Nuclear Iran Would Spur Regional Arms Race, Israel’s Barak Says – BusinessWeek

Posted by Matt in February 28th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Iran, Nuclear, Amanpour, Businessweek, Cnn, Egypt, Ehud Barak, Iran Nuclear, Israel, Israeli Defense Minister, Middle East, Nuclear Weapons, Saudi-Arabia, Turkey

Saudi Arabia would obtain nuclear weapons within a “few months” as part of a broader Middle East arms race if Iran develops nuclear weapons, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said today.
A nuclear-armed Iran would result in “an intensive nuclear wave in the Middle East,” Barak said on CNN’s “Amanpour” program. Turkey and Egypt would probably [...]

Israel’s ’super-hero’

Posted by Matt in January 19th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Israel, Al Ahram, American Hero, American Thinker, Blog, Egypt, Exploits, Holocaust, Intelligence Agency, Israel, Middle East, Mossad, Nbsp, Opponent, Reputation, Safer Place, Super Hero, Superman, Survivors Of The Holocaust, Unusual Story

Single-handedly, this intense miniature bull of a man, a son of Russian survivors of the holocaust, may be keeping the Middle East a safer place. Dagan leads the most effective and mysterious intelligence agency in the world, Israel’s Mossad, which has that reputation because of him.
This weekend, the official Egyptian newspaper, Al-Ahram, wrote an unusual story praising [...]

War fears grow on Gaza-Israel border – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Posted by Matt in January 11th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Israel, Middle East, Abc News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Border, Egypt, Fears, Gaza, Israel, Israel Gaza, Israel News, Mortars, New War, News Broadcasting, News Corporation, rockets, Violence

There are growing fears of a new war between Gaza and Israel, as violence rises markedly along the Israel-Gaza border and on Gaza’s border with Egypt.
After months of relative quiet, the number of rockets and mortars fired at southern Israeli towns has jumped sharply, although none so far has caused any injury.
War fears grow on [...]

DEBKAfile – A new Israeli border fence linked with Egypt’s iron wall tightens Gaza siege

Posted by Matt in January 10th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Israel, Middle East, Binyamin Netanyahu, Border Fence, Criminal Elements, Egypt, Egyptian Border, Egyptian Side, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Israeli Border, Israeli Prime Minister, Job Seekers, radar, Security Barrier, Sensor Instruments, terrorists

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu approved Sunday, Jan. 10, the construction of a security barrier along the Israeli-Egyptian border. The $1.5 billion structure will be fitted with radar and sensor instruments for spotting approaching trespassers, terrorists from the Gaza Strip and Sinai, criminal elements and job-seekers while they are still on the Egyptian side of [...]

How Iran’s secret A-plant was exposed | The Jewish Chronicle

Posted by Matt in December 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Nuclear, Accuracy, Allies, Arab States, Bomb, centrifuges, Clock, Egypt, Grade Quality, Iran, iranians, Jewish Chronicle, Jordan, Main Objective, Missiles, Nuclear Device, Research Efforts, solid-fuel, Technology, Threshold, Uranium Enrichment

“Iran’s technological clock has almost finished turning,” he said. “In 2008 they mastered the technology of uranium enrichment and in 2009 they accumulated enough uranium for a first bomb, though it is not enriched so far to a military-grade quality of 93 per cent. “So far they have 1,700 kilos of low-grade enriched uranium and [...]

Israel Warned To Prepare For Ballistic Missile Threats – The Philadelphia Bulletin

Posted by Matt in November 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Ballistic Missile Threats, Defense Ministry, Egypt, Intermediate Range, Israel, Israel Military, Middle East States, Missile-Defense, Philadelphia Bulletin, Political Constraints, Range Missiles, Saudi-Arabia, Turkey, Umbrella

Israel has been urged to prepare for ballistic missile threats from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
A senior defense executive warned that Israel’s military and Defense Ministry might not have been allowed to prepare its missile defense umbrella to combat possible future threats from Middle East states, which are not directly threatening Israel at this time, [...]

DEBKAfile – US, Iranian naval Red Sea buildup off Yemen. Debut for Iran’s midget subs

Posted by Matt in November 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Middle East, Conflict, Confrontation, Debkafile, Debut, Egypt, Insurgency, Iran, Midget, Rebels, Red Sea, Regime, Regional Conflagration, Sanaa, Saudi-Arabia, Subs, United States, Yemen, Yemeni

The Yemeni conflict is fast evolving from a Houthi insurgency against the Abdullah Salah regime in Sanaa to a broad regional conflagration drawing in Saudi Arabia and Egypt as major players and increasingly the United States, whose involvement is building up into a direct confrontation with the rebels’ sponsor, Iran.
DEBKAfile – US, Iranian naval Red [...]

DEBKAfile – Egypt’s abrupt shutdown of operations against tunnels revives missile flow to Gaza

Posted by Matt in November 20th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Egypt, Cairo, Clarifications, Consequences, Debkafile, Egypt, Gaza, International Accords, Jerusalem Report, MiddleEast, Military Sources, Missile, Special Forces, Stoppage, tunnels

Egypt’s special forces and engineering units suddenly shut down operation against the smuggling tunnels to Gaza without warning to Washington or Jerusalem, DEBKAfile’s military sources report. US and Israeli requests for clarifications from Cairo, which must have ordered the stoppage, were not answered. So the Obama administration signaled Egypt that if it continues to violate [...]

DEBKAfile – Captured Iranian arms ship tip of the iceberg of vast weapons sealift to Hizballah

Posted by Matt in November 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Bound, Cyprus, Damietta, Egypt, Felixtowe, Hamburg Germany, Hizballah, Intelligence Sources, Mammoth, Running, Ship Tip, Sources Report, Tip Of The Iceberg, Train, weapons

DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that a mammoth arms train has been running to Hizballah for months via Egypt. They identify the ship which offloaded the arms shipment at the Egyptian port of Damietta, where it was picked up by the Francop as the Iranian Visea, which is now on its way from the [...]

Hamas tested rocket with a longer range, Israel says — latimes.com

Posted by Matt in November 3rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Missiles, arsenal, Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Hostilities, Iran, Israel, Israeli Officials, Jewish State, Last Winter, Latimes, Launch, Mediterranean Sea, Palestinian Territory, tunnels

Israeli officials said the launch into the Mediterranean Sea was the latest sign of the rebuilding and upgrading of Hamas’ arsenal since the Jewish state’s crippling 22-day offensive in Gaza last winter, but did not appear to foreshadow an imminent renewal of hostilities. They said the rocket had been supplied by Iran, smuggled in pieces [...]