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  • Syria asserts right to respond to Israeli violations

    They Syrian government has said that it holds the right to respond to any Israeli violation against its sovereignty. The Syrian foreign ministry, in a letter to the UN, Tuesday complained against the latest Israeli violation which took place earlier, Xinhua reported. The complaint was made in the wake of an Israeli military vehicle violating the cease-fire being observed between Israel and ...

  • Jordanian FM hopeful Kerry will relaunch talks

    Nasser Judeh in Amman says US Secretary of State's round-the-clock-efforts may create "inducing environment" to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; Kerry scheduled to meet Netanyahu, Peres, Livni in ...

  • Shapira to investigate Netanyahu over foreign trips

    investigate the financial controversies surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as well as other public officials relating to their foreign trips.It was unclear what the scope of the investigation would be and what aspects it would add to ongoing investigations, but it was expected to include all of the latest developments in everything from the "Bibi Tours" affair to the ...

  • Govt bulldozers demolish 2 east Jerusalem homes

    Government bulldozers demolished two residential buildings in east Jerusalem on Tuesday morning for being illegally constructed on a national park, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.However, Meretz city councilman Dr. Meir Margalit, who holds the east Jerusalem portfolio, dismissed the ministry's claim as a "dirty trick" that the government was using to confiscate land ...

  • High Court summons A-G over east Jlem property

    In an unheard-of development, a seven-judge panel of the High Court of Justice ordered Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to appear personally to explain the state's position on using a 1950 property law to confiscate east Jerusalem properties from Arabs for the benefit of Jews and the state, the courts announced on Wednesday.Weinstein essentially never attends hearings; he sends ...

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Le bonheur [DVD]

Le bonheur [DVD]

Much has been made about how shocking Le bonheur (Happiness) was to audiences when it first screened in 1965. However, shocking is not the right word because that implies something sudden and aggressive--an assault on the eyes and the sensibility in the vein of Un chien anda ... ...

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  • Prosor angered by UNRWA’s map of Arab Palestine

    NEW YORK - Early this month, Ann Dismorr, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Lebanon, stood in front of cameras holding a map of Israel labeled "Arab Palestine." Framed in green and black and shoddily printed, the projected Palestinian state is shown surrounded by countries with modern borders: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.Israeli officials are well used to seeing maps ...

  • Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling

    BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an economic boycott of it."In a statement ...

  • Danon IDF Has Backing for Heavy Hand Against Rock Rioters

    Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon on Wednesday visited the town of Beit El in the Binyamin region. With the visit, Danon sought to show solidarity with residents of the town, who suffer from incessant rock attacks by Arabs from villages in the ...

  • Sidon on edge after tense burial of Hezbollah fighter

    Hezbollah while fighting for the Islamist party, which supports President Bashar Assad’s regime, during the raging battle for the town of Qusair in the Syrian province of Homs. The son of a Sunni father and a Shiite mother, Sabbagh became a Shiite and joined Hezbollah years ago. His family, with the exception of his mother, insisted he be buried at a Sunni cemetery in Sidon. But a group ...

  • France seeks to brand Hezbollah as terrorist group

    Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. "Because of the decisions that have been taken by Hezbollah and the fact that they are fighting very harshly the Syrian population, we have decided to ask that the military branch of the Hezbollah would be considered as a terrorist organisation," Fabius told reporters in English. The United States has long designated the Lebanon-based militant group, ...

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