U.S. study: Iran has enough uranium for five nuclear bombs

Iran denies any plain to and says its aims are entirely peaceful.

Iran has significantly stepped up its output of low-enriched uranium and total production in the last five years would be enough for at least five nuclear weapons if refined much further, a U.S. security institute said.

The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a think-tank which tracks Iran's nuclear programme closely, based the analysis on data in the latest report by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which was issued on Friday.

Israel fears Iran talks will be nothing but a middle eastern bazaar

In the photo: IAEA chief Yukiya Amano.

Following the meeting between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran, optimistic reports have been circulated that Iran is finally surrendering to international demands regarding supervision of their nuclear program. IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said after the meeting in Tehran on Tuesday that despite some remaining differences, a deal has been reached that will allow his organizations to restart its work of supervision in Iran. This work has been suspended for four years due to Iranian refusal to cooperate.

Photojournalism: What’s Behind the Image?

Pictures speak a thousand words?

Ever wondered what the real story is behind the news photos you see every day? Sometimes photojournalists capture a tense moment with perfect timing, but other times the action is staged.

That’s what Italian photojournalist Ruben Salvadori realized when he was covering Palestinian protests in Judea and Samaria.

Top Commander Reiterates Iran’s Commitment to Full Annihilation of Israel

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Maj.-Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi said threats and pressures cannot deter Iran from its revolutionary causes and ideals, and stressed that the Iranian nation will remain committed to the full annihilation of the Zionist regime of Israel to the end. He told a defense gathering in Tehran on Sunday, “The Iranian nation is standing for its cause that is the full annihilation of Israel”.

The top military official reminded that the Iranian Supreme Leader considers defending Palestine as a full religious duty and believes that any kind of governance and rule by anyone other than the Palestinians is an instance of usurpation.

Sources: Fars (Iran) / Israel: Daily Alert

WATCH: Police investigating clash between settlers, Palestinians

The video footage was transfered to Judea and Samaria
District Police for investigation.

Judea and Samaria District Police is investigating a confrontation over the weekend between Israeli settlers from Yitzhar and Palestinians from the nearby village of Asira al-Qibliya.

Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem on Sunday released video footage that shows Palestinians hurling stones at the settlers who respond by firing live rounds. Israel Defense Forces soldiers witnessed the entire incident, but did nothing.

Jerusalem: 4000 Years in 5 Minutes

Watch below a documentary on the history of Jerusalem.

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Time magazine asks whether 'King Bibi' will make war or peace

What will Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do with his newfound political power — make war or peace? That's the question being asked on the cover of Time magazine's latest issue, as it tips its hat in recognition of "King Bibi" and his unprecedented political position after "conquering" Israel.

"The Palestinians won't have a better partner than me. I can make things happen and bring a sustainable peace," Netanyahu said in his interview with managing editor of Time, Richard Stengel. Netanyahu went on to explain that "peace treaties don't guarantee peace," adding that the Israelis and Palestinians have competing and incompatible narratives.

Can Islamists Be Liberals?

"What if democracy does not serve liberty?"

FOR years, foreign policy discussions have focused on the question of whether Islam is compatible with democracy. But this is becoming passé. In Tunisia and Egypt, Islamists, who were long perceived as opponents of the democratic system, are now promoting and joyfully participating in it. Even the ultra-Orthodox Salafis now have deputies sitting in the Egyptian Parliament, thanks to the ballots that they, until very recently, denounced as heresy.

Uncovering Early Islam

The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most important study of Islam ever. Written in German by a young Jewish Hungarian scholar, Ignaz Goldziher, and bearing the nondescript title Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien), it argued that the hadith, the vast body of sayings and actions attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, lacked historical validity. Rather than provide reliable details about Muhammad's life, Goldziher established, the hadith emerged from debates two or three centuries later about the nature of Islam.

1967 All Over Again? by Benny Morris

Israel’s new coalition echoes the unity government that came together on the eve of the Six Day War

Top: Levi Eshkol and Moshe Dayan touring the West Bank in September 1967. Bottom: Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz during a joint press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 8, 2012. (Top Israel National Photo Collection; bottom Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)

One thing’s certain: Tuesday’s sudden and dramatic expansion of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government—he now has the support of 94 Knesset members in the 120-seat house—considerably strengthens Netanyahu’s mandate to take what commentators insist on calling “historic steps.” But it is unclear whether the cooption of Shaul Mofaz and his Kadima faction makes an Israeli preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities more likely or more remote.

Arab Spring Spurs Palestinian Journalists to Test Free Speech Limits

Mahmoud Abbas

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Yousef Shayeb, 37, a Palestinian journalist from Ramallah, published an article in a Jordanian newspaper this year charging officials at the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Paris with corruption and espionage. In an interview here last week, he said that he had imagined people might thank him for his exposé. Instead, he spent eight days in a Palestinian Authority jail.

Jamal Abu Raihan, a Palestinian blogger, has been in prison for three weeks, after he posted a satirical column lampooning the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, as a donkey on a Facebook page he ran titled, “The people want an end to corruption.”

Leading candidate in Egypt presidential race calls Israel peace accord "dead and buried"

The agreement is a "ink on paper whose period of
authority is over".

The leading candidate in Egypt's presidential race said on Sunday that the Camp David Accords should be consigned to the shelves of history, describing the agreement as "dead and buried."

At a mass rally in southern Egypt, Amr Moussa, who is currently ahead in Egypt's race for president, spoke of the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, saying that "the Camp David Accords are a historical document whose place is on the shelves of history, as its articles talk about the fact that the aim of the agreement is to establish an independent Palestinian state."