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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 5 2012                   &... Tags: President Obama, AIPAC, israel, Iran, the counter terrorist magazine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his ministers not to speak publicly about Iran, officials said Friday, in an apparent attempt at damage control before his upcoming trip to the White House.

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DENVER - Amid growing tensions over Iran's nuclear program, several national security experts attended a panel in Denver to discuss current threats around the globe.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has come to the conclusion there is a growing likelihood Israel could attack Iran sometime this spring in an effort to destroy its suspected nuclear weapons program, according to a senior administration official.

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Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday that an Israeli decision on whether to strike Iran’s nuclear program was “very far off”.

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(Reuters) - A senior Israeli official voiced disappointment in the Obama administration on Sunday, saying "election-year considerations" lay behind its caution over tough Iran sanctions sought by U.S. legislators.

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TEHRAN, Iran -- Thousands of mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran's nuclear program.

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Terrorists are hitting the social networks to fight Israel and Western countries, says Haifa University Professor Gabriel Weimann.

A statement originating from Lebanon has reported that Hizbullah is searching for material on the Israeli army’s Facebook activity. “Facebook has become a great place to obtain intelligence. Many users don’t even bother finding out who they are confirming as ‘Friend’ and to whom they are providing access to a large amount of information on their personal life,” according to Prof, Weimann. “The terrorists themselves, in parallel, are able to create false profiles that enable them to get into highly visible groups,” he says.

American, British and Canadian soldiers have been instructed to remove identifying information from social networks.

Hamas has used the Internet to show anyone who wants to how make an explosive that can blow up a jeep.

Use of “the most advanced of Western communication technology is, paradoxically, what the terror organizations are now using to fight the West,” according to Prof. Weimann.

The damage that can be done through hacking was illustrated last week with the attack against thousands of Israeli credit card holders by an anti-Zionist, but invading databases is just the tip of the iceberg in online terrorist activity.

A number of Facebook groups are asking users to join and support Hizbullah, Hamas and other armed groups that have been included in the West’s list of declared terror organizations.

“Today, about 90 percent of organized terrorism on the Internet is being carried out through the social media. By using these tools, the organizations are able to be active in recruiting new friends without geographical limitations,” says Prof. Weimann.

Using chat rooms, YouTube, Myspace, and more, “The social media is enabling the terror organizations to take initiatives by making ‘Friend’ requests, uploading video clips, and the like, and they no longer have to make do with the passive tools available on regular websites,” he notes.

The Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin) recently has warned Twitter to stop providing communication facilities for terror groups like Hizbullah, or face a lawsuit on behalf of American citizens and others who have been victims of terrorism.

In a letter to Twitter executives, Israel Law Center head Nitsana Darshan-Leitner warned the social media messaging service that the issue was not censorship, but compliance with security laws, which Twitter, as a U.S.-based entity, was obligated to undertake.

Besides violating U.S. anti-terrorism laws, Twitter will also find itself a target of multi-million dollar lawsuits if it does not cancel the accounts, Darshan-Leitner says. “Many U.S. entities and individuals who have provided material support to terrorists have been sued by the terror victims and their families for aiding and abetting international terrorism,” she explains.

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"We've called on both sides not to set preconditions, not to negotiate in public," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters on Thursday. "We are encouraged that they are both coming to the table, that they're talking directly. We think that's the best path forward."

Saeb Erekat, the chief negotiator for the Palestinians, and top Israeli negotiator Yitzhak Molho, met Tuesday in Amman, Jordan, in the first direct consultations for the two parties in more than a year.

Even before the meeting took place, officials from both sides seemed to rule out the possibility of a significant breakthrough, with the Palestinians insisting they would not formally negotiate until Israel agreed to halt the construction of settlements in the West Bank, and Israelis responding that they would not do so.

After the meeting, the foreign minister of Jordan, which has sponsored the meetings, confirmed that no major breakthroughs had occurred, but applauded the two sides for agreeing to continue the discussions.

"The important thing is the two sides have met face to face," said the minister, Nasser Judeh. "We held today a serious discussion that aims at launching peace talks at the earliest possible opportunity over final status issues."

Observers of the Middle East pointed to the lack of a formal statement of progress as confirmation that the two sides were indeed as far apart on the details of renewed negotiations as they seemed.

"After that meeting the statements were pretty clear that there was no breakthrough, which means if nothing else that there was nothing that was pre-cooked to be announced," said Marwan Muasher, an expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

On the other hand, in the world of high-level diplomacy where so much is typically pre-arranged and choreographed, some analysts say the fact that no one knows where the conversation will lead lends an element of authentic intrigue to the proceedings.

Defenders of the talks, including officials from the so-called Quartet -- the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the U.S. -- point to the 2007 peace talks at Annapolis, where even though little was expected at the outset, both parties issued a joint statement declaring that a two-state solution was the preferred outcome for the talks.

On Thursday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported that at this week's meeting the two envoys exchanged documents containing each sides' proposals for land swaps and military positions, something that had previously proven impossible in the high-stakes game of Middle East diplomacy.

According to the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi, the Israeli document included several familiar points about maintaining defensive posts within the West Bank and along the border with Jordan, as well as an outright refusal of the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the land within Israel. But the document did reportedly include an offer to withdraw Israeli settlements from certain Arab portions of East Jerusalem.

The Palestinians, for their part, delivered a proposal that would see land swaps of 1.9 percent of the land in the West Bank, and a fully demilitarized Palestinian state.

Western diplomats described the proposals to Haaretz as "recycled."

The paper also described an aggressive lobbying effort by the Jordanian king to bring the two sides to the table.

One clear development, however, seems to be the emergence of Jordan as a possible new power broker in the turbulent Middle East, particularly now that Egypt has moved away from that responsibility, since the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak.

"The big motivation is that Jordan is worried that if there is no two-state solution, the solution will come at its expense," said Muasher, who has served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister in Jordan. "So, that drives Jordan's efforts in general. But do they have something in particular that they think would push the peace process forward? I don't know. I doubt it."

Indeed, for the outcome of the talks themselves, old hands in the peace process say that any drama the talks entail is slight.

"The resumed peace talks are not going to lead anywhere," wrote former peace negotiators Daniel Levy and Leila Hilal on Thursday. "That is probably the safest bet that can be placed for 2012."

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1/3/2012 By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

A senior anti-Qaddafi rebel commander says he was among the IHH-terrorists on the Mavi Marmara who attacked IDF navy commandoe.

“I was wounded on the Mavi Marmara and spent nine days in an Israeli prison,” Number Two rebel commander Mahdi al-Harati told the Spanish daily ABC last month. Al Harati was second in command to Abdul-Hakim Belhadj, who now heads the Tripoli Military Council.

A Spanish ABC reporter said he found Al Harati and two other rebel fighters in Syria, where they said they were helping their “Syrian revolutionary brothers.”

The IHH crew on the Mavi Marmara brutally assaulted Israeli commandos as they approached the deck of the ship after rappelling down a rope from a hovering helicopter. Virtually unarmed except for less-than-lethal guns and personal handguns, the commandos were clubbed, knifed and shot, and three of them were kidnapped until the rest of the Navy unit was able to overcome the terrorists, nine of whom were killed.

Al-Harati’s links with the IHH, the anti-Assad rebellion and the war against Muammar Gaddafi are further evidence that the Arab Spring uprisings are replacing brutal regimes with more brutality.

Be’er Sheva-based journalist P. David Hornik noted on FrontPage Tuesday, “Belhadj also has an interesting pedigree, having been in phone contact with the leader of the 2004 Madrid train bombings just weeks before they were perpetrated…"

“The fact that the likes of al-Harati…was not only on the ship but [also] wounded in the fighting is further substantiation [of his links to terrorism]. So, for that matter, is Hamas terror-master Ismail Haniyeh’s visit with the relatives of the Mavi Marmara casualties on Monday."

As fro Belhadj, he “is the historical leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), the Libyan affiliate of al-Qaeda, according to the National Review’s John Rosenthal, who disclosed the Spanish ABC interview.

Spanish media several months ago reported that Belhadj ran a jihadist training camp in Afghanistan and according to one rebel terrorist, had “a direct line to Osama bin Laden” but “never shared Osama’s strategy.”

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