1. Efforts underway for high level Israel, PA meet, The Jerusalem Post, Khaled Abu Toameh
2. 'Slaughter The Jews': Israel, Anti-Semitism, And International Law (First of Three Parts), The Jewish Press, Louis Rene Beres
3. Parallel Betrayals: Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring, FrontPageMagazine.com, Raymond Ibrahim
4. Israeli Army Official: Syria's Advanced Weaponry could be Transferred to Hizbullah, Naharnet Newsdesk,
5. Steering Committee to Evaluate the Technological Feasibility of Building Artificial Islands, IMRA, Prime Minister's Media Adviser

PA President Abbas with PM Netanyahu (Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

Efforts are under way to arrange a meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, PLO Secretary- General Yasser Abed Rabbo declared Thursday.

Abed Rabbo said that Israel was not taking any political or practical measures to pave the way for a meeting between Abbas and Netanyahu.

He added that Israel would first have to meet some of the Palestinians’ condition before a summit between the two men could take place, although he did not specify which conditions Israel would have to meet for such an outcome to occur....

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Over the past several months President Obama has generally focused his attention away from the Middle East “peace process.” It is fair to ask, therefore, whether his core preferences for a settlement – carving a Palestinian state out of the still-living body of Israel and “a world free of nuclear weapons” (a world in which Israel would no longer be able to deter certain existential attacks) – still remain a matter of reasonable concern.

From the start, the Obama plan for a road map to peace in the Middle East has revealed that in matters concerning Israeli rights under international law, there is essentially nothing new on the horizon. Fundamental Israeli rights, including even the right of Jews to live and construct homes anywhere in the land of Israel, are still being subordinated to the presumed rights of all others. This includes the annihilatory claims of a wrongly and an imprudently legitimized Palestinian Authority.

To be fair, Obama is not the originator of our misconceived U.S. foreign policy toward Israel. Oddly enough, already back in the 1990s Palestinian terrorist militias were being trained by the CIA in “counter terror tactics.” A key component of the Obama administration’s Palestinian policy had been the training of “moderate” Fatah-led Palestinian security forces. U.S. Lt. General Keith Dayton had supervised this self-defeating training in neighboring Jordan, an indefensible process of assisting sworn terrorist enemies of Israel and the United States....

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Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world.

Consider the issue of the hijab, the female "veil"—the proliferation of which, according to one former Islamist and associate of al-Qaeda's Ayman Zawahiri, is associated with a Muslim society's downward spiral into oppression and terror.

Prior to Egypt's presidential elections, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Muhammad Morsi, assured the nation's liberals and secularists that, as president, he would certainly not enforce the hijab: "Many people are speaking nonsense, saying that I will impose the hijab against the will of the people; no one is going to force anyone to wear a specific uniform."

These are famous words, spoken almost verbatim some 33 years earlier, in Iran, at the time of the 1979 revolution. In fact, during the early days of the revolution, Ayatollah Mahmud Taleghani, a popular mullah, to reassure the secularists who participated in the overthrow of the Shah that an Islamic government would certainly not interfere with their freedoms, declared in the March 11, 1979 edition of Iran's newspaper, Ettela'at, that "The hijab will not be a matter of coercion."

The rest is history. Within months of the founding of the Islamic Republic, the 1967 Family Protection Law was repealed, female government workers were made to wear the hijab, women were barred from becoming judges, sex-segregation laws were promulgated, the marriage age for girls was dropped to 13, and married women were barred from attending regular schools. Today, Iranian women are regularly beaten if they are not dressed in appropriate hijab....

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The Israeli army’s deputy chief of staff, Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh, expressed fears on Tuesday that the Syrian regime could transfer to Hizbullah advanced weaponry that it is still in control of.

"The missile, rocket and chemical capabilities are remarkably still under the control of the current regime," The Jerusalem Post quoted Naveh as telling a defense conference.

"These have already been transferred to the Syrians and may one day be transferred from Syria to Hizbullah," Naveh said....

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The Cabinet today (Sunday, 17 June 2012), approved the establishment of an inter-ministerial steering committee to evaluate the technological feasibility of building artificial islands in Israel for infrastructure purposes.

Among the items to be considered are building an airport, seawater desalination plants, power stations, etc.

The steering committee will submit its conclusions, within one year, to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and will be chaired by Science and Technology Ministry Director-General Menachem Greenblum....

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