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  • Syrian rebels claim Assad chemical weapons use

    The Syrian opposition claimed on Saturday that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons in Damascus and in the northern Syrian city of Saraqeb, Israel Radio reported quoting Saudi owned Al-Arabiya news network. Al-Arabiya reported that the dozens of people wounded in the attacks were suffering from breathing difficulties, the radio said. The ...

  • Report Israel prefers Assad survive Syria conflict

    Israeli intelligence officer tells 'Times of London' that Israel prefers a "devil it knows than demons it can only imagine"; another source said Assad's staying power had been ...

  • Lisbon to hold first Jewish film festival

    Hundreds of people were expected to attend Lisbon's first-ever Jewish film festival next week.The three-day festival, entitled "Judaica: 1st exhibition of cinema and culture," was scheduled to open on May 22 at Lisbon's main art cinema, Cinema Sao Jorge, and will include 15 Jewish and Israeli documentary and feature productions, according to a report by the Jornal Digital ...

  • Church of Scotland amends disputed Israel paper

    paper it had published rejecting Jewish scriptural-based rights to the land of Israel after it caused waves of controversy among the Jewish community in the UK, BBC reported Friday. The report entitled "The Inheritance of Abraham" was changed after a meeting with representative of the British Jewish community and was set to be discussed and voted on next week at the convening of the ...

  • Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest in Jerusalem over army enlistment plans

    Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators pack the streets in Jerusalem to protest against government plans to force students at yeshiva religious seminaries to enlist in the Israeli army. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty ...

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Broken Lizard's Club Dread

Broken Lizard's Club Dread

Thank God for Bill Paxton, the anchor of Broken Lizards Club Dread, a generally limp horror-comedy about a homicidal maniac loose on a paradisiacal resort island. Paxton plays Coconut Pete, an aging, one-time 70s folk-rock star whose peculiar brand of stoner sing-along mu ... ...

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  • France West should place decisive sanctions against Iran

    Iran's inflexible stance on curbing its nuclear program should lead the US and European nations to implement "decisive sanctions" against the Islamic Republic in the coming months, AFP cited French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian as saying on Friday. According to Le Drian, the Western nations should pressure the advancement "in quantity and quality" of Iran's ...

  • Drawings from Nazi Camp Displayed at Berlin Museum

    Secret drawings and sketches that a Czech artist produced and kept hidden from his Nazi captors inside a World War II concentration camp went on display at the Jewish Museum in Berlin on ...

  • Sinai Bedouin Hint We Were Better Off Under Israel

    Bedouin tribes in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula implied on Thursday that they were better off living under Israeli rule and that they have been suffering since Israel withdrew from the region as part of the peace agreement with Egypt. The residents of the Sinai spoke to the Egyptian ...

  • Peres No Compromises With Iran

    President Shimon Peres told Germany’s Foreign Minister on Friday that there should be no compromise with Iran so long as it continues its nuclear activities. Peres and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who held a diplomatic working meeting at the Presidential Residence in Jerusalem, discussed the Iranian nuclear threat as well as the efforts to renew the peace talks between Israel and ...

  • Dempsey Selling Missiles to Syria Emboldens Assad

    shipment of anti-ship missiles to Syria will "embolden" the regime and fuel the country's civil war, the U.S. military's top officer said Friday, according ...

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