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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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  • Lebanon president denies receiving a warning from Israel

    Lebanon President Michel Suleiman denied on Monday receiving a warning from Israel that it would destroy Lebanon in case of a Hezbollah attack on the Jewish state. The denial came after an Israeli website reported that Tel Aviv has sent a warning to Lebanon through the U.S. administration that it would "take Lebanon 50 years backwards" if Hezbollah attacked ...

  • Comment A society fraying at the edges

    Anyone who's had to deal with the Israeli banking system has probably felt like taking up firearms at some point. Between the exorbitant fees for every little transaction, the long lines, and the general philosophy of "you don't have an alternative, you have to deal with us so we can do whatever the hell we want," Israeli banks are a well-documented horror story that can ...

  • Majority of Israeli students work while studying

    About 73% of students in the country worked during the 2012-2013 academic year, earning an average monthly wage of NIS 3,230, according to a survey released by the National Union of Israel Students on Sunday, to mark National Student Week.Some 71% of the working students work up to 100 hours each month. about a third of the students - 29% - work over 100 hours a month.In addition, while 10% ...

  • IDF Jeep Seen in Syria Video Left Behind in Lebanon Withdrawal

    An Arab news outlet on Monday circulated a video purporting to show an IDF jeep that Syrian soldiers claimed to have captured from Syrian rebel groups. The video, said a Syrian government spokesperson, proves that Israel has been working with the rebel groups to remove Bashar al-Assad from power. The Lebanese al-Mayadeen channel said that the jeep had been used by members of the Free Syria ...

  • Gunman and 4 others dead in Israeli bank robbery gone wrong

    Israeli security gather outside following a bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation in the Israeli city of Beersheva, on May 20, 2013. Four people were killed and three others wounded in a botched bank heist in southern Israel which ended when a robber who had held a hostage shot himself dead, police said. (DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty ...

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