Shimshon 9

From DEBKAfile:

A Dutch AIVD Secret Service ultra-secret operation underway in Iran in recent years has been halted and an agent recalled in view of “impending US plans to attack Iran,” within weeks, writes Joost de Haas in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. According to intelligence sources in the Netherlands, the US [or Israel] would decide within weeks to attack nuclear plants with unmanned aircraft to avoid endangering air crews. The Israeli air force would be held back to defend Israel against retaliation.

Rafah crossing to remain open for two days, allowing thousands of Egyptian citizens stuck in Gaza to return home. Palestinians: Reopening crossing goodwill gesture ahead of Ramadan

“The unbridled greediness of the American and Zionist leadership is pushing the world to the edge of the cliff, should such a (conflict) erupt, the phony and artificial regimes will be annihilated.”(Ynews)

“In the event of an attack against Iran, the Israelis know that with the capabilities that the Islamic world and the Shiite world have in the region, they will suffer deadly strikes,”

The tone is getting rougher. This doesn’t look like a diplomatic solution is possible anymore. Iran, Hezbollah & Syria are arming themself up to the teeth in what appears to get ready to attack Israel.

The good thing is that Israel won’t alow a nuclear Iran.

An Israeli company has managed to sell a locally made snow machine to Switzerland, a country whose middle names are winter and ski. (YNet)

Next will be Israel selling water to England…

Update:

Palestinians in Gaza claim that the IDF is shooting at Palestinian boats sailing away from the Gaza coast. The boats want to greet two boats coming from Cyprus filled with almost 50 peace activists. (YNet)

The foreign ministry indicated that Israel is preparing for a confrontation with two boats of activists that are sailing towards Gaza in an attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade of the region.  The group set sail from Cyprus Friday afternoon and are expected to arrive Saturday afternoon.

Meanwhile Israel Army Radio reports that the organizers of group lost contact with the boat. I am really wondering what happened…

Al Watan Daily is reporting that:

Iran plans to send a manned rocket into space in the next 10 years, state television reported on Thursday, just days after the Islamic Republic announced it had put a dummy satellite into orbit.

Iran is doing everything to provoke the west. They want to get nuclear, they want to destroy Israel, they want Satellites and they want manned space trips. It’s about time to stop those guys.

Lebanese citizens on Thursday reported receiving recorded phone messages asking for information about missing Israeli soldiers. The message asks people to view an Israeli Web site or call a phone number in the United Kingdom if they have any information on the whereabouts of the missing troops. The Web site, www.10million.org, belongs to a foundation set up by the Israeli government, according to the Associated Press. The site pictures five missing Israeli soldiers, including Ron Arad, whose plane was shot down over Lebanon in 1986. The Web site, in English, Arabic and Farsi, offers a $10 million reward for information on any of the missing troops.

One editor for The Daily Star and three Associated Press staffers were among those who received the calls on their mobile telephones Thursday. A foundation spokeswoman refused to say if it was behind the calls.
Last month, similar messages in Lebanon criticized Hizbullah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and prompted Lebanese outrage over what some officials said was the Jewish state’s tampering with Lebanon’s telecommunications system. Telecommunications Minister Jebran Bassil said last month that he wrote a letter of protest to United Nations chief Ban Ki Moon protesting over the messages, calling them a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the summer 2006 war with Israel.
Israel’s Defense Ministry declined to comment on those claims. But an Israeli official told AFP that Israel uses “all sorts of methods to weaken Hizbullah” and that it was engaged in “intelligence and electronic warfare” against the group.
Many Lebanese had received similar phone messages urging them not to support Hizbullah during the course of the 2006 war, a conflict which killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today said:

“The era of the Zionists has come to its end, and I recommend that the leaders of Europe and the U.S. not submit to the Zionists. If they help them, they will be harmed. Also among the leaders of Europe and the U.S. there is serious doubt regarding the existence of Zionism, and soon we will witness the disappearance of this corrupt germ from the region.”

Ahmadinejad made the remarks at the sixth World Mosque Week conference in Tehran.

He said that Zionism was the most complex political and social plot ever.

He noted that writers in the West accept that supporting the Holocaust is tantamount to backing the identity of the Zionists, and added that the Zionists who administer affairs are not numerous but have adopted a very complicated method in the world. He said that Zionists are the most isolated group in the world but through media propaganda they try to indicate that it is others that are isolated.

He stated that the Zionists had lost their reason for existence because they dreamed of seizing the region from the Nile to the Euphrates but had instead been forced to build a wall around themselves.

Source: IRNA, Iran, August 20, 2008

Panel poll of Israelis (including Israeli Arabs) carried out for the Knesset Channel (99) as reported in the 22 August edition of Makor Rishon

Was the disengagement from the Gaza Strip a success or failure? Failure 67% Partial success 25% Complete success 4%

Do you support an additional disengagement in Judea and Samaria? Support 29% Oppose 66%

Four Jordanian prisoners handed over by Israel last year to complete their life sentences in the kingdom were released from a jail north of the capital Amman on Wednesday.

The four, who were convicted of killing two Israeli soldiers in November 1990 four years before Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, received a hero’s welcome from relatives as they walked out of Qafqafa prison carrying Jordanian flags.

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Absolutely unbelievable:

“How long did it take the Government to hold a discussion of the release of 200 terrorists, including two who caused the murder of Israelis? No more than three minutes All this without having an depth discussion and without hearing the positions of the security arms.

The discussion took place at the start of the Government meeting, and those who arrived late. did not participate in the vote. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who intended to explain at the meeting why she agreed to the move, was not given the floor on the matter and her statement on the matter was delivered by her spokesperson to the press. Moreover, the Shabbak and IDF confirm that they were not even approached on the matter and instead were advised of the matter as a finalized fact.” (Israel Hayom)

This I found on IsraeliGirl, I usually do not watch CNN because of it’s usually biased reports, but this video gives an interesting and rare glimpse into the workings of a terrorist group:

This Video also shows that Hamas is not exactly observing the Truce with Israel.

In a story released by Maan News today, they claim that the Israeli army sprays toilet water at (peaceful) Bil’in protesters.

Soldiers soon began firing tear gas and then pulled out hoses and sprayed water at the group. Several protesters were immediately sick after they were sprayed with the water.

How do they know it’s toilet water since like they say themself that:

The Bil’in popular committee against the wall plans to have samples of the water taken in for analysis.

That means they are just guessing what kind of water this is. It wasn’t even tested yet. To me it just sounds like an other blood libel that can be added to all those other fabricated stories.

Arutz 7 reports that:

The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in Gaza warned Thursday that the temporary ceasefire may end in three weeks, when the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins. The month is frequently marked by an increase in terrorism.

This is what a PRC spokesman is saying:

“The Zionist occupation has not yet agreed to the demand to release our prisoners, so our fighters are preparing for the next round in which we will try to abduct more Israeli soldiers to swap them for our hero prisoners”

Only talks? No, see what an Islamic Jihad leader has to say:

Al-Quds Brigades is currently preparing the combatants and stabilize their military and field, development of internal communications among themselves, to carry out military operations successfully.

“There is a large number of martyrs and martyrs who are waiting for the zero hour.”

Looks like we are soon getting into an other round of hostilities. Scary is that not Israel is determining the path of action, but the enemy!

Meanwhile Maan News is reporting that Israel has agreed to support the efforts of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the United States aimed at strengthening Palestinian security forces. Meaning more weapons to the Palestinians!