Archive for the ‘Lebanon’ Category
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks at how the media ignored an important Mideast story - the fifth anniversary of the murder of Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri. Early last week, the media's foreign affairs gaze was ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
On November 4, the Israel Navy intercepted the "Francop" cargo ship, which was laden with roughly 500 tons of weapons hidden amongst civilian cargo. The 36 weapons containers were sent from Iran and meant for the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon. For further information on how the interception occurred and ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Journalist Ben Gilbert wrote an article for Globalpost about the restoration of an old beautiful synagogue in Lebanon:
Beirut's Synagogue Reconstruction Kicks off
Construction could spell a new beginning for Lebanon's underground Jewish community
BEIRUT — A long-delayed plan to renovate Beirut’s only synagogue is finally coming to fruition.
The Lebanese architect working with ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
The BBC website recently posted an exclusive interview with a Hezbollah "militant" who makes it crystal clear that governments, like Britain's, who think they can deal with the movement's purely political wing are fooling themselves.
The Hezbollah source is quoted as saying: "We have two arms, but we belong to one ...
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