Givot Olam Oil notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange of the find in its ‘Megev Five’ drill near the town of Rosh Ha’ayin. An Israeli oil prospecting and production firm announced it has struck a commercial amount of the black substance in central Israel, Army Radio reported on Wednesday. Givot Olam Oil Ltd notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange of the find in its “Megev Five” drill near the town of Rosh Ha’ayin, saying it can produce 470 barrels of oil a day. The Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry said in response that the ministry’s head of oil affairs had not yet received the relevant test results, thus preventing it from declaring a commercial amount of oil. The prospected find comes in the wake of an unrepresented amount of natural resources being discovered in Israel in... Laura: Given the islamic terrorist menace emanating from England, perhaps we should rethink our alliance with that nation which has become more of a liability to American security than an asset. You don’t suppose the folks in the foreign policy establishment would want to reconsider our friendship with England, do you? Britain’s New Export: Islamist Carnage by Daniel Pipes, National Review Online Britain’s largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims. Their 2006 plot involved blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with the hope of killing up to 10,000 people. That near-disaster offers a pungent reminder of the global danger poised by U.K.-based radical Islam. The Heritage Foundation calls British Islamism “a direct security threat” to the United States and The New Republic dubs it “the biggest threat to U.S. security.” Officialdom agrees. The British home secretary compiled... (CNSNews.com) – Pinal County (Ariz.) Sheriff Paul Babeu is hopping mad at the federal government. “What’s very troubling is the fact that at a time when we in law enforcement and our state need help from the federal government, instead of sending help they put up billboard-size signs warning our citizens to stay out of the desert in my county because of dangerous drug and human smuggling and weapons and bandits and all these other things and then, behind that, they drag us into court with the ACLU,” Babeu said. “So who has partnered with the ACLU?” Babeu said in a... It seems to me that such a grand bargain would go beyond Afghanistan and include Iraq. Its OK by me so long as Israel isn’t sacrificed. Ted Belman Asia Times has an article by M K Bhadrakumar covering Iranian/US relations. First it deals with the willingness of both dsides to discuss enrichment only to 20%. Then it goes on to speculate on a Grand Bargain, In particular, the US should strive to pursue an active engagement of Iran over Afghanistan. The fact remains that the most significant salient point from the WikiLeaks disclosures is that the US has trapped itself in Afghanistan by its overwhelming dependence on the Pakistan military. And much of this folly is to be traced to the limitations placed on the Barack Obama administration’s Afghan... The Palestinian Problem: A Real Solution From Israel’s point of view, the “two-state/land for peace” solution to the Palestinian conflict has proven to be a long, drawn out failure that should have been abandoned long ago. It is only because many prominent political figures have foolishly mortgaged their personal and professional prestige in the name of this unworkable position that it manages to remain a live option – to the grave detriment of Israelis and Palestinians alike. Any dispassionate evaluation of the events of the past two decades invariably leads one to accept the following conclusion: that the Palestinians seem far more focused on annulling Jewish political independence than attaining Palestinian political independence. That is to say, Palestinians are far more committed to the deconstruction of the Jewish State than to construction of a Palestinian one. By Ted Belman Robert Reich under the title The Obama Agenda and the Enthusiasm Gap in the WSJ sums up Obama’s record, A stimulus too small to significantly reduce unemployment, a TARP that didn’t trickle down to Main Street, financial reform that doesn’t fundamentally restructure Wall Street, and health-care reforms that don’t promise to bring down health-care costs have all created an enthusiasm gap. They’ve fired up the right, demoralized the left, and generated unease among the general population. Reich then tries to explain and concludes Any or all of these hypotheses may be true, but the undeniable consequence has been to erode the capacity of the president and his party to accomplish much more from here on. I urge you to read Caroline Glicks Lights, camera, peace process! She suggests that the Israel Left is working at cross purposes with the Obama administration. Obama apparently is threatening Abbas that if he doesn’t start negotiations, Obama won’t increase pressure on Israel to continue the freeze. That’s supposed to be pressure on Abbas. She ends with, IT IS hard to think of anything Abbas hasn’t already done to make clear that he doesn’t want to negotiate. He has refused to negotiate. He has demanded impossible preconditions. He has asked Fatah and the Arab League to refuse to negotiate. Abbas has no legal authority to represent the Palestinians. His term of office ended in January 2009. The only reason he continues to... President Obama Blackmails Israel at the UN This article by Anne Bayefsky appears today on FOXNews.com. President Obama has now blackmailed the government of Israel into submitting its defense forces to the toxic oversight of the United Nations. Today U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon created, with Israel’s approval, a UN investigation of last June’s flotilla incident in which Turkish-backed extremists sought to shatter Israel’s lawful naval blockade of Hamas-run Gaza. Despite the fact that Israel has already launched an inquiry with international participants, the Obama administration insists that the Israel Defense Forces, and the Israeli legal and political establishment governing their actions, must be subject to UN supervision. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice welcomed Ban’s announcement. “A Slow Caving?” It’s certainly not beyond the realm of possibility that PA president Mahmoud Abbas, even as he continues to insist that his conditions for entering direct talks have not changed, will ultimately cave in the face of huge US and EU pressure. But it is no where near certainty yet, even though PM Netanyahu, addressing Likud ministers before the Cabinet meeting yesterday, made a statement about peace talks likely beginning in two weeks. Netanyahu seems to be working on a hunch, rather than any definitive information. Thus he said, “I think that the international community, at least an important part of it, and certainly the US, expects the Palestinian Authority to put aside the claims, excuses and conditions — and enter into peace talks.” However, as we witness this unfolding drama, we must keep in mind the broader impact of the pressure that has been exerted by the Obama administration on the PA. I would guess that... “Source says Israel had no choice but to cooperate with UN flotilla probe, but will set strict guidelines”.”no choice”, why so? What kind of enquiry is it if the guidelines or mandate have not been agreed upon? The arguments put forward in support of this move are far from convincing. Nobody is quoted. Also “the government would not allow the committee to interrogate Israeli officers, civilians, or soldiers”. This suggests to me that the enquiry is politically motivated by all to remove the matter from public discourse. It is not a serious enquiry. Ted Belman Official: State won’t allow UN to question Israelis Roni Sofer, YNET State officials stressed Monday that though Israel had agreed to cooperate with a UN probe on the IDF raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in May, the government would not allow the committee to interrogate Israeli officers, civilians, or soldiers.
Commercially sized oil field found in central Israel, firm says
By Haaretz ServiceThe Islamic Terror Threat From England
Arizona Sheriff: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy’
Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally, the federal government is targeting the state and its law enforcement personnel.
The sheriff was referring to the law suits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Department of Justice challenging the state’s new immigration law.US/Iranian Grand Bargain
What kind of security atmosphere do Iranians want to see in their neighbors, Iraq and Afghanistan? What are the possibilities of forming some sort of cooperative agreements around stabilizing both countries?”The Humanitarian Solution
By Prof Martin Sherman
However, no matter how convincingly one can show that the Palestinians as a...Obama already a lame-duck president
Glick: No chance of a deal
While Abbas rejects the legitimacy of the Jewish state, his refusal to sit down with Netanyahu is not primarily a question of ideology. It is important to remember that Abbas doesn’t actually represent anyone anymore.Bayefsky: Enquiry is a serious one
Obama’s move is a far cry from claims of a recent rapprochement with Israel. Instead of pressuring Israel in front of the cameras, the administration is now using the...Kushner Reports
~~~~~~~~~~Flotilla enquiry is not a serious one
“There was no choice but to agree to the international...
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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