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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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Kung Fu Panda [Blu-Ray]

Kung Fu Panda [Blu-Ray]

Ive never been particularly impressed with celebrity actors lending their voices to animated films. It just seems so unnecessary. After all, the art of animation survived for decades relying on mostly unknown actors whose forte was their vocal abilities, and their lack of star p ... ...

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  • Activists say 28 Hezbollah members killed in Syria

    In this Saturday, May 18, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria. The town of Qusair has been besieged for weeks by regime troops and pro-government gunmen backed by the Lebanese militant ...

  • Symbolic intifada death of boy did not happen says Israel

    A 12-year-old boy caught up in a notorious gunfight between Israel's forces and Palestinian militants during the 2000 intifada may not have died in the event and was not hit by Israeli fire, a government inquiry has ...

  • Israel gunman shoots 4 dead at bank kills self

    JERUSALEM -; A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police ...

  • Four Israelis dead in Beersheba bank heist

    Assailant, a Jew from Beersheba in his 40s, shoots himself after killing four at Bank Hapoalim; Police suspect man was enraged by the bank's refusal to extend his credit line; Netanyahu labels incident a "terror ...

  • Young Israelis struggle to make ends meet

    Shaiel and Charlie (short for Charlotte) Yitzhak both work hard - he as an English teacher, she as a physical therapist working with wounded Israeli soldiers. Shaiel also tutors English privately and runs a summer camp for robotics.They have two young children, ages 3 years and 18 months, and they've just purchased an apartment in Jerusalem. By appearances it looks like the life of the ...

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