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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 ...

  • Hezbollah Fighters Pose New Threat In Syria

    WASHINGTON -- The civil war in Syria is taking a new, and possibly ominous turn, in the battle for Qusair, a small but strategic town near the frontier with Lebanon. For the first time, the mainly Sunni Muslim rebels seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been fighting Syrian troops backed by a large contingent of battle-hardened guerrillas from Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese ...

  • EU terror listing for Hizbollah wing

    BRUSSELS // Germany will back a British drive to put the armed wing of Hizbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist organisations, German diplomats said yesterday. Britain said on Tuesday it wanted the EU to add Hizbollah's military wing to its terror list because of evidence that the Lebanese militant group was behind a bus bombing in Bulgaria in July that killed five Israelis ...

  • Natural Gas Flows at Nobles Karish Discovery Offshore Israel

    , reached a total depth of 15,783 feet, encountering 184 feet of net natural gas pay in high-quality lower Miocene sands. Noble stated that discovered gross resources, combined with the de-risked resources in an adjacent fault block on the license, are estimated to range between 1.6 and 2 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) with a gross mean of 1.8 Tcf. The operator performed tests at the well including ...

  • Iran ups nuke capacity but below Israel red line

    VIENNA - Iran has increased its capacity to refine uranium by installing hundreds more centrifuges, a UN nuclear agency report said on Wednesday, underlining Tehran's defiance of Western demands to curb the activity.But, in a development that could help buy time for diplomacy between Iran and world powers, the report showed limited growth of Iran's most sensitive nuclear stockpile and ...

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Le bonheur [DVD]

Le bonheur [DVD]

Much has been made about how shocking Le bonheur (Happiness) was to audiences when it first screened in 1965. However, shocking is not the right word because that implies something sudden and aggressive--an assault on the eyes and the sensibility in the vein of Un chien anda ... ...

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  • Police release portion of bank shooting video

    Mourners bid farewell to victim of bank shooting In the video, shooter Itamar Alon can be seen entering the bank branch at 11:34, hours after he visited the bank earlier in the day. He had come in and been turned down when he tried to take money out of his account, which was NIS 6,000 in the overdraft.At 12:50, Alon is shown speaking to a bank employee who is on the other side of the door, ...

  • Thanks to Kuperwasser al-Dura report truth is on its way

    For over 10 years, I've been fighting, along with many friends, to get out the truth about the al-Dura blood libel.For many years, the strongest argument of our opponents has been the silence of the State of Israel when my efforts were sometimes undermined by Israeli diplomats. So getting the support of Israeli public diplomacy was an important objective.On Sunday, Prime Minister ...

  • MKs Govt. is Surrendering to Arab Terror

    During a special Knesset session Wednesday called to deal with complaints by reserve soldiers that the army is failing to effectively respond to Arab terror, MKs accused the government of "surrendering to Arab ...

  • Muslim Terrorists Attack Kill British Soldier With Machete

    Two attackers with knives killed a British soldier on a street in London Wednesday, killing him. The government is considering it a terror attack, a spokesperson said. The attack was captured on video, and clearly shows the terrorists with blood on their hands and what appears to be a large knife or machete in ...

  • Mellanox CEO threatens delisting from TASE

    MLNX ) chairman, president and CEO Eyal Waldman decided to take the InfiniBand developer public in 2008, he probably did not foresee Amendments 16 and 20 of the Securities Law, which have come into effect in the past two years. These amendments greatly empowered minority shareholders in companies when it came to insider deals. The amendments have reached Mellanox's general shareholders ...

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