Alerts: Israel

5/20/07, Jordan's King Abdullah has urged the world to act to end what he described as the continuing suffering of Palestinians under Israeli occupation. "There can be no more delay," he told some 1,000 politicians and businessmen at the World Economic Forum in Jordan. "This suffocating situation has brought poverty, malnutrition, frustration and radicalisation," King Abdullah said. He urged the gathering to prepare investment plans for the "day after peace" in the Middle East.

5/18/07, The US House of Representatives authorized Friday night a sum of $205 million dollars for financing joint US-Israel missile defense system projects, Israel Radio reported. 205 million dollars will go to projects currently being developed in Israeli factories. According to the report, the defense systems are meant to be able to withstand missiles developed by Iran.

5/17/07, A Palestinian working for an aid group was charged Thursday with gathering intelligence on Ehud Olmert as part of a plot to assassinate the Israeli prime minister.

5/17/07, Palestinian medics say four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip Friday, as Israel continues to retaliate for Hamas rocket attacks. Hamas has launched scores of rockets into southern Israel in recent days, but Israel has vowed to defend itself.

5/16/07, One year from now, Iran could possess the means of producing a nuclear bomb - that was the chilling message delivered by Ambassador Dore Gold during an interview with Ynetnews Tuesday

5/16/07, At least 16 Palestinians were killed in fierce factional fighting in Gaza on Wednesday and Israel launched an air strike on a Hamas compound that killed at least four gunmen.

5/16/07, The international Red Cross has privately accused Israel of reshaping Jerusalem to further its own interests, in violation of international law. A leaked ICRC report says Israeli policy has far-reaching humanitarian consequences for Palestinians living under occupation in East Jerusalem.
Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967, and the territory is regarded as occupied land under international law.

5/16/07, In a new book that "totally contradicts everything that has been accepted to this day" about the Six Day War, two Israeli authors claim that the conflict was deliberately engineered by the Soviet Union to create the conditions in which Israel's nuclear program could be destroyed.

5/6/07, When Egypt and Syria launched a surprise joint offensive in 1973, many Israelis braced for a fight to the finish. "In 1973, Israel's nuclear option transformed what could have been an existential war into a contained conflict," said Israeli military historian Michael Oren. "A nuclear-armed Iran would risk transforming a contained conflict into a regional and global conflict." While Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons, its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has fuelled war fears by urging Israel's elimination and questioning whether the Holocaust happened. The potential for extortion and major regional instability is mind-boggling," the official said. Israeli mistrust will likely grow, given several Arab states' declarations they may pursue civilian nuclear programmes.

4/30/07, Israel's policy of so-called "strategic ambiguity" means that it neither admits nor denies possessing nuclear weapons. Based on Vanunu's revelations more than 20 years ago, nuclear experts concluded that Israel possessed hundreds of warheads, making it the sixth-largest nuclear power in the world.

4/28/07, "Iran's nuclear program can be thrown back by years in a ten day attack using thousands of Tomahawk cruise missiles," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying in an interview published online by the German magazine Focus on Saturday.

4/23/07, Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets and mortar shells toward Israel on Tuesday and said they considered a five-month truce with Israel to have ended.

4/21/07, An Egyptian court convicted an Egyptian-Canadian dual citizen on Saturday of spying for Israel and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, saying he had been "seduced by Satan" into selling out his country.

4/18/07, Syria Threatens War, Syrian President Bashar Assad said Wednesday that Syria is ready for a war with Israel.

4/15/07, On the eve of 2007's Holocaust Memorial Day, a poll showed that 37 percent of Israel's youth feel another Holocaust is possible.

4/5/07, A homemade bomb exploded outside a Jewish community center in Montreal in the middle of Passover week.
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