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Israel / Global

In The Aftermath of Attacks on Israeli Targets...

By Solomon Burke

Malaysia will extradite Iranian suspected of involvement in attempted bombing in Thailand; Report reveals that Mossad chief visited New Delhi days before the attack on the Israeli diplomatic vehicle and lauded India as a safe destination for Israelis; Israel's envoy to the UN has lodged a complaint, blaming Iran and Hizbollah for the week-long terror campaign.

Analysis

Obama’s Iranian Ostrich Policy

By Yedidya Atlas

Obama plays the delaying game while giving a false impression to his gullible supporters – especially liberal American Jews – that he is supposedly doing everything to stop Iran short of military attack.

Editorial

Iranian Attacks

By Editorial Board

The two apparently coordinated attacks on Monday against Israeli diplomatic personnel present Israel with a significant challenge of how to respond, aside from an obvious concern for the safety of its citizens abroad.

Analysis / Global

After New Delhi Bombings, Fears Of Escalating Attacks

By Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON – Israeli leaders blamed Iran for two assassination attempts late Sunday and early Monday – in Tbilisi, Georgia, and in New Delhi, India. The bomb in Tbilisi was disabled before it could be activated, and the attack in India wounded the wife of an Israeli diplomat and her driver.

Analysis

Iran-Syria Axis Strengthens as Isolation Grows

By Rafi Harkham

The intensified cooperation between Iran and Syria reflects their understanding that Iran's nuclear ambitions and the unrest in Syria are linked: Western nations' arming of the Syrian Opposition would cause a serious rift with Russia and China at a time when their consensus is crucial to constraining Iran's nuclear program.

News Briefs

Experts say Stuxnet Neutralized by Iran

By Jewish Press News Desk

According to Reuters, based on European and U.S. officials and private experts, Iranian engineers have succeeded in neutralizing and purging the computer virus known as Stuxnet from their country's nuclear machinery. In 2009, the malicious code penetrated equipment controlling centrifuges Iran is using to enrich uranium, dealing a significant setback to Iran's nuclear weapons work. […]

Global

Latest Developments on Bomb Attack in India, Failed Attack in Thailand

By Solomon Burke

Israeli diplomat's wife in serious but stable condition after Monday's bomb attack on her car in New Delhi, while an Iranian man blew off his legs Tuesday in a failed bomb attack in Bangkok.

News Briefs

Israeli New Delhi Blast Victim Comes Out of Surgery

By Jewish Press Staff

Are prayers are with her for a full and complete recovery.

Israel / News Briefs

Newsweek: US Will "Look Other Way" on Israeli Strike on Iran

By Malkah Fleisher

Newsweek magazine quoted Pentagon officials this week saying the US will “look the other way” regarding an impending Israeli airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities and the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.  This is despite Washington’s interest in preventing warfare in the region, according to the report. The article alleges that Mossad Director Tamir Pardo's was […]

Israel / Jewish

"Milkman" Rabbi Predicts US Attack on Iran

By Tibbi Singer

The Givataim-based mystic, known for his accurate political and economic predictions, says Israel will not participate in the attack.

News Briefs

US Officials Confirm Israel's Role in Iranian Assassinations

By Jewish Press Staff

US officials say the string of assassinations of nuclear scientists in Iran is the work of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran and that the group receives funding, training and arms from the Mossad.

News Briefs

Taiwan Agrees to Cut Iran Oil Imports

By Jewish Press Staff

Iran is one of Taiwan's top sources of crude oil, at 6.8% of total imports.

Editorial

President Obama, Israel and Iran

By Editorial Board

Many of us continue to be apprehensive about what the Middle East policy of a reelected President Obama would look like. Though Mr. Obama continues to insist that U.S. support for the security of Israel is "unshakable," his turnaround on pressing Israel on the 1967 lines and settlement growth, while welcome, was unnerving. Not only did it occur at the outset of the presidential campaign season, it was also uncommonly abrupt.

News Briefs

Gulf States Warn Hamas PM Not to Visit Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Report in Palestinian daily Al Quds quoted a source as saying "without a doubt, Haniyeh's visit to Tehran will have consequences."

Israel / US / Global

Concerns Mount Over Possible Iran-Backed Terror Attacks On American Soil

By Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON – When America’s top intelligence official said that Iran’s regime is considering attacks on U.S. soil, he cited a single incident and qualified the assessment with a “probably.”

News Briefs

Former Mossad Chief Denies Israel Faces Existential Threat

By Jewish Press Staff

Remarks come at the launch of political reform movement "Yesh Sicui"

Middle East / Levant / Global

Russia and China: Accomplices and Obstructionists in Syria's Crackdown

By Rafi Harkham

Russia and China, constrained by outdated Cold War outlooks, continue to frustrate attempts to end the conflict in Syria.

News Briefs

FM Lieberman, Sec. of State Clinton Meet in Washington

By Jewish Press Staff

Lieberman's visit comes as the rhetoric between the West and Iran is heating up, and a day after the conclusion of the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement.

News Briefs

48% of Likely US Voters Say US Should Help Israel if it Attacks Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Rasmussen Reports also found that 83% believe it is at least somewhat likely Iran will develop a nuclear weapon in the near future.

News Briefs

Obama Tightens Sanctions on Iran's Central Bank

By Jewish Press Staff

Move comes in response to Iranian attempts to "conceal transactions of sanctioned parties."

News Briefs

New IAF Chief Says Iran is Israel's Foremost Concern

By Jewish Press Staff

Comments were made last month prior to Eshel's appointment, and so offer a candid look into the new IAF chief's strategic thinking.

News Briefs

Obama: Israel Has Not Decided Whether to Attack Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Obama describes the cooperation between the US and Israel as unprecedented

Israel / Jewish / US

Warning: Iran Targets Jewish and Israeli Establishments in US

By Malkah Fleisher

News of an increased threat on Jewish and Israeli targets across North America comes at the same time as predictions of an imminent and detailed Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities arise.

News Briefs

Saudi Arabia Blocks Ayatollah Khameini's Website

By Jewish Press Staff

The website was reportedly blocked ahead of Khamenei's sermon for Friday Prayers last Friday.

News Briefs

Pacifists Across North America March Against Iran Confrontation

By Jewish Press Staff

Demonstration at US mission to the UN and Israeli consulate led by a banner reading "No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations."

News Briefs

IAEA Schedule Return Trip To Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

A team of UN Nuclear experts will return to Iran for the talks on February 21.

News Briefs

Vice PM Yaalon: 'Any Facility in Iran Can Be Hit'

By Jewish Press Staff

Former IDF Chief of Staff makes comments at Herzliya Conference.

News Briefs

Iranian FM: Iran, Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood In 'Constant Contact'

By Jewish Press Staff

Ali Akbar Salehi said that Iran is prepared to upgrade its diplomatic relations with Egypt to the Ambassadorial level.

News Briefs

Israel Military Intelligence: Iran Has Enough Uranium For 4 Nukes

By Jewish Press Staff

Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi: "When Khamenei gives the order to produce the first nuclear weapon – it will be done, we believe, within one year."

News Briefs

Mossad Chief Held Secret Talks In US on Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Senator Diane Feinstein and CIA Director David Petraeus both mentioned that they met with Tamir Pardo earlier in the week.

Analysis

Preempt Iran -- At All Costs!

By Yoram Ettinger

A discussion about the cost of a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities that reflects skepticism and acquiesces to a nuclear-armed Iran ignores precedents, plays into Iran's hands, and threatens Israel's existence.

US / Global

On Iranian Nuclear Issue, Mixed Signals Proliferate From Israel, The U.S. And Iran

By Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON – Israel, the United States and Iran have all gone deep into mixed-signals territory.

News Briefs

Ban Ki-Moon: There Is 'No Alternative To A Dialogue With Iran'

By Jewish Press Staff

Ban is on a two day trip to Israel, Judea and Samaria, and Gaza.

News Briefs

UN Secretary General Urges Iran to Come Clean

By Jewish Press Staff

Comments come in joint press conference with Israeli President Shimon Peres.

News Briefs

UN Nuclear Inspectors Plan Return Visit to Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general of the IAEA, said his team "had a good trip."

Analysis

The Wannsee Legacy: Lessons for Genocide Prevention

By Matthias Küntzel

Let me please start with Fanny Englard, an active survivor of the Holocaust and a friend of mine. She grew up in Germany/Cologne and lives now south of Tel Aviv. Fanny wrote in a letter: “As a twenty-year-old, on 8 May 1945 I was liberated from hell and tried to find my family, but without […]

News Briefs

Hamas Leader Embarks on Second 'Official' Tour

By Jewish Press Staff

Ismail Haniyeh is set to visit Iran, Qatar, and Kuwait.

News Briefs

Iran Invites IAEA Inspectors to Extend Stay

By Jewish Press Staff

Three-day visit by IAEA nuclear experts was scheduled to end on January 31.

News & Views / Analysis

Will Netanyahu Call Early Elections?

By Jewish Press Staff

Israeli national elections are scheduled for November 2013.

News Briefs

Turkey Denies Report That It Will Replace Iran as Chief Financier of Hamas

By Jewish Press Staff

Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman reported yesterday that Turkey pledged to provide Hamas aid money in lieu of Iran.

News Briefs

Panetta: Iran Could Produce Nuke Within a Year

By Jewish Press Staff

US Defense Secretary makes statements on '60 Minutes'.

News Briefs

UN Nuclear Team Arrives in Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

IAEA is expected to visit the underground enrichment site near the city of Qom, in which Iran recently said it had begun uranium enrichment work.

News Briefs

Turkey May Supplant Iran As Main Hamas Backer

By Jewish Press Staff

Haniyeh and Erdogan reportedly discuss finances in Haniyeh's first official visit to Turkey.

News Briefs

US Chief of Staff Says Military Attack on Iran 'Premature'

By Jewish Press Staff

General Martin Dempsey acknowledged that US and Israel see the threat differently.

Analysis

Obama’s Success Trumps Israel’s Defense

By Yedidya Atlas

Roger Cohen’s New York Times column was the latest in the Obama camp’s efforts to pressure Binyamin Netanyahu to risk Israel’s being nuked by a nuclear Iran rather than cause any ripples in President Obama campaign for re-election to a second term.

News Briefs

Cyber Attacks UPDATE: Pro-Israeli Hackers Hit Iranian Official Websites

By Jewish Press Staff

Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education taken offline.

News Briefs

Former IDF Chief of Staff: Iran Nuclear Program 'Ticking Faster Than Ever'

By Jewish Press Staff

Gabi Ashkenazi says that Israel must 'keep a viable military option on the table.'

Editorial

The Sound Of Silence

By Editorial Board

Given its context, the recent declaration of the mufti of Jerusalem that it is Muslim destiny to destroy the Jewish people cannot be dismissed as the primitive rant of a crackpot cleric.

Rubin Reports

Israel Is Not About to Attack Iran and Neither is the United States: Get Used To It

By Barry Rubin

On the surface, of course, there is apparent evidence to assume Israel will attack Iran. Yet any serious consideration of this scenario says this isn’t going to happen.

News Briefs

Iran UPDATE: A-Jad says Iran Unaffected By EU Embargo, Wants to Talk

By Jewish Press Staff

Iranian President: "Why should we run away from the negotiations?"

News Briefs

Cyber Attacks UPDATE: Pro-Israeli Hacker Claims Strike on Iranian Sites

By Jewish Press Staff

'Hannibal' claims to have access to a trove of confidential Iranian information.

Analysis

Will New Oil Sanctions Be the Game-Changer in Iran?

By Benjamin Weinthal

EU outlawing of Iranian oil imports is already hurting the Iranian economy. But will it have an effect beyond that?

Front Page / Analysis

Politics, Israel, the Economy: A Chat With Rep. Bob Turner

By Sara Lehmann

New York’s 9th Congressional District will forever be remembered not only for the departure of disgraced veteran Congressman Anthony Weiner but also for who replaced him. Bob Turner’s victory marked the first Republican win in that district since 1923, and his September 2011 election stunned the Democratic Party.

Analysis

Yaalon: Abandon Corrupted Paradigm

By Baruch Widen

Vice PM Ya’alon to Likud Anglos: Israel cannot overcome both internal challenges and external threats with an obsolete paradigm he identifies as “Westernism”.

News Briefs

Owner, Publisher of Atlanta Jewish Times Resigns over Obama Assassination Column

By Jewish Press Staff

Andrew Adler proposed 'taking out' president deemed unfriendly to Israel.

News Briefs

Iranian Officials Again Threaten Closure of Strait of Hormuz

By Jewish Press Staff

USS Abraham Lincoln passed through the Strait without incident Sunday.

News Briefs

Netanyahu on EU embargo: As of today, Iran is continuing nuclear weapons program

By Jewish Press Staff

"Strong and quick" pressure on Iran is still necessary, Israeli PM insists.

News Briefs

UPDATE: EU Approves Oil Embargo on Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Total ban on oil imports to begin July 1, 2012.

News Briefs

EU Reportedly Agrees to Iran Oil Embargo

By Jewish Press Staff

According to sources, the ban would halt all oil imports by July 1, 2012.

Israel

PM, IDF Chief Clash Over Next Air Force Commander

By Sam Ser

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz are reported to be locked in a disagreement over the appointment of the next air force commander, with some suggesting a possible strike on Iranian nuclear facilities as the source of the divide.

News Briefs

Report: Israel to provide 12-Hour Window Before Attacking Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

The Sunday Times also reported that the US postponed the joint US-Israel military drill

News Briefs

China Reproaches Iran on Nuclear Program

By Jewish Press Staff

Statements come as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao wraps up trip to Gulf region.

News Briefs

PM Netanyahu: Israel Will Protect Jewish People Against 'Bitter Enemies'

By Jewish Press Staff

PM speaks on the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, where the Nazis decided on their "Final Solution," for the Jewish people.

Fundamentally Freund/Michael Freund

From Wannsee To Tehran

By Michael Freund

This week marks the seventieth anniversary of one of the most chilling events of the modern era.

Louis Rene Beres

Justifying Israeli Preemption Against Iran Under International Law

By Louis Rene Beres

The following article by Professor Beres and Colonel (Israel Defense Forces) Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto was originally published in the April 18, 2007 issue of The Jewish Press. Its warnings and predictions concerning a nuclear Iran have been proven unassailable.

Global

MidEast, Media, & Jewish World Wrap-up

By jointmedianewsservice

U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran ineffective; EU to encourage Arab building in Area C; Al Jazeera accused of promoting anti-Americanism; Israelis rescued from the Italian Costa Concordia cruise liner.

News Briefs

Iran Offers, Muslim Brotherhood Rejects Place in Assad Government

By Jewish Press Staff

Offer included four ministries in the Syrian government in exchange for supporting Assad.

News Briefs

Russia Comes to Defense of Syria, Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Russia says it will veto any UN authorization of military force against Assad regime.

News Briefs

Turkey Proposes to Host Iran Nuclear Talks

By Jewish Press Staff

Turkey's Foreign Minister made the offer in a joint news conference with Iranian counterpart.

News Briefs

IAEA Chief on Iran: 'What we know suggests the development of nuclear weapons'

By Jewish Press Staff

Yukiya Amano makes comments in interview with Financial Times Deutschland.

Middle East / Levant

EU Gets Tough On Iran With Planned Oil Embargo

By Sam Ser

European foreign ministers declared their countries’ intent to embargo oil from the Islamic Republic, beginning as early as July, and freeze the assets of Iran’s central bank

News Briefs

Iran Supplying Weapons to Quell Syrian Unrest

By Jewish Press Staff

UK PM Cameron discloses the information to the House of Commons.

Analysis / The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Jewish Press Radio: Iran in the Media, Arabs in the IDF, Robots at the Kotel

By Yocheved Seidman

Yishai and Malkah share stories of liberation in a week when the Torah portion (Vaeira) describes the beginnings of the Jewish people’s fight against Egyptian slavery three and a half thousand years ago.

Jewish

Raoul Wallenberg's 100th Birthday: Iranian Participation, New Investigation

By Malkah Fleisher

A celebration of the 100th birthday of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of over 20,000 Hungarian Jews in the final days of World War II, also marks the renewal of investigations into the events surrounding his death. In attendance - the Iranian Ambassador to Hungary

News Briefs

Iran Says Obama Called for Direct Talks in "Red Line" Letter

By Jewish Press Staff

Iranian lawmaker says threats were accompanied by offer for dialogue.

News Briefs

Former US Ambassador to UN Calls for Military Strike on Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Bolton: "The world's central banker of terrorism will very soon become a nuclear weapons state."

News Briefs

Turkey Officials Fear Attack on US Diplomatic Targets

By Jewish Press Staff

Turkish newspaper cites report that implicates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

News Briefs

Iran Warns EU That Oil Embargo Would Be "economic suicide"

By Jewish Press Staff

Iran's OPEC governor: Embargo would push Europe "into a deeper crisis."

News Briefs

US Appeals to South Korea to reduce Iran Oil Imports

By Jewish Press Staff

The asian nation receives approximately 10% of its oil from Iran.

News Briefs

Israeli official: Nuclear Iran Could Constrain Israel in Fighting Hamas, Hizbollah

By Jewish Press Staff

Senior military official: Hamas, Hizbollah would be "under the Iranian nuclear umbrella."

Israel / US

Israel, US Postpone Drill as Relations with Iran Intensify

By Malkah Fleisher

The much-publicized joint defense drill planned between Israel and the United States has been postponed in the wake of quickly escalating tensions between the two countries and Iran.

News Briefs

Iran Confirms Receipt of US Letter Regarding Strait of Hormuz

By Jewish Press Staff

US government conveyed that closing the Strait would constitute a "red line."

News Briefs

Israel, US Postpone Joint Military Drill

By Jewish Press Staff

"Austere Challenge" was to be largest-ever anti-missile joint military exercise between Israel and United States.

Israel / US

US Sends Chief of Staff to Stop Israeli Attack on Iran

By Malkah Fleisher

Israel’s intensifying readiness to launch a military strike against Iran has met with a negative US response, with top government officials being dispatched to the Jewish state in the attempt to thwart an attack.

News Briefs

Vice PM Yaalon Disappointed By Obama's Hesitation On Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Yaalon contrasted Obama's stance with that of France and Britain.

News Briefs

US Gauges Israeli Intentions Regarding Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Obama fears Israel will strike Iranian nuclear facilities.

News Briefs

Iran Warns Gulf Arabs on Boosting Oil Production

By Jewish Press Staff

Comments come in wake of Saudi Arabia's assurance to boost oil output.

News Briefs

Russia Expresses Solidarity With Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

NATO ambassador: military action against Iran "direct threat" to Russia.

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.

News Briefs

Obama, Netanyahu discuss Iran, Palestinians in Phone Call

By Jewish Press Staff

Obama reiterates "unshakable commitment to Israel’s security".

Israel / Middle East / Levant / US

Iran Update: Sanctions, Blame, and Talk

By JTA

The Obama administration added three companies to those sanctioned for dealing with Iran's energy sector, for the first time targeting a major Chinese Iran trader.

News Briefs

Iran Calls on UN to Condemn Assassination of Nuclear Scientist

By Jewish Press Staff

Iran calls the assassination a "terror attack" in letter to UN Secretary General.

News Briefs

India to Continue Importing Iranian Oil

By Jewish Press Staff

India to work with Iran to circumvent US financial measures.

News Briefs

Another US Aircraft Carrier Arrives in the Persian Gulf Region

By Jewish Press Staff

Pentagon says deployment of USS Carl Vinson is "routine".

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