Archive for March, 2010

Women in Business Conference 2010 announces two more inspiring speakers

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

The latest two speakers to be announced are Mrs Susan Lansing, Corporate Development Director at the Qatar Finance and Business Academy (QFBA) and Dr Asyah Al-Bualy, Advisor for Culture and Humanities, Research Council.

Susan Lansing has more than 17 years of experience on four different continents in the areas of business development, public relations and executive [...]

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Well, at least they had a seder | The Daily Caller – Breaking News

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

After the recent period of cool treatment of Israel by the Obama administration, the New York Times reported that there will be a Seder in the White House this year to commemorate Passover. One wonders if the well-timed and prominently placed piece is supposed to cause American Jews to forget the substantive activity of the [...]

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UK arms sold to Israel used during so-called Operation Cast Lead

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

In London, a Parliamentary report says British arms exports were almost certainly used in the Israeli attack on Gaza last year, despite a UK policy that bans Israel from using these weapons in the occupied territories. From London, Naomi Fowler reports.

The government has admitted exported weapons from the UK were very likely used in [...]

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Arabs’ Ban Israel Embassy in New Zealand’

Monday, March 29th, 2010

A pro-Arab coalition is trying to prevent Israel from re-opening its embassy in New Zealand later this month. Diplomatic affairs there have been conducted through Australia since 2002, when Israel closed its Wellington embassy in 2002 due to budget restrictions.
// Two years later, relations were chilly following charges that two alleged Mossad agents tried to [...]

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New Anti-Israel Movie

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

A new evangelical film, “With God on Our Side,” is coming out this month in an attempt to persuade pro Israel Christians to champion the Palestinian cause.
Revising Theology
// Porter Speakman, the movie’s producer, has explained that it “takes a look at the theology of Christian Zionism, which teaches that… the Jews are G-d’s chosen people [and] have [...]

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Jewish Passover Prayer-Next Year in Jerusalem

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Saturday night copied a 2,000-year-old Jewish prayer and told Christians in Bethlehem, “Next year, Inshallah (G-d willing), we will celebrate in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in east Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state…according to 1967 borders, a state whose capital shall be Jerusalem.”
// The city is [...]

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How the Next Middle East War Could Start

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

This May, Israel will celebrate its 62nd Independence Day. And barring the unexpected, the country will have good reason to celebrate. This will have been the safest year in a decade and a half for Israeli civilians—the year with the fewest fatalities in acts of war or terror.

Ironically, Israel’s most bitter foes are responsible for [...]

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Holocaust denial and Jew-hatred | Hija del

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

has accurate translation of Arabic articles that are somewhat less than moderate.Here’s his latest, from the Jordanian As Sabeel newspaper:The Jews are experts at exercising power over others by invading their thought, culture,


Hija del Zion para Israel – http://paraisrael.com/

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Keppel secures $140 million worth of contracts from repeat

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M) through its subsidiaries, Keppel Shipyard, Keppel FELS and Keppel Verolme, has secured $140 million worth of contracts for the conversion of a Floating Production Storage and Offloading facility (FPSO) and repair and modification of two semisubmersibles (semi).

Keppel Shipyard will undertake the upgrading and conversion of a Suezmax tanker [...]

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Arabic School in America

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

New York’s first Arabic language school, Khalil Gibran International Academy, open to all ethnic backgrounds, is grooming students to become ambassadors of hope 
and peace Khalil Gibran, Lebanon-born and America-raised literary giant, called for the adoption of Arabic and the application of the language at all school levels in his homeland (then part of Greater [...]

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