Iran ‘frightens me,’ Harper says

Iran ‘frightens me,’ Harper says

17/01/2012 5:14:36 PM
CBC News

There’s no doubt Iran is working on a nuclear weapon and lying about it, Prime Minister Stephen Harper tells CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge in an exclusive interview.

In an exclusive interview, Harper says the evidence, some from the International Atomic Energy Agency, is overwhelming that Iran has a nuclear weapons program.

“I think there is absolutely no doubt they are lying. Absolutely no doubt,” Harper said of Iran’s claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

Read more here (and watch video interview):

http://news.sympatico.cbc.ca/home/iran_frightens_me_harper_says/78db10ed

US Senators oppose Israel return to 1967 lines

US Senators oppose Israel return to 1967 lines

New resolution proposed by Senators Lieberman, Hatch calls for US opposition to any Israeli withdrawal to 1967 lines, deals blow to Obama peace talk efforts
AFP

US senators proposed a resolution on Thursday opposing any Israeli withdrawal to 1967 lines, dealing a symbolic blow to President Barack Obama’s efforts to renew peace talks.

“It is contrary to United States policy and national security to have the borders of Israel return to the armistice lines that existed on June 4, 1967,” read the text introduced by Senators Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, and Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent.

More here:

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-4080333,00.html

Klavan’s One-State Solution: Give the Middle East to the Jews

Must watch:

Klavan’s One-State Solution: Give the Middle East to the Jews
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&load=5527&mpid=80

Horowitz on Obama, the Middle East and the future of the Jewish State

Conversation with David Horowitz
Jun 7th, 2011

FrontPage Magazine’s editor-in-chief sits down with Larry Levin of St. Louis Jewish Light to discuss President Obama, the Middle East and the future of the Jewish State.

Watch here:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/07/conversation-with-david-horowitz/

Op-Ed: Heed the lonely voice of reason of Canada’s prime minister

Op-Ed: Heed the lonely voice of reason of Canada’s prime minister

June 1, 2011

(JTA) — Pundits already are busy deciphering the performance of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his new foreign policy team at the just completed Group of Eight Summit in France. The G-8 meeting was convened amid pivotal crises ranging from global debt to human rights to nuclear energy safety, and how to nurture the complex Arab Spring impacting on 400 million people in the Middle East.

Canada is no injury-time substitute in this game. It has paid in blood and treasure in Afghanistan, is involved in the NATO campaign in Libya against Moammar Gadhafi and is a respected international aid donor.

More here:

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/06/01/3087967/op-ed-heed-the-lonely-voice-of-reason-of-canadas-prime-minister

Obama and Israel: Is it Ignorance or Arrogance?

Obama and Israel: Is it Ignorance or Arrogance?

By Jan Markell
www.olivetreeviews.org

June 1, 2011

The fanfare is over. Benjamin Netanyahu has left the building. He has returned to Israel and he and the Israelis realize that they are on their own. The President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, has identified himself as the most anti-Israel President in history. But he does not speak for all of the American people and he does not speak for all of Congress. There may be only a few issues in Washington that have bi-partisan support, but one of those issues is that both the Right and the Left in Congress — with a few exceptions — remain an ally of God’s covenant land. Many of them are trying to hold back the water from the hole in the dam that would make the Islamic empire the chosen people.

My only surprise concerning the Netanyahu-Obama events was the people’s surprise! That is, that the American people reacted with seeming shock at the events that transpired from May 19-23. It was a slam dunk that this would happen! One can start with Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope. In it he states, “When the ill winds blow, I will always stand with the Muslims.” And wasn’t it just a few short months ago that Obama ditched Netanyahu and company at the White House for dinner with his family. It was that meeting where Bibi Netanyahu was lectured and left stunned and bewildered — and then he actually came back for more!

More here:

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=qlskyecab&v=0015XVNn_3fRZXUb-IzY0Cf9buds9Ev6EhAPfuQj3EPkQA-L9FjN6KZApaP7_SoM35lFr7X23sVZiI2b8YwC_u6naDhX12R7hYudPZNEbrtaXY%3D

Harper steers G8 to Israel-friendlier stance

Harper steers G8 to Israel-friendlier stance

TEL AVIV — The new Canadian government of Stephen Harper is emerging as one of the friendliest countries to Israel in the Western world.

This new direction became apparent in the last G8 summit, which ended on Saturday in Deauville, France. When discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Britain and France introduced a draft resolution supporting U.S. President Barack Obama’s speeches of May 26 and May 28, but singling out the future borders between Israel and Palestine. In his speeches, Obama said that these borders should be based on the 1967 ceasefire lines “with mutually agreed swaps.”

For a resolution to be binding by the G8 it has to be accepted unanimously.

More here:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/harper-steers-g8-to-israel-friendlier-stance-122853829.html

Unprecedented

Unprecedented

by David Brog

Last week, both President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu staked out their positions on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Their speeches have launched a thousand commentaries about Israel’s pre-1967 borders and the best way to achieve peace in the Middle East. But missed in this torrent of talk were three significant departures from prior positions.

In his May 19th speech, President Obama declared that “the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.” Not only did the President emphasize the ’67 lines, but he did so in the absence of any corresponding Palestinian concessions. Both in his original speech and in his clarification of that speech before AIPAC, President Obama failed to mention the key Palestinian concession – the rejection of the Palestinian “right of return” to Israel, i.e. the “right” of the millions of grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the original 1948 refugees to “return” to Israel and turn it into another Arab state.

More here:

http://brogsblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/unprecedented/

CANADA TO WORLD: LAY OFF ISRAEL!

CANADA TO WORLD: LAY OFF ISRAEL!
by Ryan Jones (Israel Today News)

Canada further emerged as Israel’s new best friend on the international stage at last week’s G8 Summit in Deauville, France.

Playing off US President Barack Obama’s recent foreign policy speeches, the G8 leaders were keen to use their closing statment to demand that Israel retreat to its 1967 borders.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was having none of it.

More here:

http://hftm.org/blog/?p=2012

Lessons of Netanyahu’s Triumph

Lessons of Netanyahu’s Triumph
By Caroline B. Glick

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was hoping to avoid his clash with US President Barack Obama this week in Washington.

Four days before his showdown at the White House with the American leader, Netanyahu addressed the Knesset. His speech was the most dovish he had ever given. In it, he set out the parameters of the land concessions he is willing to make to the Palestinians, in the event they ever decide that they are interested in negotiating a final peace.

More here:

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/05/lessons-of-netanyahus-triumph.php

Lieberman thanks Canada PM for objection to 1967 borders at G8

Lieberman thanks Canada PM for objection to 1967 borders at G8
The foreign minister tells Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ‘Canada is a true friend of Israel,’ after Harper insisted that no mention of Israel’s pre-1967 borders be made in the leaders’ final communiqué.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday to thank him for objecting to a specific mention of 1967 borders in a statement on the Middle East released by leaders of the Group of Eight.

Diplomats involved in Middle East discussions at the G8 summit on Friday said Canada had insisted that no mention of Israel’s pre-1967 borders be made in the leaders’ final communiqué, even though most of the other leaders wanted a mention.

“Canada is true friend of Israel,” Lieberman said, adding that they “understand that the 1967 lines are inconsistent with Israel’s security needs.”

More here:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/lieberman-thanks-canada-pm-for-objection-to-1967-borders-at-g8-1.364502

Return to Pre-’67 Borders?

Return to Pre-’67 Borders?

By Joseph Farah

Barack Obama officially affirms the Arab demand that Israel return to pre-1967 borders – a measure almost anyone familiar with the geography of the Middle East understands would represent suicide for the Jewish state.

Putting aside common sense for a moment, let’s think about this from a historic sense.

Why is 1967 such an important year in history in the Middle East?

More here:

http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2011/05/return-to-pre-67-borders.html

ANALYSIS: NETANYAHU GOES TO WASHINGTON TO DISCUSS “EPIC BATTLE” IN THE EPICENTER

ANALYSIS: NETANYAHU GOES TO WASHINGTON TO DISCUSS “EPIC BATTLE” IN THE EPICENTER

(Jerusalem, Israel) — Will it work?

That’s the key question as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu finishes his high-profile trip to Washington, meeting with President Obama, addressing 10,000-plus pro-Israel activists at the AIPAC Policy Conference, addressing a Joint Session of Congress, and doing a flurry of major media interviews. Will his passionate case that Israel is America’s best friend, the only solid and secure democracy in the Middle East, endangered by Iranian nukes, and in need of unwavering American friendship and support in tumultuous times fully convince the President, the Congress and the American people to stand with Israel through the darkest of times that are steadily approaching?

More here:

http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/analysis-netanyahu-goes-to-washington-to-discuss-epic-battle-in-the-epicenter/

US Congressman blames conflict on refusal to accept Israel

US Congressman blames conflict on refusal to accept Israel

WASHINGTON – A top Republican Congressman took a swipe at US President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy in a speech to America’s biggest pro-Israel lobby Sunday that won enthusiastic backing from the crowd.

Calling the Palestinian culture one “infused with resentment and hatred,” US House Majority Leader Eric Cantor blamed that mindset as the obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians, not border issues as highlighted by Obama in recent days.

More here:

http://forzion.com/latest/us-congressman-blames-conflict-on-refusal-to-accept-israel/

Obama ‘Clarifies’ 1967 Border Demands

Obama ‘Clarifies’ 1967 Border Demands

Posted by Rick Moran on May 23rd, 2011
frontpagemag.com

In a speech to the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) on Sunday morning, President Obama tried to offer some clarification to his remarks on Thursday at the State Department where he stated that “The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.”

Stung by an outburst of condemnation and criticism for those remarks – and a stern lecture from Prime Minister Netanyahu after their White House meeting – the president attempted to quell the controversy by reiterating America’s strong support for the state of Israel, and placing his comments on creating a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders in the context of “mutually agreed swaps” of land that would alter those boundaries substantially.

More here:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/23/obama-clarifies-1967-border-demands/

OBAMA TRIES TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT!

OBAMA TRIES TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT!
By David Horovitz

Analysis: But even the US President’s improved formulations will still leave many Israelis feeling uneasy. President Barack Obama sounded somewhat aggrieved.

He was, he told 10,000 attentive delegates at AIPAC’s annual policy conference in Washington on Sunday morning, a “real friend” of Israel, with the track record to prove it.

Precisely because he and his Administration “understand the challenges Israel faces,” he had made military cooperation a priority, ensured Israel received America’s most advanced technologies, and boosted financing for the Iron Dome missile defense system. Precisely because of his concern for Israel’s security, he had imposed the toughest ever sanctions to try to thwart Iran’s nuclear program, shown “unshakeable opposition” to attempts to chip away at Israel’s legitimacy, stood up for Israel against the Goldstone Report and made plain that the planned Palestinian unilateral UN route to statehood was unacceptable.

More here:

http://new.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=221726

HT: http://hftm.org/blog/?p=1989

John Bolton on the Difference Between Israeli-Palestinian Border and the ’67 Border Lines

John Bolton on the Difference Between Israeli-Palestinian Border and the ’67 Border Lines

Also see:

Herman Cain: You Mess With Israel, You Mess With the U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy7Zn-f2zg8

Netanyahu Defends Israel, the Jewish People and America

Netanyahu Defends Israel, the Jewish People and America

President Obama paid a huge price for his surprise attack on the State of Israel in his Thursday “Arab Speech.” Along with abandoning long time American positions, like calling for a return to 1967 lines (which Abba Eban called Auschwitz Lines) that cannot be Israel’s border because Israel is not secure within those lines, Obama showed his contempt for the State of Israel by announcing his dramatic policy shifts just hours before a scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Why didn’t he wait to discuss his polices with his ally? Because his policies are designed to be Arab not Israel centric.

More here:

http://www.onejerusalem.org/2011/05/netanyahu-defends-israel-the-j.php

Obama’s False Choice

Obama’s False Choice

By Jonathan Tobin

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In his address to AIPAC Sunday morning, President Obama doubled down on the points he made in his speech on Thursday. After a lengthy, and not entirely unjustified defense of his administration’s record of support for Israel’s security, he continued talking down to the Jewish state and its government as if he knew better than they about the situation in the Middle East.

Following the talking points that the administration has been furiously spinning since Thursday, Obama attempted to explain that there was nothing original or new in his attempt to lay down the 1967 lines as the starting point for future talks….

More here:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0511/tobin052311.php3?printer_friendly

Obama to AIPAC: UN vote won’t create Palestine

Obama to AIPAC: UN vote won’t create Palestine

(Video) US president goes before Jewish lobby in DC, says US commitment to Israel’s security ‘ironclad,’ Washington won’t stand for Israel’s isolation in international arena. President further reassures: Israel, PA, to negotiate border different than 1967′s
Ynet

VIDEO – WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama spoke before an AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) conference in Washington Sunday, amid rumored tensions with both Jreusalem and the Jewish community in the United States, following his Mideast policy speech last week.

Obama’s speech, where he endorsed the 1967 borders as the basis for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, has chafed the tense relations between Jerusalem and Washington further, as well as sparked rumors that the Jewish American community was, for the large part, rethinking its support for Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

More here:

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-4072261,00.html

1967: A critical year for Obama’s presidency

1967: A critical year for Obama’s presidency
KONRAD YAKABUSKI AND PATRICK MARTIN
WASHINGTON AND JERUSALEM— From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
Published Friday, May. 20, 2011 9:59PM EDT

American presidents have, with rare exception, spoken of Israel with biblical reverence.

If anything, the language has only gotten more pro-Israel with each successive White House administration since Harry Truman made the United States the first country to recognize Israel’s independence in 1948.

Barack Obama has torn up the old script. If the policies of his administration toward Israel represent incremental change more than a break with the past, he talks about them in ways no previous president dared.

More here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/konrad-yakabuski/1967-a-critical-year-for-obamas-presidency/article2030830/

President Obama’s Speech and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Fact-Based Analysis

President Obama’s Speech and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Fact-Based Analysis

In a major speech delivered at the State Department on May 19 President Obama outlined his administration’s policy in the Middle East and North Africa, making some clean breaks with what had been key elements of US policy in the region for decades.

Regarding the Arab Israeli conflict, it is important to note that the President did maintain some aspects of his predecessors’ policies, saying, for example:

Read more here:

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&x_nameinnews=300&x_article=2048

OBAMA SAID “1967 LINES” NOT “BORDERS”

OBAMA SAID “1967 LINES” NOT “BORDERS”!
by Gavriel Queenann (IsraelNationalNews)
(Clarified by CAMERA Media)

Media outlets who misquoted US President Barack Obama on Thursday as saying he expected a “full phased withwrawal” by Israel to “1967 borders” are making a subtle but serious mistake, CAMERA said.

Citing an AP story filed shortly after President Obama’s Middle East speech CAMERA said the article — only three paragraphs — packed the serious factual error a whopping four times (“Obama says Palestine must be based in 1967 borders.”)

Three times the article incorrectly refers to the 1967 lines as borders, while President Obama himself did not use that inaccurate language.

More here:

http://hftm.org/blog/?p=1972

The New Arafat

The New Arafat

The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps…. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state…. The full and phased withdrawal of Israeli military forces should be coordinated with the assumption of Palestinian security responsibility in a sovereign, nonmilitarized state….

These words from President Barack Obama’s speech on Thursday are the most chilling message ever sent by a U.S. president to Israel, and possibly by any head of government to a supposed “ally.” It is often mentioned that, soon after the Six Day War of 1967, the then Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban referred to those 1967 lines as the “Auschwitz borders.” It is also often mentioned, as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did after his meeting with Obama on Friday, that these borders leave Israel all of nine miles wide at one of its most populous points.

More here:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/21/the-new-arafat-2/

Netahyahu: 1967 Lines Are Indefensible, Can’t Negotiate With a Government Backed by Hamas

Netahyahu: 1967 Lines Are Indefensible, Can’t Negotiate With a Government Backed by Hamas

Americans to Israel: Don’t listen to Obama

TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND
Americans to Israel: Don’t listen to Obama
Millions behind ad guaranteeing Jewish nation, ‘We stand with you’

Leaders across America whose organizations represent literally millions of people have told the nation of Israel, much like the wizard told Dorothy in Oz, “don’t listen to that man behind the curtain,” or in the current case, don’t listen to the man in the White House.

The message came just hours after Barack Obama announced to the world Israel needs to return to its pre-1967 borders to appease Palestinians dedicated to the annihilation of the Jewish nation.

Obama made the statement in an address in advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned visit to the White House today. Netanyahu preceded the visit with a statement rejecting Obama’s call for a Palestinian state based on Israel’s pre-1967 borders, calling the lines “indefensible.”

More here:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=301285

Also see:

Israel You’re Not Alone Project
http://www.israelyourenotalone.com/index.cfm

Obama Throws Israel Under the Bus

“Already – and rightly so – Israel’s response to President Obama’s position has been anything but positive and rightly so. As Netanyahu has stated, Israel agreeing to any such plan would leave it virtually indefensible in a region where it is bordered by numerous less-than-friendly neighbors. Not only is the plan supported by Israel-hating nations everywhere (and now the U.S. to our shame) perilous to Israel, those supportive of it have very short memories.

Clearly forgotten by leaders around the world and the Obama administration is what happened after Israel surrendered a mere portion of the lands gained in the Six Day War of 1967 when the Jewish state gave the ‘peace-seeking’ Palestinians the Gaza Strip in 2005.”

-Obama Throws Israel Under the Bus
By Michael G. Mickey
http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2011/05/obama-throws-israel-under-bus.html

Obama’s abandonment of America

Obama’s abandonment of America

I was out sick yesterday so I was unable to write today’s column for the Jerusalem Post. I did manage to watch President Obama’s speech on the Middle East yesterday evening. And I didn’t want to wait until next week to discuss it. After all, who knows what he’ll do by Tuesday?

Before we get into what the speech means for Israel, it is important to consider what it means for America.

Quite simply, Obama’s speech represents the effective renunciation of the US’s right to have and to pursue national interests. Consequently, his speech imperils the real interests that the US has in the region – first and foremost, the US’s interest in securing its national security.

More here:

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/05/obamas-abandonment-of-america.php?pf=yes

OBAMA SIDES WITH ARAB WORLD AGAINST ISRAEL!

OBAMA SIDES WITH ARAB WORLD AGAINST ISRAEL!
by One Jerusalem News

In his State Department speech to the Arab world, President Obama threw Israel overboard as he demanded that Israel must make major concessions to achieve peace in the region. When you cut through his rhetoric, Obama believes that Israel must make major concessions that include Jerusalem and the right of return so there can be a peace.

Obama rejected the notion that the coming together of Fatah and Hamas is a deal breaker. He called it a legitimate question (How can Israel come to agreement with Hamas that does not recognize the State of Israel?) but he believes there is an answer to this question that will allow Israel to negotiate with Hamas. He gave lip service to the idea of a Jewish State and to Israel’s security but he emphatically stated that the the indefensible borders of the 1967 (with undefined adjustments) will be the borders of the State of Israel and the new Palestinian State….

More here:

http://hftm.org/blog/?p=1966

FULL TEXT: Official Response From Netanyahu to Obama’s Israel, Palestine 1967 Border Remarks

FULL TEXT: Official Response From Netanyahu to Obama’s Israel, Palestine 1967 Border Remarks

Read the official response from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following remarks made by President Obama on Thursday calling for a return to 1967 border lines for conflicting Israel and Palestine.

” Israel appreciates President Obama’s commitment to peace. Israel believes that for peace to endure between Israelis and Palestinians, the viability of a Palestinian state cannot come at the expense of the viability of the one and only Jewish state. That is why Prime Minister Netanyahu expects to hear a re-affirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both Houses of Congress…”.

More here:

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2011/05/19/full-text-official-response-from-netanyahu-to-obamas-israel-palestine-1967-border-remarks/

Recognizing Israel

Recognizing Israel

by Terry James

Hamas leadership has just let it be known that it will accept a Palestinian state set within the 1967 borders as those borders stood before the Six-Day War of that year. This they will accept, dropping their demands that a Palestinian state must encompass a much broader territory.

The Hamas top strong man, Mahmoud Zahar, told the Palestinian news agency, Ma’an, that he would be willing to accept the installing of a Palestinian state “on any part of Palestine,” rather than holding to the group’s previous demand that such a state be formed from “the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea.”

More here:

http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2011/05/recognizing-israel.html

Flotilla 2: NY Times Sinks the Truth

Flotilla 2: NY Times Sinks the Truth

According to a New York Times report, a second flotilla of vessels led by the Turkish Mavi Marmara is due to sail for Gaza within the next few months. Last time, the real motives and agenda of those involved in the flotilla only became clear after Israeli commandos were attacked by extremists brandishing weapons.

Last time, the flotilla organizers were allowed to sell a false narrative of so-called “peace activists” delivering humanitarian aid to Gazans suffering a humanitarian crisis as a result of an Israeli blockade.

More here:

http://honestreporting.com/flotilla-2-ny-times-sinks-the-truth/

WHAT IS THE WAR OF GOG AND MAGOG? Part Three — the good news

WHAT IS THE WAR OF GOG AND MAGOG? Part Three — the good news

(Jerusalem, Israel) – Here is “Part Three” of my notes from an address I gave on Friday, May 6th to a conference of some 300 Israelis and Palestinians on ”Current Events In Light of Bible Prophecy.” My focus was Ezekiel 38-39, the prophecies that Bible scholars describe as the “War of Gog & Magog.”

More here:

http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/what-is-the-war-of-gog-and-magog-part-three-the-good-news/

The Only 2 Things You Need to Know About Osama Bin Laden and Israel

The Only 2 Things You Need to Know About Osama Bin Laden and Israel
May 2, 2011 12:30 by Pesach Benson

I’ll never forget riding home on a crowded Egged bus on 9/11, just a few hours after watching the Twin Towers collapse.

The radio was turned up all the way. Every passenger — working men, babushkas, students — shoulders hunched in heightened state of awareness, occasionally casting concerned skyward glances out the window. Nobody knew how many planes were hijacked. Israel had closed off its airspace.

Might a 175,400 lb passenger jet actually fall on Bus 20 as we passed the Mahane Yehuda shuk?

And now Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed by US forces, no less. A fitting end.

As far as I’m concerned, there are only two things you need to know about Osam bin Laden and Israel.

More here:

http://honestreporting.com/the-only-2-things-you-need-to-know-about-osama-bin-laden-and-israel/

While US warns travelers, Israel already on high alert

While US warns travelers, Israel already on high alert

Following bin Laden death, defense establishment says Israel was previously on alert due to fears of Hezbollah attack.

The defense establishment held a number of security consultations on Monday to assess the threat level and possible security implications that the killing of Osama bin Laden could have for Israel.

A senior security official said Monday that the country was not altering any of its existing travel advisories for the time being. The defense establishment has been on high alert for several months already due to concerns that Hezbollah is planning an imminent attack against an Israeli target overseas to avenge the 2008 assassination of its military commander, Imad Mughniyeh.

More here:

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=218874