Israel
Israeli parliament debate turns ugly as politician throws water over colleague The Guardian 01/11/2012 | Israel preparing for nuclear Iran Breitbart.com 01/11/2012 |
 An ultranationalist Israeli parliament member faced possible suspension from the Knesset on Monday for hurling a cup of water at an Arab colleague when he told her to "shut up" during exchanges over school students attending human rights rally. |  Israel is preparing for Iran to become a nuclear power and has accepted it may happen within a year, the London Times reported on Monday citing an Israeli security report. |
Religious Jews still try to segregate Israel busesAMY TEIBEL AP 12/20/2011 | Israel Considers Pre-Emptive Attack On IranEmma Hurd Sky News 11/04/2011 |
 Israel's political leaders and chief rabbis on Sunday condemned persistent efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to shunt Israeli women to the back of public buses, a year after the country's Supreme Court outlawed the practice. |  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally support in his cabinet for an attack on Iran, according to government sources. |
Israeli Drone Strike Kills Militants in Southern GazaFARES AKRAM and ISABEL KERSHNER The New York Times 10/31/2011 | Israel divided over price of freedom for captive soldier Gilad ShalitPhoebe Greenwood The Guardian 10/18/2011 |
 Israeli airstrikes killed seven Palestinian members of Islamic Jihad’s armed wing in southern Gaza on Saturday, according to the militant group, and Gaza militants fired salvos of rockets at cities in southern Israel, killing one Israeli man and wounding at least two others in a sudden escalation of cross-border violence. |  Fresh lilies are regularly laid at a monument by the Tel Aviv Dolphinarium bearing witness to an evening in 2001 when 21 Israeli teenagers were killed while queuing outside a nightclub. Another 132 were injured in the attack by Saeed Hotari, a young Palestinian suicide bomber affiliated with Hamas. But last week flowers arrived more in protest than in sorrow. Husam Badran, the former head of Hamas's military wing in the West Bank and instigator of the Dolphinarium attack, is expected to be among 477 Palestinian prisoners released on Tuesday in a deal to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. A further 550 will be freed within two months. |
Israel and Hamas agree prisoner swap to free ShalitJeffrey Heller and Nidal al-Mughrabi Reuters 10/12/2011 | Report: Assad threatens to attack Tel Aviv in case of NATO strike Ynetnews 10/05/2011 |
 Israel and Gaza's Hamas Islamist rulers agreed on Tuesday to swap more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for Israeli captive soldier Gilad Shalit, resolving one of the most emotive and intractable issues between them. |  Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday threatened to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks Syria, the Iranian Fars news agency reported. |
Mosque Set on Fire in Israel The New York Times 10/05/2011 | Panetta warns Israel getting more isolatedLOLITA C. BALDOR AP 10/03/2011 |
 A mosque in an Arab village in northern Israel was set on fire early Monday in what the police called an arson attack, and an outside wall was defaced with Hebrew graffiti. |  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday that Israel is becoming increasingly isolated in the Middle East, and said Israeli leaders must restart negotiations with the Palestinians and work to restore relations with Egypt and Turkey. |
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