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2010-09-02: Headlines

• Bloomberg: Azrieli Group Plans Real-Estate Expansion in Northern Israel After Sale 2010-09-02

  Azrieli Group Ltd., Israel€™s largest real-estate developer, will use part of the 2.5 billion shekels ($658 million) raised in June to buy or develop shopping malls and commercial properties with a focus on the country€™s north. | Azrieli, owned by Canadian billionaire David Azrieli, said in May it planned to invest 1.

• eFinancialCareers Gulf: Who hired in the Middle East in August? 2010-09-02

  Despite the holy month of Ramadan, a number of key hires were announced throughout August. However, given the time of year, recruitment activity was slightly subdued. | Abraaj Capital, the Middle East private equity firm, has opened a new Palestine operation targeted at the SME sector and has hired Fayez Husseini to lead it. | ACE European Group, the insurance firm, has named Steve Dixon as managing director of its MENA operation.

• Iranian: Hate Israel fest 2010 2010-09-02

  As an annual occasion for expressing solidarity with the Palestinians and condemning Israelis, in 1979 Khomeini introduced €œQods Day€ to be held on the last Friday of the Muslim€™s month of fasting. | Ever since then the occasion has been choreographed IRR, the Islamist Rapist Republic propaganda show aimed at proving Iranians€™ total acquiescence with its ruinous Palestine-centric policies.

• Globe and Mail: Peace talks wont be derailed by Hamas killing of Jewish settlers, Obama says 2010-09-02

  The U.S. President – awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only weeks after taking office – launched a new peace effort at a White House dinner last night with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | In another attack, two more Israeli settlers – a man and a woman were wounded when a gunman opened fire on their car late Wednesday night.

• Earthtimes: Mubarak: Israel must seize opportunity for peace 2010-09-02

  Washington to attend the launch of peace negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday. | peace process during several meetings held between the two leaders in the past.

• Day Press News: Mishaal slams Washington talks kicking off today 2010-09-02

  Following its weekly cabinet meeting, the government stated that the negotiations with the Israeli occupation state give it a cover to persist in its blockade on Gaza and its settlement and Judaization activities in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, the thing which entails action to isolate and prosecute the Israeli leaders for their crimes instead of talking with them.

• Las Vegas Sun: Calif. GOP Senate candidate to travel to Israel 2010-09-02

  Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina intends to travel to Israel over Labor Day weekend to brush up on her foreign policy credentials. | Boxer, who is Jewish, has strong support among pro-Israel groups. | Before the primary, Fiorina criticized her GOP opponent Tom Campbell for opposing increased economic aid to Israel while he served in Congress. | Las Vegas man faces threat of becoming homeless. | Paris Hilton busted on Las Vegas Strip.

2010-09-01: Headlines

• Salon: How Bill Kristols pro-Israel group is lying to you 2010-09-01

  Mohammed is a vile bigot. | lies as are Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. | a cell for Kristol and put him there for the rest of his life. | Why attack him then? | straw man they built. | More lying fascist Israelis - what a surprise! | shipping.You can try Oh, give you satisfaction guarantee. | Kristol is a demagogue, who takes him seriously? | Take a journalism class, please. | effing Moses - they just care about the ARMS INDUSTRY.

• Haaretz: Barak: Israel ready to cede parts of Jerusalem in peace deal 2010-09-01

  Israel is ready to cede parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians in the framework of a peacedeal, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Wednesday ahead of the start of talks in Washington. | He said the killing of four Israelis by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank on Tuesday should not stop the talks starting.

• Hurriyet Daily News: For Palestinians, past failures darken outlook for talks 2010-09-01

  Ten years after the failed Camp David peace talks ushered in a bloody uprising, many Palestinians fear they are again embarking on U.S.-backed negotiations that could end in failure - or worse.

• Politico: Jonathan Schanzer : Is President Obama pro-Palestinian? 2010-09-01

  Put simply, the Palestinians are at war. In 2006, Hamas, the faction best known for its suicide bombing campaign of the 1990s, won legislative elections that earned it the right to form a governing coalition. Fatah, its longtime leading rival, refused to play ball, prompting a 15-month political standoff.

• Voxy: Minto Arrested Because Police Didnt Like His Politics: Lawyer 2010-09-01

  Political acitivist John Minto and seven of his fellow protesters were arrested because police did not like their political message about an Israeli tennis player taking part in a New Zealand tournament, a lawyer argued today.

• KVAL: Duck Basketball: Report has Dunigan headed to Israel 2010-09-01

  Possibly following in the footsteps of four former teammates, Oregon center Michael Dunigan is deciding whether to stay with the Ducks or play overseas.

• Aysor: Helix Consulting LLC: Four Israelis killed in West Bank shooting 2010-09-01

  Four Israelis were killed on Tuesday after a Palestinian gunman opened fire on their vehicle on the West Bank. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld is quoted as saying that the gunman opened fire on the vehicle near the city of Hebron. | Citing a person who knew the killed couple, The Washington Post reported that they were identified as Yitzhak and Taliyah Immas, immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

2010-08-31: Headlines

• BusinessWeek: Israel Unemployment Falls, Nearing Pre-Crisis Level 2010-08-31

  The jobless rate fell to 6.2 percent, the lowest in almost two years, from a revised 7 percent in the previous quarter, the Jerusalem-based Central Bureau of Statistics said today on its website. Unemployment a year earlier was 8 percent. Labor participation, a measure of the number of people working or seeking work, rose to 56.9 percent from 56.5 percent.

• Reuters: 3M to pay $230 million for Israels Attenti 2010-08-31

  Attenti is expected to have about $100 million in sales in 2010. 3M is buying the business from an investor group led by Francisco Partners. | The deal is expected to be slightly dilutive to earnings over the first 12 months after the deal closes, 3M said. Excluding purchase accounting and integration costs, it expects the deal to add slightly to earnings over the same period. | 3M has been busy on the dealmaking front this week.

• Xinhua: PLO official denies internal disputes over resumption of negotiations 2010-08-31

  A senior Palestinian official denied on Tuesday that there are internal disputes in Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) over the resumption of direct talks with Israel. | Meanwhile, Abu Yousef ruled out that the left-wing party PFLP would execute its threat and withdraw its membership in the PLO executive committee in protest to the decision of resuming the peace talks.

• Buenos Aires Herald: allkom: Israels Prime Minister heads to US for peace summit with Palestinians 2010-08-31

  BUE, Temp 14º Humidity: 94% | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington for peace talks with the Palestinians, leaving up in the air the question of future Jewish settlement construction once a partial freeze ends. | The Palestinians have threatened to pull out of the face-to-face peace negotiations, due to begin, unless Israel extends the moratorium on new housing starts past its expiration date of September 26.

• World of Judaica: Iran Calls for Israel Boycott; Jerusalem to build F35 Wings 2010-08-31

  While Iran plans to publish their own list of Israeli companies and companies linked to Israel for the world to boycott, the United States Department o...

2010-08-30: Headlines

• New Statesman: For Arabs in Israel, a house is not a home 2010-08-30

  Three representatives of Hamas have been forced to seek sanctuary at the Red Cross compound in East Jerusalem — charged not with terrorism, but with “disloyalty” to the state. Edward Platt on a strange case of exile inside Israel.

• Reuters AlertNet: FEATURE-As US withdraws, Iraqis still live in crisis 2010-08-30

  As U.S. combat operations come to a close on Tuesday 7-1/2 years after the invasion, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis like Abboud, who fled mixed-sect neighbourhoods at a time when bodies were piling up in the streets overnight, are living in squalor. | Many Iraqis fear the reduction in U.S. troops and their full withdrawal next year will re-ignite sectarian bloodshed.

• AFP: Israel PM denies offer made to freeze settlements 2010-08-30

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he never told the US administration a settlement freeze would be renewed after Middle East peace talks restart this week, an official said on Monday. | Under US pressure, the Israeli government in November imposed a partial, 10 month moratorium on new construction in West Bank settlements, with the exception of east Jerusalem.

• Khaleej Times: Israel PM didnt tell US hed freeze settlements 2010-08-30

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he never told the US administration a settlement freeze would be renewed after Middle East peace talks restart this week. | Under US pressure, the Israeli government in November imposed a partial, 10 month moratorium on new construction in West Bank settlements, with the exception of east Jerusalem.

• GulfNews: Palestinian President says Israel responsible if direct talks fail 2010-08-30

  Ramallah: The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Israel will be held solely responsible if the direct negotiations between Palestine and Israel, scheduled to kick off in Washington on Thursday, are a failure. | The president highlighted both the Israeli and Palestinian need for security, but pointed out that such a need can never justify the colonies and confiscation of Palestinian land.

• Al-Bawaba: Syria army, Hizbullah reach 'field understandings' over next war with Israel 2010-08-30

  The newspaper added that via this cooperation the Syrian army makes available all the intelligence its units gather regarding the Israeli air force and its flights. The idea is that Hizbullah will be bombing of the Israeli airports before the flights. According to the report, the most important thing in this cooperation it is to damage the Israeli Air Force and reduce its capabilities. | © 2010 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)

• Aysor: Helix Consulting LLC: Israel will bear responsibility for talks failure, warns Abbas 2010-08-30

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• RTT News: US Takes Strong Exception To Rabbis Tirade 2010-08-30

  During a Palestinian uprising in 2001, he called for the extermination of Arabs, and said that the latter should not be shown any leniency. However, he subsequently back-tracked it, saying he was merely referring to Palestinians who targeted Israel.

• Las Vegas Sun: Israel police: Former PM Olmert should stand trial 2010-08-30

  Israeli police have recommended that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stand trial on corruption charges for his role in a real estate deal during his time as Jerusalem mayor a decade ago. | Police said on Monday that Olmert is suspected of fraud, breach of trust and taking bribes to promote an apartment project in the city. | A police recommendation is standard practice in Israel and usually the first step before an indictment.