[Iran claims successful test of homemade S-300 missile] Iran recently announced that it has tested a “local” version of the S-300 surface-to-air missile system whose delivery Russia nixed back in September. “We have developed the system by upgrading systems like S-200 and we have tested it successfully using all our potential and experience in the […]
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As Iran, Hizballah weigh war in months, Israel plans for next decade On October 28, a Hizballah war game demonstrated the ability of its special forces to overrun Lebanon in two hours. It took Israel 19 days to respond: Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Gaby Ashkenazi finally confirmed on November 15 that the Shiite terrorists […]
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Netanyahu seeks support for U.S. plan to halt settlement construction JERUSALEM — Despite seemingly premature congratulations from President Barack Obama, Israel’s prime minister was scrambling Monday to secure enough Cabinet votes to pass a US proposal to halt West Bank settlement construction for 90 days, aimed at restarting peace talks with the Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu […]
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Obama to present U.S. Israel-Palestinian border map within 3 months DEBKAfile‘s Washington sources disclose that the three-month settlement construction freeze-for-incentives deal Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu discussed with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [on] Friday, November 12, also included a commitment to hold Israel-Palestinian negotiations on the two states’ final borders during that period. Assuming […]
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Iran, Hizballah upgrade war preparations, new Israel front line commander Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah has quietly placed Hashim Safi al-Din, his cousin and heir apparent, in command of southern Lebanon and its border with Israel, further upgrading Iran-backed preparations for an armed clash, DEBKAfile‘s exclusive military sources report . . . Our intelligence sources say this […]
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Where’s the Gulf oil? … In the food web, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say they have for the first time tracked how certain non-toxic elements of oil from the BP spill quickly became dinner for plankton, entering the food web in the Gulf of Mexico. The new study sheds light on two key […]
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CMN – [Editor’s Note: The US continues to attempt to forge a treaty between the Palestinians and Israel in an effort to defuse potential Palestinian participation in the inevitable clash with Iran – and Syria. These conflicts are “inevitable” because the Scriptures predict the destruction of Damascus and Iran (Persia in the Gog-Magog accounts). It’s […]
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U.S. deploys second air carrier in Persian Gulf with 60 warplanes The United States has posted a second aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, in the Persian Gulf and northern Arabian Sea. The announcement came from the Pentagon Tuesday, October 19, two days after the vessel put into port at Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, […]
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