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Two Arab parties were disqualified from Israel's upcoming elections.

The Bush administration reportedly launched covert action aimed at sabotaging Iran's nuclear weapons program even as it turned down Israel's request for assistance in a possible attack.

An Israeli animated film won the Golden Globe for best foreign film.

The U.N. Human Rights Council condemned Israel's "grave violations" of Palestinian human rights.

A South African Muslim group wants the country's chief rabbi removed from a religious leaders' forum over the Gaza incursion.

American Jewish leaders on a solidarity mission to southern Israel were forced into a protected room during a Code Red alert.

Hamas rockets hit two houses in southern Israel during a voluntary Israeli humanitarian cease-fire.

At least three Chicago-area synagogues were vandalized following rallies in support of and against Israel.

A Hamas official told an Arabic newspaper that the terrorist group does not care about the condition of Gilad Shalit.

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for a Gaza Strip cease-fire on Israel's terms.

A letter from 24 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives cites Israeli NGOs in urging President Bush to press Israel to expand humanitarian relief for Gazans.

Jewish groups expressed disappointment in the Bush administration for failing to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution on the Gaza Strip war.

Barack Obama said "starting on day one" his administration would be "immediately engaged in the Middle East peace process."

Thousands of people gathered outside the Israeli Consulate in New York for a rally in support of Israel.

Anti-Israel demonstrators clashed with police in several European capitals over the weekend.

British grass-roots fund raising by cell phone text message for hospitals in Israel and Gaza raised $15,000 in one day.

Thousands of British supporters of Israel who attended weekend rallies were met by small groups of Jews against the war.

A moment of silence for civilian victims of the conflict in Gaza opened a pro-Israel rally in Berlin.

Israel supporters rallied near the hotel where Barack Obama is staying in Washington.

Police removed two Israeli flags from the window of an apartment building along the route of an anti-Israel protest in a German town.

Rome's mayor and provincial president shopped at Jewish-owned stores after a trade union called for a boycott of Jewish merchants to protest the Gaza Strip war.

A French court charged four teens in an attack on a Jewish girl.

Australians in Sydney demonstrated their solidarity with Israel after thousands throughout the country protested against the Gaza conflict.

Demonstrators in Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk waved Israeli flags, sang Hebrew hymns and danced to show support for Israel and its operation in the Gaza Strip.

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