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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Pro-Palestinian activists sent another boat to challenge Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and Egypt declared it was temporarily opening a crossing into the Palestinian territory after a raid on an aid flotilla that ended with Israeli soldiers killing nine activists.

The raid provoked ferocious international condemnation of Israel, raised questions at home, and appeared likely to increase pressure to end the blockade that has deepened the poverty of the 1.5 million Palestinians in the strip.

There is a new rule, probably the only visible Lebanon policy under President Barack Obama's administration: every US official visiting Damascus must pass by Beirut. The Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri also had to make a stopover in Damascus to absorb any potential domestic commotion surrounding his trip to Washington this week.

57-year-old Oursan Asad gets 7 years in prison for aiding enemy.

Computer-generated actors, Syrians and Israelis, are coming together in unlikely times of warmongering. They are reopening a dim flashlight of discussions, yet this time on the virtual world of endless possibilities where the invisible hand of censorship cannot reach. They do not need a passport to move around in disguise for secret talks and they believe their story is worth telling.

Poll also shows 56% of Jewish Israeli schoolchildren say no to Arab Israeli MKs.

When I returned to Israel several months ago, after serving for four years as Israel's Consul for Media and Public Affairs in New York, I wrote an article for the Huffington Post, referring to the Israeli Arab minority, indirectly criticizing my country for failing to treat the Arab minority as a bridge to our Arab neighbors.

I logged onto Facebook today and saw my mother's status: "This is serious and my son and I have differences of opinion: The New Israel Fund and The Next War" What a world we live in, right? We're all more connected to each other and our communities than ever before...who would have thought our moms and dads would be hanging on Facebook when we joined it half a decade ago?

For the third time in recent years, Arab Israeli men from the Galilee are charged with gang rape targeting non-Arab women.

At last moment, Arab Israeli stopped short of carrying out attack at Tel Aviv-area hospital

An Arab Israeli man who drove a suicide bomber to his destination will remain in prison, Haifa court rules.