapidly piling up.
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Dubai hit squad may have used diplomatic passports

by element115
The hit squad that killed a senior Hamas official in Dubai may have entered the country using diplomatic passports, senior officials in the Emirates said yesterday, calling on Britain and other European countries whose passports were forged to launch a full-scale inquiry.
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Obama’s preventive war and the end of Nuremberg

by element115
US President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo last December was widely seen as a glorification of militarism, rather than a promotion of peace.
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Iraq’s Refugee Crisis

by element115
According to estimates, millions of Iraqis are stateless, as a direct consequence of war and occupation, and are still languishing in neighbouring countries.
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Obama to spell out new healthcare plan

by element115
President Obama is expected to publish his healthcare plan as early as Sunday or Monday, combining features of the two Democratic bills passed by the Senate and House of Representatives.
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Why the Oscars are a con

by element115
This year’s Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America’s divine right to invade other societies, steal their history and occupy our memory. When will directors and writers behave like artists and not pimps for a world view devoted to control and destruction?
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Terrorism: the most meaningless and manipulated word

February 20, 2010 by element115
It is the all-justifying term for anything the U.S. Government does. Invasions, torture, due-process-free detentions, military commissions, drone attacks, warrantless surveillance, obsessive secrecy, and even assassinations of American citizens are all justified by the claim that it's only being done to "Terrorists," who, by definition, have no rights. Even worse, one becomes a "Terrorist" not through any judicial adjudication or other formal process, but solely by virtue of the untested, unchecked say-so of the Executive Branch.
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Joe Stack --> The Online Game

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Tax Time!
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71 percent of Americans believe that Iran currently has nuclear weapons

by element115
In reality, Iran doesn’t have The Bomb.
They have a small amount of refined uranium (19.5%, cutely rounded up to 20%), which is allowed under the treaty that they have signed. This is the refinement level for use in medical facilities and supplying electricity. There is little evidence they’re working on a nuclear warhead, which would require a much higher level of refinement, and the so-called evidence that exists is highly speculative. Additionally, their supreme leader/commander-in-chief continues to decry nukes as illegal in Islamic law.
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Joe Stack Hailed as Hero in American 'Patriot' Resurgence

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...experts say is an "explosive growth" in the anti-government patriot movement.
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US will start WW3 by attacking Iran

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Michel Chossudovsky, who's from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, because the U.S. is planning for war...
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Is Joe Stack a Wake-Up Call to America?

by element115
Is anyone listening?
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An American Attack on Iran would lead to US Collapse

by element115
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, warned that an American attack on Iran now, when the US is bogged down in two wars, might well lead to the collapse of the United States. He said that such an attack would roil the region and have negative consequences for Russia (a neighbor of Iran via the Caspian Sea). And, he said, the Russian military is taking steps to forestall such an American strike on Iran.
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Credit cards implicate Mossad in Dubai hit: report

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New evidence incriminating Israel's spy agency in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai includes credit card payments and phone calls made by suspects, an Arabic-language daily reported on Saturday.
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Destabilization in the North Caucasus: Georgian President Saakashvili "Ready for New War"?

by element115
Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili and his supporters are ready to start a new war and plunge the country into chaos again.
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“Mass Casualties”: The Dark Underbelly of Occupation, an Army Medic’s Account

February 19, 2010 by element115


“It was Week 7 of basic training … eighteen years old and I was preparing myself to die,” said Michael Anthony in “Mass Casualties: A Young Medic’s True Story of Death, Deception and Dishonor in Iraq.” The book is more than a simple memoir about a difficult experience. It is an insider’s scathing testimony of an ongoing illegal and unethical military action in a distant, once-sovereign state, by the US. Perhaps, this fresh account will raise some outcry over an issue that has all but dropped out of the American public’s radar.
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U.S. Attempts to Erase Haitian Nationhood

by element115
The world’s sole superpower behaves as if Haitian sovereignty no longer exists. Notions of legality are wholly absent in America’s occupation of Haiti, where the U.S. poses as the internationally recognized authority. Washington arrogantly improvises the terms of the Haitian “protectorate.”
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No Justice Forever

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America's New Foreign Policy of Indefinite Detention
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The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth -- What's It Going to Take to Get It Back?

by element115
The U.S. already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis -- and it's gotten even worse.
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Britain's explanation is riddled with inconsistencies.

by element115
..."the British passports are real. They are hologram pictures with the biometric stamp. They are not forged or fake. The names were really there. If you can fake a hologram or biometric stamp, what does this mean?"
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The Future of the Dollar

by element115
The World is concerned that the dollar cannot play the role of the main reserve currency any longer...
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USA’s Global Military Dominance: Real Reason For Sanctions Against Iran

by element115
The U.S.-sponsored drive to impose new economic sanctions on Iran has nothing to do with the noble cause of limiting proliferation of nuclear weapons on the planet. It is directly linked to the U.S. military doctrine of establishing ‘full spectrum dominance’ – i.e., military dominance on land, sea, air, and outer space over all other countries in the world. The logical extension of this doctrine is that only countries firmly allied to the U.S. government should be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons or to even develop the capacity to do so.
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The Fire Next Time: IRS Plane Assault Hints of Things to Come

by element115
Joe Stack's eerie suicide screed rips the curtain open and reveals a bitter bile this country does not know what to do with.
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British military insider: World War III is being staged; starting with Israel and Iran

by element115
US “leadership” and their corporate media minions are pushing juvenile-level propaganda for war with Iran; lies that anyone can verify with a few moments’ attention.
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Britain 'knew Mossad was using fake passports for Dubai hit'

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Israeli agents tipped off British intelligence that they were going to carry out an 'overseas operation' using fake British passports before assassinating a Hamas official in Dubai, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.

A Mossad operative said the U.K. Foreign Office was also told hours before Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was murdered in his hotel room by a hit squad the had entered the United Arab Emirates using fake foreign documents, the British newspaper said.
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Britain denies advance knowledge of Dubai killing

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Britain has flatly denied having any advance knowledge of Israeli plans to assassinate a senior official of the Palestinian group Hamas in Dubai last month.

Whitehall sources today dismissed as "nonsense" a report claiming that Israel's secret service, Mossad, had informed the UK of possible complications arising from the use of British passports in an unspecified "overseas operation".
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THE TRUTH ABOUT HAMAS THAT ISRAEL DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW

by element115
Hamas has been offering peace to Israel since before it was elected. It renounced violence in action, which is more important than words, through unilateral ceasefires and the negotiated ceasefires with Israel, it “fully respects” previous agreements, it accepts the Arab Initiative, and Haniyeh offered an exchange of ambassadors, surely an official recognition of Israel.
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Biden: Israel has 'sovereign right' to attack Iran

by element115
"If the Netanyahu government decides to take a course of action different than the one being pursued now, that is their sovereign right to do that. That is not our choice," he said.
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America: Land of Unlimited Anger

by element115
America remains the land of unlimited opportunities. For the time being, however, it’s a land of unlimited rage and disarray about the balance of political power.
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Police push for warrantless searches of cell phones

by element115
...as our gadgets store more and more information about us, including our appointments, correspondence, and personal photos and videos, what rules should police investigators be required to follow? The Obama administration and many local prosecutors' answer is that warrantless searches are perfectly constitutional during arrests.
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Pimping Weapons to the World

by element115
In 2008, according to an authoritative report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), $55.2 billion in weapons deals were concluded worldwide. Of that total, the United States was responsible for $37.8 billion in weapons sales agreements, or 68.4% of the total “trade.”
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The truth about the Mossad

February 18, 2010 by element115
The recent, outlandish assassination in Dubai may prove the most damaging yet in the Mossad's history of high-profile, bungled operations. How did it squander its reputation for ruthless brilliance?
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Small Plane Crashes Deliberately Into I.R.S. Building

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The authorities identified the pilot as Joseph A. Stack III. There were indications that Mr. Stack, 53, was a software engineer who had had conflicts with the I.R.S.

The apparent suicide note (PDF)

"Nothing changes unless there is a body count," the letter says. "I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at 'Big Brother' while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won't continue; I have just had enough."
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Arrest head of Mossad, Dubai police chief says

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An international arrest warrant for the head of Mossad should be issued following the assassination of a Hamas militant in Dubai, the emirate's police chief has said.
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Netanyahu may be brave in Dubai, but he's a coward at home

by element115
Netanyahu's recklessness overseas stands in stark contrast to his timid domestic leadership.
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American Clowns...

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Frankly does anyone believe anything the U.S says ?
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Gaza: A dark comedy

by element115
The US government joined in to ensure that the black comedy did not become a political standard setter for ensuring the rule of international law. Apparently not even having read the Goldstone Report, the US was quick to condemn it. The US Congress went further by adopting a joint resolution to confirm the government's irrational fear of the rule of international law when it comes to Israel.
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Ruling: No Court Can Hear Abuse and Wrongful Death Claims from Guantanamo

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Yesterday evening, the district court in Washington, D.C. ruled against two men who died in Guantanamo in June 2006 and their families in a case seeking to hold federal officials and the United States responsible for the men’s torture, arbitrary detention and ultimate deaths at Guantánamo.
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Mossad's licence to kill

by element115
The killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh bears the hallmarks of the ruthless Israeli intelligence service. One of the leading chroniclers of the agency gives a unique insight into its methods.
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Dalai Lama lands in US ahead of talks with Barack Obama

February 17, 2010 by element115
The meeting comes amid tension in US-Sino relations, with disputes simmering over US arms sales to Taiwan, claims of Chinese cyber-spying and trade deals.

China, which views the Dalai Lama as a separatist, has warned the meeting will undermine relations.
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U.K., Ireland to Israel envoys: Explain identity theft in Dubai killing

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Israel's ambassador to Britain has been summoned to a meeting with a senior Foreign Office official today, to clarify what London called the "identity theft" of six British citizens living in Israel. The alleged theft was in connection to last month's assassination of a top Hamas figure in his Dubai hotel room.
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Security breach puts 'infatuated' man within metres of U.S. Vice-President

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A man allegedly carrying false accreditation slipped through security measures at the 2010 opening ceremonies in Vancouver and got within 12 seating rows of U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden before he was arrested, Olympic policing officials have confirmed.
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White House refuses to rule out military option on Iran

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The White House on Tuesday would not rule out any options, including the military option, for dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said: "I wouldn't rule out anything."

He said Iran's rejection of every attempt by the Obama administration for diplomatic engagement is proof that its nuclear program is "not of the means and type that they have tried to convince others that's it's for."
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After Dubai hit, Israelis question Mossad methods

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The quiet assassination of a Hamas commander gets unexpectedly messy.
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Russian military to be equipped with modern weapons - Putin

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"The Army should have at least 30% modern weapons by 2015, and at least 70% by 2020. We are going to put the necessary finances behind this," Putin said, adding that "ineffective expenses" would not be tolerated.
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Sister of N.Korea leader 'wielding more power'

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Kim Jong-Il's only sister appears to be wielding more power in North Korea after making a comeback to the frontline of the regime last year, South Korea said Wednesday.
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The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement

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Eight countries – Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Russia – have allowed their publicly-owned broadcasting stations to air the full spectrum of evidence challenging the truth of the official account of 9/11.
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Fighting corporate rape of US

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'Iran Won't Simply Sit There and Accept an Attack'

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Hans Blix is the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and also worked as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He talks to SPIEGEL about whether Iran really has the ability to enrich uranium and if economic sanctions can ever be effective.
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Bomb Explodes At Bank Offices In Athens

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Police in the Greek capital say a bomb has exploded at the offices of American financial services firm JPMorgan Chase & Co., causing no injuries.
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Governments ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag Terror

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Government admissions to the use of false flag terror.
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Brown pledges probe into theft of British identities by 'Mossad' hit squad

by element115
'I think Britain recognises that Israel is a responsible country and that our security activity is conducted according to very clear, cautious and responsible rules of the game. Therefore we have no cause for concern.'
- Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman
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'An attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada'

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Junior Foreign Affairs minister Peter Kent is suggesting Canada stands ready to throw its full military weight behind Israel, telling a Toronto publication that “an attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada.”

How about Gaza?
Is attack on Gaza also attack on Canada?
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Argentina asserts control of Falkland Islands' waters after row with Britain over oil drilling rights

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The move would effectively grant it the power to blockade the British-ruled archipelago.
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Collapse of capitalistic system

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Road to cashless society

February 16, 2010 by element115
Greece --> "From 1. Jan. 2011, every transaction above 1,500 euros between natural persons and businesses, or between businesses, will not be considered legal if it is done in cash. Transactions will have to be done through debit or credit cards"
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National March & Rally in Washington

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The torture memos show how illegal wars turn even the nicest people bad

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The deceit, the slaughter, the atrocity, the abuse of human rights.
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NATO: "Missile that killed Afghan civilians not faulty"

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NATO forces in Afghanistan have resumed using a type of rocket that killed 12 civilians after concluding that the missile hit its intended target and did not veer off course, a NATO commander said on Tuesday.
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Defeated Tymoshenko contests Ukraine polls

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Defeated Ukraine presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday launched a legal challenge to elections won by her rival Viktor Yanukovych, even as parliament set a date for his swearing-in.
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'Mossad' hit squad stole British identities to carry out killing of Hamas leader

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British authorities are investigating how six British nationals apparently had their identities stolen by suspected Mossad agents to cover their tracks on a mission to assassinate a top Hamas leader in Dubai.
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"Israel mulling a spring or summer war"

by element115
Without specifying whom would be targeted, Ahmadinejad said: "According to information we have they (Israel) are seeking to start a war next spring or summer, although their decision is not final yet."
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Israel is prime suspect in killing of Hamas official

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The apparent assassination of a senior Hamas official poses serious consequences for Israel.
Israel has maintained official silence on the matter...
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