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U.S. sanctions hit Iran oil firm

A subsidiary of Iran\’s Swiss-based national oil company is the latest firm to be sanctioned under new U.S. measures.

Paradoxes characterize life in Israel

To be an Israeli at the time of the state\’s 60th anniversary means to be resigned to living with insoluble emotional and political paradoxes. It means living with a growing fear of mortality, even as we celebrate our ability to outlive every threat. We are almost certainly the only nation that marks its Independence Day with an annual poll that invariably includes the question: \”Do you believe the country will still exist 50 years from now?\”

Briefs: CIA lifts lid on Israeli raid on Syrian reactor; Iranians raze Tehran shuls

CIA: Syria Could Have Made Two Nukes

\nIsrael destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor that was nearly ready to produce two bombs, the CIA chief said.

\nMichael Hayden said Monday that the secret, unfinished reactor that the United States believes Israel bombed Sept. 6 in northeastern Syria eventually would have made fissile material for bombs.

The other refugees

Is there a more loaded word in the Arab-Israeli conflict than \”refugee\”

Briefs: Some West Bank settlers would agree to leave, Israel OKs Palestinian police stations

Approximately one in five Israelis living east of the West Bank security fence would leave if offered government support, a poll found. According to an internal government study, whose results were leaked Tuesday to Yediot Achronot, approximately 15,000 of the 70,000 settlers whose communities are not taken in by the fence would accept voluntary relocation packages.

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