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The tape sports a voice which doesn’t sound like Bin Laden’s old tapes, and a still picture dating back some years. Of course, if Al Qaeda wanted to post Osama’s speech, a normal video would have been prepared.
The fake Osama lashed at length at Israel for oppressing the poor Palestinian terrorists and vowed to defend every inch of the land the Palestinians consider theirs.
of visiting Russian pop-singers in Tel Aviv. Sort of a Jewish identity.
Shimon Peres finally arranged private financing for his Red Sea - Dead Sea channel from Jewish billionaires. Ex-Soviet Jews readily recognize the communist mega-projects of turning the rivers backwards and connecting the seas.
A multibillion-dollar project spells ecological catastrophe for the Dead Sea and creates up to a million jobs primarily for Jordanians.
Israel’s best friend and a great peacemaker (just like Jimmy Carter was) finished celebrating Israel’s Independence Day and now flies to Saudi Arabia, the prime sponsor of Wahhabite Islam and terrorism worldwide, a sponsor for the Pakistani nuclear program. Bush will spend a day at the royal horse farm near Riyadh with the horse owner.
that under political orders he routinely endangers Israeli pilots to low-altitude missions over Gaza, putting Israeli helicopters and fighter jets in the range of Palestinian anti-aircraft fire.
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The Saudi princeling refused Bush’s request to increase the oil production in order to stem the price hike. According to Saudi king, his country supplies all the oil the customers ask for and there is no unfulfilled demand. That statement is technically wrong, as oil demand might dwindle in response to rising prices, and so Saudi Arabia would always face the exact demand it is willing to supply.
Presently, however, there are no signs of dwindling demand. Modern economy is much more energy-efficient than in 1970s and weathers the rising oil prices well.
Russian oil supply increased considerably over the years. Iraq is nominally pumping approximately the pre-war volume, but really much more as black market supply goes out from Kurdistan. The oil hike price is entirely attributable to commodity speculators who profit from the irrelevant instability in Iraq.
In the crazy post-modern world, corporate fascism and liberalism work for the same goals: oil corporations profit immensely from the rising prices, and liberals protest imposition of the “colonial” supply requirements onto Iraq and Kuwait, ostensibly liberated and surely controlled by the US, and on Saudi Arabia which the US protects from Iran.
The Quartet envoy praised the excellent skills of the Fatah “police” which they will unleash on Hamas - or on Israel.
early in the morning, with no children present. The school is messianic, caters to Muslims. Hamas vowed to investigate.
The Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced he curtails his urge to attack Gaza and waits for the proper time to attack Hamas. It remains unclear why the time was not proper two years ago or now, or what Hamas has to do with PIJ and PRC attacks on Israel.
Ehud Barak promised the end to rocket attacks from Gaza within several months. It seems the army prepares for the confrontation with Iran, and don’t want to be bogged down in Gaza but relies on ending the Iranian support for the Palestinian guerrillas.
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The UN’s Ban Ki Moon called Abu Mazen to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian catastrophe, Naqba. The catastrophe means the founding of the Jewish state in accordance with the UN resolution.
Israel’s UN mission responded by petitioning the UN to avoid using the term “naqba”. As if that changes anything for 1.5 million of Israeli Arabs.
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May, 15
Israeli Foreign Minsitry confirmed that a prime piece of real estate in Jerusalem, “A Russian Compound” will be abandoned to anti-Semitic Russia in 2-3 months. Russia bases its claim on the Jerusalem land on the century-old title by a long-extinct tsarist charity.
Jerusalem is full of Orthodox churches in the direct violation of the Torah ban on foreign worship in the Land of Israel.
Russia doesn’t even consider returning Jews thousands of the synagogues confiscated by communists.
was the message during the state-controlled OMV company shareholder meeting. Austrian OMV is engaged in a major gas project in Iran in circumvention of the US and EU sanctions.
Does Israel, however, have an obligation to refrain from blowing the OMV offices in Vienna?
Defense Minister Ehud Barak promised to residents of Ashkelon that the rocket attacks from Gaza won’t last forever if only the Jews are patient. Barak acknowledged that IDF’s targeted strikes on Gaza don’t prevent rocket attacks.
in the UN for rocket attacks from Gaza. Olmert’s government is always ready to defend Israeli citizens.
at Erez Crossing, made warning shots after dozens of friendly Arabs hurled stones on the troops guarding the Israeli border.
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The US-propped Lebanese government rescinded its two symbolic measures taken against Hezbollah: demoting the security head of the Beirut airport (the major link in smuggling weapons from Tehran) and taking down Hezbollah’s TV station for incitement.
The week of civil unrest left only 82 Arabs killed in Lebanon.
and Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Palestine before the Arab crowds commemorating the Naqba, Palestinian catastrophe of founding the Jewish state.
The police brought a star witness in the interrogation of a rich American Jew Daniel Abraham: the taxi driver claims to have witnessed the transfer of envelopes full of cash from Abraham to Olmert.
Really, the mayor of Jerusalem accepts bribes personally, on the street, in the taxi, in many envelopes.
Iran’s offer to the UN includes vague economic and energy talks but not the Iranian nuclear program. Iran also denounced the latest round of the UN sanctions as illegal - which is true, as Iran is a Non-Proliferation Treaty member and the US intelligence report sais it lacks a weapons program.
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May, 14
For some years, Obadiah argues that sky-high bounties for wanted terrorists should be reduced, as common Arabs subconsciously discount the multi-million offers as unrealistic. The US Ministry of Defense reduced the bounty for Al Qaeda leader in Iraq from $10 mil to $100 thousand.
A recent flurry of high-level meetings between Israeli and American bosses cannot be attributable to the fledging peace process, but only to the impending attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Bush again held Iran guilty of supporting Iraqi guerrillas through its Hezbollah proxy and upsetting the US-installed “democratic” government of Lebanon.
The entire Israeli government plus president waited to shake Bush’s hand on his arrival in Ben Gurion airport.
Arab MKs boycotted Bush speech in the Knesset.
Prominent rabbis, including Dov Lior and Ovadia Yosef, petitioned Bush to refrain from pushing Israel into the giveaway of Judea and Samaria. Shas greeted Bush with announcement of a minor expansion in Beitar Illit town behind the fictional green line. Hamas reiterated the Arab position that the Palestinian state should eventually include Jaffa (Tel Aviv) and Haifa, the place where Arabs originally constituted majority but Ben Gurion helped them to flee.
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Egyptian Minister of Culture announced he would personally burn Israeli books should he find some in Egypt’s libraries.
Israel is at peace with Egypt for 30 years.
wounds 14 Jews as the Iranian-made Katyusha rocket launched from Gaza slammed into supermarket. The hit came at the excellent time when Bush and Rice busied themselves pushing Israel to surrender Judea and Samaria to Palestinians. By now, everyone has forgotten that originally the American Road Map plan was meant to establish Israeli-Arab peace. Now, all Arab states refuse to sign peace with Israel even if she abandons Judea to Muslims.
Condi Rice refused Ehud Barak’s offer of jointly visiting the scene of attack in Ashkelon.
Olmert again announced that Israel would never-ever tolerate the ongoing terrorist attacks.
Various MKs vowed revenge on Hamas even though the terrorist attack was carried out jointly by Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committees.
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