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  • Kerry holds talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials Kerry holds talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials

    JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday separately began meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials but appeared doubtful about his success on getting the two warring sides back to peace negotiations. This is Kerry's fourth trip to the Middle East in as many months of his assuming the office of the top US diplomat. He was been trying to revive a peace process that has been ...

  • Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S. Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S.

    In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both language and ...

  • Suleiman cautions Hezbollah over its role in Syria

    On the occasion marking the Resistance and Liberation Day , Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman cautioned the Shiite group Hezbollah on Friday over its militia fighting alongside the regime troops in neighboring Syria : "The resistance is more noble and more important than anything, and should ...

  • Kerry Urges Hard Decisions After Meetings with Israeli Palestinians

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) waves as he stands next to Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat before his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah May 23, ...

  • William Hague says Israel has lost international support over its policies

    Speaking on the final day of a two-day visit to the Holy Land, Mr Hague said Israel had lost international support across the Western world in recent years - largely because of Jewish settlement building in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, where the Palestinians hope to have a future ...

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Terms of Endearment [DVD]

Terms of Endearment [DVD]

In the introduction to the paperback edition of Terms of Endearment, author Larry McMurtry noted that he wrote the novel after having spent a couple of years rereading several 19th-century novelists, including Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, and George Eliot. As McMurtry put it, "All three, of course, had taken a very searching look at the fibers and textures of life; I doubt I aspired to such pr ... ...

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  • Kerry Israelis Palestinians nearing crunch time

    Israeli and Palestinian leaders must decide soon on whether to revive long-dormant peace negotiations to end their decades-old conflict, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday.Ending two days of meetings in the region, Kerry said he had had "very productive" talks. But there were no obvious signs of any breakthrough, with neither side offering the sort of compromises needed to ...

  • Revealed Olmerts peace offer to the Palestinians in 2008

    Former prime minister Olmert says he blames Livni and Barak for breakdown of negotiations with Palestinians; magazine obtains map sketched by Abbas with offered Israeli territorial ...

  • Hamas Israel poisoned Gaza patients with gas

    Hamas Health Minister Mofeed al-Mokhalalati accused Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients in Gaza by providing the hospitals in the Strip carbon monoxide gas posing as nitrous gas, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday.Four Palestinian patients were reportedly poisoned by the carbon monoxide ...

  • Rule of Law Israel’s legal headache

    Does throwing African migrants in detention centers for three years without standard legal proceedings violate international law? Or is it just enforcement of Israel's sovereign right to maintain border ...

  • Infrastructure Smart customers seek smart grids

    At Tel Aviv conference, experts hail smart grids as future of energy management as solutions to conserving energy and money for households and ...

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