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• Netanyahu and Obama don't need love to advance peace
• Wagner descendant slams 'anti-semitic' music at Berlin Wall event
• Inglourious Basterds offends some Israelis, but others get the joke
• Report: U.S. stopped Israel from attacking 'Hezbollah arms ship'
• Israel: UN 'detached from reality' for adopting Goldstone report

Netanyahu and Obama don't need love to advance peace Posted: 06 Nov 2009 10:06 AM PST Immediately after the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem this Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take off on his third trip to the U.S. since his return to power. ...

Wagner descendant slams 'anti-semitic' music at Berlin Wall event Posted: 06 Nov 2009 09:18 AM PST Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which includes a composition by his "anti-semitic" great-grandfather. ...

Inglourious Basterds offends some Israelis, but others get the joke Posted: 06 Nov 2009 03:38 AM PST In his new film "Inglourious Basterds," American director Quentin Tarantino has given us a fictional plot that centers on Jewish-American soldiers during World War II, who are let loose on a brutal quest for vengeance against the Germans. Their acts include the scalping of the enemy, and even an act of arson that consumes Hitler and the rest of the Nazi top brass at a movie theater run by a beautiful Jewish woman. ...

Report: U.S. stopped Israel from attacking 'Hezbollah arms ship' Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:56 AM PST The United States informed Israel of a ship carrying tons of weapons allegedly en route from Iran to Hezbollah, but vetoed Israel's plans to attack, the A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Friday. ...

Israel: UN 'detached from reality' for adopting Goldstone report Posted: 06 Nov 2009 12:52 AM PST Israel on Friday rejected a United Nations General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world body vote as "completely detached from realities". ...

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