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Biden to AIPAC: President Obama not bluffing on using military force in Iran
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Vice President Joe Biden says President Barack Obama isn't bluffing when he says he'll use military action if ultimately necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
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John Kerry reaches out to Israeli, Palestinian leaders under new Secretary of State role
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New Secretary of State John Kerry will be introducing himself to his agency's employees Monday after spending much of the weekend making connections with leaders around the world.
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Is Morsi on his way out?
CommentShaffer interview January 31, 2013
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Hagel outlines position on Iran
CommentGordon interview January 30, 2013
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Lapid a rising star in Israeli politics
CommentBrodsky interview January 29, 2013
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Israel conducts airstrike inside Syria
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Syrian state TV has confirmed that Israeli warplanes bombed a military research center northwest of the capital, Damascus.
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Israel elections: Prime Minister Netanyahu expected to win third term
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to win a third term Tuesday in the first election in decades in which the Mideast peace process didn't take center stage, with many Israelis focused more on economic woes than ending their conflict with the Palestinians.
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Israel's Netanyahu dismisses criticism of new settlement project
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Israel's prime minister is brushing off international criticism over a planned new settlement project near Jerusalem, saying Israel will keep the area under any future peace deal in any case.
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Palestine's Mahmoud Abbas: Israeli settlements are 'red line'
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An Israeli-Palestinian showdown over plans for new Jewish settlements around Jerusalem escalated on Wednesday. Israel pushed the most contentious of the projects further along in the planning pipeline, and the Palestinian president said he would seek U.N. Security Council help to block the construction.
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United Nations vote recognizes state of Palestine; Israel, US object
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The UN voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state. Joining the United States and Israel in voting "no" were Canada, the Czech Republic, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Panama.
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Israel-Hamas tensions: Israeli troops shoot Palestinian man
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Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded 19 people as crowds surged toward Gaza's border fence with Israel on Friday, a health official said, the first violence since a truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers took hold a day before.
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Israel/Hamas cease-fire to begin Wednesday night
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The Egyptian-sponsored deal delivered key achievements for all involved. But vague language in the agreement and deep hostility between the combatants made it far from certain that the bloodshed would end.
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Israel-Hamas conflict: Hillary Clinton returns to Jerusalem
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An official says the U.S. secretary of state has returned to Jerusalem for another round of meetings with Israeli leaders as she tries to wring an elusive truce deal over the Israel-Hamas fighting.
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Israel says bomb blast hits bus in Tel Aviv
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A bomb ripped through an Israeli bus near the nation's military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding at least 10 people, Israeli officials said.
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Israel-Hamas cease-fire remains elusive
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As international diplomats worked to cement a deal, a senior Hamas official said an agreement was close even as relentless airstrikes and rocket attacks between the two sides continued.
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Israel, Hamas open to diplomatic solution
CommentGreen interview November 19, 2012
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Israeli man attacks Israeli security guard with ax and knife
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An Israeli man wielding an ax and a knife attacked and lightly wounded an Israeli security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday before he was apprehended at the scene, police said.
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U.S. sends Clinton to Mideast to try to end conflict
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Efforts to end a week-old convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence drew in the world's top diplomats on Tuesday, with President Barack Obama dispatching his secretary of state to the region on an emergency mission and the U.N. chief appealing from Cairo for an immediate cease-fire.
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