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The Maccabees (extracts)

The Maccabees also spelled Machabees (Hebrew: מכבים‎ or Maqabim, מקבים, Machabi (Latin) or Machado from Latin (marculatum) that means "Hammer" were a Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea, which had been a client state of the Seleucid Empire. They founded the Hasmonean dynasty, which ruled from 164 BCE to 63 BCE, reasserting the Jewish religion, expanding the boundaries of the Land of Israel and reducing the influence of Hellenism and Hellenistic Judaism....

Seoul enovy laments Samsung’s anti-Iran ad on Israeli TV

TEHRAN, April 10 (MNA) – The South Korean ambassador to Tehran issued a statement on Tuesday expressing regret over an anti-Iran television advertisement recently broadcast by an Israeli cable TV for a model of Samsung tablet....

The Geopolitics of the Changing Middle East

Transcript - Speakers: Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow of Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Marwa Daoudy, Visiting Lecturer in International Affairs and Visiting Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College, Former Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford...

Israel, Facebook and the Persians

WARNING; this is an open opinion and only for those who want to hear. For others, they can ignore it...:...

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The Real Existential Threats

US and Israel are an existential threat to Iran and are provoking a regional arms race...

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‘Israel funds MKO; MKO funds US politicians’

One of the most under-reported political stories of the last year is the devoted advocacy of numerous prominent American political figures on behalf of an Iranian group long formally designated as a Terrorist organization under U.S. law....

Egypt Brothers mix pragmatism, ideology on Israel

CAIRO (AP) — The Muslim Brotherhood is trying to maneuver its way between its fierce anti-Israel ideology and the realities of governing as it ascends to leadership in Egypt for the first time in its history and faces the key question of how to deal with the country's peace treaty with the Jewish state....

U.S., Israel Discuss Triggers for Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Infrastructure

The Obama administration is trying to assure Israel privately that it would strike Iran militarily if Tehran’s nuclear program crosses certain “red lines”—while attempting to dissuade the Israelis from acting unilaterally...

Hollywoodism unveiled thoughts

The first « Hollywoodism » conference took place alongside the 29th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran....

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As Tahrir Square goes so goes the Middle East?

It is difficult to overstate the potential for Egyptian citizens advancing universal aspirations for freedom, dignity and basic human rights now spreading from the determination of those who for more than a week have risked their lives while inspiring much of the World at Cairo’s Tahrir (“Liberation”) Square. ...

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