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Friday, September 03 2010

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Hague and an ethical foreign policy
In an article for today's Daily Telegraph, British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, sought to flesh out an ethical framework for a new approach British Foreign Policy.
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US: Israeli rabbi's remarks offensive

Washington has criticized Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef over remarks that Palestinians should perish from this world.

"We regret and condemn the inflammatory statements by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef," US State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said on Sunday.

"These remarks are not only deeply offensive, but incitement such as this hurts the cause of peace," he added.

"As we move forward to re-launch peace negotiations, it is important that actions by people on all sides help to advance our effort, not hinder it," Crowley said.

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Israeli occupation releases Gazan after serving 22-year prison sentence

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:27

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.