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Terrorist Strike Averted	23.3.2009	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
On Saturday, a major terrorist attack in Haifa, when a stolen Subaru in a mall parking lot was found to contain 100 kilograms of explosives: The explosives were packed into a number of bombs and mixed with ball bearings to make the blast even more deadly. ... A chilling scenario was sketched out by a police source on Sunday, who said the attackers could have been aiming to use their car bomb to set other parked vehicles on fire and trigger a chain reaction of exploding fuel tanks. "Had the car bomb exploded, the majority of the cars in the parking lot would have gone up in flames. The gasoline in them could have exploded. This would have been a major terrorist attack," the source said. Israeli authorities attribute the plot to Hamas: ...
Evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza	23.3.2009	The Guardian -- World Latest
Palestinians claim children were used as human shields and hospitals targeted during 23-day conflict • The Guardian has compiled detailed evidence of alleged war crimes committed by Israel during the 23-day offensive against Gaza earlier this year, involving the use of Palestinian children as human shields, the targeting of medics and hospitals, and drone aircraft firing on civilians. based on a month-long investigation, add weight to calls this week for a full inquiry into the events surrounding Operation Cast Lead, which was aimed at Hamas but left about 1,400 Palestinians dead, including up to 300 children. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) refused to respond directly to the allegations made against its troops, but issued statements ...
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Israel violated medical ethics in Gaza fighting, group charges	23.3.2009	Earth Times
Tel Aviv - Israeli troops fighting in the Gaza Strip during Israel's recent offensive in the salient violated medical ethics, a non-governmental organization has charged. In a report released Monday, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said Israeli sol...
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PLO official assassinated in south Lebanon - Summary	23.3.2009	Earth Times
Beirut - A Palestine Liberation Organisation official and four of his bodyguards were killed Monday when a roadside bomb targeted their convoy near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Lebanese army and Palestinian sources said. Kamal Medh...
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Senior Fatah official killed in Lebanon bomb attack	23.3.2009	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
A bomb killed a senior official in the Palestinian Fatah faction and four other people in southern Lebanon Monday, security sources said.
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PLO official killed in Lebanon bomb blast	23.3.2009	MSNBC
A bomb killed a senior official in the Palestinian Fatah faction and four other people in southern Lebanon on Monday, security sources said.
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Israeli soldiers wore T-shirts making light of killing Palestinian civilians	23.3.2009	Star Tribune: World

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Car bomb found near Israeli mall	23.3.2009	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Car bomb found near Israeli mall
Israel, Hamas say prisoner swap talks not over	23.3.2009	MSNBC
Both Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers said Sunday that talks aimed at freeing an Israeli soldier held nearly three years by Palestinian militants are not over, despite last week's public breakdown of Egyptian-mediated contacts.
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Minister calls for new Gaza invasion	23.3.2009	The Guardian -- World Latest
Deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai demands capture of land being used to fire mortars into Israel Israel's deputy defence minister has called for a new invasion of Gaza and the capture of land close to the border, despite growing domestic and international concern about the conduct of the previous war. "We need to conquer the areas from which mortar shells are being fired," Matan Vilnai told an Israeli conference on the Gaza war last night. "The mortar shell is the main threat," he said. Most were launched from within four miles (6km) of the border. "We just need to be there," he said. His comments reflected a wider Israeli frustration with the results of the devastating three-week war. Israeli forces destroyed thousands of homes and ...
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IDF shirt mocks Gaza murders	23.3.2009	Raw Story
IDF shirt mocks Gaza murders
Defending Jim Lehrer and Nicholas Kristof from Martin Peretz (Cached)	23.3.2009	Informed Comment
, attacked Jim Lehrer and Nicholas Kristof over the weekend for having had anything to do with me. I'm not important, but I really must come to the defense of Lehrer and Kristof. Peretz blames Jim Lehrer for having me on the and thus allegedly minting me as a liberal intellectual. And he goes on to accuse the News Hour and PBS more generally of being ideologically biased to the Left. The News Hour works extremely hard to put on balanced interviews. Every time a person is considered for an interview, it involves a pre-interview, a sort of audition. The producer tries to find out what the guest will say on an issue, and then to find a good counter. On Lehrer, I was put opposite Neoconservatives from the American Enterprise Institute such as ...
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OSC: Khamenei's Speech Replying to Obama	23.3.2009	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
The USG Open Source Center translates Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's response to the Persian New Year's message of US President Barack Obama. For a canny reading of this text, see . See my own first impressions , as well as Michael Jensen's . Iranian Supreme Leader Demands 'Real' Change from US Speech by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamene'i to a gathering at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, on the occasion of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year -- live Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network 1 Sunday, March 22, 2009 Document Type: OSC Translated Text [Khamenei:] . . . Regarding the foreign affairs of our country, I would like to mention one point, and that is the issue between us and the United States. One of the main challenges for ...
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Car Bomb Malfunctions Near Crowded Mall in Israel (Cached)	23.3.2009	Washington Post World
JERUSALEM, March 22 -- A 200-pound car bomb malfunctioned near a crowded mall in the Israeli port city of Haifa on Saturday night, averting what could have been one of the largest such attacks in Israel in the past several years, police said.
Israel, Hamas say talks on prisoner swap not dead	22.3.2009	SFGate: Top Stories
The outgoing Israeli government is pressing forward with its attempts to win the release of a captured Israeli soldier, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday, despite signs from the Israeli leader that no deal is likely during his last days... ...
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A religious war within the Israeli Army	22.3.2009	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
After the Gaza action, a conflict emerges over who will control battle ethics: secular groups or religious nationalists?
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Israel says car bomb defused at shopping mall	22.3.2009	Boston Globe: Latest
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday an explosives-laden car parked at a shopping mall in northern Israel, and defused by police, was an attempted Arab attack aimed at causing mass casualties.
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Israel and Hamas say efforts to agree on a prisoner swap not finished	22.3.2009	Star Tribune: World

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Gaza war crime claims gather pace	22.3.2009	The Guardian -- World Latest
Fresh allegations have come to light that gung-ho leadership inculcated a culture of disregard for Palestinian casualties An investigation by a group of former Israeli soldiers has uncovered new evidence of the military's conduct during the assault on Gaza two months ago. According to the group Breaking the Silence, the witness statements of the 15 soldiers who have come forward to describe their concerns over Operation Cast Lead appear to corroborate claims of random killings and vandalism carried out during the operation made by a separate group of anonymous servicemen during a seminar at a military college. Although Breaking the Silence's report is not due to be published for several months, the testimony it has received already suggests ...
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The Osirak Option	22.3.2009	The Atlantic - Matthew Ygblesias
With the Obama administration in office, I’m now pretty confident that the United States of America won’t launch a unilateral preventive military attack on Iran. On the other hand, given that, it now seems more likely that Israel might—especially in light of the election results. This is still a terrible idea that will have bad [...]
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