David Bedein
Middle Eastern Bulletins
--U.S. Questions Saudi Nuclear Program--Attacks On U.S. Troops In Iraq Increase Sharply--U.S. Uses Jordan As Iraq Logistics Base
Sen. Specter Dodgy On Syria Questions
The Bulletin asked the senator about Syrian support of Hezbollah's aim to wipe out the state of Israel. Specter said that he raised concern about Syria's supply of arms to Hezbollah, but that President Assad had denied such support. He added that, when he returns to Washington, he would ask American intelligence sources to confirm if, indeed, Syria continues to supply Hezbollah with weapons.
Missile Attacks Critically Injure A 13-Year-Old Boy In Israel
--Israel's policy of holding its fire under such a protracted and massive attack is problematic, not only because of considerations of honor or because of the real danger to the lives of the inhabitants of the western Negev. What is grave is that this is a precedent that grinds away the remnants of deterrence that the IDF still had in the eyes of the Arab world and that was critically damaged in the fiasco of the Lebanon War.-- Missile Falls On?Strategic Compound In Ashkelon--A Policy Of Humiliation?--Key Member Of Israeli Knesset Against Egyptian Foreign Minister--A Muslim Assistant Commander In The Israel Police
Meeting Senator Senator Arlen Specter After his Visit to Syria
Israeli Officials: New Hamas Army Is Forming
--A year from now the threat will be significantly greater than today, because Hamas is using the current lull to build up its forces. Brig. Gen. Sami Turjeman, director of the Operations Department at the Israeli Army General Staff, warned: "In a few months' time we will be faced in the Gaza Strip with a military capability which we have not known up till now.--Jordan And The Palestinians
U.S. Blocks Arms, Technology To Israel
"Several weeks after the ( Israeli vs. Hezbollah) war, the U.S. supplies stopped," a source said. "There was no real explanation." Israeli and U.S. sources said the State Department has blocked the transfer of weapons and technology to the Jewish state over the last three months. The sources said the halt reflected deteriorating relations between the two countries since the end of the war in Lebanon in August 2006.
Israeli Officials: New Hamas Army Is Forming
Egypt Demands Israel To Vacate Port City
In the wake of recent reports about plans to dig a canal linking the Red Sea on the Israeli side and the Dead Sea on its Jordanian side, a fiery argument broke out in Egypts parliament, with the members of parliament (MPs) speaking out against the "Israeli plot to choke the Suez Canal to death." In the course of the debate, which has been going on in parliament for the last two days, Abed el-Aziz Sayef a-Nasser, an aide to the Egyptian foreign minister, was called as an expert witness. A-Nasser is the director of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry's legal department.
Egypt Demands Israel To Vacate Port City of Eilat
Hamas Members Undergoing Secret Military Training In Iran
Despite Iran's support of Hamas in principle, the relations between the Palestinian organization and the Persian Gulf country were chilly. Among other reasons, this is due to the fact that Hamas is a movement that belongs to the Sunni stream of Islam, while Iran is a Shiite country. However, according to information that has been building up in the security establishment, over the past weeks all the barriers have been removed, and the aid that Iran extends to Hamas is becoming almost as massive as the scale in which Iran funds Hezbollah's activity in Lebanon.