Israel

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AFTERMATH: Israeli soldiers are treated Thursday after a shooting attack along the border between Israel and Egypt. Assailants armed with heavy weapons and explosives crossed into southern Israel from the Sinai Peninsula, killing eight Israelis and wounding at least a dozen in Eilat. (Associated Press)

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A passenger bus was damaged when assailants carried out three consecutive attacks in southern Israel near the Egyptian border on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Channel 2 TV)

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The interior of a damaged passenger bus is pictured after one of three attacks in southern Israel near the Egyptian border on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Channel 2 TV)

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Glenn Beck describes his upcoming "Restoring Courage" rally in Jerusalem as a "nonpolitical, nondenominational gathering to stand up for Israel." (GlennBeck.com)

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Illustration: Israel and Turkey by John Camejo for The Washington Times

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Illustration by Moshik, Maariv, Tel Aviv, Israel

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Volunteers and archaeologists work at the excavation site in Tel el-Safi, Israel, where they have unearthed the remains of an ancient metropolis. The city of Gath, where this year's digging season began this week, is helping scholars paint a more nuanced portrait of the Philistines, who appear in the biblical story as the perennial enemies of the Israelites.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Flames rise near El-Arish, Egypt, 30 miles from the border with Israel, on Monday, July 4, 2011, after unidentified assailants blew up the Egyptian pipeline that carries gas to Israel and Jordan. (AP Photo)

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Illustration: Israel by John Camejo for The Washington Times

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An Israeli border police officer carries a canister with tear-gas grenades as he crosses between fences in Israel's separation barrier between the outskirts of the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, and the Israeli settlement of Modiin Illit on Sunday, June 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Yoga practitioners Naty Horev, left, of Tel Aviv, Israel, Coral Rodriguez, center, of New York City, and Stephanie Quintero, of Kearny, NJ, salute the sun while celebrating the solstice in New York's Times Square, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Israeli troops patrol the border between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights early on Monday, June 6, 2011. Israel braced for more border violence after a day of deadly clashes with pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to surge into the Israeli-controlled Golan from Syria. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Pro-Palestinian demonstrators try to rescue a man after he was shot by Israeli troops along the border between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights on Sunday. Israeli troops opened fire across the Syrian frontier to disperse hundreds of protesters who stormed the border.