Category Archives: Top 10 News Stories

09/06/12

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* Cistern dated to First Temple period found in Jerusalem Archaeologists have discovered a large public cistern from the time of the First Temple in Jerusalem’s Old City.

* ‘Stop Calling us Nazis,’ GOP Tells Democrats The Mitt Romney campaign issued a statement Wednesday demanding Democratic officials “cease and desist from comparing those with whom they disagree to Nazis”.

* ‘Obama only put J’lem back in platform for votes’ The addition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to the Democratic platform does not make up for the party’s original intentions.

* Who Financed 9/11 & Has Justice Been Done? It’s almost 11 years since the 9/11 attacks on the USA.

* Israelis optimistic despite Iran threat, IDI finds More than three-quarters of Israelis are optimistic about their country’s future, despite security, socioeconomic and other serious challenges that lie ahead.

* Democrats reinstate Jerusalem in party platform Democrats amended the party platform Wednesday afternoon to include language supporting Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

* Anti-Christian Hate Speech Spews From The Palm Beach Dem Chair Democrats returned the words “God” and “Jersusalem” to their DNC platform on Wednesday afternoon.

* How China is boosting Egypt’s role in the Mideast, amid fading U.S. influence The Middle East with its vast energy resources and vital geopolitical position is of crucial importance for all the major powers, both east and west.

* Iraq oil exports ‘highest’ in more than 30 years Iraq has reached its highest crude oil export level since the 1980s.

* Deputy US Army chief visits Israel amid Iran tension An ongoing visit to Israel by Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., was revealed Thursday morning on Army Radio.

09/05/12

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* Rivlin: Obama doesn’t understand the Mideast US President Barack Obama’s administration does not understand the realities of the Middle East.

* Nobody Like Ahmadinejad Since Hitler, Says Peres No one since Hitler – except for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – has publicly declared a desire to destroy an entire people and eliminate a country.

* Iran: We treat Israeli military threats as American Iran makes no distinction between US and Israeli interests and will retaliate against both countries if attacked.

* Egypt’s Morsy says it’s ‘time for change’ in Syria Egypt’s president, promising to put Cairo back at the heart of Arab affairs, made an impassioned appeal to Arab states on Wednesday to work for an end to the bloodshed in Syria.

* Hamas trains diplomats, challenging PLO monopoly Hamas has begun a training program for diplomats in the Gaza Strip where it rules.

* Video: In an Online World, Cyber Warfare Can be Lethal The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) held on Tuesday its annual international conference on cyberspace.

* Turkey accuses Syria of ‘state terrorism’ Turkey accused Syria of “state terrorism” Wednesday after a sharp spike in the death toll from the Syrian civil war.

* UN chief says Security Council paralysis harming Syrian people U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon slammed the Security Council on Wednesday for failing to take stronger action on Syria.

* Euro Zone Slips Back to Recession Europe is slipping into a recession, according to data revealed by the European Central Bank on Wednesday.

* Abbas says he has backing for new UN bid The Palestinians will seek to upgrade their status at the United Nations this month bolstered by the support of Arab countries.

09/04/12

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* The Iranians are almost there. This is how they did it. Since the last century, Iran has been methodically pursuing the in-house capability of developing a missile-delivered nuclear bomb.

* PLO warns of ‘unprecedented’ threat to two-state solution The PLO leadership warned Tuesday that Israeli policies in Jerusalem and the West Bank posed an “unprecedented and serious threat – in the short term – to the two state solution.”

* Lieberman: Nuclear Iran Would Set Off ME Arms Race At a meeting of his Yisrael Beiteinu party, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday that a nuclear armed Iran would precipitate a nuclear arms race in the entire Middle East.

* Obama’s Platform Puts Israel, PA on Back Burner The Democratic party’s election platform includes the usual “unshakeable commitment” to Israel, without any mention of Jerusalem or the “peace process.”

* Syria calls reserves as it strains to crush revolt Syria is calling up former soldiers from the reserves to active army service in growing numbers.

* Iran threatens to deploy ships near US shores The head of Iran’s navy said the country aims to put its warships in international waters off the US coast “in the next few years.”

* Ambassadors to tell the world EU is not falling apart European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso has said EU ambassadors need “economic briefings” to help tell the outside world what the bloc is doing to fight the crisis.

* Depression, Suicides Rise as Euro Debt Crisis Intensifies Europe is approaching a crisis as the region’s debt crisis and austerity measures increase the rates of depression, suicide and psychological problems.

* Netanyahu: ‘Clear Red Line’ Will Prevent War in Iran Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the international community must set a “clear red line” in order to avoid a war over Iran’s controversial nuclear program.

* Analysis: Bibi Beating Obama at Political Chess Iran is the last item President Barack Obama wants as an election issue.

09/03/12

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* U.S. Tells Iran: We Won’t Join Israeli Attack Large Israeli newspaper: message is intended to prevent Iranian response against U.S. targets in Gulf.

* France: Response to Syrian chemical arms use would be huge If Syrian gov’t uses chemical or bacterial weapons it will trigger a “massive and lightning” response from West, says French FM Fabius, calling it a “big, big risk” in the Syrian crisis.

* J’lem puzzled by Dempsey comment on Iran strike Dempsey said he did not want to be ‘complicit’ in strike; Israeli source says comment doesn’t represent White House position.

* Official: Obama will make Bibi pay after elections Israeli security officials say Pentagon’s decision to reduce number of US troops it will send to joint drill with Israel not related to growing tensions with Israel; others claim Washington saying ‘you will not drag us into Iran war’

* Moscow plays on fears of China in global quest for naval bases Russia recently announced its intention to obtain naval facilities in various parts of the world, including Vietnam, the Seychelles, and Cuba.

* Gaza’s “Humanitarian Disaster”: 600 Millionaires There are 600 millionaires living in Gaza, which mainstream media for years have reported is an “humanitarian disaster” blamed on Israel.

* A fig leaf of continental proportions As focus moves from arguments between Greece and its EU partners to a possible bail-out for Spain, it is becoming clear that in efforts to solve the eurozone crisis EU leaders are missing the wood for the trees.

* Barroso: EU Treaty ‘needs to be renewed’ European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso has said EU institutions need more power over member states to fight the crisis.

* ‘Moonie’ Church mourns founder Sun Myung Moon Members of the South Korea-based Unification Church are in mourning following the death of their founder, self-proclaimed messiah Sun Myung Moon.

* Syria crisis: ‘Deadly Aleppo strike’ as UN envoy starts job Violence is continuing in Syria, with opposition activists saying that a warplane may have killed as many as 25 people in a strike in Aleppo province.

09/01/12

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* Egypt prof: Israel will be gone by next year An Egyptian political science professor told an Iranian TV station that, with Allah’s help, “Israel will be annihilated” by 2013.

* U.S. Greatly Reduces Participation in Joint Drill with Israel Washington has greatly reduced the scale of U.S. participation in a massive joint military exercise with Israel.

* US disowns Israel over Iran strike: No weapons or military backup Instead of the 5,000 US troops originally assigned for Austere Challenge 12, the annual joint exercise, the Pentagon will send only 1,200 to 1,500 service members.

* Security and Defense: Iran’s long arm Earlier this month, a group of 48 men from Iran entered Syria, ostensibly to visit a Shi’ite shrine.

* Iran to hold massive air defense drill in October Iran will hold a massive air defense drill in October incorporating aerial and ground forces.

* Abbas Asks Ahmadinejad to Help Establish ‘Palestine’ Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas asked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to help establish a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 borders.

* Cardinal Carlo Martini says Church ‘200 years behind’ Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini has described the Roman Catholic Church as being “200 years behind” the times.

* Group Proceeds With 2-Hour Islamic ‘Jumah’ Prayers ‘at the DNC’ The host committee for the Democratic National Convention is raising a number of eyebrows after choosing to proceed with featuring Islamic “Jumah” prayers for two hours on the Friday before its convention.

* Muslims Plan 3-Day Jumah Event to Pressure Democratic Convention Approximately 20,000 Muslims are expected to attend a three-day event called “Jumah at the DNC.”

* PLO’s Ashrawi: No such thing as Jewish refugees Jews who came to Israel from Arab countries are not refugees because they left their homes voluntarily and under pressure from Zionist groups and the Jewish Agency, Hanan Ashrawi, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said.

08/31/12

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* Ya’alon: US is undermining military threat against Iran Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon said on Friday he feared Iran did not believe it faced a real military threat from the outside world because of mixed messages from foreign powers.

* ‘PM tells US ‘time has run out’ on Iran diplomacy’ Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu got into a diplomatic shouting match with US Ambassador Dan Shapiro over US President Barack Obama’s handling of Iran’s nuclear program.

* ‘The Guns of October’: Report forecasts Gulf war by late 2012 The United States could become involved in a major war in the Gulf in 2012.

* Bolton to Israel: Attack, It’s Your Right Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, said in an interview published Friday that he does not believe President Barack Obama will order an attack on Iran.

* Romney: Obama threw Israel under the bus Mitt Romney slammed US President Barack Obama’s treatment of Israel and Iran.

* Islamists laying groundwork for West Bank coup The Islamist opposition has been quietly preparing to seize power in the West Bank.

* PM to ‘speak the truth’ on Iran in UN speech Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced he would respond at the UN General Assembly next month.

* PA’s Abbas to delay pursuit of UN statehood Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not ask the UN General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian state next month.

* Israel developing micro-satellite launched by air-to-air missile Israel plans to approve a design for its first micro-satellite that could be launched from aircraft.

* Germany’s competing visions of Europe No doubt fed up of being cast as the eurozone’s pantomime villainess once again, this time Angela Merkel got her rebuttal in first.

08/30/12

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* Iran summit stumbles on nuclear, Syria criticism A showpiece summit hosted by Iran stumbled as soon as it opened on Thursday.

* IAEA: Iran has doubled underground nuclear capacity Iran has doubled the number of uranium- enrichment centrifuges it has in an underground bunker.

* Israeli attack on Iran ‘would not stop nuclear program’ An Israeli attack on Iran would delay but probably not stop its nuclear program, the most senior US military officer has claimed.

* The NAM meeting’s chilling message When Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy blasted Syria’s government at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Conference in Tehran on Thursday, his comments prompted Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem to storm out.

* Mitt Romney to use RNC speech to address Mormonism and Bain Capital Mitt Romney will use his primetime speech at the Republican national convention on Thursday night to address the biggest of his perceived weaknesses: his Mormon religion and his record as chief executive of Bain Capital.

* Iranian Supreme Leader: Israelis are ‘Ferocious Zionist Wolves’ In yet another outrageously anti-Semitic speech, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking Thursday at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, called Israelis “ferocious Zionist wolves”.

* Egyptian leader stuns Iran with plea to back Syrian rebels Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi has said that the “oppressive” Syrian regime had lost all legitimacy.

* France and Germany moving towards closer political union Last year Germany went out on a limb by calling for political union in Europe.

* China urges Germany and France to solve euro-crisis Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Thursday (30 August) offered vague promises to buy bonds from troubled euro-countries.

* Supermassive black holes and hot galaxies in giant haul A space telescope has added to its list of spectacular finds, spotting millions of supermassive black holes and blisteringly hot, “extreme” galaxies.

08/29/12

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* Syrian Rebels Claim to Take Over Chemical Weapons The Supreme Military Council of the Syrian rebels released on a statement on Tuesday which said that the rebel forces took control of an army missile base in Damascus.

* How Iran could get carte blanche in the Middle East – without a nuclear weapon A cyber attack earlier this month highlighted the vulnerability of the Saudi oil industry, on which so much of the world depends.

* Egypt troops step up campaign against Sinai militants Egyptian security forces have killed 11 militants since launching an offensive in the Sinai peninsula earlier this month, the defence ministry has said.

* Gov’t Archives Reveal Germans Turned Backs on Munich Victims Germany did not even make a “minimal effort” to save the lives of 11 Israeli athletes massacred by Arab terrorists at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

* US ‘Responds’ to Iran with Second Warship in Gulf “When the world calls, we have to respond,” U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told sailors before a second American aircraft carrier headed for the Persian Gulf this week.

* New Site Brings Zionism to the YouTube Generation Many people who love Israel freely use the term “Zionist” to describe themselves. But how many know what Zionism is really all about?

* Turkish military a key player in Western response to Syrian civil war In 2003, Turkey barred US forces from opening a northern front in the war against Iraq in a stunning rebuff to Washington.

* Abbas arrives in Tehran to promote statehood bid Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Tehran Wednesday to attend the Non-Aligned Movement conference.

* France opens murder inquiry into Yasser Arafat’s death French prosecutors have opened a murder inquiry into the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Paris in 2004.

* Gravity waves spotted from white-dwarf pair Researchers have spotted visible-light evidence for one of astronomy’s most elusive targets – gravity waves – in the orbit of a pair of dead stars.

08/28/12

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* ‘The Government Doesn’t Care About the Temple Mount’ The government of Israel does not care about the Temple Mount, attorney Yisrael Caspi alleged Tuesday during a meeting of the State Control Committee.

* Liberman invites Morsi to visit Jerusalem if he is ‘serious’ about peace Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman expressed hopes Tuesday that new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi would visit Israel.

* Yasser Arafat: France ‘opens murder inquiry’ His family launched a case last month over claims that he was poisoned with polonium-210, a radioactive element.

* The most fateful decision of all Hear that frantic whispering noise beneath the hum of the air-conditioners in this sweltering Israeli summer? That’s the sound of many Israeli insiders repeating over and over and over: Don’t do it. Don’t do it. Don’t do it..

* DNC Proceeds With 2-Hour Islamic ‘Jumah’ Prayers After Rejecting Cardinal’s Blessing (And You Won’t Believe Who’s Invited) The Democratic National Committee is raising a number of eyebrows after choosing to proceed with hosting Islamic “Jumah” prayers for two hours on the Friday of its convention.

* Experts: Big radiation risk unlikely in Iran strike Any Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities are unlikely to cause a Fukushima-scale disaster unless a Russian-built reactor is destroyed.

* Curiosity rover’s intriguing geological find The Mars rover Curiosity is indulging in a flurry of multimedia activity ahead of its science mission proper.

* Egypt allows Iranian warship through Suez despite U.S. objection Egypt has again allowed an Iranian Navy ship to pass the Suez Canal toward Syria.

* Muslims Plan 3-Day Jumah Event to Pressure Democratic Convention Approximately 20,000 Muslims are expected to attend a three-day event called “Jumah at the DNC.”

* PRC runs terror academy The Gaza Strip’s terror power struggle features three key players: Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).

08/27/12

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* Abbas Denies Jewish Temple and Christian Theology Abbas refers to the “alleged” Jewish Temple, but if not Jewish, how did Jesus chase the money changers?

* MI chief: Region becoming less stable, more Islamist In annual intelligence evaluation, Military Intelligence head Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi says Israel’s environment will face crises and be more prone to unexpected eruptions.

* Taliban beheads 17 for attending mixed-sex party Gruesome incident recalls darkest days of rule by the ultra-conservative Islamist insurgents before their ouster in 2001.

* Assad Vows to Defeat ‘Foreign Plot’ Assad says Syria will defeat the foreign plot being waged against the country as his troops continue to kill rebels.

* U.S. blogger cites ‘high-level’ source for Israel plan to strike Iran An American blogger has posted what he called Israel’s military operation against Iran.

* Iran Takes on UN at NAM Summit, Slams ‘Current World Order’ Iran kicked off the NAM summit on Sunday by slamming the “adverse consequences of the current world order” and demanding change from the UN.

* Merkel wants EU treaty convention by end of year German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressing for a new EU treaty convention by December, despite opposition from many countries, Der Spiegel reports in its latest print edition on Monday (27 August).

* Syria: Helicopter crashes in Damascus Armed rebels in Syria say they have shot down a military helicopter over the capital, Damascus.

* Report: Lawless Libya ‘awash in weapons’, out of control NATO has become quietly concerned over the collapse of authority in Libya.

* Scientists Successfully ‘Hack’ Brain To Obtain Private Data It sounds like something out of the movie “Johnny Mnemonic” but scientists have successfully been able to ‘hack’ a brain with a device that’s easily available on the open market.