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佐治亞俄國入侵在中部捉住了以色列：
拉扯我們的猶太人的耶路撒冷，切除武器銷售
戰爭爆發在俄國和佐治亞之間在同情的一個困難的位置近幾天來安置了以色列傢伙小民主反對大功率，但耶路撒冷在邊線決定暫時停留和結束對Tblisi的所有武器銷售。

中華人民共和國要求橫穿再開或停戰的GAZA ：
普遍的抵抗委員會恐怖聯盟的Gazan分支的最後星期四威脅了以色列在6月展開的停火19日在以色列和哈姆斯之間可能結束在三個星期之內8月7日，如果推進在打開Gaza過境和巴勒斯坦囚犯發行的問題沒有被做。 「猶太復國主義的職業(以色列)未讚成需求發布我們的囚犯，因此我們的戰鬥機為我們將設法拐騙更加以色列的戰士為我們的英雄囚犯交換他們的下一輪做準備」，

ABU丙氨酸威脅以色列以BINATIONAL狀態： 由日產Ratzlav-Katz
Ahmed Qurei (Abu丙氨酸)，巴勒斯坦當局的立法機關的一位前領導和它的當前首要談判員，發布了一個威脅星期天8月10日，大意是PA在以色列的土地能為一個唯一binational狀態推擠，而不是「二狀態解答」那形成為由我們主辦的路線圖的依據。 題材多年來被重覆了多次在正式，并且非官方的PA論壇和聲明，以為它將強制以色列屈服PA要求而不是面對以色列成為一個事實上阿拉伯國家的情況由於高阿拉伯出生率。

`油、以色列和伊朗』在因素之中那LED到佐治亞戰爭： 由Gl Ronen
對戰爭的分析在佐治亞點到一次戰鬥在一條主要油路線作為主要原因為敵意，而且對以色列連接。 關於回教世界的海峽2專家， Ehud Ya』 ari，告訴中央晚上新聞的觀察者俄國和鄰國為一條戰略輸油管的控制競爭從裡海到地中海。 這條相對地新的管道穿過阿塞拜疆和佐治亞對土耳其并且是唯一的管道在不穿過俄國或伊朗的亞洲和歐洲之間。 以色列準備通過管道接受石油和氣體。 By using the ethnic Russian population in South Ossetia to destabilize Georgia, Russia was making a play for the pipeline, he said.

OBAMA WEBSITE : ‘BURN THE JEWS’ :
Aaron Klein, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for WorldNetDaily.com, reports that a large volume of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda can be found on user-generated pages on Sen. Barack Obama’s official campaign website, which includes statements that Jews should be “burned and thrown in the oven, Israel murdered 6 million Arabs, Jews control American politics and dictate decisions of war and peace, the Jewish state is leading a Holocaust against the Palestinian people and was responsible for 9/11.”

ISRAEL TRACKS IRANIAN MISSILE TESTS : - Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Iran’s missile show last month (July) - during which it claimed to test-fire nine new, advanced ballistic missiles - was detected and closely followed by Israel.

REPORT : 1,000 PALESTINIANS TO BE ALLOWED ‘TO RETURN’ : (Maan News-PA)
One thousand exiled Palestinians will be allowed to reunite with their families in the West Bank and Gaza after Israel agrees to issue permits, Hussein Ash-Sheikh, head of the PA civil affairs department, said Saturday. August 9. Reunification permits were to be issued to a thousand Palestinians living without permits in Palestinian areas, as well as Palestinians living abroad. Israel agreed to issue the permits during a meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert last Wednesday.

200 JEWS EVACUATED FROM SOUTH OSSETIAN BORDER. 2/3 OF GEORGIAN JEWS NOW IN ISRAEL : Michael Jankelowitz
Since the outbreak of hostilities in Georgia, the Jewish Agency for Israel has assisted some 200 Jews living near the town Gori, on the South Ossetian border, to evacuate to Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, where most of the rest of the country’s 12,000 Jews reside. Some 210 Israelis and 30 new immigrants from Georgia arrived in Israel on Tuesday night August 12, with an additional 400 Israelis to follow shortly. Since 1989, 23,287 individuals have immigrated to Israel from Georgia.

EGYPT CLOSES SOME SMUGGLING TUNNELS TO GAZA : - Avi Issacharoff
Egypt has recently sealed dozens of tunnels used to smuggle goods and weapons from Sinai to Gaza. According to Palestinian sources, Egyptian security forces have destroyed at least 40 active tunnels in the past few weeks. According to some accounts, the Egyptians pumped poisonous fumes through some of the tunnels to flush out smugglers from other tunnels connected to the ones discovered. However, Palestinian sources maintain that, despite the crackdown, smuggling has hardly diminished in volume. (Ha’aretz)

HIZBULLAH’S GLOBAL REACH : - Jonathan D. Halevy and Ashley Perry
Hizbullah is an integral part of the Islamic revolution regime in Tehran. The ruling Iranian religious authority gave Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah the title of Lebanese “representative,” making him an essential part of the Iranian revolution. Hizbullah receives millions of dollars a year from Iran to finance its operations.
Hizbullah’s mission reaches far beyond Lebanon and is in line with the Iranian leadership’s 50-year plan made public at the end of the 1990s. The plan is to export the Islamic revolution to neighboring countries and beyond through preaching, encouraging Shiite emigration, purchasing real estate, forming political organizations, infiltrating the local political establishments, and taking over the various parliaments and focal points of political power.

QAEDA DEPUTY ZAWAHIRI RELEASES VIDEO IN ENGLAISH : (AFP)
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command to al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has released an English-language video call for jihad in Pakistan, the U.S.-based IntelCenter said Sunday August 10.. Zawahiri describes A.Q. Khan - the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb under house arrest for transferring nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea - as a “scapegoat to appease the Americans.” The Egyptian-born Zawahiri related his own personal experiences of having lived in Pakistan and said he “wants to speak directly to the Pakistani people and chose English because he cannot speak Urdu.”

KING OF JORDAN PAYS SECRET VISIT TO IRAQ, DISCOUNTED OIL FOR JORDAN TO BE RENEWED : - Deborah Haynes
King Abdullah II of Jordan became the first Arab head of state Sunday August 10 to travel to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Iraqi officials hope that it will pave the way for greater engagement with neighboring Arab states. Since the overthrow of Saddam, a fellow Sunni Arab, Jordanian officials had worried about the prospect of a pro-Iranian Shia government in Iraq, as well as the loss of discounted oil which Saddam once provided.

IN ONE TOWN, GAZANS YEARN FOR PREVIOUS ISRAELI PRESENCE : - Rafael D. Frankel
Three years have passed since Israel withdrew from Gaza, and in that time the economy has gone from bad to worse. “I want [the Israelis] to come back,” says Riyad al-Laham, an unemployed father of eight from Mawassi - a mixed ethnic Palestinian and Bedouin town located in the middle of Gush Katif - who worked in the area’s Jewish settlements for nearly 20 years. “All the Mawassi people used to work in the settlements and make good money. Now there is nothing to do. Even our own agricultural land is barren.”

RUSSIA APPRECIATES ISRAELI “BALANCE’ IN GEORGIAN CONFLICT : - Herb Keinon
Russia very much appreciates the “balanced” approach Israel has demonstrated during the current Russian-Georgian conflict, its charge d’affaires, Anatoly Yurkov, told the Jerusalem Post on Monday August 11.. The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement Sunday recognizing the territorial integrity of Georgia and calling for a peaceful solution. Yurkov said Moscow was likely to take Israel’s position of not selling offensive weapons to Georgia into account when weighing its own arms sales to Iran and Syria. (Jerusalem Post)

FINANCIAL CRISIS GRIPS PA GOVERNMENT: - Mohammad Yaghi
Despite a three-year $7.5 billion assistance pledge from the 2007 Paris donor conference, the PA remains in a financial crisis, with a projected shortfall of $400 million for the second half of 2008. If pledged funds do not arrive soon, Salam Fayad’s government will have difficulty remaining in office.

PA REJECTS OLMERT’S RECENT OFFER OF 93% OF WEST BANK:
Palestinian Authority leaders have rejected as “unacceptable” a peace proposal offered by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over recent months that would have given them a state in 93% of the West Bank, along with land swaps and a corridor to Gaza to make up the difference. According to Ha’aretz, the offer was tabled six months ago, and included provisions that would have allowed Palestinian refugees to move to a future Palestinian state but not to Israel, save for a small number of cases of family reunification. PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas considered the offer “unacceptable,” insisting it did not meet the requirements of the US-backed road map and the Annapolis understandings that the borders of the future Palestinian state should correspond with the pre-1967 borders, with its capital in Jerusalem.

BARAK ENTERS KADIMA FRAY WITH LIVNI CRITICISM :
Mofaz agrees an Israeli PM needs ‘military experience’
Labor chairman Ehud Barak injected himself in the Kadima primary race in recent days by insisting that Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni lacks the military experience necessary to be an Israeli prime minister, mirroring comments by her party rival Shaul Mofaz on Monday.

ISRAEL SUSPECTS POSSIBLE RUSSIAN-SYRIAN WEAPONS DEAL :
Assad building relations with France
Syrian President Bashar Assad is set to visit Moscow next week amid Israeli concerns that Russia may deliver more weapons systems to Damascus in response to recent Israeli arms sales to Georgia.

DAMASCUS ARRESTS SUSPECTS IN SULEIMAN ASSASSINATION :
According to a Syrian opposition website on Tuesday August 12 , several suspects have been arrested by Damascus security forces for assassinating regime official Mohammad Suleiman earlier this month. Considered the closest aide to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Suleiman was shot dead two weeks ago by sniper fire in Tartous, a Syrian port city.

LEBANON AND SYRIA AGREE TO ESTABLISH FULL DIPLOMATIC TIES :
In a dramatic diplomatic turnaround on Wednesday August 13, Syrian President Bashar Assad and Lebanese President Michel Suleiman agreed to establish full diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level, a Syrian official said. Ever since the two nation states were established after the break-up of the Ottoman Empire some 90 years ago, Syria has refused to recognize Lebanon’s independence, considering the country instead to be the 19th province of Syria.

U.S. SLAPS SANCTIONS AGAINST 5 IRANIAN COMPANIES :
The United States has enforced economic sanctions against five Iranian companies for helping the Islamic Republic’s program to develop nuclear capabilities. Any assets the five Iranian firms may have in the United States have been frozen and American citizens and businesses are banned from having any relations with the quintet, according to the US Treasury Department on Tuesday August 12.

FATAH TORTURE TURNING PA INTO HAMAS-LIKE POLICE STATE : by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
An escalated Fatah campaign to stamp out opposition in Judea and Samaria has stoked fears that it is copying the Hamas authority in Gaza and turning the Palestinian Authority (PA) into a police state.

FLIGHT OF 235 NEW IMMIGRANTS ARRIVES IN ISRAEL : by IsraelNN Staff
Two hundred and thirty-five new immigrants to Israel from USA and Canada came on Wednesday’s flight (August 13) . Over 2,000 immigrants will move to the Jewish state over the summer from North American and Great Britain under the auspices of the Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah organization. The oldest immigrant today is 96 and the youngest is 5 months old.

WANTED : MORE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES IN ISRAEL : by Hillel Fendel
The Ministry of Tourism hopes to double the number of international conferences taking place in Israel in 2009. 83 such conferences have taken place or will be held in Israel during 2008, involving 18,000 participants.The year 2008 is shaping up as a record-breaking year for Israeli tourism, with nearly 1.3 million tourist visitors having entered in the first half of the year - up 34% from the same period last year.

ISLAMIST WEBSITE DISCUSSES POISONING WATER SYSTEMS OF MAJOR EUROPEAN CITIES : (MEMRI)
On August 9, 2008, a member of the Islamist website forum Al-Boraq proposed poisoning the water systems of major European cities, explaining that this is just one of many options - some “more powerful and more damaging” - but that the posting was meant to “prompt the mind [to generate] innovative [ideas].”

ISRAEL, TURKEY & USA HOLD SEARCH & RESCUE DRILL : (Turkish Press)
Reliant Mermaid, a trilateral humanitarian search and rescue exercise involving naval ships and aircraft from Israel, Turkey and the U.S., will take place between August 17 and 22 in international waters off the coast of Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.

THE IRANIAN “GIANT “: - Jamil Theyabi
Iran’s role is not “veiled” anymore but “exposed.” Iran is active in Lebanon and in the south of Iraq, it cooperates with Hamas leaders and supports the Hawthi’s followers in Yemen. Iran is trying to create a Sunni-Shiite conflict in the Gulf region and on Arab borders, in order to expand its influence and win more supporters, either through buying in “dollars” or by exporting the Khomeini revolution. (Dar Al Hayat-Lebanon)

ISRAEL CONCERNED RUSSIA WILL NO LONGER HELP ON IRAN :
Moscow ‘will not be pushed around’
According to Israeli diplomatic officials and scholars, Russia’s recent offensive in Georgia and the West’s angry response could make is more difficult to gain Moscow’s support in the effort to halt Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

IDF SHOOTS SYRIAN INFILTRATOR ON THE GOLAN :
IDF forces shot and injured an armed Syrian who had approached the border fence on Wednesday night August 13. The man infiltrated the southern Golan Heights from Syria, but soldiers on patrol caught him nearing a border fence on the Israeli side of the international border.

AHMADINEJAD : ISRAEL SHOULD NOT BE BACKED BY THE WEST :
On the eve of a visit to Turkey, which has a strategic alliance with Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened the Jewish state once again on Wednesday August 13, saying that the West should not give it backing. “Western countries should not support them (Israel) so much. The life of this regime (Israel) has come to an end,” Ahmadinejad said a interview aired by Turkey’s NTV and CNN Turkish channels.

GAZA MILITIAS BUILDING LONGER RANGE ROCKETS :
Terrorists with the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza last week showed off to journalists what they said was a new rocket, called the Nasser-4, which can travel 25 km. (16 miles) (they claim) - double the range of the existing Nasser-3. If true, larger Israeli cities like Ashkelon and Ashdod would be under threat of attack.

ISRAELI FIRM WINS MEGA DEAL FOR DESALINATION PLANT IN AUSTRALIA : by Hana Levi Julian
Israel’s IDE Technologies chief executive Avshalom Felder announced Tuesday August 12 that his company has signed a multi-million dollar contract to build a desalination plant in Australia - a deal that he said in a statement was one of the “most challenging” the company has ever received. It will produce 140,000 cubic meters of high quality desalinated process water and drinking water per day (50 million cubic meters per year), according to IDE, most of which will be used by the firm’s industrial client for its manufacturing processes.

A BOMB IN LEBANON KILLS 15 AND WOUNDS 40 : - Robert F. Worth (New York Times)
A bomb hidden in a briefcase tore through a bus packed with Lebanese Army soldiers on Wednesday August 13, killing 15 people, including nine soldiers, and wounding more than 40 people, in the deadliest attack in Lebanon in more than three years.

PA FORCES TO GET FLACK JACKETS : - Adam Entous (Reuters)
Israel has agreed to allow the U.S. to supply flak jackets to Palestinian security forces, but not the heavier-duty body armor that the Palestinians and some American advisers had sought “They’re getting the same flak jackets that police get in the United States,” said a Western official involved in the program.