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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 ...

  • Knesset approves proposed budget cuts despite opposition

    hours of opposition speeches .58 lawmakers voted in favor of the proposed cuts and 44 opposed after a long debate in favor of the 17-month 2013-14 spending package, sending it to parliament's finance committee for further ...

  • 35 Americans Killed in Syria Fighting

    reported that 729 Saudi citizens, 479 Egyptians, 439 Lebanese, 439 Chechnyans, 301 Afghans, 263 Libyans, 261 Pakistanis, 208 Iraqis, and 188 Russians were among the dead. Also killed were smaller numbers of citizens of Jordan, Turkey, Tunisia, Kuwait, Yemen and more, as well as 90 French citizens, 67 German citizens, 66 British citizens and 45 Belgians, the station claimed. The report was ...

  • Knesset passes state budget at first reading

    At nearly 1 am this morning, the Knesset plenum gave a first reading to the state budget for 2013-2014 and to the accompanying Economic Arrangements Bill. 58 Knesset members voted in favor of the budget, against 44 who voted against. Coalition MK Gila Gamliel (Likud-Beytenu) asked not to participate in the vote, and left the Knesset chamber. Just before the vote, Minister of Finance Yair Lapid ...

  • Israels Peres Unemployed terrorists flocking to Syria

    Israeli President Shimon Peres has dismissed fears that U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels could expose the Jewish state's national security to danger, adding that the world's "unemployed terrorists" were heading to the region. Israeli President Shimon Peres has dismissed fears that U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels could expose the Jewish state's national security to danger, ...

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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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