AGGIORNAMENTI DI GPL MEDIO ORIENTE DA. NO 124 DEL 22 LUGLIO

L'OVEST DÀ ALL'IRAN DUE SETTIMANE AL PROGRAMMA NUCLEARE DEL FREEZE:
Il riso avverte che più sanzioni attendono se l'Iran continua l'arricchimento
I funzionari iraniani hanno sostenuto che “i progressi' sono stati realizzare nello showdown di questa fine settimana a Ginevra sopra il programma nucleare del renegade del Tehran, ma i capi occidentali hanno presentato un'immagine differente, insistente che le nuove sanzioni attendono a meno che l'Iran accosentisse per fermare le relative attività uranium di arricchimento in due settimane

IL COLORE MARRONE DICE ALLA KNESSET CH'IL REGNO UNITO FARÀ UNA PAUSA L'ISRAELE SULL'IRAN:
Il PM britannico inoltre fa saltare la costruzione israeliana di stabilimento
Il Primo Ministro britannico Gordon Brown ha assicurato i capi israeliani in un discorso alla Knesset lunedì il 21 luglio che il Regno Unito è aspetta per imporre le nuove sanzioni contro l'Iran che avanzerà il relativo isolamento se Tehran non ferma il relativo programma nucleare e l'arresto che minaccia l'ebreo dichiara.

IL MK SHEETRIT PROPONE LA NUOVA CITTÀ ARABA NEL GALILEE:
L'armadietto israeliano ha dato la relativa approvazione iniziale domenica il 20 luglio, ad una proposta del ministro interno Meir Sheetrit per stabilire una nuova città araba nel Galilee che contribuirà a fornire l'alloggiamento acquistabile e moderno per la popolazione araba aumentante del paese. La città costerà a NIS 1 milione nelle relative fasi d'inizio

IL `DI AFFARE DI MEDIO ORIENTE DOABLE', AD ESEMPIO LA GRAN-BRETAGNA' LA S PM:
Dopo i colloqui a Gerusalemme e Bethlehem, il Primo Ministro britannico Gordon Brown ha insistito la domenica 20 luglio, su che lo spacco fra l'Israele ed i Palestinesi può essere gettato un ponte e che un affare di pace di Medio Oriente è realizzabile. !!!

RAMPAGE DEL BULLDOZER DELLE FASI SECONDE DELL'ARABO DE GERUSALEMME:
Due dozzine si sono feriti, morti sparati terrorista in bizzarro ripetono
In uno scuotere ripeti più presto di un attacco mortale di terrore a Gerusalemme questo mese che a sinistra tre guasti, un residente arabo di Gerusalemme orientale, che è collegata attualmente con un uomo di Hamas nell'obiettivo, hanno guidato un caricatore a fine frontale pesante da un cantiere in traffico pesante sul re David Street, arrestandosi negli automobili e nei bus e lasciando fino a 24 ferito. Il sindaco Uri Lupolianski de Gerusalemme ha visitato la scena del rampage di terrore del bulldozer sul re David Street martedì il 22 luglio e suggerito esso era il tempo di riconsiderare di permettere che gli arabi orientali de Gerusalemme lavorino nelle zone ebree del capitale. Il rampage del bulldozer di questa settimana seconda a Gerusalemme è stato seguito da un aumento nella violenza nazionalistica del `' attraverso l'Israele ed i territori giovedì il 24 luglio, poichè gli israeliani hanno reagito violentemente agli attacchi arabi,

IL CONSIGLIO DI KADIMA APPROVA PRIMARIO PER SOSTITUIRE OLMERT:
Il PM denomina il partito liar backstabbing del `rivale di Livni'
It took twelve days of voting before a required majority of Kadima’s ruling council approved on Monday July 21, amendments to the party’s constitute

ABBAS PAYS ‘HISTORIC VISIT’ TO ISRAELI PRESIDENTIAL HOME :
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday July 22 with Israeli President Shimon Peres at Beit Hanassi, the first time senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders held a meeting at the President’s official residence in Jerusalem. Some Israeli media termed the meeting “historic,” and Abbas was welcomed in a formal ceremony with Palestinian flags flying outside the presidential home. “Israelis have a burning desire to reach peace with the Palestinians,” Peres told the PA leader. One international commentator has called Peres a fool for daring to think peace is possible with ‘people trying to murder you’.

ISRAEL REPORTEDLY WILLING TO RELEASE BARGHOUTI FOR SCHALIT :
According to the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, an Eygptian source said that Israel is prepared to free Fatah terror militia leader Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences for his role in killing Israelis, in exchange for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit.

HAMAS BOOBY-TRAPPING GAZA STRIP :
Hamas has taken advantage of the recent cease-fire with Israel to plant mines across widespread areas of the Gaza Strip, the head of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, Yuval Diskin, told a key Knesset committee on Tuesday July 22

TALANSKY’S RIDDLED TESTIMONY WEAKENING CASE AGAINST OLMERT :
After several days of cross-examination by lawyers for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the credibilty of the state’s main witness Morris Talansky has taken a beating, according to most local media accounts. A new video has surfaced on the Internet in which Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert praises Morris Talansky as a close and respected friend, a portrayal that runs counter to the recent assault on his character and credibility by Olmert’s legal defense team in the “envelopes affair.”

HAREDI YOUTH ATTACK ARABS AFTER BULLDOZER RAMPAGE :
Jewish man also stabbed defending Arabs from mob
Only hours after Jerusalem’s second bulldozer terror attack on Tuesday July 22, a mob of ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths attacked two Arabs from east Jerusalem.

ABBAS THREATENS TO PULL PA FORCES FROM THE WEST BANK CITIES :
Unless Israel halts its military operations inside West Bank cities, Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas threatened on Tuesday July 22, to withdraw his security forces from these areas. “If the incursions and the aggression and the insults to the Palestinian police continue, we will withdraw these forces,” warned Abbas,

IRANIAN ARMS CONVOY TO HIZBULLAH ATTACKED BY SABOTEURS :
Last week’s mysterious blast heard all across Tehran
An Iranian military convoy attacked in a mysterious explosion near Tehran last week was delivering a load of military equipment to the Hizbullah militant group at the time of the blast, Western officials told the London Daily Telegraph in a report published on Friday July 25.

IRAN HALTS CO-OPERATION WITH THE IAEA :
Probe into nuclear arms development at dead end
Iranian Vice President Gholam Aghazadeh announced Thursday July 24, that Tehran will cease to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency investigation launched a year ago to explore allegations that Iran has been concealing its attempts to develop nuclear arms.

KUNTAR: ‘ALLAH WILLING, I’LL KILL MORE ISRAELIS’ :
During Arab TV interviews conducted just days after his release from Israeli prison, Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar said that he will get his master’s degree in ‘military resistance’ and pledged his loyalty to the cause of killing Israelis as part of the ranks of Hizbullah. Speaking to Lebanon’s Future TV, Kuntar emphasized that he was “proud” of murdering Israelis and “Allah willing, I will get the chance to kill more Israelis.”

HIZBULLAH RECRUITS ‘RESISTANCE BATTALIONS’ AMONG LEBANESE SUNNIS :
Hizbullah is reportedly recruiting Lebanese from Sunni Muslim villages near the disputed Shaba Farms area in an attempt by the Shi’ite group to establish its control in the border region, a Beirut-based Western journalist told The Jerusalem Post this week.

IRAN TO GET ADVANCED RUSSIAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT SYSTEM BY YEAR’S END :
Iran is set to receive an advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft system by the end of the year that could help fend off strikes against its nuclear facilities, senior Israeli defense sources said on Wednesday July 23 First delivery of the S-300 missile batteries was expected as soon as early September, one source said, though it could take six to 12 months for them to be deployed and operable, Reuters reported. The best S-300 can track 100 targets at once and fire on planes 120 km (75 miles) away. Israeli warplanes have been training for long-range missions, and Jerusalem has joined Washington in warning that the military option was still open in halting Iran’s renegade nuclear program.

GILLERMAN : UNIFIL FAILURE WILL LEAD TO NEW ISRAEL-HIZBULLAH CLASHES :
Israel’s retiring UN ambassador Danny Gillerman insists that UNIFIL soldiers deployed to maintain the UN cease-fire that ended the Second Lebanon War in 2006 have failed to achieve their mandate and may instead be laying the foundation for future violence between Israel and Hizbullah.

BEING A PART OF IT : ALIYAH 2008 : by Hillel Fendel
Some 210 Jews from North America made Aliyah on Tuesday July 22, , and were welcomed in a gala ceremony in Ben Gurion International Airport. They arrived on the second Summer 2008 flight of Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that has been facilitating mass aliyah from North America for the past seven years.

FESTIVE WELCOME FOR A GROUP OF SOUTH AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS: by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
A special ceremony was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon July 22, in Jerusalem’s Old City to welcome 100 Jews who arrived on the first-ever charter flight for new immigrants from South Africa. The Jewish community of South Africa numbers approximately 65,000 people, 45,000 of them in Johannesburg and 15,000 in Cape Town. Since 1948, according to Jewish Agency figures, 21,000 South African Jews have moved to Israel. Israel is now the second most popular destination for Jews leaving South Africa, after Australia.

KADIMA DECIDES : PRIMARIES IN 8 WEEKS : by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Kadima party council, after 12 days, gathered a majority of 91 to vote to amend the party’s by-laws and set leadership primaries in September. The decision gives Prime Minister Ehud Olmert eight more weeks to lead the government before being replaced - unless he decides to take on his challengers.

GILLERMAN IN FINAL SPEECH : WHATEVER HAPPENS, ISRAEL WILL SURVIVE : by Gil Ronen
Israel’s outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Gillerman, gave his last speech Tuesday July 22 , to the U.N. Security Council. Referring to Jerusalem’s second tractor terror attack in three weeks, which occurred just hours before his speech, he said that when the first tractor attack occurred, people said the driver was “a madman.” It now is clear, he added, that the problem was not a solitary madman but rather “a phenomenon.” He emphasized that “whatever happens, whatever you discuss, whatever transpires - ISRAEL WILL PREVAIL ” “Most of the horror, most of the bloodshed, most of the killings, and most of the violence… is sadly and tragically within Islam,” he said. Not only are the majority of terrorists Muslim, he noted, but also the majority of terror victims around the world.

JEWISH GROUPS CHALLENGE OBAMA : SHOW SUPPORT FOR UNITED JERUSALEM: by Hana Levi Julian
The Coalition for a United Jerusalem held a news conference in the capital Tuesday night July 22, to demand that US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama express unequivocal support for the unification of Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama wound up his two-day visit to Israel Thursday morning with a pre-dawn visit to the Western Wall (Kotel), where he and his wife quietly read Psalm 122. The Psalm is a prayer for peace for the city, where the Temple Mount site behind the Western Wall is the holiest place for Jews around the world.

KNESSET CONSIDERS LAW TO CHANGE ISRAELI SABBATH OBSERVANCE : by Hana Levi Julian
The Knesset is considering a law that would change the way the Sabbath is officially observed in the State of Israel. The new measure would allow public transportation to run and permit many recreation and entertainment-oriented businesses to open. Government agencies and services would still remain closed. The proposal, which states “the freedom of movement must not be harmed on Shabbat,” was initiated by Likud MK Gilad Erdan and Kadima MK Elchanan Glazer. If passed, it will require buses that operate on the Sabbath to avoid neighborhoods populated primarily by observant Jews.

HAMAS GUNMAN KILLED, TWO INJURED BY PALESTINIAN BOMB IN GAZA: (Imra)
On Tuesday July 22, Khalil Ibrahim Jundiya, 30, a member of the armed wing of Hamas, was killed and 14-year-old Hamza Ahmed Jundiya, 14, and an unidentified adult were injured when a bomb they were handling
exploded in the Sajaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City

EXTREME ISLAMIST IDEAS PENETRATING TERRITORIES : - Jonathan Spyer (Jerusalem Post)
There is a growing presence in eastern Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza of preachers, organizations and individuals committed to the extreme Sunni Islamist current known as “Salafiyya,” the ideology associated with al-Qaeda. In the West Bank, the removal of Hamas-affiliated imams in over 1,000 mosques has paradoxically opened the door for the rising prominence of Salafi-oriented preachers.

ARAB MEDIA CARTOONS DEPICT “JEWISH CONTROL” OF U.S. PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATES :
Editorial cartoonists in the Arab world are using direct or borderline anti-Semitism in their portrayal of the presumptive U.S. presidential candidates as lackeys of the Jews and Israel, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued Wednesday. The report cites numerous examples of hate-filled characterizations of Jews and overt racist stereotypes

PALESTINIAN CAR BOMB DISCOVERED IN JENIN : - Yaakov Katz
During a Border Police operation in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday July 22, a large explosive device was discovered in a car that was likely on its way to explode in an Israeli city. The 12-kg. device was connected to several gas balloons and pipe bombs. (Jerusalem Post)

TERROR VICTIM’S FAMILIES SUE P.A. & BARGHOUTI FOR NIS 450 (MILL) (Ha’aretz)
Relatives of terror victims Thursday July 24, filed a NIS 450 million class-action lawsuit in Jerusalem District Court against the Palestinian Authority, the PLO, and jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who was convicted for a series of terrorist acts against Israeli civilians as head of the Tanzim militia in the West Bank.

A MEASURE OF THE DISTANCE TO PEACE : - Barry Rubin
Many people who are trying to understand the Middle East refuse to believe folks here think differently from themselves. There are Arab moderates, some very smart and brave people. The problem is none are in positions of power and all must shut up or face repression, defined as enemies of their people. For the Arabic-speaking world, the true heroes are still the terrorists. What horrified me most are not radicals cheering terrorist Samir Kuntar but that most relative To avoid being discredited, relative moderates must affirm that anyone who murders Israeli children is a hero. That’s the measure of how far the region is from Arab-Israeli peace. While the West concludes that trying to defeat enemies by isolating and vilifying them has failed, the other side concludes that its policy of trying to defeat its enemies by violence, vilification, and intransigence is working. That means many decades more of the same. The writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center. (Jerusalem Post)

THE THIRD LEBANON WAR : - Giora Eiland (Ynet News
The only way to prevent another war is to make it clear that should one break out, Lebanon may be razed to the ground. Hizbullah will be deterred if it realizes that aggression on its part would result in destruction that would outrage the Lebanese population and turn it against Hizbullah. Israel must first and foremost make this truth clear to its allies, that Israel cannot defeat Hizbullah as long as it is being supported by the Lebanese state. Therefore, if there is again aggression on the part of Lebanon, Israel would have no choice but to fight against the state that is encouraging aggression in practice. Those who had any doubt about the position of the Lebanese state should be reminded of the warm reception for murderer Samir Kuntar on the part of the Lebanese president and government ministers.