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By MARK LAVIE

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister pledged to free more than 150 Palestinian prisoners in a meeting Wednesday with President Mahmoud Abbas, a gesture meant to energize their sluggish peace talks.

The release could also boost the prestige of the embattled Palestinian leader, whose Fatah movement is engaged in a tense power struggle with the militant Islamic Hamas.

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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran's nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran's atomic program, even if it can't destroy it.
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Israel believes Tehran will have enriched enough uranium for a nuclear bomb by next year or 2010 at the latest. The United States has trimmed its estimate that Iran is several years or as much as a decade away from being able to field a bomb, but has not been precise about a timetable. In general U.S. officials think Iran isn't as close to a bomb as Israel claims, but are concerned that Iran is working faster than anticipated to add centrifuges, the workhorses of uranium enrichment.

"If Israeli, U.S., or European intelligence gets proof that Iran has succeeded in developing nuclear weapons technology, then Israel will respond in a manner reflecting the existential threat posed by such a weapon," said Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz, speaking at a policy forum in Washington last week.

"Israel takes (Iranian President) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statements regarding its destruction seriously. Israel cannot risk another Holocaust," Mofaz said.

The Iranian leader has in the past called for Israel's elimination, though his exact remarks have been disputed. Some translators say he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map," while others say a better translation would be "vanish from the pages of time"—implying Israel would disappear on its own rather than be destroyed.

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ISRAEL TODAY

Arab media around the Middle East this week reacted hysterically after learning that a Jewish professor at Haifa University is using verses from the Koran to teach Arab Muslim psychology students how to treat their future Muslim patients.

Professor Ofer Grosbard developed the Quranet course using specially chosen verses from the Muslim holy book to help students reinforce in their patients concepts like respect, responsibility, honesty, dignity and kindness.

Grosbard realized the need for the special course after one of his Muslim students complained that traditional Western psychology would be ineffective on Muslim patients who hold tightly to superstitious beliefs.

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JPOST

A young Palestinian woman tried to stab security personnel at a checkpoint in southern Jerusalem Wednesday morning, Army Radio reported.

The 26-year-old was overpowered, arrested, and taken for interrogation.

AP
By MIKE MELIA

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A jury of six military officers at Guantanamo Bay reached a split verdict Wednesday in the war crimes trial of a former driver for Osama bin Laden, clearing him of some charges but convicting him of others that could send him to prison for life.

The Pentagon-selected jury deliberated for about eight hours over three days before convicting Salim Hamdan of supporting terrorism. He was cleared of the conspiracy charge.

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Jerusalem Watchmen
Stan Goodenough (JPR Host - All Things Not Considered)

In October 2001, addressing the American-led international effort to appease the Arab world by pushing Israel into giving away parts of its historic land, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made an emotional appeal:

“I turn to the western democracies, first and foremost the leader of the free world, the United States. Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when the enlightened democracies of Europe decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for the sake of a temporary, convenient solution. Don’t try to appease the Arabs at our expense. We will not accept this. Israel will not be Czechoslovakia.”

His entreaty fell on outraged ears. The United States had long pursued a policy that sought to secure a quiet and stable oil-supplying Middle East at Israel’s expense. It was not about to change course. Iran’s headlong pursuit of nuclear weapons, and its threat to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, have only added impetus to America’s appeasement approach.
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THE POLICY THAT PUSHES ISRAEL TO GIVE UP LAND IN EXCHANGE FOR ISRAEL’S AND AMERICA’S ENEMIES’ PROMISES OF PEACE IS AN INDEFENSIBLY IMMORAL POLICY.

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By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Jews should be "burned" and "thrown in the oven."

Israel murdered 6 million Arabs.

Jews control American politics and dictate decisions of war and peace.

The Jewish state is leading a "Holocaust" against the Palestinian people and was responsible for 9/11.

The above are just a sampling of a large volume of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda that can be found on user-generated pages on Sen. Barack Obama's official campaign website, which allows registered members to form groups and post content in online "community" blogs.

The Obama campaign does not monitor all blog material but says it removes offending posts brought to the attention of site administrators.

A search through the community blogs on Obama's official site under such key words as "Zionists," "Israel Lobby," or "Jews" brings up thousands of entries, some containing what can easily be described as hate material.

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JPOST
By BRENDA GAZZAR AND HERB KEINON

Amid increasing speculation, some Arab media and Syrian dissidents suggested Monday that the reported assassination of a senior Syrian intelligence officer over the weekend may be a case of one man knowing too much for his own good.

As of Monday, the tightly-controlled Syrian press had yet to comment on the reported death of Brig.-Gen. Muhammad Suleiman, said to be a close adviser to Syrian President Bashar Assad, who was reportedly killed by a sniper from a yacht.

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JPOST

A top Syrian general who served as the country's liaison officer to Hizbullah has been assassinated, Arab media reported Sunday.

The London based Al-Hayat and the pan-Arab Al Bawaba both quoted Damascus sources as saying that General Mohammed Suleiman, who was an adviser to Syrian President Bashar Assad, was shot dead by a sniper in the Syrian port city of Tartous on Friday.

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HAARETZ
By Barak Ravid

The diplomatic-security cabinet will meet on Wednesday for another discussion on Hezbollah's rearmament in Lebanon, and is expected to make operative decisions on diplomatic and/or defense-related action.

The last meeting on the subject was devoted entirely to briefings by the intelligence agencies.

The government believes that Israel has not yet exhausted diplomatic channels for action against Hezbollah's arms smuggling. What is needed, one official said, is international pressure on two countries: Syria, because it is the main conduit for Hezbollah's arms, and Russia, since it is responsible for making some of the weapons now being sent to the Islamic organization.

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