Israel hopes death of North Korean leader will damage ties with Iran

BY AMIR OREN, HAARETZ— 2011 has been a bad year for dictators, whether those, like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, whose stay in power was convenient for Israel or those, like Syria’s Bashar Assad, who are Israel’s enemies. Now that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died, the transfer of power to the third generation –…

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Obama and Barak discuss dwindling anti-Iran strike options as the US exits Iraq

BY DEBKAFILE— US President Barack Obama’s half-hour tête-a- tête with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Washington Friday, Dec. 16, was vitally concerned with the coming steps in the Syrian showdown and the latest developments in the controversy over Iran’s nuclear weapons program, debkafile’s Washington and intelligence sources report. Their conference was urgent because key…

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Video: North Korea Was and Is Connected to Terror Against Israel

BY ELAD BENARI AND YONI KEMPINSKI, ARUTZ 7— While the death of North Korea’s leader in the past 17 years, Kim Jong Il, may seem like it is not connected to Israel, Attorney Nitzana Darshan-Leitner who heads the Shurat HaDin organization, reminded on Monday of the connection between North Korea and terrorism in the Middle…

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Speaker Gingrich’s “Newtonian” logic

BY VICTOR SHARPE— The more things change, the more they stay the same. Nothing could attest to that fact more than the Israel-Arab conflict, which in reality is the Israel-Islamist conflict. This is not a territorial dispute between Israel and those Arabs who call themselves Palestinians, though it is framed as such.  No, the stark…

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A Proclamation for Truth in the Mid-East Conflict

Sponsored by The Jerusalem Connection, Int’l EMET (Endowment for Middle East Truth) Whether or not you support  the candidacy of Newt Gingrich, one must applaud him for having the courage to say it like it is regarding the so called, “Palestinians”, when he said “we have invented the Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs…

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