Middle East

Against Bombing Chemical Weapon Sites in Syria

August 31, 2013
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Over the past six months, with shifting front lines and sketchy satellite and human intelligence coming out of Syria, the U.S. intelligence community has lost track of who controls some of the government's chemical weapons supplies, according to one senior U.S. intelligence official and three other U.S. officials briefed on the information presented by...

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Growing Evidence Supports Syrian Rebels Launched Chemical Attack

August 28, 2013
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Growing Evidence Supports Syrian Rebels Launched Chemical Attack

UPDATED:  The Other Side: Assad Set-up so that Obama would have a Reason to Bomb Syria? There is as yet independently unsubstantiated evidence for the involvement of the Jabhat al-Nusrah al-Qaeda offshoot in the chemical weapons attack in Syria, at least as much or more evidence than there is for the Syrian army involvement.  I would...

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Regional Implications of a U.S. Strike on Syria

August 28, 2013
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Yaakov Lappin, the author of this article, based his analysis on the premise that it was Assad’s troops who launched the chemical attack. Yet we now know that at least 4 Hezbollah fighters are being treated for exposure to the chemicals. They claim they encountered them in caves being used by insurgents. Either truth...

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Rockets from Lebanon Strike the Western Galilee

August 23, 2013
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Rockets from Lebanon Strike the Western Galilee

Rocket strikes ‘Be’it El*’, an inn for Holocaust survivors in Shavei Tsion The sirens sounded and residents of the Beit El  Holocaust survivors inn in Shavei Tsion scurried to the nearby bomb shelter from the dining room where they were enjoying their afternoon coffee and cake. Soon after, a rocket struck near the kitchen wall, blowing...

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Israeli Medical Care and Medical Training for Palestinians

May 23, 2013
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Israeli Medical Care and Medical Training for Palestinians

In an amazing and rare admission, the Palestinian Press confirms Israel’s huge investment in medical care for Palestinian (children, in this case).  In addition, the article praises the up-to-date medical training provided for Palestinian doctors at Hadassah Hospital.  The Hadassah organization (with 2 major hospitals in Jerusalem)  founded, expands and maintains excellent medical facilities...

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Terror: Tunnels, Stones and Molotov Cocktails

January 17, 2013
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Attack on Rachel's Tomb

Recently, a new tunnel was discovered which originated in Gaza with an exit into southern Israel. From such a tunnel came the kidnappers of an Israeli soldier and from such tunnels, the terrorists are sent to maim and kill. Even after Israel responds militarily (until ‘called off’ by the Western powers who always know...

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The Israel Defense Forces join the Media Wars

November 15, 2012
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For up-to-the-minute information, go to IDF BLOG SITE Israel is reporting current events in the war on terror (Operation Pillar of Defense) both through blogs, twitter and other social media sites with text, video and photo evidence. TWITTER entries by the IDF SPOKESMAN can be read on this site’s Israelinsight Twitter window. Israel mourns...

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We Still Mourn – 9th of Av

July 30, 2012
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 Perhaps you are aware that the 9th day of the Hebrew month of AV  is a Jewish day of mourning,  2nd only to Yom Kippur  (The Day of Atonement) for all of the Jewish people.  On this day, Jews around the world are united in fasting, prayer, and ponder today’s significance of the greatest tragedies of Jewish...

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Arabs Attempt to Lynch Jews? in Israel?

February 27, 2012
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Soldier Hospitalized Following Attempted Lynch in Haifa

Like most Israelis, I was horrified by the cold-blooded attack on the two young soldiers in Haifa. Unfortunately, it’s not infrequent that Arabs attack young soldiers, but it it was horrifying that there was a gang who set out to torture and lynch them. That the gang of Arab thugs attacked them just because they...

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Are Iranian Attacks on Israeli Embassies Meant to Ignite a War?

February 14, 2012
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Car Bombed in Delhi Attack

Iran Attacks Israel Abroad First, on Monday a magnetic explosive device was planted on the car carrying the wife of an Israeli diplomat in Delhi.  She was injured and is still hospitalized in Dehli.  Shortly afterward, there was an attempt injure a local Embassy employee on his way to work in Tsibili, Georgia.  So...

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