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Dubai - Israel - Lebanon - settlements - West Bank
Victims furious over Lebanese Madoff
We take you to the hometown of Salah Ezzedine, the man some describe as Lebanon's answer to Bernard Madoff. Also in today's show: as Jewish settlers keep on building in the West Bank, Palestinians are still forced to cross the border to find work.
Barack Obama - Israel - Israeli-Palestinian conflict - settlements - West Bank
Israeli settlements: the mirage of peace?
Israel has officially approuved a construction of new homes in the West Bank
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In the Papers
A daily look at some of the stories in the international papers.
ISRAEL
Obama praises halt of settlement tenders in the West Bank
US President Barack Obama has praised Israel for slowing down settlement activities in the West Bank a few hours after Israel's housing minister said new construction was in a "holding pattern".
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ISRAEL
International pressure mounts on settlement issue
International pressure is growing over Israel's building project in an annexed Arab quarter of East Jerusalem (pictured). France has summoned the Israeli ambassador in Paris to demand a halt to Jewish settlement building.
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climate - Gaza Strip - Iraq - United Arab Emirates - water - West Bank
Kids vacation in Gaza strips
in this edition: summer camps in the Gaza Strip; the battle for water in the West Bank and in Iraq; the link between marriage and national identity in the United Arab Emirates.
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Israel approves 50 new housing units in West Bank settlement
Israel has approved the construction of 50 new settlement homes in the West Bank, despite US calls to halt settlement activity. PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said he would not build new settlements, but that he would not halt ongoing ones either.
CINEMA
Movie theatre returns to war-battered West Bank town
More than 20 years after their cinemas were closed by the eruption of the first intifada, Palestinians in Nablus can go back to the movies. The Cinema City theatre is a sign that life in the Israeli-occupied territory may be slowly improving.
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al Qaeda - Iraq - Israeli-Palestinian conflict - tourism - West Bank - Yemen
Tourism, a new weapon in the West Bank
Our weekly review of the Middle East looks at Israeli settlers' burgeoning tourism in the West Bank, al Qaeda's growing clout in Yemen, and a plot to ensure Iraq's mobile phones don't work well.
WEST BANK
Israeli settlers want to attract tourists
With the Israeli government under increasing pressure from Washington to end all settlement activity, the settler movement is changing tack - promoting the West Bank as a tourist destination for all Israelis.
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