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The Alpha-Omega Report's

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Middle East News Spotlight

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For May 16, 2010

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According to Turkish media, Iran will transport its uranium to Turkey for enrichment in an effort to resolve the international uproar over Iran's nuclear program. More details, LINK HERE.

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We reported earlier this month in our Intelligence Digest report for donors that President Obama had threatened Israel with calling for an international, global summit that would impose a peace settlement on Israel including a Palestinian state with borders similar to the boundaries of 1948.

Now we find confirmation of our earlier reports in the form of an article from WorldNetDaily. You can read their follow to our rearliler report at the LINK HERE.

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Beset by questions about the future of Jerusalem in talks with the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin reached for the Bible on Wednesday to stake out the Jewish state's disputed claim on the city.

Netanyahu told a parliamentary session commemorating Israel's capture of East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war that "Jerusalem" and its alternative Hebrew name "Zion" appear 850 times in the Old Testament, Judaism's core canon.

"As to how many times Jerusalem is mentioned in the holy scriptures of other faiths, I recommend you check," he said.

Citing such ancestry, Israel calls all of Jerusalem its "indivisible" capital -- a designation not recognised abroad, where many powers support Palestinian claims to East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

Jerusalem, at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is also revered by Muslims because it houses al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine after Mecca and Medina, on a plaza Jews revere as the vestige of two biblical Jewish temples.

Heckled by a lawmaker from Israel's Arab minority, Netanyahu offered a lesson in comparative religion from the lectern.

"Because you asked: Jerusalem is mentioned 142 times in the New Testament, and none of the 16 various Arabic names for Jerusalem is mentioned in the Koran. But in an expanded interpretation of the Koran from the 12th century, one passage is said to refer to Jerusalem," he said.

Asked about Netanyahu's citations, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said: "I find it very distasteful this use of religion to incite hatred and fear."

For much more on this story, .

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Israeli officials claimed last week that they have evidence that North Korea is shipping weapons of mass destruction to Syria.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly told Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama in Tokyo that such activity threatened to destabilize east Asia as well as the Middle East. For more details, .

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Russian President Medvedev met with Syrian President Assad this past week on a visit to Damascus. One topic of discussion was the prospect of Russia building a nuclear power plant for Syria. For more on this story, LINK HERE.

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Russia appears to be marketing itself to 2nd and 3rd world nations as "the contractor" nation willing to build nuclear power plants for profit, yet there is a political agenda. Russia is bent on marketing its nuclear technology to the Islamic world. It's the preliminary step towards a nuclear arms race.

For more details on the Turk-Russian deal, LINK HERE.

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Russia's Foreign Minister has warned the U.S. and other western nations against imposing unilateral sanction against Iran. More details, .

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