Israel – Suicide Bombers Within, Nuclear Threat Assessment Without!
April 12, 2007
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Matthew 23:37-39 – O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings,
and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
[39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Micah 5:3 – Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
Malachi 3:16-18 – Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. [17] And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. [18] Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Begin Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert Excerpts
Excerpt 1
Israeli Security Agency Warns of Hamas Attacks
Isabel Kershner
A recent wave of arrests of Hamas militants in the West Bank town of Kalkilya, linked to a truck packed with 220 pounds of explosives and driven to the Tel Aviv area, provided evidence that Hamas members there are primed to resume attacks in Israel, the Israeli internal security service Shin Bet asserted Tuesday.
The Shin Bet statement warned that Hamas operatives in Kalkilya “continue to work on the planning and execution of significant attacks, including ones in the immediate future.”
There has been a hiatus in Hamas suicide attacks since August 2004, but a senior Israeli army commander said recently that there are “some groups in the military wing of Hamas that don’t like the cease-fire or the unity government.”
David Baker, an official in the office of Prime Minister Olmert, asserted that Hamas “continues to target Israeli civilians.” “Terrorism is a cornerstone of the new Palestinian government, a government that should be shunned,” he said. (New York Times)
Excerpt 2
Weighing the Iranian Nuclear Threat
Michael Hirsh
David Albright, a physicist and former UN nuclear inspector, is president of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington.
“Iran has installed about a thousand centrifuges underground, distributed in six or seven ‘cascades,’ and Ahmadinejad is declaring today that this is ‘industrial-scale’ enrichment.
A year ago, they were saying the goal was 3,000 centrifuges, so he has changed the benchmark somewhat,” said Albright. “They’re still a couple of years away, in a worst-case scenario, from being able to produce enough highly enriched uranium
for nuclear weapons…but this has exceeded the expectations put forward in the [U.S.] National Intelligence Estimate that Iran couldn’t have a nuclear weapon until 2010 to 2015.”
“They’re probably going to need to install 3,000 centrifuges to have the capability to produce nuclear weapons….They’ll probably need another year to do that. That will be enough to make enough highly enriched uranium to make one bomb, or perhaps two bombs, a year.”
(Newsweek)
Excerpt 3
Doubts Remain Over Iran’s Nuclear Claims
George Jahn
Exaggerating the number of centrifuges gives the Iranians more room to negotiate with world powers – and possibly allows them to hold out and keep some vestige of a nuclear enrichment program. “This is a country that routinely lies about conventional weapons developments and production,” said Anthony Cordesman, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Diplomats in Vienna familiar with an International Atomic Energy Agency probe of Iran’s nuclear program said Tuesday that Iran was running only about 650 centrifuges in series – and the machines were running empty, with none producing enriched uranium.
(AP/Washington Post)
Excerpt 4
Jerusalem Dismisses Iran’s Nuclear Boasting
Herb Keinon
Senior officials in Israel brushed off Ahmadinejad’s claim that Teheran had begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, sufficient to produce a nuclear weapon, as “nuclear boasting.” “He is a dangerous man,” one official said,
“but let’s not downplay the fact that what he is trying to do is convince the Europeans that there is nothing they can do to stop him because he has already passed the nuclear threshold. He is not there.” The official said Israel knows that Ahmadinejad “does not have what he is boasting about.”
Israel’s assessment is that Iran has still not passed the “preliminary threshold, and that Ahmadinejad can still be stopped.
Sanctions are effective, and need to be continued,” the official said. (Jerusalem Post)
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