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  • Israel concerned Russian arms will reach enemies Israel concerned Russian arms will reach enemies

    Israel has warned Russia about sending arms to Syria. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has spoken on Channel Two television's Meet the Press to condemn shipments of arms from Russia that she said may be used against Israel. She said: "These are not just any weapons, they are tie-breakers, and that's why there is a responsibility with all world powers, certainly Russia, not to supply such ...

  • Egyptian Police Block Israel Border Crossing in Fury at Kidnapping

    CAIRO Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel on Sunday, security sources said. Police have been blocking another border post, the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, since Friday to press the government of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who belongs to the Muslim ...

  • Netanyahu Takes Aim at Weapons Leakage in Syria

    JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. Although Israel has not publicly taken sides in the civil war between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels trying to topple him, Western and Israeli sources say it has ...

  • Israel to keep preventing arms transfer to Hezbollah

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government remains committed to prevent transfer of the advanced weaponry to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. "We are acting in accordance with the policy we had set to prevent as much as possible the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah and terror elements," reported Xinhua citing Netanyahu as saying Sunday. "The Israeli ...

  • Israel to return settlements land to Palestinian owners

    The state of Israel has said it would return the lands of a settlement evacuated in 2005 back to its original Palestinian owners, an Israeli daily said Sunday. The announcement came after a petition was filed by the Palestinian land owners in the Supreme Court, Xinhua reported citing the Ha'aretz daily. Homesh, a 0.7 square km settlement, was established in 1980 on lands belonging to residents ...

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Blast From the Past

Hollywood loves its time-bending fish-out-of-water stories, whether that be sending '80s teenager Michael J. Fox into the mid-'50s in "Back to the Future" (1985) or unfreezing '60s-era British superspy Mike Myers in the 1990s in "Austin Powers" (1997). Seeing the members of one generation wallowing helplessly in another time and place is always good for a few yuks and even some amusing commentary ... ...

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  • Iran executes two spies working for CIA Mossad

    Two Iranian spies, allegedly working for America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad were Sunday hanged in Iran, state-run IRIB TV reported. Mohammad Heidari, one of the executed men, had prepared information in a number of security issues and had given them to Mossad in several meetings outside the country, Xinhua cited the report as saying. Heidari received money in ...

  • Tunisia 1 Dead in Clashes Between Security Forces and Salafists

    reported. The clashes took place after local authorities banned extremist Salafists from staging their annual congress. The confrontations infuriated moderate Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, who for the first time linked the Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group, which is considered close to Al-Qaeda, to "terrorism". "Ansar al-Sharia is an illegal organization which defies and ...

  • Rabbi Mertzbachs Family Jewish Blood Will Not be Ignored

    . The tragic event took place in the early morning hours of November 11, 2011. IDF soldiers in the south Hevron area were placed on alert and told to watch out for a Skoda-type car and stop it. The video shows the soldiers setting up a roadblock, but the Skoda can be seen passing them, apparently without being noticed. Fifteen seconds later, Rabbi Mertzbach's car appears. The IDF ...

  • Netanyahu says further strikes on Syria a possibility

    Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu: "The Israeli government is acting in a responsible and measured way". Reuters/Ronen ...

  • Israelis Targeted by Rock Throwers in Northern Israel

    A group of Israelis was targeted by rock-throwing Arab youths in the northern Israel city of Nazareth Illit during the holiday of Shavuot last week, proving that rock terrorism is not only a problem for Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria. Yossi Farber, a resident of the city, ...

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