Iran’s quest for the bomb will be its undoing
Iran’s nuclear boomerang
Guy Bechor, YNET
The media and public storm in Israel in the wake of the report on Iran’s nuclear program, and the concern in Israel over an Iranian nuclear bomb, is exaggerated. Those who should be bothered by the latest developments are members of Iran’s Khomeinist regime; the nuclear program is turning into a curse for it. Should the bomb come to life, it shall prompt the regime’s demise.
Indeed, the international community is slow in imposing tough sanctions on Tehran, because many engage in surreptitious and even open trade ties with it – for example, Germany and France, which are Israel’s allies. However, one cannot say that nothing is happening.
Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed a bill that sets a series of sanctions on foreign firms that provide Iran with fuel or other refined oil products. Such companies and individuals would no longer be allowed to enter the US, do business there, work with its banks...
Report: Israel to equip airliners with anti-missile system as Libyan arms reach Gaza
Israel has accelerated the installation of anti-missile defenses on its airliners, a security official told Reuters on Friday, seeing an enhanced risk of attack by militants using looted Libyan arms.
The security official’s comment came after Haaretz reported last month that improved quality of anti-aircraft missiles held by Hamas in Gaza is increasingly worrying the Israeli defense establishment.
El Al emergency landing – May 23, 2011
Hamas, the report indicated, recently managed to smuggle relatively advanced Russian missiles, which were looted from Libyan military warehouses, into the Gaza Strip.
On Friday, officials said Jets flown by El Al and two other Israeli carriers are being equipped with a locally made system known as C-Music that uses a laser to “blind” heat-seeking missiles, the official said, giving a 2013 target for fitting most of the fleet.
As a stop-gap, Israel is adapting air force counter-measures for use aboard...
US polls confirm rising support for Israel among Jews and Americans in general.
Poll: American voters’ support for Israel rising
By REBECCA ANNA STOIL, JERUSALEM POST
WASHINGTON – Americans’ support for Israel is up, with the increase coming from unexpected sectors, an Israel Project poll released on Thursday revealed.
So-called “opinion elites” and Democratic voters drove the shift, which pegged American voter support for Israel around the 60 percent mark in the survey conducted last week.
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According to the poll, Jewish approval of the president’s performance declined to 45 percent, with 48 percent disapproving and 7 percent undecided. Last year, 51 percent approved of Obama’s job performance and 44 percent disapproved.
AJC also surveyed Jews’ opinions about the current GOP presidential contenders. In match-ups with the president, AJC found that Mitt Romney would fare best among Jewish voters when running against Obama, with 32 percent of the...
WSJ favours pre-emption regarding Iran
The International Atomic Energy Agency this week released its most detailed assessment to date about Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, and if “Paranormal Activity 3″ wasn’t enough to keep you awake at night, the report’s 14-page annex detailing the state of Iran’s weapons work should do the trick. It lays to rest the fantasies that an Iranian bomb is many years off, or that the intelligence is riddled with holes and doubts, or that the regime’s intentions can’t be guessed by their activities.
So much, then, for the December 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which asserted “with high confidence” that Iran had abandoned its nuclear-weapons work in 2003 and ended any chance that the Bush Administration would take action against Iran. So much, too, for the Obama Administration’s attempts to move Iran away from its nuclear course, first with diplomatic offers and then with sanctions...
Anti-Semitic Vandalism in Brooklyn
Laura: The years of non-stop vicious lies and blood libels against the Jewish state by the leftist western media and academia in collaboration with the vast islamic propaganda machine, along with the occupy movement’s scapegoating of Jews for the economic crisis, has created the climate for hate crimes against Jews. We cannot let cowardly western governments off the hook who have blamed Israel for the turmoil in the Middle East. We are in the midst of the biggest wave of global anti-Semitism since WW2.
Police Investigate Antisemitic Arson and vandalism in Midwood NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There’s shock and outrage in Brooklyn today after several cars were torched and numerous pieces of anti-Semitic vandalism took place in Midwood.
The incident was discovered at around 5 a.m., when residents awoke to see cars burning.
At least three cars were set ablaze and dozens of pieces of anti-Semitic graffiti were plastered along benches. The cars were damaged and the benches vandalized...
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