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(IsraelNN.com) Israel showed United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon aerial photos proving that Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon are smuggling weapons from Iran through Syria. The head of the U.N. received the photos during a visit to Israel. The same information also was transmitted to representative of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council--the United States, Britain, Russia, China and France. 

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A Hamas representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, said that "the shortest way to Jerusalem is through conflict, returning [Arab] refugees, and expelling the conqueror." In a speech in the Lebanese town of Baalbek, Hamdan said, "Hamas will never stop any fighter and the [PA] security forces will never thwart any fighter, but rather defend us."

--Labor MK Prof. Yuli Tamir said that her party would not enter into a government coalition with Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beitenu Party, adding this was the promise she and her colleagues made during the campaign, and this is how the party will conduct itself today.