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Iran Hizbullah Are Propping Up Assad Says Britains Hague
Iran and its Shiite Lebanese ally Hizbullah are "propping up" President Bashar al-Assad and providing him with increasing support, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Wednesday. Britain would urge international powers to set a date in the next few days for an international conference to try to end the two-year-old conflict engulfing Syria and threatening regional ...
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Hezbollahs Fallen Soldiers - By Phillip Smyth
Where is the decision on Afghanistan? Amid comeback, Petraeus at center of Benghazi; Sexual assault prevention workers to get furlough reprieve; Whose fault is sexual assault? No pics of bin Laden; and a little bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Wedding 25000 Guests Huge Wedding Takes Place in Jerusalem
A wedding with 25,000 guests has taken place this week in Jerusalem. News of a wedding with 25,000 guests has stunned viewers across the globe, as the massive party was held in Jerusalem on Tuesday night.The massive wedding was for Shalom Rokeach, 18, and new wife Hannah Batya Penet, 19 – both reportedly from very well connected families.Rokeach is the grandson of the leader of the Hasidic ...
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Palestinians have little faith in John Kerrys efforts to restart peace talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, not pictured, in Amman Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria’s opposition to help them ';fight for the freedom of their country'; if President Bashar ...
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Iran calls attention to aggressive plans of the U.S. and Israel
"Some Persian Gulf countries are supporting U.S. plans in the region and it harms the countries of the region", the Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran, the national parliament, Alaedin Boruyerdi said on Saturday (27th). Crimes and discord are the buzzwords of the ...
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British guilty of disguised anti-Semitism says Israeli minister
Exclusive: A senior Israeli government minister has attacked British attitudes towards his country as "disguised anti-Semitism" and said that Britain was more hostile towards the Jewish state than other Western ...
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With Hezbollah coffins Syria now exporting conflict
HERMEL, Lebanon - On a country road in Lebanon's northeast, traffic is heavy; ambulances screech by, sirens blaring, and cars packed with mourners follow coffins as Hezbollah brings wounded fighters home from Syria, and its dead.With the bodies from the battle over the border at Qusair, comes the violence, as civil conflict between Syria's Iranian-backed ruler and Sunni rebels ...
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‘I won’t let Bikur Cholim close’ says Gamzu
After years of financial trouble, Jerusalem's Bikur Cholim Hospital is now being run "impressively" by the capital's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Health Ministry director-general Ronni Gamzu ...
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US Jewish groups help out after Oklahoma tornado
"Unfortunately, this isn't the first nor will it be the last disaster to hit Oklahoma, so we're setting up a fund to reflect that," says Rabbi Vered ...
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LA elects first Jewish mayor since 1878
LOS ANGELES - This city chose Eric Garcetti as its first elected Jewish mayor in one a number of political contests on Tuesday that reflected the city's diversity, as well as its numerous variations of Jewishness.Garcetti, 42, and a veteran city councilman, defeated City Controller Wendy Greuel by eight points according to final results announced on Wednesday morning. He will take ...
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A crisis over parking
Israel isn't the only Western country debating the relationship between religion and the state. In fact, this is becoming one of the hottest issues across Europe and North America, brought to the forefront by changing demographics in the West: its social make-up becoming more and more multicultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious.Canada is certainly not immune, especially its ...
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Forget ‘Start-up Nation’ please
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Media Comment The IBA’s ‘reformation
This past Tuesday, the Knesset Economics Committee, chaired by Professor Avishai Braverman (Labor) discussed rehabilitating the Israel Broadcasting Authority.The IBA's leadership, chairman Dr. Amir Gilat and executive director Yoni Ben-Menachem, are to be complimented for having brought to almost full fruition a process that began almost a decade ago and was considered by many to be ...
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Washington Watch Is Hillary inevitable
It seems all we're hearing from the political mavens these days is how Hillary Clinton is not only the inevitable 2016 Democratic nominee but a shoo-in as the next president.That may be good news to Jewish Democrats - Clinton remains a popular figure among Jewish voters despite virulent efforts by the far Right to portray her as anti-Israel - but it is already producing mudslinging ...
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Encountering Peace Who is not a peace partner
On Monday the Knesset Caucus for Israeli- Arab peace was launched, attended by about one-third of the Knesset Members and with more than 250 citizen supporters in the audience.This caucus of MKs strives to be the largest in the 19th Knesset based on support of what is believed to be the official position of the government and the prime minister. Two states for two peoples is the central ...
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Another battle of hearts and minds
The al-Dura incident was the defining moment of the second intifada. It occurred on September 30, 2000, which is considered the first day of the second intifada.Although the process leading up to it was long and included political milestones such as Camp David, and violent incidents such as Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount, the large-scale fighting only began immediately ...
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House Committee to Push for More Iran Sanctions
The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to urge for a hardening of sanctions against Iran. A bill, if passed, would further curb Iran's oil exports. The bill would also expand the list of blacklisted Iranian companies, and limit Iran's access to foreign ...
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Germany and Britain Push to List Hezbollah as a Terror Group
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Hezbollah Fighters Pose New Threat In Syria
WASHINGTON -- The civil war in Syria is taking a new, and possibly ominous turn, in the battle for Qusair, a small but strategic town near the frontier with Lebanon. For the first time, the mainly Sunni Muslim rebels seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been fighting Syrian troops backed by a large contingent of battle-hardened guerrillas from Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese ...
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EU terror listing for Hizbollah wing
BRUSSELS // Germany will back a British drive to put the armed wing of Hizbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist organisations, German diplomats said yesterday. Britain said on Tuesday it wanted the EU to add Hizbollah's military wing to its terror list because of evidence that the Lebanese militant group was behind a bus bombing in Bulgaria in July that killed five Israelis ...
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Natural Gas Flows at Nobles Karish Discovery Offshore Israel
, reached a total depth of 15,783 feet, encountering 184 feet of net natural gas pay in high-quality lower Miocene sands. Noble stated that discovered gross resources, combined with the de-risked resources in an adjacent fault block on the license, are estimated to range between 1.6 and 2 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) with a gross mean of 1.8 Tcf. The operator performed tests at the well including ...
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Palestinians have little faith in Kerry effort
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks during a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, right, in Amman Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syrias opposition to help them fight for the freedom of their country if President Bashar Assads regime ...
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Iran ups nuke capacity but below Israel red line
VIENNA - Iran has increased its capacity to refine uranium by installing hundreds more centrifuges, a UN nuclear agency report said on Wednesday, underlining Tehran's defiance of Western demands to curb the activity.But, in a development that could help buy time for diplomacy between Iran and world powers, the report showed limited growth of Iran's most sensitive nuclear stockpile and ...
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Police release portion of bank shooting video
Mourners bid farewell to victim of bank shooting In the video, shooter Itamar Alon can be seen entering the bank branch at 11:34, hours after he visited the bank earlier in the day. He had come in and been turned down when he tried to take money out of his account, which was NIS 6,000 in the overdraft.At 12:50, Alon is shown speaking to a bank employee who is on the other side of the door, ...
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Thanks to Kuperwasser al-Dura report truth is on its way
For over 10 years, I've been fighting, along with many friends, to get out the truth about the al-Dura blood libel.For many years, the strongest argument of our opponents has been the silence of the State of Israel when my efforts were sometimes undermined by Israeli diplomats. So getting the support of Israeli public diplomacy was an important objective.On Sunday, Prime Minister ...
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Biggest construction project in Israeli history
The Port of Ashdod is the gateway to the economy of Israel, it has played a central role in the development of the state and will play a central role in future development, hence the reason for an ambitious $500 million expansion project currently underway in two stages (in the picture, green represents stage 1 and brown stage 2).
The Port of Ashdod is currently undergoing the largest construction project ever undertaken in the history of Israel. In 1999, Israel news media reported that the government wanted to double the cargo capacity of Ashdod, an ambitious construction project was therefore envisioned, involving the building of new piers, new docks, warehouses and cargo handling equipment. It was to take place in two stages, with the total project costing around $500 million. Read more
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