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1. Video: Super-Fast Plane May Be Clincher in Missile War
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The United States has tested a plane that can fly from London to New York in one hour, but its real advantage is hitting a long-range target with a super-fast missile.
The “X-51A WaveRider” unmanned aircraft made a five-minute test flight before a planned crash into the Pacific Ocean.
The hypersonic speed of the plane, which is ejected from the wing of a B-52 bomber, could give the United States a critical advantage in a future missile war in which it could launch a missile to hit a target 3,000 miles away in one hour. The current intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) take hours to reach their targets.
Hypersonic engines also would allow planes to quickly escape enemy fire.
A super-fast missile would have eliminated bin Laden in 1998, when he was able to escape before cruise missiles fired by the U.S. Navy fired hit his terrorist training camps 80 minutes after laucnhing, The Los Angeles Times noted.
The Wave Rider’s first test was conducted in 2010 and lasted for slightly more than two minutes. As in Tuesday’s test, the first flight also was designed to end in the ocean. Officially, it is called a “non-retrievable” aircraft.
After it is dropped from the B-52 bomber, a solid-rocket booster accelerates its speed before a “scramjet” propels it to speeds five times faster than the speed of sound.
The video below shows a simulation of the 2010 test flight.
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The United States has tested a plane that can fly from London to New York in one hour, but its real advantage is hitting a long-range target with a super-fast missile.
The “X-51A WaveRider” unmanned aircraft made a five-minute test flight before a planned crash into the Pacific Ocean.
The hypersonic speed of the plane, which is ejected from the wing of a B-52 bomber, could give the United States a critical advantage in a future missile war in which it could launch a missile to hit a target 3,000 miles away in one hour. The current intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) take hours to reach their targets.
Hypersonic engines also would allow planes to quickly escape enemy fire.
A super-fast missile would have eliminated bin Laden in 1998, when he was able to escape before cruise missiles fired by the U.S. Navy fired hit his terrorist training camps 80 minutes after laucnhing, The Los Angeles Times noted.
The Wave Rider’s first test was conducted in 2010 and lasted for slightly more than two minutes. As in Tuesday’s test, the first flight also was designed to end in the ocean. Officially, it is called a “non-retrievable” aircraft.
After it is dropped from the B-52 bomber, a solid-rocket booster accelerates its speed before a “scramjet” propels it to speeds five times faster than the speed of sound.
The video below shows a simulation of the 2010 test flight.
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2. Businessmen Up in Arms Over EU’s View of Modi’in as 'Settlement'
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The European Union’s decision to label Modi’in as a “settlement” has infuriated Israeli businessmen, normally aligned with the center and left.
The EU statement Tuesday declared that the Greater Modi’in area is located on what was “no-man’s land after the 1948 War of Independence, and any areas not clearly under Israeli sovereignty at the time are deemed as “occupied.”
Modi’in is a modern up-scale city that has merged with Maccabim and Reut, giving it a population of more than 80,000. It is located halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Greater Modi’in Chamber of Commerce chairman Dror Atari thoroughly rejected the EU decision, stating that “the business sector in Israel as a whole and in Modi’in in particular is involved on a daily basis with European Union companies, including cooperation between their head offices.”
“Dozens of legitimate Israeli business operate in the area,” and we totally reject the EU conclusions that Modi’in is part of a ‘foreign territory,’” he said.
The decision by the EU means that businesses in the area will not enjoy duty-free status as stated in the 1995 EU-Israel Free Trade Agreement.
Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute chairman Ramzi Gabbay told Globes that even though the area has few exports, "The government should make every effort to remove this from the agenda to prevent creating a precedent."
Gil Nadal, an expert in international trade law, warned that the new directive will harm the competitiveness of many Israeli exporters in Europe, the business newspaper added.
Among the residents of Greater Modi’in are Mark Regev, spokesman for the Office of the Prime Minister, and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon.
The Foreign Ministry stated, “Remarkably, by the unilateral publication of the locations list on the Internet, the EU has unacceptably cut off a negotiating process regarding this very issue. This action, conducted ‘ex abrupto,’ has therefore been the object of an official protest lodged by the Mission of Israel in Brussels to the European Union.”
Modiin Mayor Chaim Bibas said Tuesday, “This decision is a mistake that does not correlate with the facts on the ground. Modiin-Maccabim-Reut is an indivisible part of the state of Israel.” He invited EU representatives to visit the city “and to understand their mistake.”
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The European Union’s decision to label Modi’in as a “settlement” has infuriated Israeli businessmen, normally aligned with the center and left.
The EU statement Tuesday declared that the Greater Modi’in area is located on what was “no-man’s land after the 1948 War of Independence, and any areas not clearly under Israeli sovereignty at the time are deemed as “occupied.”
Modi’in is a modern up-scale city that has merged with Maccabim and Reut, giving it a population of more than 80,000. It is located halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Greater Modi’in Chamber of Commerce chairman Dror Atari thoroughly rejected the EU decision, stating that “the business sector in Israel as a whole and in Modi’in in particular is involved on a daily basis with European Union companies, including cooperation between their head offices.”
“Dozens of legitimate Israeli business operate in the area,” and we totally reject the EU conclusions that Modi’in is part of a ‘foreign territory,’” he said.
The decision by the EU means that businesses in the area will not enjoy duty-free status as stated in the 1995 EU-Israel Free Trade Agreement.
Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute chairman Ramzi Gabbay told Globes that even though the area has few exports, "The government should make every effort to remove this from the agenda to prevent creating a precedent."
Gil Nadal, an expert in international trade law, warned that the new directive will harm the competitiveness of many Israeli exporters in Europe, the business newspaper added.
Among the residents of Greater Modi’in are Mark Regev, spokesman for the Office of the Prime Minister, and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon.
The Foreign Ministry stated, “Remarkably, by the unilateral publication of the locations list on the Internet, the EU has unacceptably cut off a negotiating process regarding this very issue. This action, conducted ‘ex abrupto,’ has therefore been the object of an official protest lodged by the Mission of Israel in Brussels to the European Union.”
Modiin Mayor Chaim Bibas said Tuesday, “This decision is a mistake that does not correlate with the facts on the ground. Modiin-Maccabim-Reut is an indivisible part of the state of Israel.” He invited EU representatives to visit the city “and to understand their mistake.”
Tags: Modi'in ,EU boycott ,Settlements
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3. PA Tycoon Talks Peace with Jew in Yesha, Angers Boycotters
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
A Palestinian Authority tycoon talked peace with Israeli supermarket mogul Rami Levy in one of his outlets in Judea and Samaria, angering the boycott movement.
Arab billionaire Munib Al-Masri met with Levy, who has backed nationalist causes and has promoted Arab-Jewish co-existence by hiring workers from both sectors in his supermarkets, several of which are located in Judea and Samaria. The newest store, located in Gush Etzion, is filled with Jewish and Arab shoppers, especially on Thursday, the day before the Muslim day of rest and the eve of Jewish Sabbath.
Al-Musri’s talks with Levy over the Saudi Arabia 2002 Peace Plan infuriated the Boycott National Committee because of the location of the meeting. The Boycott movement calls for a total ban on products made in Judea and Samaria and on conducting meetings with Jews in the area.
Al-Masri met with Levy in order to drum up Israeli support for the Peace Initiative, which demands Israel’s forfeiting all land restored to the country in the Six-Day War in 1967 and calls for flooding the Jewish state with millions of foreign Arabs claiming Israel as home.
The PA businessman said he met with Levy rather than with Israeli leftists because the “peace camp” has little influence on the public.
The Boycott movement saw the location of the meeting as being anti-peace, calling it one of the “worst kinds of normalization” that “gives the occupation-state a fig leaf with which to cover its continued occupation, ethnic cleansing, and racism.”
The “peace process” is considered to be dead and buried by virtually all parties except Western leaders, particularly those in the European Union and the United States.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas two years ago ended years of PA-Israeli talks that won hundreds of concessions by Israel but failed to grant him all of the demands under the 2002 Peace initiative.
He has forfeited talks by appealing to the United Nations for recognition of the Palestinian Authority as a new Arab state and erasing Israel’s borders. His bid to the UN failed last year, but he has said he will try again after the General Assembly returns from its summer recess next month. He has indicated he might settle for non-member status, which does not need approval of the United Nations Security Council, where it is doubtful if he can get the needed two-thirds approval for the PA becoming a full member of the international body.
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
A Palestinian Authority tycoon talked peace with Israeli supermarket mogul Rami Levy in one of his outlets in Judea and Samaria, angering the boycott movement.
Arab billionaire Munib Al-Masri met with Levy, who has backed nationalist causes and has promoted Arab-Jewish co-existence by hiring workers from both sectors in his supermarkets, several of which are located in Judea and Samaria. The newest store, located in Gush Etzion, is filled with Jewish and Arab shoppers, especially on Thursday, the day before the Muslim day of rest and the eve of Jewish Sabbath.
Al-Musri’s talks with Levy over the Saudi Arabia 2002 Peace Plan infuriated the Boycott National Committee because of the location of the meeting. The Boycott movement calls for a total ban on products made in Judea and Samaria and on conducting meetings with Jews in the area.
Al-Masri met with Levy in order to drum up Israeli support for the Peace Initiative, which demands Israel’s forfeiting all land restored to the country in the Six-Day War in 1967 and calls for flooding the Jewish state with millions of foreign Arabs claiming Israel as home.
The PA businessman said he met with Levy rather than with Israeli leftists because the “peace camp” has little influence on the public.
The Boycott movement saw the location of the meeting as being anti-peace, calling it one of the “worst kinds of normalization” that “gives the occupation-state a fig leaf with which to cover its continued occupation, ethnic cleansing, and racism.”
The “peace process” is considered to be dead and buried by virtually all parties except Western leaders, particularly those in the European Union and the United States.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas two years ago ended years of PA-Israeli talks that won hundreds of concessions by Israel but failed to grant him all of the demands under the 2002 Peace initiative.
He has forfeited talks by appealing to the United Nations for recognition of the Palestinian Authority as a new Arab state and erasing Israel’s borders. His bid to the UN failed last year, but he has said he will try again after the General Assembly returns from its summer recess next month. He has indicated he might settle for non-member status, which does not need approval of the United Nations Security Council, where it is doubtful if he can get the needed two-thirds approval for the PA becoming a full member of the international body.
Tags: Rami Levy ,Peace Process ,PA
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4. Three Israeli Universities in Top 100
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Three Israel universities are in the world’s top 100, and two reached the 38th and 39th place in rankings in the area of science, listed in the annual Shanghai Jiao Tong report.
American universities won eight of the top 10 spots, headed by Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the same rankings they won last year.
Israel’s Hebrew University in Jerusalem won the 53rd place, four higher than last year, and the Technion Israel Institute of technology was ranked 78th. The Weizmann Institute ranked number 93. The University of Tel Aviv was placed slightly below the top 100, while Ben Gurion University only reached a place among the top 400.
When the list was narrowed down to the areas of science, Hebrew University was ranked number 38 and Technion 39.
Following MIT are the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, the California Institute of Technology, Princeton, Columbia, the University of Chicago, and the University of Oxford.
Of the top 100, 53 American universities were listed, and nine were from Britain.
Yale was ranked number 11, followed by the University of California at Los Angeles, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, University of California at San Diego, University of Washington and The Johns Hopkins University.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology was ranked in the 23rd place, and Japan’s Kyoto university was ranked number 25.
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Three Israel universities are in the world’s top 100, and two reached the 38th and 39th place in rankings in the area of science, listed in the annual Shanghai Jiao Tong report.
American universities won eight of the top 10 spots, headed by Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the same rankings they won last year.
Israel’s Hebrew University in Jerusalem won the 53rd place, four higher than last year, and the Technion Israel Institute of technology was ranked 78th. The Weizmann Institute ranked number 93. The University of Tel Aviv was placed slightly below the top 100, while Ben Gurion University only reached a place among the top 400.
When the list was narrowed down to the areas of science, Hebrew University was ranked number 38 and Technion 39.
Following MIT are the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, the California Institute of Technology, Princeton, Columbia, the University of Chicago, and the University of Oxford.
Of the top 100, 53 American universities were listed, and nine were from Britain.
Yale was ranked number 11, followed by the University of California at Los Angeles, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, University of California at San Diego, University of Washington and The Johns Hopkins University.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology was ranked in the 23rd place, and Japan’s Kyoto university was ranked number 25.
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5. Iranian Linked 'Al Quds' Ad Campaign Sparks Outrage in London
by Rachel Hirshfeld
Jewish groups have expressed outrage over an advertisement campaign for an "Al Quds" rally that has appeared on hundreds of buses running in London.
Despite objections, though, Transport for London (TfL) has refused to remove the posters, but claims it is reviewing its advertisement policy.
While the posters describe the annual "Al-Quds" day rally as an event focused on "the freedom of the Palestinians," it is, in fact, used as a forum to espouse anti-Israel hatred.
"Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day," which marks the Friday before the conclusion of the month of Ramadan, was established in 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeni as a way for the Arab-Muslim world to express support for the "Palestinian cause" and the "liberation of Jerusalem."
The original declaration states that Israel is “the enemy of mankind, the enemy of humanity, which is creating disturbances every day and is attacking our brothers…”
Since then, Al Quds events have become a stage for anti-Israel and anti-Western incitement and take place annually in locations throughout the world, including the United Kingdom, where they are organized primarily by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. This year’s event will take place August 17 in central London.
Gili Brenner, executive of the StandWithUs Israel education and advocacy organization, told the International Business Times, “If the decision is not to remove the ads, then the residents of London have a serious reason to be concerned about who gets to have the final say in their city. The Iran-backed groups behind the ads have an extremist and hateful agenda, and the purpose of Al-Quds Day is clear: calling for the destruction of Israel.
"As such, the ads are in clear breach of various TFL and Advertising Standards Authority clauses, and by keeping them TFL is acting unlawfully,” she said.
"I am disappointed as we have had positive correspondence about the issue with the mayor's office and still hope to see the ads removed. Make no mistake about it, the same logic which rejects a minute of silence to commemorate the 1972 athletes at the Olympics is at work here. It is called pandering to extremism and it is not liberal or enlightened. It is dangerous," Brenner asserted.
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by Rachel Hirshfeld
Jewish groups have expressed outrage over an advertisement campaign for an "Al Quds" rally that has appeared on hundreds of buses running in London.
Despite objections, though, Transport for London (TfL) has refused to remove the posters, but claims it is reviewing its advertisement policy.
While the posters describe the annual "Al-Quds" day rally as an event focused on "the freedom of the Palestinians," it is, in fact, used as a forum to espouse anti-Israel hatred.
"Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day," which marks the Friday before the conclusion of the month of Ramadan, was established in 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeni as a way for the Arab-Muslim world to express support for the "Palestinian cause" and the "liberation of Jerusalem."
The original declaration states that Israel is “the enemy of mankind, the enemy of humanity, which is creating disturbances every day and is attacking our brothers…”
Since then, Al Quds events have become a stage for anti-Israel and anti-Western incitement and take place annually in locations throughout the world, including the United Kingdom, where they are organized primarily by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. This year’s event will take place August 17 in central London.
Gili Brenner, executive of the StandWithUs Israel education and advocacy organization, told the International Business Times, “If the decision is not to remove the ads, then the residents of London have a serious reason to be concerned about who gets to have the final say in their city. The Iran-backed groups behind the ads have an extremist and hateful agenda, and the purpose of Al-Quds Day is clear: calling for the destruction of Israel.
"As such, the ads are in clear breach of various TFL and Advertising Standards Authority clauses, and by keeping them TFL is acting unlawfully,” she said.
"I am disappointed as we have had positive correspondence about the issue with the mayor's office and still hope to see the ads removed. Make no mistake about it, the same logic which rejects a minute of silence to commemorate the 1972 athletes at the Olympics is at work here. It is called pandering to extremism and it is not liberal or enlightened. It is dangerous," Brenner asserted.
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6. Accused Nazi War Criminal Wins Extradition Battle
by Rachel Hirshfeld
Australia's High Court ruled on Wednesday that suspected Nazi war criminal cannot be extradited to Hungary to face accusations that he tortured and killed a Jewish teenager during World War II.
Charles Zentai, 90, and two fellow Hungarian soldiers allegedly tortured and killed a Jewish teenager in November 1944 for failing to wear the yellow Star of David. They then allegedly threw the victim's body into the Danube River in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
In a 5-1 decision, the court ruled that Zentai could not be extradited because "war crimes" did not exist as a legal offense in Hungary in 1944.
Zentai has claimed that he is innocent, arguing that he left Nazi-occupied Budapest before the crime occurred.
“Still the stress, you know, I've been so stressed the last few days in particular, yes. So now I just don't know how I feel,” Zentai told reporters upon hearing the court’s decision.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center tracked down Zentai in 2004 and he has been listed among the organization's top ten most wanted Nazi criminals for participating in "manhunts, persecution, and murder of Jews in Budapest in 1944."
Zentai moved to Australia after World War II and has been living in the western city of Perth.
President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Danny Lamm, said it was a sad day for the victim’s family and all those who awaited the Nazi criminal to be brought to justice, The Australian reported.
"It will be distressing to many that Zentai will now live out his final days untroubled by any prospect of having to account for his (alleged) past actions,'' he said.
"From the reasoning of the majority of the judges of the High Court, it appears that if the offense in relation to which extradition was sought had been specified by the Hungarian government as ‘murder’ rather than solely as a ‘war crime’, Zentai would not have been able to resist extradition,'' he said.
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by Rachel Hirshfeld
Australia's High Court ruled on Wednesday that suspected Nazi war criminal cannot be extradited to Hungary to face accusations that he tortured and killed a Jewish teenager during World War II.
Charles Zentai, 90, and two fellow Hungarian soldiers allegedly tortured and killed a Jewish teenager in November 1944 for failing to wear the yellow Star of David. They then allegedly threw the victim's body into the Danube River in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
In a 5-1 decision, the court ruled that Zentai could not be extradited because "war crimes" did not exist as a legal offense in Hungary in 1944.
Zentai has claimed that he is innocent, arguing that he left Nazi-occupied Budapest before the crime occurred.
“Still the stress, you know, I've been so stressed the last few days in particular, yes. So now I just don't know how I feel,” Zentai told reporters upon hearing the court’s decision.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center tracked down Zentai in 2004 and he has been listed among the organization's top ten most wanted Nazi criminals for participating in "manhunts, persecution, and murder of Jews in Budapest in 1944."
Zentai moved to Australia after World War II and has been living in the western city of Perth.
President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Danny Lamm, said it was a sad day for the victim’s family and all those who awaited the Nazi criminal to be brought to justice, The Australian reported.
"It will be distressing to many that Zentai will now live out his final days untroubled by any prospect of having to account for his (alleged) past actions,'' he said.
"From the reasoning of the majority of the judges of the High Court, it appears that if the offense in relation to which extradition was sought had been specified by the Hungarian government as ‘murder’ rather than solely as a ‘war crime’, Zentai would not have been able to resist extradition,'' he said.
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7. PA Responds to Israeli 'Good Will' by Honoring Terrorists
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Palestinian Authority, which has said it honors its Oslo Accords commitment to stamp out terror and incitement, is building a mausoleum in Ramallah to honor 11 terrorists who killed eight civilian hostages and three IDF soldiers in the 1975 attack on Tel Aviv’s Savoy Hotel. Israel recently transferred their bodies to the PA as a "good will" measure.
The city of Ramallah, headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, voted last week to honor the terrorists, according to a report in a PA daily newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, revealed and translated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) on Tuesday.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told Washington officials earlier this year that the PA has ceased incitement and does not encourage terror, despite hundreds of documents that have exposed an escalation in incitement and terror in the school system and in official PA events.
The terrorists in the Savoy Hotel attack reached a Tel Aviv beach by boat from Lebanon and took eight hostages in the hotel before soldiers carried out a counterterrorist operation the following morning, killing seven of the terrorists.
As a “good will measure” to bolster the standing of Abbas and encourage cooperation with Israel, the Israeli government two months ago transferred the bodies of 91 terrorists, including the Savoy Hotel terrorist cell, to the Palestinian Authority. In return, the PA now is honoring them.
The PA newspaper report, according to PMW, stated that the Ramallah city council “approved construction of a mausoleum for Martyrs of the Savoy operation in the new cemetery in Ramallah...
“The mausoleum will hold the bones of Martyrs from the numbered [Israeli military] cemeteries that were transferred months ago. It should be noted that the operation was carried out in 1975, in Tel Aviv, against a number of officers of the occupation army, as revenge for the assassination of [Fatah] commanders Kamal Adwan, Kamal Nasser, and Abu Yusuf Al-Najar."
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Palestinian Authority, which has said it honors its Oslo Accords commitment to stamp out terror and incitement, is building a mausoleum in Ramallah to honor 11 terrorists who killed eight civilian hostages and three IDF soldiers in the 1975 attack on Tel Aviv’s Savoy Hotel. Israel recently transferred their bodies to the PA as a "good will" measure.
The city of Ramallah, headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, voted last week to honor the terrorists, according to a report in a PA daily newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, revealed and translated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) on Tuesday.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told Washington officials earlier this year that the PA has ceased incitement and does not encourage terror, despite hundreds of documents that have exposed an escalation in incitement and terror in the school system and in official PA events.
The terrorists in the Savoy Hotel attack reached a Tel Aviv beach by boat from Lebanon and took eight hostages in the hotel before soldiers carried out a counterterrorist operation the following morning, killing seven of the terrorists.
As a “good will measure” to bolster the standing of Abbas and encourage cooperation with Israel, the Israeli government two months ago transferred the bodies of 91 terrorists, including the Savoy Hotel terrorist cell, to the Palestinian Authority. In return, the PA now is honoring them.
The PA newspaper report, according to PMW, stated that the Ramallah city council “approved construction of a mausoleum for Martyrs of the Savoy operation in the new cemetery in Ramallah...
“The mausoleum will hold the bones of Martyrs from the numbered [Israeli military] cemeteries that were transferred months ago. It should be noted that the operation was carried out in 1975, in Tel Aviv, against a number of officers of the occupation army, as revenge for the assassination of [Fatah] commanders Kamal Adwan, Kamal Nasser, and Abu Yusuf Al-Najar."
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8. Iran: Israel Won't Launch 'Stupid' Attack
by Elad Benari
Iran dismissed on Tuesday the possibility that Israel would launch an attack on its nuclear facilities.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters that the likelihood of an Israeli attack is slim, and added Iran is not taking seriously the threat of attack.
“Even if the Israeli government decides to make such a stupid move, it will not happen and Israel will suffer the consequences,” Mehmanparast said.
He added, “These threats stem from the Zionists’ internal problems and the social crisis there, and this indicates that they are empty.”
Tehran's ISNA news agency quoted Iranian Defense Minister General Ahmad Vahidi as having that “Israel definitely doesn't have what it takes to endure Iran's might and will.”
Vahidi added that Israel's threats were “a sign of weakness” by “brainless leaders.”
Speculation has increased over the past few days about an Israeli strike aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Some have speculated that such an attack by Israel could likely occur in September or October.
On Monday, the daily newspaper Maariv reported that Israel has received assurances from the Obama administration, as well as the camp of Republican presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney, that the United States will join a war against Iran on Israel's side, if such a war breaks out.
According to the report the assurances were delivered in secret messages to senior officials in the bureau of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, from officials close to Obama and from Romney political advisors as well as Republicans who served in senior roles in former administrations and are expected to serve in important roles again if Romney is elected.
On Tuesday, General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta attempted to play down a possible Israeli attack in Iran.
Dempsey told reporters that he believes an attack by Israel “can delay but not destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities,” while Panetta said he did not believe that Israel has made a decision regarding an attack on Iran.
Panetta added that the U.S. believes there is still room for diplomacy with Iran, echoing remarks made a day earlier by White House spokesman Jay Carney.
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by Elad Benari
Iran dismissed on Tuesday the possibility that Israel would launch an attack on its nuclear facilities.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters that the likelihood of an Israeli attack is slim, and added Iran is not taking seriously the threat of attack.
“Even if the Israeli government decides to make such a stupid move, it will not happen and Israel will suffer the consequences,” Mehmanparast said.
He added, “These threats stem from the Zionists’ internal problems and the social crisis there, and this indicates that they are empty.”
Tehran's ISNA news agency quoted Iranian Defense Minister General Ahmad Vahidi as having that “Israel definitely doesn't have what it takes to endure Iran's might and will.”
Vahidi added that Israel's threats were “a sign of weakness” by “brainless leaders.”
Speculation has increased over the past few days about an Israeli strike aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Some have speculated that such an attack by Israel could likely occur in September or October.
On Monday, the daily newspaper Maariv reported that Israel has received assurances from the Obama administration, as well as the camp of Republican presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney, that the United States will join a war against Iran on Israel's side, if such a war breaks out.
According to the report the assurances were delivered in secret messages to senior officials in the bureau of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, from officials close to Obama and from Romney political advisors as well as Republicans who served in senior roles in former administrations and are expected to serve in important roles again if Romney is elected.
On Tuesday, General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta attempted to play down a possible Israeli attack in Iran.
Dempsey told reporters that he believes an attack by Israel “can delay but not destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities,” while Panetta said he did not believe that Israel has made a decision regarding an attack on Iran.
Panetta added that the U.S. believes there is still room for diplomacy with Iran, echoing remarks made a day earlier by White House spokesman Jay Carney.
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