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Following the recent incident on the borders between Israeli and Lebanese last week that resulted in killing three Lebanese soldiers and one Israeli officer, the Israeli army continues to send threaten messages to the Lebanese army leadership.

The Israeli army leadership ordered its soldiers on the borders to respond fiercely to any Lebanese action that similar to the incident that took place last week. The Lebanese army shot several warning shots in the air in the last week when an Israeli army unit tried to remove a tree and make some actions on a Read more…

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It seems that the situation between Israel and Lebanon will not stay calm as it was in the last year. After an Israeli published report about Hezbullah targets on the borders, the latter states that Israel will be targeted in several places including sensitive targets if a new war is started.

In Israel and Lebanon the media is talking about a possible confrontation between the two sides especially that officials from both sides have been talking about the importance of facing the dangers of the other side and putting an end to it. The latest war on Lebanon resulted in killing more than 1200 Lebanese Read more…

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It seems that the current tension is not enough between Israel and Lebanon. Lately the Israeli official Landau threatened Lebanon for its latest claims about natural and gas resources that exist in the Lebanese sea and Israel continues to use. Alhariri responded by saying that Israel has nothing else to do except for threatening Lebanon because of the former fear of the stability that Lebanon enjoys today.

Hezbullah is demanding for an immediate action that is needed to make Israel understand that Lebanon is ready to face any kind of threats. Although the Read more…

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Following the Iranian agreement on the nuclear fuel swap deal, Iranian President Ahmadi Najad asked from the world powers to consider the Iranian agreement a good Iranian intention that should lead to new talks with Iran.
The deal states that Iran agrees to swap 1200 kg of its low enriched uranium for higher enriched nuclear fuel that will be used in the Iranian medical research reactor. Turkey will host the exchange and will supervise on the whole process. The efforts of both Brazil and Turkey resulted in the Iranian agreement which is still not clear. Read more…

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After his meeting with Israel Defense minister Ehud Barak, Gates seemed to agree that Syria is providing Hezbullah with missiles and scuds. Gates commented saying: “Syria and Iran are providing Hezbullah with rockets and missiles of ever-increasing capabilities,” and that “Hezbullah has far more rockets and missiles than most governments in the world.”

The tensions between Israel and Syria are increasing after the former threatened to respond by attacking both Syria and Lebanon if Israeli territories would be attacked with scuds. Read more…

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The Iranian attempts to obtain nuclear powers became the main issue which the world is trying to deal with recently. Israel and the United States are the two leading countries in convincing the world that Iran should not obtain any kind of nuclear powers without conditions and supervision.

Since the negotiations began Iran continues to insist that it is completely legal and even a right for any country to work for creating nuclear projects for peaceful use. The leading countries in the International community are not convinced with what the Iranians are stating and they have doubts that Iran is Read more…

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Israel accused Syria of giving Hezbullah new missiles which are considered a new threat on Israel’s security. Syria denied the accusations and considered it an Israeli attempt to move the eyes from its Nuclear weapons and to affect the American Syrian relations.
Robert Gibbs stated that the white house is worried about the developed weapons which Israel claims that Syria has given to Hezbullah. The American foreign ministry also stated that if the information about the missiles were right then it would affect the Lebanese security. Read more…

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Brazil’s president has offered his backing for Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme.
Speaking at a joint news conference in the capital Brasilia on Monday after holding talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his visiting Iranian counterpart, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva said Brazil backed Iran’s quest for “peaceful nuclear energy in full respect of international accords”.
He urged Ahmadinejad to “continue contacts with interested countries for a just and balanced solution on the nuclear issue in Iran”. Read more…

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Since its establishment, the Israeli state depended on its security forces and intelligence agencies to assure its security. Today Israel believes that the reason which stands behind weakening the Palestinian attacks is the effort which the security and army forces did.
Israel started building its intelligence and security forces before the declaration of its establishment. Read more…

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Recently Israeli politicians were busy preparing for the meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. Doubts of possible pressure from the United States to oblige Israel to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians were felt.
However, Prime Minister Netanyahu started his International tour by visiting Jordan. According to him, the Arab world has something to share with Israel regarding the Iranian threat. Read more…

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Recently Israel has been stating that the Iranian threat must be ended and that it is impossible to live with the idea of having someone like Ahmadi Najad ready to erase Israel from the World map. Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that he will take responsibility and prevent anyone from causing the Jewish people another holocaust.
Secretary Hillary Clinton made several important statements regarding the Iranian threat and the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Read more…

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It takes one fool to drop a brick down a well, but more than ten wise men and women to extricate it. Eight years of the Bush-Cheney policy on Iran provide compelling support for this ancient Persian wisdom. What can we do to extract the brick from the well? What policies should the United States adopt toward Tehran?

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A couple of days ago, a young nineteen years old Palestinian from East Jerusalem tried to hit about fifteen Israeli soldiers with his car. According to the family of the young Kasem, he was planning to get engaged to his cousin but the family refused and therefore he decided to commit suicide. The Israeli intelligence and police preferred to accuse the young man of terrorism and considered this accident a terrorist attack on innocent Israeli civilians. However the discussion about whether it was an accident of suicide committed by a normal permanent resident or a terrorism action is not important at this moment. Read more…

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