Is this an Israeli version of Ingrid Betancourt’s long agony as the hostage of terrorists? An unnamed man, saying he was chief of the Galilee Liberation Brigades, claimed in an interview Sunday, July 6, to have carried out the last two terrorist attacks in Jerusalem – the bulldozer rampage and the yeshiva massacre.
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The Palestinian Authority is hoping Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election in November and expects Obama to immediately set out to create a Palestinian state once he takes office, a top PA official said. "We would like to see Obama elected. If he is elected, an agreement about the foundation of a Palestinian state (would be) reached,"...
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The repeated terror attacks carried out by Arab terrorists possessing Israeli ID cards highlight the need for a frank and open discussion regarding relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel and the future of these ties. Several weeks ago, around Independence Day, I saw at the entrance to Tel Aviv University a protest tent erected by Arab students to mark what they refer to as “Nakba Day” – their disaster. Yet there can be no greater contradiction or hypocrisy.
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Under the intelligence cooperation agreement Iran and Syria signed secretly in Tehran on June 27, thousands of Syrian intelligence and police officers will receive special training in Iran, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report. It was signed at the end of an unpublicized five-day visit to Tehran of Syria’s clandestine and security service chiefs headed by Gen. Fouad Sultan, superintendent of internal security.
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The heads of the Pentagon have expressed concerns that an Israeli plan for a possible strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would fail to destroy the them, as both the CIA and the Mossad's intelligence seems lacking in details of the bases' location, The Sunday Telegraph reported. According to the report, the American commanders are worried that Israel will feel compelled to act within the next year...
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By year's end, Israel's Water Authority warns, all pumping in Lake Kinneret will have to cease. That will mean turning off the taps on a third of the national water supply. This dire scenario is the inevitable outcome of the fact that four successive years of scant rainfall have depleted Israel's largest above-ground reservoir to such an extent that this week it is expected to drop beneath the "bottom red line."
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