"Middle East peace talks got under way Thursday for the first time in nearly two years with a violent reminder sent by the Palestinian terror group Hamas that it will try to torpedo any agreement struck in Washington between Israelis and the Palestinian Authority. "
"Another drive-by shooting claimed by Hamas injured Moshe and Shira Morani from Maaleh Efraim at the Rimonim junction near Ramallah Wednesday night, Sept. 1. It was exactly the same as the attack which left four Israelis dead near Hebron Tuesday night - except that the couple saved their lives by fleeing their vehicle to a nearby wadi to escape a second round of point blank fire.When finally rescued, Moshe was in serious condition."
"Hizballah appears to be preparing a major attack on Israel straight after the ceremonial start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington Thursday Sept. 2. A second target date is the Jewish New Year festival starting on Sept. 8. The pressure from Tehran for the Lebanese Shiite terrorists to strike Israel has intensified in the wake of the example the Palestinian Hamas gave Tuesday night Aug. 31 in the drive-by murder of four Israeli civilians on a road near Hebron."
Hamas terrorists kill Israelis in Hebron in apparent attempt to derail peace talks: "President Shimon Peres on Wednesday morning expressed his condolences to the families of the four Israelis killed in Tuesday night's terror attack near Kiryat Arba, and added that 'the terrorists will not triumph.' . . . Read more »
"The notion of a Palestinian people and Palestinian identity, although taken for granted today, has neither a long nor a distinguished history. Read more »
The Iranian proxy and terrorist group Hezbollah and the Syrian military have agreed to cooperate in conflicts with Israel and have a joint headquarters to facilitate their alliance.
"The growth of Lebanon's Hezbollah (Party of God) has gained considerable impetus through its patron Iran's own desire to dominate strategically the entire Middle East region. Hezbollah fits in neatly with Tehran's effort to reinstate the Persian preeminence in the ancient world reaching back centuries."
"Talks between Israelis and Palestinians should be mindful of the settlers' perspective."
"Report says Israel did not cross the Blue Line int'l border as the Lebanese had claimed to justify their decision to open fire on IDF soldiers"
"3rd generation of Fateh-110 has accurate guidance control system."
"Hamas is setting its sights on torpedoing the direct Israel-Palestinian negotiations Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are to launch in Washington on Sept. 2."
"Iranian Revolutionary Guards chief Gen. Mohamed Ali Jafari, who rarely leaves his country, paid a secret visit to Damascus a few hours before Tehran launched its first nuclear reactor at Bushehr Saturday, Aug. 21. With him were top Al Qods Brigades commanders in Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territories. The group stayed only long enough to confer with Syrian president Bashar Assad and his military and intelligence chiefs on three topics . . . . This . . . Read more »
"The latest relaunch of Israeli- Palestianian talks has nothing to do with any realities spurring peace on the ground . . . . Rather, the ambitious timetable set by President Obama is tied to the US midterm elections this year and his own reelection in 2012 -- and will likely fail miserably for that reason."
"One little-noticed trend that speaks volumes: the decline in Democratic Party identification and support for Barack Obama from American Jews, once among their most reliable and enthusiastic backers."
"The leading ayatollah in Tehran has described Israel as 'a one-bomb country.' About that, he is right. One nuclear weapon is all that it would take to kill millions of Israelis. It would be a twenty-minute Holocaust. President Obama has wasted his first year in office 'reaching out' to the mullahs in Tehran."
George Will responds to President Obama's statements about Israel: "In the 62 years since this homeland was founded on one-sixth of 1 percent of the land of what is carelessly and inaccurately called 'the Arab world,' Israelis have never known an hour of real peace. Patronizing American lectures on the reality of risks and the desirableness of peace, which once were merely fatuous, are now obscene."
"Six more reasons why we can't let Iran get nukes."
"The West villifies Israel because it has undergone a paradigm shift away from the nation-state."
"Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Tuesday that Iran will unveil next week an array of weapons, including missiles, speedboats and a long range drone, the ISNA news agency reported." Meanwhile, some curious events around Iran's nuclear reactor site. Read more »
"All the energy devoted to this issue of the Ground Zero Mosque is distracting us from the far more serious problem of Iran's nuclear weapons program. If this more fundamental problem is properly addressed, then the NYC mosque issue will become irrelevant. Conversely, if America doesn't deal with this more fundamental problem, then any legal or political maneuvers to stop the NYC mosque -- even if successful -- will make little difference in the long run."
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