Jerusalem Post:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the US to choose between Israel and Iran on Tuesday night, according to Iranian state media.
Ahmadinejad said that for a real change in relations to take place, a choice must be made.
Speaking in Istanbul at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation [...]
WND:
TEL AVIV – A ship seized by the Israeli navy near Cyprus today had been carrying enough weapons and munitions for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group to fight Israel for at least one month, announced Rani Ben-Yehuda, the deputy commander of Israel’s navy.
The cargo ship originated in Iran and was headed for Syria, the Israeli [...]
Bloomberg:
The Islamic Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip can now launch rockets capable of reaching the Israeli metropolitan area of Tel Aviv, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said at a Jerusalem briefing.
“We know they have tried to, and have obtained missiles that reach 60 kilometers (37 miles),” Ayalon said today. “Tel Aviv and its vicinity [...]
JERUSALEM — Israeli naval commandos seized an arms ship Wednesday near Cyprus that was carrying missiles and anti-tank weapons from Iran to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, defense officials said.
The pre-dawn seizure highlighted Israel’s accusations that Iran is arming its enemies. Israel offered no evidence to back up its claim that the weapons were [...]
Once again, we all have the opportunity to be just absolutely blown away by the amazing successes of this new era of Obama foreign policy, all the change, all the hope, all the huge difference his “genius” new approach has made…
Jerusalem Post:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday his country would not give up “one [...]
By NASSER KARIMI
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran will seek “important changes” in a U.N.-drafted plan to ship enriched uranium out of the country for processing, state TV reported on Tuesday, raising alarm bells among Western leaders who are pushing the deal in hopes of easing concerns over Iran’s nuclear program.
The TV report said Iran would [...]
Haaretz:
The defense establishment confirmed that in recent weeks West Bank settlers have been making a noticeable effort to expedite construction, in an attempt to maximize the “facts on the ground” before the United States and Israel reach an agreement on a settlement freeze.
A senior security source said this week that the defense establishment’s view on [...]
Jerusalem Post:
Defense Minister Ehud Barak broke Israel’s official silence on a draft plan to ship one load of Iranian uranium abroad for enrichment, saying Thursday night there was a need to halt all uranium enrichment on Iranian soil.
“This agreement, if it is signed, will set Iran’s accumulation of enriched material back by about a [...]
Enter ACTIVISTS
World Net Daily:
JERUSALEM – U.S. officials in recent days expressed to the Palestinian Authority that President Obama’s administration is “disgusted” with Israel, a top aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas told WND in an interview.
Nimr Hamad said the White House was disgusted that Israel is refusing to halt all settlement activity as a precondition for [...]
JERUSALEM, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A Turkish television drama which depicts an Israeli soldier shooting dead a Palestinian baby has strained already tense relations between Israel and Turkey, its strategic Muslim ally.
Once-close ties between the Jewish state and Turkey, a secular state with a Muslim population, have deteriorated since Israel’s offensive earlier this year in [...]
Rory McCarthy Jerusalem
Palestinian political leaders have expressed acute disappointment in the Obama administration, saying their hopes that it could bring peace to the Middle East have “evaporated” and accusing the White House of giving in to Israeli pressure.
The unusually frank comments come in an internal memo from the Fatah party, led by the Palestinian [...]
Politico:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s eldest daughter Liz will launch a new group aimed at rallying opposition to the “radical” foreign policy of the Obama administration which it says has succeeded only in undermining the nation’s security.
The new group, Keep America Safe, will make the case against President Barack Obama’s moves to wrench America away [...]
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Examiner:
by Anthony G. Martin
From the very start of Barack Obama’s rather odd, meteoric rise to prominence in American politics, many of us on the conservative side voiced our suspicions that something subversive was under way.
Too many strange coincidences, too many troublesome alliances, too much hype in too short a period of time all pointed to [...]
Haaretz:
An American met an Iranian. “You understand the Israelis even though your natural inclination is toward the Arabs,” the American said. “No,” corrected the Iranian. “Our natural inclination is toward Israel.”
The interlocutors were President Richard Nixon and Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran. In July 1973 the shah visited Washington for talks with Nixon and [...]
Christmas, Bethlehem
Iran’s ambassador to UN demands Security Council take steps against comments made by Ephraim Sneh, who said Israel would attack Iran if sanctions weren’t in place by Christmas
Y-Net:
Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Mohammad Khazaee, sent a letter of protest to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonin which he wrote that “there is no explanation for Israel’s [...]
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
Israeli intelligence was involved in editing and creating the sanitized version of information about Iran’s recently revealed secret uranium enrichment facility near Qom.
The revelation comes in an interview given by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon Panetta to TIME magazine.
Panetta said that the CIA had known about the [...]
By ANNE BAYEFSKY
On September 29, Richard Goldstone presented his report on the Gaza conflict to an enraptured UN Human Rights Council. The Council, in which the Organization of the Islamic Conference holds the balance of power, commissioned his report. Goldstone promoted his 575-page smear campaign against the State of Israel by [...]
