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http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/health-and-safety-in-the-workplace-writes-michael-kuttner/39704#more-39704 Australia and New Zealand have extensive legislation in place to make sure that sound practices are enforced as far as protecting workers and others. Perhaps the time has come for these two countries to offer...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=62748 Saudi Arabia's Aid to Lebanon Presents Challenge for Iran Dec. 31, 2013 - 03:45AM | By AWAD MUSTAFA http://www.defensenews.com/article/20131231/DEFREG04/312310006/Saudi-Arabia-s-Aid-Lebanon-Presents-Challenge-Iran DUBAI - The $3 billion Saudi Arabian grant to the Lebanese Army to buy equipment from...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6897 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting our region again. Borders are a core issue and the main component of any framework deal between us and the Palestinians, and Kerry knows that Israel...

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/inauspicious-omens-for-2014-writes-michael-kuttner/39660#more-39660 As we bid farewell to the old year and look forward to the new year according to the Gregorian calendar, it is timely to take stock of where we are at the moment and...

Regardless of whether they support the November 24 “interim” (6 month) agreement with Iran or not, many commentators have characterized the agreement as “unprecedented,” and many have even criticized Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for...

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2013/12/19/The-unique-tragedy-of-the-Palestinian-refugees-.html The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees. The films, pictures, slides and prints the organization has collected on the plight of the refugees will now be displayed...

http://www.i24news.tv/app.php/en/opinion/131208-the-un-s-palestinian-refugee-agency-is-a-farce With much international media coverage, a photo exhibition called “The Long Journey” opened at the end of November in the old city of Jerusalem. A few dozen black and white images from the archives...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/meanwhile-on-israels-lebanese-border.html On December 15, an Israeli jeep was driving along the Israel-Lebanese border near the coast, in a quiet area, which hadn’t seen war for decades. Suddenly a shot rang out. A warrant officer fell...

http://icsr.info/2013/12/icsr-insight-11000-foreign-fighters-syria-steep-rise-among-western-europeans/ Since ICSR published its first estimate in April, the issue of foreign fighters in Syria has become a major concern for Western governments. More reports have emerged since, though few have accurately gauged the...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6213 The tide is changing in the Syrian civil war. Bashar al-Assad and his regime are gaining momentum, the opposition is weakening, and some of its major traditional supporters seem to be reconsidering their position....