ISRAEL BLAMED FOR ASSASSINATION
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Arutz Sheva News)

The assassination Monday of a senior Palestine Liberation Organization official in Lebanon has garnered across-the-board condemnation, even from among the PLO’s bitterest enemies. Many Arab spokesmen have accused Israel, but a previous attempt, in April of last year, was traced to a rival Fatah faction.

The victim of the assassination, Kamal Medhat, was a deputy to the Palestinian Authority representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki, as well as a former intelligence chief for the Fatah terrorist organization, which controls the PLO. Medhat and three of his bodyguards were killed when a hidden explosive device was detonated as their two-vehicle convoy passed by. The attack took place on a road near the southern Lebanese coastal city of Sidon. According to Lebanese security sources, the roadside bomb ripped through Medhat’s Mercedes and flung it into a nearby orchard. The second car crashed as a result of the blast. The leading Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation reported shortly after the attack that Medhat’s boss, Zaki, was the actual target of the bombing. However, he had departed 10 minutes ahead of Medhat in a similar car.
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LABOR/LIKUD DEAL AWAITS APPROVAL
by Hana Levi Julian and Hillel Fendel (Arutz Sheva News)

Labor party chairman Ehud Barak has reached an “understanding” on a coalition deal with Likud party chairman and Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu. It is not clear whether his party will go along with it; the vote is to be held Tuesday afternoon.

Negotiators for the two parties agreed on a deal early Tuesday morning after meeting for round-the-clock talks at Likud headquarters at the Maccabiah Village in Ramat Gan.
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OBAMA ABOUT TO BETRAY ISRAEL, SAYS FORMER INTEL OFFICIAL!
(Israel Today News)

A former top US intelligence official warns that the Obama Administration is about to break America’s long ties of friendship with Israel, and maybe even take steps toward the dissolution of the Jewish state.

Speaking on condition of anonymity to Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network, the source said:

“I have every reason to believe, based on what I’ve seen at my level of security clearance especially over the last several years, that Israel will soon be completely on their own… or worse.”
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BIN LADEN TARGETS JORDAN AND ISRAEL
by Hana Levi Julian

A new audio tape attributed to the head of the al Qaeda terrorist organization targets the Hashemite Kingdom for the first time, calling on terrorists to infiltrate the country and behead its rulers. “It has become clear that some Arab leaders were complicit with the Crusader-Zionist alliance against our people. These are the leaders that America calls moderate,” said bin Laden on the tape, broadcast late last week on Al Jazeera satellite television.

The terrorist leader, whose capture is worth $25 million to bounty hunters around the world, said that “a mujaheen victory in Iraq” would be the springboard for an incursion into Jordan. He recommended that Jordan then be used as a base from which to enter Judea and Samaria, and from there to destroy Israel completely, according to the translation of the tape released by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
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HEZBOLLAH SET TO BUY LEBANON ELECTIONS
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman (News Max News)

Beirut, Lebanon Flush with a huge injection of fresh cash from its Iranian backers, and with its weapons stockpiles replenished many times over since the 2006 war, Hezbollah seems poised to win or buy the upcoming parliamentary elections in Lebanon this June, many Lebanese fear. Western diplomats share those concerns.

“Iran and a number of other countries are helping to bankroll their friends campaigns and, in some cases, are engaged in outright vote buying. Were watching things carefully, with a particularly close eye on Hezbollah and Iran, one senior diplomat tells Newsmax. Sources in Lebanon say that Iran in recent months has smuggled in large amounts of cash to Hezbollah upwards of $1 billion in order to buy the election. They are bringing in cash from Africa, especially from Nigeria, a knowledgeable Lebanese source says. They are using Hezbollah-owned aircraft, and bringing it in to a Hezbollah-controlled airport, Beirut.
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EU WARNS NETANYAHU OVER PA STATE
by Hana Levi Julian

The European Union (EU) issued an oblique threat on Sunday to the incoming government of Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu over the issue of a new Palestinian Authority (PA) state. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told reporters that the European body of nations would change its relationship significantly with the Jewish State if the Netanyahu government does not back the establishment of a new Arab state within Israel’s current borders.

PA and Egyptian officials met with Solana and other EU representatives in an attempt to find ways to form a unity government between the Fatah faction and the Hamas terrorist organization. Numerous attempts by Egyptian and Saudi Arabian leaders to achieve that goal have failed thus far, leaving the PA government split between Hamas ruling Gaza, and Fatah ruling parts of Judea and Samaria.
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UK TO HOST HIZBULLAH SPOKESMAN!
by Maayana Miskin (Arutz Sheva News)

British officials granted senior Hizbullah member Ibrahim Moussawi a visa to visit the country on Thursday. The visa will allow Moussawi to lecture at a conference on political Islam. Moussawi plans to speak at the University of London on March 25. The British government granted Moussawi a permit to visit Britain in 2008 as well. During that visit he appeared at events sponsored by the British group Stop the War.

Moussawi, who has been quoted as calling Jews “a lesion of the forehead of history” and justifying attacks on Israeli civilians, insists that he is not an anti-Semite. “I’m a bridge-builder and I’ve always been an advocate of dialog and discussion,” he claimed in response to criticism of an earlier visit. He is a spokesman for Hizbullah and also edits a weekly Hizbullah paper. In the past, he served as political editor of Hizbullah TV, which has been banned in the United States as well as some European Union nations due to its anti-Semitic content.
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BIBLICAL ERA ROYAL SEALS FOUND IN JERUSALEM HILLS!
by Maayana Miskin (Arutz Sheva News)

(IsraelNN.com) The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of royal seal impressions from the times of the First and Second Temples. The finds were made at a site in the southern Jerusalem hills. The seal impressions are believed to date back to the time of King Hezekiah, who ruled over Judea in the late eighth century BCE. Four “LMLK”-type seals were found, as were seals from high-ranking administrators Ahimelech ben Amadyahu and Yehokhil ben Shahar.

One seal impression combined the LMLK-type seal and the seal of Yehokhil, an occurrence that archaeologists confirmed is highly unusual.
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