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  • Kerry to return this week for push on talks

    US Secretary of State Kerry wants to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, will meet with Livni and Palestinian leadership separately; Westerwelle in J'lem: We support US ...

  • ‘We’re asking them not to mess with our families’

    The Jerusalem Post on Friday. "The first time they changed it, my parents said OK, we'll change the tickets, no problem. But now, the second time, my family is saying they can't change it again."We were sure this wouldn't happen again, not in June, because it doesn't rain then. But it was changed again," he added. "My parents really wanted to be at ...

  • State to return Homesh land to Palestinian owners

    The state intends to nullify the original 1978 military seizure order for the land of the former Homesh settlement, a move that would return the property to its former Palestinian owners.The Justice Ministry notified the High Court of its decision late Thursday, in response to a 2010 petition by the Palestinian owners, who were represented by the Israeli NGO Yesh ...

  • ‘Post’ launches daily online newscast

    Jerusalem Post brand name," Linde says."It brings JPost.com into the 21st century by showing viewers what's in the news through what is arguably the most powerful of all media - television - while offering an authoritative and trustworthy perspective on the situation in Israel, the Jewish world, the Middle East and the world at large."To stay up to date with all the news ...

  • Will China mediate the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

    By Ed Flanagan, Producer, NBC News BEIJING – An official visit to Beijing by Israeli and Palestinian leaders last week has prompted speculation that China may finally be ready to claim its place as a world power by trying to negotiate an end to one of world's most caustic conflicts.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Chinese ...

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Shakespeare in Love [DVD]

"Shakespeare in Love" is a romantic fictionalization of how the great poet and playwright William Shakespeare penned one of his most famous plays, "Romeo and Juliet." As Tom Stoppard, one of the film's screenwriters, said, "To create something of that magnitude, he was no doubt hopelessly and desperately in love with a very, very special woman." The woman in question for whom Shakespeare's torches ... ...

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  • MK proposes 5-years in jail for posting sex tapes

    Disseminating nude photos or videos without the subject's permission could be punishable by a prison sentence of up to five years, according to a new bill proposed by MK Yifat Kariv.The bill is an amendment to the Law to Prevent Sexual Harassment and will be brought to a vote in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on ...

  • 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 ...

  • ‘Time needed for Syria to master the S-300’

    Syria would require a considerable period of time before it could master the S-300 air defense system, a defense analyst said Friday.The comments came soon after Russia said it remains committed to an arms deal with Syria to deliver the advanced ...

  • Syrias Assad Little Chance Peace Talks Would Succeed-Newspaper

    LIMA -- Proposed peace talks for Syria would not curb "terrorism" in the country and it is unrealistic to think they would succeed, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper on ...

  • Palestinians Killed in Israeli Air Strike

    Two Palestinians have been killed in air strikes on the Gaza Strip after they had clashed with Israeli troops crossing into the territory, medical sources ...

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