Explosion at Iranian Military Chemical Complex
The explosions that occurred two days ago apparently destroyed a facility suspected throughout the past decade as part of an Iranian program for developing chemical weapons and producing fuel for surface-to-surface missiles
Three explosions heard in the area of the Bidganeh area west of Tehran were reported briefly on Tuesday. While the Iranian regime is trying to hush the matter, it can be determined now that the blast occurred at 14:00 in the Raja-Shimi chemical industrial complex, which is affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Defense and deals in the production of chemical materials for military use.
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U.S. Religious Commission won’t touch sharia
But is keen to revile Western countries trying to defend against Islamic law
WASHINGTON DC. Fifteen years ago, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom opened shop with a mandate from Congress to examine the state of religious freedom around the world, and issue an annual report to the President. The idea was to provide the information necessary for the U.S. government to make religious freedom a greater factor in foreign-policy-making by highlighting the world’s worst offenders. Such offenders run, as the commission’s 2013 religious freedom report tells us, from Saudi Arabia to China to Russia to Sudan to Iran to Western Europe.
Western Europe?
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Is Netanyahu “Sharonizing”?
Dr. Emmanuel Navon, INN
The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), a leading Israeli think tank, recently hosted its annual conference. This year, the conference’s main agenda was to promote the idea of unilateral disengagement from Judea and Samaria. INSS’s suggestions were summarized in a paper authored by Gilead Sher and his team: “The Palestinian Issue: Toward a Reality of Two States.”
Unilateralism is not the authors’ favorite option: such a strategy, they claim, should only be implemented if and when the Palestinian Authority rejects another Israeli peace offer –an offer that should be based on Olmert’s proposal to Mahmud Abbas in 2008.
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Very Good News, Israel
Israel’s Good News Newsletter to 5th May 2013
In the 5th May 2013 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
· Israel’s vaccination program has resulted in a 70% reduction in cases of pneumonia.
· Iraqi children arrive to have life-saving surgery at Israel’s Save a Child’s Heart.
· Israel’s Briefcam helped identify and apprehend the Boston bombers.
· Israeli software will help secure Denver airport.
· Two innovative Israeli clean-tech companies have won International awards.
· 50 million people use one Israeli company’s translation software every day.
· Warren Buffet spends $2 billion to complete his buy-out of an Israeli company.(Read more…)
Jerusalem Day – A reminder of what the real problem is and what the real solution is.
By Daniel Greenfield published a year ago
…Even as Jews remember the great triumph of Jerusalem Day, the ethnic cleansers and their accomplices are busy searching for ways to drive Jews out of Jerusalem, out of towns, villages and cities. This isn’t about the Arab residents of Jerusalem, who have repeatedly asserted that they want to remain part of Israel. It’s not about peace, which did not come from any previous round of concessions, and will not come from this one either. It’s about solving the Jewish problem.
When Jordan’s Arab Legion seized half of Jerusalem, ethnically cleansed its Jewish population and annexed the city– the only entity to recognize the annexation was the United Kingdom which had provided the officers and the training that made the conquest possible. Officers like Colonel Bill Newman, Major Geoffrey Lockett and Major Bob Slade, under Glubb Pasha, better known as General John Bagot Glubb, whose son later converted to Islam, invaded Jerusalem and used the Muslim forces under their command to make the partition and ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem possible.
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Profs on Boston Bombing: Blame Right-Wingers, ‘Islamophobia,’ and Blowback
Cinnamon Stillwell:
How did scholars of the Middle East and those engaged in moonlighting (non-specialists who write about the region) react to the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013? Before the smoke cleared, some were predicting that the perpetrators would be “right-wingers” who sought to “disrupt tax day,” “neo-Nazis,” or “lone wolves.” Given that Muslims constitute 30 of 32 of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s list of most wanted terrorists, this represents either wishful thinking or willful blindness. …
Regional Repercussions Of the Turkish-Kurd Peace Process
The peace process that provided for the departure of the PKK terror organization from Turkish territory, political reforms that will follow and disarmament have rattled the Middle East. The country that is suffering most from a panic attack in light of these developments is Iran. Also interesting is how Iraq’s Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad are now on the same line with Tehran.
According to statements of various sources at Kandil [the PKK’s military command in northern Iraq], Iran has been in direct contact with the PKK and has been promising “all kinds of military assistance” if the PKK keeps its military forces in Turkey. It is natural for Iranian officials to deny such reports, but the balance of power in the region indicates that the Iranian government is deeply worried. (Read more…)
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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