Archive for May, 2012
The suprising source of Israel's edible exports
Abigail Klein Leichman - Israel 21, May 29th, 2012
Peppers growing in the Arava. (Photo by Eyal Izhar)
How many peppers can Peter Piper pick? Well, if the protagonist in the old tongue twister were picking them in Israel’s Arava Desert, the surprising answer is about 150,000 tons.
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When Israel had a champion at the UN
Peter Collier - The Jerusalem Post, May 29th, 2012Jeane Kirkpatrick experienced an epiphany shortly after Ronald Reagan appointed her America’s permanent representative at the UN in 1981 when Israel’s ambassador Yehuda Blum came to her office for his first official visit.
She had been appalled during the previous four years by what she regarded as the Carter administration’s contemptuous attitude toward the Jewish state, and particularly by the way that preceding UN ambassadors Andrew Young and Donald McHenry had, respectively, criticized the Jewish state as “stubborn and intransigent” (and met secretly with the PLO representative), and voted for Resolution 465 condemning Israel’s occupation of “Arab territories including Jerusalem.
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Satellite Images Confirm Iranian Cover Up
Gabe Kahn - Arutz-7, May 31st, 2012
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano (Reuters)
Iran has razed two buildings near a suspected nuclear-trigger test site inside of its sprawling Parchin military complex.
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Israel says Hamas as strong as Hezbollah
Associated Free Press - Yahoo!News, May 30th, 2012
Israel will consider using military action to intercept the transfer of advanced weaponry or chemical weapons from Syria to a terrorist organization like Hezbollah, OC Northern Command Maj.
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