Israel Continues Bombing Of Gaza
Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike on southern Gaza on January 7, 2009, in the southern Gaza Strip on January 7, 2009. Fighting resumed after Israel allowed a three-hour truce to let humanitarian aid into Gaza. About 300 of the approximately 700 Palestinians killed have been civilians, according to UN figures. (UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad)
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- One Israeli party, Likud, is so oblivious to Fourth Generation War that its proposed grand strategy for Israel, largely written by American neoconservatives, calls for the destruction of every Arab state. Iraq was the first victim of that strategy, thanks to the neocons' influence on the Bush administration. If Likud wins the coming Israeli elections, there is every reason to think it will put its strategy into practice, pushing Israel into the maelstrom.
TORONTO, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The Canadian Jewish Congress alleges anti-Semitic slurs were shouted at pro-Palestinian rallies in three cities this month, and are demanding police action.
GAZA, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Israeli planes bombed the Gaza home of the Hamas interior minister Thursday, killing Siad Syam and his brother, Palestinian officials said.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The ongoing bloody hostilities between Hamas and Israeli forces in Gaza is creating fissures in the Fatah movement, a Fatah official acknowledges.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales said Wednesday his South American nation has cut diplomatic ties with Israel over its military attacks in Gaza.
JERUSALEM, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The European Union has put the brakes on closer diplomatic and economic ties with Israel, citing the deadly Israeli military incursion into Gaza.
GAZA, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Efforts to reach a cease-fire in Gaza through diplomatic means persisted as the death toll in the two-week battle swelled to nearly 1,000, officials said.
BERLIN, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Germany's foreign minister tries to bring about a cease-fire, peaceful and violent anti-war demonstrators roam the country's streets, and a most unusual orchestra of young Israeli and Arab musicians electrifies crowds at a Berlin opera house -- Germany is dealing with the war in Gaza on multiple levels.
GAZA, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden apparently released a new audio message calling for a holy war against Israel for its military operation in Gaza, CNN reported.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's claim that he got the U.S. government to abstain on a U.N. measure on the Gaza crisis was untrue, officials said.
