Summit In Damascus To Discuss Negotiations With Israel

The indirect peace talks between Israel and Syria are expanding the circle of partners. Syrian President Bashar Assad will convene a four-way summit today with the participation of the leaders of France, Turkey and Qatar, in order to discuss his indirect talks with the Olmert government. This was stated Tuesday night by unofficial sources in the Syrian leadership.

The four leaders who will convene in Damascus are French President Nicolas Sarkozy; Qatar Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani; and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. News agencies in Syria noted on Tuesday at the symbolic nature of the summit: It will bring together the acting president of the Arab League, Syria; with the acting president of the European Union, France; and the acting president of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Qatar. According to reports from Damascus, the four leaders will also discuss the Iranian nuclear crisis and the volatile situation in Lebanon.

Israeli Missiles Sold To India For About $260 Million

After long months of competition with other systems and prolonged negotiations, India ordered from Israel’s Rafael Spyder air defense systems valued at $260 million. This is a system that makes use of the company’s two air-to-air missiles, the heat-guided Python 5 and the radar-guided Derby. The two were converted for launching from a ground launcher installed on a truck. The system also includes a radar system made by Israel Aircraft Industries.

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David Bedein
David Bedein
David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center's investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict - UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein's 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education'   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein's work can be found at: www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

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