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  • Assad Israel supporting terror groups in Syria

    Syrian President Bashar Assad accused Israel of "directly supporting terrorist groups" in Syria, referring to rebels fighting against his regime, in an exclusive interview with Argentinian ...

  • Livni No chance Israel can reach peace deal with Hamas

    In an interview with Army Radio, the justice minister, who is also responsible for peace talks, responds to Erdogan's call for Palestinian unity saying that the Turkish PM's perception of Hamas is ...

  • Arab Killed in Gaza Tunnel Collapse

    An Arab youth was killed when a tunnel linking Egypt to Gaza collapsed on Saturday, Arab medical sources said. "Mussa Ghonaim, 26 years old, was killed in the tunnel collapse south of the town of Rafah," the sources said, according ...

  • Powerful Blast Reported in Damascus

    Syrian state TV has reported a powerful explosion has hit the nation's capital, causing an unknown number of casualties. State TV said Saturday evening that the blast shook the Damascus neighborhood of Ruken al-Deen late Saturday. Residents confirmed to news wires that they heard a large explosion. No further details were immediately available. Israel ...

  • German Minister Meets Fayyad

    Germany's foreign minister said on Saturday his country was prepared to help create conditions for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Guido Westerwelle, on a two-day visit to Israel and the PA, was quoted by a foreign ministry statement as saying "Germany is ready to help create a climate of confidence" that would permit talks to ...

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Road to Perdition

Road to Perdition, director Sam Mendes' follow-up to his 1999 Oscar-winning hit American Beauty, is a stately, elegant gangster film, beautifully directed and somehow both moving and slightly distanced. Perhaps it is the film's formal beauty--its graceful camera movements, rich dark-amber hues, and precise compositions--that keeps it at a slight distance, almost too gorgeous an imag ... ...

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  • Israel warns against Russian arms supply to Syria

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Saturday that advanced weapons supplied by Russia to war-torn Syria could end up in the wrong hands and be used against the Jewish ...

  • Amos Gilad S-300 can reach Hezbollah via Syria

    The advanced S-300 Russian air defense system, which Moscow has pledged to deliver to Syria, could reach Hezbollah and beyond, a senior defense official warned on Saturday.Amos Gilad, head of the security-diplomatic branch of the Defense Ministry, told Channel 2, "These weapons are dangerous. If Hezbollah and Iran support Syria, why shouldn't they [the Syrians] transfer these ...

  • Arabs Riot Call for Third Intifada

    correspondent said some of the demonstrators were carrying banners which called for a "third intifada," or anti-Israeli uprising. The "First Intifada" began in 1987 and lasted into the early 90s. The so-called "Second Intifada" was in fact a massive pre-planned terror war launched by Yasser Arafat, Hamas and other enemies of Israel in 2000 and lasting into the ...

  • Assad Rebels Attacked Radar Helping Israel

    Syrian strongman Bashar Assad said in a weekend interview to an Argentinean newspaper that Israel is assisting the rebels fighting to topple his regime. "Israel is directly supporting the terrorist groups in two ways," he said. "Firstly it gives them logistical support, and it also tells them what sites to attack and how to attack them." Assad also told ...

  • Palestinian activists sue Israel for the return of 6000 books

    Anahid Melikian, left, and her niece Anahid Melikian Helewa have tried to find out about their family's books from the Israeli Embassy in Ottawa. Marianne Helm for The ...

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