The lessons of Munich
Seventy years ago on September 29, 1938, the leaders of Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain concluded an agreement in Munich that has gone down in history as one of the West's greatest political debacles. According to it, Hitler was allowed to take over a region of the Czechoslovak Republic, known as the Sudetenland, which contained a large ethnic German population.

The Iranian Threat to Israel
The looming nuclearization of Iran is often analyzed ad hominem, focusing on the personality of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, who is often compared to Hitler in both his dreams of grandeur and his visceral anti-Semitism; or ad rem, emphasizing Iran's technological achievements and its quest for regional power.

Teheran: Enrichment will continue
Iran said Monday it will continue its disputed uranium enrichment activity despite a new UN resolution seeking suspension of the process.

Syria resumes covert nuclear projects
DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report that it took Damascus a year to recover from the demolition of its plutonium project at El Kibar in northern Syria, but already the nuclear scientists and technicians who were to have been employed there have been hired for new projects. This time the installations are scattered in different parts of the country. North Korean nuclear experts are back too.

Israeli company keeps pod slurpers at bay
Since the advent of digital technology, industrial spying has become a great deal easier. With a portable storage device, a data spy can quickly smuggle out confidential information, putting a business at grave legal or financial risk. Studies show that today companies are losing billions of dollars annually to the problem, known as "pod slurping".

US-Russian deal lets Iran’s nuclear bomb program off the hook
Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 was the day the policy pursued by Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni and Shimon Peres, of reliance on the international community to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb, sank without a trace. The international community declined to adopt fresh economic sanctions to rein in an increasingly defiant Tehran.