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The IDF is training civilians 'rapid response' teams - and equipping them with M-16 rifles and bulletproof vests among other things - to counter the threat of Hezbullah terrorists trying to infiltrate border communities and kill civilians. The IDF has trained civilian rapid-response teams in the communities and provided them with new equipment, including M-16 rifles, bulletproof vests, helmets

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Unbelievable!Let's go to the videotape.And note at the end that the White House tries to get credit for Obama because Libya gave up pursuing nuclear weapons. That was Bush's doing! (And this is Fox yet - not MSNBC)!

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JPost is reporting that Israel is considering allowing France to train an elite 'Palestinian' force that would undertake anti-terror operations against Hamas and Islamic Jihad. You may recall that four 'Palestinian police' were killed in a botched operation against Hamas in Kalkilya in May. The force, which would be modeled on the IDF's elite reconnaissance units, would undertake pinpoint

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What makes them so confident?The US and Israel both believe that 'Iran could, but probably won't build a bomb within a year' according to an 'exclusive' report in Friday morning's Jerusalem Post. According to these Israeli assessments, there is not much difference now between the US and Israel regarding a timeline for a "worst case scenario" on Iran's development of a bomb. At the same time, both

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This is way off topic, but since Lebron James is public enemy #1 for my Celtics these days, I cannot resist posting it.It seems that a college kid named Jordan Crawford - who's a guard on the Xavier University basketball team - dunked over the 'king' at the latter's 'skill academy' in Akron, Ohio. Crawford is 20 years old and stands 6' 4". Lebron James (according to my opening night program from

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Haaretz is reporting that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has referred to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and Senior Aide David Axelrod as 'self-hating Jews.'This has the libtards bouncing off the walls, starting with Haaretz's Barak Ravid, whose article is linked above, continuing with fellow traveler M.J. Rosenberg, and ending with this diary at Kos, whose author shows his complete

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The Hamas TV children's program Tomorrow's Pioneers - the same show that brought us Farfour the Mouse, Nahoul the Bee, Assoud the Jew-eating Rabbit and the 'lovely' Saraa (Fawzi Barhoum's niece) - produced a special broadcast in which the two young children of a female suicide terrorist were invited to the TV studio to watch a video re-enactment of their mother's suicide bombing. The terrorist,

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Egypt has arrested 25 terrorists - 24 Egyptians led by a 'Palestinian' - and charged them with planning to attack ships and oil pipelines running across the Suez Canal. The Egyptian Interior Ministry said the new cell was led by a Palestinian and included 24 Egyptians, mostly engineers and technicians.They planned to use mobile phones to detonate explosives against ships crossing the Canal, the

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Although he still clings to the hope that the 'experts' are wrong, Sever Plocker has apparently awoken to the reality that the 'Palestinians' don't want a state. In a June 11 New York Review of Books article, written by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, they two prominent experts argue the following: “Unlike Zionism, for whom statehood was the central objective, the Palestinian fight was primarily

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At YNet, Martin Sherman rips Prime Minister Netanyahu's 'misguided vision' that calls for a 'Palestinian' state. Rarely does history afford leaders of nations a second chance to redeem themselves. Netanyahu is one the fortunate few who has been afforded such an opportunity. Sadly he has proven unworthy of the extraordinary favor fate granted him, His mettle has been tested and found wanting. His

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When I was a child, I remember hearing on the radio that the United States was involved in negotiations to end the Vietnam War. The negotiations were taking place in Paris, and every hour we would hear headlines about the 'Paris peace talks.' For what seemed like many months, I remember that all they discussed at the 'Paris peace talks' was the shape of the table at which the negotiators would

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JPost's Sabina Amidi relates a story that took place earlier this week on the streets of Tehran. "Just yesterday, I saw four plainclothes [members of the security forces] harassing two young men. The two young men had their hands tied behind their backs and were crying. I went to up the security forces and told then to let the boys ago, even though my two daughters were trying to hold me back.

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Although the United States is denying that the number of homes that can be completed under a deal over the 'settlement freeze' is 2,500, reports on Thursday morning describe the deal that appears to be falling into place as allowing both the Americans and the Israelis to claim victory. According to senior government officials, under this type of solution, Israel would declare a moratorium of a

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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan needs to learn to keep his mouth shut. A tirade by Erdogan against Israel and its President Shimon Peres in Davos in January has resulted in a steep drop in Israeli tourism to Turkey, costing the country millions of dollars. "The incident at Davos played a determining role in the Israelis' shunning of Turkey," Timur Bayındır, the head of Turkey's Tourist

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Ehud Ya'ari argues that the real power today is not Ayatollah Ali Khameni. It's the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term as Iran's President represents the emergence of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp as a military dictatorship — pushing aside the clerics and mullahs. It's a new Iran in many ways. It's an Iran in which the Supreme Leader,

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The US State Department has confirmed that as many as 1,350 'Palestinians,' who were formerly the pampered subjects of Saddam Hussein, are going to be 're-settled' in the United States, mostly in southern California, which of course can afford to host them (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). The 'Palestinians' will be arriving starting this fall. It will be the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian

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Mort Zuckerman is (belatedly) worried about President Obama's approach to Iran. Obama did his bit to press the reset button with grace and eloquence. He apologized for America and its past conduct in the region; he avowed respect for the Iranian government; he was the most restrained of the Western leaders when the ayatollahs violently suppressed protests by millions of Iranians over a flawed

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The Islamic fundamentalist movement Hizb ut Tahrir has come to the 'Palestinian territories' Judea and Samaria. Hizb ut Tahrir, a pan-Islamist movement founded in the 1950s in Jerusalem, has since spread to dozens of countries, with significant outposts in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.The group had planned a rally in Ramallah on Saturday to celebrate the movement's message that neither

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Former Prime Minister Golda Meir is said to have quipped, "Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!" Golda may have been right about the oil, but Moses seems to have brought us to a place that has an important natural resource that was only recently found: Natural

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The New York Times has an excerpt from Dennis Ross (pictured) and David Makovsky's (sorry - all my pictures of him are 30 years old and not digitized - we were in yeshiva together) new book Myths, Illusions and Peace. Of all the policy myths that have kept us from making real progress in the Middle East, one stands out for its impact and longevity: the idea that if only the Palestinian conflict

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Hope and change! 35 points of it in the last 200 days! More here.

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No, not that 'right of return.' This one. In the aftermath of this withdrawal, more than 6,500 Southern Lebanese men, along with members of their families, had no option but to leave their towns, villages and abandon all their properties and to hastily run for their lives. While Israel was logistically preparing for withdrawal, Hezbollah waged a merciless and savage media campaign against the

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Hamas refers disparagingly to the 'Palestinian police' trained by American General Keith Dayton (pictured) as the 'Dayton forces.' This is how the 'Palestinian Authority' chooses to defend the members of the 'Dayton forces.' The PA takes pride in its "Intifada" in which more than 1,000 Israelis, mostly civilians, were killed by the PA (Fatah) and Hamas from 2000-2005. Depicting murder and suicide

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Here's a story you're not likely to read in too many mainstream media sources. The 'Palestinians' can travel freely in Judea and Samaria. The picture - which came from the Washington Times - is a picture of downtown Shchem (Nablus) and it seems to be bustling with activity. At Israeli checkpoints around Nablus - the second-largest city in the West Bank and once notorious as a den of militant

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JPost's Sabina Amidi shares this account from a young man who was tortured in an Iranian prison. "I was arrested during a protest after I tried to help one of my friends from school who was being beaten by two plainclothes security people," he began. "My friend was able to escape, but I was unable to run away with him because I was hit on the back of the head with a baton by one of the riot

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