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  • Israeli PM says sanctions on Iran should increase despite newly elected moderate president

    Israel has warned the international community not to ease sanctions on Iran following the election of a moderate president. Israel said Iran's nuclear efforts remain firmly in the hands of the country's extremist ruling clerics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued the warning a day after Hasan Rowhani won the presidential election in Iran. According to news24, although Rowhani is ...

  • Arabs Go Home sprayed on houses of Abu Ghosh

    Unknown assailants overnight on Monday punctured the tires of some 28 vehicles in the Arab village of Abu Ghosh, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, police said."Arabs Go Home" was sprayed on the walls of the village.Police are investigating the incident. The security cabinet on Sunday night strengthened law enforcement's ability to combat the growing phenomenon of ...

  • Lieberman Wants Lie Detector to Ferret Out Loose-Lipped MKs

    Former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman wants to submit members of a Knesset subcommittee he heads to a "lie detector" polygraph test in an attempt to stop media ...

  • Memo From Jerusalem Trying to Revive Mideast Peace Talks Kerry Finds a Conflicted Israel

    During clashes with Israeli security forces on Friday, a Palestinian protester climbed a separation barrier built by Israel in the West Bank near the Jewish settlement of ...

  • Five palestinians killed 22 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

    Five palestinians killed, 22 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/26/2011 Five Palestinians were killed and 22 were injured at dawn yesterday in two Israeli air strikes targeting a sports club in Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza, and a tunnel in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources. Israeli F16 warplanes bombed the sports club, located in a ...

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Melinda and Melinda

Melinda and Melinda

In the liner notes on the back of the Criterion Collection laser disc of Annie Hall (1977), which, along with Manhattan (1979) marked the pinnacle of Woody Allens unique filmmaking achievement, cowriter Marshall Brickman recalls a conversation he had with Allen. Brickman was ... ...

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  • Shimon Peres says peace will be achieved in his lifetime

    Shimon Peres can attest better than most to the maxim that politics is the art of the possible. A lifetime in the often violent cauldron of the Middle East will have brought home to a man who won a Nobel Peace Prize - for a peace that has never arrived - that political failure is often a more likely outcome than ...

  • Shimon Peres Im optimistic about a Middle East peace deal

    The Israeli president, the world’s oldest serving head of state whose 65-year political career spans the entire history of Israel and includes three spells as prime minister, says he is optimistic about a peace deal between Israel and the ...

  • Shimon Peres Israel and Iran could negotiate

    Israel and Iran could sit down and talk to each other despite the bitter enmity that has pushed the two nations to the brink of war, Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, has ...

  • Peres throws his weight behind US plan to arm Syria rebels

    President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind US plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the conflict.In a wide-ranging interview ...

  • Obama Iranian election a sign the people seek change

    WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama said on Monday that Iran's election of a moderate as its next president is a sign that Iranians want to move in a different direction, but he was uncertain whether it would lead to ...

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