Ew, Jew Cooties: The Iranian ambassador to Chile showed up at an Israeli book party about a Zionist youth group. And he talked to the Israeli ambassador. Expect this guy to be recalled.
This better not be true: Jordan will take control of the Temple Mount.
Israel and the Palestinians have agreed that the Temple Mount as well as other parts of the Old City in Jerusalem will be under Jordanian control as part of a future peace deal, a Palestinian daily reported on Monday.
The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi reported that President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reached the agreement during recent talks in Jerusalem. Under the arrangement, the Old City’s Arab residents will be granted Jordanian citizenship.
The newspaper did not say whether Israel would keep control of Jewish holy sites and neighborhoods in the Old City.
When Jordan controlled the complex, Jews were not allowed on it, and the Mount and the mosques were in disrepair. I’m not buying it. And Olmert denied it.
I’ll believe it when I see it: Abbas says he’s going to dismantle Force 17, the supposed “bodyguards” of the president that always seem to have their hands in the terrorist pie.
A Palestinian security official told Ynet Monday that in the coming days President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to order the dismantling of Force 17 and its incorporation into the Presidential Guard.
The status of Force 17, which served as Fatah’s special operations unit in the 1970s and ’80s and was responsible for the protection of Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, declined following the establishment of the Palestinian Authority and the formation of the Presidential Guard.
Uh-huh. Sure. I don’t think Abbas can dismantle a Lego toy.
The terror continues: Molotov cocktails, check. Shooting at soldiers, check. Seven thwarted suicide bombings in the last six weeks: Check.
The security forces thwarted seven suicide bombings in Israel in the last month-and-a-half, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told the cabinet Sunday. Diskin said that the ongoing efforts of the IDF, the Shin Bet and the police were behind the apparent calm in the country recently.
Diskin told the ministers that an IDF operation in the Beit Ilma village near Nablus prevented a large suicide bombing set to be carried out in Tel Aviv during the holidays. However, he added that the Shin Bet was concerned about the fact that the explosive belt was passed through several checkpoints undetected.
Rocket attacks, smuggling of weapons and explosives, double check:
According to Diskin, a significant drop has been registered in the number of rockets launched from Gaza, from 110 Qassams in August to 85 in September. The Shin Bet attributes the decrease to Hamas’ decision not to fire rockets.
On the other hand, the smuggling of weapons into Gaza has increased since Hamas rose to power, said Diskin, making Gaza “a barrel of explosives.”
They better hope nobody throws a match and runs.