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  5 hours ago

  No Fuel, No Electricity, No Water: This Is What Lebanon's Slow Death Looks Like

  Haaretz - Zvi Bar'el

  Lebanon relies on miracles for its survival. There is no other way to explain how it still manages to show signs of life. Every time it seems about …

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  6 hours ago

  Erdogan Hopes Closer Ties With Israel Will Make Turkey a Hub for Transporting Gas

  Haaretz - Zvi Bar'el

  Toward the end of September or early October, the process of appointing the senior Turkish diplomatic staff will end, and a new Turkish ambassador …

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  15 hours ago

  Iran Setting the Ground for Signing Nuclear Deal Despite Unresolved Issues, Israeli Officials Say

  Haaretz - Jonathan Lis

  Iran is preparing to sign the new nuclear agreement, Israel's political leadership increasingly believes, although no understandings have been …

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  16 hours ago

  Syria Denies Holding U.S. Journalist Hostage for Decade as Washington Calls for Return

  Haaretz - Reuters

  Syria on Wednesday denied kidnapping or holding a U.S. journalist who disappeared a decade ago a week after President Joe Biden demanded that …

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  How Israel Became Intoxicated by Military Force

  Haaretz - Steven Klein

  Forty years ago this week, on August 16, 1982, Israel forced Yasser Arafat and his PLO fighters out of Beirut into exile in Tunisia. The government …

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  Ignoring Iranian Aggression, Biden Pushes to Seal Nuclear Deal

  Haaretz - Amos Harel

  In the finest tradition, Iran’s response to the European proposal on renewing the nuclear agreement arrived on Monday night at the last moment, with …