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Volume 4 No. 8
16 October 2009

YIISA LECTURES
Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 4:15pm
“Missing from the Map:  Feminist Theory and the Omission of Jewish Women”
Location:        77 Prospect Street, Room A-002 (Basement Floor)
Speaker:         Jennifer Roskies, Consultant, YIISA; PhD Candidate, Gender Studies, Bar Ilan University
 
Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 7:30pm
“The Industry of Lies:  Myths and Facts Regarding the Middle East Conflict”
Location:        Luce Hall, Auditorium 101, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Speaker:         Ben-Dror, Yemini, Editor, Maariv Daily Newspaper, Israel
 
CHARLES SMALL, YIISA DIRECTOR, LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 12:00pm (Noon)
“The Iranian Revolutionary Regime:  Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism in an Age of Silence”
Location:        University of Minnesota, Nolte Center for Continuing Education, Room 235
Sponsor:         Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota
Speaker:         Charles Small, YIISA Director
 
CHARLES SMALL TO SPEAK AT SPME CONFERENCE IN CLEVELAND
Sunday, November 8, 2009 – Tuesday, November 10
“The Islamic Republic of Iran: Multidisciplinary Analyses of its Theocracy, National and Assertion of Power”
Location:        Marriott Downtown, Key Center Cleveland
Sponsor:         Scholars for Peace in the Middle East

YIISA IN THE NEWS
 
Yaakov Kirschen (Dry Bones) spots the humor in politics and the politics in humor
(Jewish Chronicle) A feature on Yaakov Kirschen who draws the comic strip Dry Bones which takes opinionated stands on day-to-day events in Israeli and Middle East politics, and Jewish life worldwide. Kirschen is the artist-in-residence at the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism.
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SPECIAL ARTICLES OF INTEREST
 
UN rights body endorses Goldstone Report
(YNet) The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday endorsed a report that accused both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas of committing war crimes in Gaza in their December-January conflict.
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The 3-minute video that may prove Iran's nuclear intentions
(Haaretz) Yossi Melman discusses a highly secret video, produced by Iranian nuclear scientists. It is a three-minute film depicting a computerized simulation of the detonation of a warhead, most likely a nuclear one.
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U.S. rethinks intelligence report on Iran nuclear program
(Haaretz) U.S. spy agencies are considering whether to rewrite a controversial 2007 intelligence report that asserted Tehran halted its efforts to build nuclear weapons in 2003, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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UN-conscionable as usual: Back from the dead, Israel-bashing report must be killed
(NY Daily News) Like Jason in the hockey mask, like Chucky the killer doll, the Goldstone Report - the United Nations-ordered, 574-page horror story that excoriates Israel for defending itself from terrorists - will not die
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IRAN
 
China's links to Iran a snag for sanctions
(LA Times) Beijing's premier says his country wants to deepen ties to Tehran, with which it has signed hefty oil deals.
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Clinton, Lavrov agree to delay sanctions against Iran
(Ria Novosti) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said after talks with Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday that neither country is seeking to impose sanctions against Iran under the current circumstances.
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Don't pressure Iran, says Russia
(BBC) Pressuring Iran and threatening further sanctions over its nuclear programme would be counter-productive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.
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Obama Attempts To Delay Iranian Sanctions Bill
(Jewish Policy Center) Legislators are growing increasingly frustrated with President Barack Obama's seeming unwillingness to pull the trigger on an Iran sanctions package that is already locked and loaded
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Iranian Ayatollah Khatami’s Friday Sermon
(MEMRI) Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami threatened a "third Intifada" in Israel; said that "Israel, not Iran" should be a cause of nuclear concern; called this week's talks in Geneva "a great victory" for Iran; and reiterated that the U.S. " should know that Islamic Iran is powerful and strong."
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Iranian Antisemitism ignored by the world
(Watertown Daily Times) A reader writes, "I find it shocking that the world essentially turns a blind eye to [Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s] blatant hate speech that calls for the destruction of a specific nation repeatedly."
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MIDDLE EAST

Short History of Israel-Palestinian Conflict: 1929, 2000, 2009, Anti-Jewish Rumors over the Temple Mount Lead to Palestinian Riots
(Rubin Report) In August 1929, wild rumors that Jews had attacked Arabs, cursed the name of Islam’s founder, and were about to seize the Temple Mount led to inflammatory sermons in mosques, followed by massive Arab riots. More than 105 Jews were killed by Arabs; not a single Arab was killed by a Jew.  The exact same thing happened­albeit with far fewer casualties­in 1996, 2000, 2009, and at several points in between.
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UN row threatens to sink Middle East peace plan
(Times Online) The Middle East peace process was on the brink of collapse last night as Britain and other European countries failed to back Israel in a key vote at the United Nations.
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Turkey: We won't cancel TV show depicting Israelis as killers
(Haaretz) Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Friday that a controversial television drama which shows actors dressed as Israeli soldiers killing Palestinian children will not be taken off the air.
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Turkish TV show portraying IDF soldiers as murderers sparks outrage
(Haaretz) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his outrage over a Turkish television drama that depicts Israel Defense Forces soldiers as brutal war criminals.
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Turkish producer: We love Israelis
(YNet) After the political strife between Israel and Turkey reached the small screen, with a fictional TV show showing IDF solders shooting innocent Palestinian children, the show's producer now wishes to clarify: "The story in the show made a lot of noise, and it's important that I stress that we have nothing against Israel."
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Is the 'Obama effect' turning the world against Israel?
The cancellation of the international air exercise with Turkey is no big deal. It harms the strategic interests and international standing of Turkey more than Israel.
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Israeli officials warn against support for UN report
(The Independent) A jittery Israeli government reacted furiously yesterday after a top British diplomat voiced support for aspects of a UN report that could lead to prosecution of Israeli army officers for alleged war crimes.
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The Region: Sacrificing peace for propaganda points
(Jerusalem Post) Barry Rubin writes, "Should the Palestinian Authority be the main advocate pushing acceptance of the bizarre Goldstone Report in order to demonize Israel at the UN, or might it just stand aside and let a couple of dozen Arab and Muslim-majority states take the lead in doing so? This is - or should be - a minor issue, but it has escalated to push the real barrier to solving the Arab-Israeli conflict into everyone's face once again."
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Goldstone Backs Away from Report: The Two Faces of an International Poseur
(Hudson NY) Alan Dershowitz writes, "With so much (though not all) of the civilized world justly condemning (or ignoring) the Goldstone report for its distortion of the facts and its one-sided condemnation of Israel, Richard Goldstone himself now seems to be backing away from the report’s conclusions­at least when he speaks to his Jewish audiences."
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Hamas's PR Campaign Against the Authority
(Asharq Alawsat) Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed writes, "Everyone knows that Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas differs much from his predecessor, the late Yasser Arafat, in his method of managing crises. Had Abu-Ammar [Yasser Arafat] been alive and had he come under such a publicity attack over the Goldstone report, he would have rushed to deny and denounce and may have used someone as a scapegoat.”
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Palestinians, allies reopen Gaza war crimes debate
(Washington Post) The U.N. Human Rights Council will reopen the debate about alleged war crimes in Gaza later this week after Palestinians succeeded in gathering enough support to call a special meeting.
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Palestinians disappointed in Obama
(YNet) Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments on Monday that there will be no peace agreement without Palestinian recognition of the State of Israel as a Jewish State, pressure has been mounting against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from within his Fatah party to declare that there will be no return to the negotiations table under these conditions.
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Hamas incitement over Jerusalem fails to ignite West Bank
(Haaretz) Avi Issacharoff writes, “The protests by Palestinians on Friday were not enough even to appear to be pathetic copies of the demonstrations during the first days of the two intifadas, in December 1987 and late September 2000.”
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Hamas Struggles To Get A Big One
(Strategy Page) Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that runs Gaza, is having supply problems. And the Israelis want to keep it that way.
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Syria supplying long-range missiles to Hezbollah
(Haaretz) Syria has supplied the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah with about a quarter of its arsenal of middle- and long-range missiles, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida on Thursday quoted Israeli security sources as saying.
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'Iran pays, Syria smuggles, and Hezbollah receives weapons'
(Haaretz) The Israel Defense Forces released photographs of the southern Lebanon village where a Hezbollah arms depot exploded on Monday. The photos show persons, possibly Hezbollah operatives, removing something resembling a 4-meter-long missile from the depot and moving it to a different hiding place.
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Jewish Leaders, Israel at Odds Over Ties With Muslim Group
(Forward) The Muslim World League, an organization emerging as a ubiquitous presence on the interfaith conference circuit, boasts close ties to the Saudi monarchy and produces a magazine that has published antisemitic screeds. That dual identity has put Jewish groups in a bind in deciding how to relate to the group and its high-profile interfaith forums.
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EUROPE
 
Hillary Clinton fears over Kaminski
(The Jewish Community Online) The row over the Conservative Party's alliance with right-wing political parties in Europe intensified this week after it emerged that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised concerns about the issue during her visit to Britain last weekend.
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Miliband sees red over Tory Euro-alliance
(The Jewish Community Online) When David Miliband read the JC last Friday, he blew a gasket. The cause of his fury was the interview with Michal Kaminski, Polish MEP and leader of the Tories’ new allies in the European Parliament, the European Conservatives and Reformists.
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French Physicist at Atom Lab Questioned as Terror Suspect
(Wall Street Journal) A French physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher who is suspected of links to al Qaeda appeared Monday before a magistrate who will decide whether to file preliminary charges against him.
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EU leaders vow to fight Antisemitism in Europe
(European Jewish Press) The leaders of the European Union institutions strongly vowed to fight Antisemitism and all other forms of racism and xenophobia and to promote European values of tolerance, freedom and human rights.
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European Jewish Congress Office Opens in Brussels With Iran & Antisemitism High On The Agenda
(Yeshiva World News) the European Jewish Congress (EJC) opened its new offices in Brussels to press European institutions on matters of importance to the Jewish community.
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Antisemitism, racism marring Hungarian politics, Jewish leader tells CoE
(Politics.hu) The head of Hungary's federation of Jewish organisations Mazsihisz, Peter Feldmajer, met the Council of Europe's human rights commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg, on Tuesday and briefed him on what he called disturbing signs of racism and Antisemitism in today's Hungary.
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Fidesz group leader meets fellow MP over "antisemitic" remark
(Budapest Times) The main opposition Fidesz party's group leader met Oszkar Molnar, a Fidesz MP, to discuss remarks he made recently which are widely seen as antisemitic.
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NORTH AMERICA
 
Why so serious?
(CBC News) The Coen brothers explain (sort of) their semi-autobiographical new comedy, A Serious Man.
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U.S. Considers a New Assessment of Iran Threat
(Wall Street Journal) U.S. spy agencies are considering whether to rewrite a controversial 2007 intelligence report that asserted Tehran halted its efforts to build nuclear weapons in 2003, current and former U.S. intelligence officials say.
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Sorrow Over an Antisemitic Miscarriage of Justice, Rendered in Sotto Voce
(NY Times) New York Theater Review: T.R. Knight plays Leo Frank a Jewish factory superintendent wrongly accused of murdering a teenage girl in the musical “Parade.”
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Non-Christians Find Cross Hard to Bear
(Bloomberg) Ann Woolner writes that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia…sounded appallingly ignorant regarding the question of the constitutionality of a Christian cross on government land to memorialize the American dead of World War I.
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UC Irvine sends fundraising complaint to feds
(AP) A University of California campus has asked the U.S. Justice Department to look into allegations that money raised at a Muslim student group event went to a terrorist organization.
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Dates set for hearings into Antisemitism
(Jewish Tribune) Public hearings of the Canadian Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism will start on Oct. 26 on Parliament Hill. The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism (CPCCA) launched its inquiry into antisemitism in June with an open call for written submissions.
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Weekly Quotes
(Source - Canadian Institute for Jewish Research)
 
"Those Israelis who are going to make peace with their neighbors are going to be asked to take immense risks, extraordinary risks with themselves, their families, their children. In order to take those risks, they need to be able to trust the [Obama] administration. It's crucial.... That doesn't mean we agree on everything or there aren't obstacles to overcome. There is nothing in my experience up to this point that would suggest in any way that that is changing."-Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, during a speech at the Hudson Institute in Washington, referring to a recent poll that showed that only 4 percent of Israelis approved of U.S. President Barack Obama. Oren insisted that Obama must do more to improve his standing in the eyes of Israelis, but that "there is no crisis going on" in Israeli-American diplomatic relations. (Jerusalem Post, Oct. 9) 

"We do not have a partner for peace in terms of emotions. The peace that we have and the peace that will come is not romantic. It will not come from love, but from necessity. That kind of peace is better for us than a process with no end. We didn't dream about peace that way, but that is what there is."-Israeli President Shimon Peres, speaking at the opening of the winter session of the Knesset, stating that Israel's goal is to make progress on peace, not to dally in negotiations. (JerusalemPost, Oct. 13) 

"I want to give a message to the Taliban that what we did with you in Swat, we will do the same to you there, too."-Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, reacting to the Taliban attack on the army's operations headquarters that left 23 people dead, vowing to reduce the Taliban in South Waziristan as it did in Swat Valley. (New York Times, Oct. 11-12) 

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. [He] created a new climate in international politics.... Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."-The Nobel Committee, in a press release, awarding the 2009 Peace Prize to the U.S. president.

"The burka has absolutely no place in Canada. In Canada we recognize the equality of men and women. We want to recognize gender equality as an absolute. The burka marginalizes women."-Farzana Hassan, a spokesperson for the Muslim Canadian Congress, calling for a ban on the burka and niqab full-body. Hassan said many women who cover their face in public are being forced to do so by their husbands and family. "The Koran exhorts Muslims toward modesty, which can be expressed in a number of different ways and it doesn't have to be that you have to cover your face or you have to wear a virtual tent wherever you go. This is not a requirement of Islam or the Koran. We are saying this practice has become a political issue promoted by extremists and to counter this trend we are asking for a ban on the burka." (National Post, Oct. 8) 

"The eventual plan for which the group was training was an attack which would cripple infrastructure and involved attacking Parliament and blowing up truck bombs."-the public statement of facts agreed to by the Canadian Public Prosecutor and Zakaria Amara, the leader of the "Toronto18" terrorist group, announcing Amara's guilty plea. Amara has admitted to "an al-Qaeda-inspired" plot to detonate a massive truck bomb in downtown Toronto. He had already built and tested the detonators and was attempting to acquire the ammonium nitrate and nitric acid required for such a bomb. RCMP investigators also found plans for an attack on Parliament Hill. Amara is the fourth of the eighteen suspects arrested in a June 2006 sting operation to plead guilty. (National Post, Oct. 9) 

"The linkage between [the Taliban and al-Qaeda] is, at this moment, beneficial for both of them...there are different goals and different aims for the two groups, but they have a mutual benefit in co-operating and being linked.And then, on top of that, they have the mutual common enemy in the infidels, and the Western world and America, and that is connecting them as brothers."-An anonymous member of the intelligence team working for NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, explaining the ongoing alliance between the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Military officials say this alliance gives Osama bin Laden's group a wide territory to operate within Afghanistan. Any increase in the Taliban's power will increase the potential power base of international terrorism. (Globe and Mail, Oct. 13, New York Times, Oct. 10) 

Short Takes

TERROR CELL CO-LEADER GIVES UNEXPECTED GUILTY PLEA-( Ottawa ) Zakaria Amara, 24, became the fifth member of the "Toronto18" to be convicted since the group's arrest in 2006, after unexpectedly pleading guilty. Prosecutors said some of the remaining accused members were peripheral players who did not have full knowledge of Mr. Amara's plan to damage the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Toronto office of Canada's intelligence service and a military base. The planned bombings were intended to terrorize Canadians and cripple the economy, forcing Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. (Canadian Press, New York Times, Oct. 9) 

PA SEEKS UN CENSURE OF ISRAEL OVER GAZA, TEMPLE MOUNT-(Jerusalem) The UN Human Rights Council's planned deliberation over the recent Goldstone report on last winter's Gaza offensive will also deal with Jerusalem, and the recent Temple Mount Riots. The Israeli Foreign Ministry is facing a diplomatic battle ahead of the Council vote, scheduled to take place Monday. The Palestinian Authority and a group of Arab countries intend to submit a resolution censuring Israel and demanding unhindered Palestinian access to all holy sites, including the Temple Mount. According to a political source in Jerusalem, the main motivation behind the Palestinian request to discuss the Goldstone report came from "Israeli provocations in Jerusalem" (the Palestinian Authority's initial decision not to have the report discussed was criticized by Hamas and Arab states). (Ha'aretz, Oct. 14) 

  ISRAEL: LEBANON TURNING BLIND EYE TO HEZBOLLAH ARMS-(Jerusalem) Israel accused the Lebanese army on Tuesday of letting Hezbollah rebuild its military infrastructure. The accusation came one day after an official in the Shi'ite terrorist group died in a blast at one of its arms caches in south Lebanon. The Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gabriela Shalev, made a formal complaint to the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, and to the president of the Security Council. She said the explosion in the village of Tayr Filsi violated the UN resolution that ended the Second Lebanon War between Israel and Hezbollah. Resolution 1701 called for the disarmament of Hezbollah and banned paramilitary forces south of the Litani River. (Ha'aretz, Oct. 14) 

ISRAELI NGOs LEAD RELIEF EFFORTS IN PHILLIPINES-( Jerusalem ) Over the last week, a delegation of six Israeli volunteers has treated over 600 typhoon victims for water-related diseases in the Philippines. The help is coordinated by IsraAID, a coalition of Jewish and Israeli NGOs which provide relief work and education abroad. Members of the Fast Israeli Rescue & Search Team (FIRST)-arrived in the Philippines Oct. 10, a week after typhoon Parma made landfall. Parma and typhoon Ketsana, which hit in late September, have left over 650 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. (JerusalemPost, Oct. 13) 

TURKEY SNUBS ISRAEL, FLIRTS WITH SYRIA-( Istanbul )Syria said on Tuesday it would hold military exercises with Turkey. The announcement came shortly after Turkey had unilaterally cancelled manoeuvres with Israel. Recently, Turkish military officials allegedly approached the IDF with a surprising demand that Israel refrain from participating in this week's NATO air force exercises. Meanwhile, Turkey and Syria held a day of meetings and ceremonies Tuesday that signalled an era of improving relations between the countries. (Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Oct. 12) 

PAKISTANI ROLE SUSPECTED IN BLAST NEAR INDIAN EMBASSY-(Kabul) A car packed with explosives blew up beside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing seventeen people in the second direct attack on the embassy compound in two years. The two attacks on the embassy, both suicide car bombings, immediately raised suspicions of Pakistani involvement. Zabiullah Mujahed, a Taliban spokesman, claimed his group was behind this latest attack. But U.S. commanders, who believe the Taliban in Afghanistan are a set of related insurgencies that crisscross regions and countries, said it was unclear which group was responsible. (New York Times, National Post, Oct. 9) 

IRANIAN NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS DEFECT TO U.S.-( New York ) Two Iranian nuclear scientists who mysteriously disappeared in recent weeks have reportedly defected to the U.S. Reports of the defection have caused considerable embarrassment to the regime in Tehran. The reports first broke in the Saudi-owned newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat, and suggest that at least one scientist, Shahram Amiri, who worked on nuclear research and development, defected several months ago to the West during the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. One more person, whose identity and specialization remain unclear, was arrested in Georgia a few weeks ago and agreed to defect as well. (New YorkPost, Oct. 8; Ha'aretz, Oct. 9) 

SUICIDE BOMBINGS, TERROR ATTACKS ROCK PAKISTAN-( Islamabad ) At least 125 people have been killed in a series of blasts and attacks in Pakistan in the past week. A suicide bomber, reported to be just 13 years old, struck in northwest Pakistan, killing 45 people Monday. An audacious raid by Islamist terrorists, wearing army uniforms, on the Pakistani army headquarters near Islamabad left 23 people dead this past weekend. A suicide bomber walked into the lobby of the Islamabad offices of the U.N.'s World Food program Oct. 5, killing five people, and a massive car bomb Oct. 9 killed 52 people in Peshawar. (Wall Street Journal, Oct. 11; National Post, Globe and Mail, Oct. 13) 

IRANIAN REGIME CLAMPS DOWN ON DISSENTERS-( Cairo ) Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps has moved to tighten its grip on that country, most recently with its takeover of a majority share in the nation's telecommunications monopoly. The nearly $8 billion acquisition is yet another indication that the paramilitary force has reached far beyond its military capacity and evolved into the nation's most powerful political and economic force. Meanwhile, government officials have sentenced to death three protesters who took to the streets following the nation's disputed presidential election in June. The death sentences are the first to be made public in cases involving hundreds charged in the vast protests that followed the government's declaration of victory for incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (New York Times, Oct. 9 &11) 

RUSSIA DISMISSES TALK OF IRAN SANCTIONS-(Moscow) Rejecting U.S. hopes for a diplomatic consensus on sanctions against Iran, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has said that new sanctions would be "counterproductive." Lavrov said that, in light of the meeting in Geneva earlier this month in which the Iranians agreed to allow UN inspectors access the clandestine nuclear facility at Qom, diplomacy should be given a chance to work. (Globe and Mail, Oct. 14) 

U.S. BUYING BUNKER BUSTERS-(New York) The Pentagon has put out a rush order on a new class of fifteen-ton "Massive Ordinance Penetrator" (MOP) bunker-buster bombs. The laser-guided bombs, which carry a payload of over 2500kg of explosives and are claimed to be able to penetrate 70 meters of concrete, are designed to destroy underground fortified nuclear installations. The MOP bombs-the first four being operational by 2010-are the largest and most powerful in the U.S. arsenal. (New York Post, Oct. 14)

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR MISUSES EDELMAN'S DEATH TO EQUATE ISRAELIS WITH NAZIS
(Note by Tom Gross) The death of Marek Edelman has provided Joseph Massad, an associate professor of modern Arab politics at Columbia University in New York, with yet another opportunity to equate Israelis with Nazis. In an article posted today on the website of the magazine Socialist Worker, Massad is quoted belittling the Holocaust, delegitimizing the state of Israel, and claiming that Israelis are to Palestinians what the Nazis were to the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto.