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Russia supports Syria, Iran ramps up support to Hezbollah.  By gowidenews Oct 27, 2018 8:51 A.M From the report reaching us says that "If Hezbollah succeeds in converting these missiles, the new situation would represent a significant risk to Israeli airports, power stations, the Dimona nuclear reactor, and more." Iran reportedly delivered GPS components to Hezbollah in Lebanon that will allow the group to transform rudimentary projectiles into precision-guided missiles, thereby increasing the threat to Israel. Western intelligence services believe Tehran has shifted its strategy by increasingly shipping weaponry directly to its proxy in Beirut, with a view to evading Israeli air strikes. According to the report which says that The Israel Defense Forces has over the past two years conducted hundreds of attacks in Syria to prevent such arms deliveries. Meanwhile, Russia last week upped its military support to the Assad regime with the transfer of three S-300PM-2...

Israel: Russian air defense systems will not protect Iranian forces in Syria  Updated By Gowidenews  Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00:45 AM Report reaching us says that Israel is convinced that it will be able to attack the Iranian forces in Syria even now that Iran’s partner, Russia, has transferred S-300 anti-air defense systems to Syria. In an interview with Voice of America’s Persian service in Jerusalem, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Michael Oren said that the Russian S-300 systems “will pose a problem, but one which can be overcome”. “Israel has been overcoming such problems since the day of its creation in 1948,” Oren observed, “We will overcome this, if we have to.” Russia sent the S-300 systems to its ally Syria following an incident on September 17, when the Syrian military accidentally shot down a Russian reconnaissance plane while trying to fend off an Israeli air attack. At the time, the Syrian troops were using less advanced S-200 systems. Israel cl...

Israel Sends a Warning to Iran and Hezbollah By gowidenews updated Oct 27, 2018 From our report center says that the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses an April 15 election rally in the Bekaa Valley via a video link. JNS.org – The recent disclosure of Hezbollah’s covert activity along the Lebanese border with Israel is part of the wide-scale campaign Israel is waging against the terrorist organization and its Iranian patron. Under cover of an environmental advocacy group, the observation posts are themselves of tactical significance: They allow Hezbollah to maintain a presence on the border in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brought an end to the Second Lebanon War, and to regularly collect intelligence to direct operational activity inside Israeli territory in real time. But the disclosure is in fact of even greater significance. By exposing Hezbollah’s efforts on the border, Israel is in fact demanding the international community enforce ...

In Trump We Trust? Israel and the Trump Administration. By gowidenews Friday, October 26, 2018, 8:00 AM Updated October 27, 2018 7:00 A.M Report reaching us says that the For many Israelis, the embrace and policies of the Trump administration seem like an overwhelming win. President Trump has good relations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, certainly as compared with President Obama (the distaste was mutual). In addition, many of Trump’s senior officials vie with one another to maintain good relations with Jerusalem. Gone are the days when a U.S. administration would chastise Israel for building more settlements in the West Bank or killing civilians in Gaza. Instead, Trump’s administration has moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, cut aid to Palestinian refugees, ripped up the 2015 Iran deal, and otherwise embraced many of Israel’s long-standing demands. In addition, Trump’s muscular rhetoric and his administration’s hostility to Muslims play well with Israelis who felt Ob...

UN says Syria is blocking efforts to draft new constitution By gowidenews October 26 at 4:14 PM Report reaching out to us says that The U.N. envoy for Syria urged its close ally Russia and world leaders on Friday to try to overcome President Bashar Assad’s opposition to the formation of a committee to draft a new constitution that is key to ending the country’s civil war. Staffan de Mistura told the Security Council the U.N. faces “a serious challenge” as a result of the government’s objection. But he expressed hope that high-level meetings planned in the coming weeks will spur a solution and enable him to launch a 150-member committee to draft a constitution before he steps down in late November. De Mistura welcomed an invitation to brief the leaders of Russia, France, Germany and Turkey in Istanbul on Saturday and said he will ask them to “seize the opportunity” of relative calm in rebel-held Idlib and use their influence to spur a speedy solution on the composition of the...

US Missile Defense System Intercepts Medium-Range Missile In Test  By gowidenews 26 Oct, 2018 From report reaching us says that The US anti-missile station Aegis Ashore Romania is pictured at the military base in Deveselu, Romania on May 12, 2016. WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (gowidenews) - The U.S. military said it successfully tested a key missile defense system on Friday, in a milestone that experts say shows a growing U.S. capability to knock down an incoming, medium-range missile from countries like North Korea and Iran. The Aegis system used in the latest test was fitted with a Standard Missile 3 Block IIA (SM-3 IIA) interceptor being developed in a joint venture between Raytheon Co and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. It was the second successful intercept in a row for the SM-3 IIA and will give the U.S. Missile Defense Agency more confidence that it has resolved design flaws that previously caused intercept failures, U.S. officials said, speaking on condition o...

Four dead in Gaza protests with Israeli military  By gowidenews 26 Oct, 2018 Report reaching us says that ِA Palestinian protester drags a burning tire during a protest in the Gaza Strip on October 19. Protests Friday left four Palestinians dead. Photo by Ismael Mohamad/UPI. | License Photo Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Four Palestinians died Friday during protests that turned violent at the Gaza-Israel border, the Gaza Ministry of Health said. Palestinian officials said another 230 people sustained injuries from live bullets and rubber-coated steel rounds, or ill effects from teargas inhalation. Among the injured were 35 children and four paramedics. Israel Defense Forces said 16,000 people participated in the protest at the border, some of who threw stones, fire bombs and grenades at troops. Protesters allegedly breached the border fence during two instances. Palestinian news agency WAFA identified the dead as Ayesh Sha'th, 23, Saeed Abu Lebdeh, 22, Nassar Abu Taym, 23, and Moha...

No Wonder America Is Divided. We Can't Even Agree on What Our Values Mean  Report reaching us says that An American flag that circles the Washington Monument is seen split nearly in two June 12, 2018. By gowidenews 12:43 PM Luntz is a pollster and communication advisor.  He is conducting focus groups for HBO and Vice News ahead of the 2018 elections. These days, it feels like any group of three or more Americans talking politics can’t make it past the first minute before the animosity and cynicism boils over and derails the conversation. Too many of us are too angry to listen, to learn or — God forbid — to work together to get anything done. Even our language is being torn apart. We are increasingly unable to agree on common meanings for common words — including those that define our nation’s most fundamental values. For example, earlier this year, I asked a focus group in Orlando, “Is America exceptional?” Almost all Republicans said yes, along with half of th...

Newt Gingrich just revealed what the Kavanaugh fight was really about The former Republican House speaker suggested Kavanaugh would help stop the release of Trump’s tax returns if Democrats subpoena them.  By gowidenews Oct 26, 2018, 12:20pm Report reaching us says that the Republicans fought tooth and nail to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in spite of serious allegations of sexual misconduct in his past (which he denies) and questions of his character and truthfulness under oath. Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich just explained why: If Democrats take back control of the House and try to investigate President Donald Trump, they might subpoena Trump’s tax returns, and Gingrich predicts the fight would go all the way to the Supreme Court. “We’ll see whether or not the Kavanaugh fight was worth it,” Gingrich said in an interview with the Washington Post. With Kavanaugh’s confirmation, the Supreme Court is the most ideologically conservative...

INEC, EFCC Independent Buhari- Presidency On October 26, 2018   4:17 pm By gowidenews Report reaching us says that Presidency has reacted to claims that President Muhammadu Buhari influences major agencies in the country, especially the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. President Muhammadu Buhari displaying the APC 2019 Presidential Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms CBN urges industrialists to access, utilize financing schemes for business growth Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina made the statement on Thursday in an interview on Channels Television. According to him, President Buhari does not interfere with INEC and neither does he interfere with EFCC and other agencies. Buhari, again, challenges Europe, U.S.A. on recharge of Lake Chad This is following some accusations, especially by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that President Buhari interferes with many age...

Buhari, again, challenges Europe, U.S.A. on recharge of Lake Chad  By gowidenews On October 26, 2018  3:30 pm From our report reaching us says that the Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the greatest investment Europe and America can make in Africa now is helping the continent accomplish inter-basin water transfer to recharge the Lake Chad. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, said in a statement on Friday, that Buhari stated this when he hosted the Chairman of the African Union Commission, Mr Moussa Faki Mahamat, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to the report which says that Buhari noted that Lake Chad, which provided a means of livelihood to several millions of people in four countries – Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria – had shrunken to 10 per cent of its original size, due to the impact of climate change. Nobody‘ll remove Oshiomhole, we will stop it – Senator Omo-Agege He observed that people w...

Boko Haram: Ahmed Salkida speaks on only chance Leah Sharibu, Alice have on October 26, 2018 By gowidenews Report reaching us says that the Nigerian journalist, Ahmad Salkida, known to have built close links with the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram and ISWAP on information generation has said that, the controversy created by the technical defeat of Boko Haram was created by the Buhari-led administration to achieve political gain rather than address the conflict sincerely in the lake chad region. Salkida in a tweet yesterday, wrote that the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has not recovered from the fallout of his extreme and tight-fisted rule, which led to a split in 2016. He said, “Many may argue that the splinter group (ISWAP), is now as extreme as Shekau, but insiders disagree, that there is freedom of expression in ISWAP. “To many insiders, the execution of an overrated Mamman Nur and two aid workers would have been carried out by Shekau if he was faced with similar...