<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Israel</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/mideast/neareast/israel?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><description>Israel</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Al-Jazeera Puts Focus on Reform]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45555-2005May8.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45555-2005May8.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DOHA, Qatar  --  From its headquarters, dispersed among cramped trailers, air-conditioned tents and a squat box of a building on a dusty lot crawling with stray cats, an unlikely ally has emerged in this desert capital for the Bush administration's new Middle East democracy campaign  --  al-Jazeera.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In N.Y., Grenades Explode Near British Consulate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41437-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41437-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  NEW YORK, May 5  --  Two makeshift grenades exploded outside the British consulate here in the predawn hours just as polls opened for  national elections in Britain. A large windowpane at the building's entrance shattered, but officials reported no injuries.]]></description><author> Michelle Garcia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palestinians Give Fatah The Nod in Local Vote]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41543-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41543-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ GAZA CITY, May 5  --  Soheila Shaer's home in the southernmost reaches of the Gaza Strip is a concrete-block apartment house riddled with bullet holes, less than 200 yards from the volatile border with Egypt, where Israeli tanks and soldiers patrol each day.]]></description><author> John Ward Anderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Abbas, a Crisis of Perception]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35365-2005May4.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35365-2005May4.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  NABLUS, West Bank  --  The entryway of the Nablus police headquarters is plastered with posters memorializing dead comrades. Some were killed by Israeli tank fire. Others were picked off by Israeli army sharpshooters. In addition to being police officers, most were members of Palestinian militant organizations.]]></description><author> Molly Moore  and John Ward Anderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critic of Gaza Plan Resigns From Sharon's Cabinet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32789-2005May3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32789-2005May3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JERUSALEM, May 2  --  Israeli cabinet member Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident whose book on democracy has been praised enthusiastically by President Bush, resigned Monday in protest of Israel's planned removal of soldiers and Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip.]]></description><author> Molly Moore</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin Calls Arms Aid No Threat To Israel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26976-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26976-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JERUSALEM, April 29  --  Russian President Vladimir Putin chided Israel on Friday for thwarting his efforts to provide military equipment to the Palestinian Authority's security forces. But he said he would not antagonize Israel by moving forward with the military assistance now.]]></description><author> Molly Moore</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin Pushes 'Road Map' In Historic Visit to Egypt]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18591-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18591-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  CAIRO, April 26  --  Vladimir Putin on Tuesday made the first official visit to Egypt by a Russian leader in 40 years, focusing on efforts to revive the internationally backed plan for Middle East peace.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18640-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18640-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Ex-Ruler's Son Named Winner in Togo Vote <br>   LOME, Togo  --   Youths threw rocks, erected blazing barricades and battled riot police in Togo's capital on Tuesday after Faure Gnassingbe, son of the late authoritarian leader Gnassingbe Eyadema, was declared the winner of a presidential vote that his rivals say was fixed.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syrian Intelligence Still in Lebanon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18717-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18717-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Syria has not withdrawn a significant part of its intelligence presence in Lebanon, undermining its claim yesterday to have ended its 29-year intervention in its western neighbor, U.S., European and U.N. officials said.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12557-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12557-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Palestinian Leader Names Security Heads <br>    GAZA  --   The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, named three new heads for the security forces and forced hundreds of their men into retirement on Saturday, pushing aside top commanders in Yasser Arafat's old guard.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI to Fire Dissident  Agent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10381-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10381-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The FBI has moved to fire a veteran agent who  alleged that the bureau had mishandled domestic investigations of the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, the Palestinian group designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.]]></description><author> John Mintz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Senior AIPAC Employees Ousted]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6059-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6059-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/israel</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:00:44 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two senior employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of Washington's most influential lobbying organizations, have left their jobs amid an FBI investigation into whether they passed classified U.S. information to the government of Israel, a source close to the organization said.]]></description><author> Dan Eggen  and Jerry Markon</author></item></channel></rss>