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Mideast January 14, 2009  RSS feed
British firm cuts Israel telecom ties
LONDON CALLING
      A British telecom company severed all ties with an Israeli company over the operation in Gaza. British telecom company FreedomCall Ltd. informed its Israeli counterpart, MobileMax, via email, that it was cutting all business due to Israel's attacks on Gaza.
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Network admits Gaza report error
APOLOGY…
      A French television network has apologized for erroneously broadcasting a false report on Israel's Gaza operation. Assisted by an anonymous posting, the French news blogger site Le Post proved a report by France 2 television used an outdated amateur video of Palestinian casualties from an accidental truck explosion as current footage demonstrating the violence in Gaza.
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Living with war in my own backyard
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      BEERSHEBA, Israel—War in Israel just happens. You go to bed worried about the Bernard Madoff scandal and wake up the next day in a different reality. It is a reality where you find friends crying in their office because their son/husband/daughter — does it really matter which?
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Home of terrorist set to be sealed
      Israel's Supreme Court approved a request by the army to seal off a terrorist's home. The court agreed that the army could seal off two floors of a home in East Jerusalem that belongs to the family of the terrorist who killed eight students at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem in March. Part of the home is rented to other residents.
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YouTube changes Israel video policy
      YouTube has restored unrestricted access to videos uploaded by the Israel Defense Forces. Several of the videos, which were part of a public relations offensive and featured aerial footage of airstrikes on suspected Hamas targets, had been removed from the popular video sharing Web site after users flagged them as inappropriate content.
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U.S. & Israel extend free trade
      The United States has extended a free-trade agreement with Israel. President Bush announced in a proclamation that the 2004 agreement between the U.S. and Israel to allow Israel duty-free access for certain quantities of agricultural products in the United States would be extended for one year, through Dec. 31, 2009.
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Synagogue attack may be Gaza-related
      A car containing Molotov cocktails rammed into the door of a French synagogue and burst into flames. A rabbi and about 10 of his adult students in the Toulouse synagogue during the attack fled unharmed. A second car containing Molotov cocktails was found near the synagogue, according to police.
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