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Haveil Havalim #144 is UP!

I was traveling yesterday so I forgot to post that Haveil Havalim #144 (the Jewish/Israel blogging carnival) is UP at Jack’s Shack of Pancakes Latkes. If you have a post that is about Judaism or Israel feel free to submit … Continue reading

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Shas and the Saudis agree

Max Boot: What particularly concerns Gulf Arabs is the possibility that Iran could go nuclear–a concern unlikely to be erased by the ambiguous findings of the new NIE. While this NIE claims that Iran stopped its nuclear-weapons program in 2003 … Continue reading

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Syrians preventing Internet cooties

The Syrians are making sure their kids don’t get Jew cooties. They’re blocking Facebook. Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli “infiltration” of Syrian social networks on the Net, according … Continue reading

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Not helpful

I love this. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon slammed on Thursday Israel’s plan to build more than 300 new homes in an East Jerusalem neighborhood.”This new tender for 300 new homes in eastern Jerusalem, so soon after the Annapolis Middle … Continue reading

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Syria puts on the big boy pants

A Syrian legislator has decided to give us all something to giggle about. Syrian MP Dr. Muhammad Habash warned Israel not to attack his country in an interview with the Israeli-Arab news paper Ma’a al-Hadat published on Thursday saying Israel’s … Continue reading

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The last Nazis

As they get older the chances that old Nazi war criminals will escape earthly justice increase. The Simon Wiesenthal center is making efforts to find some of the surviving few to bring them to justice, especially in South America. In … Continue reading

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Making NIE

In his column yesterday, The myth of the mad mullahs, David Ignatius, in his typically smug fashion, goes over what the American intelligence agencies did differently to arrive at their new conclusion about the Iranian nuclear program. The secret intelligence … Continue reading

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Gaza operation a matter of time, says Barak

It’s been all over the AP since yesterday. Ehud Barak says he’s ready to go into Gaza in force and clean out the nests of terrorists. But make no mistake, this is going to be a difficult operation. Hamas terrorists … Continue reading

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Conversations with Tehran

The Washington Post demonstrates that its editors possess a sophistication that is absent among the editors of the New York Times with Intelligence on Iran. After noting the positive implications of the 2007 NIE, the editors write ” Tehran at … Continue reading

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Fuzzy intelligence

The latest NIE reports that Iran has halted its nuclear weapons development and is likely a number of years away from being able to field a nuclear weapon. This estimate is being hailed because it takes the urgency of an … Continue reading

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Is it peace yet?

Last week the Washington Post expressed guarded optimism about the peace in the Middle East in An opening in Annapolis. THE MIDDLE EAST peace meeting in Annapolis yesterday comfortably cleared the low bar of expectations that had been set for … Continue reading

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Annapolis vs. Iran

Michael Oren sees good coming from Annapolis if you’re not looking for peace in Middle East peace through Anxiety After arguing that the conditions for peace don’t exist (or aren’t that strong) Oren writes The inability of the international community … Continue reading

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Jackson’s cagey

Jackson Diehl writes in today’s Fuses in Gaza The Islamic Hamas movement, which won the 2006 legislative elections and took sole control of Gaza in June, spent the week of Annapolis quietly doing what it has been doing every week … Continue reading

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Time to clean out the border

It’s past time that Ehud Barak made good on his promise to clean up Gaza. Four soldiers were lightly injured Sunday evening from a mortar hit on an infirmary in an IDF base adjoining Kibbutz Nahal Oz, next to the … Continue reading

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Haveil Havalim #143 is UP!

Haveil Havalim #143 is UP! Haveil Havalim is the Israel/Jewish blogging carnival. Among the great posts: The history of the UNRWA Asser Levy When Hebron is as distant as Lebanon How should you light? The categories are: Annapolis History Israel … Continue reading

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