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  • Senate US must back Israel in case of Iran strike

    WASHINGTON - The Democratic-led Senate voted 99-0 - with one senator not present - on Wednesday night, on a resolution that the United States should support Israel if it were forced to defend itself from an Iranian nuclear threat. The measure also urged Obama to strengthen enforcement of existing sanctions on Iran. Earlier Wednesday, a US House of Representatives committee approved legislation ...

  • Israeli Source Amnestys Balanced Report Ridiculous

    In a report released Thursday, international leftist human rights group Amnesty accused both Israel and Hamas of committing "war crimes" during Operation Pillar of Defense last year. The accusations were made in the organization's annual ...

  • Protest Against G4S Outside Israels Ofer Prison 22-5-2013

    British-Danish security firm G4S has been severely criticized for its operations in the occupied Palestinian territories and in prisons and detention centers in Israel, including those housing children and "administrative detainees" held without charge or ...

  • Hezbollah may be hurting itself report

    NEW pennants hailing the "martyred" men of Hezbollah, Lebanon's main Shia party-cum-militia, fly in abundance in its stronghold in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon. By some tallies more than 30 of its fighters have perished since May ...

  • Google Says Gush Etzion Residents Live in Palestine

    Residents of Gush Etzion, located in Judea and Samaria near Jerusalem, were shocked recently to see that, according to Google, they live in "Palestine," according to a Wednesday report in the Yisrael Hayom ...

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Becoming Jane

Becoming Jane

Becoming Jane is a historical-romantic flight of fancy that takes a nugget of verifiable history and poses the intriguing question, What if Jane Austen had lived a Jane Austen novel? English scholars and literary enthusiasts have long admired Austen's socially astute novels and ... ...

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  • Memo From Jerusalem Israel Is Drawn Into Syria’s Turmoil

    JERUSALEM -- For more than two years, Israeli leaders have insisted they had no intention of intervening in the civil war raging in neighboring Syria, but they vowed to stop sophisticated weapons from being transferred to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia group, and to respond to intentional fire into their ...

  • PA hammers Israel at WHO annual assembly

    Palestinian territories, Golan only sliver on planet to gain slot on World Health Organization's Geneva meeting; Foreign Ministry urges states to oppose resolution blasting Israel for poor health conditions in ...

  • Ahmadinejad to Contest Allys Ban from Elections

    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he will ask supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to reverse what he branded the unjust disqualification of a close aide from next month's presidential election, AFP ...

  • Muslim Imams Pray for Holocaust Victims at Auschwitz

    Muslim leaders from across the globe knelt in prayer for the Holocaust dead at the Auschwitz's notorious Wall of Death on Wednesday, in an emotional visit to the Nazi German death camp in southern Poland, AFP ...

  • UNSC urged to end provocations by Israel

    /enpproperty--> UNITED NATIONS - Palestine has asked the UN Security Council to press Israel to end its "provocations", including restricting access to holy sites in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian envoy told reporters on Wednesday. "We have sent to the president of the Security Council and to the secretary-general, during the course of the last two weeks, four letters about the ...

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