Published: SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2010JERUSALEM - The newly elected British government will have a new challenge on its hands: How to cope with credible intelligence reports which provide hard evidence that Great Britain provides a safe haven for the Iranian and Saudi sponsored Hamas terrorist organization, which is in the throes of preparing another round of aerial attacks on southern Israel, from its terror bases in Gaza. These reports, initially published in 2007 and 2008,issued by the...

Published: Saturday, May 15, 2010JERUSALEM - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who visited the Syrian capital of Damascus, arrived with a sharp and clear Israeli message that was conveyed at the start of the week by Israeli President Shimon Peres: Israel wants peace, but is not willing to accept Hezbollah’s military buildup. In the message that is being conveyed by the Russian president, Israel clarified that it had no intention of attacking Syria and was not interested in a...

FRIDAY, MAY 07, 2010JERUSALEM - This past week, the Jewish world observed the death of Netura Carta leader Moshe Hirsch. Netura Carta is known as an anti-Zionist wing of the Orthodox Jewish world. Hirsch led Netura Carta to actively support all Palestinian terrorist groups and demonstrated active support for Iran, after Teheran declared its nuclear threat against the Jewish state. In an interview that Hirsch gave to foreign reporters in Jerusalem in May 1994, following former...

PUBLISHED: FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2010JERUSALEM - A proposal for a nuclear-weapons-free Middle East is seeing new life as the Obama administration pushes for a Middle East with no nuclear weapons, which places new pressure against Israel about its nuclear arsenal. John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said that President Obama’s consent to discuss demilitarizing the Middle East of nuclear weapons endangered Israel. He said that Mr. Obama was playing into Iranian President Mahmoud...

FRIDAY, MAY 07, 2010 JERUSALEM - Judge Richard Goldstone gained notoriety in Israel over the past year when the U.N. human rights commission that he chaired made the determination that Israel committed war crimes and criticized the Israeli Defense Forces, which, he claimed, had violated basic human rights. Judge Richard Goldstone forgot only one thing: to make any mention of his own sordid human rights record. A special investigation by the Tel Aviv newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, which will...

Published: FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2010 - Philadelphia Bulletin. JERUSALEM - An official Iranian government news agency has announced that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held a telephone conversation with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in which the Iranian leader announced the country’s agreement with Brazil’s proposal on nuclear fuel swap for its research reactor in Tehran. During the conversation on Tuesday, President Ahmadinejad said that he announced his agreement in...

FRIDAY, MAY 07, 2010JERUSALEM - Israel Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich has withdrawn his opposition to a new bill that would cancel the numerous privileges that thousands of Hamas convicts incarcerated in Israeli jails currently enjoy. Mr. Aharonovich yesterday held a meeting this week on this subject with a number of pertinent officials. Likud Member of the Israel Knesset Parliament Danny Danon introduced a new bill to the cabinet stipulating that members of a terrorist...

TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010 Jerusalem - Israeli officials are outraged by the decision made by the general prosecutor in Cologne, Germany, regarding a cartoon that showed a Jew eating a Palestinian boy and drinking his blood. After a complaint was lodged with the police about the cartoon, the general prosecutor allowed for the continued display of the cartoon, ruling that “at issue is not an antisemitism cartoon but an expression of legitimate criticism about Israel’s inhuman...

Published: May 2, 2010 Jerusalem - The administration of President Barack Obama has launched what officials termed a psychological warfare campaign meant to topple Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Sources in the Obama Administration and the US Congress have confirmed to the Middle East Newsline that the White House and State Department have sought to destabilize Netanyahu's government by forcing him to agree to an indefinite freeze on Jewish construction in areas taken by...

SUNDAY, MAY 02, 2010Jerusalem - The Middle East Newsline newsletter has uncovered a U.S. State Department which documents that it has detected Syrian efforts to bypass U.S. sanctions imposed on Damascus over the last decade. In that report, the department's inspector-general said the U.S. embassy foiled several of these Syrian attempts. "The United States also was able to thwart several Syrian attempts to evade sanctions, thanks to timely embassy warnings," the report,...