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EGYPTE STEEKT DE KANONNEN VAN HET WATER BIJ PALESTIJNSE GRENS IN BRAND:
De Egyptische krachten staken waterkanonnen bij Palestijnen in brand die hun manier over de grens Gaza-Egypte op Vrijdag 25 proberen te dwingen Januari. De Egyptische krachten begonnen plaatsend prikkeldraad dichtbij de doen ineenstorten muur van de staalgrens vroeg Vrijdag, en de getuigen zeiden de Palestijnen stenen bij Egyptische krachten wierpen, die door sommige Palestijnen met clubs te slaan antwoordden. (Reuters) OP Vrijdag 25 Januari, Hamas maakte een tweede breuk in de grensomheining. Rami Abdou, een economische analist, schatte dat Gazans $130 miljoen in minder dan twee dagen, een princely som voor het straatarme grondgebied besteedde. (AP) de Minister Matan Vilnai van de Defensie van de Afgevaardigde zei Donderdag dat Israël al verantwoordelijkheid voor de Gazastrook, met inbegrip van de levering van elektriciteit en water wil opgeven, nu de zuidelijke grens van het grondgebied met Egypte is geopend.

MEER ARABIEREN VAN JERUZALEM STREVEN NAAR ISRAËLISCH BURGERSCHAP: - Dion Nissenbaum (McClatchy)
Hoewel vele Arabieren in Jeruzalem een onafhankelijke Palestijnse staat willen zien, willen zij geen deel van het uitmaken. Het aantal Arabische ingezetenen die van Jeruzalem Israëlisch burgerschap aanvragen verdubbelde meer dan in 2007. Er is een ongemakkelijke erkenning, vooral onder de Arabische middenklasse in Jeruzalem, dat hun leven onder Palestijnse regel kon wezenlijk slechter worden. De oostelijke Arabieren van Jeruzalem ontvangen Israëlische sociale voorzieningen en gezondheidsvoordelen. Zij worden toegestaan om in lokale verkiezingen te stemmen. Zij hebben de vrijheid in heel Israël zonder speciale vergunningen te reizen. Zij weten dat geen van deze vrijheden onder regel Hamas/Fatah van toepassing zou zijn

VIER TERRORISTEN DIE IN DE STAKINGEN VAN DE LUCHT WORDEN GEËLIMINEERDS IDF: door Hana Levi Julian
De Israëlische Loodsen van de Luchtmacht elimineerden vier terroristen in twee luchtstakingen recente Donderdag nacht 24 Januari en vroege Vrijdag ochtend, drie van wie lid van Hamas waren. In één aanval, sloeg IAF twee terroristen die in een voertuig dichtbij de grensomheining berijden met Egypte. De andere twee terroristen werden gedood terwijl het drijven in de Egypte-Gaza grensstad Één van de dode terroristen was de bevelhebber van de cel Hamas in Rafiah, volgens lokale bronnen die door IDF Leger Radi0 worden geciteerd.

BESLISSENDE SLAG DIE MET AL-QAEDA IN NOORD-IRAK OPDOEMT:
De Iraakse Eerste Minister Nouri al-Maliki zei Vrijdag 25 Januari, dat de Iraakse versterkingen met het op weg zijn naar de noordelijke stad van Mosoel voor een „beslissende“ slag met de Sunni opstandige groep al-Qaeda in Irak waren begonnen.
(Door Joshua Partlow, de Washington Post)

20 DE JAAR VAN ONDERZOEK OPENBAART: JERUZALEM BEHOORT TOT JODEN: door Hillel Fendel
Jacques Gauthier, a non-Jewish Canadian lawyer who spent 20 years researching the legal status of Jerusalem, has concluded: “Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, by international law.” Gauthier has written a doctoral dissertation on the topic of Jerusalem and its legal history, based on international treaties and resolutions of the past 90 years. The dissertation runs some 1,300 pages, with 3,000 footnotes. Gauthier had to present his thesis to a world-famous Jewish historian and two leading international lawyers - the Jewish one of whom has represented the Palestinian Authority on numerous occasions.

FATAH TV BROADCASTS DAILY CALL FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING OF JEWS: by Ezra HaLevi
Fatah chief and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s PA television has been repeatedly broadcasting a hate-filled music video calling for the ethnic cleansing of the Jewish people from Israel. “My enemy, oh snake! Around the land, you are coiled. You have no choice, oh enemy, but to leave my country,” is the refrain in the video, which has been broadcast on a daily basis for the past several months

WORLD COMMEMORATES HOLOCAUST: by Hillel Fendel
Israel’s Cabinet, in its weekly Sunday meeting, (January 27) discussed anti-Semitism around the world. This, in honor of “International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust,” which the United Nations has set for today. The UN resolution setting January 27 as the date for international remembrance of the Holocaust was passed in November 2005, more than 60 years after the end of World War II.

PA ANNOUNCES THREE DAYS OF MOURNING FOR TOP TERRORIST: by Gil Ronen
PFLP founder George Habash died at age 83 in his home in Amman. His terror gang massacred dozens of Israeli adults, children and babies, assassinated Minister Ze’evi and plotted to kill Rabbi Ovadya Yosef. The PFLP has been responsible for more than 79 murders of Israeli citizens

SHAS PARTY: WHEN JERUSALEM TALKS START, WE QUIT: by Hillel Fendel
The Council of Torah Sages of the Shas party, headed by former Chief Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, has decided: Once government representatives start talking with the PA about splitting Jerusalem, Shas leaves the government coalition. If and when Shas and its 11 MKs quit, Olmert will head a minority government vulnerable to a simple no-confidence motion in the Knesset.
AL QAEDA “STRAPPING BOMBS TO CHILDREN” IN IRAQ: - Bryan Pearson (AFP)
Al-Qaeda is using teenagers as suicide bombers in Iraq, U.S. Rear Admiral Gregory Smith claimed on Sunday January 27, as Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarraie, moderate but influential head of the Sunni endowment, urged the jihadists to stop “strapping bombs to children.” Smith said two suicide attacks in Iraq last week had been carried out by 15-year-olds. “We are not sure whether one of these children even knew he was being used to deliver a bomb.”
IRAN AMASSING RAW MATERIAL FOR URANIUM ENRICHMENT:
The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, said on Thursday January 24, that Iran was continuing to amass the raw material for uranium enrichment. Aghazadeh said Iran had now stockpiled 250 tons of uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6), the feedstock that is injected into centrifuges for enrichment into fuel.
ISLAMISTS PLANNED ATTACKS ACROSS EUROPE:
Islamist extremists were planning attacks across Europe, especially against public transport, before their recent arrests in Barcelona, the Spanish paper El Pais reported Saturday January 26. Two pairs with explosive-filled bags were to enter separate Barcelona subway stations and other members of the group were to detonate their bombs by remote control, a would-be attacker turned informant said. Two other suicide bombers had been assigned targets elsewhere in Spain, another was to attack Germany, three were given objectives in France and two more were to strike Portugal. (Reuters)
HAMAS THREATENS TO OVER-RUN ISRAELI BORDER NEXT: by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Encouraged by their success in breaking through the Egyptian border with Gaza last week, a Hamas spokesman has threatened to gather 500,000 Palestinian Authority residents of the region for a similar assault on the perimeter fence dividing southern Israel from PA-controlled Gaza

BETHLEHEM ISLAMIC JIHAD CHIEF ARRESTED: by Ezra HaLevi
The head of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group in Bethlehem was arrested Monday evening January 28. The security forces arrested Abeda after a standoff that lasted several hours. Troops surrounding his home came under repeated attack from local mobs. Dozens of Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails, building blocks and rocks at the forces,” the IDF Spokesman reported.

MR BUSH SPEAKS OUT:
“This month in Ramallah and Jerusalem, I assured leaders from both sides that America will do, and I will do, everything we can to help them achieve a peace agreement that defines a Palestinian state by the end of this year. The time has come for a Holy Land where a democratic Israel and a democratic Palestine live side-by-side in peace.”!!!
OMRI SHARON TO GAOL: by Hillel Fendel
The appeal of Omri Sharon, the former one-term MK and son of former PM Ariel Sharon, has been rejected - and he will begin his seven-month jail term a month from now, February end. Sharon the son was convicted of violations of political campaign laws, including receiving unlawful campaign donations and filing false affidavits, and could have faced up to five years in prison.

FINAL NUCLEAR FUEL SHIPMENT TO IRAN ARRIVES FROM RUSSIA:
Russia completed the series of shipments of uranium fuel to power Iran’s first nuclear plant on Monday January 28. The final, eighth shipment arrived overnight from Russia to the southern port city of Bushehr and consisted of 8.6 metric tons of uranium fuel. The first shipment arrived in December, and created much controversy, in light of Iran’s continued insistence on the right to enrich its own uranium for what it claims in a civilian-only nuclear program.

REPORT: ISRAELI SECURITY DELEGATION SECRETLY VISITS CAIRO: (Jerusalem Post)
An Israeli defense delegation secretly visited Cairo on Monday January 28 and discussed the Gaza-Egypt border situation with top Egyptian officials, the London-based Asharq Alawsat reported Tuesday. The delegation was reportedly led by Defense Ministry Diplomatic-Military Bureau head Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad.

GAZA BORDER CRISIS BOLSTERS EGYPTIAN ISLAMIST: - Jeffrey Fleishman
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is strengthening its appeal by using images of Palestinians in Gaza to provoke wider protests against President Mubarak’s 26-year-old government. Demonstrations throughout the country by the Muslim Brotherhood ostensibly have been staged to declare Egyptian solidarity with Gaza, but they are also aimed at weakening Mubarak, who is accused of oppression and close ties to Washington. Mubarak’s vast intelligence and security forces are attempting to prevent pro-Palestinian protests from erupting into sustained nationwide anti-government rallies. (Los Angeles Times)

NEW U.S. ‘ROAD MAP’ SUPERVISOR ARRIVES IN JERUSALEM:
Livni insists Gaza must be included as part of deal
US Lt-Gen. William Fraser, the new special security envoy between Israel and the Palestinians, arrived in Jerusalem this week “to discuss ways the two parties can move forward on their road map commitments,” according to a US Embassy representative.

MAJADLE: LABOR ISN’T QUITTING OVER WINOGRAD: by Gil Ronen
The Minister of Science, Culture and Sport, Raleb Majadle (Labor) said Tuesday that his party would not be leaving the government following publication of the final report by the Winograd commission, which was appointed to investigate the handling of the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006. “This is the best government for Israel,” he said. “I am not waiting to see Winograd; we have seen the intermediate report and that is enough for us.”

ISRAELI COMPANY DEVELOPING HYDROGEN-POWERED CAR: by Ezra HaLevi
An Israeli company is taking part in the development of a hydrogen-powered car. The Israeli program, developed in cooperation with Russian and German researchers, has recently completed designing and testing a lightweight and safe hydrogen tank for use in cars. The greatest challenge facing developers in recent years has been developing hydrogen tanks insulated well enough not to pose a fire hazard while remaining light enough to allow the vehicle’s weight to remain movable. The development company, now claims to have developed prototypes that store double the amount of hydrogen of currently available tanks. The new tank would weigh 50 kg (110 pounds) and run a vehicle for 600 km (373 miles).