Archive for April, 2005

Both the United States and Russia want to load the Palestinian Authority (PA) with arms and ammunition. Israel replied that the PA can get weapons by disarming terrorists. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said yesterday that “Russia will not do anything to harm Israel,” rejected Israel objection's to his proposed gift of 50 armored vehicles and two helicopters to...
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By Abraham Rabinovich THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published April 29, 2005 JERUSALEM — An Israeli arms specialist suggested yesterday that the proposed sale by the U.S. to Israel of 100 bunker-busting bombs, announced in Washington this week, was intended primarily as a warning to Iran because Israel already produces such bombs.     Yitzhak Ben-Israel of Tel Aviv University, a retired general...
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By Caroline B. Glick        http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | So it looks like the EU's constitution might have run up against an iceberg. According to a report from Paris in The Weekly Standard, French President Jacques Chirac may have overplayed his EU card by allowing the French people to decide by referendum whether or not they wish to ratify the French-authored, 448-article...
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By Jerome R. Corsi © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The Financial Times announced yesterday in a front-page article that the Pentagon has notified Congress of the pending sale to Israel of 100 “bunker-buster” bombs that could be used to attack Iran's secret underground nuclear facilities, such as their uranium-enrichment farm at Natanz. Congress has only 30 days to object. If the...
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The US government is proposing a $30m deal selling up to 100 laser-guided bunker-busting bombs to Israel. The GBU-28 is a 2,000-kg conventional weapon with a powerful warhead that can burrow through six metres (20 feet) of concrete or 30 metres of earth. The sale has gone ahead despite concern that Israel might use the weapon for a...
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Booming economy lures Soviet Jews home, but anti-Semitism lurksBy Preston Mendenhall Correspondent NBC News Updated: 2:11 p.m. ET April 27, 2005 MOSCOW – Watching over rambunctious children at a central Moscow Jewish school, a four-story building filled with brightly painted menorah motifs, Sofia Savinikh says it’s sometimes hard to remember why she left home in 1991. The Achei Tmimim Day School, run by...
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Apr 27, 10:23 AM (ET) By HENRY MEYER CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for a Mideast peace conference in Moscow this fall, and then was heading to Israel for a historic first visit there by a Kremlin leader. The Russian president, whose government is a sponsor of the “road map” plan for peace between...
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Israeli scientists are pushing the boundaries of an already cutting-edge field: stem cell research. They have grown heart cells from human embryonic stem cells and have established companies promising, among other things, to produce new blood vessels, regenerate cartilage and heal spinal cord injuries. Coming together from both academia and industry, they have joined to form a consortium aimed...
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Suffering a stroke can be severely debilitating, frustrating, and costly. It's the leading cause of long-term disability in the US with current statistics indicating that there are over 4.5 million Americans who have survived a stroke or brain attack and are living with the after-effects. According to the National Stroke Association, only 10% of stroke survivors recover almost completely....
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By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Just days after a bitterly divided Senate committee voted along party lines to approve her nomination as a federal appellate court judge, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown told an audience Sunday that people of faith were embroiled in a “war” against secular humanists who threatened to divorce America from...
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