Category Archives: israel

Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace

Source: TIME Heli and Eli sell condos on Exodus Street, a name that evokes a certain historical hardship in a neighborhood that suggests none at all, the ingathering of the Jews having entered a whole new realm here. The talk in the little office is of interest rates and panoramic sea views from handsomely appointed [...]
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Education ministry revising textbook for being too critical of Israel

Source: Israel News The Education Ministry is rewriting the country’s main civics textbook, and the chairman of the ministry’s pedagogical secretariat will begin publishing updates on the ministry’s Web site as early as the upcoming school year. The main contention of the chairman – Zvi Zameret – is that the textbook dwells too much on [...]
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Israeli actors boycott stirs settlement debate

So now he knows what it feels like to be attacked from within… Source: Yahoo! News Netanyahu complained Sunday that the artists are playing into the hands of what he said were international efforts to delegitimize Israel with economic, cultural and academic boycotts. “The last thing we need at this time, while under such an [...]
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Al-Qaida prepares for Israel-Iran war

Consider the Source: jpost.com Al-Qaida is ready to exploit a war "by the Jews against Iran," the Sunni group’s second-in-command in Yemen, Saeed al-Shehri, said in an audio message this month, according to the Daily Beast. The mostly Shi’ite nation of Iran is an enemy to Al-Qaida, and al-Shehri predicted that after Israel attacked Iranian [...]
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2001 Israeli Nerve Gas Attacks

Source: WikiSpooks Almost no report of Israel using nerve-gas use has ever appeared in the western media. The CNN reported these accusations dismissively on 15th Feb 2000, mentioning reports that "about 80 Palestinians had been admitted to a Gaza hospital suffering from the effects of poison gas" but attributing them to Arafat in the context [...]
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Israel says Iranian reactor use ‘totally unacceptable’

Source: Ynetnews Israel on Saturday denounced Iran’s fueling up of its first nuclear power plant as "totally unacceptable" and called for more international pressure to force Tehran to cease any uranium enrichment. Israel, widely assumed to be the only Middle East country to have nuclear weapons, has said a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat [...]
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Israeli art scam – WikiSpooks

Source: WikiSpooks An article on this topic entitled "Israeli art students" was created at Wikipedia in 2006 and deleted according to this discussion. No accessible record of the contents of the first article has survived. A new and likely independent attempt to document the affair was started on 3rd March 2010 and brought up to [...]
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U.S. Persuades Israel That Iran’s Nuclear Threat Is Not Imminent

Source: NYTimes.com The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran’s nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year — and perhaps longer — for Iran to complete what one senior official called a “dash” for a nuclear weapon, according to American officials. Administration officials said they believe the assessment [...]
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Fighter Jets in Proposed $30 Billion Deal Won’t Include Features Israel Opposes

The Obama administration plans to sell advanced F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia but won’t equip them with long-range weapons systems and other arms whose inclusion was strongly opposed by Israel, diplomats and officials said http://bit.ly/aoVP9x
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Israel threatening to quit UN probe into flotilla

Israel threatened Monday to pull out of a U.N. inquiry into a deadly raid on a Turkish flotilla heading for Gaza, after the U.N. chief said there is no agreement that the panel will refrain from calling Israeli soldiers to testify. via Yahoo! News
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