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Israeli President Moshe Katsav reviews the presidential guard in Athens in this Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 file photo. Police recommended Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006 that Katsav be charged with rape, sexual assault and fraud, the most serious charges ever to face
Democracy   Israel   Photos   Politics   Scandals   		 Daily Star Lebanon 
Occupation has only corrupted Israel's democracy
| By Avraham B. Yehoshua | Commentary by | Thursday, August 07, 2008 | Police investigations, commissions of inquiry examining the errors committed during the Lebanon war of 2006, repugnance at former... (photo: AP/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)
Hezbollah fighters hold their party flags as they attend a rally to commemorate slain top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh and two other leaders, Abbas Musawi and Ragheb Harb, in the Shiite suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday Feb. 22, 2008. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed Friday to retaliate for the slaying of Mughniyeh and warned that by assassinating him Israel was planning to start a new war, which he said would lead to its defeat. Mughniyeh was killed in Damascus, Syria on February 12 by a car bomb. Israel has denied involvement in the assassination of Mughniyeh, one of America's most wanted suspected of attacks against American and Western targets in the 1980
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Flying high again with Hizbullah
| By Michael Young | Daily Star staff | Thursday, August 07, 2008 | There is growing concern in Israel and the United States that Hizbullah intends to alter the status quo in Lebanon by deploying anti... (photo: AP / Hussein Malla)
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Israel would hand over control of Tulkarem and Jericho in the coming days during a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. WN/Ahmed Deeb  International Herald Tribune 
Israel PM contender says Iran is "root of all evil"
| : Israeli cabinet minister Shaul Mofaz, a contender to succeed the prime minister, denounced his native Iran on Wednesday as "the root of all evil" and said its nuclear programme constituted a threa... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
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Edyia Gorlicka from the Polish Civil Military Cooperation Unit hands out toys to Iraqi children from the Al Carama refugee camp near Diwaniyah, Iraq, Feb. 14, 2007. cg1  IRINnews 
SYRIA: UNHCR cash for Iraqi refugees, but many vow never to return
web | Photo: M.Bernard/UNHCR DAMASCUS, 6 August 2008 (IRIN) - With a Shia mother and a Sunni father, and having worked for the US forces in Iraq, Asad al-Johari and his family found themselves a targe... (photo: US Army file/Sgt. Rob Summitt)
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Five Palestinian youths who were released from an Israeli prison wait to cross an Israeli military checkpoint near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008. Israel released five Palestinian teenagers from jail Wednesday in the concluding stage of last month's prisoner exchange with Lebanon's Hezbollah militia. All five freed Wednesday were minors serving short sentences for throwing stones and other objects and were due to be freed next year, according to data posted on the Prisons Authority We Middle East Online
Israel frees five Palestinians
JERUSALEM - Israel on Wednesday freed five Palestinian prisoners as part of a UN-brokered prisoner exchange with the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, the prisons administratio... (photo: AP / Nasser Ishtayeh)

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Palestinian members of the Hamas security forces attend a graduation ceremony in Gaza March 25, 2007. wn Ali Omar AO1. Middle East Online
Conquering Tree Houses
WASHINGTON -- It is painful watching events in Gaza and the West Bank unfold, as Fateh and Hamas factions battle it out like a bunch of armed neighborhood gangs. The mood... (photo: wn ali omar )

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Lebanon's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hassan Fadlallah speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in the Shiite stronghold suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006. Fadlallah, who recently dubbed President Bush "the devil's messenger," launched another blistering attack on the U.S. leader Wednesday, saying his policies have turned the region into a "hell" of violence and strif Daily Star Lebanon
Muslim clerics welcome 'ministerial solidarity'
| Daily Star staff | Wednesday, August 06, 2008 | BEIRUT: Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah voiced hope on Tuesday that the latest Lebanese agreement... (photo: AP / Hussein Malla)
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Lebanon´s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri gestures during a press conference Daily Star Lebanon
Berri summons Parliament to vote on policy statement
| By Nafez Qawas | Daily Star correspondent | Wednesday, August 06, 2008 | BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday invited Parliament to convene on Friday at 6 p.m. to dis... (photo: AP / Mahmoud Tawil)
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MEA chairman proposes Beirut flight-training center
| Daily Star staff | Wednesday, August 06, 2008 | BEIRUT: Middle East Airlines (MEA) chairman Mohammed Hout proposed on Tuesday the creation of an advanced aviation train... (photo: public domain )
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President George W. Bush makes a statement to the press in the Pentagon. KDoD2u Bush to state opposition to China rights policy The Boston Globe
US Dollar - USD - Currency - Money - Forex. (ps1) Asia pressured by growth concerns, US dollar gains Inquirer
A police officer stands guard at the entrance to Eversholt Street after a bus, background, was bombed in Russel Square, Central London, Thursday, July 7, 2005. Al-Qaeda faces Islamist backlash BBC News
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Newly-elected Lebanese President Michel Suleiman Sleiman reminds troops of 'duty' to preserve unity Daily Star Lebanon
Sunni supporters of majority leader Saad Hariri hold a picture of slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, as they burn the contents of an office belonging to the Lebanese chapter of Syria 's ruling Arab Baath socialist party during clashes in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Seeking to stop the country's slide toward all-out sectarian strife, the Lebanese army command ordered it troops Saturday to establish security and called on all parties to withdraw their gunmen and reopen roads while offering Hezbollah a compromise settlement Lebanese Christians mull conversion Asia Times
A Palestinian youth throws stones at an Israeli army vehicle operating in the West Bank town of Jenin, Thursday, Aug 9, 2007. The clashes came at a time when Israel is trying to scale back its operations in the West Bank. (mb1) Israel won't go without a fight The Australian
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Olympic and Chinese flags fly near the portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate during the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in Beijing Wednesday Aug. 6, 2008. Olympics mark China's second coming Asia Times
Iowa State's Lisa Koll, Athletics The main focus should be on the athletes in Beijing Canada Dot Com
Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei runs the start of the Olympic torch relay at Forbidden City, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008, in Beij Olympic torch comes to Beijing TVNZ
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