Israeli Source: 'Slim Chance China Will Drop Her Refusal To Impose New Sanctions On Iran After U.S. Arms Sale To Taiwan'IsraCast Assessment: U.S. Deployment Of Patriot Missiles In Gulf States Part Of Clinton's 'Defensive Umbrella' As U.S. Presses For New Sanctions Against Iran Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks Apparently To Get Underway In Coming Weeks Under Aegis Of U.S. Envoy George Mitchell
The U.S. announcement of a $6 billion arms sale to Taiwan could not have come at a worse time for President Barack Obama's attempt to rally UN Security Council backing for new sanctions against Iran. A former senior Israeli official in Washington says chances are now slimmer than ever of getting China's crucial support. Meanwhile, the U.S. is beefing up the missile defenses of four Gulf states as Iran launches a missile which could potentially reach America's eastern seaboard. Analyst David Essing assesses this and other developments over the past seven days.
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Abdullah II bin al-Hussein is the current King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He ascended the throne on 7 February 1999 after the death of his father King Hussein. King Abdullah is a member of the Hashemite family and is reportedly a 43rd-generation direct descendant of Prophet Muhammad.
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The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology is an institute of higher education in Haifa. Founded in 1924, the Technion began with an emphasis on the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture, but has since also became one of the top medical schools in the world.
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On the evening of February 4th, 1997, Israelis found themselves anxiously glued to news flashes on television and radio, after two Israeli Defense Force helicopters collided high above Sha'ar-Yeshuv in the North of Israel.
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IDF Brig.Gen. David Suissa: "We Knew Hamas Would Try & Draw IDF Into Trap Of Killing Palestinian Civilians & We Did Everything Possible To Avoid It"
"I Was Commander Of Fire Control & I Say With Absolute Certainty There Was No Deliberate Attempt To Kill Palestinian Civilians Or Destroy Their Infrastructure"
IsraCast Assessment: Relative To Iraq U.S. Coalition Has Killed Ten Times More Civilians In War Against Combatants Than Did IDF During Cast Lead Operation In Gaza
In early February, the Goldstone Report that accused Israel of perpetrating war crimes in Gaza will again make headlines. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is expected to address the question of Israeli and Palestinian compliance with the Goldstone demand for independent inquiries into the IDF's Cast Lead Operation to suppress the eight years of Palestinian rocketing of Israeli civilians. The Israeli government is now considering, what if any, investigation to set up after refusing to cooperate with the probe that was mandated by the UN's Council of Human Rights to investigate Israel's 'war crimes'.
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Sha'arei Tzedek Medical Center, or SZMC, is a major research hospital located in the Beit VeGan neighborhood cross from Mount Herzl of Jerusalem. The Hebrew name means "gates of justice".
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Avraham Ravitz, an influential ultra-Orthodox Jewish lawmaker who served in Israel's parliament for 20 years, died Monday in Jerusalem. The 75-year-old Ravitz suffered from a heart condition and had been hospitalized since early January.
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Yaakov Dori was Chief of Staff of the Haganah and was later appointed the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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Menashe Amir: 'Iranian Dissidents Will Welcome New Sanctions On Dictatorial Regime'
'More Than Sixty Per Cent Of Iranians Now Demand Regime Change'
'Despite German Chancellor Merkle's Public Criticism Of Iranian Regime, German Companies Do Booming Business With Iran'
Iran
continues to defy U.S. President Barack Obama's January deadline and
continues to produce enriched uranium as part of its nuclear weapons
project. This week, IDF Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin disclosed the Iranian
nuclear clock is still ticking and every day Tehran is enriching a
'number of kilograms of low grade uranium'. At the latest meeting of
the 'five plus one', China and Russia again blocked any serious attempt
to impose new and harsher sanctions on the Iranian regime. Israeli
analyst Menashe Amir, who was born and bred in Iran, assessed the
current situation in an address to the Jerusalem Center for Public
Affairs in Jerusalem. IsraCast's David Essing recommends Amir's
analysis as an inside look into what is happening in the Iran file
which is far from closed.
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak To Examine If Turkey Is Willing To Put Ayalon Affair In the Past & Treat Israel More Respectfully
IsraCast Assessment: Egypt Ignores Foreign Minister Lieberman But Maintains Close Relations With Netanyahu Government - Possible Precedent For Turkey?
Al-Aharam: 'If Not For Mossad Chief Meir Dagan, Iran Would Have Acquired Nuclear Weapons Years Ago!'
Defense Minister Ehud's Barak's official visit to Turkey has been saved by the eleventh hour apology of Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. Barak will be able to examine what can be salvaged from the relations after Ayalon tried to humiliate Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol while delivering a protest over Turkey's verbal attacks on Israel and the screening of anti- Semitic programs on Turkish TV. The Barak visit will now have added importance at a time that relations between Jerusalem and Ankara have hit an all time low. On the other hand, none other than the Egyptian newspaper Al-Aharam credits Mossad chief Meir Dagan with stalling Iran's nuclear weapons project.
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Iran: 'Israel,U.S. & Anti-Revolutionary Forces Are Responsible For Assassination Of Nuclear Scientist Prof. Massud Masoudi in Tehran'
Former Mossad Chief Shabtai Shavit: 'I Have No Idea Who Planted The Bomb But Covert War Is Being Waged By West Against Iranian Nuclear Weapons Project'
Today's Technology Enables Covert Operations To Be Conducted From A Distance & Borders Are No Obstacle!'
Who assassinated senior Iranian nuclear physicist Prof. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi by a bomb planted near his car outside his Tehran home on Tuesday morning? Iran blames Israel, U.S. and Iranian opponents of the regime. Israel has failed to react to the accusation. In an interview with Israel Radio, Shabtai Shavit, a former director of Mossad, Israel's Secret Intelligence Service, said he had no idea who planted the bomb but he also discussed what he called 'the covert war being waged against the Iranian nuclear weapons project'.
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Israel Signals Zero Tolerance For Fresh Rocketing Attacks From Gaza
IDF Gen.(ret) Yitzak Ben Yisrael: 'New Iron Dome Missile Defense Is World Class Achievement That Will Soon Provide Enhanced Protection For Israeli Civilians Within Rocket Range Of Gaza'
Why Have Israeli Airlines Not Introduced Full Body Screening Checks?
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza escalated their rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli civilians this week - the Israeli response came within hours with pin-point air strikes. On Gaza's southern border, Egyptian security forces also repulsed Palestinians rioters who stormed the border area in protest over Egypt's blocking of the arms smuggling tunnels. In another milestone, Israel has uncovered 'Iron Dome', a state-of-the art missile defense system designed to intercept Kassam rockets fired at Israeli population centers from Gaza. Analyst David Essing also has some thoughts on the outcome of the failed Al-Qaeda attempt to blow up an American airliner and the reaction of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Within the framework of the Paris Peace Conference, a political accord was signed on January 3, 1919, by Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the name of the Zionist Organization and by the Emir Feisal, son of the Sherif of Mecca.
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Oded Abramsky was born in Jerusalem. He received M.D. and Ph.D.
degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He did his residency
in Neurology at the Hadassah University Hospital and became Board
Certified in Neurology in 1973. In 1981-1988 he was the Chairman of the
Division of Neurology and Neurosurgery in the Hebrew University
Hadassah Medical School. In 1982 he was appointed Head of the
Neuroimmunolgoy Unit at Hadassah Medical Organization, and Professor of
Neurology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon: 'No Guarantee Iranian Regime Will Survive 2010 - U.S., Russia & China Ready To Impose Sanctions, Possibly This Month'
IsraCast Asssessment: New Sanctions On Iran Should Be Designed To Deter Regime While Not Harming Popular Momentum For Democratic Change
Shabak Security Chief Diskin: 'Release Of Marwan Barghutti & Influx Of Hard Core Terrorists To West Bank Could Spark Intifada III'
Israel has entered 2010 facing with a wide range of both dangers and prospects in the security and foreign affairs arena. The Iranian regime is now battling for its political survival at home against a mounting campaign for democratic reform while time has apparently run out for its clandestine nuclear weapons project. At year's end, the international reach of Islamist terrorism struck again at Schiphol Airport and at a CIA base in Afghanistan, while a divided Palestinian camp remained split over terrorism or negotiations. Analyst David Essing assesses the situation from an Israeli perspective.
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