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Court orders state to reveal identities of Palestinian land owners  

The below article is from Ha’aretz Newspaper 9th July 2013 – Regavim have added comments where necessary to explain or clear up a possible misunderstaning of the text :-)
The West Bank Land Registry has been marked classified for more than four decades; the dramatic June 26 decision is likely to ease settlement expansion.
By Chaim Levinson, Jul.09, 2013
Forty-six years after the West Bank Land Registry was marked classified and closed off to the public, the Jerusalem District Court has ordered the state to give settlers information on the identities of Palestinians who own land near settlements. The dramatic June 26 decision will likely ease settlement expansion. [Under Jordanian Law it was also classified]
Inside the Green Line, one can learn the identity of owners of housing units or land for a NIS 10 fee. But in the West Bank, outside the Green Line, this information has been secret and classified. Only a person with a “link to the land” could make a request from the Civil Administration in Beit El, and obtain the needed information from the Land Registry. Those without such a “link” had to get the information from people in the Palestinian villages or sources in the Civil Administration. ["Link to the land" is a racially prejudicial term which led to racially prejudicial laws and was/is a euphemism for Arab]
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Arabic Media: Secret $8 billion deal between Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood  

This deal is too good to be true. The only reason for Obama to do this is to have room for the Palestinian refugees awaiting the “right of return”.Such an amount of land would also accommodate many Arabs from J&S making it easier to agree on borders. Ted Belman
Below is a summary of the video in Arabic that reveals an agreement made between Barack Hussein Obama and Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood to give 40% of Sinai to Hamas in exchange for $8 billion allegedly already paid to Morsi/Muslim Brotherhood by Obama.
No wonder Obama is asking the Egyptian Army to release Morsi
This is a Google translation of the story which appears in French from Poste deVeille in Canada:
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JPOST misleads  

Ted Belman
JPOST in an editorial on the appointment of Ron Dermer as Israel’s ambassidor to the US, which they titled, “The Right Stuff” said,
    “As Israel’s main diplomat in the US, he will be well aware that the majority of Israelis – like their government – remain in favor of and committed to a two-state solution.”
I am not so sure our government is committed to it, though Netanyahu probably is.
Six months ago, JPOST reported on a poll commissioned by Blue and White Future which found,
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Analysis: Egypt likely to rejoin the Gulf front against Iran.  

Middle East: Back to the old regional equilibrium?
Will the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi restore the regional equilibrium of the Mubarak era? Though the Muslim Brothers are not ready to give up and the crisis is far from over, relations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia are warming up and the same thing is happening with the Gulf states with the exception of Qatar.
These countries have already pledged $12 billion to help save Egypt’s economy – or more realistically to show their support for the new regime in its fight against the Brotherhood.
The old pragmatic alliance against Iran is shaping up again while Qatar, sticking to its decades-old support for the Brothers, finds itself isolated.
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PA economic plan taking shape  

There is no way this plan can go forward without Israel’s agreement. There is no doubt it will involve the development of parts of Area C, again with Israel’s agreement. Finally, I believe it will go forward with or without negotiations. Ted Belman
Concrete details of scheme to boost stagnant Palestinian economy, drafted by team of international experts, being kept under wraps until peace talks with Israelis resume
Behind the scenes, a team of international experts have for months been working on a plan to boost the stagnant Palestinian economy, set to be launched if peace talks with the Israelis resume.
US Secretary of State John Kerry unveiled the broad contours of the scheme to attract some $4 billion in private-sector investment over the next three years at a World Economic Forum in Jordan in late May.
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Report: Attack in Syria conducted by Israeli submarine  

Sunday Times says July 5 strike on arms depot in port city of Latakia conducted by Dolphin class submarine which fired cruise missile from sea; attack targeted Russian-made Yakhont missiles, according to report
Dolphin submarine (Archive photo: AFP)
Intelligence sources in the Middle East claim the recent attack on an arms depot in the Syrian port city of Latakia, which was attributed to the Israeli Air Force, was actually carried out by an Israeli Dolphin class submarine which fired a cruise missile from the sea, the Sunday Times reported. 
If the report is correct, the attack marked Israel’s first naval intervention in Syria since the civil war in the Arab country erupted in March 2011.
According to the British newspaper, the target was a consignment of 50 Russian-made Yakhont P-800 anti-ship missiles delivered to President Bashar Assad’s armed forces this year.  (Read more…)

US to media: Israel struck Latakia arsenal last week.  

Will Putin and Assad make good on threats of reprisal?
Russian SS-N-26 Yakhont anti-ship missile
US officials early Saturday, July 13 named Israel as responsible for the July 5 air strikes against the big arms depot at a Syrian naval base in the Alawite port city of Latakia. Dispelling conflicting reports, three US officials asserted that Israel had conducted the air strikes for demolishing the advanced Russian-made Yakhont anti-ship missiles stored there.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that three strategic arsenals were targeted: One consisted of weapons mostly delivered by Russian air freights in the last two months for the Syrian-Hizballah offensive to recapture Aleppo. A second contained the supersonic Yakhont anti-ship missiles (NATO codenamed SS-N-26) plus their radar systems; and the third, the Syrian army’s strategic reserve of missiles and ammunition, stored there for an emergency, such a possible forced Syrian army retreat to the Alawite region – or even Lebanon.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel