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• U.S. confident Mideast peace talks to continue - Ha'aretzThe U.S. is confident proximity talks between Israel and the Palestinians will continue, despite recent tension over Israel's plan to construct 1,600 new housing units in an East Jerusalem neighborhood, State Department official Philip J. Crowley said on Monday.
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• Chief Rabbi: Talk about new temple a lie - Ynet News
Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger sent a calming message to the Muslim world Monday, amid tensions over the inauguration of the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem.
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• Jerusalem construction will go on - Jerusalem Post
While the United States continued to criticize Israel over an east Jerusalem housing project approved during US Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Israel least week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday said construction in the capital would continue as usual.
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• EU may push Israel into peace talks - Jerusalem Post
The European Union might use its trade ties with Israel as leverage to pressure it into renewing peace talks with the Palestinians, Catherine Ashton, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy at the EU said on Saturday.
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• Clinton delivers blunt message to Netanyahu on East Jerusalem - Ha'aretz
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday that his government sent a "deeply negative signal" by taking steps which undermined renewed Middle East peace talks.
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• Jerusalem council drops construction, apparently due to U.S. crisis - Ha'aretz
The Jerusalem District Planning and Building committee has canceled two meetings planned for this week, apparently out of concern that any more decisions on construction might result in further tensions with the United States.
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• US presses for Israeli concessions - Jerusalem Post
The Obama administration refused to let go of the Ramat Shlomo construction controversy Sunday, with two top aides to US President Barack Obama slamming Israel amid a growing sense in Jerusalem that Washington was using the issue to squeeze diplomatic concessions from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
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• PA holds ceremony naming square after Fatah terrorist - Jerusalem Post
Despite the Palestinian Authority's announcement that it had postponed the inauguration of a square in el-Bireh named after Dalal Mughrabi, the Fatah woman who led the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in which 37 Israeli civilians and an American photographer were killed, and 71 were wounded, Fatah officials on Thursday evening went ahead with the ceremony.
Added: Mar 15th, 2010 3:52 AM | Share your opinion!
• Israel envoy: U.S. ties at their worst in 35 years - Ha'aretz
Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has told the country's diplomats there that U.S.-Israeli relations face their worst crisis in 35 years, despite attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office to project a sense of "business as usual".
Added: Mar 15th, 2010 3:49 AM | Share your opinion!
• Hamas used kids as human shields - Jerusalem Post
Hamas gunmen used Palestinian children as human shields, and established command centers and Kassam launch pads in and near more than 100 mosques and hospitals during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip last year, according to a new Israeli report being released on Monday that aims to counter criticism of the IDF.
Added: Mar 15th, 2010 3:47 AM | Share your opinion!
• Israel's Shadow War against a Nuclear Iran - CBN News
Israel doesn't have a whole lot of good options in trying to undermine the Iranian nuclear program. Trying to get military strike on its own is extremely difficult for Israel. So for the moment Israel engages in a shadow war against the Iranian rulers and their militant proxies across the Middle East.
Added: Mar 15th, 2010 3:30 AM | Share your opinion!
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