November 9, 2008, 6:28 PM (GMT+02:00) While Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas promised to keep on negotiating during the run-up to Israel’s election, DEBKAfile reports the current lull – due to political changes in the US and Israel – is likely to continue until early next year. The negotiations led by outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert and Livni have been conducted until now amid a media blackout, eliciting concerned questions in Israel about “how much they have given away in secret.” Middle East Quartet reconvenes in Moscow next spring
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November 8, 2008, 10:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli air force knocked out a Palestinian missile launcher primed for attack in northern Gaza Saturday night, Nov. 7-8. The Palestinians responded with more missile fire at Ashkelon on the 4th consecutive day of their Gaza missile offensive. No one was hurt. During the day an Israeli patrol near Kissufim was targeted by Palestinian anti-tank missiles and returned the fire.
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Syria’s Assad cooks up Mossad-Saudi-al Qaeda plot to discredit pro-Western Lebanese government
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
November 7, 2008, 8:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Four Fatah Islam terrorists "confess" on Syrian TV
Syrian president Bashar Assad has drawn encouragement to go ahead with a drive to recover his grip on Lebanon from signals coming in fromBarack Obama’s team and from the peace overtures of Israeli transitional prime minister Ehud Olmert, DEBKAfile’s Beirut sources report.
The Syrian president has concocted an improbable disinformation cocktail to discredit the Lebanese majority leader Saad Hariri and oust the pro-western government.
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DEBKAfile Special Analysis November 8, 2008, 6:23 PM (GMT+02:00) Iranian FM Manouchehr Mottaki hands their scripts to radical allies Iran’s rulers calculate that the more trouble they stir up, the sooner incoming US president Barack Obama will come running to Tehran to open a pre-inauguration back-door channel. Iranian agents and Hizballah are recruiting Palestinian militias in Lebanon for cross-border terrorist attacks in Israel. Read more about this challenge for the incoming US president in the Exclusive Analysis below. November 8, 2008, 12:19 PM (GMT+02:00) Parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani said Saturday, Nov. 8, forcefully rejected US president-elect Barack Obama’s comment Friday that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons was unacceptable and its support for terrorist organizations cease. “This signifies the same erroneous policy as the past, said Larijani. “If the United States wants to change its standing in the region it should send good signals." For its first challenge to Obama, Tehran fans Middle East frictions
Full articleIran slams Obama’s rejection of its nuclear program
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