De Update van het Midden-Oosten

door Hillel Fendel en Maayana Miskin
De bronnen zeggen nu dat de de vredesconferentie van het Midden-Oosten in Washington dat door de V.S. President Bush wordt gesponsord weg tegen twee weken, tot recent November zou kunnen worden geduwd. De vertraging zou Eerste Minister Ehud Olmert en Palestijnse Instantie Voorzitter Mahmoud Abbas extra tijd geven om met een gezamenlijke verklaring akkoord te gaan.

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Ellen Knickmeyer (Washinton Post)
Na het gevangennemen of het porren in belangrijke seculaire de oppositieactivisten van ballingschapsEgypte, gebruikt de overheid detentions en wettelijke veranderingen om de overlevende belangrijkste politieke beweging van het land het laatst, het MoslimBroederschap, voor het eind van de 26-jaar regel van President Hosni Mubarak te neutraliseren, die 79 is.

Uzi Mahnaimi (Zondag het tijd-UK)
De Russen hebben technici gestuurd om het systeem van de de luchtdefensie van Syrië na foiled Israël te bevorderen het gebruikend onzichtbaar heimelijkheidstechnologie om tijdens een airstrike te blijven. De Israëlische Luchtmacht gebruikte een verfijnd elektronische oorlogvoeringssysteem die door F-15I stralen en een vloot van de vliegtuigen van de specialisten elektronische oorlogvoering over het Middellandse-Zeegebied tijdens de aanval op een veronderstelde kernfaciliteit dichtbij Dayr az-Zawr op 6 in werking wordt gesteld September. Zij brachten signalen over die de Russisch-Gemaakte radar en de mededelingen van het Syrische leger blokkeerden.

Reuben F. Johnson
The Sa’eqeh (Lightning), the first military aircraft to ever be designed and produced in Iran, is not a modern-age weapon system.
It is based almost entirely on the old Northrop F-5 fighter, the chief U.S. export fighter of the 1960s and 70s, 166 of which were sold to Iran before the revolution.

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James Meikle
The prospect of an academic boycott of Israeli universities receded sharply Friday September 28, as leaders of the lecturers’ union contemplating the move were told it would be illegal.

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
In an address to the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday October 1, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni made reference to the Bible, the festival of Sukkot and democracy. She also warned against appeasing those she called extremists.

“Three thousand years ago, the people of Israel journeyed from slavery in Egypt to independence in the land of Israel. The Bible tells us that on their voyage to liberty they made a crucial stop: the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai. As the General Assembly gathers this year, the Jewish people recall that historic journey by marking the festival of Sukkot.”

With this Biblical interpretation, she framed the Israeli conflict with its neighbors as fomented by “those who reject these core values - those who seek power without responsibility; those whose aim is not to realize their own rights, but to deny those rights for others.

by Gil Ronen
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told Conservative Party delegates in Britain on Sunday September 30, that UN efforts to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the country. Influential conservative thinker Norman Podhoretz told a British paper that he has advised U.S. President George W. Bush to do just that.

by Hillel Fendel
Delayed by a few hours, Olmert’s gesture to Abbas - the release of 87 terrorist would-be murderers from Israeli prisons - has begun, ON October 1. The 87 terrorists, none of whom actually succeeded in their attempts to murder Jews, are being released in keeping with a good-will “propping-up” gesture on the part of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his government towards Fatah/Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen).

According to Arab residents of Gaza, Egyptian authorities temporarily opened the Rafiah crossing on Saturday September 29, in order to allow dozens of Hamas terrorists to enter Gaza. Over 80 Hamas terrorists were reportedly allowed to enter Gaza after being stranded in Egypt by the closure of the Rafiah crossing after the Hamas takeover of Gaza in June.

Arab terrorists threw Molotov cocktails at an Israeli driver on Saturday September 29. The attack took place near an Arab village northeast of Ramallah. The driver was not injured. IDF soldiers arrived at the scene and apprehended four of the attackers.

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