Archive for 'Iran' Category
PEACE TALKS DUPLICITY SEEN BY FORMER NEGOTIATOR ROBERT GRENIER
5 September 2010By Robert Grenier
Al Jazeera
The latest piece of ‘analysis’ of the misnamed Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace process’ from Martin Indyk, recently aired by the New York Times Op-Ed page, simply leaves me slack-jawed.
On the surface, Martin’s views appear to be the soul of pedestrian reasonableness. Cutting across the grain of current informed opinion, the former stalwart of [...]
IRAN PLANS LONG-RANGE AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS
5 September 2010FARS News Agency
TEHRAN - A senior Iranian military commander announced on Sunday that the country has taken wide strides in developing long-range air defense systems and will start production of this kind of missile shields in the near future.
“God willing, we will produce such systems in the near future,” Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia [...]
ISRAEL OFFICIAL JEOPARDIZES PEACE TALKS
5 September 2010Foreign minister comes under proverbial fire as his pessimistic prediction of peace process’ failure draws mass criticism by government ministers,
Palestinian officials
Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman
File Photo
By Attila Somfalvi
Ynetnews.com
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s pessimistic prediction that peace will be remain illusive and unattainable stirred immediate controversy Sunday, with both Palestinian Authority officials and government ministers saying [...]
NEW FOOTAGE SHOWS HEZBOLLAH EVACUATING ILLEGAL ARMS FROM LEBANON BLAST SITE - ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
5 September 2010Exchange of fire on the border between Israel and Lebanon
August 3, 2010
Photo By Karamallah Daher
By Anshel Pefeffer
Haaretz
The army on Sunday released video footage of an explosion that tore through a building in southern Lebanon on Friday – with pictures apparently showing rockets and weapons stored by Hezbollah militants in contravention of a United [...]
REPORT: IRAN PAYS TALIBAN TO KILL U.S. SOLDIERS - $1000 PER SOLDIER, $6000 PER VEHICLE DESTROYED
5 September 2010Intelligence sources in Afghanistan, senior Taliban officials tell Sunday Times about training camps built by Iran for terror activists, money they receive for their ‘achievements’ - $1,000 for each soldier and $6,000 for each vehicle
Ynetnews.com
At least five Iranian companies are sending money to the Islamist terror group in Afghanistan in order to fund the [...]
TENS OF THOUSANDS ACROSS FRANCE PROTEST SARKOZY EXPULSION OF GYPSIES
5 September 2010Protesters took to the streets of cities across France in their thousands
By Damien Pearse
Sky News Online
Tens of thousands of people have protested across France against a clampdown on immigrants by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Demonstrators opposed to new measures including the repatriation of Roma to eastern Europe waved French flags and placards and chanted slogans.
The marches [...]
PALESTINIAN LEADER BLASTS AHMADINEJAD OVER PEACE CONFERENCE COMMENTS - IRAN ‘REPRESSES THEIR PEOPLE’
5 September 2010The administration of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, lashed
out at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday
CNN
The administration of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas lashed out at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday, a day after Ahmadinejad criticized Abbas for renewing direct peace talks with Israel.
“He who does not represent the Iranian people, who forged [...]
THE ARAB LOBBY IN AMERICA - HOW POWERFUL?
4 September 2010By Gary Fine
StarTribune.com
Is the Arab lobby, its strongest voice-the Saudi lobby, one of the strongest in America? According to a new book by American Middle East expert Mitchell Bard, the answer is a definitive YES!! Bard, currently the executive director of the nonprofit AICE (American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise), states that “one of the most [...]
CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS REPENT IN SACRAMENTO FOR A HOPELESS NATION
4 September 2010Ben Joiner was among thousands at a conservative Christian rally at the Capitol.
Politics also marked the event; speakers called for an end
to abortion and gay marriage
SACRAMENTO, Calif — Thousands of Christian conservatives spent 12 hours Saturday praying and fasting in front of the state Capitol at a gathering organizers described as spiritual repentance “when there [...]
ISRAEL BOMBS GAZA TUNNELS IN RESPONSE TO WEEK OF TERROR INCIDENTS
4 September 2010Gaza militants fired rocket at southern Israel earlier Saturday,
just days after four Israelis were killed in a West Bank shooting attack
File Photo
Haaretz
Israel Air Force planes struck targets in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, hours after Palestinian militants fired a rocket from the territory into
Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that its air force had [...]
AN UNSETTLED ISSUE: ISRAELI SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION BOOM DESPITE BAN
4 September 2010Construction work in the Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim near Jerusalem.
Officially there is a building freeze in force until September 26th. However many
settlers are not complying with the ban.
By Juliane von Mittelstaedt in Jerusalem
Der Spiegel
In Washington, the Israelis and Palestinians are discussing peace, but in the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, construction is proceeding [...]
HAREDIM SLIPPING OUT FOR SHRIMP ON THE SLY
4 September 2010At home they observe mitzvoth, but sometimes they sneak out to clubs and chow down on seafood. Ynetnews presents story of haredim who hide new secular life because price of exposure is too high
‘Trapped in black and white world’
Photo By Amit Magal
By Ravid Oren
Ynetnews.com
This wasn’t the first time he had tried. At first, he [...]
ROCKET FIRED FROM GAZA HITS ISRAEL
4 September 2010File Photo
By Ari Rabinovitch
Reuters
Militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel today, two days after the start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, causing no injuries or damage, the Israeli military said.
The cross-border rocket fire was the first since Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington [...]
PALESTINIAN SKEPTICISM OVER PEACE TALKS ‘ALL BUT DISAPPEARS’
4 September 2010Gazans watching the opening of the Israeli Palestinian direct talks in Washington, September 2, 2010
Haaretz
The skepticism which plagued the Palestinian camp prior to the recent relaunch of direct Middle East peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority has all but disappeared, aides to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the Arabic language London-based newspaper Al-Hayat [...]
ITALIAN CITIES TO SHUT GYPSY CAMPS
3 September 2010Officials in Italy call the camps for thousands of Roma, or Gypsies, dangerous,
and they have moved to shut them down
By Elisabetta Povoledo
The New York Times
MILAN — Some 20 years ago, Marco Deragna, a Roma whose family has been in Italy for generations, moved to a field on the outskirts of metropolitan Milan and made his [...]
REPORT: SYRIA MOVES FORCEFULLY TO CURB INFLUENCE OF CONSERVATIVE MUSLIMS
3 September 2010Young Syrian men and women drink beer and smoke at one of the many bars
in Damascus’ old city
By Kareen Fahem
The New York Times
DAMASCUS, Syria — This country, which had sought to show solidarity with Islamist groups and allow religious figures a greater role in public life, has recently reversed course, moving forcefully to curb the [...]
HEZBOLLAH LEADER HASSAN NASRALLAH PRAISES HAMAS FOR WEST BANK KILLING OF ISRAELIS
3 September 2010By Jack Khoury
Haaretz
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah praised Hamas on Friday for the West Bank shooting attacks which left four Israelis dead and two injured on two consecutive days, saying “this is the way to free Jerusalem and Palestine.”
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SETTLEMENTS CLOUD PEACE TALKS
3 September 2010By Mark Landler and Helen Cooper
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Israeli and Palestinian negotiators cleared the first hurdle on Thursday in their elusive quest for Middle East peace: they agreed to keep talking, two weeks from now in Egypt.
But on a richly choreographed day of diplomacy, filled with solemn promises to tackle the tough [...]
HEBREW UNIVERSITY DEVELOPS TREAMENT ‘TO COMPLETELY DESTROY HIV CELLS WITHOUT DAMAGING ADJACENT HEALTHY CELLS’
3 September 2010By Dan Even
Haaretz
A team of researchers from the Hebrew University has developed a treatment that completely destroys HIV-infected human cells in laboratory cultures, according to an article published last month in the scientific journal AIDS Research and Therapy.
The therapy, developed by scientists from the university’s Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences and the Institute [...]
SIMON WIESENTHAL WORKED FOR ISRAELI SPY AGENCY, BOOK ALLEGES
2 September 2010Simon Wiesenthal walks over a Jewish cemetery in 1992 in Eisenstadt, Austria,
that has been vandalized by right-wing extremists.
By Ethan Bronner
The New York Times
JERUSALEM — Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who gained worldwide fame for decades as a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, was in fact frequently on the payroll of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, a [...]
FIVE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RABBIS SIGN LETTER SUPPORTING J STREET EFFORTS
2 September 2010Jweekly.com
More than 60 American and Israeli rabbis, including nine former presidents of the Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis and five Bay Area rabbis, have signed a letter in support of J Street.
The letter comes as direct talks begin between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Local signatories to the letter are Rabbis Martin Weiner, [...]
TWO-THIRDS OF NEW YORKERS WANT PROPOSED GROUND ZERO MOSQUE MOVED TO LESS CONTROVERSIAL SITE - NEW YORK TIMES POLL
2 September 2010Hundreds of opponents of the proposed Muslim and cultural center
and mosque near the World Trade Center site rally in lower Manhattan.
Opponents of the center says its proposed location is insensitive
and fear it will harbor religious extremism.
By Michael Barbaro and Marjorie Connelly
The New York Times
Two-thirds of New York City residents want a planned Muslim community center [...]
LEADERS AGREE TO SUCCESSIVE ROUNDS OF PEACE TALKS
2 September 2010By Mark Landler
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton formally reopened direct peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on Thursday, acknowledging that “we’ve been here before, and we know how difficult the road ahead will be,” but expressing confidence that the core disputes separating the two sides can be resolved [...]
PERES ASKS POPE FOR HELP WITH SHALIT
2 September 2010By Roni Sofer
Ynetnews.com
President Shimon Peres met with the Pope Benedict XVI and asked for his help in releasing kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. Benedict said he would do all he could to assist the process.
The pope and senior Vatican officials expressed hope that the Israeli-Palestinian talks starting Thursday would bring peace to the region and respect [...]
FIDEL CASTRO ADMITS HIS REVOLUTION DOLED OUT ‘INJUSTICE’ TO GAYS
1 September 2010Rafael Chávez González, Mr. Gay Habana, interrogated by police
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview published Tuesday.
Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Cuba sent openly gay men to labor camps without charge or trial.
“They were moments of great [...]