MISES À JOUR DE GPL MOYEN-ORIENT DE. 14 JUIN NON 117

LE MUSÉE DE L'ISRAEL MONTRE LE LIVRE ANTIQUE D'ISAÏE : par Hillel Fendel
Le livre existant le plus ancien de la bible, trouvé dans le Qumran foudroie I 1947, est sur l'affichage dans le tombeau du musée de l'Israel du livre, par le mi-août. Pour la première fois en 40 ans, en l'honneur de l'anniversaire de l'Israel soixantième, le musée de l'Israel a mis les rouleaux antiques de la majeure partie du livre d'Isaïe sur l'affichage. Eu droit, « il viendra pour passer à la fin des jours, » l'objet exposé comporte un mètre-long rouleau 2.6 (de 8.5 pieds) de chapitres 1-28, et encore mètre-long rouleau 2.38 de chapitres 44-66. Les rouleaux du livre d'Isaïe, assumé pour avoir été écrit quelque part autour 120 BCE (seulement quelques cent ans après qu'il a vécu), sont le livre biblique existant le plus ancien dans le monde. Ils antidatent par environ 1.000 années les rouleaux les plus anciens du livre d'Isaïe qui avait été existant jusque-là.

SYSTÈME D'ALERTE DE MORTIER À INSTALLER DANS LA CEINTURE REGION-AND DE GAZA LE SYSTÈME DE DÔME DE FER : : par Hana Levi Julian
Les résidants des communautés de ceinture de Gaza avertir auront bientôt au moins quelques secondes' des attaques entrantes de mortier lancées par les terroristes palestiniens d'autorité dans Gaza. Le ministre Ehud Barak de la défense a autorisé le film encreur pour installer un système d'alerte de nouveau mortier dans le secteur, adapté du radar et du système d'avertissement développés en Israel et déjà employés par l'Armée de l'Air de l'Israel. Le système de défense antimissile « de dôme de fer » (Kipa Barzel) a été aussi bien placé pour être examiné le jeudi 12 juin, selon des fonctionnaires de ministère de la défense, un jour plus tard que sa date d'essai original-programmée. Le système, qui est conçu par des industries militaires de Rafaël (autorité de développement des armes de l'Israel) neutralise les missiles à courte portée tels que les fusées faites maison de Kassam et les missiles Iranien-faits à courte portée de Katyusha

LE LIBAN REJETTE L'OFFRE DE L'ISRAEL POUR DES ENTRETIENS : - Rana Moussaoui
Le Liban a rejeté le mercredi 11 juin un appel par le premier ministre israélien Olmert mardi pour des entretiens de paix, un rapport de gouvernement dit. (AFP

La JORDANIE CRAINT la NOUVELLE PRESSION DE FUSIONNER AVEC la CISJORDANIE : - Randa Habib (AFP)
Les fonctionnaires jordaniens craignent des propositions remplacées pour une fusion avec la région de la Cisjordanie. « Obtenir demi ou moins de la Cisjordanie avec toute population palestinienne serait suicide, » un fonctionnaire jordanien aîné dit. Une proportion significative d'habitants de la Jordanie de 5.8 millions sont déjà d'origine palestinienne et les fonctionnaires s'inquiètent que l'addition des Palestiniens de la Cisjordanie change fondamentalement l'équilibre de population. “We would prefer to be at war with Israel rather than accept such a situation, which would be a security nightmare and which would in the long term cause Jordan to lose its identity,” the Jordanian official said, adding that such a move would allow the Palestinians control of Jordanian politics.

NEW NEGEV RESEARCH CENTRE TO TEST SOLAR TECHNOLOGY : - Stephanie Rubenstein (Jerusalem Post)
The newly built Negev-based Solar Energy Development Center is on track to move forward the initiative of a U.S.-Israeli company to build the world’s largest solar plant in California’s Mojave desert. The site features more than 1,600 glass mirrors, known as heliostats, which track the sun and reflect light onto a 60-meter-high tower. The concentrated energy is then used to heat a boiler atop the tower to 550 degrees Celsius, generating steam that is piped into a turbine, where electricity can be produced.

TWO ARMED PALESTINIANS KILLED AND BOMB FACTORY BLOWS UP :
IDF forces killed two armed Palestinians who were assembling explosives along the Gaza security fence near Beit Lahiya on Thursday June 12. A Givati Brigade unit fired on one militant while an IDF tank took down the other Palestinian militiamen. Later on the same day, an explosion at a house in Beit Lahiya, which belongs to Hamas bomb-maker Hamouda, killed 6 terrorists, and other four people, including a 4-month old infant and a teenager, while injuring 40 others. On the same day Hamas fired nearly 50 rockets into Israel.

UN HEAD PROPOSES MULTINATIONAL FORCE FOR GAZA CROSSINGS :
Force would end blockade, serve as buffer between Fatah-Hamas rivals
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has proposed to dispatch a multinational force to ensure full and uninterrupted operation of Gaza’s three main border crossings that have been closed since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip a year ago.

GADDAFI : ‘ISRAEL WILL KILL OBAMA LIKE THEY DID JFK ‘:
In a speech delivered at a rally on Wednesday June 11, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said that US
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has expressed support for Israel out of fear that the Mossad will assassinate him ‘ Like they did to JFK!!’

SEVEN TREMORS IN LEBANON FELT IN ISRAEL:
A series of up to seven earth tremors centered in Lebanon and measuring between 3.8 and 4.2 on the Richter scale have also been felt in northern and central Israel over the past 24 hours to June 13. Historic records suggests a strong earthquake can be expected soon in the Holy Land.

IDF RETALIATES FOR ROCKET AND MORTAR FIRE: by Hana Levi Julian
IDF soldiers retaliated overnight in Gaza to punish Hamas for massive attacks against civilians in the western Negev on Thursday. An IDF spokesperson confirmed that forces attacked a Palestinian Authority terrorist cell near the northern Gaza town of Jabalya early Friday morning June 13, in Gaza. At least three terrorists were killed in the operation, according to PA sources. The cell was responsible for launching dozens of rocket and mortar attacks against Israel late Thursday. A booby trapped bulldozer was destroyed as it approached a northern Gaza crossing

DATE TREE SPROUTS FROM 2,000 YEAR OLD SEED FOUND ON MASADA: by Hana Levi Julian
The desolate cliffs of Masada are disturbed by little other than the dry desert winds and a seldom sprinkle of winter rain - the perfect place for a 2,000-year-old seed to wait out the millennia until an Israeli scientist could rescue and resuscitate it. The large, sweet fruit was famous throughout the civilized world both for its distinctive flavor as well as for its medicinal properties, which are mentioned in the Bible.

SYRIAN THREATS OVER THE GOLAN :
Several weeks after Jerusalem announced the renewal of indirect peace talks between Israel and Syria, one senior member of the foreign ministry suggested that if Israel did not willingly give up the Golan, then Syria would take it by force. During a press conference to Jordanian reporters on Saturday, Syrian deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad said that Syria has “other options” to “liberate” the Golan, adding that should hostilities erupt, his country would be able to “protect its land within minutes.”

ISRAEL DEMOGRAPHICS: GOOD FOR THE JEWS: by Hillel Fendel
With Israel’s population currently at 7.3 million, and over 75% of them Jews, the demographic trends continue to be pro-Jewish. At the end of December 2007, Jews comprised 75.6% of the total population, and Arabs were 20%. When taking Judea, Samaria and Gaza into account, the Jews still have a 60% majority. The annual number of Jewish births has increased by 40% in the past 12 years, from 80,400 to 112,500, whereas the number of Arab births in Israel has remained stable at 39,000

RICE ON THE RAMPAGE AGAINST HOUSING CONSTRUCTS IN JERUSALEM: by Hana Levi Julian
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel Sunday June 15, ready to rebuke Israel for deciding to approve construction of 1,300 housing units in the capital city. But the reprimand appears to have drawn a shrug from the Israeli government

RAMON: ELECTIONS ARE A ‘DISASTER’…..BIBI WOULD WIN: by Gil Ronen
“We must prevent the disaster of elections that the Labor party chairman is bringing upon us,” Vice Prime Minister Chaim Ramon (Kadima) said this weekend. “We must not bring Bibi [Netanyahu] to power, there is no reason to put Bibi in charge,” Ramon added.

IRANIAN GAOLED FOR ‘OUTING’ THE MULLAH MAFIA : - Amir Taheri (New York Post)
Abbas Palizdar, a member of the Iranian General Audit Office, was arrested by the secret police after claiming that “a mafia-style group of mullahs” is “plundering the country and sending the proceeds to foreign banks.” He also said the same “mafia” had assassinated two prominent officials who had stood in its way.

ISRAELI SUPOPORT FOR THE ‘ROADMAP’ PLAN DIPS BELOW 50% : - Anthony Jaffee (Washington Times)
Support among Israelis for the U.S.-led “Roadmap” has slipped below 50 percent for the first time since 2003, according to a poll conducted jointly by Hebrew University’s Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. A large majority of Israelis support the creation of a Palestinian state, but only 28% believe the chances of establishing it in the next five years are fair or high, while 69% believe the chances are nonexistent or weak.

IRAN REJECTS SIX-NATION PROPOSALS: - Thomas Erdbrink and Robin Wright
Iran said Saturday that a package of incentives offered by six countries was “out of the question” because it includes a demand for the country to suspend uranium enrichment activities. The six countries are U.S., China, France, Germany, Britain and Russia. US President George Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy joined in warning Tehran against developing a nuclear bomb, after Iran rejected the six-nation proposal of incentives..

MR BUSH ON AN ANCIENT PROMISE:
In his speech to the Knesset marking Israel’s 60th birthday, President Bush called the founding of the Jewish state 60 years ago “the redemption of an ancient promise given to Abraham and Moses and David - a homeland.”

GAZA TRUCE LIKELY BY JUNE 21 :
After months of waffling, the Israeli government was reportedly poised to consent to an Egyptian-brokered informal truce with Hamas in the Gaza Strip that was expected to go into effect by the end of the week, June 21. Israel is seeking a multi-stage deal under which Hamas would cease terrorism and the IDF would end its operations in Gaza. Israel also wants stronger commitments from Egypt concerning an end to weapons smuggling via Sinai into Gaza.

IDF CLAIMS US-TRAINED PA FORCES ABETTING TERRORISM:
Israeli defense officials on Sunday June 15, gave poor grades to a recent American initiative to deploy specially trained Palestinian Authority security forces in the Jenin area, saying the test run is not boding well for expanding the project into other parts of the West Bank asterrorism continues to grow. At least 600 PA forces trained by US defense contractors in Jordan were recently deployed in Jenin, known as a stronghold for radical groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. After several weeks of operation, IDF officers insist the PA forces “are taking action to enforce law and order but they are doing nothing about terrorism.”

IDF KILLS THREE JIHAD TERRORISTS IN GAZA :
The IDF killed three Islamic Jihad terrorists planting bombs near the security fence along the Sufra crossing in southern Gaza early on Monday June 16. Troops from the Givati Brigade fired on the Palestinian militiamen, who were carrying two bombs, rifles and other weapons. The IDF reported that the Palestinian terrorists were intending to film the detonation of the explosives.

ISRAELI NEGOTIATORS BEGIN TALKS WITH SYRIA: by Hana Levi Julian
Two top Israeli negotiators, Shalom Turjeman and Yoram Turbovich, traveled to Ankara on Sunday June 15, to resume talks with Syria through Turkish mediators. The Prime Minister’s Office declined to comment on the meeting, however, nor would officials confirm it was taking place. One of the subjects reportedly on the table is the possibility that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Syrian President Bashar Assad will meet during a conference on the Middle East to be held in France on July 13. Another likely subject is the future of the Golan Heights.

HISTORIAN: JEWISH TOWNS POPULATED BY ARAB LATE-COMERS : by Hillel Fendel
Historian Dr. Rivka Shpak-Lissak has embarked on an ambitious project, detailing the history of Jewish towns in the Land of Israel that are now known as Arab. The bottom line, Dr. Lissak told Arutz-7, is that the Arabs have not been here for thousands of years, as they claim, and that in fact most of the formerly Jewish towns of the Galilee were populated by Arabs only within the last 300 years or so.

ISRAEL SETS TOURISM RECORD IN MAY:
An estimated 300,000 tourists visited Israel during May 2008, as the nation marked its 60th anniversary celebrations. That represents a one-month record for tourism to the Holy Land, and is 5% more than in May 2000, the record year for tourism. It also marks an increase of 60% over May 2007.

EU GIVES ISRAEL AN UPGRADE IN RELATIONS:
‘A new era in Israel-European relations’
At a gathering of foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday June 16 the European Union agreed to a significant upgrade in relations with Israel during the annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting, heralding a vast improvement in bilateral relations over recent years.

SYRIA REFUSES TO CUT TIES WITH HIZBULLAH AND HAMAs :
“The Israeli demand that Syria shake off Hizbullah and Hamas as a condition for peace negotiations is like a demand that the US shake off its ties with Israel,” said Syrian cabinet minister Burthaina Sha’aban in India on Monday. After the second round of Israeli-Syrian talks, Sha’aban, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, accompanied the president to India where she spoke at a press conference. “Hizbullah and Hamas are not using violence. These are organizations opposing the occupation and working to prevent it,” she claimed.