TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010Jerusalem - The Middle East Newsline has confirmed that Germany continues to be the source of advanced components for Iran's missile program. The Berlin government has determined that Iranian front companies were purchasing dual-use equipment and components for its ballistic missile programs. They said the items were often sent to third countries, particularly the United Arab Emirates, before they arrived in Iran. "There is a large Iranian expatriate...

TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010 Jerusalem - This week, Israel celebrated its 62nd birthday. Israel Independence Day always lends itself to the people of Israel gaining some needed perspective. When the state was established, the population of Israel was 806,000. At its 62nd Independence Day, Israel has ave grown to 7,587,000 people. Moreover, on the eve of its 62nd Independence Day, Israel leads the entire Western world in economic growth. Data published by the Israel Central Bureau of...

TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010 Jerusalem - The health of PLO leader and Palestinian Authority Chairman Machmud Abbas s failing, and he is under observation and treatment in a hospital in Amman-reported yesterday Al-Quds Al-Arabi, sparking a wave of rumors pertaining to the Palestinian president’s health. About a month ago the 75 year-old Abbas fell in his home and sustained light injuries. Official Palestinian media outlets were quick to report that the president had only slipped, however...

PUBLISHED: MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010Following the volcanic eruption in Iceland, I found myself stranded in Europe on Israel Memorial Day. Along with tens of thousands of other Israelis waiting in airports across the ash-clouded continent, I had the strong desire to get back home, in time at least to celebrate Israel's Independence Day. My journey first began at the railway station at the Hague in Holland, where I had been recently visiting at the Israeli Embassy and Parliament House and...

Jerusalem - Every day, dozens of documents arrive at the hub of the Israeli Army’s Central Command office - summaries of classified meetings, secret presentations, secret situation assessments and secret investigations. For a period of at least three years, between 2004 and 2007, all of these documents were seen by one clerk, Anat Kam. At her desk, Anat Kam perused documents that the director of the Israel Security Agency describes as “the fantasy of every intelligence...

http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2010/04/16/news/world/doc4bc7b1f6bfe9b101204956.txt FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2010 JERUSALEM �" Speaking in the official memorial service Holocaust Memorial Day, which occurred on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nations of the world: “If we have learned anything from the Holocaust, then it is that we must not remain silent or deterred when confronted with evil.” In a speech that addressed events in Iran, and although the prime...

http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2010/04/09/news/world/doc4bbf4c3f9f6b8199177326.txt Published: April 9, 2010 Jerusalem �" Officials in Jerusalem rejected the possibility that the Obama administration might present an American peace plan and try to impose it on the parties, The Washington Post reported. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that he would oppose any attempt to impose a solution on Israel. “It won’t work,” Mr. Netanyahu said to his aides. “Thus far,...

Published: Friday, April 2, 2010Jerusalem - The Palestinian Authority has promoted an officer� responsible for killing� American citizens. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has promoted Mahmoud Damra to the rank of major general. Damra was identified as the commander of Fatah's praetorian guard Force 17 and responsible for the security of Abbas's predecessor, Yasser Arafat. In other words, Abbas promoted a man who commands a Palestinian terror unit to the rank of major general. ...

Sunday, March 28, 2010 “Ambush” is the word that was widely used in the Israeli media to describe the reception that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was given at the White House on Tuesday. The Israeli media cited a number of steps that were taken by the White House in order to “humiliate” the prime minister, who received “the treatment reserved for the president of Equatorial Guinea,” to use one pundit’s description, or that of...