Hamas furious over Egyptian move at creating buffer zone with Gaza
The Hamas government said Sunday it was “surprised” to hear that Egypt is planning to create a buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip.
Egyptian soldiers keep guard in Sinai – Photo: REUTERS
Ehab Ghissin, spokesman for the Hamas government, said that there should be no buffer zones “between brothers and friendly countries.”
Ghissin expressed hope that the Egyptian move would not “solidify the blockade” and increase the suffering of the people in the Gaza Strip. Continue Reading »
Egyptian Security Arrests Duck, as ‘Zionist Spy’
Egypt’s Police arrests water fowl suspected of being an Israeli spy, maybe for the Mossad.
Egyptian police have arrested a duck that they fear was sent by Israel as a spy, Egypt’s Al-Ahram news agency reports.
The bird was spotted by a fisherman in the Nile River, in the Qena region, as it swam with other birds. The fisherman noticed that the bird had a device attached to its feathers, which he feared could be used to gather information.
A security official told Al-Ahram that experts are examining the device to see if it could have been used to gather intelligence. Continue Reading »
Russian weapons export shipments to Assad increasing
REPORT: The number of cargo ships sailing to Syria from a Ukrainian port used by Russia’s arms export monopoly has increased sharply.
MOSCOW — More than two years into Syria’s civil war, President Bashar Assad is settling his bills for Russian arms orders through the Russian banking system to try to shore up ties with his most powerful ally, according to a Russian arms industry source.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (left) with Syrian President Bashar Assad – Photo: Reuters
The payments, which have increased in recent months, show how Assad has sustained his ties with his main diplomatic defender, a relationship that has come under the spotlight this week as Western countries plan military action to punish him for suspected chemical weapons attacks on civilians.
Azerbaijan’s Jewish shtetl survives among Muslim majority
Over the years, the community known as ‘Mountain Jews’ has endured pogroms by Persian warlords, repression under communism and the rise of post-Soviet nationalism.

Yedidia Yehuda, right, and a childhood friend walking down the stairs that overlook Krasnaiya Sloboda, August 2013. – Cnaan Liphshiz
“You take care not to fall yourself and don’t worry about me,” he tells a visitor following him toward a small town on the northern bank of the Kudyal river, where 2,000 Jews have lived for nearly three centuries in their own shtetl, one of the world’s few remaining all-Jewish towns outside Israel.
1st Time Ever: 2 Arrested in Lebanon for rocket attacks on Israel
Lebanese authorities arrested two suspects for involvement in rocket attacks from the country’s territory into northern Israel earlier this month, The Daily Star reported on Saturday.

Katyusha Rocket shot at Galilee (archive) – IsraelandStuff/PP
According to the report, the Lebanese Armed Forces stated that the suspects, Youssef Muhammad Fliti and Omar Abdel-Mawla al-Atrash, confessed to supplying the four rockets used in the attacks.
The suspects said that they transferred the rockets to a man in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
Watch Israel’s Amos IV satellite successful night-launch
Israel’s fourth satellite launches this evening from Kazakhstan. It joins 3 other Israeli satellites, which are still operational.
By Ynet
The satellite Amos 4, operated by the Israeli company Spacecom, has been launched into space from Kazakhstan on Saturday.

Amos IV launch – 31 Aug 2013
The satellite joins Spacecom’s Amos 5, 2 and 3, which are already operational in space. Amos 6 is expected to be space-ready in 2014.
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The satellite is carrying sophisticated communication equipment that allows it to function as a remote transmission and broadcast hub. Continue Reading »
Lebanese Report: Assad in underground Bunker
Syria leader has moved into an underground bunker with his staff, reported by a Lebanese newspaper that’s close to Damascus.
Lebanese newspaper Aldiyar, which is considered to be close to Syria’s official leadership, reported Saturday that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is in an undergtound bunker at an unknown location, where he is staying along with his senior staff and other unknown senior officials.

President Bashar al-Assad – AFP photo
The bunker is serving as an operational headquarters in advance of the US attack on Syrian targets that is expected to take place by Monday at the latest.
A Peek at United Hatzalah – Israel’s Rescue Squad
United Hatzalah’s motto: “The Faster you Respond, the More Lives you Save”
By Kochava Rozenbaum
Arutz Sheva visited United Hatzalah of Israel’s main center in Jerusalem, where over 2,000 people volunteer and answer hundreds of phone calls a day in order to save lives.
The center responds to over 650 calls daily from dozens of locations across the country. The 24/7 rescue team uses the “best” and most advanced technology, called the Moskowitz Life Compass. The team also uses the Israeli mobile navigation, Waze, in order for respondents to arrive as fast as possible. Continue Reading »
Report: Syria moving its prisoners to military targets as human shields
A British paper reports Syria buses filled with inmates were seen being moved to military targets to be exploited as human shields against any possible Western airstrike.
By Roi Kais
Thousands of Syrian prisoners have been moved to military targets to be used as human shields against Western air strikes, Britain’s Daily Mirror reported Friday.

Residents in Damascus – Photo: Reuters
According to the report, Damascus residents said they saw buses filled with inmates being taken from their cells to sites the regime believes could be targets.
The opposition Syrian National Coalition said: “Assad’s fascist regime is amassing activists and civilians in prisons in military locations that may be targets for foreign forces. Continue Reading »
Golan Druze now free to prefer Israel to Syria, in public
After 32 years of public anti-Israel rhetoric, the Druze of the Golan can now openly align with the Jewish state without Syrian retaliation.
In the shadow of the raging Syrian civil war, the 20,000 Druze who live in the Golan Heights are finally admitting publicly that they prefer life under Israeli sovereignty.

Golan Druze
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War, and annexed the strategic plateau in 1981. All during that time, the Golan Druze leaned more anti-Israel for fear they would one day find themselves again under Syrian sovereignty. Continue Reading »
Western Wall opens temporary egalitarian section for the public
On its first day, the new section called “Ezrat Yisrael,” hosted 6 bar mitzvahs & weddings.
Bennett says he doesn’t want any controversy surrounding the temporary area, ahead of the Jewish High Holy Days.
On Thursday, Jerusalem’s new temporary egalitarian section at the Western Wall was opened to the public.

Women of the Wall praying at the Western Wall [Archive] – Photo: AP
The provisional space, temporary until the government builds a permanent structure designed for non-Orthodox Jewish streams at the Western Wall, is at the Robinson’s Arch area adjacent to the Western Wall Plaza.
Kerry: Syrian assault won’t be like Afghanistan, Iraq, or Libya
US Secretary of State John Kerry assured the war-weary American people on Friday that any decision the US would make on a military action in Syria would be a “limited and tailored response” and would not in any way resemble the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, nor its intervention to help topple former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
US Secretary of State John Kerry talking about possible US strike in Syria, August 30, 2013.







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