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FEBRUARY 2013 ISRAEL NEWS REVIEW |
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2/25/2013 • Jerusalem |
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Click here for this month's Israel news and analysis report, focusing on attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new coalition government…a task he is finding quite daunting. I also report on a recent surge of violence in the disputed territories connected to a continuing hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, the escalating warfare in Syria and developments in Iran. |
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JANUARY NEWS REVIEW |
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1/29/2013 • Jerusalem |
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This month’s Israel news report naturally focuses on the country’s national elections held last week, which returned Benjamin Netanyahu to power, but with a weaker base than he had during his last term in office. I detail who the main winners and losers were in the electoral contest, and look at the various coalition possibilities as the Prime Minister stitches together a viable government with the support of at least half of the Knesset members. I’m looking forward to returning to Israel next month after a time with family and friends in the United States, plus fulfilling several speaking engagements. |
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DECEMBER NEWS REVIEW |
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1/3/2013 • Jerusalem |
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Click here for news about the upcoming Israeli national elections, the 25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, the fighting in Syria and other recent news items from Israel and the Middle East. |
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NOVEMBER NEWS REVIEW |
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11/27/2012 • Jerusalem |
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This month's Israel news review focuses on the short, but intense conflict that erupted mid month between the radical Palestinian Hamas movement and Israeli Defense Forces. The eight-day battle is summed up in my report, along with some analysis of the fighting and how it might affect the explosive Middle East in the coming months. |
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October News Review |
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10/22/2012 • Jerusalem |
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It has been another dramatic month of important news in the increasingly turbulent Middle East, as detailed in this month's Israel news and analysis report. National elections have been advanced to next January in Israel. The large Muslim nation of Turkey has been drawn further into the mushrooming Syrian civil war, where Assad regime forces are once again on the offensive with the help of Iranian and Lebanese Shiite fighters. The radical Shiite Lebanese Hizbullah militia shocked many Israelis by penetrating their sovereign airspace with an Iranian-built unmanned drone. Later in the month, tensions flared in Lebanon after a senior intelligence officer was killed in a car bombing. Meanwhile Iran has reportedly completed the transfer of its uranium enrichment centrifuges to a hardened underground bunker southwest of Tehran. Details of these important stories and more are contained in this month's report. |
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SEPTEMBER NEWS REVIEW |
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9/25/2012 • Jerusalem |
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Although I am currently in the United States, where I have more planned public meetings scheduled in late October and December, I have been following the dramatic developments in Israel and the entire Middle East very closely, receiving much important input from friends and contacts I have established over the years living and working in Israel. My report for September, posted below, focuses on the widespread anti-American and anti-Israel Muslim demonstrations now taking place all over the world. I also examine the latest developments in the nuclear struggle going on between Israel and Iran, including the holding of a major international naval exercise during the month in the strategic Gulf waters located between Iran and several Arab states. The Israeli military held a snap, unannounced war drill near the Golan Heights border with Syria, where internal warfare continued during the month. |
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AUGUST NEWS REVIEW |
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8/30/2012 • Jerusalem |
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Talk of a major regional war increased during the month as preparations for a new conflict intensified in Israel. Iranian leaders ratcheted up their anti-Israel verbal blasts, declaring once again that the Jewish State will soon be destroyed. This came as fighting escalated in neighboring Syria as more refugees poured into Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, where armed clashes broke out once again between opponents and supporters of the embattled Assad regime. Another terror attack along Israel’s southern border with Egypt took place in August, followed by increased Egyptian military activity in the Sinai Peninsula. All of the details of these stories and more are in this month’s Israel news and analysis report. |
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JULY 2012 NEWS UPDATE |
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7/23/2012 • Jerusalem |
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Last Wednesday was not only the hottest day in the holy city in many years (nearly 44 C, which is over 110 F), but also an extremely hot day for the quaking region. The morning began with a massive explosion in Damascus that left several senior government and military leaders dead and wounded. Later that afternoon, another explosion in more distant Bulgaria left five Israeli tourists dead and over thirty wounded. This month’s Israel news and analysis report naturally focuses on both of those shattering attacks and their grave implications for the Middle East and the entire world. |
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JUNE 2012 NEWS REVIEW |
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6/25/2012 • Jerusalem |
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Turmoil continues to intensify in the rattled Middle East, where Palestinians launched over 150 rockets and mortar shells into Israel in June as warfare escalated in Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood won the presidential election in Egypt. The prospect that Israel could get drawn into the fighting in Syria grew as the Iranian-backed Hizbullah militia reportedly prepared to transfer SCUD missiles into Lebanon—an action Israel will probably attempt to interdict. As one friend of mine put it, “birth pangs are turning into hard labor |
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WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST |
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6/12/2012 • Jerusalem |
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Every so often I write about the possible prophetic implications of current events in the Middle East. After receiving a number of recent emails concerning the growing conflict in Syria, the ascent of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the ongoing nuclear development program in Iran, I have written a fresh article touching on these important issues, especially the crisis in Syria and how it might affect Israel and the larger Middle East. |
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