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Fast Forward Lebanese Beauty Queen Stripped Of Crown Over Israel Visit
Lebanese bomb-shell Amanda Hanna is losing her beauty queen title after authorities in the country discovered that she visited Israel using a foreign passport. “After communicating our decision with Lebanon’s Minister of Tourism, he decided that Hanna should be stripped of her title because her visit to Israel violates our country’s laws,” the group running…
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Fast Forward Kabbalah Study Center Opens In Lebanon — But It’s ‘Not Judaism’
A center for the mystic Jewish study of Kaballah opened this week in Lebanon — but members include Muslims and Christians who see their study as removed from Judaism or Jewishness. “I have to reinforce the idea that Kabbalah is not Judaism,” a Muslim teacher in the group identified only as Sara told the Middle…
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Fast Forward ‘Wonder Woman’ Faces Ban In Lebanon — Because Gal Gadot Is Israeli
(JTA), is an actress and model from Israel. A Lebanese security official told CBS News on Tuesday that the required committee of six Lebanese ministries has yet to take up the request. At least one advance screening of the film is scheduled for Wednesday in Beirut, according to CBS. Lebanon is officially at war with…
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The Schmooze Will ‘Wonder Woman’ Be Defeated In Lebanon?
A Lebanese security official confirmed Tuesday that the Ministry of Economics has proposed a ban of the upcoming film “Wonder Woman.” The reason? It’s star, Gal Gadot, is Israeli. While any official ban would have to come down from a Ministry of Economics advisory committee, pressure has been mounting from anti-Israeli boycott groups. One such…
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Opinion Israel’s Next Big War
Israel’s next big war is almost certainly going to pit it against some combination of Iranian, Syrian and Hezbollah forces along its northern borders with Syria and Lebanon. To be sure, an additional confrontation with Hamas in Gaza (Israel’s opponent in the costly 2014 Gaza War. which led to the death of roughly 2,100 Palestinians…
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Breaking News Lebanese President Warns Israel After Israeli ‘Threat’ At U.N.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that any Israeli attempt to violate Lebanon’s sovereignty would be met with the “appropriate response”, in a statement released by his office. “Any attempt to hurt Lebanese sovereignty or expose the Lebanese to danger will find the appropriate response,” the statement said. The February 18 statement said Aoun…
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Breaking News Hezbollah Captures Crashed Israeli Drone in Lebanon
The Lebanese group Hezbollah has located an Israeli drone that crashed in Lebanese territory and has taken it to a secure location for inspection, a source in Hezbollah said on Tuesday. The Israeli military said that the drone had came down in Lebanese territory on Monday near the border with Israel, identifying the drone as…
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Breaking News Lebanese Build Security Wall Around Palestinian Refugee Camp
According to Palestinian twitter sources and The New Arab website, Lebanese authorities have begun to build a security wall around Ain al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the country. #صور| السلطات اللبنانية تبدأ ببناء جدار عازل حول مخيم عين الحلوة، الذي يسكنه 75 ألف لاجئ فلسطيني! pic.twitter.com/SoteL0R76z — فلسطين بوست (@plespost) November 19, 2016…
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