Netanyahu rejects US demand to cancel East Jerusalem housing project
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 19, 2009, 3:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Netanyahu: Take Jerusalem off the table
Sunday, July 19, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply rejected the US State Department demand handed to Israeli ambassador Michael Oran to put a stop to construction work at the Shepherd's Hotel site in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu stressed that hundreds of Arab residents have purchased apartments in the west of the city without difficulty and there is no bar on Jews buying or building on the eastern side of Israel's open, undivided capital.
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Iran puts finishing touches on a desert A-test site east of Tehran
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 18, 2009, 11:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
Kavir Lut: Iranian desert site for coming A-test
DEBKAfile's military sources reveal that Iran is in the last stages of construction of a nuclear test site in the Kavir Lut desert between Tehran and its eastern border with Afghanistan. The work is managed by the Iranian experts invited to attend North Korea's nuclear test this year.
Two diplomats attached to the UN nuclear watchdog agency in Vienna confirmed to AP Saturday July 18 that Iran now has the means to test a weapon within six months.
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Israel-Lebanese border still insecure three years after Lebanon War
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 16, 2009, 8:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mock rockets mark Hizballah's armed positions at South Lebanese villages
The mysterious explosion at the Hirbet Salim village in South Lebanon occurred, DEBKAfile's military sources report, at one of the 35 large weapons dumps the Hizballah has built illegally 20 kilometers from the Israel border.
In the event of war with Israel, these arsenals can arm some 7,500 Hizballah militiamen living in hiding among the Lebanese border villagers.
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DEBKA-Net-Weekly: Obama fails to allay American Jewish, Israeli fears
DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report
July 17, 2009, 8:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama invited a wide range of American Jewish leaders to the White House Tuesday in view of the importance he attaches to winning their community's support for his Middle East and Israel policies.
But, according to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's Washington sources, he failed to put their or Israel's concerns to rest.
Our latest issue out Friday explains why, along with many other exclusive disclosures.
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Hizballah militiamen rush border, briefly seize unmanned Israeli lookout post
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 18, 2009, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile's military sources report that the IDF and northern command are urgently investigating how a large group of Hizballah terrorists and Lebanese villagers managed to rush the new border fence and hoist Lebanese and Hizballah flags at an unmanned Israeli lookout post at the foot of the Kfar Shaba Farms Hills. The incident occurred Friday, July 17. Later Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah said his movement would join the Lebanese government only if it accepted its anti-Israel platform.
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Police disperse massed protesters after ex-president Rafsanjani's Tehran sermon
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 17, 2009, 11:19 AM (GMT+02:00)
Ex-president Hashemi Rafsjani holds key to Iranian crisis
The former Iranian president, Hashemi Rafsanjani, broke his month-long silence on the violent street protests which erupted over allegations of fraud after Mahmoud Ahmadienjad's re-election on June 12.
In a tensely-awaited sermon at Tehran University, Friday, July 17, he called for the release of the hundreds of arrested protesters.
The prominent cleric said large numbers of Iranians still doubted the election result and something had to be done to allay those doubts.
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Pacific test will determine Arrow's ability to intercept Iranian missiles close to launch
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 15, 2009, 8:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Arrow test launch
In a few days, the Israeli anti-missile Arrow system will face the first real test, weather permitting, of its ability to knock out an Iranian Shehab-3 or Sejil II ballistic missile at the outset of its flight toward Israel, DEBKAfile's military sources report. The test will take place off central California's Pacific coast where the Arrow can show its full potential - unlike the restricted conditions of the Mediterranean.
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Obama resolves to directly sponsor resumed Israel-Syrian peace talks
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
July 14, 2009, 9:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
US envoy Fred Hoff asks Israel to resume talks with Syria from point of last interruption.
DEBKAfile's diplomatic and Washington sources disclose that Fred Hoff, head of the Syrian desk in George Mitchell's US Middle East mission, asked Israeli's leaders, when he met them Monday, July 13: Is the incumbent government prepared to restart talks with Syria from the point they were broken off by ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert?
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