Avi Issacharoff
By Avi Issacharoff
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Breaking News Abbas: Peace Talks Are at an Impasse
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that he was holding Israel responsible for the impasse in direct negotiations, but vowed to continue to search for solutions that could yield to progress in the recently renewed peace process. Speaking to reporters after his meeting with Jordanian King Abdullah II, Abbas said “there is an impasse, because…
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Breaking News IDF To Blame Navy in Report on Flotilla Raid
An Israeli military report to be released today on the Israel Navy’s deadly May raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla is expected to accuse the navy of failing to sufficiently consider the possibility that the commandos would encounter violent resistance when attempting to keep the ships out of Gaza. The report is also expected to criticize…
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Breaking News Bibi to Biden: We Did Not Seek To Embarrass You Over Settlement Issue
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to alleviate new tensions with the United States on Tuesday, after an announcement that Israel will build 1,600 new homes in an ultra-Orthodox East Jerusalem neighborhood drew strong condemnation from the White House, and visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. The prime minister reportedly promised Biden “No one was seeking…
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Breaking News Shalit Video Released With Soldier Holding Recent Newspaper
A video of captive Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit was broadcast on Israeli television on Thursday, showing the gaunt soldier holding a Palestinian newspaper dated September 14, 2009. In the video, Shalit is seen saying that he was feeling healthy and being treated well by his captors. In the video, which Israel received from…
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Breaking News Shalit May Be Freed as Part of Cease-Fire Deal
This weekend Israel’s “troika” — composed of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni — held an unusual meeting at the Defense Ministry to discuss the negotiations for a cease-fire deal in the Gaza Strip, along the lines proposed by Egypt. The meeting Saturday night also included Minister Rafi…
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Breaking News Hamas Supports Egyptian Proposal for Gaza Truce
Hamas representatives held a press conference in Cairo Wednesday evening following talks with Egyptian officials, and announced that they have accepted in principle an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire agreement to end the fighting between the Islamist group and Israel in the Gaza Strip, saying that they hoped that the Egyptian efforts will bring about…
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Breaking News Israel and Egypt To Begin Negotiations on Gaza Truce
Israel and Egypt are expected to enter intensive negotiations in the coming days in an attempt to agree on a mechanism that will bring the fighting in the Gaza Strip to an end. As a preamble to these talks, Amos Gilad, the head of the Defense Ministry’s diplomatic-military bureau, will travel to Cairo Thursday for…
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Breaking News In Ground Operation, Israel Expands and Deepens Its Control of Gaza
Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers from the Golani brigade were killed and about 20 others wounded, one critically, after an errant IDF tank shell hit a building in which they were operating. The incident is the most grave so far for IDF troops in 10 days of Operation Cast Lead. IDF battalion commander Colonel Avi…
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