| Wednesday, 20th July 2011 | | 18 Tammuz 5771 |
News and digest on Israel and Middle East affairs compiled by FOR ZION'S SAKE MINISTRIES.
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| Obama Reelection - "Death Sentence for U.S. - Israel Relationship |
The relationship between the U.S. and Israel has been fraught with tension for the past three years as President Barack Hussein Obama has set America on an unprecedented path of outreach to the Islamic world.
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The Israeli Navy reportedly detained two ships that were trying to enter Gaza's coastal waters on Sunday. Israel "holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for maintaining the calm in the Gaza Strip and for any terrorist activity emanating from it," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement on Sunday. Regional experts believe Tehran is a major sponsor of Hamas both militarily and financially. Iran-backed Hamas is building up its military capability, particularly through... [More] |
Damascus has accelerated its supply of weapons to Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, Ynet learned Saturday. According to intelligence sources in the West and the Middle East, Syria's arms shipments to the Shiite organization have remained steady despite the unrest sweeping across the country, and they include advanced ballistic missiles. Syria is said to be employing the help of experts from Iran and North Korea to press ahead with its development of sophisticated missiles at a secret... [More] |
The foreign affairs editor for Sky News has written a blog piece called "Palestine - 'Occupation Incorporated'," which paints a rosy picture of the region supposedly suffering under a cruel Israel occupation and siege. According to the journalist, Tim Marshall, "Palestinians are among the most foreign aid funded people in the world and the place is awash with money." Marshall says that NGO workers enjoy being assigned to the Palestinian Authority because, contrary to public perception... [More] |
Former United States envoy to the United Nations John Bolted said the PA statehood bid at the UN in September means "next to nothing" without a peace agreement with Israel, The Associated Press reported Friday. Bolton, who served as President George W. Bush's envoy to the UN, said the General Assembly is certain to support the PA bid due to the 'automatic majority' the Arab League and its factional allies can call to arms but added it will be meaningless without approval in the Security Council... [More] |
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a decision calling on Israel to immediately cease all archaeological works in the Old City of Jerusalem. In particular, UNESCO, one of the UN's most prominent and influential agencies, attacked the renovation of the Mughrabi Bridge that links the Western Wall plaza and Temple Mount. The decision, initiated and promoted by Arab states, was adopted by consensus of the Western members of the... [More] |
Virtually ignored by the international media, Gaza-based terrorists have resumed rocket attacks on Israeli towns and villages after a two-month pause. Three rockets and at least one mortar shells hit southern Israel Tueday night and early Wednesday morning, bringing the total for the year to 341. One damaged a house in a kibbutz. This followed two rockets fired last weekend. Israeli warplanes responded by bombing a tunnel in northern Gaza used to conceal and transport terrorist arms... [More] |
Once again, the life of a Palestinian Authority baby has been saved by doctors in an Israeli hospital. According to theworld.org, seven-month-old Odai Al-Kafarna from the Gaza Strip recently underwent open-heart surgery in an Israeli hospital. Odai's grandmother, Haniya, is the one who brought her grandson from their home in the Gaza Strip to Israel so that he could have the surgery. She told theworld.org in an interview: "Everything is going well. They've been really good to Odai here at the hospital... [More] |
An Arab League decision to ask the UN to recognize a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines would not serve the peace process, the US said on Thursday. "We've been clear in our conviction that unilateral approaches to try to seek statehood via the United Nations will not lead to a comprehensive settlement," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told The Jerusalem Post in a statement. "That will only come via the hard give and take of negotiations and mutual agreement... [More] |
The Israeli physics team won two gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal on Sunday at the International Physics Olympiad for high school students, which took place in Bangkok, Thailand. The achievement ranks Israel 13th in the world, up four places from 2010. Gal Dor from Ahad Ha'am High School in Petah Tikva and Asaf Rosen from Motta Gur High School in Modiin both won a gold medal. The silver medal recipients were Gur Peri from Rabin High School in Mazkeret Batya and... [More] |
Israeli innovators have launched the world's first solar-powered window, a revolutionary breakthrough that could cut heating and cooling costs for homes and businesses around the world and lead the way to a future of clean, energy efficient, self-powered buildings. "Harnessing the sun" is what Gonen Fink, CEO of Pythagoras Solar, calls his company's clean-energy breakthrough. The company is part of a new high-tech trend in Israel focusing on alternative energy. In recent years, Israel... [More] |
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