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Middle East / Levant / US / News Briefs

Trump’s Appointee for Pentagon Middle East Adviser has Called for ‘Pressure’ on Israel

By Andrew Bernard

“We’re really there to counter Iran, and that’s really at the behest of the Israelis and the Saudis,” Michael DiMino said of the U.S. troop presence in Iraq and Syria.

US / Iran / News Briefs

Former CIA Analyst Admits Leaking Secret Info about Israeli Response to Iran

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Asif William Rahman, 34, will be sentenced on May 15 and faces up to 10 years in prison.

Iran

CIA Chief: Iran Could Produce Weapons-Grade Uranium within Weeks

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

William Burns’s comments come just days after U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors detected uranium enriched to 84 percent in the Islamic Republic.

US / Elections / Palestinian Authority

EXCLUSIVE: US to Ramallah: State Dept. to Take Over Contact with PA from CIA; Will Demand Democratic Moves

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

Abbas wants to cancel the upcoming elections, while the Biden administration will allegedly emphasize the demand for democracy in the Palestinian Authority.

Iran

Iran Executes Former Defense Staffer Accused of Selling Secrets to CIA

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Iran's judiciary said that Asgari sold data related to Iran’s missile program to the U.S. intelligence agency.

IDF & Security / US / News Briefs

Report: CIA Recruiting Israeli Soldiers

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Channel 2 television reported that the IDF has warned soldiers, especially American "olim," to be careful not to fall into a trap and leak confidential information.

Israel / US / News Briefs

WikiLeaks: CIA Prepares Agents to Avoid Ben Gurion Airport Screenings

By JTA

Just imagine the uproar if it was exposed that the Mossad told agents how to get past US security?

US / News Briefs / Holocaust

US Spy Agencies Hired At Least 1,000 Nazis, New Book Alleges

By JTA

The book should make Jews in America fell a little bit queasy, to say the least.

Jewish / US / Iran / News Briefs

Witness Says He Saw Iran Arrest Robert Levinson

By Jewish Press News Desk

An American fugitive living in Iran told the Christian Science Monitor that  he saw six Iranian policemen “detain” Robert Levinson  in 2007.  The account by African-American Dawud Salahuddin contradicts years of denials by Iran that it was not involved with is disappearance. The U.S. government also has consistently claimed that Levinson traveled to an Iranian […]

Jewish / US / Iran / News Briefs

Iran Insists It Has ‘No Traces’ of Robert Levinson

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iran knows nothing about the whereabouts of Robert Levinson, the former Jewish FBI agent who was last seen on an Iranian island in 2007. The American government said at the time he was on a private trip, but it has since been revealed he was working for the CIA. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs

AP: Missing Former Jewish FBI Agent Spied on Iran for CIA

By Jewish Press News Desk

Robert Levinson, a former Jewish FBI agent, was working directly for the CIA on a mission in Iran when he was last seen in 2007, the Associated Press stated in an investigative report. The U.S. government has claimed that Levinson, who is married and has seven children, traveled to the Iranian resort island of Kish […]

Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / US / Global / News Briefs / Islamists

US to Question Al Qaeda Suspect Terrorist on Ship in Mediterranean

By Jewish Press News Desk

American authorities said Monday they will question an Al Qaeda terrorist,  re-captured in Tripoli over the weekend, while he is on a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea and without reading him his rights, making it impossible to use the information at a trial. If the terrorist, Abu Anas al-Libi, reveals the same information after […]

Terrorism / Syria / US / Eye on "Palestine" / Iran / News Briefs / Turkey / Europe / Lebanon / Islamists / Saudi Arabia / Hezbollah / Egypt / Russia

9/11 Spreads in the Middle East

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Al Qaeda brought down the Twin Towers 12 years ago. With the help of other terrorists, it is bringing down Mideast regimes, banking on chaos to spread its policy of destruction of the West.

Terrorism / US / News Briefs / Hezbollah

‘Snowden Leak Reveals Hamas, Hezbollah Try to Infiltrate CIA

By Jewish Press News Desk

Approximately 20 percent of applicants for work at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were affiliated with Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda, according to a document released by Edward Snowden, who worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) before fleeing the United States. The document said the applicants had “significant terrorist and/or hostile intelligence connections and […]

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs

Report: CIA Kept File on Noam Chomsky

By JTA

The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged after years of denial that it kept a file on Noam Chomsky, though the file appears to have been destroyed. Chomsky, 84, an American academic who works as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was an anti-war activist in the 1970s. He also is a vociferous critic […]

Op-Eds

Improving the NYPD while Protecting our Cops

By David G. Greenfield

It is already illegal to conduct bias-based profiling, and there is no need for legislation that will make the job of police officers that much harder

Terrorism / Israel / Syria / US / News Briefs / Islamists / Hezbollah

CIA Head John Brennan Makes Unannounced Israel Visit

By JTA

CIA director John Brennan made an unannounced visit to Israel to discuss the situation in Syria with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Friday. They reportedly compared intelligence assessments on Syria and its two-year civil war and talked about Israel’s intent to continue striking shipments of advanced weapons destined for Hezbollah from Iran via Syria. […]

Rubin Reports

Why the CIA Director is Wrong: Islamism Scarier than Al Qaeda

By Barry Rubin

What the Obama Administration has done is like trying to reduce crime by turning over the cities to the Mafia and letting it make the laws and also run the police and court systems.

Fresno Zionism

Obama's CIA Pick and His Romance with Islam

By Vic Rosenthal

Brennan is 100 percent on board with the Obama policy that our enemies consist only of 'al-Qaeda and its extremist allies.'

Israel / US / News Briefs / Local

Declassified: Pollard's Handlers Wanted Arab and Soviet, Not US Information

By Jewish Press Staff

The specific subjects sought by Pollard's Israeli handlers were Syrian drones, Egyptian missile programs, and Soviet air defenses.

Parsha

Parshat Vayeishev

By Rabbi Dr. David Hertzberg

Most people remember where they were when they heard the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed and justice delivered. Many books have already been written about the ten-year search for him, the decision to launch the mission and the actual attack on his compound in Abbottabad. While every aspect of this story is fascinating, I would like to focus on one specific area: Why were the Navy SEALs chosen to execute the mission? When the mission was being planned it was hardly a done deal that the SEALs would be selected as opposed to the CIA’s own paramilitary unit.[1]

Editorial

The Petraeus Conundrum

By Editorial Board

There are some fascinating questions that come to mind regarding the current controversy concerning Gen. David Petraeus, and in the coming weeks and months many of the blanks will doubtless be filled in. To be sure, the personal dimension to the story will continue to draw much attention – infidelity and personal failure in high places will always have a certain allure. But there are some serious public issues involved that we hope will be pursued.

Politics

Hezbollah Supporter Franklin Lamb Urging the US to Forge Israel-Free Mid-East

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

An article in the August 28 "Foreign Policy Journal" entitled "US Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East" claims to be based on a leaked document from a CIA staffer, commissioned by the US Intelligence Community, comprised of all four branches of the military, the Coast Guard, the Departments of State, Treasury, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the FBI and the National Security Agency. The document "conclusively reveals" that the CIA thinks Israel is the greatest threat on the face of the Earth to the interests of the United States.

Photo of the Day

Mekhi Phifer ('ER') Checks Out the Cobra

By Jewish Press Staff

Mekhi Phifer is no stranger to fake action, having portrayed Dr. Greg Pratt on NBC's medical drama "ER," FBI agent Ben Reynolds on Fox's "Lie to Me," and CIA agent Rex Matheson in "Torchwood: Miracle Day." This week, Mekhi had a rare opportunity to try the reral thing, on a vist to an IAF base […]

Israel / Middle East / Levant / US

Iran Passes Letter to US: You Killed Our Scientist

By Malkah Fleisher

In a letter handed to the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, the Iranian foreign ministry relayed to the United States that it believes the CIA was behind the recent assassination of another Iranian nuclear scientist.

Uncategorized

Barack Obama's 2012 New Year's Resolutions

By dvora

Obama will eliminate Welfare by requiring all poor people to move in with rich people.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter VII

By Barbara Bensoussan

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