Middle East Update

HOW THE MEDIA CHANGED THE COURSE OF A WAR
On the night of July 23, 2006, an Israeli aircraft intentionally fired missiles at and struck two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances performing rescue operations, causing huge explosions that injured everyone inside the vehicles. So says the global media, including Time magazine, the BBC, the New York Times, [...]

At an Islamic Jihad summer camp, Hisham, one of the camp directors, explains: “We teach the children the truth. How the Jews persecuted the prophets and tortured them. We stress that the Jews killed and slaughtered Arabs and Palestinians every chance they got. Most important, the children understand that the conflict with the Jews is [...]

The Reuters photo showed Hizb’Allah members handing out bundles of cash to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing. Only one thing was missing - the thin wire security strip that runs from top to bottom of a genuine US $100 bill. Was the money Hizb’Allah was passing counterfeit? Hizb’Allah has a history of [...]

A bomb exploded in the tourist hotspot of Antalya in southern Turkey on Monday, killing three and injuring a large number of people including four Israelis, local police said. The attack was the fifth bomb to hit Turkey in less than 24 hours.

Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) head Yuval Diskin reiterated on Tuesday at a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting that Palestinian terrorist organizations were closely studying the Hizb’Allah-Israel war and had stepped up efforts to smuggle long-range missiles across the Egyptian border

UNDERCOVER POLICE TARGET FATAH MEMBER IN RAMALLAH DRIBE-BY
Israeli Police on Tuesday morning killed two wanted Palestinian terrorists in a refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, Israel Radio reported. One of the men killed is believed to have masterminded a suicide bombing that killed four Israelis in the West Bank community of [...]

FEUDING MUSLIMS ON A COLLISION COURSE….L.A. TIMES
Hizb’Allah is not a headache for Israel alone. The Shi’ite extremist group poses an equally daunting challenge to the Sunni Arab regimes in the Middle East. For behind Hizb’Allah’s perceived heroics in the Lebanon war sits Shi’ite Iran, with its claim to great-power status. If unchallenged, the Iran-Hizb’Allah axis [...]

The American public’s support for Israel has risen sharply following the war with Hizb’Allah, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and reported on August 23. As of mid-August, 52% of Americans sympathized with Israel while 11% backed the Palestinians. The report also indicated that some 42% of [...]

In recent days, IDF troops have uncovered and destroyed a huge network of underground outposts, tunnels, and bunkers in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border. IDF Lt.-Col. Rasal Elian told Ha’aretz that fortified bunkers were found carved in the mountain, as were communications networks, rocket launching sites, escape routes, ventilation systems, showers and bathrooms, as [...]

UN forces in S Lebanon revealed IDF positions to Hizb’Allah
During the recent month-long war between Hizb’Allah and Israel, UN “peacekeeping” forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hizb’Allah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon.