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  • 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 cancels UNESCO delegations visit

    Israel has cancelled a planned visit by a UNESCO delegation to Jerusalem due to the efforts of Palestinian factions to politicise it. The Israeli foreign ministry said Monday the Palestinians were trying to turn this visit into a "fact-finding mission of Israel's moves in Jerusalem ". "The delegation's visit has been postponed, " reported Xinhua citing a source. "This was supposed to be a ...

  • 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 ...

  • Livni PA must know peace talks are the only game in town

    Israeli is continuing an intense dialogue on the peace process with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said Tuesday during the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting. The common goal, she said, is re-starting direct talks between the Israelis and Palestinians: "We want the Palestinian Authority to know that peace talks are the only game in ...

  • The New Syria Flogging in the Town Square

    The rebellion against Syrian strongman Bashar Assad is turning increasingly Islamist in nature, seeing as the rebel forces are largely affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and salafist Islam. Videos streaming in daily from Syria document this Islamist influence, which comes in the form of executions and torture carried out in the name of Islam, among other things. The embedded ...

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The Polar Express

The Polar Express

The Polar Express is a deeply confused Hollywood rendering of childhood innocence by way of computer-generated roller-coaster thrills. With Chris Van Allsburgs short, gorgeously illustrated childrens book as its source, Robert Zemeckis $165-million CGI extravaganza at first seem ... ...

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  • Murder Victim’s Phone Pictures Stolen

    reports. The phone was given to Borovsky by the theater group he worked with, and was registered under the name of the group’s director, Oshri Maimon. The phone contained hundreds of pictures and video clips of his theater work and of his wife and children. "It has a lot of pictures of Evyatar with the children," his widow Tzofia said. "We hardly ever take pictures, and it ...

  • Rabbi Bedouin Attack Part of a Pattern of Violence

    An attack on a Jewish woman in the Negev on Monday was part of a greater pattern of Bedouin violence against Jews in the region, according to Rabbi Avichai Ronsky, a former IDF Chief Rabbi and former resident of the Negev. On Monday, Bedouin men threw a massive stone at an Israeli woman’s car as she drove near Kfar Retamim. "She was a hair’s breadth away from serious ...

  • Hezbollah ‘plays growing role in Syria’

    Supporters of Hezbollah and relatives of Hasan Faisal Sheker, an 18-year-old Hezbollah member, carry the coffin during his funeral in Nabi Sheet near Baalbeck on Monday. About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on ...

  • Shekel continues to weaken

    The shekel has continued to weaken against both the dollar and euro in morning inter-bank trading today. The shekel-dollar exchange rate has risen 0.13%, compared with yesterday's representative rate, to NIS 3.665/$, and the shekel-euro exchange rate has risen 0.33% to NIS ...

  • Syria crisis Israel returns fire

    o Violence in Syria spills over into Lebanon, Israel and Iraqo Obama 'concerned' about Hizbollah's attack on Qusairo Britain supplies 4bn-worth of arms to Saudi ...

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