IceCure’s incredible technology turns breast tumors into ice, new trials on lung cancer

By Ari Yashar, INN

Israeli company IceCure, developer of a treatment for breast tumors by freezing them into ice, is currently attempting to expand its technique into the treatment of lung cancer.

The site NoCamels reported Wednesday that the biomedical company specializing in cryoablation, a process of destroying diseased cells by freezing, will soon conduct its first clinical trials in Japan using the same technology on lung tumors.
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Iranian leaders urgently mull some nuclear flexibility.

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

Iranian leaders urgently mull some nuclear flexibility. Rouhani tells Khamenei: The cupboard is bare!DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 10, 2013, 5:41 PM (IDT) Tags: Iran nuclear, Geneva, Hassan Rouhani, Javad Zarif, sanctions, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif asked Sunday, Nov. 10 for an urgent meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the day after France aborted a nuclear accord at the Geneva conference with the six powers, DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources report.
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[This is a great letter. Too bad its not written in the name of the Government of Israel.]

The Hon. James Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State,

November 8, 2013

After listening to you declare repeatedly over the past weeks that “Israel’s settlements are illegitimate”, I respectfully wish to state, unequivocally, that you are mistaken and ill advised, both in law and in fact.

Pursuant to the “Oslo Accords”, and specifically the Israel-Palestinian Interim Agreement (1995), the “issue of settlements” is one of subjects to be negotiated in the permanent status negotiations. President Bill Clinton on behalf of the US, is signatory as witness to that agreement, together with the leaders of the EU, Russia, Egypt, Jordan and Norway.

Your statements serve to not only to prejudge this negotiating issue, but also to undermine the integrity of that agreement, as well as the very negotiations that you so enthusiastically advocate.
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By Jerry Gordan, Iconoclast

By David Solway, PJ MEDIA

Recently a close friend received a notice of libel for an article he had written detailing the unsavory ties between a notable Islamic organization and the Muslim Brotherhood. Although most of the evidence adduced in the piece was conclusive, there was a degree of reasonable interpretation based on a number of obscure passages on the organization’s website, which my friend did not hesitate to point out. Some of his language was perhaps intemperate, but not appreciably different from what has been posted and printed in innumerable blogs, websites and political volumes, certainly since 9/11. (See, for example, Miroslav Marinov’s devastating takedown of CAIR-CAN, rebadged as the National Council of Canadian Muslims, on Blog Wrath.) The article contained a minor glissando, in which the organization in question was conflated with another radicalsemblable, since the two groups had worked together on numerous occasions and shared the same notorious board member — a man who had declared his greatest hero to be Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, who regarded Hitler as a role model for Muslims. The acronymic error — one site’s alphabetical moniker mixed up with the other’s — was understandable in the circumstances and easily rectified. Read more…

By Prof. Efraim Inbar, BESA

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned of a return to Palestinian violence and Israel’s isolation if the faltering peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians ultimately fail. This is a typical leftist Pavlovian response to the impasse in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that is now over a decade old. Such thinking primarily reflects the frustration that the optimistic evaluations that the conflict can be ended quickly remain unfulfilled. Unfortunately, Kerry’s remarks tell the Palestinians to hold on to their maximalist positions. This reflects an inability to grasp the intricacies of protracted intractable ethnic conflict and a misguided American policy.
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HAARETZ

i24 LIVE

i24News – a first of its kind Israeli 24-hour international TV news station – has gone live. The station will broadcast in English, French and Arabic from its spanking new studios in the Jaffa port – to audiences across the globe.

Frank Melloul, 39, a Swiss-born former French diplomat who was instrumental in launching and running France’s 24 hour news station – France24, was brought in several months ago to build up and run the endeavor. He came at the request of Franco-Israeli telecom tycoon Patrick Drahi, the moneyman behind the project.

Drahi, the main shareholder in a French cable company called Numericable SA, which operates in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, entered the Israeli communications market three years by purchasing a controlling stake in the HOT cable TV company.
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By Steven Plaut

Aid to Terrorists

1.  The Knesset education committee will be holding an emergency session to discuss the “Aid-to-Terrorists” legal clinics run by the law school at the University of Haifa.  These “clinics” have been in the news in the past couple of weeks largely thanks to a report on them released by the Im Trtzu Zionist student organization.   The report was picked up and promoted by Maariv, including Op-Eds by a number of Maariv columnists demanding action against the University of Haifa, and also by Israel Hayom (the freebie newspaper that actually has the largest market share of any daily in Israel).  See this story: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13065

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By Tom Wilson , ARUTZ SHEVA

Europe is fast becoming a dark continent for Jews. That is the picture painted by a new survey from the European Agency for Fundamental Rights, released to coincide with the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogroms that took place in Germany 75 years ago.
Among the survey’s most startling revelations, and there are many, is that a large number of European Jews are considering leaving because of the persecution they experience in the countries they currently live in. The survey also shows a clear link between the demonization of Israel and attacks on Jews in Europe. Ironically, the upshot of all this anti-Zionist Jew hatred could well be the strengthening of the Jewish State as a growing number of European Jews seek a place of refuge.  Read more…

[Obama is outed as a foreigner, homosexual, prostitute and a compulsive liar.]

By Louis Charbonneau and Yeganeh Torbati, REUTERS

GENEVA (Reuters) – Barring a last-minute breakthrough, (negotiations have ended with no breakthrough) talks between Iran and six world powers on curbing Tehran’s nuclear ambitions were set to end without an agreement on Saturday as a split emerged between France and the other Western powers, diplomats said.

The latest round of talks began on Thursday and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry unexpectedly arrived on Friday to help narrow remaining differences on a deal that would freeze parts of Iran’s atomic program in exchange for sanctions relief.

While a deal appeared unlikely on Saturday, Western diplomats said the talks were expected to resume within a few weeks.
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By Andrew Higgins, NYT

HVIDOVRE, Denmark — As right-wing populists surge across Europe, rattling established political parties with their hostility toward immigration, austerity and the European Union, Mikkel Dencker of the Danish People’s Party has found yet another cause to stir public anger: pork meatballs missing from kindergartens.

A member of Denmark’s Parliament and, he hopes, mayor of this commuter-belt town west of Copenhagen, Mr. Dencker is furious that some day care centers have removed meatballs, a staple of traditional Danish cuisine, from their cafeterias in deference to Islamic dietary rules. No matter that only a handful of kindergartens have actually done so. The missing meatballs, he said, are an example of how “Denmark is losing its identity” under pressure from outsiders.
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THANKS TO BIBI’S PROTESTATIONS, THE DEAL IS STYMIED

Obama’s Secret Iran Détente

Long before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, a Daily Beast investigation reveals. How the sanctions were softened.

JPOST

France said on Saturday there was no certainty nuclear talks under way with Iran in Geneva would succeed because of major stumbling blocks over an initial proposed text on a deal, and the importance of Israel’s security concerns.

“As I speak to you, I cannot say there is any certainty that we can conclude” the talks, Fabius said on France Inter radio, noting that France could not accept a “sucker’s deal”.
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THIS IS AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE EVEN THOUGH GOLD LEFT OUT TWO VERY IMPORTANT ITEMS

1.The Rogers Plan of 1970 called for full withdrawal as demanded by the Saudis. This Plan was never implemented but foretold of things to come.
2. The Roadmap of 2002 included a clause putting the the Saudi Plan, later approved by the Arab League, which required full withdrawal, on par with R242. Sharon was pressured to accept the Roadmap but did so with 14 Reservations.
Thereafter diplomats ignored the Reservations and R242 and focused entirely on the Arab Peace Initiative.

By Dore Gold, ISRAEL HAYOM

With unconfirmed rumors appearing in the press about what is likely to happen in the peace process in the months ahead, now is the time to recall exactly what Israel’s rights are in its territorial dispute with the Palestinians over the future of the West Bank.

Those rights were first enshrined in the most famous and important U.N. resolution in the peace process, U.N. Security Council Resolution 242. This month marks the anniversary of the resolution. The first draft was proposed on Nov. 7, 1967, while the final draft was adopted unanimously by all 15 Security Council members on Nov. 22 that year.
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Bibi let loose with no holds barred. Not a time for diplmatic nicities.

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF AND AP November 8, 2013, 1:47 pm Updated: November 8, 2013, 4:35 pm

“I met Secretary Kerry right before he [left] to Geneva. I reminded him that he said that no deal is better than a bad deal. And the deal that is being discussed in Geneva right now is a bad deal. Iran is not required to take apart even one centrifuge. But the international community is relieving sanctions on Iran for the first time after many years,” he said.

“Iran gets everything that it wanted at this stage and pays nothing. And this is when Iran is under severe pressure. I urge Secretary Kerry not to rush to sign, to wait, to reconsider, to get a good deal,” Netanyahu added. “But this is a bad deal, a very, very bad deal. It’s the deal of a century for Iran; it’s a very dangerous and bad deal for peace and the international community.”
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I also recommend Joel Fishman’s insightful essay The Relegitimization of Israel and the Battle for the Mainstream Consensus

By MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST

I met with one of the Israeli UN representative ambassadors some time back. The condescending, sleepy replies he gave when – in plenum with leading professors present – I asked him: “Why so slow from Israeli state and diplomacy when it comes to counter the war on info?” shows the lack of interest in the war of information. They just don’t get the point and don’t see the urgency. – Norwegian author, Hanne Nabintu Herland, a concerned Facebook friend.

[Israel’s] enemies are so ridiculous, corrupt, unreasonable, perverse that it would be an ad man’s delight to make them into figures of worldwide opprobrium, and sarcastic humor. The world reprobation at corrupt behavior, at child abuse, and sexual perversion can be easily used against Arab [adversaries]. Israel is just so incompetent. The mind boggles. – Jonathan Engel, a perplexed Facebook friend, Paris
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