updates on the Israeli Palestinian conflict

[Rocky_Shorz]

there already is an answer...

Vertical farming and desalinization.

The world's largest desalination plant is the Jebel Ali Desalination Plant (Phase 2) in the United Arab Emirates. It is a dual-purpose facility that uses multi-stage flash distillation and is capable of producing 300 million cubic metres of water per year. By comparison the largest desalination plant in the United States is located in Tampa Bay, Florida and operated by Tampa Bay Water, which began desalinating 34.7 million cubic meters of water per year in December 2007.[4] The Tampa Bay plant runs at around 12% the output of the Jebel Ali Desalination Plants. A January 17, 2008, article in the Wall Street Journal states, "World-wide, 13,080 desalination plants produce more than 12 billion gallons of water a day, according to the International Desalination Association."

complete story

too bad the ones with money don't care and those without can't build what is needed...

[PathWalker]

Israel tests Arrow 2 anti-missile system
During experiment, interceptor missile successfully destroyed target missile. 'Test contributes to protection against Iranian threat,' defense establishment official says
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...032297,00.html

PathWalker comments:
Again sabre rattling. Another propaganda spin.
But I am positive. As long as TPTB invest in defensive weapons, I am supporting.
But we do not know the truth. If it will ever work? Will it ever be deployed... ETC

Unlike Iron Dome technology, this not a disruptive technology that change the balance.
Keep trying though.

[Rocky_Shorz]

with Mubarak out of the way, it only leaves Jordan for a friendly neighbor...

forget the saber rattling, every country that voted against attacking Israel is falling...

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JERUSALEM—Two Iranian warships sailed from the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean on Tuesday, the first such trip in at least three decades, eliciting Israeli charges that Tehran is seeking to dominate the Middle East.

The vessels headed toward Syria, but were expected to remain in international waters as they passed the Israeli coast.

The voyage took the frigate Alvand and the supply Kharq close to NATO's southern flank and could further destabilize the Middle East, a region already reeling from an unprecedented wave of anti-government rebellions.

In Tehran, the deputy commander of the Iranian navy said that Iran has "suprised the Zionist regime" with the journey to the Mediterranean.

"The world arrogance (U.S.) should know that the army of the Islamic Republic is fully prepared to defend the holy ideals of the Islamic Republic and this readiness grows day by day," Brigadier-General Abdolrahim Mousavi told the official Iranian news agency IRNA.

In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley refused to say whether the transit in and of itself, or the Egyptian decision to allow it, were provocations.

"We will be watching carefully to see where these ships go and the implications of that," he said.

Egypt is the gatekeeper of the strategic canal which links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

Egypt's new military rulers, who took power from ousted President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, appeared to have no choice but to allow the passage. An international convention regulating shipping says the canal must be open "to every vessel of commerce or of war."

Iranian warships have not passed through the Suez Canal since 1979.

[jasontorque]

There's an old expression which says "Follow the money". Depending on your interpretation of 'money', maritime-law and currency, isn't money actually a form of water? If you are able to accept this proviso, and understand the geography of the region then perhaps we should be saying "Follow the water"?

Perhaps you say that one could live without religion, but you can't live without water.

Rather more simple when you look at it like that, don't you think?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11101797

[PathWalker]

Jewish settler against law enforcement, something new
Jerusalem court indicts 17 pro-settlement protesters
A Jerusalem court indicted on Tuesday seventeen pro-settlement protesters who had demonstrated against the tearing down of a West Bank outpost the previous day, seven of whom are minors.

The protesters were charged with disturbing the peace, attacking police and damaging police vehicles.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...sters-1.346488

Israel vows to raze all illegal outposts built on private Palestinian land
The decision, which will be submitted to High Court of Justice in response to 15 petitions demanding the outposts' demolition, will apply to at least three outposts inhabited by about 100 families.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition...-land-1.346329

Settlers plan 'Day of Rage' over outpost clash
Angry settlers told AFP on Tuesday they were planning a 'Day of Rage' later this week over police action during the demolition of a caravan in a settlement outpost.

Plans were taking shape a day after police and settlers clashed during an early-morning operation to remove a caravan, a tent and the framework for a second structure in the northern outpost of Havat Gilad, some five kilometres (three miles) southwest of Nablus.

It was not immediately clear what form the protest would take, but media reports suggested it would involve sit-down protests at major junctions across the country, as well as attempts to block Palestinian traffic in the West Bank.

The settlers routinely react when police and soldiers demolish structures in settlements or wildcat settlement outposts -- those which have been set up without government approval -- but what angered them on Monday was police use of stun grenades and paint ball guns.

Stun grenades are normally reserved for Palestinian demonstrations, while recalcitrant settlers tend to be handled with tear gas and truncheons.

Five protesters were injured during the Havat Gilad operation, settler sources said on Monday, prompting a furious reaction which saw hundreds of demonstrators blocking main roads in Jerusalem with burning tyres.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...4eb63f2bd4.4e1

PathWalker comments
This is new, in previous cases when authorities tried to enforce law on the Jewish settlers. They authorities always lost.
It was quite clear to all in the state that the Jewish settlers are somehow magically above the law.
This time, it was the police not the army and well prepared. So there is a different approach.
I wonder what made the change.

[Rocky_Shorz]

as I said the saber rattling is over, I see a window of less than 6 months for Israel to work out final details for the peace settlement before anger rises too high to turn back the tide...

Iran wants them removed from Islamic lands and they are quietly taking over every country standing in the way...

[Rocky_Shorz]

the police turning on settlers goes along with this release today...

Israel might seek interim Palestinian peace deal
(Reuters)

1 March 2011
JERUSALEM - Israel is considering pursuing an interim peace agreement with the Palestinians, a senior official said on Tuesday, signalling the government might abandon efforts to secure a single, comprehensive accord.

The official, who declined to be named, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might seek a “phased path” towards a permanent deal rather than a treasty that resolved all the core issues as envisaged by the United States and European allies.

“Obviously Israel would prefer (negotiations on) a final-status agreement, but the consistent Palestinian refusal makes that difficult,” the official said...

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[PathWalker]

Israeli media reporting that Aljazera is reporting Israeli involvement in the Libyan civil war
Al Jazeera: "Gaddafi has promised licenses champion oil reserve for mercenary army"
Arabian Nights? Al Jazeera: "Gaddafi has promised licenses champion oil reserve for mercenary army"

Arab propaganda works: Arabic television network website is reporting that Israel set Gaddafi 50 thousand mercenaries from Africa in return for $ 5 billion network's bull**** ■ inciting against Israel for years? Probably, but that the talk among the millions of information consumers in the Arab world.

Network Al Jazeera continues to provide reports of reliability, well, is questionable, but attempts to teach something about the world around one common opponent, the face of governmental earthquake in Arab countries.

. Al Jazeera released yesterday that a senior official in the Israeli media disclosed that information to her and Israeli security officials are behind sending groups of African mercenaries who had infiltrated and joined Libya's defensive forces of Muammar Gaddafi . Al - Jazeera also claims that its source is a journalist and one of the most widely read newspapers in Israel.

The journalist, according to Al Jazeera, told her that was exposed to information security that Israel is concerned that the fall of the Gaddafi regime could open the door to "Islamic bill" in Libya. The Israeli source also reported, apparently, Al-Sharq Al Jazeera on another trilateral meeting on 18 February between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman , which was decided to recruit mercenaries from Africa to fight alongside al-Gaddafi.

Under the heading "Sources: Israel behind the mercenaries to Gaddafi," This news has sent the mail Article ranking second in Arabic Web site called the "Al - Jazeera.


read more the translated report...
http://translate.google.com/translat...d%3D1000627135

PathWalker comments:
Absolutely there is a propaganda war in the Arab media. The hate to Israel and the Jews is a useful incitement tool. It happens all the time.
It is also proved by Jordan Maxwell few time that Israel/Zionism/Jews are used to covert Vatican operations. So I do believe there are under currents by TPTB, including the Vatican.

The odd point here is the double report on the Israeli media. As if preparing the Israeli population for something (god forbid - fear mongering). We hear this kind of reports in the radio news and the newspapers. Another effort to play on the extinction fears.
I must admit this is very effective in uniting the individualized society under one goal. Israeli scale "blue beam" project.

Do not fall to the controlled media. Israeli, Arab, US media are all under the same controllers.
The special

[PathWalker]

More war mongering for the summer.
http://www.businessinsider.com/israe...e-storm-2011-3
The Israeli Defense Force is expected to clash with Palestinians in the West Bank around September this year, before the start of UN discussions on the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Terrified by civil unrest in the region and losing Western support, Israel is unclear on what to do next. Caught in the middle is IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/israe...#ixzz1GH4iOPEK
PathWalker comment:
This is a yearly reptilian ritual. We hear each winter about the expected summer war.
All parties are absolutely exhausted.
Israel has lessen its spatial control on the ground, but gained its political control on the whole area.
Yet the Israeli army is not as well staffed as before to combat 3rd uprising.

Indeed the area is heating up. The Palestinians have more to lose then gain. It is a zero sum equation to all parties. None is willing to make any concession.

[PathWalker]

Israel intercepts armed Gaza-bound ship
http://www.torontosun.com/news/world.../17625991.html
JERUSALEM - Israeli naval commandos on Tuesday seized a cargo ship in the Mediterranean carrying what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said were Iranian-supplied weapons intended for Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

A military spokeswoman said Israeli forces met no resistance when they intercepted the German-owned "Victoria" some 200 miles (320 km) from Israel and were taking the vessel to the Israeli port of Ashdod.

Israel maintains a land and naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, a coastal enclave controlled by Hamas, an Islamist movement opposed to peace with the Jewish state.

The military said the vessel had set off from the Syrian port of Latakia and stopped in Mersin, Turkey, before heading towards Alexandria in Egypt. Turkey has no involvement in the arms shipment, the military said.

Palestinians use a network of tunnels to smuggle weapons and other goods from Egypt into the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu said he personally approved the operation, which he told reporters was carried out “on the high seas in accordance with international law”.

“Many weapons were found on board, intended for terrorist forces in the heart of Gaza,” Netanyahu said. “Iran is the source of the weaponry.”

PathWalker comments:
I assume this incident was published only because it is international and cannot be suppressed.

The important aspect is exposure of the intelligence penetration into Iranian and Hammass routes.
Delivering a message to the decision makers that they are exposed.
Beside of that the normal fear mongering to the Israeli people, with operation success boasting.

[Lord Sidious]

I hope and pray that the parasites feeding off of the arabs and jews who want peace don't have long left on this earth.
I would love to see both peoples live together again as the brothers and sisters that they are.
Thanks for your posts Pathwalker.

[Lord Sidious]

'47% of Germans think Israel exterminating Palestinians'
Study shows a strong presence of “anti-Semitism that is linked with Israel and is hidden behind criticism of Israel" in Europe.
http://www.jpost.com/International/A...aspx?id=212326
I find this part

Posted by Dr. Beate Küpper
She termed the outbreak of Jew-hatred in Germany “remarkable” because there were widespread Holocaust remembrance and education events in Germany.

to be interesting on two levels.
First, it seems that she is linking the holocaust programmes to silencing critics and secondly, it makes it look like mind conditioning.

[Rocky_Shorz]

Posted by PathWalker
Indeed the area is heating up...

lots going on right now, any updates for us PathWalker?

PM stops expansion into Green Zone...
troops getting ready to pull out of West Bank...

[ktlight]

Fatah, Hamas set to agree on unity govt.

A top Fatah official says the party is determined to establish a unity government with rival group Hamas despite the criticism by Israelis and the United States.


The senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath made the remark following his meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza against the backdrop of ongoing talks between Fatah and Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to agree on the make-up of a unity government, AFP reported on Sunday.

The two Palestinian rival groups Hamas and Fatah are expected to agree the composition of a transitional government of independents by June 6, and the two will stand united against Israel as Tel Aviv has no intention of making peace, Shaath said at a news conference after the meeting.

Asked about the potential ministers in the new government, the senior Fatah official replied that it's not his role to talk about the candidates, adding that a joint committee was studying potential ministers.

"There will be agreement between the parties on all the names by June 6," he noted.

Palestinian factions signed a deal to establish a unity government in early May in Cairo and agreed to form an interim government of technocrats and non-partisan figures to prepare for national elections within a year.

The Fatah movement came under severe attack in the wake of signing the unity deal with Hamas. The US threatened to cut aid to the party and Israel said Fatah must choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas.

Meanwhile, Shaath stated that both Fatah and Hamas are seeking to enhance the recognition of the upcoming unity government regardless of mounting pressure from Israelis and Americans.

Under the unity agreement, the parties also agreed to release all Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank and Gaza within a year.

The senior Fatah official also turned the spotlight on the thorny issue of political prisoners, saying that he expected that the two groups would close the political arrests "file" soon as "There is full agreement on that."

"The number of prisoners remaining in detention has shrunk and the file will be closed in upcoming days in accordance with the (unity) agreement," Shaath said.

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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/182349.html

[loveandgratitude]

Hundreds of Palestinians cross reopened Gaza-Egypt border

Post-revolution move is hailed as 'first step towards breaking the siege', but Israel voices concerns

Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 28 May 2011 21.54 BST

Egypt has opened its border with Gaza, letting Palestinians leave the blockaded territory, in a move seen as indicating a more supportive policy since February's revolution.

Hundreds of people laden with luggage gathered at the Rafah crossing in the south of Gaza before the border opened at 9am. Around 300 crossed in the first hours and officials said they expected up to 1,000 to leave Gaza by the end of the day. Women, children and men over the age of 40 will be permitted free travel from Gaza to Egypt, but men under 40 will be required to apply for and be granted a visa. A large proportion of Gaza's 1.5 million population is aged between 18 and 40.

The crossing will open for eight hours a day, six days a week. In the four years since Hamas took control of Gaza, 18 months after winning elections, and Israel imposed a stringent blockade, the Rafah border has opened intermittently and only students, businessmen and people needing medical treatment have been allowed through.

All other border crossings are with Israel, which has tightly controlled the movement of people and goods. Despite easing the blockade almost a year ago, Israel continues to proscribe certain goods, such as construction materials, from entering Gaza and blocks nearly all exports. Rafah will not be open to commercial traffic.

Israel's government has expressed concern that the reopening of the border will lead to the shipment of weapons and militants into Gaza and is also alarmed at the prospect of closer ties between the new Egyptian government and Gaza. Former president Hosni Mubarak, who was forced out in February's revolution, was seen as an ally of Israel. The new government last month brokered a reconciliation deal between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, including an agreement to open the border.

"People are happy Rafah is open, they say it's the first step towards breaking the siege of Gaza," said local journalist Hazem Balousha. "They see it as a result of the Egyptian revolution and reconciliation."

Ghazi Hamed, the Hamas official who oversees the border from the Gaza side, said he hoped that 1,000 people would be able to cross each day. "We will co-operate with the Egyptian brothers to make sure the new arrangements get implemented smoothly and accurately," he said.

The numbers wanting to cross the border is expected to rise when the school year ends in around two weeks.

[ktlight]

'Israel determined to stop aid flotilla'


The Israel military will use all its potentials to stop a new international aid flotilla from reaching the Gaza Strip, a top navy official says.


The official said the Israeli Navy commandos have undergone specialized trainings over the past months and are now fully prepared to stop the aid convoy challenging Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory.

A coalition of 22 activist groups said, on Monday during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, that the second Freedom Flotilla will set sail for Gaza in late June.

At least nine Turkish activists were killed and many others wounded after Israeli navy commandos attacked the aid flotilla in international waters on May 31 last year.

According to Israeli military sources, the members of the Israeli Navy commando unit, Shayetet 13, who carried out last year's attack, are preparing to counter the new aid convoy.

According to the Israeli media, commandos have revised their tactics in the wake of the May 31, 2010 raid that drew international condemnation.

International activists say 15 ships, including the Mavi Marmara which was the lead ship in the first Freedom Flotilla, with some 1,500 activists from about 100 countries on board will leave for Gaza from various Mediterranean ports around June 20.

The vessels carrying humanitarian aid and construction materials would meet in international waters south of Cyprus before heading to Gaza, organizers said.

The activists have also called on government to ensure that the deadly incident would not happen again.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman have reportedly asked their counterparts abroad to prevent their nationals from boarding the ships.

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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/182764.html