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Jones denies new US ME plan after Netanyahu shuns nuclear summit
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 9, 2010, 3:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Netanyahu Obama US-Israel crisis

The breach remains

US National Security Adviser James Jones denied the US had a new Middle East plan. He was replying to reporters' questions aboard Air Force One on their way back from Prague. His denial followed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's withdrawal from the US-sponsored summit on nuclear terror opening in WashingtonApril 11. Washington saw this as a protest against a US policy Israelconsidered detrimental to its security interests, such as ignoring its need for secure borders and trying to impose peace.

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Obama's Middle East drive heads for a fall
DEBKAfile DEBKA-Net-Weekly
April 6, 2010, 6:44 PM (GMT+02:00)

Tags: Middle East peace Obama

The Middle East: No, he can't.

Behind the Jerusalemimpasse, US president Barack Obama is pushing the Middle Easthard into another sweeping territorial redesign as the cure-all for all its troubles. The unpublished details of Obama's super-plan are revealed in DEBKA-Net-Weekly's coming issue out next Friday - together with the reasons why Israelis, Palestinians and other Arab forces will reject it.

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Top political figures face arrest in Holyland graft case
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 8, 2010, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00)

Tags: Ehud Olmert Jerusalem

Jerusalem Holyland Towers

Israeli police want to question at least two prominent Israelis, some traveling overseas, on bribery and corruption charges in the Jerusalem Holyland real estate case, after arresting the lawyer Uri Messer, a longtime partner of Ehud Olmert, ex-prime minister and formerJerusalem mayor, Wednesday, April 7. Notwithstanding the court gag order, the revelations spilling out about the lead characters involved bespeak financial corruption on an unprecedented scale whose ramifications intrude on national politics.

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Glaring intelligence lapse exposed in Anat Kam espionage case
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 8, 2010, 5:17 PM (GMT+02:00)

Tags: Espionage Israeli security failure

IDF West Bank operations

The Anat Kam affair on which a gag order was partially lifted Thursday, April 8 is above all a striking intelligence and field security failure. More importantly, this soldier's ability to photocopy and filch 2,000 top-secret documents over a two-year period ranging from 2005 to 2007 demonstrates the vulnerability of the highest command levels in the IDF to infiltration by hostile elements and the free availability of their most secret documents.

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