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  • Kerry admits his push for peace faces cynicism and scepticism

    John Kerry admitted there was scepticism and cynicism about his efforts to broker new talks between Israelis and Palestinians, as he began his fourth visit to ...

  • PM to Hague Together we face battle against terrorism

    Israel and the United Kingdom both face the battle against savagery and terrorism at home and around the world, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday in a press conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in Jerusalem.The prime minister extended Israel's solidarity with the people of Britain, following ...

  • Peres writes to the Queen after UK soldiers murder

    Writing on behalf of the Israeli people, President Shimon Peres on Thursday sent a letter of condolence to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, expressing shock and sadness over the brutal murder of a British soldier in London on Wednesday.Shouting Jihadist slogans, two men ran over their victim with a car and then hacked him to death near the British army barracks in Woolwich, south east ...

  • Assad foe tells leader to cede power to officials

    BEIRUT - A Syrian opposition leader urged President Bashar Assad on Thursday to hand power to his deputy or his prime minister and then go abroad with 500 members of his entourage, without immunity from prosecution.Assad is likely to reject or ignore the 16-point peace plan proposed by Moaz Alkhatib, who resigned as head of the Western-backed opposition National Coalition in March, particularly ...

  • Hamas Court Orders Collaborator Death Penalty

    A military court in the Gaza Strip has sentenced a Palestinian Authority resident to death for collaborating with Israel and another to life with hard labor, the Hamas interior ministry said on Thursday, according to ...

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Scenes From a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) [DVD]

Scenes From a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) [DVD]

From the very beginning, you can tell something is wrong, just under the surface. When Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson), who have been married for 10 years, sit down for a magazine interview about their perfect marriage, there is an underlying sense o ... ...

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  • Bennett puns about exterminating port workers

    On Sunday, Minister of the Economy Naftali Bennett wanted to send the army into the ports in the event of a strike; now he wants to "exterminate" them, but wraps this in the form of a pun. In the latest post on his Facebook, he wrote, "That's it. The ants are impossible. I came home and realized that something had to be done. They're in the kitchen, the living room, the ...

  • Class action against El Al seeks compensation for cancelled flights

    The suit claims that hundreds of passengers, after waiting seven hours on the El Al plane, were told that the flight was being cancelled due to a technical ...

  • Israels Air Force Chief Warns of Sudden War

    JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israel could be in for a surprise war, Israel's air force chief Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel warned. Eshel's comments come as tensions are increasing along the Israeli-Syrian border. Eeshel says the threat of a sudden war erupting on multiple fronts is much more relevant today. Syria has invested in the "best air defenses it could buy," Israel's air force ...

  • Israeli Forces Infiltrate Gaza Borders

    Khan Yunis, May 23 (BNA) -The Israeli occupation forces on Thursday infiltrated the Gaza borders and went nearly 300 meters into the eastern part of Khan Yunis, South of the Gaza Strip, according to witnesses. They told Palestinian (WAFA) news agency that three Israeli tanks and three army bulldozers raided and razed agricultural land while shooting in all directions as well as setting up earth ...

  • Hezbollah suffers heavy losses in Syrian conflict 104 killed according to watchdog

    Members and supporters of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement carry the coffin of their comrade Saleh Ahmad Sabbagh during his funeral in the southern port city of Sidon on May 22 (Mahmoud Zayyat / AFP) 104 Hezbollah militants have died in the past few months, while fighting ...

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