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Breaking News Israeli Airstrikes Hit Targets Near Syria, Lebanese Media Reports
Israeli airstrikes attacked targets in eastern Lebanon, the Lebanese media reported, but the claims were denied by Hezbollah. Citing Lebanese security officials, the reports on Tuesday said that Israeli Air Force planes attacked Hezbollah targets near the city of Brital, on the Syrian border. Several Lebanese civilians were injured in the attack, according to the…
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Culture The Mystery of Lebanon’s Maghen Abraham Synagogue
No one could quite believe it when the major political factions in Lebanon — including the anti-Israel Shi’a party Hezbollah — threw their support behind a million-dollar synagogue renovation project in Beirut in 2009. But if a public display of Lebanon’s Jewish past was what visionaries behind the yearlong, highly publicized restoration had in mind…
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Opinion Does Brian Williams Punishment Fit ‘Crime’?
(JTA) — By now, anyone interested enough to have read about the issue knows the basic facts: Longtime NBC anchor Brian Williams lied about having been on a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq in 2003. In truth, he was on a different helicopter that landed unimpeded about a half hour after the other chopper…
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News Brian Williams Israel Helicopter Story ‘Accurate’
An Israeli army officer who was on a helicopter with NBC news anchor Brian Williams during the Second Lebanon War said his reporting “was representative of the experience.” “The general descriptions Williams gave were accurate,” Jacob Dallal, a reserve major in the army’s media liaison office, told Bloomberg in a phone interview Monday. Williams, who…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Slams United Nations Over Lebanon Skirmishes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused United Nations peacekeepers on Sunday of failing to enforce a resolution barring Hezbollah guerrillas from smuggling weapons into Lebanon. In a phone call with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Netanyahu blamed Iran, Hezbollah’s main sponsor, for Wednesday’s flare-up that killed two Israeli soldiers and a Spanish peacekeeper in the worst…
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Breaking News Hezbollah Leader: ‘We Do Not Want War With Israel But We Are Not Afraid of It’
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Friday his group did not want war with Israel but was ready for one and reserved the right to respond to Israeli attacks at any time and place. “We do not want a war but we are not afraid of it and we must distinguish between the two…
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Breaking News Israel Says Hezbollah Backs Away From Escalating Fight After Deadly Day
Israel and Hezbollah signaled on Thursday their rare flare-up in fighting across the Israel-Lebanon border was over, after the Lebanese guerrillas killed two Israeli troops in retaliation for a deadly air strike in Syria last week. Israel said it had received a message from UNIFIL, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, that Hezbollah was not…
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Breaking News 2 Israeli Soldiers Killed as Hezbollah Battles on Lebanon Border
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said attackers who killed two Israeli soldiers near the Israeli-Lebanese frontier would be held responsible. “Those behind the attack today will pay the full price,” Netanyahu said as he launched consultations with security chiefs on a possible further response to the anti-tank rocket assault blamed on the Hezbollah guerrilla group….
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