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Thousands of Israelis Protest High Cost of Living

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis gathered in the streets of Tel Aviv and other major Israeli cities on Saturday night to protest the high cost of living for the middle class, in one of the largest social rallies in Israeli history.

The 3 U.S. Policy Mistakes Most Responsible for S&P Downgrade

For Discussion: U.S. Fiscal Policy
While S&P?s downgrade of the U.S. Government?s credit rating is controversial, most agree that the U.S. fiscal condition is serious. And while both Democrats and Republicans increased the budget deficit, three major policy errors by President George W. Bush last decade substantially worsened the U.S.?s fiscal condition, and the nation has been trying to recover ever since.
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General view of Jewish outpost of Migron near West Bank city of Ramallah

Evacuate West Bank settlers without delay: Israeli court

Israel's supreme court ordered the evacuation of a hilltop outpost where some 250 Jewish settlers live without further delay Tuesday, upholding a petition made by Palestinians and an anti-settler group over five years ago.
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Israel Forcing Villagers to Pay for Their Own Eviction

Call it dictatorial or simply ironic, the residents of a Bedouin village in Israel's Negev desert are facing peculiar circumstances, where they are being forced to pay for the government expenses involved in demolishing their own homes!
Nochi Dankner, chairman and controlling shareholder of IDB Holding, poses in his office in Tel Aviv

Is Israel Inc. Too Powerful?

It took a two week-long cottage cheese rebellion to get Israelis to question the power of the country's tycoons.
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Trial of Egypt's Mubarak to be held in Cairo

The trial of Hosni Mubarak and others over their involvement in killing protesters will be held in Cairo next week, a senior official said on Thursday, ending talk it could be moved to a resort where the former president is hospitalised.
Police continue their investigations on the Utoeya island in the Tyrifjorden lake

Norway Mass Killer Says U.S. Has 'Jewish Problem,' Rants Against Hitler

Norwegian mass killer and right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto "2083: A European Declaration of Independence" which supports cultural conservatism is under close scrutiny to figure this perpetrator's theories which distance itself equally from Nazis as well as Jews.
Israeli President Shimon Peres

Assad Must Go: Israel?s Peres

Peres, who has now real power in Israeli government but nonetheless is widely regarded as the country?s number one political voice, made his comments during an unprecedented news chat with about 30 Arab media members.

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