Middle East Update

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COURT HANDS DOWN LIFE SENTENCES TO 4 ARABS: by Hana Levi Julian
An IDF military court north of Jerusalem sentenced four terrorists from the Hevron area to life imprisonment Tuesday evening March 11. The four killed six Jews in a series of attacks. The terror squad was created [...]

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MIN. DICHTER: TRANSFER ISRAELI-ARAB TERRORISTS : by Ezra HaLevi
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said Saturday night March 8, that Israel should create laws allowing for the expulsion of terrorists’ families, even if they have Israeli citizenship. Dichter’s statements, part of an increasingly hard-lin increasingly hard-line taken by [...]

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HAMAS CLAIMS VICTORY AD IDF WITHDRAWS:
Some 20,000 Hamas supporters attended a mass rally in Gaza City on Monday afternoon to celebrate the “great victory” over the IDF after Israeli forces withdrew from a two-day Kassam-search mission in areas of northeast Gaza this morning. The ‘great victory’ saw [...]

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KHAMENEI HAILS AHMADINEJAD’S ‘NUCLEAR SUCCESS’ :
Debunks assessments supreme Ayatollah not behind president
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday February 26 praised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s role in the “great success” of Iran’s nuclear program, indicating that the Iranian president [...]

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EGYPTIAN GENERAL SLAMS HAMAS FOR DESTROYING BORDER:(MEMRI-TV)
Retired Egyptian general Hussam Sweilem, told Al-Mihwar TV on Feb. 6, 2008: “The most important issue today is the organized crime that came from across the border. This is a violation of Egypt’s sanctity, a transgression of its borders, which [Hamas] [...]

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NASRALLAH VOWS TO ATTACK JEWS ABROAD:
IDF Chief-of-Staff puts northern forces on high alert . Hizb’Allah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah vowed to retaliate against Jewish targets abroad after accusing Israel of taking the fight beyond Lebanese borders with its assassination of one of the group’s top commanders, Imad [...]

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SYRIA REBUILDS NEAR SUSPECTED NUCLEAR SITE:
Syria has built 3 new buildings on the site of suspected nuclear facility destroyed in a covert Israeli bombing raid last year, Israel’s Channel 2 news reported on Sunday February 10. According to the report, commercially available satellite images show three more [...]

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ISRAEL TO START BUILDING A SECURITY FENCE ALONG BORDER WITH EGYPT:
2,000 Egyptians have entered Gaza to join jihad against Israel
Israel’s top leaders agreed on Wednesday February 6. to authorize construction of a security fence along the most vulnerable stretches of the Israeli-Egyptian [...]

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WINOGRAD REPORT LETS OLMERT OFF THE HOOK:
Sharpest criticism aimed at IDF top brass
In its final report on the Second Lebanon War released late Wednesday January 29, the special Winograd Committee was less sharp in its criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud [...]

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EGYPT FIRES WATER CANNONS AT PALESTINIAN BORDER:
Egyptian forces fired water cannons at Palestinians trying to force their way across the Gaza-Egypt border on Friday January 25 . Egyptian forces began placing barbed wire near the collapsed steel border wall early on Friday, and [...]