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U.S. Senate Demands Support for Israeli Strike on Iran
May 27th, 2013
Daily NewsIsrael Today Staff
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Israelis were relieved to hear of last week's near-unanimous passing of a US Senate resolution demanding full American support should Israel deem it necessary to attack Iran's nuclear program.

The resolution, which was voted for by 99 out of 100 senators, read:

"If the Government of Israel is compelled to take military action in legitimate self-defense against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the United States Government should stand with Israel and provide, in accordance with United States law and the constitutional responsibility of Congress to authorize the use of military force, diplomatic, military, and economic support to the Government of Israel in its defense of its territory, people, and existence."

The resolution went on to urge the Obama Administration to take its own steps to prevent Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon so that Israel does not reach the point where it feels compelled to take action.

Last Wednesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published yet another report casting suspicion on Iran's nuclear activities, and validating concerns that the Islamic Republic seeks atomic weapons.

The report noted that Iran has of late significantly upgraded its ability to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels, and that work advances on a plutonium-producing reactor.

Meanwhile, Iranian state television reported at the weekend that the Islamic Republic has fielded a "massive" number of mobile long-range missile launchers. The move is a clear warning against any action targeting Iran's nuclear facilities. Should Israel or the US threaten Iran's nuclear program, the missiles would presumably be launched at the Jewish state and American military bases in the Middle East in an overwhelming simultaneous attack.

Tea Party Gets a Bump After Being Targeted By IRS
May 27th, 2013
Daily Newsfoxnews.com
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

The Tea Party movement is showing signs of a resurgence following the revelation that the IRS targeted groups and other politically conservative organizations for the past several years.

A recent poll shows Americans have a more favorable opinion of the less-government, anti-tax groups. And one of the biggest groups in the grassroots movement told FoxNews.com this weekend that fundraising and donations have increased since news of the IRS targeting broke earlier this month.

However, one of the biggest remaining questions is whether the Tea Party can take the momentum in the 2014 elections.

The movement started in 2009 as a reaction to the federal government’s multibillion-dollar bank bailouts in the recession and played a major role in the 2010 midterm elections by backing conservative candidates who helped Republicans take control of the House. However, critics during the 2012 election cycle repeatedly argued the movement had become less relevant.

“We’re definitely seeing a spike in both interest and contributions,” Sal Russo, co-founder of the California-based Tea Party Express, told Fox on Saturday.

Stop UN from Crushing Parental Rights
May 27th, 2013
Daily NewsWND
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

Once again the United State Senate is considering passing into law a very dangerous United Nations treaty that would threaten the tens of thousands of American families who care for disabled children. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, or CRPD treaty, which has been rejected a number of times before, is expected to come before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the first week in June. This treaty should be unacceptable to all American families, and we must work to put an end to it.

The basic threat CRPD poses is that it could shift decisions about the health care of disabled children out of the control of parents and into the hands of U.N. bureaucrats. These U.N. “experts” would seek to apply a “best interest of the child” standard, which states: “In all actions concerning children with disabilities, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.” Apparently the U.N. knows what these “best interests” should be.

By passing this treaty, the Senate would effectively make the state, and not the parents, responsible for determining what is in the “best interest” for the caring of a disabled child. And if that notion isn’t offensive enough, the treaty does not provide a clear definition of “disability,” leaving it to an unelected, unaccountable U.N. committee of “experts” to decide who is covered and who is not. How many children might fall under their interpretation of “disabled”? Nobody knows.

Let the Headlines Speak
May 27th, 2013
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

Hezbollah Should Change Its Name to “Party of Satan,” Says Senior Turkish Official
Hezbollah is facing widespread criticism in the Muslim world for its concerted effort at bolstering embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad, including the deployment to Syria of thousands of its terrorists who in the past had their guns trained primarily on Israel. This support has now prompted Turkey's deputy prime minister to suggest Hezbollah -- which in Arabic is "Party of God" -- should change its name to the "Party of Satan."  

Seoul Opposes ‘Talks for Talks’ Sake’ With North
South Korea opposes engaging North Korea in another round of “talks for talks’ sake,” its foreign minister said on Monday, after a special envoy from North Korea reportedly told Beijing that it was ready to return to the negotiating table.  

Choice of Holder to lead leak review questioned    Attorney General Eric Holder’s direct involvement in the decision to search a reporter’s e-mail records should bar him from leading a review of how the government investigates national security leaks, Republicans argued Sunday.  

China's premier Li Keqiang warns Europe over trade war
China's premier has waded into an intensifying trade dispute with Europe, warning that EU investigations into Chinese-made solar panels and telecommunications equipment would backfire by hurting European consumers.  

Syrian opposition shake-up falters ahead of peace conference
A crisis in Syria's opposition deepened on Monday when liberals were offered only token representation, undermining international efforts to lend the Islamist-dominated alliance greater support.  

Maoist attack on Indian political motorcade kills 24, hurts 33
At least 24 people were killed and 33 were injured in Saturday's audacious Maoist attack on a political motorcade in India's Chhattisgarh state, the province's home secretary told CNN Sunday.  

Syria fighting rages amid reports of chemical attacks
Heavy fighting raged on Monday around the strategic border town of Qusair and the capital Damascus, amid renewed reports of chemical weapons attacks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces.  

Analysis: Syria contagion strikes deep into Lebanon
Two rockets fired at Hezbollah-controlled southern Beirut bring Syria's escalating civil war deeper into the heart of Lebanon and closer to unrestrained regional conflict. The two-year-old conflict in Syria has already tumbled into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, exploded into deadly street fighting in its northern city of Tripoli and driven half a million refugees across the same porous border to escape the bloodshed.  

Russia still set to sell advanced missiles to Syria
Despite earlier reports to the contrary, Israeli officials on Sunday said that Russia has not struck a deal with Jerusalem that would halt the sale of advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles to Syria.

Lapid Threatens to Quit Netanyahu Government
May 27th, 2013
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Finance Minister Yair Lapid says that if his Future (Yesh Atid) party’s main platform plank calling for compulsory draft by law of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) men to the armed forces is not fully implemented, he will bring the coalition government down. The proposed bill was not adopted in cabinet Monday because the defense minister Moshe Yaalon’s objected to criminal proceedings against rabbis who fail to comply with its provisions. The coalition cabinet is less than three months old.

Israel and the Surrender of the West - (Excerpts)
May 27th, 2013
Daily NewsShelby Steele - The Wall Street Journal,
Categories: Commentary;The Nation Of Israel

The most interesting voice in all the fallout surrounding the Gaza flotilla incident is that sanctimonious and meddling voice known as "world opinion." At every turn "world opinion," like a school marm, takes offense and condemns Israel for yet another infraction of the world's moral sensibility. And this voice has achieved an international political legitimacy so that even the silliest condemnation of Israel is an opportunity for self-congratulation.

Rock bands now find moral imprimatur in canceling their summer tour stops in Israel (Elvis Costello, the Pixies, the Gorillaz, the Klaxons). A demonstrator at an anti-Israel rally in New York carries a sign depicting the skull and crossbones drawn over the word "Israel." White House correspondent Helen Thomas, in one of the ugliest incarnations of this voice, calls on Jews to move back to Poland. And of course the United Nations and other international organizations smugly pass one condemnatory resolution after another against Israel while the Obama administration either joins in or demurs with a wink.

This is something new in the world, this almost complete segregation of Israel in the community of nations. And if Helen Thomas's remarks were pathetic and ugly, didn't they also point to the end game of this isolation effort: the nullification of Israel's legitimacy as a nation? There is a chilling familiarity in all this. One of the world's oldest stories is playing out before our eyes: The Jews are being scapegoated again.

"World opinion" labors mightily to make Israel look like South Africa looked in its apartheid era—a nation beyond the moral pale. And it projects onto Israel the same sin that made apartheid South Africa so untouchable: white supremacy. Somehow "world opinion" has moved away from the old 20th century view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a complicated territorial dispute between two long-suffering peoples. Today the world puts its thumb on the scale for the Palestinians by demonizing the stronger and whiter Israel as essentially a colonial power committed to the "occupation" of a beleaguered Third World people.

This is now—figuratively in some quarters and literally in others—the moral template through which Israel is seen. It doesn't matter that much of the world may actually know better. This template has become propriety itself, a form of good manners, a political correctness. Thus it is good manners to be outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza, and it is bad manners to be outraged at Hamas's recent attack on a school because it educated girls, or at the thousands of rockets Hamas has fired into Israeli towns—or even at the fact that Hamas is armed and funded by Iran. The world wants independent investigations of Israel, not of Hamas.

Iran: Stop Flow of Syrian Rebels and Arms - or Assad Fights… Israel
May 27th, 2013
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned Monday that unless the flow of fighting strength and arms to the Syrian rebels is halted, Syrian ruler Bashar Assad will launch a second front from the Golan against… Israel.  Tehran also plans a counter-conference on the Syrian crisis in opposition to the US-Russian confab set to open in Geneva next month. DEBKAfile: Tehran, Damascus and Hizballah have turned to the tactic of dumping on Israel’s head any untoward development in Assad’s war in Syria – irrespective of Israel’s non-interference in the civil war.

Iran Fields ‘Massive’ Number of Missile Launchers
May 27th, 2013
Daily NewsYnetNews
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

An Iranian semi-official news agency reported that the country has fielded a “massive” number of new long-range missile launchers.

The Sunday report by Fars quoted Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying the new weapons enable Iranian forces to “crush the enemy” with the mass simultaneous fire of long-range surface-to-surface missiles.

The report did not specify the type of missile that would be fired, nor more details on the number of launchers deployed.

Some of Iran’s surface-to-surface missiles are estimated to have ranges of over 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles), capable of hitting its arch-foe Israel and the US bases in the region.

Vahidi did not specify who was the “enemy” and said Iran would never start a war.

From time to time Iran announces military achievements that cannot be independently verified.

Anti - Gay Marriage Protesters Clash With Riot Police in Paris
May 27th, 2013
Daily NewsThe Telegraph
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues