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Israel Releases Trove of Documents From 1967 Six-Day War

The papers date from the period during and immediately after the war and “document Israeli officials’ discussions regarding the fate of the occupied Arab territories.”

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Israeli Sherman M4 tanks are seen moving towards the Sinai during Israel's invasion of the Sinai in the six day war of Israel, June 6, 1967. (AP Photo)

Israel has released new documents dating from the 1967 war. According to Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth the papers date from the period during and immediately after the war and “document Israeli officials’ discussions regarding the fate of the occupied Arab territories.” In one of the documents Zerah Verheftig, a minister, suggested

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Prince Charles Baffled no US President will Take on Israel Lobby

Writing to his friend Laurens van der Post, the Prince argued that the exodus of European Jews in the middle of the last century “helped to cause the great problems” in the Middle East.

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Britain's Prince Charles attends the funeral ceremony for former Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, Sept. 30, 2016. (Abir Sultan/AP)

Prince Charles has come under fire after it came to light that he blamed the “influx of foreign Jews” for causing unrest in the Middle East and called on the US to “take on the Jewish lobby” in a letter penned in 1986. Writing to his friend Laurens van der Post, the Prince argued that the exodus of European Jews in the middle of the last century

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Tony Blair Expresses Regret Over Boycott Of Hamas

Blair, who strongly supported the US decision to boycott Hamas, said the boycott of Hamas came under extensive Israeli pressure.

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Middle East peace envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, center, visits a United Nations run school sheltering Palestinians, whose homes were destroyed during Israel's war on Gaza City, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. (AP/Suhaib Salem)

World leaders were wrong to boycott Hamas after it won Palestinian elections in 2006, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has said for the first time according to the Guardian newspaper. In an interview with the paper, Blair said: In retrospect I think we should have, right at the very beginning, tried to pull [Hamas] into a dialogue and

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Bernie Sanders: The US Is Complicit In Israel’s Occupation

“In terms of Israeli-Palestinian relations, the United States has got to play a much more even-handed role. Clearly, that is not the case right now.”

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

US Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has said that “the US is complicit” in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, but also added that Israel is not “the only party at fault”, in an interview with the Intercept last month. Sanders, who has been criticised by pro-Palestinian activists for largely dismissing the Israeli

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Interpol To Vote For Palestinian Membership Despite Israeli Lobbying

Israeli officials have been working with their American counterparts to find a way to prevent the PA from gaining the same status as the Israeli police.

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Secretary General of Interpol Jurgen Stock speaks during the 86th Interpol General Assembly at Beijing National Convention Center Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017 in Beijing. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images via AP)

The International law enforcement agency Interpol is set to vote on Palestinian Authority (PA) membership despite intensive Israeli and US lobbying against it, news agencies reported yesterday. Board of directors of the international police organization, which is currently meeting in Beijing, is voting on whether to accept or deny the PA’s police

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Whistleblower Releases Details On Saudi Plan To ‘Accept Israel As A Brotherly State’

The Whistleblower’s added via his Twitter account that the plan includes arresting hundreds of religious scholars, stressing that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was enthusiastic about the implementation of the plan due to Israel’s pledge to lobby Trump’s to support his bid to become King

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Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, left, talks to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince and Deputy Commander in Chief of the Emirates Armed Forces in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is working to “westernize” the Kingdom and change people’s mindsets when it comes to Israel, Twitter user and notorious whistleblower, Mujtahidd has reported. The account, which is believed to be reporting from inside the ruling family in Saudi Arabia, wrote: Arrangement among the UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

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15 Residents Of Gaza Die After Israel Denied Them Permits To Receive Treament

As Gaza’s two million residents struggle to survive with a maximum of only four hours of electricity a day, an estimated 40 per cent of necessary drugs are also unavailable or will be depleted within a month.

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An Israeli soldier checking a Palestinian ambulance's documents as it attempts to cross the Qalandiyah checkpoint near West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo)

Some 15 Gaza residents have died since the start of 2017 after Israel denied terminally ill patients the necessary permits to travel outside the besieged Strip for medical treatment. Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights revealed the figures in a statement yesterday, condemning the Israeli blockade on the coastal enclave that has resulted in its

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