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The European Union’s top diplomat Tuesday called on Syria and Israel to resume indirect peace talks, which have been stalled since last year.

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EU calls for renewal of indirect Israel-Syria peace talks

Tehran said Tuesday that it has not intervened to block reconciliation between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, rejecting accusations made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a Fatah member.

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Iran not blocking Palestinian reconciliation, Tehran says

The Simon Wiesenthal Center said Monday it hopes to start building its Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem in the coming months despite a petition to the United Nations to stop construction because the site was once a medieval Muslim cemetery.

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Works begins on Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance, despite protests

Eric Cantor, a leading Republican official in the U.S. House of Representatives, on Monday lashed out at the Obama administration’s recent criticism of Israel over its announcement that it would construct 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem.

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‘U.S. administration is ignoring a host of Palestinian provocations’

Williamsburg, NY – A local frequent straphanger — has started a campaign against the worst behavior underground, using a sharp wit and a fast camera phone shutter.
Williamsburg resident Tom Sibley has snapped and received photo submissions of people partaking in some obnoxious subway behavior: clipping their nails, putting their feet on the pole, searching in [...]

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Williamsburg, NY – Pictures of Annoying Subway Riders Posted Online

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.”

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‘U.S.-Israel relations at their worst in 35 years’

Israel’s ambassador to Poland on Sunday deplored the desecration of a Holocaust memorial in southern Poland and criticized world leaders who

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Israeli envoy to Poland deplores defacing of Holocaust memorial

Egypt has canceled the inauguration of a restored synagogue citing the Israeli oppression of Muslims in the occupied territories as well as excesses by Jews during an earlier ceremony at the synagogue.

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Egypt cancels unveiling of restored synagogue citing Israeli aggression

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday referred to Israel’s recent approval of a plan to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, announced during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit, as a “destructive” incident that “should not have happened.”

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Netanyahu: Row with U.S. should not have happened

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led Israel into a serious crisis in relations with the United States and to a collapse in peace talks with the Palestinians just when they were to be resumed.

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Netanyahu is trading Israeli security for right-wing ideology