Middle East Update

by Ezra HaLevi
Israel’s Chief Rabbis and the Chief Rabbi of Haifa have been invited to the White House for pre-Annapolis talks to explain the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount.

David Cho and Thomas Heath (Washington Post)Oil-rich Middle East states are aggressively stockpiling some of the largest concentrations of investment money in history. The government of Libya has amassed $40 billion and is ready to put it in play on Wall Street. Tiny Qatar is adding $1 billion a week to its investment coffers. The [...]

Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post
With US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice due to arrive on Saturday night November 3, for her eighth visit this year, and the looming advance of the end of fall - the date by which the Americans have said the long-discussed Annapolis meeting would be held - crunch time is [...]

Glenn KesslerPresident Bush has proposed a sixfold increase in aid to the Palestinians, including $150 million in direct cash transfers to the Palestinian Authority, in an effort to bolster the government in advance of a Middle East peace conference planned in Annapolis. The $435 million in additional aid, on top of [...]

The U.S, THAAD anti missile missile passed its 4 th test recently, again proving it can intercept a missile outside the earths atmosphere, on October 26. Washington ’sources’ suggest USA will provide Israel with the system in 2009 or maybe parts of the system may be integrated into the Arrow Anti-Missile system.

Washington has imposed new sanctions on more than 20 Iranian companies, banks and individuals, as well as the defense ministry in an effort to stop Tehran’s renegade nuclear program and curb “terrorism activities.” The sanctions target Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its Ministry of Defense, Armed Forces Logistics, and Quds Force, all of whom [...]

by Hillel Fendel
An unprecedented coalition of American Jewish groups has formed on short notice to ensure that united Jerusalem remains Jewish.

Matthew Barakat

“We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,”

Vice President Dick Cheney told the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Sunday October 21.

“Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions,” he said. (AP/Washington Post)

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Tens of thousands of Iranians marched through Tehran on Friday October 5 proclaiming solidarity with Palestinians and chanting “Death to Israel” in Iran’s annual protest against the Jewish state. Colored bibs were handed out to protestors with the legend “Death to Israel, Death to United States.”

A report on Ocober 4 reveals that President Bush has issued Syria with a warning against interfering in Lebanon’s Presidential elections. It was announced too that he is sending US’s top military commander in the Middle East, to Beirut to see how Washington could do more to help Lebanon fight extremists.