Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Newsletter! for Wednesday June 1, 2011

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That also through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

The Whole House of Israel

Shalom Ariel van Kessel,

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Daily News Alert From Israel

Inspectors Pierce Iran's Cloak of Nuclear Secrecy - William J. Broad
The International Atomic Energy Agency last week presented a report to its board that laid out new information on what it calls "possible military dimensions" of Iran's nuclear program. The report raised questions about whether Iran has sought to investigate seven different kinds of technology ranging from atomic triggers and detonators to uranium fuel. Together, the technologies could make a type of atom bomb known as an implosion device, which is what senior staff members of the IAEA have warned that Iran is able to build. (New York Times)
See also IAEA Report on Iran

See also Iran's Uranium Deuteride Experiments - Jeffrey Lewis
Paragraph 35 of the Iran report reveals that Iran conducted "experiments involving the explosive compression of uranium deuteride to produce a short burst of neutrons" - research that has no known application other than for nuclear weapons.

Armed Residents Fight Off Syrian Government Troops - Zeina Karam

Over 100 Libyan Soldiers Defect from Gaddafi - Deepa Babington
Eight high-ranking Libyan army officers - five generals, two colonels and a major - appeared at a news conference in Rome organized by the Italian government on Monday, saying they were part of a group of as many as 120 military officials and soldiers who had defected from Gaddafi's side in recent days.

Iran Delays German Chancellor's Plane
German Chancellor Angela Merkel touched down more than two hours late in New Delhi for the start of her visit to India, after Iran refused to allow her plane access to its airspace. The plane was forced to turn around and circle over Turkey before permission was finally granted - just before the plane ran out of fuel. (Deutsche Welle-Germany)

News Resources - Israel and the Mideast:
Turkish Flotilla Passengers Joined Nakba Protest in Jordan - Yaakov Katz

Egypt Won't Supply Gas to Israel at Current Price - Roee Nahmias
A senior source in the Egyptian gas and oil industry says Israel has refused to pay more for the gas it purchases from Egypt and has even threatened to turn to international arbitration, the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram reported last week. The official added that Spain had accepted more expensive rates. He also said the Egyptians were sticking to their refusal to supply gas to Israel until new prices are finalized. (Ynet News)
See also U.S. Firm Seeks Restart of Egypt Gas Flow to Israel

Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis (Best of U.S., UK, and Israel):
Strong Support for Israel on Social Media
By almost a three-to-one margin, bloggers and users of Twitter and Facebook expressed strong support for Israel over the Palestinians in the week following President Obama's May 19 address on the Middle East, according to an analysis of social media conducted by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. In the seven days following Obama's speech, fully 55% of the conversation on blogs on the issue has been in favor of Israel and opposed to a move to the 1967 borders, while 19% has been in favor of the Palestinians. On Twitter and Facebook, the tone of conversation was similar with 60% pro-Israel compared with 20% pro-Palestinian. (Pew Research Center)

Palestinians Tear Up Another Agreement, the World Yawns - Evelyn Gordon
As Egypt reopened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza after four years of almost total closure, a binding international agreement, brokered by the U.S. and signed by Israel and the Palestinian Authority, has just effectively been torn up. The 2005 agreement laid down detailed provisions for how Gaza's border crossings would be run following Israel's withdrawal from the territory.

Rifts in the Muslim Brotherhood Seen Amid Growing Anarchy in Egypt - Zvi Mazel

See also At a Protest in Cairo, One Group Is Missing - David D. Kirkpatrick (New York Times)
Observations:

The Third Man - Elliott Abrams (Weekly Standard)
Missing from the Bibi vs. Barack drama in Washington was the man who really torpedoed the peace process, Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas is 76 and will retire from politics next year, having announced that he will not seek reelection. A man without charisma or great political courage, he lost first the 2006 elections and then control of Gaza to Hamas.
Abbas was never a serious candidate to make the difficult compromises that a peace deal with Israel would require and then defend himself against charges of treason and betrayal. To the generous peace offer made by Ehud Olmert in 2008, Abbas responded with silence.
Obama's mistreatment of the visiting Netanyahu can only have deepened the latter's belief that Obama was irretrievably hostile. Obama gave a major Middle East speech the day before Netanyahu arrived. The message was clear: I have no interest in what you are saying and will make my views plain even before we exchange one word.
Worse yet was the lack of any advance notice. The Israelis had been told days before that the Obama speech would cover the Arab Spring and say little about them, and were given only a couple of hours' notice that, on the contrary, the president would make a significant policy statement that contradicted Israeli views. They felt - and they were - blindsided.
In the Clinton and Bush administrations such major policy statements were preceded by weeks of consultations, and when a president breaks that pattern it is a deliberate and powerful message. This is the explanation for the brief tutorial in Israeli security concerns that Netanyahu held Friday in the Oval Office: The gloves were off, but it was Obama who took them off first.

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