GPL MITTLERE OSTEN-UPDATES VON. 26. JUNI NR. 119

ORLEV: FRANZÖSISCHER PRÄSIDENT NEEDS LESSONS IN HISTORY U. GEOGRAPHIE:
M Zevulun Orlev, Vorsitzender von Israels nationaler frommer Partei, sagte vom Besuchspräsidenten von Frankreich, „Sarkozy sollte ein wenig hier länger bleiben, um etwas Geschichte nämlich die Jerusalem nie zum Islam beloned, aber nur zu den Juden zu erlernen. Er sollte eine Geographielektion auch nehmen und besucht Sderot und die vorübergehenden Lager der Flut Katif expellees, bevor er vorschlägt eine andere [jüdische] Entfernung und Rückzug zu den 1967 Rändern.“ „Seine Freundschaft mit Israel muß auf jenen zwei Lektionen basieren,“ gesagtes Orlev. M Benny Elon (nationaler Anschluß) sagte, daß er, daß es zwei Zustände geben sollte, aber mit geringfügigen Unterschieden als Antrag Sarkozys einverstanden ist: „Ein Zustand sollte Jordanien, auf der Ostbank des Jordanien Flusses und des Israels auf der Westseite sein. Kein anderer Zustand sollte hergestellt werden wird hergestellt zwischen ihnen.

GERICHT: GAZA ÜBERFAHRTEN BLEIBEN FÜR JETZT GESCHLOSSEN: durch Hana Levi julianisch
Der hohe Gerichtshof hat die Regierung bestellt, um den Gaza, den überfahrten vorläufig schlossen und Haupt-Allgemeine (Res.) Amos Gilad, vorangehen des Sicherheit-Diplomatischen Büros des Verteidigung-Ministeriums erklärten, zu treffen die Shalit Familie zu halten. Sie besprachen Situation Sonntag Nachtjuni ihres Sohns, und das Gericht erklärte Gilad zu versuchen, eine Weise zu finden, die Punkte der Absicht mit der Familie zu beheben, die daß Vermittlungen Garantiefreigabe des sichernden Soldaten verlangen. Israels hoher Gerichtshof am Montag Abend 23. Juni wies eine Berufung eingeordnet von der Familie Schalits gegen die Ceasefirevereinbarung zwischen Israel und bewaffneten palästinensischen Parteien in Gaza zurück und auflud, daß er nicht ein Gefangenaustauschabkommen für seine Rückkehr einschließt.

OLMERT ZUR JÜDISCHEN AGENTUR: MÖGLICHERWEISE SEINE ZEIT ZU DE-EMPHASISE ALIYAH: durch Hana Levi julianisch
Premierminister Ehud Olmert erklärte die jährliche Sitzung des Aufsichtsrats der jüdischen Agentur für Israel am Sonntag, dem 22. Juni, das ist es Zeit, die Ausgabe von aliyah für Diasporah Juden beiseite zu setzen und konzentriert sich auf jüdische Ausbildung und Selbst-identität. Herr Olmert unterstrich, daß eine Majorität Juden der Welt jetzt im jüdischen Zustand leben, zum ersten Mal seit der Zerstörung des zweiten Bügels.

DEUTSCHE INTELLIGENZ: BOMBARDIERTER SYRISCHER REAKTOR WAR FÜR IRANISCHES A-BOMB (ENTWICKLUNG: (AFP)
According to German intelligence reports, a joint plan by Syria, North Korea and Iran for a nuclear reactor for military use was to have been developed at the Al-Kibar site in Syria, which was destroyed by Israel last September, Der Spiegel reported.

HAMAS ACQIRES SECURE RADIO TECHNOLOGY: (IMRA)
Jane’s Defense Weekly reported on 17 June 2008 that Hamas has acquired new wireless technology to improve stealth communications in Gaza. Israel Radio reported this on Sunday, noting that the cost per unit of these 51-km.-range Taiwanese-made scrambled cellular phones is $2,000, and that the Hamas force is being transformed into a regular army.

EUROPEANS TRAINED IN TERROR CAMPS IN PAKISTAN : Pierre Thomas and Jack Date (ABC News)
Dozens of white Europeans have trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan’s tribal regions in recent months, U.S. intelligence sources said. Government officials suspect the terrorists, recruited in Europe, have been dispatched to plan attacks against Europe and possibly the U.S. The terrorists hail from Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Romania and Estonia, sources said.

HAMAS SAYS SMUGGLING TO GAZA WILL CONTINUE :
Smuggling into Gaza will not stop, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya told worshippers before Friday prayers. Reacting to Haniya’s remarks, Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, underlined that the Egyptian-brokered truce explicitly stated that arms smuggling must halt. “The agreement with Egypt states clearly that there must not be any contraband arms heading for Gaza and no attacks from Gaza towards Israeli territory by any of the armed groups.”

U.S. FUNDED ARAB TV AIRS ANTI-ISRAEL REPORTS : - Scott Pelley
The U.S. government spends $100 million a year on a news channel in Arabic called “Al Hurra” to explain America to the Arab world. Yet a review of what Al Hurra is putting on the air found that it has supported terrorism and denied the Holocaust.

GAZA TRUCE UNRAVELING AS KASSAMS STRIKE THE NEGEV :
Four Kassam rockets hit the western Negev on Tuesday afternoon, in a second Palestinian violation of the Egyptian-brokered cease-fire in Gaza that went into effect last Thursday. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was to avenge an IDF arrest raid in the West Bank early Tuesday that killed one of its members. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the rocket attack “came as result of Israeli provocation this morning.”

US CHIEF OF STAFF TO PAY SURPRISE VISIT IN WAKE OF IAF EXERCISE :
The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen will travel to Israel at the end of the week (June 28) for talks with IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi amid reports of Israeli planning for military action against Iran.

EX-U.S. ENVOY BOLTON : IF OBAMA WINS, ISRAEL WILL ATTACK IRAN : by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
John Bolton, former American Ambassador to the United Nations, told a London newspaper Tuesday June 24, that Israel will attack Iran if Senator Barack Obama is elected President. He predicted the attack would take place between the day after the elections, in early November, and January

LABOR DECIDES TO PUT AN END TO OLMERT GOVERNMENT : by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Labor party caucus decided Monday afternoon June 23, to back party chairman Ehud Barak and vote against the government Wednesday June 25 on a bill to dissolve the government. At the last minute they changed their mind!!

OLMERT AND MABARAK DISCUSS NEXT STEPS TO FREE CPL. SHALIT : by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt on Tuesday June 24. Olmert praised Mubarak for his role in brokering the recently concluded ceasefire agreement with Hamas in Gaza, while Mubarak said his efforts to negotiate the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit are continuing.

5 TH DAY OF CEASEFIRE : SHELLING, COUNTER-TERROR, & JIHAD THREATS: by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

Islamic Jihad threatened to break the five-day-old Gaza ceasefire, designated as “a period of calm,” because of an IDF operation early Tuesday morning that killed two terrorists in different part of the country. On Monday night, Gaza bases PA terrorists fired a mortar shell at a Jewish community in the western Negev . In other operations, IDF soldiers apprehended eight terrorists during the night between Monday June 23 and Tuesday, one in Jenin, five in and around Bethlehem, and two north of Kiryat Arba-Hevron.

P.A. WARNS : ISLAMIC JIHAD PLANS ATTACK TO RUIN TRUCE - Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post)
Islamic Jihad in the West Bank is planning to carry out an attack on Israel to ruin the cease-fire agreement in Gaza, PA security officials said on Monday June 23

EU BACKS SANCTIONS ON IRAN, FREEZES BANK ASSTS : - John Ward Anderson
The European Union approved new sanctions against Iran on Monday June 23, including a freeze on the assets of Bank Melli, Iran’s largest bank, in a continuing effort to force Tehran to curtail its nuclear development programs. The new measures include a travel ban on high-level Iranian officials involved in the country’s nuclear and weapons programs. (Washington Post)

LONDON SUMMIT ON JEWISH REFUGEES :
Jewish groups from around the world are meeting in London to highlight the plight of Jews who left their homes in Arab nations after Israel was founded. The conference organizers, Justice for Jews, say they want to ensure the story of Jewish refugees is told, alongside that of Palestinians. The American-based group says around 850,000 Jews lived in Arab nations before Israel was founded in 1948. Most were forced to flee due to hostility when Israel was created. (BBC News-UK)

LIVNI APPOINTS FIRST FEMALE UN AMBASSADOR : Livni appoints first female UN ambassador
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has chosen Gabriela Shalev as Israel’s first female ambassador to the United Nations. Shalev, the rector of the Ono Academic College and a contract law specialist, will replace Dan Gillerman, who has held this position for over 5 years.

UNEXPECTED DELAY IN THE TESTING OF THE IRON DOME ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM :
Israeli officials on Tuesday June 24, said there would be a surprise delay in the testing schedule for the Iron Dome anti-missile system, which is desperately needed to defend against Kassam and Katyusha rocket attacks. The test regime has been pushed up to next month. The system is expected to cost around $300 million and uses a small kinetic missile interceptor to stop oncoming rockets. It is set to be initially deployed outside Gaza and on the northern border by 2010. According to a Defense News report, the Bush Administration is contemplating giving $200 million towards the Iron Dome system.

VIOLENT CRIME ON THE RISE ? NOT REALLY!! by Hana Levi Julian
Despite a recent spate of violent crime, a Haifa University professor says life in Israel is still far more peaceful than in the United States or Russia. According to A Mr Ratner, a sociologist, Israel is one of the countries with the lowest rates of homicide in the world, along with Canada, England and France.

“JORDAN IS PALESTINE” PLAN IS RECEIVING ATTENTION : by Hillel Fendel
Jordan is in an uproar over the revival of the “Jordanian option” - the thesis that Jordan is the true home to the “Palestinians.” Reports that a top advisor to US Presidential candidate John McCain is promoting this idea have led to a flurry of press reports in the Arab media, as well as a denial from Jordan’s King Abdullah himself. Some officials in Israel and the United States, however, feel it’s the only way to prevent the formation of a Palestinian state.

JERUSALEM STREETS TO BE CLOSED TWICE : by Hillel Fendel
Street closings and traffic jams are scheduled in Jerusalem twice over the next two days - 25-27, once for the Bridge of Strings dedication and once for the gay march. The Bridge of Strings (Gesher HaMeitarim in Hebrew), is scheduled to carry the light rail mass transit system over the busy entrance to Jerusalem, while serving as the icon of a new, modern gateway to the holy city. The S-shaped bridge is supported totally by 66 half-centimeter cables stemming from a single, 118-meter (390-foot) tall column. Publicists say it evokes the strings of King David’s harp, “a fitting image for the holy city.”

AHMADINEJAD PROPOSES TRIAL FOR LEADERS OF COUNTRIES SANCTIONING IRAN :
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposed the formation of a special court to punish the world “tyrants” for their attempt to thwart Iran’s nuclear program. Ahmadinejad told a group of judges that “a court should be formed to try and punish all world criminals who invade the rights of the Iranian nation.” (AP/FOX News)

GAZA CROSSING TO REMAIN SHUT UNTIL ABDUCTED ISRAELI SOLDIER FREED :- Tomer Zarchin
Egypt assured Israel on Tuesday June 24, that the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will remain closed until a deal is reached that secures the release of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, a senior Israeli official said after meetings in Sharm el-Sheikh between Prime Minister Olmert and Egyptian President Mubarak.

IRAN’S LARIJANI : ‘TAKE EL BARADEI’S WARNINGS SER IOUSLY’:
‘Bring artificial legs’ if you attack, adds IRG commander
Iran’s parliament speaker and former senior nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani told a session of parliament on Wednesday that Western leaders should “take seriously” the recent warning by IAEA chief Muhammad ElBaradei that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would turn the Middle East into a “ball of fire.”

U.S. MESSIANIC JEWS TO CHALLENGE ALIYAH DISCRIMINATION :
A group of some 300 American Messianic Jews will rally this weekend June 28, in Jerusalem to challenge Israel’s immigration policy for discriminating against Jews who believe Jesus Christ is the Messiah. Starting Thursday, The Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations, a group representing some 80 US congregations, is hosting a three-day Jerusalem conference to address what it considers are discriminatory acts and policies against Messianics. Today there are an estimated 250,000 openly professing Messianic Jews in the US and elsewhere, while some 12,000 reside in Israel

LATEST PROPOSAL INCLUDES 150 TERRORISTS WITH ‘BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS’ :
Israel’s latest proposal includes an agreement to free 150 terrorists with “blood on their hands,” on the condition they do not return to the Palestinian Authority territories or Gaza, Voice of Israel government radio reported Thursday morning June 26. The proposed release of the murderers would be part of a larger deal that would include nearly 1,000 terrorists and other Palestinian Authority prisoners in exchange for Shalit.

KASSAM ATTACK ON SDEROT-THIRD VIOLATION OF CEASE-FIRE : by Hana Levi Julian
For the third time in a week, Palestinian Authority terrorists violated the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel early Thursday afternoon June 26 . Prime Minister Ehud Omert’s spokesman Mark Regev told Israel National News that no decisions had yet been on a response to that attack “We’ll wait and see. Obviously we’ll be having discussions,” he said. Israel limited its retaliation to the previous attacks by closing the Gaza crossings for two days, which had been opened in accordance with the agreement. There were also mortar fire attacks .

EREKAT (THE OPTIMIST) :ISRAELI-PA PEACE DEAL WITHIN REACH :
‘Leaders who sign deal will be more important than Jesus’
Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian Authority’s main negotiator with Israel, told a gathering of the Peres Peace Center on Thursday that the parties are closer than ever to a peace deal ending their conflict, adding that the “Israeli and Palestinian leaders who reach an agreement will be more important to the region’s history than Jesus.” !!!

SAUDIS HOLDING HUNDREDS LINKED TO AL-QAEDA : (AP/New York Times)
Saudi authorities have arrested and detained 520 people so far this year who are suspected of having links to al-Qaeda, the Saudi Interior Ministry said Wednesday June 25. The ministry said some of those arrested had been plotting bomb attacks against an oil installation and “a security target.” Police found money, weapons and ammunition owned by the suspects, who had buried some of it in remote areas. The men, who are from Africa, Asia and other regions, were organized into cells whose leaders were based outside

ISRAELI BREAKTHROUGH IN SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY : by Hana Levi Julian
An Israeli entrepreneur is harnessing the sun’s energy in an industrial park in the northern Negev, where he plans to refine the technology and then replicate it in California’s Mojave Desert. The field of 1,640 robotic mirrors, called heliostats, looks a little like a mechanical rock concert in action when the sun rises in the morning. Each mirror is slightly larger than a ping pong table and is controlled by a computer; the tables turn toward the sun as it moves through the sky. The mirrors focus the sun’s rays on the point of a 200-foot tower where a water boiler is to produce high-pressure steam. The system is designed to produce up to 900 megawatts of clean, renewable energy for the State of California in the next decade, enough to power 540,000 homes per year.

LAKE KINNERET APPROACHING THE ‘RED LINE’ : by Hana Levi Julian
The water level in Lake Kinneret is only 18 centimeters (seven inches) away from the “red line”, the mark at which water quality is jeopardized and at which Israel declares an official water shortage

GERMAN TRADE WITH IRAN GROWING : - Assaf Uni (Ha’aretz)
Trade between Germany and Iran is expanding despite Berlin’s declarations that it is curtailing its trade. Ha’aretz has calculated that in the first four months of the year, German exports to Iran increased by around 18% from the same period last year In the first four months of 2008, Germany exported to Iran 1.35 billion euros worth of merchandise, consisting of chemical and iron products, cars, engines and engineering equipment.

ISRAELI DEFENCE MINISTER: “HE WHO SEEKS PEACE SHOULD PREPARE FOR WAR” : Yonat Atlas
“We seek peace with every fiber of our being and detest war, but we are sober, and we know that he who seeks peace should prepare for war,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday June 26 at an Air Force flight school graduation ceremony. “Only deterrent military strength and superior excellence lead to a swift victory, and they are what will lead to peace.” (Ynet News)