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Fast Forward IDF Fires Into Lebanon After Rockets Hit Northern Israel
Israel’s military said it fired artillery rounds into southern Lebanon on Sunday in response to rockets fired earlier across the border that struck inside Israel. It said in a statement it holds the Lebanese government responsible for attacks emanating from its territory and that it will “continue to act against any attempt to harm Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Israel Reportedly Strikes Military Convoy Near Damascus
Israeli jets reportedly struck a Syrian army convoy north of Damascus. The raid, reported by Israel’s Channel 2 citing Arab media sources, reportedly targeted a convoy loaded with missiles after it had left an army base. Israel has been reported to have struck occasionally in Syria in the course of that country’s years-long civil war….
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Fast Forward Did Israel Destroy Its Own Drone in Lebanon?
An Israeli war plane struck a remote area in Lebanon’s western Bekaa region on Sunday to destroy a downed Israeli drone, al-Manar television, which is run by Hezbollah militant group, said. An Israeli military spokeswoman declined to comment when asked about the explosion. A Lebanese security source told Reuters that the cause of the blast,…
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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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