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A Digest of DEBKAfile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending August 26, 2010
- August 26, 2010
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A Digest of debkafile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending August 26, 2010
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Can Secret US-Russian Deal Extend to Containing Iran's Nuclear Aspirations?
- August 26, 2010
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Obama has embarked on a new and dangerous track for bringing Iran to the negotiating table by interchanging tough measures with benefits. It looks now like heading for failure and ending with Iran acquiring a weapon.
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He Sees Obama Blinding Himself to an Iranian-Russian Trap
- August 26, 2010
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The phone call between Saudi King Abdullah and President Barack Obama ended in a falling-out on almost all US Middle East policies. Since then they are not talking.
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Obama weighs offer of US nuclear umbrella if Israel scraps Iran strike
- August 26, 2010
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debkafile reports Israel is believed to have revived its military option against Iran – especially since Iran activated its first nuclear reactor at Bushehr on Aug. 21, thereby placing the Obama administration under enormous pressure. On top of the dire predictions of catastrophe planted on various US op-ed pages, Obama this week sent two big guns to Jerusalem to try and check an Israel attack. A guaranteed US nuclear umbrella, nuclear attack submarines for the IDF and NATO membership may be on offer.
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Clinton upholds deal with Israel – Obama reneges
- August 25, 2010
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debkafile reports Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is misleading his ministers by presenting the direct talks opening with the Palestinians on Sept. 2 as a diplomatic victory. He has omitted to disclose that the Obama administration has reneged on the secret deals for paving the way to the talks. One part was US non-reaction to the Bushehr reactor start-up, another to refrain from twisting Israel's arms in negotiations with the Palestinians.The White House is standing by neither.
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Hamas' large-scale terror plot sets off high Israel, Palestinian alerts
- August 25, 2010
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The Hamas Damascus-based political leader Khaled Meshaal Tuesday, Aug. 24 was belligerent enough to confirm the information reaching Israel and the Palestinian Authority intelligence that the extremist Palestinian group is set for large-scale terror attacks against Israeli and Palestinian West Bank targets to torpedo Israel-Palestinian talks in Washington. If Hamas' West Bank networks are thwarted by Israeli and Palestinian security alerts, it is ready to strike from Gaza, Sinai or Lebanon.
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Iran Guards chief secretly oversees war plans – in Damascus
- August 24, 2010
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Iranian Revolutionary Guards chief Gen. Mohamed Ali Jafari, who rarely leaves his country, paid a secret visit to Damascus a few hours before Tehran launched the Bushehr nuclear reactor Saturday, Aug. 21. With him were top Al Qods Brigades commanders in Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territories. They conferred with Bashar Assad on roles for Syria and Hizballah in an Iranian reprisal for a US or Israel attack – or a "pre-emptive strike" against Israel.
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Outside threats prompt snap choice of new Israeli army chief
- August 24, 2010
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The snap nomination of OC Southern Command Maj. Gen, Yoav Galant as Israel's 20th chief of staff was necessary – not just to dispel the climate of intrigue among competing generals, but to pull the high command together in view of the war preparations gathering momentum in Tehran, Damascus, Beirut - and even in al Qaeda in Yemen.
Sunday, Iran unveiled a 1,000-kilometer drone armed with four cruise missiles. The Syrian army is on the ready. -
Iran capitalizes on Obama's silence on Bushehr
- August 24, 2010
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How did US President Barack Obama come to misjudge the cost of assenting to the start-up of Iran's first nuclear reactor? In its coming issue out Friday, DEBKA-Net-Weekly will disclose how Iran swiftly cashed this blank check in terms of boosting its nuclear bomb program and regional standing whereas Binyamin Netanyahu was left watching his policies vis-à-vis Iran and the Arab go into the red.
Don't miss our exclusive revelations on this epic turning point.
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Secret US-Russian sanctions vs Bushehr deal tied Israel's hands
- August 21, 2010
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The extraordinary meekness with which the US and Israel greeted Russia's start-up of Iran's first nuclear reactor is accounted for, debkafile reports, by a secret Washington-Moscow deal whereby Russia voted with the US for UN sanctions against Iran in return for which Washington and Jerusalem tacitly assented to the activation of the Iranian reactor. Will Israel's acquiescence extend to deals with the Palestinians?