ההרוגים בתאונת המטוס: שני אחים, חברם וטייסת

בתאונת המטוס הקטלנית ליד המושב בצרה נהרגו שני האחים מחדרה, אבירם פסטרנק בן ה-32, ואחיו איתי בן ה-25, חברם מנחם זכריה בן 33 מנתניה, וכן הטייסת, אליאב ארבל בת ה-30 מכרמי יוסף. עד ראייה: "שמעתי צעקות היסטריות מהמטוס ואז הוא פגע בעצמה בשדה"

התרסקות המטוס הקטלנית אתמול על יד המושב בצרה גבתה אתמול (ו') את חייהם של ארבעה, בהם שני אחים מחדרה, אבירם פסטרנק, בן 32, ואחיו איתי בן ה-25. שני ההרוגים הנוספים הם חברת של השניים, מנחם זכריה בן 33 מנתניה, וכן הטייסת, אליאב ארבל בת ה-30 מכרמי יוסף.

זירת התרסקות המטוס בבצרה שבשרון צילום: עומר מסינגרשעות ספורות לאחר התרסקות המטוס סמוך למושב שבשרון, סיפרו עדי ראייה על המראות הקשים. "שמעתי צעקות היסטריות מתוך המטוס ואז הוא פגע בעוצמה בשדה", סיפר ל-nrg מעריב תושב בצרה. "כל חלקי המטוס עפו לכל הצדדים". פארמדיק: "הליך זיהוי הגופות עלול לארוך שעות". סמוך לשעה 16:30 אחר הצהריים דיווח מגדל הפיקוח בשדה התעופה בהרצליה כי מטוס קל מסוג ססנה השייך לבית הספר לטיסה בעיר איבד את הקשר עם המגדל. על פי הדיווח, המטוס נעלם ממסכי המכ"ם באיזור מושב בצרה. מיד עם קבלת הדיווח במוקד משטרת מחוז המרכז, הוזעקו כוחות גדולים של משטרה כדי לבצע סריקות במקום. במקביל, החלו להתקבל דיווחים מתושבי המושב על פיצוץ שנשמע בשטח פתוח באיזור. על פי הדיווחים, במטוס היו טייס ושלושה נוסעים. המנוע של המטוס כבה
"שמענו רעש מוזר כמו של טרקטור ואז המנוע של המטוס כבה", סיפר תושב בצרה, תום חן. "ראינו אותו מתחיל ליפול במהירות כלפי הקרקע. שמעתי צעקות היסטריות מתוך המטוס ואז הוא פגע בעוצמה בשדה תות. ישבתי ליד השדה ואז כל חלקי המטוס עפו לכל הצדדים". חן
הוסיף כי "המטוס התרסק בכניסה למושב בצרה, רק מטרים ספורים מכביש מספר 4 שהיה עמוס בכלי רכב. היה לנו הרבה מזל שהמטוס לא פגע באחד מכלי הרכב שחלף בכביש אלא פגע בשדה". מיקי כפרי, פארמדיק של מד"א מתחנת ירקון שהגיע למקום, סיפר גם הוא ל-nrg מעריב שעם הגעתנו לשטח, הצליחו הכוחות לחלץ שתי גופות של נוסעי המטוס.

Baran Israel reveals: Lebanese Shiite Figures visited Jerusalem

Anti-Hezbollah Lebanese Shiite figures visited Israel's capital earlier this year, political sources told Baran Israel stating that these figures met with MKs and cabinet ministers including outgoing FM Tsebi Levni and Defence Minister Ehuda Barak.

The sources said both Mr A. A the son of a former speaker and Mr O. S paid each apart a visit under special measures where neither Visa's were Issured nor passports stamped and travelled via a safe diplomatic passage from the Jordanian side.

Mr A. A clearified to Israeli officials the view point of the Shiite silent majority that is terrified by terror group Hezbollah, stating that his people are peace seekers and share with the Jewish community in Israel the status of being a minority in the heart of a Sunni dominated Arab world.

The second guest Mr O. S said he regards Israel a friend of the Lebanese people in general and especially the Shiites, recalling Israel's development of the area it occupied in Southern Lebanon.

Mr O. S called on the Israeli goverment to embrace the Lebanese community in Israel and urged it to provide them with all what it can in return to their services during the Israeli presence in Lebanon.

باران إسرائيل العربية: خدمة للجمهور الأخر

جديدنا أخبار باللغة العربية..قريبا جدا

NEW REPORT FOR CENTURY FOUNDATION FROM RETIRED AIR FORCE COLONEL SAM GARDINER WARNS OF DANGERS OF ESCALATION IN U.S.-IRAN

The following information was released by the Century Foundation:
In it s waning months of power, the Bush administration has advanced a variety of escalating pressures against Iran that could trigger an unintended confrontation and tie the next president's hands, argues retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner in a new paper for The Century Foundation. Among them, he writes, are covert operations through proxy groups inside Iran.
In Dangerous and Getting More Dangerous: The Delicate Situation between the United States and Iran, Gardiner suggests that the U.S. policy on Iran is "in conflict with itself." He writes that on the public side, the United States is working to change Iranian behavior by insisting that the Islamic Republic stop nuclear enrichment, stop involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and stop support of groups such as Hezbollah.
However, Gardiner argues, the United States is taking covert actions that can only be read in Tehran as working to change the Iranian regime-and would likely have the perverse result of strengthening those inside the Iranian power structure who are the most adamant in refusing to change course. Gardiner warns that this is not only bad policy, but also dangerous policy.
The report is a follow-up to Gardiner's 2006 report for The Century Foundation, The End of the "Summer of Diplomacy": Assessing the US Military Options on Iran. In that report, he discussed the pressures that were moving the United States toward the military option against Iran. In the new report, he describes how the United States policy has evolved over the past two years, moving more and more toward covert operations, as policymakers have come to see the costs of "preventive" military attack as prohibitive. He offers evidence of recent covert operations in Iran. He also considers Israel's role as a strategic rival to Iran in the region, and he assesses the ways the Iranians have reacted-and might react in the near future -- to what they deduce are hostile actions by the United States and Israel.
Gardiner makes recommendations to reduce the danger of an unintended escalation of violence. He argues for:
An agreement with Iran dealing with incidents at sea,
A congressional review of targeted killing and assassination as instruments of policy,
Making it clear that regime change in Iran is not U.S policy,
Being more critical of the assumptions behind U.S. policy-such as Iran is an existential threat to Israel and Iran would give nuclear weapons to terrorists.
Sam Gardiner is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel who has taught strategy and military operations at the National War College, Air War College, and Naval War College. In the writing of this report, Gardinerdraws on his long experience of forecasting crisis scenarios and running military war games that examine the use of force in the Middle East. "The situation has become very fragile and may well take on a life of its own," he writes in Dangerous and Getting M or e Dangerous. "The situation is likely to become more delicate and more explosive in the final months of the Bush administration and in the early months of a new U.S. administration."

Senior Israeli general missing during a visit to Turkey

Gen. S.P went missing ten days ago during a visit to the Turkish city of Istanbul Israeli military sources revelead to Baran Israel.
According to the sources, the missing general was on vacation with a close friend who lost communication with him three days after arriving in the Turkish city.
Israeli high rank security officials headed to turkey to discuss with Authorities a search plan taking in consideration the possibility that Gen. S.P might have been vaporised out of Turkey in case he is kidnapped by Hezbollah or any of its affliates.
Baran Israel will bring you the latest on the story whenever available.

Father, forgive me, I will not fight for your Israel

Conscience of the Israeli spymaster’s daughter

Omer Goldman is a very pretty girl, slender as a model. Never still and very restless, the expected loss of her freedom fills her with anxiety. For months before she refused to be drafted into the Israel Defence Forces she went to a psychologist every week to prepare for what was to come: incarceration in a cell in a military prison. A narrow cage for a songbird.
I met her several times during September, in an apartment, with other girls who are conscientious objectors. Together they would hand out flyers against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza at the gates of a high school like the one she completed a year ago.
On her last day of freedom as a civilian, I saw her at the gates of the intake base to which she had received orders to report for induction for a two-year stint with the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), like every Israeli girl. But she came to refuse the draft, to be tried and to be imprisoned immediately.
Several dozen supporters showed up - ­ members of Anarchists Against the Wall, her mother and a few girlfriends - and she stayed close to them as though she were trying to delay the end, the moment when she would clash all alone with the army.
For Omer, this transition is sharper and more surprising than for most conscientious objectors: she is the daughter of the outgoing deputy head of Mossad, the man who very nearly became head of the organisation.

Omer grew up all her life in the warm bosom of a huge security establishment that has now become an enemy rather than a friend. Her father appears in the newspapers as 'N'. He was a senior intelligence officer and then transferred to Mossad and climbed to the top until in 2007 he became the deputy to Mossad chief Meir Dagan (right), now considered the most powerful mystery man in the Israeli security establishment.
'N', who specialises in the dilemma of Iran,
was spoken of as Dagan's designated successor, but Dagan had no intention of retiring. Differences of opinion developed between two strong bosses and 'N' resigned in June 2007.
This was the time when his daughter Omer, a pampered child of the wealthy suburb Ramat Hasharon, was beginning to move away from the usual high school-to-army trajectory.
Parallel to her father's struggle and his resignation from Mossad, Omer rebelled against the way he had paved for her and went to have a look at Palestinian life on the other side of the wall. Call this an adolescent's rebellion against her father or a battle for the heart of a father who had left home.
She is one of about 40 high school students who signed the 2008 12th-graders' letter. Thirty-eight years ago, the first such letter caused a huge uproar. In April 1970 students from my final year in secondary school sent a letter to the prime minister, Golda Meir, against the occupation and the war of attrition. Since then there have been other letters and the uproar has died down. But in Israel conscientious objection still arouses cold, self-righteous wrath.
Omer told me that the crucial moment of her metamorphosis occurred this year when she went to a Palestinian village where the IDF had set up a roadblock. Someone she had considered her enemy all her life stood beside her and someone who was supposed to be defending her opened fire at her.
"We were sitting by the roadside talking and soldiers came along and after a few seconds they received an order and fired gas grenades and rubber bullets at us. Then it struck me, to my astonishment, that the soldiers were following an order without thinking. For the first time in my life an Israeli soldier raised his weapon and fired at me."
And when you told your father?
"Dad was astonished and angry that I had been there and endangered my life. After that we had conversations. He supported me as his daughter and we have a good relationship, but he is decidedly opposed to what I do and even more to my refusal to serve in the army.
"At first he thought this was a passing phase of adolescence and later he understood that this is coming from a place deep inside me. He and I have very similar characters. I, too, fight to the end for what I believe in. But we are opposites ideologically."
When I ask more about her father, Omer smiles and does not answer. A rare moment of silence. The beauty of her smile covers for everything.
On September 23 she refused to serve in the army, was tried and was sent to prison for 21 days. Next week she will be tried again - and again until the army tires or she tires.
In two weeks' time, my own son Noam is due to join the army and I will be accompanying him to the same base where I last saw Omer Goldman. Unlike Omer, Noam intends to do his military service. I understand them both.

Wafic Safa

Since Hezbollah�s boss of external security, Imad Mughniyeh. was assassinated in Damascus on Feb. 12,Wafic Safa has taken on wider powers. Born in 1960 in the village of Zibdin in southern Lebanon, Safa initially joined the Amal movement before changing his allegiance to �Hezbollah� when it was founded in 1982. He then travelled to Iran to follow courses in intelligence and subsequently went on to North Korea in 1990, forming part of a group of �Hezbollah� militants that included Hassan Nasrallah, then a medium-level official in the movement and now its chief. Safa returned to Lebanon in 1994 and quickly found himself working for Mughniyeh. However, he took over as boss of Hezbollah�s internal services in 1998. On May 7 of this year, Safa led the assault of �Hezbollah� fighters against Sunni neighborhoods in Beirut and in the mountains inhabited by Druzes. During the May battle with the latter fighters he lost his right-hand man, Hassan al Bourji. Very close to Nasrallah, Safa nonetheless has enemies within the movement. Among them, Naim Kassem, is particularly powerful as he happens to be the party�s number two man.