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Syria is willing to consider peace and gradual normalization with Israel, according to Gabrielle Rifkind of the Oxford Research Group, who met with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem in December. Speaking with Haaretz over e-mail, the conflict resolution specialist said that following an Israeli withdrawal from half the territory it holds on the Golan Heights, the two states would declare an end to the state of enmity between them as a first step.
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Report: Syria willing to consider phased Golan pullout

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has visited Syria four times, twice during the past year. Bashar Assad has visited Tehran four times since Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005. If reciprocal visits by the presidents of Iran and Syria are cause for panic, let’s calm down: the balance between the two has been preserved. Hamas leader Khaled Meshal has also visited Tehran many times, most recently in December, so his meeting with Ahmadinejad last week is not unusual. If Syria, Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas are planning a war against Israel, they don’t need showcase meetings. But why not panic when you can panic? Why not see every meeting as a threat?
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Zvi Bar’el / Let’s calm down on Syria and Hezbollah

Does a Christian Phalange leader in Lebanon know something that Israeli newspaper readers do not know? In a statement published in Lebanon, Dr. Samir Ja’ja claims that Hezbollah may involve his country in a war in the near future. He also warned that the Lebanese home front is far less prepared than its Israeli counterpart for war and therefore the civilian population in his country will bear the brunt of any future round of fighting.
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Investigation spanning three years results in indictments against three businessmen who exported electronic equipment to shopping center in Paraguay in South America’s infamous Tri-Border Region. According to indictment, share of profits from products’ sale ended up with Islamic terror organization

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German intelligence services investigating the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai have found that one of the suspected members of the assassination team carried a genuine German passport, according to reports Saturday in German media outlets, including Der Speigel.
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Report: German passport tied to Dubai hit wasn`t forged

Three men were charged in an indictment unsealed Friday with illegally exporting electronics and video games to a South American shopping center that U.S. officials claim funnels money to the Hezbollah militant
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Three men charged with financing Hezbollah in Miami

Indictment says suspects ran companies using Miami port to move goods to Paraguay shopping center included on US banned list of suspected terrorist fundraising networks. Center’s owner, Muhammad Yusif Abdallah considered a senior Hezbollah leader in South American region

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3 men charged in Miami with financing Hezbollah

Miami-Dade, FL – Federal agents have arrested three South Florida businessmen accused of exporting video games and other electronic products to a shopping mall in Paraguay that allegedly served as a front to finance the terrorist group Hezbollah, according to sources familiar with the case.
The Miami-Dade businessmen arrested, Khaled Safadi, Emilio Gonzalez-Neira and Ulises Talavera-Campos, [...]

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Militant group is trying to reinvent itself as a more conventional political movement.

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Drive safely and pay bills, Hezbollah leader tells Lebanon

Terror organization attempting to reinvent itself as conventional political movement by highlighting ‘nationalist dimension’, focusing on domestic arena

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