News from Jerusalem

Israelis call for intervention to support Syrians.
Organizer: We express our solidarity with Syrian people.
U.N.: 8,000 dead in ongoing Syrian government suppression.

I write this letter as one million people in southern Israel continue to be terrorized yet another weekend fearing for their lives, enduring barrage after barrage of rocket attacks.

Former IDF intelligence chief: Iran already caught red handed.
Iran using sophisticated strategy to gain nuclear weapons.
Iranian bomb will provoke Middle East nuclear weapons race.

The independent UN Watch monitoring group, which initiated last year’s successful NGO Campaign to Remove Libya from the UN Human Rights Council, today called on the US, the EU and UN rights chief Navi Pillay to urge council president Laura Dupuy Lasserre to cancel a planned resolution praising the Qaddafi regime’s human rights record

Even as it continued to talk with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Iran continued to prepare for war over its nuclear weapons program, training for kamikaze attacks in the Persian Gulf with both planes and speedboats, sources within the Iranian armed forces report.

Iran refuses international inspection of suspected weapons lab.
U.N. officials say Iran refusing to cooperate.
Netanyahu: Iran ignores international community.

Iran defies world opinion, gives military support to Syria.
Iranian-made bomb defused on Gaza border.
UK Minister: Iranian nukes “disaster in world affairs”

Iran installing domestic nuclear fuel rods despite U.N. sanctions.
IAEA expected to issue report linking Iran to nuclear weapons.
Thai police connect Bangkok bombing by Iranians to India, Georgia attacks.

Iranian nuclear experts have completed the component for a nuclear bomb trigger, overcoming a major obstacle in obtaining the bomb, according to sources within Iran.

As the international community deals with the fallout from the Chinese and Russian rejection of UN/Arab League plan to end the violence in Syria that has killed over 5,000 civilians, The Israel Project has prepared a timeline of the Syrian revolt…