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U.S. concerned that Israel may launch attacks on Syrian WMD sites BY: Bill Gertz – FreeBeacon U.S. intelligence agencies are closely watching Israel’s military for signs it will conduct strikes on Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons, amid concerns the deadly nerve agents could fall under the control of Hezbollah or al Qaeda terrorists, U.S. officials said. Syria’s arsenal remains vulnerable as the result of the internal conflict currently underway in Syria between government forces and opposition rebels, one official said. “Everyone suspects Syria maintains an active chemical weapons program; and it would be dangerous not to plan accordingly,” the official said. As for concerns the weapons will be captured or transferred, the official said: “Most countries that have CW stocks view it as a strategic, not tactical, tool—and strategic tools are usually pretty well protected and aren’t given away lightly.” However, other U.S. officials said special operations forces are prepared to take action inside Syria in the event... Read the whole entry » • Email to a friend • Article Search • The West Backs the muslim Brotherhood Laura: For those in Europe who demand Israel surrender what you mistakenly believe to be territory belonging to the “palestinians”, just know that you are next in line for jihadists fraudulent claims on territory once conquered by islam, such as Spain (Al Andalus), Sicily, the Italian Coast and the Balkans. They don’t have any more rights to Israel than they have to those places. The West’s embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood Dore Gold Israel Hayom The announcement that the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, Mohamed Morsi, had won the presidential elections in Egypt may not have been final, but it nonetheless caused many across the Middle East to consider the implications of an Islamist victory in the most important and influential Arab state. In the West, it is doubtful that foreign ministries are in a state of shock, since there has been a growing readiness to accept the Muslim Brotherhood in recent years. In February 2011, James Clapper, U.S.... Read the whole entry » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Syria rebels divided, at times violent BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press During two weeks with rebels in northern Syria, three Associated Press journalists found more than 20 rebel groups who often destroy government army posts and convoys but lack the weapons and unity to do more than gradually chip away at the regime of President Bashar Assad _ a recipe for a long, bloody insurgency. SARJEH, Syria (AP) — Rebel commander Ahmed Eissa al-Sheikh keeps a paper on his desk bearing the names of the dead from his brigade. The first 16 are neatly typed below a Quranic verse extolling martyrdom. The next 14 are handwritten and crammed into the margin, because the paper is full. Al-Sheikh, an Islamist with a long black beard and gray fatigues, runs the Falcons of Damascus group from the mayor’s office in his village, which his fighters have taken over. The list is a constant reminder of al-Sheikh’s personal score with the Syrian regime: 20 of the dead are his relatives, including three brothers and his... Read the whole entry » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Pro-Israel Activists Voice Objections at CBS Shareholders Meeting By Larry Domnitch, AMERICAN THINKER It does not take sixty minutes, but a mere few moments to level a smear against an entire nation. The recent CBS 60 Minutes program on Israel and its falsely alleged mistreatment of Christians was nothing less than a version of a modern-day blood libel against the Jewish State. The program ignored the real facts and the realities, as well as the many testimonies of Muslim persecution against Christians in the PA territories. A letter by CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) director Andrea Levin to Jeffrey B. Fager, chairman of CBS News, quoted one such testimony by Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the guardian of the Roman Catholic Church’s property in the Holy Land, which appeared in the New York Sun in 2005. To wit, “lmost every day — I repeat, almost every day — our communities are harassed by the Islamic extremists in these regions. And if it’s not the members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad,... Read the whole entry » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Saudi Arabia plans to fund Syria rebel army Exclusive: Command centre in Turkey organising weapon supply to opposition THE GUARDIAN Free Syria Army fighters are to be paid by Saudi Arabia in an attempt to encourage pro-Assad troops to defect. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Saudi officials are preparing to pay the salaries of the Free Syria Army as a means of encouraging mass defections from the military and increasing pressure on the Assad regime, the Guardian has learned. The move, which has been discussed between Riyadh and senior officials in the US and Arab world, is believed to be gaining momentum as a recent flush of weapons sent to rebel forces by Saudi Arabia and Qatar starts to make an impact on battlefields in Syria. Officials in the Saudi capital embraced the idea when it was put to them by Arab officials in May, according to sources in three Arab states, around the same time that weapons started to flow across the southern Turkish border into the hands of Free Syria Army leaders. Turkey has also allowed the... Read the whole entry » • Email to a friend • Article Search • The Aircraft Plot Malka Margolin, Jewish Ideas Daily Forty-two years ago today, on June 15, 1970, a group of Soviet dissidents gathered at Smolny Airport outside Leningrad. They had bought all the seats on a 12-passenger aircraft headed 240 miles northwest to Priozersk, near the Finnish border. Upon landing, they intended to hijack the plane, deposit the crew in a nearby forest, and fly to Sweden, where they would hold a press conference to call attention to the plight of Soviet Jewry. They would then immigrate to Israel. Ten of them were Jews. One, 22-year-old Yosef Mendelevich, had applied for a visa to immigrate to Israel three times and been rejected three times. Another dissident, Sylva Zalmanson, later told the magazine Novoe Russkoe Slovo that the travelers were terrified by the prospect of punishment but felt almost possessed, as if beckoned by magical powers: They had made their decision against Soviet life, and attempting escape was the only course. Two of the... Read the whole entry » • Email to a friend • Article Search • More Recent Articles Obama: Candidate of the 1 Percent The Syrian military edifice is crumbling Into the fray: Stupid, seditious or suicidal? The Brotherhood's useful idiots

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