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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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Mandingo

Mandingo

"Mandingo" has traditionally been seen as one of two things: either a much-needed revisionist look at slavery in the South, or in the words of film critic Leonard Maltin, "a trashy potboiler" that "appeals only to the S&M crowd." Actually, I think "Mandingo" is a strange combination of the two, although it fails on both fronts. It's too trashy to be good drama, but too dramatic to be good trash. T ... ...

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  • Israel to return settlements land to Palestinian owners

    The state of Israel has said it would return the lands of a settlement evacuated in 2005 back to its original Palestinian owners, an Israeli daily said Sunday. The announcement came after a petition was filed by the Palestinian land owners in the Supreme Court, Xinhua reported citing the Ha'aretz daily. Homesh, a 0.7 square km settlement, was established in 1980 on lands belonging to residents ...

  • Iran executes two spies working for CIA Mossad

    Two Iranian spies, allegedly working for America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad were Sunday hanged in Iran, state-run IRIB TV reported. Mohammad Heidari, one of the executed men, had prepared information in a number of security issues and had given them to Mossad in several meetings outside the country, Xinhua cited the report as saying. Heidari received money in ...

  • Tensions between Israel Syria highest since 1973 war

    Fears about a possible escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday amid renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria’s warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative ...

  • Lapid Jlem shouldnt be capital of Palestinian state

    Lapid tops Post's 50 most influential Jews list In regard to Israeli settlements, Lapid said he would make no move to obstruct their "natural expansion" in the West Bank. The finance minister told ...

  • Al-Dura says he is willing to exhume sons body

    Jamal al-Dura, father of 12-year-old Gazan Muhammad al-Dura who became a symbol of the second intifada, dismisses Israel inquiry c'tee's findings as "lies," calls for impartial international investigation into son's ...

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