1. Prepared for All Scenarios
2. Morsy Admonishes Iran over Support for Syria’s Al-Assad
3. Netanyahu: You Want Fanatics to Have Nuclear Weapons?
2. Morsy Admonishes Iran over Support for Syria’s Al-Assad
3. Netanyahu: You Want Fanatics to Have Nuclear Weapons?
1. Prepared for All Scenarios - There
is no question that Israel is closely monitoring the activities across
its northern borders. It is quite clear that Israel could be drawn into a
serious confrontation with Hezbollah in the event of some military
action against Iran.
Even if military action was initiated by a country other than Israel, it
is certain that Hezbollah would unleash rockets into northern and
central Israel. No doubt Hamas in Gaza would also feel empowered to take
similar action from Gaza. Both these scenarios are fully recognized by
the Israeli government and the Israel Defense Forces [IDF]. The object
of the Israeli military would be to remove these threats in the north
and the south with an iron fist. (Read More)
2. Morsy Admonishes Iran over Support for Syria’s Al-Assad - Egyptian
President Mohamed Morsy on Tuesday [September 18] admonished the
Iranian foreign minister that the Islamic Republic’s support for Syrian
President Bashar Al-Assad is detrimental to the process of reconciling
the long disruption in relations between Egypt and Iran. (Read More)
3. Netanyahu: You Want Fanatics to Have Nuclear Weapons? - WASHINGTON—Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized certain American columnists
saying that they "set a new standard for human stupidity" for writing
that a nuclear Iran may "stabilize the Middle East". In interviews with
CNN's State of the Nation
and NBC's Meet the Press, both scheduled to be aired on Sunday
[September 16], Netanyahu tried to rein in the flood of criticism
expressed in American newspapers. (Read More)
4.
Nasrallah: We’ll Sacrifice Our Blood for Mohammed - Hezbollah's
leader [Nazrallah] left his bunker and made a rare public appearance at
a rally in Beirut denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a
week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide. (Read More)
5.
Iranian Official Claims Sabotage against Underground Nuke Site - It
was revealed this week that power cables were cut to Iran’s
controversial underground nuclear enrichment Fordo facility—and the
source for this information is the head of Iran’s nuclear agency.
Iranian Press TV reported that Dr.
Fereydoun Abbasi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran,
made the claims of sabotage in a meeting on Monday [September 16] of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Abbasi implicated IAEA
officials in the incident. (Read More)
6.
Report: UK ships head to Persian Gulf - Britain
has reportedly ordered several warships to join American destroyers in
the Persian Gulf, The Telegraph reported Sunday [Sept. 16]. According to
the British daily, "An armada of US and British naval power is massing
in the Gulf," as speculations on whether Israel
will mount an independent, preemptive strike on the Islamic Republic's
nuclear facilities. (Read More)
7.
Israel Defense Force Strikes Gaza Terrorists Planning - The
Israel Air Force hit a pair of operatives involved in past terror
activities in Egypt—at least one of whom was planning a new attack—late
Wednesday [September 19] night in Gaza. According to an announcement on
the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] website,
one of the terrorists was part of the “Defenders of al-Aqsa” group and
was “in the final stages of preparing to carry out a terror attack
against Israeli civilians.” (Read More)
8.
Palestinian Who Hid Near Settlement Fence Arrested - An
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit has arrested a Palestinian man who was
hiding near the fence of a West Bank [Judea and Samaria] settlement on
Tuesday [September 18]. He was found in possession of a knife and a
slingshot.
(Read More)
9. Field Intelligence Unit Conducts Ecological Conservation Project - A
groundbreaking joint project of the Nitzan Field Intelligence Battalion
and the Nature and Parks Authority is exploring the ecological
consequences of the security fence, while taking steps to minimize these
phenomena. (Read More)
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