Uri Dan
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ISOLATE IRAN - BUSH & ISRAEL WANT SANCTIONS
November 14, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called yesterday for the worldwide isolation of Iran until it "gives up its nuclear ambitions." "It's very important for the...
HAMAS AGREES TO PEACE SUMMIT WITH ISRAEL
November 13, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Hamas-led Palestinian government yesterday agreed to an Arab League proposal of an international peace conference with Israel. The proposal came after the league - angered by Israel's...
OLMERT READY FOR CONCESSIONS AS HE VISITS U.S.
November 13, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a five-day trip to the United States yesterday, ready to make concessions to the Palestinians but not to Iran. On the flight...
GAZA PLOTS ITS REVENGE
November 9, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Outraged Palestinians vowed revenge yesterday after mistargeted Israeli shells killed 19 people in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun - including seven women and four children. "The scene...
HEZ HOSTAGE'S WIFE'S U.S. PLEA
November 6, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Four months after her husband's kidnapping triggered a Mideast war, Karnit Goldwasser brings her international campaign to free him to American Jewish leaders. Next Sunday, the 30-year-old resident...
LEB-SYRIA CRISIS LOOMS
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Syria, which lost its stranglehold on neighboring Lebanon after an emotional democratic uprising last year, is trying to force its way back into power through Hezbollah. Hezbollah's leader,...
MIDEAST TALK ABOUT TALKING
October 23, 2006 | 4:00amIsraeli and Palestinian officials have agreed to continue talks aimed at paving the way for high-level meetings between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Mahmoud Abbas. The Israeli prime minister's...
ISRAEL PREZ COULD FACE A RAPE RAP
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amIsraeli police are recommending that President Moshe Katzav be charged with rape and sexual harassment in connection with sensational charges that he assaulted a former private assistant. The woman has...
RAPE RAP EYED FOR ISRAELI PREZ
October 16, 2006 | 4:00amIsraeli police are recommending that President Moshe Katzav be charged with rape and sexual harassment in connection with sensational charges that he assaulted a former private assistant. The woman has...
KIDNAPPED WEST BANK TEACH FREE
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A previously unknown Palestinian terrorist group kidnapped a young American teacher in the West Bank but released him yesterday unharmed. Michael Phillips of New Orleans was turned over...
U.S. TEACH KIDNAPPED IN W. BANK
October 12, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A previously unknown Palestinian terrorist group yesterday claimed it kidnapped a young American teacher in the West Bank. U.S. consulate officials confirmed that Michael Phillips of New Orleans...
PALESTINE COLLAPSE; PM TO AX GOV'T AS CIVIL WAR LOOMS VS. HAMAS
October 5, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Efforts to unify Palestinians - and avoid a civil war - in a new government have collapsed, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday. Abbas said he will dissolve...
RICE MAKES NICE; TRIES TO HEAD OFF PALESTINIAN 'CIVIL WAR'
October 4, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday pleaded with Palestinians to head off a civil war, and urged moderate Arab states to help Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. But the...
HAMAS NIXES SWAP; 1,000-1 OFFER FAILS
October 3, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Hamas terrorists rejected a deal to swap a kidnapped Israeli soldier for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, Egyptian mediators said yesterday. "Egypt succeeded in securing a swap deal with Israel...
HEZ BIG EXITS LAIR; TERROR-ROCKET LEADERRALLIES LEB HORDES
September 23, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Hezbollah's leader, defying a possible assassination try, surfaced for the first time since the Lebanon war and boasted that the guerrilla group still had more than 20,000 rockets...
CIPEL: MCG COPPED A FEEL IN VAN FULL OF COPS
September 18, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The ex-aide - and alleged lover - at the center of the Jim McGreevey scandal has accused the former New Jersey governor of sexually harassing him while state...
HAMAS OFFERS PEACE TALKS TO ISRAEL
September 13, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Hamas dropped its fierce opposition to negotiations with Israel yesterday and gave the go-ahead to its new government partner to conduct peace talks. But Israel said the apparent...
ISRAELIS LIFT LEB AIR BLOCK
September 8, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel lifted its two-month air blockade of Lebanon yesterday, while its forces killed four terrorists in the West Bank. The violence occurred during a heavy exchange of gunfire...
OLMERT SOUGHT PEACE TALKS WITH LEB
September 4, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday that he has made numerous overtures to Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to talk peace - but all have failed. Siniora's...
GAZA STRIP 'LEBANIZED'
August 30, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Hamas and its arms smugglers are turning the Gaza Strip into another southern Lebanon, Israel's secret service chief said yesterday. "They are building bunkers, they are deploying anti-tank...