Israel preparing for nuclear Iran: report
Israel is preparing for Iran to become a nuclear power and has accepted it may happen within a year, the London Times reported on Monday citing an Israeli security report.
Israel is preparing for Iran to become a nuclear power and has accepted it may happen within a year, the London Times reported on Monday citing an Israeli security report.
There are times, many times when I’m reading an Ha’aretz article about something — whatever — and I’m just stumped about what they’re trying to tell me, the reader. Consider the piece in last weekend’s Haaretz Magazine, “Creative, But is it Edible?”, about how — I think — local chefs go to incredible lengths to [...]

International Middle East Media CenterTimes Photographer Complains of Israeli Soldiers’ ‘Cruelty’ at Border Crossing
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Updated | 10:39 pm Israel’s Defense Ministry apologized on Monday for forcing a pregnant New York Times photographer to remove her clothes and submit to a physical search after she had already passed through an X-ray machine three …
Israel apologizes over strip search of pregnant New York Times photographerWashington Post
Israel apologises to NYT journalistNews24
Israel Apologizes To Pregnant US Reporter Strip-Searched By SoldiersInternational Middle East Media Center
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Not only has Iran managed to mount nuclear warheads on its Shahab ballistic missiles, they have been successfully tested four times. The IAEA report was only updated to the end of 2009, thereby missing this critical Iranian advance.
It has been a long and painfully slow process but it seems the bleeding hearts in the Obama administration might, possibly be getting a clue or two. Guess getting b-slapped a couple half dozen times with all the various good intentions, sweet talk, concessions, bending over so far backwards your head went through the More >
Anti-Israel DouchebloggerTM Richard Silverstein is the subject of a new Seattle Times report.

New York Times (blog)Quinn Backs Israel at Ceremony for Kidnapped Soldier
New York Times (blog)
Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, told a group of Jewish leaders on Wednesday that the Council supported Israel’s right to defend itself and to respond to attacks. Saying that she spoke ‘
What kind of Zionist criticizes Israel in these troubled times? The kind that Israel needs.
‘Dede,’ ‘Wonky’ are 2 of TA’s growing number of street artists – at times seen as a scourge, at times almost embraced by authorities.
A battle is raging within the IDF over the force’
Percentage of the population who live below the poverty line:
West Bank (under PA control) 16%
Washington, D.C. 18.9%.
Greece 20%.
Israel 24%.
They get more than 3 times the amount of aid as the next most funded ‘needy’ group (Afghanistan) and 13 times the amount of aid that goes to Sudan –a whopping 88 times the amount Bangladeshis get. More >
As it turns out, the evidence available about women in the Greco-Roman Diaspora is distinctive and, at times, quite difficult to interpret.
Dr. Wayne Stiles explains why even though he has been to Tel Beit Shean a number of times, he always looks forward to returning.
The news this week about Israel is so bleak and twisted that it seems only right to look back at simpler times. Way back before so-called Facebook revolutions could be beamed instantly over 24-hour new stations to a jaded world. Times when Israel had only one television station and each new public service announcement broadcast [...]
Some responses to Mahmoud Abbas’ NY Times op-ed
JNF is raising the funds to build an amphitheater in Beersheba; event will be broadcast live in Times Square, feature over 100 performers.
The fall in sales to the US giant led a loss four times greater than in the corresponding quarter.
A recent exhibition in Jerusalem explores the ways in which even secular Israelis are turning to amulets, astrology, and the like- especially in times of crisis.

GlobeSt.comBlackstone to Pay $160 Million for Top Floors of Former NY Times Building
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Africa Israel USA, billionaire Lev Leviev’s US real estate unit, sold the top floors of the former New York Times building in midtown Manhattan to Blackstone Group LP (BX) for $160 million. …
Blackstone buys floors of old NY Times building: reportReuters
Investment Firm Buys Most of the Former Times BuildingNew York Times
Blackstone pays $160M for Africa Israel Times Square condoThe Real Deal New York (blog)
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