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PA Money has “Disappeared”

{image_1}The incoming Finance Minister of the Palestinian Authority [PA] has admitted that hundreds of millions of dollars transferred to the PA have “disappeared.” Salam Fayed, who formerly worked for the World Bank and the US Federal Reserve, told the Daily Telegraph that he has no idea where the more than US $700 million granted the PA since the Hamas terror group rose to power has gone. “Palestinian Authority spending is out of control, salaries are being paid to workers who never turn up, and nobody can track where the money is going,” the paper quoted Fayed as saying.

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Thwarting Iran’s Nuclear Efforts… with Diplomacy?

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Diplomatic efforts to resolve a standoff with Iran are working, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said at a press conference with Defense Minister Amir Peretz in Tel Aviv in April. The United States has been one of the leading powers demanding sanctions on Iran. “The international community is united in telling Iran what it needs to do with respect to its nuclear program,” Gates said.

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Jordan to Join Nuclear-Power Club

{image_1}Amman is the latest Middle Eastern capital to announce it intends building a nuclear power plant. The country wants an operational facility by 2015. Other countries already embarked on a path toward atomic energy are Iran, Egypt, Yemen, and the Gulf Cooperation Council members (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates). Syria would also like to produce nuclear energy, but admits it is a long way from reaching its goal.

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From Russia to Iran…From Iran to the PA

April 2, 2007

From Russia to Iran

Russia has announced deliveries of the TOR-M1 surface-to-air missile system to Iran. The Russian defense ministry said Iran was considering another order of the mobile, short-range anti-aircraft system. The TOR-M1 was said to be capable of destroying manned and unmanned aircraft as well as cruise missiles. The system, introduced in 2005, could destroy two targets simultaneously at an altitude of 3.7 miles [6 kilometers] and identify up to 48 targets simultaneously.

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Jerusalem Twice as Poor

March 18, 2007

A new study conducted by the Hebrew University revealed that in the past six years, the poverty levels in Jerusalem have increased by 4%. The study further showed that among the ultra-Orthodox and Arab populations, the poverty rate has reached 70%. In 1999, the rate of poor families in Jerusalem came to 26%, whereas about two years ago, the rate had risen to 33%. Every second child in Jerusalem is defined as poor, as opposed to every third child in the rest of the country.

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Northerners in Trauma

March 18, 2007

Thirty-three percent of northern residents are suffering from medium or high and, in some cases, severe post-traumatic symptoms, a new study has shown. The study probes 300 people from Jewish and Arab cities that were targeted by last summer. The study found that 33% of Jews and 85% of Arabs remained in their bombarded cities with their families. On the other hand, 45% of Jews against 13% of Arabs said that only some of their family members were evacuated during the war. Twenty-two percent of Jews and 2% of Arabs said everyone in the family sought refuge in a safe place. The average number of days spent away from home stood at 19 among Jews and 10 among the Arabs.

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Coming—Great War to Wipe Out Israel

January 3, 2007

Iranian newspapers Kehyan and Resalat have urged Muslims around the world to prepare for a “great war” to destroy the State of Israel. “Hizbullah destroyed at least half of Israel in the Lebanon war…now only half the path [to its destruction] remains,” an editorial in the conservative Keyhan newspaper declared.

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Give Up the Golan—A “Reasonable” Compromise?

January 3, 2007

An expert advising the Baker–Hamilton special bipartisan committee on Iraq believes that it is better for Iraq’s security and stability to engage Iran and Syria rather than to further isolate them. Former CIA employee Raymond Close believes that the best way to engage the Arab Muslim states surrounding Iraq is by pressuring Israel.

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It’s 1938, and Iran is Germany

January 3, 2007

The Iranian bomb can be stopped, and in 1,000 days or so, claimed opposition leader and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting with some 60 foreign envoys in Tel Aviv in December. Netanyahu urged the diplomats to take action against the Iranian threat and not sit on the sidelines on the issue, saying that the longer the stick used to bar Iran from developing the bomb, the better the world’s chances are of not seeing such a bomb used.

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Choose Islam or Death

December 3, 2006

Muslim religious leaders in Gaza warned Pope Benedict XVI that he must “accept” Islam if he wants to live in peace. A previously unknown group, calling itself the Huda (“guidance”) Army Organization, threatened to kill all Christians in the Gaza Strip. “We will target all crusaders in the Gaza Strip,” the group announced by leaflet. The group also threatened to attack churches and Christian-owned institutions and homes and to strike with an iron fist all those who defend the crusaders.

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