ACTUALIZACIONES DEL GLP… MEDIO ORIENTE DE. 15 DE MAYO…. NO 112

EL COHETE DEL GRAD HIERE CUENTAS EN ALAMEDA DE ASHKELON:
La visita de Bush del `no prevendrá respuesta israelí'
Apenas como visitar a presidente George W. de los E.E.U.U. Bush recolectó con los líderes israelíes superiores en Jerusalén el miércoles 7 de mayo para pagar tributo en el aniversario de la nación 60.a, un cohete de mediano alcance del Grad, lanzado de la aldea judía anterior de la pesca de Gaza de Dugit, cerrada de golpe en una alameda de compras apretada en Ashkelon, hiriendo a 15 personas y enterrando docenas debajo de pilas del escombro. En comparación con el Kassam, que cabeza nuclear contiene 16 libras de explosivos, la cabeza nuclear del Grad iraní contiene 44 libras de los explosivos, que le permitieron penetrar las paredes de la alameda y el techo gruesos del cemento.

OLMERT PUEDE HACER FRENTE AL SEGUNDO CASO DEL SOBORNO:
Lazos a dos más hombres de negocios de los E.E.U.U. que son sondados
Principal comandante criminal israelí anterior Moshe Mizrahi del investigador ha revelado que la nueva evidencia obtenida por el policía implicará a primer ministro israelí Ehud Olmert en un segundo caso del soborno además del asunto recientemente destapado de Talansky.

AUSTRALIA TOMA UN SOPORTE CONTRA IRÁN:
El primer ministro australiano Kevin Rudd anunciado el miércoles 7 de mayo, ese su gobierno está considerando el llevar de presidente iraní Mahmoud Ahmadinejad al Tribunal de Justicia internacional para la “violencia de la incitación contra Israel.”

TROPAS DE LA CA DEL ATAQUE DE LOS PALESTINOS EN RAMALLAH:
Las tropas de la CA vinieron bajo ataque de los palestinos que lanzaban las bombas incendarias el la noche el 6 de mayo de martes, en Ramallah, pero no había herido divulgado en el incidente. Más adelante, arrestaron a 12 palestinos en otras partes de Cisjordania. En Gaza, los médicos palestinos han divulgado que mataron a dos miembros de la milicia del terror de Hamas y dos otros heridos en un airstrike de IAF en el Gaza meridional

BUSH LLEGA EN ISRAEL, ACUERDO DEL PA DEL `DISTANTE': por Hana Levi Julian
Presidente George W. de los E.E.U.U. Bush llegó en la tarde el 7 de mayo de Israel miércoles, con expectativas grandemente reducidas con respecto a un acuerdo final del estado entre Israel y la autoridad palestina antes de que él salga de la oficina en enero de 2009. Ante presidente de los E.E.U.U. Bush y la secretaria del arroz de Condoleeza del estado se fueron para Israel, arroz dicho que la probabilidad de alcanzar un acuerdo antes de fin de año es “improbable” pero agregado “le no es imposible.”

ABRA LA LETRA EN BUSH: EXCEPTO ISRAEL DE UN ESTADO DEL AMIGACHO: por Hillel Fendel
Una organización de los pueblos ha encerrado una letra abierta a presidente George Bush en honor de su visita, explicando sucinto porqué muchos israelíes oponen un estado palestino. The letter, dotted with sources from the White House website and elsewhere to bolster its points, begins by welcoming the US President to Israel. It then explains that “vital interests” of both Israel and the US are liable to be endangered “due to your visit, particularly in view of Prime Minister Olmert’s legal troubles.” By far, the worst terror threat, they write, is the potential third terror machine, in Judea and Samaria, just opposite the homes of millions of Israelis.”

ACTIVISTS TO DEFY BUSH BY BUILDING A TOWN IN JUDEA! : by Ezra HaLevi
A new Jewish town will be established during US President George W. Bush’s visit to Israel, in defiance of US governmental pressure to cease building in Judea and Samaria. The new location, called Shdema, is on the site of a former IDF base located along the road between Jerusalem’s southern Har Homa neighborhood and the eastern Gush Etzion towns of Nokdim and Tekoa.

BUSH REASSURES KNESSET ON SPECIAL US-ISRAEL BOND:
In a rousing speech before a packed Knesset on Thursday May 8, visiting US President George W. Bush praised Israel as a beacon of freedom and democracy while expressing hope that one day radical Muslim groups such as al-Qaida, Hizbullah and Hamas will “recognize the emptiness of the terrorists’ vision and the injustice of their cause. No nation should ever be forced to negotiate with killers pledged to its destruction,” President Bush told the Knesset. US President George Bush spoke for almost 25 minutes, delivering a speech filled with references to God, to Israel as the Holy Land and to the heritage of the Biblical patriarchs. “We gather to mark a momentous occasion. Sixty years ago in Tel Aviv, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s independence, founded on the “natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate.” What followed was more than the establishment of a new country. It was the redemption of an ancient promise given to Abraham and Moses and David — a homeland for the chosen people: Eretz Yisrael. Speaking of Islamic terrorists Mr Bush said, “No one who prays to the God of Abraham could strap a suicide vest to an innocent child, or blow up guiltless guests at a Passover Seder, or fly planes into office buildings filled with unsuspecting workers.”

BARAK: ASHKELON RESIDENTS WILL NOT ‘BITE THEIR LIPS FOR LONG’ !
In the wake of last night’s Katyusha rocket attack that struck a shopping mall in Ashkelon and left over a dozen people wounded, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak vowed during a tour of the city on Thursday May 8 that Israel will respond to the continuous rocket barrages from Gaza. “You guys need to bite your lips, but not for [long],” said Barak.

AHMADINEJAD: 60 TH PARTIES WON’T SAVE ISRAEL FROM ANNIHILATION:
According to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday May 7, Israel is a
“dying” country whose 60th anniversary festivities will not save it from total destruction. “The Zionist regime is dying,” said Ahmadinejad. “The criminals assume that by holding celebrations… they can save the sinister Zionist regime from death and annihilation.”

US TO HELP SAUDIS TO DEVELOP CIVILIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
The US has agreed to help Saudi Arabia develop a civilian nuclear energy program and to expand its protection of Saudi oil fields, but Riyadh still turned down Washington’s request to increase oil production in order to lower global prices for petroleum.

‘VALLEY OF PEACE’ RECEIVES FUNDING AT LAST:
Red-Dead canal could bring economic boom to region
A project championed by Israeli President Shimon Peres that has been years in the planning and which could potentially create a million jobs for Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians has finally found the financing neccasary to proceed.

BLAIR: NEW PA FORCES TRAINED IN JORDAN MORE RELIABLE:
According to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the new units of the Palestinian Authority security forces currently being trained in Jordan are much better prepared to resist a violent takeover of the West Bank by Hamas than the forces which failed in the same task in Gaza last June.

ISRAEL DELEGATION PROTESTS USE OF TERM ‘ NAKBA’ :
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon’s office is reporting that the Israeli mission to the United Nations is pursuing action which would outlaw use of the term “Nakbah,” the Arabic word for ‘catastrophe’ which Palestinians use to describe the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Daniel Carmon of the Israeli mission to the UN has lodged a complaint about the word being used to undermine the legitimacy of the Jewish State’s founding.

HIZBULLAH TAKES CHARGE: - The Chicago Tribune editorial
After a week of violent clashes on the streets of Beirut, and elsewhere in Lebanon, it is clear who isn’t in charge. That would be the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora. In reality, if not politically, Hizbullah, the terrorist group that takes its orders from Iran and Syria, now commands Lebanon…

PMW: HATRED OF THE USA A PILLAR OF PA IDEOLOGY: by Maayana Miskin
The Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) watchdog group has released a report warning that hatred of the United States is a pillar of the Palestinian Authority’s ideology. As US President George W. Bush lavished praise this week on Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the latter broadcast on the TV station which he controls a stinging message: the US is “the greatest Satan in the world.” –Palestinian Legislative Council Member Najat Abu-Bakr (Fatah), PA TV, March 3, 2008. “Allah, take hold of the Americans and their allies… Allah, count them and kill them to the last one and don’t leave even one.” –Ahmed Bahar, speaker of the PA legislative council, on PA TV in April 2007.

AIR STRIKES IN GAZA KILL TERRORISTS IN WAKE OF ASHKELON ATTACK: by Ezra HaLevi
The IDF carried out two air strikes Wednesday night May 7, in Gaza city, killing two Hamas terrorists and wounding four, following a deadly Hamas rocket attack on an Ashkelon mall. The air strikes took place in the Sajeya neighborhood of Gaza City, killing terrorists Mohammad Harara and Ahmed Al Malahi, according to Hamas. Earlier Wednesday, four others were killed and fourteen wounded in clashes with IDF troops in the Jabalya region in northern Gaza and at Khan Younis, in southern Gaza - adjacent to the former Jewish town of N’vei Dekalim. 19 wanted terrorists were arrested in Shechem, Ramallah & Bethlehem .

ISRAEL TO TRANFER SECURITY IN NORTHERN WEST BANK TO PALESTINIANS: - Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff (Ha’aretz)
Israel and the Palestinians have been discussing an almost complete transfer of security responsibility to PA security forces for an area north and east of Tulkarm, including Jenin, in the northern West Bank, an area equal in size to the Gaza Strip. The plan calls for full Palestinian control from 6 a.m. to midnight and joint control with Israel during the night.

60 YEARS ON ISRAEL STILL LIVES: - Editorial Dallas Morning News
The British Mandate in Palestine came to an end on May 14, 1948 - in Tel Aviv, Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel in the territory the United Nations designated as the Jewish homeland. After nearly two millennia, the Jewish people had come home. Arab armies attacked within hours, with one leader promising to “sweep the Jews into the sea.” Against unbelievable odds, Israel prevailed. After winning two more wars of survival - in 1967 and 1973 - the Jewish state would build a durable, prosperous democracy. Israel is not just a fortress against anti-Jewish killers. It is a raft of modernity and material progress in a regional sea of intolerance and militaristic sectarianism. Israel, one of the United States’ strongest allies, has no oil reserves, but it has turned itself into a model of diverse economic development unmatched The shekel is now one of the strongest currencies in the world, inflation is 2.5%, last year’s 5% growth was the developed world’s highest for the fifth consecutive year, while unemployment slid to a 15-year low of 6.5%. We read from the Washington Post, “This week of May 10, marks the 60th anniversary of the return and restoration of the remaining two tribes of Israel - Judah and Benjamin, later known as the Jews - to their ancient homeland. Besides restoring Jewish sovereignty, the establishment of the State of Israel embodied many subsidiary miracles, from the creation of the first Jewish army since Roman times to the only recorded instance of the resurrection of a dead language - Hebrew, now the daily tongue of a vibrant nation of 7 million.

THREE JORDANIANS GAOLED FOR BUSH ATTACK PLOT: (AFP)
Jordan’s state security court on Wednesday May 7, sentenced three Jordanians to 15 years in jail for plotting an attack against U.S. President Bush when he visited the kingdom in 2006.

ISRAEL DESERVES ADMIRATION: - Salim Mansur (Edmonton Sun-Canada)
The birth of Israel has offered Jews a secure home where they may prosper without any fear or apology. If Israel had been born ten years earlier, then a great many Jews who perished in Hitler’s death camps likely would have survived. Jews are an insignificant fraction of the present world population of over six and a half billion - around 14 million, or 0.2% of the total. Yet Jewish contributions in the making of the modern world tower above that of any other people in relative terms and the immense odds of survival as a people given the level of hostility directed at them. Turning a desert into one of the rich economies of the world few imagined six decades ago is a proof of how much more could be achieved if those fighting Jews joined with them instead.
The writer, a Muslim, is an associate professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario.

VOID OF LEADERSHIP, PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT LOSES MOMENTUM: - Joshua Mitnick
Sixty years after Israel’s birth, the Palestinian national movement finds itself in a deteriorating state of paralysis. Eyad Sarraj, the director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, notes, “We have a serious structural problem in the national movement. The control all the time has been by the gun, and fanatical militants, who are largely uneducated and ignorant, causing most of the disasters we are in today.”.

WHAT AILS THE PALESTINIANS? WHY DO THEY FAIL CONTINUALLY?
Palestinian suffering is, of course, real and heart-wrenching, but what the Arab narrative deliberately distorts is the cause of its own tragedy: the folly of its own fanatical leadership - from Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem (Nazi collaborator, who spent World War II in Berlin), to Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser to Yasser Arafat to Hamas of today - that repeatedly chose war rather than compromise and conciliation. Palestinian dispossession is a direct result of the Arab rejection, then and now, of a Jewish state of any size on any part of the vast lands the Arabs claim as their exclusive patrimony.

CHIEF PA NEGOTIATOR: JERUSALEM ON THE TABLE! : by Hillel Fendel
Contrary to denials by top Israeli officials, the future of Jerusalem is being discussed in top-level negotiations between Israel and Palestinian Authority officials. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has often said that Jerusalem is not being discussed at present, and that it will be left for a later stage of talks. The Shas party has said even more often that it would quit the government coalition if it learned that Jerusalem was on the table. The departure of Shas would topple the government, for all intents and purposes. The Arab view is that the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem is a “certainty!

GOVERNMENT REMOVES MAIN CHECKPOINT: by Ezra HaLevi
At the behest of Quartet envoy Tony Blair the government has removed a major checkpoint and destroyed a young Jewish community. The IDF removed a checkpoint at the “Sheep Junction” south of Hebron early on Sunday morning May 18 , opening the junction to Palestinian Authority Arabs. Ten other crossings were removed in the Nablus, Tulkarm and Qalqiliya vicinity, totaling 70 crossings that were removed during the month of May.”

ARABS TORCH JEWISH WHEAT FIELDS IN SAMARIA: by Ezra HaLevi
Arabs burned Jewish-owned wheat fields in the Samaria town of Yitzhar Friday May 16. The regular vandalism has led residents to ponder soliciting assistance from humanitarian groups. The Arab residents of a neighboring village succeeded in burning the entire year’s crop two and a half years ago and the fields were set ablaze five times during the course of a single summer last year. In another incident, most of the fence installed around one farmer’s fields was stolen. In 2005, Yitzhar resident Akiva Cohen spotted the raging fire and fired shots in the air to frighten the arsonists away. About 100 dunams of wheat were burned in the blaze. IDF troops conducted a search for the arsonists in the adjacent village of Atzira al-Kabliya to no avail.

IDF CAPTURES PALESTINIAN WHO TRAINED IN IRAN:
The IDF announced Monday May 19, that back on April 15 its forces captured a Palestinian militiaman, Ala Abu Madif, who had gone to Iran for training. Madif is one of an estimated 2,000 Palestinians who have received weapons training in Iran since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Madif returned and became engaged in launching Kassam rockets at southern Israel, while also expressing interest in carrying out a suicide attack

BARAK TABS EARLY ELECTIONS BY START OF 2009:
Polling has the Right primed for ballot
As the Knesset’s summer session started on Monday May 19, both opposition and coalition MKs were abuzz with talk about the likelihood of early election. “I predict that elections will be moved up and held either at the end of this year, or at the beginning of 2009,” Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak told a Labor party meeting on Sunday.

BARAK DROPS HINT THAT GAZA ATTACK MAY BE ‘JUST AROUND THE CORNER’:
Although Defense Ministry officials said that Israel was open to accepting an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza, Defense Minister Ehud Barak focused instead on the likelihood of a massive military attack in Gaza during a meeting with a top US Congressional delegation on Sunday May 18.

YET ANOTHER OLMERT SCANDAL: SUSPECTED OF RECEIVING $300 K: by Hillel Fendel
Journalist Yoav Yitzchak, who has doggedly pursued the criminal suspicions against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for years, has now unleashed another one. Yitzchak claims Olmert received an unauthorized $300,000 when he was Trade Minister. The money was allegedly given in-between campaign elections, thus that “even if Olmert states that the money was to cover election campaign deficits, this will not help purify him from the suspicion of accepting a bribe,” Yitzchak writes.

NEW DEMAND: ‘WE WANT AN ARMY! : by Hana Levi Julian
Palestinian Authority chief negotiator and former Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia has reportedly added a new demand to the long list being negotiated in final status talks with Israel: the PA, he says, will also require an army to defend the new Arab state.

PALESTINIANS REJECT HAMAS RECOGNISING ISRAEL: (Angus Reid Global Monitor)
63 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza oppose Hamas recognizing the legitimacy of Israel, according to a poll by Arab World for Research and Development, conducted through interviews with 1,200 Palestinian adults on May 3-5, 2008.