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NASRALLAH GELOFTEN OM JODEN IN HET BUITENLAND AAN TE VALLEN:
Chief-of-Staff IDF zet noordelijke krachten op hoog alarm. De de leidersSjeik Hassan Nasrallah van Allah van Hizb' deed om tegenover Joodse doelstellingen in het buitenland wraak te nemen de gelofte na het beschuldigen van Israël van het nemen van de strijd voorbij Libanese grenzen met zijn moord van één van de hoogste bevelhebbers van de groep, Imad Mughniyeh in Syrië. „U hebt Hajj Imad buiten het natuurlijke slagveld gedood,“ Hassan Nasrallah zei.

SARKOZY DE GELOFTEN „FRANKRIJK ZULLEN AWAYS AAN DE KANT VAN ISRAËL' S“ ZIJN:
Franse President Nicolas Sarkozy is van plan om Israël te bezoeken dat voor de 60ste de verjaardagsvieringen van de natie in Mei, de uitnodiging van President goedkeurt Shimon Peres om Knesset te richten. Benadrukkend zijn bovengenoemde verplichting aan Israël Sarkozy, „Frankrijk zal altijd aan de kant van Israël…. zijn Ik zou niet met samenkomen, zou ik niet de hand van mensen schudden die weigeren om Israël te erkennen.“

DE GEHEIMZINNIGE ONTPLOFFING VAN GAZA DOODT DE ISLAMITISCHE LEIDER VAN JIHAD:
Een krachtige ontploffing ging in het centrale huis van Gazastrook van een hogere Islamitische terrorist Ayman Atallah Fayed van Jihad op Vrijdag 15 Februari dat, af hem doodt en minstens zes anderen en verwondend 40, Palestijnse bronnen zeiden de zwaar beschadigde explosie het huis en een nabijgelegen metaalworkshop. IDF ontkende dat om het even welke aanval had plaatsgevonden. Getuigt gerapporteerd ziend fragmenten van wat als raketten Qassam de scène bekeek, kan het voorstellen van het huis gebruikt te zijn om wapens op te slaan. De explosie beschadigde ook zeven nabijgelegen huizen.

ISRAËL DAT VAN DE SCHADE VAN DE SCHOK AAN TEMPEL WORDT BESCHULDIGD ZET OP:
Een 5.3 omvangsaardbeving die dichtbij Beruit wordt gecentreerd schokte Israël op Vrijdag 15 Februari, recentst in een reeks van trillingen om het gebied te raken, openend een groot gat op de Tempel zet plaza dichtbij de Koepel van de Rots op. De ambtenaren van de Islamitische Beweging van Israël beschuldigden de overheid van het gat, zeggend autoriteiten graven tunnels in het gebied die de stabiliteit de moskee ondermijnen.

EGYPTE VERWARMT HAMAS: „WIJ ZULLEN ONTSPRUITEN ALS DE GRENS“ WORDT OVERTREDEN: Door Hana Levi Julian
De ambtenaren van Egypte zeggen zij een bezoekende delegatie van de Hamas terroristenorganisatie informeren dat de politie brand op iedereen zal openen wie probeert om de grens in Rafah in zuidelijk Gaza te overschrijden. De bijbehorende rapporten van de Pers die de Egyptische intelligentieambtenaren zeiden hadden zij informatie ontvangen dat de terroristen opnieuw van plan zijn om open de grens te dwingen

P.A.: DE BESPREKINGEN VAN JERUZALEM ZIJN AAN DE GANG: door Hana Levi Julian
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in a news conference on Saturday February 16, that the PA and Israel have begun to negotiate the status of Jerusalem, bluntly contradicting assurances by Prime Minister Olmert that Abbas agreed to postpone all talks on Jerusalem until all outstanding issues are resolved.

IDF KILLS 3 TERRORISTS IN CLASHES NEAR GAZA AIRPORT: by Ezra HaLevi
The IDF killed a senior Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) terrorist and two other terrorists in Rafiah early Sunday morning February 17. Undercover IDF Special Forces took control of several buildings on the outskirts of Gaza’s airport after midnight Sunday. Tanks and aircraft took part in the ensuing battle with local terrorists. Dozens of wanted terrorists were arrested and IDF bulldozers cleared areas that Arab terrorists had used for rocket-fire.

SECRET PAPERS REVEAL THREATS TO BRITAIN FROM SAUDI PRINCE OVER ARMS DEAL INVESTIGATION: David Leigh and Rob Evans
Saudi Arabia’s rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed Thursday February 14. Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced “another 7/7″ and the loss of “British lives on British streets” if they pressed on with their inquiries.

HIZBULLAH HAS ONLY A FEW THOUSAND FIGHTERS: - Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Israeli defense officials expressed skepticism over reports that Hizbullah has deployed 50,000 men in southern Lebanon after last week’s killing of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh in Syria - since Hizbullah totals only a few thousand fighters.

PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY FOR MAJOR GAZA INCURSION: - Ron Ben-Yishai
The political leadership in Jerusalem has decided to embark on a wide-scale military operation in Gaza. However, preparations have not yet been completed. Hamas in Gaza knows that the operation is approaching and is preparing for it. This time, the targets have been defined, and they are clear, including a drastic reduction of rocket and mortar fire as quickly as possible; destruction of most military infrastructure, arms arsenals, and means of production for Hamas and the other organizations and crime families; and blocking the Philadelphi Route in a manner which would curb smuggling. (Ynet News)

U.S. SENATOR GIVES EX PESIDENT CARTER AN ‘EARFUL’ :
U.S. Senator Tom Lantos recently told ex-President Carter, that he “sided” with the Palestinians, that he possessed a “subconscious and blinding hostility toward Israel.” And because of this “venom,” Lantos said, Carter “had totally forfeited” his role as an objective participant in reconciling differences between the two parties to the conflict.

A GOOD QUOTE: THE REGION: SO MANY PROBLEMS, SO FEW SOLUTIONS:
Barry Rubin, The Jerusalem Post
The Middle East is a region where so many things seem to happen, so little appears to change, and far too much is said about it all…

ISRAEL CONSIDERS GAZA INVASION:
Hoping to secure pre-agreement for an international force
In the latest on Israel’s reported planning for a possible large-scale invasion of Gaza, Jerusalem hopes to persuade the international community to be ready to deploy a multinational force to then allow the IDF to withdraw.

KHAMENEI: ALLAH WILL ‘PUNISH’ IRAN”:
According to a state radio report, Iran’s supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is denying Washington’s accusations that Iran is building nuclear weapons and said on Sunday that Allah will ‘punish’ Iran if its controversial nuclear program is not pursued to completion.

P.A. DEFIES ISRAEL, RE-OPENS HQ IN JERUSALEM: by Hana Levi Julian
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ignored the government’s decision to extend the closure of PA institutions in the capital this week, and partially reopened Orient House, the official headquarters of the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem. On its website, Orient House is describe as being “the national headquarters of the Palestinian people in Jerusalem” that serves “the well-being of the Palestinian civilian population in “Occupied” Palestinian Jerusalem.”

A JERUSALEM CONFERENCE WITH INT’L FLAVOUR: by Ezra HaLevi
The fifth annual Jerusalem Conference is set to begin Tuesday morning, February 19. Topics in this year’s conference will range from national affairs and security to social welfare and economics; from Jewish education to Aliyah; from Israel’s status as a Jewish State to its functional relationship with its neighbors and the world’s nations. According to its website, the purpose of the Jerusalem Conference is to “deliberate core issues that will determine Israel’s future as a viable modern democratic Jewish State.” One speaker said that, “According to the latest JPPPI figures 41% of world Jewry is living in Israel,”

WARNING TO SHAS: JERUSALEM HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN AWAY: Hillel Fendel
A 4-page pamphlet distributed in synagogues around the country this past Sabbath is devoted to one topic: Getting Shas to quit the government. It warns that Olmert is using the continued presence of Shas in the government to formulate an agreement endangering Jerusalem, other areas of the land of Israel - and hundreds of thousands of Jews.

FOREIGN MINISTRY SLAMS ‘CIRCLE OF VIOLENCE’ COMMENT: Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Foreign Ministry Director-General Aharon Abramovich “rejects out of hand” comments by United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes characterizing Israeli counter-terrorism measures as part of a “vicious circle of violence.”

IRAN: ISRAEL WILL BE DESTROYED BY THE HANDS OF HIZBULLAH: By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Major-General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Monday February 18, that Israel would soon be destroyed by the “hands of Hizbullah.”

NETANYAHU CALLS FOR DISPROPORTIONATE FORCE: by Gil Ronen
Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu advocated the use of “disproportionate force” against the terror from Gaza in his speech before the 5th annual Jerusalem Conference Wednesday. Netanyahu called the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s statement that it had been a success, “a kind of total disengagement from reality.”

P.A. THREATENS TO DECLARE INDEPENDENCE: by Avi Tuchmayer
Senior officials in the Palestinian Authority said Wednesday February 20, they could follow the lead of newly-independent Kosovo and unilaterally declare independence if the current round of negotiations with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni fail to yield sufficient Israeli concessions.

VENTURE CAPITALIST SLAMS ISRAELI GOVERNMENT: by Avi Tuchmayer
Israel has emerged in recent years as a world leader in a variety of industries, from technology to outsourcing to homeland security and more. But one US-based investor told the Jerusalem Conference on Tuesday February 19, the country’s economic success has come despite an alarming level of governance. “Israel boasts many advantages for foreign investors,” said Ken Abramowitz, Managing Partner and co-founder of NGN Capital, “including terrific universities, a wealth of experienced managers, quality engineers and scientists, well-trained physicians and more. But I have never seen a lower caliber of government than you have in this country. Your foreign ministry is staffed with low quality people and a low quality leader (Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni). The Supreme Court is a collection of far-left activists who then appoint more far-left activists to join them on the bench. It feels like all the smart people in the country have started their own companies, and the rest have been left to run the country.”

EX-MOSSAD CHIEF: KILL TERROR SUPPORTING HEADS OF STATE: by Avi Tuchmayer
Shabtai Shavit, a former Director General of Mossad Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations and currently the Chairman of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center, told the Jerusalem Conference Tuesday February 19, that heads of state who support terrorism are legitimate assassination targets and called for Western countries to unite to create a common definition of terrorism in order to fight radical Islam. “Western Society must change its mindset,” he said, “and adopt the principles we live with in Israel. They must adopt the principle that self-defensive pre-emptive strikes are legitimate, as are targeted killings. That applies to heads of states who support terror, as are any and all heads of terror organizations, including religious and/or political leaders