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  • 95 killed in Syrian violence Report

    A total of 95 people, including 23 Hezbollah members, have been killed in an intense fighting in Syria's Al-Qussair city since Saturday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday. The toll comprises four civilians, 56 rebel fighters, 12 government troops and 23 fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group, Xinhua reported. The army pushed its way into al-Qussair ...

  • Iran executes two alleged spies

    Iranian authorities have executed two men after they were charged and convicted for spying Israel and the United States. Iran has repeatedly accused Israel and the U.S. of carrying out covert intelligence operations following ongoing pressure on the country over its nuclear programme, which the Western nations suspect as being used to build an atomic weapon, despite Tehran's insistence that the ...

  • Ten Years After US Invades Iraq Israel Eager to Take the US Into Round Two

    Ten years after the US invaded Iraq in 2003, another Middle East war looms large between the West and Muslim states. Signs point to the strong possibility that Israel, and its US Zionist supporters, remain determined, first, to draw the US into the Syrian Civil War, and second, to lead Israel in a joint attack against Iran. All from the skies, of course. Boots on the ground have not served ...

  • 2 ultra-Orthodox soldiers attacked in Mea Shearim

    Police said dozens of ultra-Orthodox men assaulted two haredi IDF soldiers in Jerusalem's Mea She'arim neighborhood Sunday night, resulting in the hospitalization of both victims."There were two male soldiers in uniform walking in the neighborhood and all of a sudden there were calls from people around the area to rough them up," said Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld on ...

  • Kfir battalion leaves W. Bank for Lebanon border

    A battalion from the IDF's Kfir infantry brigade has departed the West Bank to take up new positions along the Lebanese border shortly.The move is part of a planned reshuffle of infantry forces, and points to the IDF's growing reliance on a brigade that was originally set up to operate only in the West ...

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The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm is Terry Gilliam's attempt to sell out to the Hollywood establishment by making a fully commercial movie. The fact that it doesn't quite reach sell-out status is a relief, although it isn't vintage Gilliam, either. Instead, it stands awkwardly in the mi ... ...

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  • Ctee IDF must strike balance for haredim women

    Haredim must serve in units that allow them to maintain their lifestyle but without violating the rights of women in the IDF, Ministerial Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women chairwoman Limor Livnat said Monday.The Likud Beytenu MK participated in a committee meeting on the expected effects of haredi enlistment on ...

  • Israel Land Fund rejects compromise over land dispute

    The Israel Land Fund rejected a compromise from the High Court of Justice on Monday to resolve an appeal of a 2012 district court decision to evict an east Jerusalem Arab family from Beit Merivah in Sheikh Jarrah.The seemingly simple ownership lawsuit for the Shamasna family, filed in 2009, is one of the frontline battles between groups of Palestinians and Jews over the future character and ...

  • NGO watchdog flags ‘inconsistencies’ to Congress

    NGO Monitor report meant to inform US lawmakers of recent grants bestowed to Palestinian organizations by the National Endowment for Democracy and ...

  • Obama Voices Concern Over Hizbullah Involvement in Syria

    U.S. President Barack Obama told Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Monday that he was concerned about the involvement of Lebanese Hizbullah terrorists in the fight in Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad. According to the White House, Obama and Suleiman spoke by telephone after about 30 Hizbullah terrorists, ...

  • Hezbollah ups the ante helps rout Syrian rebels near Lebanons border

    Members of Lebanon's Hezbollah carry the coffin of their comrade Fadi Mohammed al-Jazzar during his funeral in southern Beirut on May 20, 2013. At least 23 members of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been killed fighting alongside regime troops in the Syrian town of Qusayr, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (STR/AFP/Getty ...

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