Rockets Rain on Israel
November 11, 2012 15:05 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
• According to the Times of London, the IDF brass have concluded that “a conventional assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities might fail after evidence emerged that Tehran has hidden far more of its uranium enrichment capacity beneath a mountain than previously suspected.”
Western defence experts say much of Iran’s Fordow enrichment site near the city of Qom is now deep underground in a “zone of immunity” safe from conventional airstrikes.
They claim this narrows Israel’s response to two options: the deployment of special forces in a ground attack, or the use of ballistic missiles carrying small tactical nuclear warheads.
The Times article is behind a paywall, but the Jerusalem Post elaborates.
Arab Spring Winter
• Jerusalem Post: The IDF fired warning shots into Syria after more shells landed in the Golan. In light of Syria’s civil war spilling over to the Golan Heights, the army changed its rules of engagement along the border.
• Humanitarian aid organizations raised alarm bells as 11,000 refugees fled Syria on Friday alone. The LA Times writes:
The Friday deluge is more than triple the usual numbers of 2,000 to 3,000 people escaping daily, agency spokeswoman Sybella Wilkes said . . .
As winter draws nearer, the refugee agency and other aid organizations are alarmed to have received only 35% of the money needed to help Syrian refugees scattered across the region. The total budget they had planned comes to nearly $488 million.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• For the latest assessments of he second-term Obama administration’s impact on the Mideast, see Ambassador Michael Oren, Dore Gold, Tom Friedman, and David Ignatius. And Christiane Amanpour interviewed with Danny Ayalon at CNN.
• Worth reading: Israeli-Turkish Relations on Trial
Turkish anger with Israel may not have run its course, but it does seem to have lost its edge. An important explanation is that the whole Middle East has been transformed since the Mavi Marmara incident. Back in the spring of 2010, the conventional wisdom here was that Israel would pay the greater price for offending so important an ally. In the intervening two and a half years, Turkey, too, has been losing friends.
(Image of Gilmore via Wikimedia Commons, jet via YouTube/bambi101000)
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martin
3:50 pm
Nov 11, 2012
Too bad that Israel does not response to Gazas criminal acts of war by shelling Israel in the same manner as it did against Syria.
Israel should shell Gaza back in the same indiscriminate but equal manner to ensure proportionate response. That will keep the UN, EU and all other Jew/Israel hating people and orgagnisations quiet. I think not, but then so long as Israel just allows it with meaningless threats it will continue. I’m even wondering these days, if and when a shell lands on a knesset members home near Tel Aviv whether the response will be just another threat?
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Israel and the Palestinians | TWO METER ELEVEN
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American Israeli
1:21 pm
Nov 12, 2012
How ridiculous! This story about the PA bid to the UN is just more evidence that you can’t negotiate with Muslims. Now they say they’ll withdraw the UN bid if Israel gives them what they want. The UN should just say no. Why should we give them this land in the 1st place? All we need for peace is for the terrorists to quit terror. It’s Jordan that should give them citizenship – they already have an Arab Muslim state there. Oh, that’s right- the king is alawhite & hates the “palestinian” non people Arabs. So why does this become Israel’s problem? Jordan was provided for the Palestinian Arabs while Israel, a much smaller area, was provided to the Jews. This whole problem’s due to anti-semitism.
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M. Edward Triefler
5:17 pm
Nov 12, 2012
Ireland’s Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore, has suggested that when Ireland assumes the 6-month Presidency of the EU on January 1, 2013, it should push for a European boycott of Israeli goods. This one-sided view by Ireland and a number of EU Countries should be met with a boycott of Irish goods by the Jews of the US and Europe. It is time for the Jew’s of the World to stand up to the anti-Semitic Europeans’ who, to this day, regularly demonstrate their disdain for the Jewish People. The Second WW may be long over, but the hatred and the jealousy of the Jews continues to smolder. The World refuses to acknowledge the historical right of the Jewish People, the right to have a Homeland. Why does a tinny speck of sand, whose natural resources are mostly found in the People, not the ground, a People whose five thousand years of history, is and always will be Rightfully theirs and thus be acknowledged?
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