hamropalo.com http://hamropalo.com/ ©hamropalo.com http://hamropalo.com/files.php?file=logo_295758154.gif http://hamropalo.com/ http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-stops-support-for-west-bank-settlers.html World Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:37:00 +0545 The Israeli government has decided to cut off Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank.The government has announced it will cut off all public funding http://hamropalo.com/world/weekend-bombing-blamed-on-syrian-neighbor.html World Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:43:00 +0545 Big News Network (UPI)A preliminary inquiry into a weekend bombing in Syria which left 17 people dead says terrorists were responsible for the suicide attack.The http://hamropalo.com/world/palestinian-economy-worse-than-great-depression.html World Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:43:00 +0545 ((Op-ed) Ramzy Baroud)The numbers are grim, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip.The Palestinian economy is in one of its most wretched states, http://hamropalo.com/world/syria-blames-israel-for-damascus-car-bombing.html World Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:23:00 +0545 Irish SunSunday 28th September, 2008  (Ynet News)A high-ranking Syrian military officer was killed in the car bomb explosion which struck Damascus on Saturday, the London-based Arabic-language http://hamropalo.com/world/quartet-urges-israelpalestine-to-seal-peace-deal-this-year.html World Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:38:00 +0545 New York, Sept 27: The Middle East diplomatic quartet on Friday pressed Israel and the Palestinians to seal a peace deal this year and expressed http://hamropalo.com/world/report-says-israel-wanted-to-bomb-iran.html World Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:58:00 +0545 It has been reported that Israel approached the United States for permission to bomb nuclear sites in Iran.According to The Guardian, President George Bush told http://hamropalo.com/world/doctors-to-defy-israeli-naval-blockade-of-gaza.html World Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:10:00 +0545 An activist group says it will defy Israel's blockade of the Gaza strip for a second time to deliver aid to Palestinians.U.S.-based "Free Gaza" organizer http://hamropalo.com/world/u-sto-supply-israel-with-1-000-new-bunkerbusting-bombs.html World Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:25:00 +0545 The Bush administration has concluded a deal where it will supply Israel with 1,000 of it's latest smart bombs.The sophisticted bombs are usually used to http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-president-says-iran-should-suffer-sanctions-rather-than-f.html World Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:25:00 +0545 Israeli President Shimon Peres has said would prefer the use of international economic sanctions rather than military force to persuade Tehran to halt its nuclear http://hamropalo.com/world/syrian-peace-proposals-fired-off-to-israel.html World Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:06:00 +0545 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has spoken of a list of proposals sent to Israel via Turkish mediators.He has said he is awaiting Israel’s response to http://hamropalo.com/world/lebanon-will-never-be-calm-according-to-hezbollah.html World Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:08:00 +0545 The leader of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, has said his group will never lay down its weapons, even if the disputed http://hamropalo.com/nepal_news/israel-resumes-visas-for-nepali-workers.html News Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:24:00 +0545 KATHMANDU, Aug 26 - After a gap of 15 months, the government has resumed granting permission to Nepali job aspirants for employment in Israel.According to http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-allows-palestinian-prisoner-release.html World Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:13:00 +0545 Israel has released nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners, including two convicted killers of Israelis.Said al-Attaba, 56, was jailed in 1977 for killing an Israeli woman and http://hamropalo.com/nepal_news/govt-to-permit-nepalis-to-work-in-israel.html News Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:04:00 +0545 KATHMANDU, Aug 19 - The government is all set to grant permission to Nepalis to work in Israel after Israel resumed issuance of fresh working http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-agrees-to-dangerous-prisoner-release.html World Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:19:00 +0545 The Israeli government has approved the release of close to 200 Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.The prisoners are due to http://hamropalo.com/entertainment/odd_news/9000-year-old-skulls-found-in-israel.html Odd stuff Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:30:00 +0545 Archaeologists have discovered three 9,000-year-old skulls at Yiftah'el in the Lower Galilee in Israel.According to experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority, the placement of the http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-considers-halting-arms-sales-to-georgia.html World Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:38:00 +0545 Jerusalem, Aug 10 (Xinhua) Israel is planning to halt arms sales to Georgia amid fears of Russian retaliation, daily Ha'aretz reported Sunday.'Israel needs to be http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-039-s-collapse-achievableahmadinejad.html World Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:20:00 +0545 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the collapse of Israel and its government was no longer an unachievable aim."Today's situation is that neither http://hamropalo.com/entertainment/odd_news/israelzoo-elephant-attacks-17yearold-girl.html Odd stuff Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:33:00 +0545 attacked by an elephant and hospitalized after sneaking into a zoo at night, according to Israeli officials. A Safari nature park employee http://hamropalo.com/world/british-pm-warns-iran-in-landmark-israel-speech.html World Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:27:00 +0545 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday warned Iran that it must freeze sensitive nuclear work or face more sanctions, in the first address by http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-and-hezbollah-complete-prisoner-exchange.html World Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:12:00 +0545 (Jim Teeple - Jerusalem) Israel and the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah carried out a prisoner exchange Wednesday.Five Lebanese prisoners were exchanged for the bodies http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-relishes-indian-food-on-us-iday.html World Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:56:00 +0545 Some 2000 distinguished guests, including Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, were treated with Indian food at a party thrown by the http://hamropalo.com/world/iran-warns-of-strong-blow-if-israel-attacks.html World Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:41:00 +0545 Tehran on Friday warned its arch-enemy Israel of a ''strong blow'' if it takes forceful measures, after the US media reported military exercises by the Jewish state were a possible practice for a strike against Iran.''If enemies especially Israelis and their supporters in the United States would want to use a language of force, they should rest assured that they will receive a strong blow in the mouth,'' senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said in his Friday prayers sermon.Khatami, whose speech was broadcast live on state radio, stressed that the Iranian nation's mentality was ''to fight foreigners.''Given this mentality, if you make a hostile look at the Islamic Iran, you will witness such a united roar by our nation that it will definitely make you regret any vicious move forever,'' the conservative cleric added.A report by the New York Times cited US officials as saying that a major military exercise carried out by Israel earlier this month seemed to be a practice for any potential strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.A Pentagon official briefed on the exercise said a goal of the practice was to send a message that the Jewish state was prepared to act militarily if diplomatic efforts failed to halt Tehran's production of bomb-grade uranium.Last month the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's atomic watchdog, expressed ''serious concern'' that Iran is still hiding information about alleged studies into making nuclear warheads and defying UN demands to suspend uranium enrichment. http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-rehearses-attack-on-irans-nuclear-facilities.html World Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:41:00 +0545 Washington: US officials say Israel carried out a large military exercise this month that appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, The New York Times reported on Friday.Citing unidentified American officials, the newspaper said more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighters took part in the maneuvers over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece in the first week of June.It said the exercise appeared to be an effort to focus on long-range strikes and illustrates the seriousness with which Israel views Iran's nuclear programme.The newspaper said Israeli officials would not discuss the exercise.A spokesman for the Israeli military would say only that the country's air force ''regularly trains for various missions in order to confront and meet the challenges posed by the threats facing Israel,'' according to the Times.A Pentagon official who the Times said was briefed on the exercise, said one goal was to practice flight tactics, aerial refueling and other details of a possible strike against Iran's nuclear installations and long-range conventional missiles.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said a second goal was to send a clear message that Israel was prepared to act militarily if other efforts to stop Iran from producing bomb-grade uranium fail.''They wanted us to know, they wanted the Europeans to know, and they wanted the Iranians to know,'' the Pentagon official said, according to the Times.''There's a lot of signaling going on at different levels.Several US officials told the newspaper they did not believe Israel had decided to attack Iran or think such a strike was imminent.The UN Security Council has imposed several rounds of sanctions on Iran for defying council demands that it suspend its uranium enrichment program, which could be used to make fuel for power plants or atomic weapons.Iran has refused to buckle to the sanctions and has spurned previous offers of economic benefits to suspend its uranium enrichment, which it says is to produce fuel for electrical power plants rather than for nuclear weapons. http://hamropalo.com/world/olmert-says-israelhamas-truce-may-not-last.html World Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:38:00 +0545 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said the imminent truce between Hamas and Israel in Gaza could only be short lived.His warning came only hours before the truce took effect on Thursday morning, after Egypt had mediated for months between the enemies.Olmert said at a conference that he had no illusion that the truce was only fragile and, if Hamas continued its terror campaign against Israel, the armed forces would act.On the other hand, he said, Israel would ease its blockade of the territory if the fighting ceased as planned.Scepticism is high among residents on both sides of the border, even though Hamas leaders have insisted they will not give Israel any pretext to violate the truce.Hamas fighters fired off at least nine rockets at Israel from Gaza on Wednesday.Egypt announced the deal on Tuesday, and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas confirmed it had agreed to stop firing rockets at Israel.Mahmud Abbas, the Palestinian president, who has also been under pressure from the Hamas faction, said: "The deal is good news for us. http://hamropalo.com/world/eu-welcomes-israelhamas-ceasefire.html World Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:20:00 +0545 The European Commission Wednesday welcomed the announcement of a truce between Israel and Hamas, the radical Islamic movement that rules the Palestinian Gaza Strip.''I welcome the news of the agreement between Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian factions brokered by Egypt on a mutual ceasefire inthe Gaza Strip,'' said Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Union's (EU) commissioner in charge of external relations.Ferrero-Waldner thanked Egypt for facilitating the agreement, noting that the people of Gaza and southern Israel had suffered too long.''Complete cessation of hostilities will no doubt create an environment which is more supportive of the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-accuses-new-zealand-of-antisemitism.html World Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:50:00 +0545 An Israeli diplomat has accused New Zealand of 'acceptance of anti-Semitic behaviour' following controversial billboard advertisements for a television programme, a Dutch newspaper reported Friday.'We have been shocked and dismayed by the wrongful action of people using Jewish stereotypes to pursue an advertising and commercial agenda,' Dor Shapira, spokesman for Israeli embassy in New Zealand, told the Dominion Post.Prime Television withdrew the billboards promoting a programme called 'Madmen: The Glory Years of Advertising', after Jewish community leaders complained about the words 'Advertising Agency Seeks: Clients. http://hamropalo.com/world/israel-distances-from-ministers-iran-statement.html World Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:14:00 +0545 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office is distancing itself from a Cabinet minister's suggestion that Israel will be forced to attack Iran.Olmert spokesman Mark Regev is not explicitly rejecting the statement from Traortation Minister Shaul Mofaz that Israel will have ''no choice'' but to attack Iran if it doesn't halt its nuclear program.But speaking on Sunday, Regev said Olmert stated Israel's policy clearly last week during a trip to Washington.At a briefing with reporters, Olmert called for tighter international sanctions while warning that a more ''effective'' solution led by the US was drawing closer.Mofaz's statement was published in a local paper on Friday. http://hamropalo.com/world/ahmadinejad-says-israel-to-vanish-with-or-without-iran.html World Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:36:00 +0545 Rome - The state of Israel will cease to exist with or without the involvement of Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, and Israel branded Iran a "neighborhood bully" that must be met with firmness.Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told a closed door meeting of Israeli lawmakers in Jerusalem that the international community must take decisive action on Iran and reiterated that military action was an option.On Monday, Ahmadinejad said in Tehran that the "satanic power" of the United States faced destruction and that the Jewish state would soon disappear from the map, a theme he returned to on Tuesday."This will happen whether we are involved in it or not," he told a news conference at a UN food summit in Rome, adding that Israel was "doomed to go.At a closed-door meeting of the Israeli parliament's security and foreign affairs committee in Jerusalem, Livni said the international community must send a strong signal to nations in the Middle East that are undecided on which camp to join."These are decisive days and the inability to build an international consensus against Iran will be interpreted in our region as weakness," an official present at the meeting quoted Livni as saying."The military option needs to be kept on the table. 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