Middle East Update

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WEST GIVES IRAN TWO WEEKS TO FREEZE NUCLEAR PROGRAM : Rice warns more sanctions await if Iran continues enrichment
Iranian officials claimed that “progress’ was made in this weekend’s showdown in Geneva over Tehran’s renegade nuclear program, but Western leaders presented a different picture, insisting new sanctions [...]

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LEBANON JUBILANT OVER RETURN OF VICIOUS ISLAMIC CHILD MURDERER KUNTAR :
Abbas, Palestinians join celebrations of Hizbullah ‘victory’
Lebanese leaders declared a national holiday on Wednesday to celebrate the “liberation” of PLO terrorist Samir Kuntar and four Hizbullah guerillas from Israeli jail in a [...]

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OLMERT FACES NEW EVIDENCE OF DOUBLE BILLING FOR TRIPS :
Israeli police reveal wider charges after grilling PM
Ehud Olmert’s legal woes deepened during his third round of questioning in the Talanksy affair on Friday when Israeli police confronted the embattled prime [...]

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IDF BEGINS EXHUMING HIZBULLAH BODIES FOR PRISONER SWAP : In a clear sign that an Israel-Hizbullah prisoner swap is about to take place, IDF rabbinic authorities on Monday July 7 began exhuming the bodies of approximately 200 Hizbullah fighters killed in combat with [...]

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PA GLORIFIES CHILD MURDERER KUNTAR: By Hana Levi Julian
The P A leadership considers Lebanese arch-terrorist Samir Kuntar to be the epitome of the “ideal” PA prisoner, Kuntar, commander of a unit that attacked Nahariya in 1979, was convicted for the murders of four Israelis, including two [...]

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ORLEV : FRENCH PRESIDENT NEEDS LESSONS IN HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY :
MK Zevulun Orlev, Chairman of Israel’s National Religious Party, said of the visiting president of France, “Sarkozy should stay here a bit longer in order to learn some history, namely, that Jerusalem never beloned to Islam, [...]

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HAMAS CONFIRMS TRUCE OPERATES FROM JUNE 19 :Five killed in group that kidnapped Schalit
A Hamas spokesman confirmed on Tuesday it has committed to an Egyptian-mediated truce with Israel set to go into effect at 6 a.m on Thursday June 19, though Israeli Defense [...]

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ISRAEL MUSEUM DISPLAYS ANCIENT BOOK OF ISAIAH: by Hillel Fendel The oldest existing Book of the Bible, found in the Qumran Caves I 1947, is on display in the Israel’s Museum Shrine of the [...]

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CIVILIAN POPULATION JOINS NATIONWIDE HOME DRILL ON 3 RD DAY: by Hana Levi Julian
Israelis throughout the country were “alerted to a nationwide emergency” at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday morning April 8, when air raid sirens kicked off Day 3 of the five-day Home Front security drill to [...]

IRAN GETS FOURTH BATCH OF NUCLEAR FUEL FROM RUSSIA: (Reuters)
Iran received a fourth delivery of nuclear fuel from Russia on Sunday January 20 to power Tehran’s first atomic power plant and it expects four more before the consignment is complete, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported.
ISRAELI SPY SATELLITE [...]