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…n that perfectly suited Hizbollah. In late October, a Katyusha rocket had claimed the life of a 14-year-old boy in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona. Hizbollah escalated its rocket fire in the days that followed, forcing tens of thousands of residents into their shelter...

…at could challenge official policies or foster international ties without state approval. One such organization was the Northern Nature Coalition, which protects old-growth forests and had protested certain cdevel- opment projects. Another was Young Karelia, which sponsors puppet...

… a year, an astronomical alignment ushers in this seasonal change. Amazing facts and myths surround it. This year, the northern summer solstice... Inside the Highly Organized Lives of ‘Planner Addicts,’ a Massive Instagram Community of Women Who Make Beautiful To-Do Lists HOUS...

… presented a picture of vulnerability and victimhood: a kind of “fortress Israel” threatened by terror, missiles on its northern and southern borders, and now potential nuclear annihilation from Iran, while our main ally, the United States, was under the sway of a President who n...

…sty that had ruled China for nearly 200 years collapsed in the face of an invasion by wild Manchurian soldiers from the northern plains. The Song leadership – along with its best minds and cultural figures – fled south from Beijing for a thousand miles, until they were safely on...

…rt agreed with the Dean court that victims acquire rights even before a prosecution begins. The District Court for the Northern District of Indiana held to the same effect in In re Petersen. 7* There, the court held that a victim's right to be treated with fairness and with resp...

…e years after 1948, when he joined a military intelligence group running a loose network of Arab agents across Israel’s northern border. They provided occasional bits of 56 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011527

… Its survival was not at stake. Its problems — the domination of a large, hostile population and managing events in the northern Levant — were subcritical (meaning that, though these were not easy tasks, they did not represent fundamental threats to national survival, so long as...

…he exhibition is a contemporary update on the four hundred year old theme of the Vanitas first developed in Holland and Northern Europe in the mid to late 17th century. from October the 11th until the 17th. Free House of the Noble Man, Oct. 12-20, at 2 Cornwall Terrace, an 18th-c...

…ng demands for regime change was too much. They saw how Iran's influence has grown in Shiite-majority Iraq, along their northern border, and they were not prepared to let that happen again. As for the U.S., the Saudis saw calls for reform as another in a string of disappointment...

…lapsed or was delayed. Shortly before sunset, Yanoush left by helicopter for a field commanders’ meeting with Raful in northern Israel. That left me in charge, alongside Yanoush’s de facto chief-of-staff, Amram Mitzna. A decorated veteran of 1967 and 1973 whom I knew well, Amram...

…at the start of the invasion and was part of the push north to the capital. At his side was Amir Drori, the head of the northern command. They had set up a rooftop observation post just a few hundred yards in from where I had landed with my Sayeret Matkal team a decade earlier fo...

… should pull out all our troops and focus our security arrangements on what really mattered: protecting the citizens of northern Israel. As for the lessons to be learned from the intifada, my view that we needed a political dialogue had inadvertently become public, from remarks I...

…gram: H.R.2353) that would have reduced federal dollars for the Virgin Islands • Defeated attempt by American Samoa and Northern Mariana to reallocate percentage of funding going to the USVI for other small territories • Secured Commitment from Army Corp of Engineers for increase...

… agreed with the Dean court that victims acquire rights even before a prosecution begins. 73 The District Court for the Northern District of Indiana held to the same effect in In re Petersen. 74 There, the court held that a victim’s right to be treated with fairness and with resp...