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FEATURE-Palestinian tobacco faces threat from crackdown on black economy
Reuters* Tobacco sales cut unemployment in northern villages * Nationwide poverty, joblessness stand at around 25 percent * Cash-strapped Palestinian Authority keen to tax, regulate By Noah Browning YA'ABAD, West Bank, June 19 (Reuters) - Palestinian farmers...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, National Government, Finance, Customs and Tradition, Arts and Culture
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Palestinian tobacco faces threat from crackdown on black economy
ReutersYA'ABAD, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian farmers sow tobacco sprouts in the rocky earth of the northern West Bank, reaping a harvest that provides a reliable livelihood in the struggling occupied territory. From planting, drying and rolling, the...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, National Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Customs and Tradition
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Palestinian statehood at "dead end" - Israeli minister
Reuters* Comments show divide in Netanyahu government * Prime minister distances himself from minister's words * Palestinians say part of strategy to destroy statehood bid JERUSALEM, June 17 (Reuters) - A far-right member of the Israeli government said on...Tags: National Government, Benjamin Netanyahu, John Kerry, Judaism, Israel
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Palestinian statehood at 'dead end': Israeli minister
ReutersJERUSALEM (Reuters) - A far-right member of the Israeli government said on Monday the idea of establishing a Palestinian state in the West Bank had reached a "dead end". Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu distanced himself from the comments, but the...Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, John Kerry, Judaism, Israel, Government
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Israeli politician says two-state solution is at a 'dead end'
JERUSALEM — The idea of a Palestinian state is at a "dead end," the Mideast conflict is an intractable problem and Israel has "to live with it," Israel's economy minister said Monday in some of the bluntest comments yet by a member of the country'...
Tags: National Government, Judaism, Peace Negotiations, Political Fundraising, Religion and Belief
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ROP-Israeli general says Palestinians quietly aiding US peace drive
Reuters* General says Abbas cut off funds to anti-Israel activists * West Bank violence could spiral if Kerry mission fails By Dan Williams JERUSALEM, June 18 (Reuters) - The Palestinian administration in the West Bank has tried to help the latest U.S....Tags: John Kerry, Judaism, Israel, Palestinian National Authority, Politics
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Israeli general says Palestinians quietly aiding U.S. peace drive
ReutersJERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestinian administration in the West Bank has tried to help the latest U.S. peacemaking drive by quietly cutting off funds for grassroots campaigners against Israel's occupation of the territory, a senior Israeli general said...Tags: John Kerry, Judaism, Israel, Palestinian National Authority, Hamas
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INTERVIEW-US right to arm Syrian rebels, says Israeli president
Reuters* Peres says US has no choice but to arm moderate rebels * Terror groups are tearing apart the Arab world * Dismisses idea Israel can attack Iran alone By Crispian Balmer JERUSALEM, June 18 (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his...Tags: National Government, Manufacturing and Engineering, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Entertainment Events, Palestine
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U.S. right to arm Syrian rebels, says Israeli president
ReutersJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the conflict. In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters before...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Entertainment Events, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Iran, Palestine
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Israel has frozen new building in settlements - minister
ReutersJERUSALEM, June 18 (Reuters) - Israel has frozen nearly all housing starts in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Housing Minister Uri Ariel said on Tuesday, in an apparent bid to help U.S. efforts to revive peace talks with the Palestinians....Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, John Kerry, Land Price, Israel, Palestine
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Arab village in Israel targeted in racial attack
ReutersJERUSALEM, June 18 (Reuters) - Vandals daubed "Arabs out" graffiti and punctured tyres in an Arab village near Jerusalem on Tuesday, targeting a community widely seen in Israel as a showcase for Jewish-Arab coexistence. Unlike similar attacks that have...Tags: Judaism, Israel, Punishment, Vandalism, Religion and Belief
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Arab village latest target of political vandalism in Israel
ABU GHOSH, Israel -- Dozens of residents of this Arab village near Jerusalem woke up Tuesday to find their tires slashed and their walls spray-painted with hateful messages, their community the latest target of a series of politically motivated...
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Judaism, Israel, Tzipi Livni, Government
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