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A MEMO analysis of the British media coverage of the US-Israel relationship "crisis"
The British media is slowly waking up to the reality of Israel.
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Obama's sole option: cut the aid and withdraw diplomatic support to Israel
Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has said that relations between the two countries have entered their worst crisis for 35 years.
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Isn't it time for America to re-evaluate its "special relationship" with Israel?

A mere eleven minutes after Israel declared its independence in 1948, US President Harry Truman recognised the newly created state.
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News Flash

Turkey's PM: "No result from Abbas negotiations without Hamas"
Riyadh

Negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority "will not bring results", Turkey's Prime Minister has said. Mr. Rajab Tayeb Erdogan made his statement during a visit to Saudi Arabia. He said that the sole participation of the Palestinian Authority's president, Mahmoud Abbas without any input from the Islamic resistance Movement (Hamas) in negotiations with the Zionist side will be fruitless.

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Israeli occupation releases Gazan after serving 22-year prison sentence

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:27

The Israeli occupation authorities released, on Sunday, Nov. 15, one of its longest serving prisoners, Younis Hussein, 45 years, from the Gaza Strip, after serving a 22-years sentence.

Hundreds of citizens and relatives of Hussein were waiting for him at Beit Hanoun "Erez Crossing" in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli authorities released him. He was then escorted in a mass rally to his house in the central Gaza Strip at the Zawaida district.

Hussein was arrested by the occupation authorities when he was single on December 31, 1987, three weeks after the first intifada eruption, on charges of belonging to "Fatah" Movement and resisting the occupation when he got a 22-year jail sentence which he fully served.