by Chris Perver
The IDF has deployed the Iron Dome anti-missile system in Tel-Aviv, Israel’s most populace city. While the IDF is describing it as a mere routine training exercise that has been planned for some time, its deployment there does come as tensions in the Middle East reach new heights over Iran’s nuclear programme. President Ahmadinejad announced during the week that Iran had successfully produced its own nuclear fuel rod, despite a raft of international sanctions now imposed on the nation. And today Iranian warships were again granted permission by Egypt to pass through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea, an act Israel previously described as a deliberate ‘provocation’. The UK and US have publicly called on Israel not to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, fearing retaliatory attacks on Western interests from Hizbullah and Syria in the event of a conflict. Israeli officials also believe that Iran could order Hizbullah, which possesses an arsenal of thousands of rockets, to attack Israel in the event that conflict breaks out. The temporary deployment of the Iron Dome in Tel-Aviv may become a permanent fixture as long as that threat remains. It wouldn’t be the first time the IDF has staged a "training exercise" in preparation for conflict. In 2007, when Israel successfully destroyed Syria’s nuclear reactor in a surprise attack, the IDF had mobilized the biggest military drill in Israel’s history on its northern border in case of retaliation.
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by Jimmy DeYoung
There is a document on the official mouthpiece for the Palestinian Authority, a website that claims the Jewish people have no right to go to the Western Wall in Jerusalem and pray, which they do three times daily, because the report says the Western Wall belongs to Moslems and the Jews have no connection with the Western Wall.
This study by the Palestinian Authority has been denounced by Israel and the United States because it says the Western Wall has always belonged to the Moslems and the Jews have been allowed to pray there because of Moslem tolerance.
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by Israel Today
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, hailed by the West as a "moderate" leader, acknowledged on Wednesday that his government is violating signed agreements with Israel by operating in Jerusalem.
"East Jerusalem is the main part of the occupied Palestinian territories [sic],"
Fayyad declared after admitting that the Palestinian Authority is "continuously trying to allocate resources inside the city," as reported by the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency.
"Israel must realize that there won’t be any chance of a long lasting peace without East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state," Fayyad continued. "This land is ours."
Demonstrating his disregard for signed agreements, or even for truth, Fayyad stated that Israel’s policy of trying to deny the Palestinian Authority’s inroads into Jerusalem is contrary to the terms of the peace process.
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by Jim Fletcher
One of the poisonous arrows in the quiver of Israel’s enemies is an old newspaper trick: the invented quote.
(Not long ago, Porter Speakman Jr., director of the anti-Christian Zionist propaganda film, With God on Our Side, took the extraordinary measure of removing a false quote from the film, a quote attributed to David Ben Gurion. I’ve met Speakman and, although we would probably only agree that the sky is blue, I do respect him for removing the “quote.”)
Now comes word that an Israeli professor (!) in Great Britain has also used an invented Ben Gurion quote. According to a report from CAMERA:
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by Aaron Klein
Just one week after the Palestinian Authority entered into a unity government with Hamas, the U.S. announced the continuation of a $100 million, five year program to construct “environmentally and socially sustainable” buildings for the Palestinians.
The website for the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem posted the plans, which include a community center and school to be built to meet “stringent third-party-verified ‘green’ certification standards.”
Already, the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is funding the projects, constructed the Safeer Center, a West Bank child care program, one of the first of the U.S.-funded Palestinian “green” buildings to open.
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by Chris Perver
Israeli officials accused Iran and its terrorist-proxy, Hizbullah, of masterminding an attack which left an Israeli diplomat’s wife critically injured. The blast occurred as she travelled to pick up her children at a school in New Dehli, India this morning. A second attack in Tblisi, Georgia was thwarted after an Israeli diplomat discovered a device attached to his car. The Iranian government denied orchestrating out the attacks, instead accusing Israel of bombing their own embassies in order to further the ‘psychological war’ against Tehran…
“This accusation is within the Zionist regime’s psychological war against Iran,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast as saying. “The Zionist regime, due to repeated crimes against humanity, is the main party accused of terrorist activities,” he said, according to IRNA.
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by Chris Schang
An interesting article headline caught my attention today and as I pondered the implications of such a move it struck me as being a potentially serious situation. As we all know Syria is under a near civil war that has been raging for 11 months now. The Free Syria Army is the main opposition group fighting Assad’s forces. Assad’s forces are trying desperately to maintain the deadly grip Assad has on Syria. Today’s headlines show that the opposition group has seen indications that Assad is moving chemical weapons of mass destruction into the area in order to fight the Free Syria Army. The Israel National News website is reporting:
According to reports from the Free Syria Army, the Syrian military has moved forces stationed in the southern part of the Syrian Golan Heights closer to Israel. The Syrian military did not come close to the border with Israel. However, armored forces that were stationed along the Syria-Jordan border, which were recently reinforced, were moved and are now closer to Israel, according to the report.
The Free Syria Army is the largest opposition group in Syria and is partly made up of defectors from the official Syrian Army. Israel has been concerned that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad, whose regime is on the verge of collapse, may try to defuse the uprising against him by starting a conflict with Israel.
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by Chris Perver
