June 28, 2008
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Most of the offences committed by the IDF include shots fired by soldiers at Palestinian farmers attempting to reach their land near the border security fence.
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Defense officials said that Israel has no intention of either opening the crossings or increasing the amount of commodities entering Gaza so long as the rocket fire continues – even if the attacks are limited.
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Rice wasn’t interested in a summit, but rather a routine briefing meeting in light of the fact that she will not travel to the region in July as planned.
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THE charter of Fatah, the more secular of the two main Palestinian political parties, says that unless there are “exceptional circumstances”, a general party congress must be held every five years. The last one was in 1989.
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The event revealed to British intelligence the extent of the covert collaboration between the Yishuv [pre-state Jewish community] and France. The British took action against the French as soon as war broke out in Palestine.
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America’s pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, welcomed the congressional action, saying it would increase US aid to Israel to 2.55 billion dollars in fiscal year 2009, up from 2.38 billion dollars this year.
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