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  • Syria asserts right to respond to Israeli violations

    They Syrian government has said that it holds the right to respond to any Israeli violation against its sovereignty. The Syrian foreign ministry, in a letter to the UN, Tuesday complained against the latest Israeli violation which took place earlier, Xinhua reported. The complaint was made in the wake of an Israeli military vehicle violating the cease-fire being observed between Israel and ...

  • U.S. condemns Hezbollahs intervention in Syrian conflict

    Beijing, May 21 (Xinhua-ANI): The United States on Monday denounced Hezbollah for siding with the Syrian government forces in their battle against the rebels in Syria's central city of al-Qussair. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said his country condemned the "direct intervention" by the Shiite militant group in neighboring Lebanon, as its fighters were playing "a significant role" ...

  • Israel warns Assad over action in Golan Heights

    Israel's army chief said that Bashar al-Assad would suffer heavy consequences if he destabilised the Golan Heights, in one of the most explicit warnings yet to the Syrian leader by a public official. The comments came after a night that saw Israel fire into Syria following an attack on one of its military ...

  • Livni asks German counterpart to blacklist Hezbollah

    initiative within the EU to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization at a meeting with her Germany counterpart Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on Tuesday night.The meeting of the two high-powered female justice ministers was the first major one of the German justice minister's visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, said a statement by the German ...

  • Wayne Federman coming back for laughs

    The last time Los Angeles-based comedian Wayne Federman performed in Israel 10 years ago, it was the aftermath of the Second Intifada. Palestinians had blown up pizza parlors and Passover Seders, and Israelis needed a reason to laugh.Comedian Avi Liberman approached his fellow Jew Federman at LA's Improv comedy club and asked him to come with him to Israel to "brighten the mood." ...

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Green for Danger [DVD]

Green for Danger [DVD]

Green for Danger is part of a long and rich history of English drawing room mysteries (epitomized most clearly in the works of Agatha Christie), but with an original and crucial twist: It takes place in a wartime surgery unit that is, no ... ...

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  • New UNRWA Controversy over Map of ‘Palestine’

    The United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency is again facing accusations of supporting anti-Israel sentiment. In the latest incident, the UNRWA director in Lebanon, Ann Dismorr, was pictured posing with a map that showed all of Israel as "Palestine." The picture was made public by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) organization. The map Dismorr was photographed displaying shows ...

  • IDF Identifies Soldier Killed in Accident

    The IDF has identified the soldier killed in training Tuesday as 19-year-old Roi Alfi of Gan Yavne. His family has been informed of the tragedy. Alfi was training with the Combat Engineering Corps. He was killed by an exploding land mine while assisting in clearing a field of land mines. The incident took place in the Golan. IDF commanders said that the mine-clearing operation had been done ...

  • Shekel resumes gains as slide stalls

    The shekel has strengthened against the dollar in morning inter-bank trading today halting the slide against the US currency which began early last week when the Bank of Israel unexpectedly cut the interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.5%, the lowest rate in three years. Since then the shekel had weakened by more than 3% against the dollar. However, this morning the shekel-dollar exchange rate ...

  • Iran Hezbollah role in Syria complicates peace strategy

    As evidence grows of increased Iranian support for the Syrian government, the Obama administration's strategy to bring the bitter fighting there to a close faces more challenges than ever. With White House support, Secretary of State John Kerry has pushed for an international conference in Geneva in June that would bring representatives of the Syria government together with the ...

  • Lebanese Syrians protest Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria

    A number of Lebanese and Syrian nationals held a demonstration on Tuesday in the Martyrs' Square in downtown Beirut to protest against Hezbollah's intervention in the al-Qusair battles in Syria, LBCI reported on ...

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