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Fast Forward Lebanon Foreign Minister Denounced After Saying Israel Deserves Security
BEIRUT – Lebanese politicians on Thursday criticized Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil over a television interview in which he was shown saying that Lebanon did not have an ideological problem with Israel and was not against it having security. The comments, made to al-Mayadin television channel during a long interview on Tuesday, had just started attracting…
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Fast Forward Lebanon Army On High Alert Near Israel Border
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s army chief told his soldiers on Tuesday to be extra vigilant to prevent unrest during political turmoil after the prime minister quit, and accused Israel of “aggressive” intentions across the southern frontier. Troops should be ready to “thwart any attempt to exploit the current circumstances for stirring strife…and chaos,” the army’s…
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Fast Forward Israel Says Hezbollah Controls Lebanon’s Military
Israel said on Tuesday that the Hezbollah guerrilla group, its most potent enemy in neighboring Lebanon, had gained control over that country’s U.S.-sponsored conventional military, signaling both would be in Israeli gunsights in any future war. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s remarks were a hard tack from more measured recent Israeli estimates that the Lebanese army…
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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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