LEMON TREE

LEMON TREE

Lemon Tree (Arabic: شجرة ليمون; Hebrew: עץ לימון - Etz Limon) is a 2008 Israeli drama film directed by Eran Riklis and co-directed by his cousin Ira Riklis. It stars Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Danny Leshman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Tarik Kopty, Amos Lavi, Lana Zreik and Amnon Wolf.The film describes the legal efforts of a Palestinian widow to stop the Israeli Defense Minister, her next door neighbor, from destroying the lemon trees in her family farm. At the same time, she develops a human bond with the minister's wife.It was released in Israel on 27 March 2008,And it received a tepid response from Israeli audiences. It was released internationally through IFC Films on 17 April 2009.From there, the film has achieved critical success and it has received nominations for several awards such as 'Best Actress' and 'Best Screenwriter' at the European Film Awards.



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The Israeli Defense Minister Israel Navon (Doron Tavory) moves to a house on the border between Israel and the West Bank, with the building sitting on the Israeli side just next to the dividing line. The Israeli Secret Service views the neighboring lemon grove of Salma Zidane (Hiam Abbass), a Palestinian widow whose family has cared for the area for generations, as a threat to the Minister and his wife. The security forces soon set up a guard post and a barbed wire fence around the grove. They then obtain an order to uproot the lemon trees.
Salma feels isolated given that her son has moved to Washington, D.C. and her daughters are now married. The local village elder Abu Kamal (Makram Khoury) advises her to give in, but Salma decides to work with the young lawyer Ziad Daud (Ali Suliman). They take their case all the way to the Supreme Court. Mira Navon (Rona Lipaz-Michael), the minister's wife, sympathizes with Salma. The court case receives notable media attention, and Mira gives a news interview that her husband regrets. Mira believes that the Israeli military overreacted, and she also shares Salma's sense of personal loneliness. A complex, though not always evident, human bond develops between the two women.As the Palestinian cause is dismissed, Mira moves out, and a concrete wall is built between Salma's land and the Defense Minister's house. A final camera shot reveals the lemon trees to have been cut down.

PARIS

Paris is the unique bib city that I have visited in Europe. I went there  this year with "frantseseko proiektua". I went with my friends so we enjoy the trip. In my opinión Pris is one of the most beautiful citis on the World because ther are loads of interés places like Louvre museum or The Tour Eiffel.
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When i am in the university I want to go on a Erasmus and there are somo cities that I would like to visit if i went on a Erasmus.

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This  is my favourite city in Europe; I have never visited it my I am looking fordward to go. It would be a dram to visit Londres!

Shakhtar Donetsk-Real Sociedad Preview: Basques in last-chance saloon

My favourite football team has a important match today night, if they don´t win they are going to be out of Europa Leage.

Jagoba Arrasate's men need to pick up all three points at the Donbass Arena to keep their qualification hopes alive, but their hosts are also desperate for a victory

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Real Sociedad need a win at Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday night to have any chance of prolonging their Champions League adventure.

The Spanish side are bottom of Group A with two games remaining and they must secure all three points at the Donbass Arena and hope Manchester United beat Bayer Leverkusen to avoid crashing out of Europe's premier club competition.

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Spain releases Eta convict after European court ruling

The release has angered many people in Spain, as Tom Burridge reports

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A convicted Basque militant has been freed after the Spanish authorities upheld a European Court of Human Rights ruling against her continued detention.

Ines Del Rio, of the separatist group Eta, had been serving a 30-year sentence for bomb attacks in the 1980s.
Spain's High Court had earlier backed the Strasbourg court's ruling against Spanish laws that denied her right to earn remission through prison work.
Spain says dozens of Eta prisoners could now be eligible for release.
Ines del Rio left the Teixeiro prison in A Coruna in north-west Spain at 16:25 local time (14:25 GMT).

Monday's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights "gives us no choice", concluded a prosecutors' report at the High Court requesting Del Rio's immediate release, reported El Pais newspaper.

The penal chamber subsequently ordered her immediate release.
Groups representing victims of Eta's bloody four-decade campaign for independence for regions of northern Spain and south-west France denounced the Strasbourg ruling in protests on Monday, while supporters of the prisoners held marches in favour.
Eta declared an end to its armed campaign in 2011.

PAROT DOCTRINE
Del Rio was arrested in 1987 for her part in 23 murders and car bombings carried out by Eta.
She was later sentenced to more than 3,800 years in jail, but the criminal code in force at the time reduced this to a maximum stay of 30 years.
Del Rio earned sentence reductions through prison work, making her eligible for release in July 2008 - but two years earlier the High Court applied what is known as the "Parot doctrine" to extend her detention.
Under this doctrine, sentence reductions are applied to the sentences for individual crimes - collectively amounting to 3,828 years - rather than the overall 30-year maximum stay.
It meant Del Rio's release would be postponed until 2017.

But on Monday the European Court of Human Rights, upholding a July 2012 ruling in favour of Del Rio, condemned Spain for this practice and ordered Spain to ensure her immediate release and to pay her 30,000 euros (£25,400; $41,000) in compensation.
Although the Strasbourg court's ruling only applies to Del Rio, the Spanish government says dozens of other convicted Eta members could be eligible for release.