February 2012
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Iran denies UN access to key nuclear site →
“The International Atomic Energy Agency has said that its team visiting Iran was denied access to a military site where the UN watchdog suspects activities related to the country’s nuclear programme could be taking place. The head of the IAEA said on Wednesday that Iran had not accepted a request for its inspectors to visit the Parchin facility, a weapons development complex south of...
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Arab Spring not pro-democratic movement, studies... →
“The South Asian survey revealed widespread support for democracy, but also revealed some fractures in the depth of that support. For example, 62 per cent of those surveyed said they preferred democracy to any other form of government, while only ten per cent clearly preferred dictatorship in certain circumstances. However, 28 per cent of respondents - quite a significant proportion - said...
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Syrian shelling of Homs claims 80, including 2... →
“A French photojournalist and an American working for a British newspaper were killed Wednesday by Syrian government shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs, France’s government said. The U.N. estimates that 5,400 people have been killed in repression by the regime of President Bashar Assad against a popular uprising that began 11 months ago. Syrian activists, however, put the death...
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Azerbaijan arrests Hezbollah agents →
“A month after a terror attack against Israelis was foiled in Azerbaijan, local authorities have arrested a terrorist cell whose members belonged to the Hizbullah terror group and held Iranian passports.”
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French Jews side with Sarkozy →
It is common knowledge in America that the Jewish vote is the liberal Democratic vote. However in France, the opposite is true. This article provides an interesting insight into the rationale and psyche of the French Jewish voter.
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Iran may attack West preemptively →
“Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces was quoted by a semi-official news agency as saying Tuesday.”
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Israeli Atty General refuses to prosecute MK Zoabi... →
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Israel: Safest Investments for Riskless Returns →
“Israel, under threat of war from its neighbors since being founded in 1948, produced better risk- adjusted returns than all other developed stock markets in the past decade as the technology-driven economy attracted global investors. The ‘Bloomberg Riskless Return Rating’ shows the Tel Aviv TA-25 Index (TA-25) returned 7.6 percent in the 10 years ended Feb. 17, after adjusting...
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Egypt threatens US: We will review our treaty with... →
The US has recently threatened Egypt with cutting off the billions of dollars of aid that goes to the Arab country each year because of the Americans that are being held in the country. In response, the majority party of Islamists have threatened to end the peace treaty with Israel should US aid be cut.
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Iran disrupts Internet ahead of elections →
“Iranians faced a second and more extensive disruption of Internet access on Monday, just a week after email and social networking sites were blocked, raising concerns about state censorship ahead of parliamentary elections.”
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Iranians cancel football match in Turkey because... →
“Partizan Belgrade coach Avram Grant says Iranian soccer club Sepahan has canceled its friendly game in Turkey because he is an Israeli.”
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Former Netanyahu Chief of Staff Says Israeli... →
talkstraight:
The former chief of staff to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities is “imminent.”
Naftali Bennett appeared on Fox News’ “Huckabee” and painted a dire picture of a world with a nuclear Iran, saying Israel will not hesitate to take action if necessary — and that time is of the essence.
“We’re at the very last...
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Iran places embargoes on oil to UK, France firms →
“Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state’s lifeblood, oil.”
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Syrian Rebels Flying Black Al-Qaeda Flag… →
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A piece of footage in an Al-Jazeera English segment showing Free Syrian Army fighters showed a black-and-white flag similar (but not the same) as that used by the Islamic State of Iraq and Somalia’s Al-Shabab. The footage also shows a banner reading, “Al-Bara’ bin Malik Brigade,” named after a prominent Companion of the Prophet Muhammad who is renowned for his bravery and...
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Turkey defiant with NATO intel →
“Turkey will never allow any third country, particularly Israel, to use intelligence obtained by a NATO radar system, its foreign minister said on Friday.”
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US believes Iran sanctions will fail, military... →
“Officials in key parts of the Obama administration are increasingly convinced that sanctions will not deter Tehran from pursuing its nuclear programme, and believe that the US will be left with no option but to launch an attack on Iran or watch Israel do so.”
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Venezuela ships fuel to Syria →
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Hamas breaks up anti-Assad rally in Gaza →
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Thailand confirms Iranians involved in terrorist... →
“Two terrorist explosions rocked Bangkok Tuesday and several Iranians were involved and one was wounded. The blast was not near the Israeli embassy.”
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Obama proposes $800m in aid for Arab Spring →
“In his annual budget message to Congress, President Barack Obama asked that military aid to Egypt be kept at the level of recent years — $1.3 billion — despite a crisis triggered by an Egyptian probe targeting American democracy activists. Most of the economic aid for the Arab Spring countries — $770 million — would go to establish a new ‘Middle East and North...
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Russian news spreads pro-Assad lies →
Pravda may be gone but Russia still has the RT English-language network…
“While it’s unsurprising that the network’s coverage of the Syrian uprising would track closely with positions staked out by the Kremlin — for example, when Russia vetoed the U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the regime, an RT correspondent stressed that the resolution ‘could have sent an...
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Blast outside Israeli Embassy in New Delhi →
“The wife of an Israeli diplomat was moderately wounded on Monday when a car bomb exploded outside of Israel’s embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi, Haaretz has learned. The incident came one day after the fourth anniversary of the assassination of slain Hezbollah’s deputy leader Imad Mughniyah.”
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Hamas moves HQ to Qatar →
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Riots in Lebanon in solidarity with Syrian... →
“At least two people have been killed in the Lebanese city of Tripoli in clashes between supporters and opponents of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, security officials say.”
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Syrian rebels assassinate army general →
“Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus Saturday in the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime began in March, the country’s state-run news agency said. The attack could be a sign that armed members of the opposition, who have carried out attacks on the military elsewhere in the...
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A-jad boasts new nuclear development at 33rd... →
” Iran will soon unveil ‘big new’ nuclear achievements, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday while reiterating Tehran’s readiness to revive talks with the West over the country’s controversial nuclear program. Ahmadinejad spoke at a rally in Tehran as tens of thousands of Iranians marked the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the...
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CNN in Israel fires all Jewish reporters →
“We learned today that the Israeli branch of CNN, located in Jerusalem, is downsizing to cope with reduced income from less advertising. What goes beyond good management is that CNN has fired four Israeli Jewish journalists (out of a crew of 8), and has retained only Arab journalists.”