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  • Major General Finn appointed to top UN role in Jerusalem Major General Finn appointed to top UN role in Jerusalem

    18 June 2013 150 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment today of Major General Michel Finn, of Ireland, as head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the Jerusalem-based UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), the first such operation the world body set up almost 60 years ago. "Major General Finn succeeds Major General Juha Kilpia of Finland, who will ...

  • Cisco set to open new centre in Israel

    The US technology giant Cisco plans to open a new research and development center in Israel, the company's CEO John Chambers said during his meeting with Israel's Minister of Finance Yair Lapid. The new centre is expected to offer 100 jobs, to be added to about 2,000 employees already work at Cisco center in Israel, reported Xinhua. Chambers Tuesday said the new project, whose main focus is ...

  • Israel wants Iran to halt uranium enrichment

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that his country would not accept anything less than the total halt of Iranian uranium enrichment. "We cannot accept anything less than a total cessation of all enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels, removal of all enriched nuclear material and a closure of Iran's illicit nuclear facilities," reported Xinhua citing Netanyahu during ...

  • Britain fails to get EU backing for Hezbollah blacklisting

    UK pushes to place Hezbollah's armed wing on EU terror list; diplomats say British proposal gains support amid Hezbollah involvement in Syria, but Austria, Italy, Czechs among those preventing required unanimous ...

  • Right-wing MKs slam pretentious Peres birthday celebration

    star-studded birthday party thrown in honor of his 90th birthday party.Knesset members on the Right called the 11 million shekel event a waste of money, even though it was funded by contributions and not ...

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Catfish

Catfish

All of the controversy swirling around the authenticity--or lack thereof--of the events as depicted in Henry Joost and Ariel Schulmans Catfish since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival has certainly drawn attention to the film, and even if it turns out that the whole thing was an e ... ...

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  • Encountering Peace Decision-making time

    Naftali Bennett's "the idea of a Palestinian state has come to a dead end," if true, should be restated as "the idea of the Zionist movement has come to a dead end." That is the only logical conclusion of the ideology of Bennett and his followers. If the idea of the partitioning of the land between the river and sea into a "Jewish state and an Arab state" ...

  • Washington Watch Iranian elections worry Netanyahu

    Binyamin Netanyahu is a worried man. The results of the Iranian presidential election were a deep disappointment, judging by his rhetoric lately. He's afraid that partners in the no-nukes-for- Iran coalition might be seduced by descriptions of President-elect Hassan Rohani as a moderate.He is reminding everyone that "moderate" is a relative term when it comes to describing ...

  • Almost there King David’s Crown Residences Jerusalem

    Few building sites in Jerusalem, if any, can match the size and location of this one. Situated on the site of the former Beitar Jerusalem football field formerly owned by the YMCA, this is a prime location in an historic area, in close proximity to the King David and David's Citadel hotels, the Mamilla quarter and the Old City, not to mention excellent access to the center of town.You ...

  • Why is the UK media scared to name names

    While the rest of the world media, not to mention the Internet, is awash with rumours of the identities of two people at the center of British politics who allegedly had an affair, the British media itself, even its famously fearless tabloids, has hardly spoken of the matter.So while Israeli radio listeners hear speculation about London Mayor Boris Johnson and the prime minister's wife, ...

  • If negotiations are out the UN will be in

    When US Secretary of State John Kerry first tackled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in late March, he made a serious request of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas: In order to give talks a chance, pledge to temporarily refrain from bringing Israel before the International Criminal Court or taking unilateral actions at the UN. By early April, reports surfaced that Abbas had ...

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