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  • Exhibit of 18 violins tells story of the Holocaust

    When a musician plays a violin long enough, the instrument is imprinted with its owner's way of making sound. If someone else picks it up, they learn to play it in a way that honors its history.


  • Briefly: Israeli, Palestinian negotiators 'to meet in coming days'

    Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are to hold talks soon in what would be their first public meeting in more than two months, a senior official said Tuesday.


  • **FILE** One Police Plaza is seen in New York on May 3, 2011. New York Police Department documents show that undercover officers attended meetings of liberal political groups and kept intelligence files on activists. The records show how, since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, counterterrorism tactics have been used to monitor even lawful activities. (Associated Press)

    Documents show NYPD infiltrated liberal groups

    Undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around the country, according to interviews and documents that show how police have used counterterrorism tactics to monitor even lawful activities.


  • Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (left) visits the offices of al-Watan TV after an Israeli army pre-dawn raid in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Feb. 29, 2012. A Palestinian broadcaster says Israeli troops raided his TV station, seizing transmission equipment, computers and documents. A computer screen on right shows an Israeli soldier during the raid. (Associated Press)

    Israeli troops raid West Bank TV stations

    Israeli troops raided two private Palestinian TV stations before dawn Wednesday, seizing transmitters and other equipment, the military said.


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    PIPES: Peculiar proliferation of Palestine refugees

    Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional and complex than the status of those people known as Palestine refugees. The origins of this unique case, notes Nitza Nachmias of Tel Aviv University, goes back to Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations Security Council's mediator.


  • **FILE** Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister of the Gaza Strip, delivers a speech in front of portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (left), and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a visit to Tehran on Feb. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

    Iran urges Hamas to continue fight against Israel

    Iran's leaders urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamic militant group's resistance against Israel and promised support, state TV reported on Sunday.


  • Iran's leaders urge Hamas to not let up resisting Israel

    Iran's leaders urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamic militant group's resistance against Israel and promised support, state TV reported Sunday.


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    GAFFNEY: Free speech - for some

    According to the Council on Ameri- can Islamic Relations (CAIR), there is a grave threat to America that must be suppressed at all costs. The threat is that Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin might be allowed to exercise his constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech.


  • European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton speaks at a press conference in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Ms. Ashton is on a three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of her ongoing efforts to encourage the two sides to resume negotiations. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

    Abbas: Palestinian-Israeli talks over

    A low-level dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians about a future border has ended without any breakthrough, the Palestinian president said Wednesday, reflecting the impasse plaguing the negotiations for at least three years.


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