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  • 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 ...

  • Lebanon Hezbollah must not spark sectarian conflict

    Daily Star reported him saying in reference to Hezbollah fighting in neighboring Syria. Suleimans remarks came following a major assault by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces on a rebel held town over the past week, which has drawn in fighters from Assad's Shi'ite allies Hezbollah, justifying fears that the conflict would cross borders at the heart of the Middle ...

  • Kerry urges Israel to promote peace talks not settlements

    US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations. Explaining part of the strategy of his now 2-month-old peace initiative, Kerry said ...

  • Al-Assad Syria will slash roots of Israeli adventurism

    Al-Assad: Syria will slash roots of Israeli adventurism Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has emphasized on Tuesday that Damascus is able to confront the Israeli regime's adventurism, alluding to the recent Israeli aggression against the Arab country. The Syrian president stressed that the Israeli offensive is evidence of interference by Tel Aviv and its Western and regional allies in the ...

  • Hezbollah minister bows out of wine institute launch

    From left, acting caretaker Agriculture Minister Gebran Bassil, caretaker Economy Minister Nicolas Nahas and former MP Salim Warde attend a conference at the ministry in Beirut, Friday, May 24, 2013. (The Daily Star/Hasan ...

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Elizabethtown

Elizabethtown

Despite all his best intentions and last-minute editing, Cameron Crowes free-flow romanticism may have finally gotten the better of him in Elizabethtown. A semi-autobiographical story about a young man returning to a family he doesnt know, it is sweet an ... ...

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  • Hezbollah must prevent sectarian strife Sleiman says

    Lebanon to plunge into sectarian strife, whether within its borders or beyond, in a clear reference to Hezbollah’s activities in embattled Syria. "The meanings of resistance are loftier than sinking into strife, whether ...

  • Hezbollah says terrorist label would be big mistake

    Hezbollah's deputy chief said Friday that the European Union would be making a "big mistake" to label the Lebanese Shiite militant group as ...

  • IN PICTURES 25000 hasidim attend Belz wedding

    25,000 ultra Orthodox Jews attended one of the largest weddings Jerusalem has ever seen this week, when Belz Hasidic dynasty rebbe, Rabbi Tissachar ...

  • Google eyes Israeli mapping start-up Waze

    Waze, an Israeli mobile satellite navigation application, is seen on a smartphone in this photo illustration taken in Tel Aviv May 9, 2013. REUTERS/Nir ...

  • Palestinian kids swept up in wave of Israeli arrests

    Ahmed Jawabreh, 14, was arrested in the middle of the night for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank refugee camp where he lives and wasn't released for another 18 days. His was only one of a recent wave of arrests of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities, human rights groups ...

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