October 2006 archive
10-31-06 - Russia says believes Iran's nuke program peaceful "We do not have information that would suggest that Iran is carrying out a non-peaceful (nuclear) program," Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov told a news conference in Moscow.
10-31-06 - Moscow may back U.N. sanctions on Iran Does this sudden turnabout have anything to do with Russia and the WTO, mewonders?....
10-31-06 - Iraq violence 'linked to US vote'
10-31-06 - Iran does not expect UN to adopt tough sanctions He did not give any reasons for his confidence, but permanent UN Security Council members Russia and China have repeatedly signaled their reluctance to accept biting sanctions against Iran, a major energy and trade partner.
10-31-06 - US oil glut leads to price fall Crude oil prices have fallen $2 to under $59 a barrel as warm weather reduces demand for heating fuels and helps to maintain large US stockpiles.
10-31-06 - N. Korea fires five missiles: report North Korea fired five short-range missiles during military exercises last week, Seoul's newspaper said Monday.
10-31-06 - Pentagon gears up for new media war
10-31-06 - Syrian official considering Baghad visit Syria's foreign minister is considering a visit to Baghdad in November - the first by a top Syrian official since the fall of Saddam Hussein and a major step toward restoring diplomatic relations, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Tuesday.
10-31-06 - British official meets with Syrian president
10-31-06 - Russia says no evidence on Iran nuclear program''s military purposes
10-31-06 - Ground prepared for Iran to discuss Iraq with US: Khatami The "ground is prepared" for direct talks between Iran and the United States over the situation in war-ravaged Iraq, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said on British television.
10-31-06 - Lebanese man killed handling Israeli cluster bomb Truck driver Hafez Khalil Abbas, 35, had spotted a bomblet outside a school in the Rass el-Ain quarter of Baalbeck. It exploded after he picked it up, killing him instantly and hurting the other two.
10-31-06 - U.S. Diplomat: Iran Bigger Threat Than North Korea "Iran is a different type of threat. Iran is in our assessment aggressively pursuing a nuclear weapons capability,"
10-31-06 - Olmert to discuss Iran with Bush In the short term, two high-level Washington envoys - Elliott Abrams and David Welch - are scheduled to arrive in Israel Wednesday. They are also due to visit with Palestinians and then go on to Jordan.
10-31-06 - EU to Israel: Mock raids could encourage cease-fire violations The Lebanese army issued a statement Tuesday saying its gunners fired anti-aircraft artillery at Israel Air Force warplanes as they flew over south Lebanon.
10-31-06 - Hezbollah confirms Israel talks Hezbollah's leader has confirmed that indirect talks with Israel on a prisoner exchange are under way, describing them as "serious".
10-31-06 - Planes known to carry CIA terror suspects landed in Tel Aviv
10-31-06 - Israeli warplanes fly low over Beirut, suburbs Israeli warplanes flew at a low altitude over Beirut, its suburbs and large areas of south Lebanon on Tuesday, witnesses and Lebanese security sources said.
10-31-06 - Golan Heights Land, Lifestyle Lure Settlers Perhaps more important, the region provides a third of Israel's drinking water......Arab grievances here center on the preferential treatment Israeli settlements receive in allocation of water, which is scarce and expensive for many Arab farmers
10-31-06 - Christian Zionists rally in San Antonio Twenty-five years later, Hagee, who now advocates a strike by the United States or Israel on Iran's nuclear installations, observed the silver anniversary of the Church of the Cornerstone's annual Night to Honor Israel, an event that was part of a three-day celebration Oct. 20-22 designed to show solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people and to advance the message that Israel and America are in danger.....Gabriel said Israel's enemies are America's, warned of Hamas cells in the United States -- "Hamas has the largest infrastructure on American soil" -- and declared, "Our enemy is in Islamic mosques throughout the U.S."...."I've never been in any placed that called itself a Christian setting where there was such hatred,"
10-31-06 - U.S. National Intelligence chief arrives in Cairo Things are starting to move here with Negroponte visiting Cairo and a Blair aide visiting the Syrian president.
10-31-06 - Teacher:Speaker cancellation violates First Amendment The head of the teachers union has threatened a First Amendment lawsuit against the School Department because Andover High School cancelled a visit by pro-Palestinian speakers.....The Anti-Defamation League and Rabbi Robert Goldstein of Temple Emanuel in Andover both voiced their opposition to Andover High last week. Andrew Tarsay, the ADL's regional director, applauded the school's decision. But to suggest that the ADL and other pro-Israeli lobbies seek to silence any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. Mmmm k.
10-31-06 - ANALYSIS-Israel's Olmert riding high despite Lebanon setback A senior Israeli official said that is likely to be the main focus of his November 13 talks with Bush.
Israel has said it wants to take a back seat to international efforts to curb Iran's nuclear programme, which Tehran says is aimed at electricity generation.
They and their cohorts in the US are pushing us into another war. And they will at some point in the future deny they pushed for it, like they are doing with regard to their support during the run-up to the Iraq war.
10-31-06 - Israel presses Lebanon overflights despite growing criticism A number of aircraft also made sonic booms over the southern port city of Tyre, an AFP correspondent reported
10-31-06 - Debris of war compounds ecological nightmare in Lebanon
10-31-06 - Olmert: Hezbollah neutralized Ehud Olmert said the Lebanon war had neutralized the threat from Hezbollah...."Except for the Iranian problem, no one now threatens Israel," Olmert said.
10-31-06 - Ambassador Ayalon: Bush letter - historic During the interview Ayalon rejected the possibility of imposed pressure on Israel to accept a forced agreement under the Bush administration. According to him, the coordination between Washington and Israel will only get stronger due to the Iranian situation and international terrorism.
10-31-06 - Shanghai's Jewish 'ghetto' looks to reinvent itself
10-31-06 - Radio host speaks on lies, misconceptions of Israel It would seem to me that there is a major PR effort underway in America by the Israeli lobby, given the amount of campus visits and other propagandizing of the members therein.
10-31-06 - How to cut and run Fourth, real progress must be made on the Palestinian issue as a foundation for Middle East peace. The invasion of Iraq and the U.S. tilt toward Israel have dangerously reduced Washington's power to broker peace or to guarantee Israel's security. We now need Europe's help. And good relations with Iran would help dramatically.
10-31-06 - Texas Versus Tel Aviv: US Policy in the Middle East If it is true that the primary purpose of the Baker Commission is to take back US Middle East policy-making from the ?Israel Firsters? and secondly to subordinate military approaches to empire building to market interests, the question arises as to what strategic policies, tactical alliances, regional realignments and specific proposals dealing with the US military presence in Iraq Baker will propose?
10-31-06 - Harris: I'm a Jewish wannabe A Washington Post profile published Tuesday described Israel as one of Harris' "greatest passions" and quoted her as saying she is a Jewish "wannabe."
10-31-06 - Hoping to shed conflict image, Israel launches branding campaign What kind of image does the average American have of Israel? Suspicion confirmed. There IS a pro-Israeli PR campaign underway in America.
10-30-06 - Iran says sanctions will hurt others
10-30-06 - Audit finds missing U.S. weapons in Iraq Missing from the Defense Department's inventory books were 13,180 semiautomatic pistols, 751 assault rifles and 99 machine guns, according to an audit requested by Sen. John Warner (news, bio, voting record), R-Va., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
10-30-06 - Security firms 'abusing Iraqis'
10-30-06 - Iran nuclear talks should continue, Putin tells Ahmadinejad Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Moscow favours continued talks over Iran's nuclear programme amid a continued split in the UN Security Council over possible sanctions against Tehran.
10-30-06 - Army finds 7 incorrect war death reports The families of seven soldiers who died in Iraq or Afghanistan were given incorrect or misleading information about the deaths, the Army has concluded after a review of war casualty reports.
10-30-06 - Civilian deaths turn Afghans against NATO: report
10-30-06 - Bolton faults Syria, Iran on Lebanon Israel has said enforcement of the arms embargo, which blocks any entity in Lebanon except the national government from obtaining weapons from abroad, is crucial. Next, someone will discover guano on a seaside cliff. Will wonders never cease?...
10-30-06 - U.N. watchdog still hopes for nuclear talks with Iran Iran has yet to satisfy U.N. watchdogs that its nuclear program seeks only to produce electric power and not bombs, the head of the U.N. nuclear agency told the General Assembly on Monday.
10-30-06 - Rice: I think I know what the ?Palestinians? want Condi grilled by bible-thumping Christian Zionist Cal Thomas. The more these folks lambaste her, the more I know that she is doing something right.
10-30-06 - Judge dismisses Air Force suit A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit charging the Air Force with violating the constitutional rights of its troops through the promotion of evangelism.
10-30-06 - UN investigates Israel's 'uranium weapons' The Harwell laboratory for mass spectrometry in Oxfordshire confirmed the concentration of uranium isotopes in the samples, but the European experts were puzzled about what weapons Israel might have been using and why.
10-30-06 - Beyond Ideology
10-30-06 - Newly sworn-in Lieberman already set to visit US Lieberman is already set for his first trip abroad as a minister. He will travel to the United States on December 8 to take part in the prestigious Saban Forum at the Saban Center For Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC
10-30-06 - Confrontation off Lebanon Leads to Questions The Alster though is no run-of-the-mill battleship. It is a spy boat loaded with highly sophisticated technology. Sensitive antennas are able to not only identify radar locations and monitor flights, but they can also listen in on radio and mobile-phone conversations. And the crew is not just made up of sailors, but also German secret service agents. Don't get the Liberty treatment.
10-30-06 - Israeli Jets Trouble German Troops on UN Mission Germany was taken by surprise by the most recent incident, as Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz recently smoothed over ruffled feathers after a confrontation on Tuesday between Israeli aircraft and a German vessel patrolling Lebanon's coast.
10-30-06 - Security Council urges disarming of Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias
10-30-06 - Druze leader seeks US backing for Hariri slaying tribunal
10-30-06 - Lebanon president protests Hariri murder court Lebanon's pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud protested his exclusion from the process of organizing an international court to try suspects in the 2005 murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri.
10-30-06 - Iran sounds an awful lot like Iraq ** Recent months have seen the creation of an "Iran directorate" at the Pentagon, using some of the same personnel as the Office of Special Plans, the shadowy Pentagon outfit led by former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith that was accused of massaging raw intelligence on Iraq to make the case for war look far more solid than in fact it was.
Iran has now supplanted Iraq as the greatest single threat to the United States, according to the National Security Strategy released earlier this year. Articles in the New Yorker and Time describe an accelerated rate of contingency military planning in an environment in which many senior officials ? on the military and civilian sides ? consider war with Iran more a question of when rather than if. And just why has Iran been placed at the fore, folks? I wonder. And again. More. Another. You get the point.
10-30-06 - UN to map disputed Shaba farms area on Israel-Lebanon border
10-30-06 - In Lieberman race, Jewish vote seems to turn on Israel support
10-30-06 - Cheney Pushing Israel Towards Fascism
10-30-06 - Israeli attack on Germany Israel doesn't like those surveillance ships getting too close for comfort - even if they're in international waters. Ask these guys. It is my belief that Israel sought to sink the USS Liberty and all aboard - leaving no eyewitnesses to report just who it was that attacked it. It was because of the sheer heroism of our men that that ship and the survivors made it out alive. God bless 'em.
10-30-06 - Shift in Lebanon's sectarian politics
10-30-06 - Israeli Arab lawmaker raps Ahmadinejad A leading Israeli Arab lawmaker came out against the anti-Jewish statements of Iran?s president.
10-30-06 - Foxman: No moderate Muslims There are no moderate Muslims with whom to dialogue, Abraham Foxman said
10-29-06 - Iran criticizes U.S.-led nuke exercise ** a U.S. State Department official speaking on condition of anonymity, because of the sensitivity of the topic, said PSI members can halt and board Iran-bound ships if they are suspected of carrying banned shipments.
10-29-06 - Secret Cabinet memo admits Iraq is fuelling UK terror
10-29-06 - Third Soldier Charged With Rape, Murder The Army arraigned a 101st Airborne Division soldier Friday who was charged with raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing three others in her family.
10-29-06 - Pakistan destroys al-Qaida-linked site
10-29-06 - Family killed as US forces battle to retake Iraqi town
10-29-06 - 'No US Deployment to Northern Iraq' U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman said they opposed separating Iraq into three parts and were not considering deploying troops to northern Iraq.
10-29-06 - Iraq, China to revive Saddam-era oil deal as Baghdad seeks investment Beijing had been thought to be out of the running for major contracts in postwar Iraq, with the best deals going to the United States and its allies. But the upsurge in violence there has made the country less attractive to Western producers.
10-29-06 - Egypt to seek Chinese aid on nuclear program
10-29-06 - CIA chief meets Saudi king after Gulf terror alert
10-29-06 - Thousands march in California against Iraq war
10-29-06 - AP Interview: Chalabi prods U.S. on Iran Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon favorite who was once Iraq's deputy prime minister, urged the United States to open talks with Iran, saying Saturday that it could help reduce sectarian violence in Iraq and allow U.S. forces to withdraw.
10-29-06 - Americans Reject Current Foreign Policy Doctrine 67 per cent of respondents think the current administration should put more emphasis on diplomatic and economic methods.
10-29-06 - Iran's foreign minister urges Hamas leader to work for national unity Iran's foreign minister told Hamas' political leader Sunday that the Palestinian people must solve their problems through national unity and reconciliation, the official Iranian news agency reported
10-29-06 - Boot's idea for dealing with Iran Boot's idea for dealing with Iran is to sponsor ethnic terrorism in the country. First he was a cheerleader for the war in Iraq, and, not happy having won his aim there, he wants to create another festering pit of death in Iran. These are ramblings he should share with his psychiatrist, not with the readers of a respected newspaper. Max Boot is a neocon.
10-29-06 - Peretz to meet German counterpart Prime Minister Ehud Olmert apologized on Sunday to German Chancellor Angela Merkel for an incident that occurred last week between an Israeli fighter jet and a German naval boat that was patrolling the waters outside Lebanon. ......Peretz vehemently denied reports that the Israeli jets had fired on the German vessel in his talk with Jung......Also Sunday, UN officials denied reports that Israeli jets had fired on a German navy vessel in a separate incident in the waters off southern Lebanon late Thursday night.
10-29-06 - Israel sorry for 'misunderstandings' in shooting incident
10-29-06 - In heavily Jewish Florida district, perception of Israel support is key Congressional support for Israel will remain steadfast whoever controls the House, said Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen, the Republican chairwoman of the House's Middle East subcommittee who represents Florida's 18th District......."Iran is the biggest threat to Israel right now," he said. "I think we should be refocusing our attention on the real threats. The longer we're mired in this civil war in Iraq, the less it allows us to lead other countries in restricting Iran's ability to export terrorism." Regarding the title of this article -it's that way in most of America.
10-29-06 - Stung by Republican ads on Israel, Democrats defend part in online chat These candidates would SEEM to be running in an election to serve Israel, not the US.
10-29-06 - Israelis put nuclear bunkers in gardens "Israel will not allow Iran to build an atomic bomb, and even if it did, the Iranians know very well that we'll bomb them back to the Stone Age before they've launched a single missile."
However, the government is quietly updating its preparations for a possible nuclear strike.
10-28-06 - 98 U.S. GIs killed in Iraq this month
10-28-06 - Reworked device a few months off, U.S. analysts say North Korean scientists will only need a few months at most to correct technical problems connected with the Oct. 9 test of the country's first nuclear device, U.S. analysts estimate.
10-28-06 - CIA tried to silence EU on torture flights
10-28-06 - US hails airborne laser as weapons milestone The head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency on Friday hailed what he described as epochal progress toward putting a high-energy laser aboard a modified Boeing Co. 747 to zap ballistic missiles that could be fired by North Korea and Iran.
10-28-06 - Reports: South Korea monitoring movements at North's suspected nuclear site
10-28-06 - Iran, Syria discuss stabilising Iraq Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday to discuss ways to stabilise Iraq and deepen ties between the two countries.
10-28-06 - Iran replaces air force chief, minister The change came ahead of a Persian Gulf naval exercise next week in which the United States and five other countries are participating.
10-28-06 - Assad: Syria not seeking to be nuclear state He said the international community should also apply pressure on Israel to abandon its nuclear arsenal.
10-28-06 - 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldier gets a kiss from Iraqi boy at a checkpoint on the edge of Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City
10-28-06 - A boy plays with a U.S. soldier from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team at a checkpoint in Baghdad
10-28-06 - Punishing North Korea ? Eh?
10-28-06 - Robert Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb Israel has a poor reputation for telling the truth about its use of weapons in Lebanon. In 1982, it denied using phosphorous munitions on civilian areas - until journalists discovered dying and dead civilians whose wounds caught fire when exposed to air.
10-28-06 - UN urges Solana to pressure Israel on Lebanon overflights Bagga said there were "sometimes between nine and 15 flights a day, which is quite a lot actually ... (they occur) sometimes late at night."
"It is very discomforting for the Lebanese, it could easily lead to some incident,"
10-28-06 - UN unable to confirm radiation spike after Lebanon war The UN, which has been studying the ecological damage in Lebanon caused by the war between Israel and Hezbollah, said it would soon be able to say whether uranium-based munitions were used
10-28-06 - Rice presses for Hezbollah's disarmament Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped up international pressure on Hezbollah to disarm, saying the guerrilla group must surrender its weapons if it wants to remain part of Lebanon's political process.
10-28-06 - Old order in Iraq Democratization of Iraq has created anarchy, and in the Palestinian Authority it has led to the rise of the Hamas government ? that since then no longer recognizes democracy Really. Is it that the Hamas government no longer recognizes democracy? Or is it that Israel (and consequently the US) no longer recognize the party that the Palestinians democratically elected (and they did so due to the corruption of the previous administration, the Fatah party)? You know the answer.
10-28-06 - Solana expresses support for Lebanese gov't
10-28-06 - Make Assad an offer he can't refuse
10-28-06 - U.N. Security Council Edicts Challenged Historically, Israel is one of the few member states to consistently defy the Security Council by refusing to accept or violating over 40 resolutions, primarily because of the unwavering support it has from the United States.
10-28-06 - Trailing in Polls, GOP Senator Reaches Out to Jews "He finds a lot of common points on intersection between himself and the Jewish people and the land of Israel," said a top Santorum aide with ties to right-wing pro-Israel circles, Barbara Ledeen.
10-28-06 - On Israel's Lebanon border, a surprising optimism
10-27-06 - US, others to conduct Gulf naval maneuvers off Iran ** The announcement came in the context of tensions over Iran's nuclear program and reports of possible terror threats against oil installations in the Gulf.
10-27-06 - US plays down Cheney's water interrogation comment
10-27-06 - Chirac says stalemate in Iran talks should trigger sanctions
10-27-06 - Russia unconcerned by Iranian nuclear 'cascade' work Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has said he was unconcerned by reports that Iran has taken a new step in uranium enrichment, saying it was still a long way from building a military capability. Now you hush that talk, Rusky! Israel wants everyone to believe Iran will have the bomb like, tomorrow. You're hurting their efforts....
10-27-06 - Coalition navies on watch for oil attack
10-27-06 - Report: Halliburton unit exploited rules If the Democrats take control of the Senate, he said, they will launch oversight hearings on war matters ranging from faulty intelligence leading up to the war to wrongdoing by contractors.
10-27-06 - UN Official: US Terror Law May Violate International Treaties "One of the most serious aspects of this legislation is the power of the president to declare anyone, including U.S. citizens, without charge as an 'unlawful enemy combatant' - a term unknown in international humanitarian law,"
10-27-06 - A Brother's Rage Kevin Tillman's incandescent statement against the Iraq war reads like poetry, and is part of a tragic tradition.
10-27-06 - Army arraigns 2 soldiers charged with murder of 3 Iraqi detainees
10-27-06 - U.S. revives terror data mining
10-27-06 - U.S. wants to ban Iranian physicists An American draft resolution at the United Nations calls for a ban on Iranians studying subjects related to nuclear development.
10-27-06 - Chris Bellamy: An enigma that only the Israelis can fully explain The initial tests on samples taken from the site of the Israeli strike on Khiam present an enigma which will only be solved when the people who produced and deployed the weapon explain themselves.
10-27-06 - Bush: World must 'double' effort on Iran nuclear program Israel says "Jump!", the US says "How high?".
10-27-06 - Israeli PM accuses world of doing 'nothing' over Iran
10-27-06 - Germany says Israel fired shots over unarmed ship The incident, which Israel has so far denied, was one of two involving the Israeli military and German forces in the region this week, defence spokesman Thomas Raabe told reporters Friday. "There have been two incidents, one involving a helicopter and another the Alster" a German electronic surveillance and reconnaissance ship.
A second incident.
10-27-06 - A 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldier hugs a young Iraqi boy in central Baghdad's Karradah district There's the difference between US soldiers and those of Israel.
10-27-06 - US to rebuild Mideast's highest bridge, damaged by Israel The United States will pay to rebuild the Mdairej bridge in Lebanon, the highest in the Middle East, which was damaged by Israeli bombs during the war this summer, a senior US official said. Deduct it from the billions in aid we give Israel. American taxpayers shouldn't have to pay any extra (to clean up after Israel) than they already do now.
10-27-06 - UN peacekeepers unlikely to disarm Hezbollah: Russia Ivanov said that concern over this aspect of the peacekeepers' mission was one of the reasons Moscow decided to send a peacekeeping contingent to Lebanon under an accord reached separately with the Lebanese government, instead of under the UN mandate
10-27-06 - Christian Zionism: An Egregious Threat to US-Mideast Understanding Christian Zionists have pushed the militarist policies of both Israel and the U.S. in an effort to secure the Holy Land in preparation for the coming of the "promised land." As part of this strategy, the U.S. occupation of Iraq is deemed absolutely necessary.
10-27-06 - Shin Bet to upgrade security in LA Airport Los Angeles International Airport invites team of security experts from Shin Bet, Ben Gurion Airport to examine airport's security arrangements. Say what? We allow the secret intelligence unit of a FOREIGN country offer up security advice to one of our major airports? How moronic is that?
10-27-06 - Will Harper back an Iran strike? The first order of business was to demonize Iran's fundamentalist Shia president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, portraying him not just as dangerous but as a madman. This is the goal behind the myth that on October 26 last year he called for "wiping Israel from the map." The Guardian, in an article on June 2, 2006, took the trouble to have a Farsi translator look at Ahmadinejad's infamous speech. He said no such thing.
10-27-06 - America's Middle Class Has Become Globalization's Loser US industry -- or at least what little is left of it -- is responsible. In the span of only a few decades, US industry has shrunken to half what it once was. A miscellaneous article - but an important one nonetheless.
10-27-06 - 50 Years After Suez, US Hegemony Ebbing Fast the Bush administration's failure to exercise any demonstrable pressure on Israel to seriously engage the Palestinians in a peace process, its transparent support for Israel's military offensive and bombing campaign in Lebanon last summer's war with Hezbollah, and its rejection to date of renewed Arab efforts to promote the 2002 Saudi peace plan in the wake of the Lebanon conflict have effectively destroyed the image of Washington as an honest broker. Thus far in his Presidency, Bush Jr. has refused to stand up to Israel like his old man did.
10-27-06 - 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldiers greet a young Iraqi boy in central Baghdad's Karradah district
10-27-06 - Rice?s Counselor Gives Advice Others May Not Want to Hear , in choosing Mr. Zelikow as her counselor, she eschewed Elliott L. Abrams, a darling of neoconservatives and the pro-Israel lobby.
10-27-06 - Israel denies German ship clash This is a denial of the first incident.
10-27-06 - Report: FBI In Expanded Aipac Probe the allegations - along with the upcoming trial of Rosen and Weissman, and the recent book deal signed by two of the pro-Israel lobby's most prominent and vocal critics, scholars Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer - are likely to trigger increased media and public scrutiny of the pro-Israel lobby's efforts to influence the decision-making process in Washington.
Oh dear.
10-27-06 - Olmert compares Iran with Nazi Germany Look in the mirror. The Palestinians : have been forcibly expelled from their properties, had their properties seized, have been ghettoized and walled in, are deemed inferior by Zionists both past and present, are deemed a 'demographic problem' by Zionists both past and present, are collectively punished for the sins of a few, are impoverished and starving as most of the 'civilized world' turns a blind eye, are severely dehumanized in the Western media (at the behest of pro-Israeli media 'watchdogs'), are in need of a homeland.
10-27-06 - US Affairs: Is there an ally in the House? Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, is in line to become chairman of the House International Relations Committee if the Democrats win. But some rumblings suggest other lawmakers - namely Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) - may bypass him because of Lantos' support for the Iraq war. Privately, congressional aides say Lantos has been reassured by Pelosi that he will get the chairmanship; both men are considered strong backers of the Jewish state...... the new foreign operations subcommittee chair would be Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), a strong, proactive Israel backer. Lantos is an Israel-firster.
10-27-06 - High radiation levels said to be found after Israel's Lebanon bombing
10-27-06 - Early Opposition to Iraq War Bolsters Moran in House Race
10-27-06 - Israel and U.S. to expand civil air defense cooperation It's outrageous that our security systems continue to be outsourced to Israel.
10-27-06 - Why Is No One Talking About The 400-600 Israeli Nukes ?
10-27-06 - From 2002: Lieberman and Cheney March In the Footsteps of Joe McCarthy Among the agencies engaged in this coordinated witch-hunt are: View the article to check out the list of offenders, the usual (pro-Israeli) suspects. He forgot to include WND and FrontPage mag.
10-27-06 - Analysis: Aid could impact Muslim opinion And here's the key to winning hearts and minds: deeper American assistance directly to the people, following their expressed priorities."
A better idea: end the unconditional support of Israel's policies vis a vis the Palestinians. That would be the single greatest boost for America in not just the ME, but the world.
10-27-06 - Republican staffer threatened TAU funds
A Republican congressman reprimanded a staffer for threatening to cut U.S. funds to Tel Aviv University unless a donor agreed to stop backing his opponent.
10-27-06 - Former militia chief does not foresee civil war
10-27-06 - 1993 interrogation described Nadav also testified that in 1993 Judith Miller, then a New York Times reporter, visited the detention facility where Salah was being held.
Nadav said he asked Salah questions at Miller's direction. Strange.
10-26-06 - Russia queries EU draft on Iran Moscow has said a draft UN Security Council resolution on Iran's nuclear programme appears not to match positions agreed within the council.
10-26-06 - Confession that formed base of Iraq war was acquired under torture: journalist Libby was tortured in an Egyptian prison, according to Stephen Grey, the author of the newly-released book "Ghost Plane" who investigated the secret US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA) prisons that housed terror suspects around the world
10-26-06 - Up to 85 Afghan civilians killed in US airstrike The President of Afghanistan has ordered an investigation into a night of Nato airstrikes that reportedly killed up to 85 civilians celebrating a major Islamic festival.
10-26-06 - Bolton: sanctions 'help regime change'
10-26-06 - Cheney confirms use of waterboarding Last year, in an interview with the BBC, Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005, said that in an internal Bush administration debate about the use of the Geneva Conventions in the treatment of detainees, Cheney led the argument to "do away with all restrictions."
10-26-06 - U.S. nuclear secrets feared on stolen disk
10-26-06 - Witness grilled in CIA leak case Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald took on the first witness in the CIA leak case Thursday, dissecting an expert witness until she acknowledged errors and misstatements in her research.
10-26-06 - This is not another Iran Syria's acceptance of religious and ethnic diversity is extraordinary by international standards, let alone those of the Middle East.
10-26-06 - Iraq War Damaged U.S. Reputation, Say Americans
10-26-06 - Rice says 'axis of evil' proven right
10-26-06 - The strategic case for talking with Iran
10-26-06 - Russian project holds up Iran sanctions deal
10-26-06 - Iran denies Argentina bomb charge Mr Hoseyni said the charges were intended to divert "world attention from the perpetration of crimes by the Zionists against women and children in Palestine".
10-26-06 - Israel to provide F-15 fighter components Israel's Elbit Systems unit Cyclone has been awarded a $19 million contract with Boeing Co. to provide components for U.S. F-15 fighters.
10-26-06 - A U.S. soldier from 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team plays with a child at a checkpoint in Baghdad
10-26-06 - Berlin wants 'smooth cooperation' with Israel after warplane incident "Shots were fired by Israeli planes. It is under investigation," a spokesman said. Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz has denied that the planes had fired at the German forces
10-26-06 - In pictures: Lebanon oil spill clean-up Fishermen who were badly affected by the war and Israel's sea blockade of Lebanon have been employed to clean the beaches.
10-26-06 - The Fault Lies in Ourselves Even if the Bush administration and the rubber-stamp Congress are held accountable in next month's election, the ringleaders of the war are unlikely to be brought to justice.
10-26-06 - An Iraqi boy smiles at a US soldier at a spot checkpoint setup as part of a series of measures to locate a missing US soldier
10-26-06 - What's for Dinner? The dinner was hardly an unusual one for AIPAC. The group often arranges such elite pow-wows at the homes of senior members of Congress and government officials (one in the mid-1990s was hosted by then Vice President Al Gore) as a way for AIPAC to both demonstrate its political clout and to provide a perk for major donors.
10-26-06 - U.N. sees hold-ups in Lebanon withdrawal Talks have been under way for weeks on Israel?s demand that the bolstered United Nations peacekeeper force in southern Lebanon impose new security regulations in Ghajar to ensure Hezbollah does not use the village as a conduit for attacks or drug smuggling.
10-26-06 - Bush: Returning Shalit would help Syria President Bush said facilitating the return of a captured Israeli soldier would help Syria in American eyes.
10-26-06 - Waxman blasts Justice on Harman A top congressional Democrat called on the Justice Department to publicize what it knows about an investigation into relations between AIPAC and a Jewish congresswoman.
10-26-06 - Peres: West bolsters Iran Shimon Peres chided the international community for not being firmer in its efforts to curb Iran?s nuclear program.
10-26-06 - Israel's DM reiterates continuation of overflights Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz reiterated on Thursday that Israeli Air Force (IAF) overflights would continue in Lebanon as long as the UN cease-fire resolution had not been fully implemented.
10-26-06 - Lieberman urges discretion on Iran "We have to wait and see what the European Union, United States, Russia and China do about Iran," Lieberman said. "We don't need to be on the front line on this issue. We just have to sit and wait."
10-26-06 - No aggression intended, Israel says after German ship incident The confrontation occurred when Israeli jets scrambled after a helicopter took off from a German frigate serving with a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) task force. German Defence Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe said six Israeli F- 16s had flown very low over the German vessel and one of them fired two shots into the air. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the helicopter took off without having coordinated this with Israel
10-26-06 - Argentine Jewish groups welcome call for Iranian arrests in AMIA case The prosecutors' call reprises the original investigative tack - first suggested by the Mossad and CIA - that pointed to Iran as the intellectual author of the attack.
10-26-06 - Agent's testimony contradicts Salah's torture claims The Salah case marks the first time that Israeli intelligence agents have testified on U.S. soil, and extraordinary security measures are in place to keep their identities secret
10-26-06 - Lebanon's celebrity hangout shakes off war hangover
10-26-06 - Israeli president rape charges spurred by Lebanon war: Putin
10-25-06 - U.S. troops on active duty call for Iraq withdrawal "The real grievances are: Why are we in Iraq if the weapons of mass destruction are not found, if the links to al Qaeda are not substantiated," said Marine Sgt. Liam Madden of Rockingham, Vermont, who was in Iraq from September 2004 to February 2005 and is based at Quantico, Virginia.
"The occupation is perpetuating more violence," he said. "It's costing way too many Iraqi civilian and American service member lives while it brings us no benefit."
I'll tell you why you're in Iraq. See related news from this batch.
10-25-06 - 'US withdrawal from Iraq would be disastrous for Israel' ** "...And what if the US becomes trigger-shy? No one else except the US has the military might to set back Iran's nuclear program. Maybe Israel, but it's not certain. If the US gets trigger-shy, then we're in trouble." .....The result would be that "the terror efforts currently directed against US forces in Iraq would be turned against Israel," Ahh. I see. So the US military is being used as a type of human shield.
10-25-06 - Bush warns N.Korea against selling nuclear arms
10-25-06 - European plans for arms sanctions against Iran are too weak, says US The United States indicated yesterday that it wants tougher sanctions on Iran - for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment - than the measures in a UN resolution drafted by Britain, France and Germany.
10-25-06 - US demands UN sanctions on Iran US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.
10-25-06 - Bush 'dissatisfied' with Iraq war
10-25-06 - UN powers unveil Iran sanctions draft
10-25-06 - Iran could have nuclear bomb by 2015: Germany ** Iran is unlikely to be able to develop a nuclear bomb before 2015, the chief of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency said on Tuesday.
10-25-06 - US naval war games off the Iranian coastline: A provocation which could lead to War? **
10-25-06 - Iran wants to boost Arab ties President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told Jordan's King Abdullah II in telephone talks that Iran is seeking to boost ties with Arab states in the Middle East, the state news agency IRNA reported
10-25-06 - Iraqis Were Better Off Under Saddam, Says Former Weapons Inspector
10-25-06 - No Excuses -There's no wriggling out of responsibility for the Iraq disaster "If only we knew then what we know now" ? that's the mantra we're hearing from the excuse-makers, Democrats as well as Republicans and repentant neocons, now that the truth about this rotten war is out there in the open, plain enough for even the willfully blind to see.
10-25-06 - Bush team defends US Iraq plans Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was among several officials defending the government's Iraq policy as adaptable, as US mid-term elections approach
10-25-06 - Military Build-up in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf: Israel and NATO sign Framework Agreement ** This Israel-NATO framework agreement not only has a bearing on the military build-up in the Eastern Mediterranean, which in practice is directed against Syria and Lebanon, it is also related to the massive deployment of US naval forces in the Persian Gulf, oppositie Iran.
10-25-06 - Qatar offers to host Israeli delegation Long-term, Israeli leaders want to build contacts with moderate Arab states to counter the influence of Iran's anti- Israel government.
10-25-06 - 'Syria increasing preparedness following IDF maneuvers' According to the report, a Syrian source added that Israel?s military activity is increasing tensions in the region. He mentioned Chief of Staff Dan Halutz?s Monday to a Golan Heights division exercise as contributing to the heightened tensions.
10-25-06 - Israeli jets fire over German navy ship off Lebanon The daily Der Tagesspiegel quoted a German junior defence minister as telling a parliamentary committee that two Israeli F-16 fighters had flown low over the ship, firing twice.
10-25-06 - Israel, Germany at odds over Lebanon air incident Israel denied a German newspaper report on Wednesday that two of its air force planes had fired twice as they flew over a German navy ship patrolling the Lebanon coast as part of an international peacekeeper force. This story sounds familiar...
10-25-06 - NATO: Israel ties must remain strong
10-25-06 - Part of Canada anti-terrorism law tossed
10-25-06 - UAE's Khalifa discusses Lebanon's reconstruction with Siniora
10-25-06 - Iran, Syria rapidly rearming Hezbollah Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said yesterday.....He met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte, among others, on a visit to Washington this week in advance of U.S.-Israel security talks set for December.
10-25-06 - Iran charged over Argentina bomb Chief prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused the Iranian authorities of directing Hezbollah to carry out the attack.
10-25-06 - "I will only leave this house in a coffin" Palestinians living in Iraq have increasingly come under threat since the US-led occupation of the country began in 2003, according to a recent report by the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.
10-25-06 - Dodd: U.S. wrong to urge Palestinian vote He joined Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who also addressed the conference, in urging final passage before the year is out of the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act, which would isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority....McCain said a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would endanger Israel.
10-25-06 - Ayalon: Focus on Palestinians before Iran "Taking care of the Iranian threat begins with achieving a diplomatic accord with the Palestinians," Ayalon told Israel Radio, adding that such an accord would help Israel enlist pan-Arab support for a tough stand against Tehran's nuclear program.
10-25-06 - Report: UN mediator in talks with Hezbollah so far unsuccessful
10-25-06 - Israel's experience with harsh questioning may provide guidance Mohammed Barghouthi - the labor minister for the Palestinian Authority, which is led by the militant group Hamas - was held and questioned for 48 days this summer before being released without charge. He said he was shackled to a chair in a painful position for hours at a time. But more painful, he said, were the threats against his family, the screams of interrogators and the humiliation of other Palestinian lawmakers that he was forced to witness. The problem is, Dion, this is exactly where the US got the ideas in the first place. It's where the term 'Palestinian hanging' came from and it's why it was used on Iraqi prisoners. This nation is heavily under the influence of a foreign entity.
10-25-06 - Candidates speak out on the issues On Israel What role should the United States play in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist groups, Hezbollah and Hamas, and their "benefactors," Iran and Syria?
10-25-06 - Hamas expert's testimony continues in Salah trial On cross-examination, Levitt testified that many Palestinians also have been killed in the conflict and that living conditions in Gaza and the West Bank are often desperate
10-25-06 - Exclusive: Hillary Clinton On Israel, Iraq And Terror Sen. Clinton: First, I don't think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake.
If we were going to push for an election, we should have made sure we did something to determine who was going to win instead of signing off on an electoral system that advantaged Hamas.
"If we were going to push for an election, we should have made sure we did something to determine who was going to win"........
10-24-06 - Severity of Injuries Requires New Forms of Rehabilitation A disturbingly high number of young US citizens are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with serious cases of brain damage. Most of them were injured by mortar, grenades or other explosives. Bullet-proof vests may protect the heart, but not even Kevlar helmets can offer complete protection for the head.
10-24-06 - After Pat's Birthday Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document. The MSM would appear to be ignoring this story.
10-24-06 - US in Iraq: We're out of here Coming after the White House formally abandoned Mr Bush's previous "stay the course" formulation for US policy, the appearance by Mr Khalilzad and General Casey seemed part of a carefully choreographed exercise to signal, without explicitly saying so, that a timetable for pull-out - long rejected by the President - was in fact taking shape.
10-24-06 - Iran expands nuclear centrifuge program, diplomats say A senior diplomat familiar with UN nuclear inspections in Iran said the Iranian program remained a long way from "industrial scale" capacity that would signal its emergence as a nuclear power, as North Korea showed on October 9 by detonating an atomic device
10-24-06 - Iran condemns US Gulf exercises ** Reports say the US is to hold naval exercises at the end of October with Bahrain, Kuwait, France and Britain
10-24-06 - German ministers 'knew about CIA torture cells' The German intelligence report said US interrogators at the base had beaten a 70-year-old terrorist suspect with rifle butts and that "his injuries meant that he had to be given 20 stitches to the head wound he sustained". The report said the American interrogator responsible "appeared to be proud" of his actions.
10-24-06 - UN talks on Iran sanctions could take weeks: US
10-24-06 - Bush drops 'stay the course' slogan for Iraq The White House says President George W Bush has retired his "stay the course" slogan for Iraq, worried about its use as a weapon against his Republican Party in the November elections.
10-24-06 - West wants Iran technology sales banned The U.S. and its allies want the U.N. Security Council to ban the sale of missile and atomic technology to Iran and end most U.N. help for its nuclear programs - moves diplomats said Tuesday are narrowly focused in hopes of winning Russian and Chinese backing for sanctions.
10-24-06 - Moves toward War with Iran: Part 2 **
10-24-06 - Outrage over North Korea dissipates
10-24-06 - Iraq in danger of breaking up: Russia Iraq could break up unless steps are taken towards unifying it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said, amid rising fears over the future of the war-shattered country.
10-24-06 - Opec quota pledges lift oil price Oil prices are back above $59 a barrel, after confirmation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that it will follow Saudi Arabia and cut output next month Why isn't gasoline under $2/gallon? It's after Labor Day, there are no hurricanes (that have made landfall in the US), etc etc etc. Where is the outrage America? You're being soaked.
10-24-06 - Pressure grows on Bush to soften approach to Syria The debate over Syria has been fuelled by the Iraq Study Group, which was set up by Congress to look at policy choices in Iraq and led by James Baker, the former secretary of state. Political analysts expect it will call for a regional contact group that includes Syria and Iran
10-24-06 - Gitmo interrogations spark battle over tactics - The inside story of criminal investigators who tried to stop abuse In the end, the law enforcement investigators said, they were not able to stop abusive interrogations, but they were able to slow them.
10-24-06 - Time for Bush to talk to Iran and Syria
10-24-06 - ElBaradei warns on sanctions on N.Korea, Iran New U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea and under consideration for Iran could empower hardliners in both countries, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned on Monday.
10-24-06 - Perle, Ex-Pentagon Aide, Dropped From SEC's Probe of Hollinger The leading architect of U.S. nuclear arms policy during the administration of President Ronald Reagan, Perle served on the Pentagon's advisory Defense Policy Board for 17 years until he quit in 2004. He's a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, and advised Bush on foreign policy during the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign
10-24-06 - U.S. blames Iran, Syria for Iraq violence The Orwellian phenomenon of America's foreign policy continues.
10-24-06 - Syria has done nothing to deserve sanctions: Russian FM "Frankly, I do not see what Syria could have done to deserve facing sanctions," Sergei Lavrov told the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday.
10-24-06 - Why Didn't the US Warn Us about the 9/11 Terrorists?
10-24-06 - Michael Savage Backs Jerry Brown America's most fiery conservative talk show host backing liberal Jerry Brown for California's attorney general?
10-24-06 - Air Force to Establish New Cyberspace Operations Command Lani Kass, director of of the service's Cyberspace Task Force, served in the IDF. She also served at the Pentagon - what a surprise. And it looks like I answered one of my own questions from last week.
10-24-06 - The Bush Administration's Assault on Defense Lawyers
10-24-06 - 500,000 Iraqis make a new life in Syria Palestinians, Lebanese and now Iraqis find refuge in Syria as a result of US-Israeli policy in the region. Some legacy, eh?
10-24-06 - Senior US diplomat's candor gets play in the Middle East, ire at home
10-24-06 - Russia: Go easy on Hamas Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published Tuesday that it?s unrealistic for Western powers to shun the radical Islamist group to get it to recognize Israel?s right to exist and renounce terrorism.
10-24-06 - Despite friendly words, Olmert visit to Russia highlights Iran differences "It is necessary to act on Iran, but that action should be in direct proportion to what is really happening," the RIA-Novosti Russian news agency quoted Lavrov as saying. "And what is really happening is what the" International Atomic Energy Agency "reports to us. And the IAEA is not reporting to us about the presence there of a threat to peace and security."
10-24-06 - Report that Jews backed Harman for help on AIPAC trial dismissed The lead Democratic Party donor making the case for Harman was Haim Saban, the Power Rangers toy and TV-show magnate, who also has been a major donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Brookings Institution, where a center for Middle East studies was established in his name. Saban, a dual Israeli citizen, also is a donor to Israel's Labor Party....Sources close to Harman, who is Jewish, and Pelosi acknowledged that there has been such lobbying, but added that it's par for the course and not illegal, though Pelosi has made it clear she resents the pressure
10-24-06 - Olmert pins hopes on Lieberman to stop Iran ** Beside Olmert's faith in President Bush and the United Nation to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear arms, the prime minister is seeking to speed up Israel's preparations for a possible confrontation with Iran.
10-24-06 - Iran warns of U.S., Israel ME schemes He cautioned peoples of the region -- "especially the Lebanese and Palestinians" -- as well as all Muslim nations not to fall for the U.S. plan or act in a way that serves Washington's and Israel's schemes
10-24-06 - Israeli deputy PM warns of Iranian nuclear threat "We discussed the Iranian issue which is a threat not only against the state of Israel but it is a threat against all the Western countries," Mofaz told reporters after meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Nicholas Burns, the State Department's number three, in charge of the Iranian nuclear issue.
10-24-06 - Governments say they follow U.S. on jail treatment That's quite an example we're setting.
10-24-06 - Student admits bomb hoax in bid to delay flight The 21-year-old, who holds dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to a felony count of conveying false information of a threat targeting an airplane. He faces from probation to five years in prison at sentencing Jan. 29.
10-24-06 - Government expert tells terrorism trial of Mideast violence A terrorism expert told a federal court jury Tuesday that suicide bombers have killed hundreds of Israelis but a defense attorney said five times as many Palestinians have died amid the violent conflict. Palestine on trial in the US courts.
10-24-06 - Democratic leaders: Carter wrong on Israel Both parties must pander to the Israeli lobby - lest they be perceived as hostile to Israel, and thus lose the elections. The interests of the majority of Americans (who do not make up the Israeli lobby) do not factor in.
10-23-06 - Iran defiant on nuclear as sanctions loom Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed his country will not retreat even "an inch" over its nuclear programme despite the mounting threat of UN sanctions.
10-23-06 - US 'cannot stay course' in Iraq The US is not winning in Iraq and will not be able to stay the course in the long-term, a US state department insider has said.
10-23-06 - Halliburton Will Spin Off KBR Unit Halliburton's Iraq-related work contributed nearly $1.2 billion in revenue in the third quarter of 2006 and $45 million of operating income, a performance that pleased analysts.
10-23-06 - Intel: What the Brits Said the foreign rep cautioned, "I hope we can all agree that we should concentrate on Afghanistan and not be tempted to launch any attacks on Iraq."
10-23-06 - Pilot who lost her legs in Iraq takes on Republicans
10-23-06 - Londoner was victim of secret CIA rendition Newly revealed flight logs of a CIA Gulfstream executive jet ? detailed in a book to be published this week ? indicate that it was used in April 2002 to transport Martin Mubanga, a Londoner now aged 33, to Guantanamo after he was captured in Zambia.
10-23-06 - The President's Saudi Moment Reportedly, the Saudis have amended it since it was first introduced in 2002. In its previous incarnation, it would have required Israel to relinquish all of the territories occupied in 1967 as a precondition to negotiations toward a peace agreement between Israel and the entire Arab League. The current version drops the precondition and envisions negotiations under international auspices
10-23-06 - UN hands 'final' Hariri tribunal plan to Lebanon
10-23-06 - Israel warplanes in Lebanon overflights in defiance of France Two warplanes twice flew low over Beirut, police said Monday, with four planes carrying out similar mock raid over southern Lebanon, causing a sonic boom over the port city of Tyre, as Muslims celebrated the end of Ramadan.
10-23-06 - Washington Whispers Jack Abramoff, the lobbying scandal figure, has become such a chatty rat that probe insiders say he's been given a desk to work at in the FBI. We're told he spends up to four hours a day detailing his shady business to agents eager to nail more congressmen in the scandal
10-23-06 - Breaking the Silence - The debate ignited by Walt and Mearsheimer gathers momentum. On any other political question?abortion, guns, health care?it is understood that there are two sides, but in the United States (and only in the United States), where Israel is concerned there is only one position. As far as I'm concerned, with respect to America's well being, Mearsheimer and Walt rank right up there with the founding fathers of this nation.
10-23-06 - Olmert appeals to world on Iran threats ** Israel considers Iran to be the greatest threat to its survival, and rejects Tehran's claim that its nuclear program is peaceful
10-23-06 - Peretz: IAF to overfly Lebanon until soldiers back
10-23-06 - Top Dems slam Carter book
According to advance publicity, the book argues that Israel?s settlement policy is principally to blame for the failure of peace initiatives in the Middle East. AIPAC's shills on Capitol Hill take Carter to task for daring to speak out.
10-23-06 - Israeli envoy protests Iranian statements Israel's U.N. envoy protested recent threatening statements against the Jewish state by Iran's president.
10-23-06 - Israel-U.S. to develop plane defense? Israel and the United States are considering the joint development of defense systems for civilian aircraft. Just curious, does "joint development" mean Israel develops it, the US pays for it, and Israel uses it? Or that the US develops it, the US pays for it, and Israel uses it?....
10-23-06 - The Lobby, Unmasked
10-23-06 - Elections to Watch
10-22-06 - Helping the hungry on base - Many military families rely on donated goods "Here they are defending the country. . . . It is heartbreaking to see,"
10-22-06 - The Next War ** We face today a crisis similar to those of 1964 and 2002, a crisis hidden once again from the public and most of Congress. Articles by Seymour Hersh and others have revealed that, as in both those earlier cases, the president has secretly directed the completion, though not yet execution, of military operational plans?not merely hypothetical ?contingency plans? but constantly updated plans, with movement of forces and high states of readiness, for prompt implementation on command?for attacking a country that, unless attacked itself, poses no threat to the United States: in this case, Iran.... Assuming Hersh?s so-far anonymous sources mean what they say?that this is, as one puts it, ?a juggernaut that has to be stopped??I believe it is time for one or more of them to go beyond fragmentary leaks unaccompanied by documents. That means doing what no other active official or consultant has ever done in a timely way
Speak up now before it's too late.
10-22-06 - US official retracts Iraq remarks
10-22-06 - Nuclear 'carrot and stick' approach doomed: Iran Mr Hosseini said imposing sanctions would have an impact beyond the region. "But if they choose sanctions, we will make appropriate decisions in proportion with that," he said.
10-22-06 - Rice: 'N Korea escalating crisis'
10-22-06 - Russian rebuke for Rice over N Korea
10-22-06 - Neocrazy Media Nuke Cover-up
10-22-06 - U.S. reportedly has Iraq security timetable But a White House spokeswoman disputed the account.
10-22-06 - Boy killed by Israeli cluster bomb in Lebanon
10-22-06 - Gasoline prices tumble again Gas prices continued their downward spiral across the nation, falling by an average of nearly 8 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, the publisher of the national Lundberg Survey said Sunday.
10-22-06 - Israel: Flights over Lebanon to continue French Maj. Gen. Alain Pelligrini, who leads the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, said last week that the overflights are a major concern. A day later, France's Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie called the overflights "extremely dangerous" because the peacekeepers on the ground could see them as hostile acts and fire in self-defense.
10-22-06 - Sombre mood as south Lebanon gears up for Eid
10-22-06 - The post-Israel Middle East The Zionists have put all their eggs in the basket of American support, but that basket has developed two holes. One is the paradox that support for the Zionist series of wars and conflicts has so weakened the United States that it is no longer a reliable ally. Faced with a real crisis in Korea, the Americans are powerless to do anything, and have to rely on China to fix things. Some Israelis are already setting up shop in China. And then there's this. I predicted as much a couple of years ago on a message board.
10-22-06 - Israel admits phosphorus bombing Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said in late July: "According to the Geneva Convention, when they use phosphorus bombs and laser bombs, is that allowed against civilians and children?" We used phosphorous too - in Iraq. But due to the inordinate amount of civilians Israel killed in Lebanon (disproportionate to the amount of Hezbollah fighters that they killed), it's safe to say that it was likely used against the Lebanese civvies. Our army isn't perfect, but for the most part, our guys don't harbor the animosity toward Arabs that the Israelis do.
10-22-06 - Israel admits it used phosphorus weapons Unexploded cluster bombs in Lebanon have regularly killed and maimed civilians since the end of the war. Rami Ali Hussein Shibly, 12, was killed and his nine-year-old brother brother, Khodr, injured yesterday by a cluster bomb as they picked olives in Halta. He was 21st person to be killed by the bomblets since the fighting ended
10-22-06 - Israel downplays Russian's Hamas comment
10-22-06 - A call to abolish cluster bombs Cluster munitions are not banned weapons, but their use in civilian areas violates the international ban on the use of indiscriminate weapons. According to the UN, 90 percent of the cluster bombs were dropped in the last 72 hours of the war - when all parties knew a cease-fire was imminent......A congressional investigation into the munitions' use after Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon pressured the Reagan administration to ban sales of cluster weapons to Israel for six years.
10-22-06 - Radical Islam finds US 'sterile ground' In mosques in America, it's fairly common for imams to preach assimilation, says Mr. Zogby. That's not as true in Europe, particularly in poorer neighborhoods where sermons can be laced with extremism.
10-22-06 - Poll: Jewish support for Iran strike declining Thirty-eight percent of American Jews would support U.S. military action against Iran, according to the American Jewish Committee?s annual survey of U.S. Jewish opinion, down from 49 percent last year.
10-22-06 - Peace with Syria should be explored: Israeli DM However, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has dismissed Assad's remarks about peace with Israel and declared that he would never give back the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights were seized by Israel during the Six Day War - a war that Syria did not start. Some say that Israel's plans to seize this prized piece of land were the reason they attacked and tried to sink the USS Liberty and all aboard - because the US would not have supported this plan if she discovered it (via the Liberty's surveillance).
10-22-06 - Report: Spy heading U.N. hostage efforts The United Nations reportedly appointed a German spy to help secure the release of two Israeli soldiers held hostage by Hezbollah.
10-22-06 - Report: Olmert Met with Saudi Officials The Prime Minister's office said earlier this month that there was no truth to reports of the meeting, but various sources have confirmed that he and two top intelligence and military officers flew to the palace of King Abdullah
10-21-06 - United States numb to Iraq troop deaths: experts To date, none of the people responsible for cherrypicking the intel and deceiving the American people into giving support to go to war in Iraq have been brought to justice. Why?
10-21-06 - Carter says Bush partly to blame for N.Korea test
10-21-06 - Researchers defend Iraq war deaths estimate Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad estimated with 95 per cent certainty that the war and its aftermath have resulted in the deaths of between 426,000 and 794,000 Iraqis.
10-21-06 - Iran sees no reason to halt enrichment, urges talks
10-21-06 - Russia warns against Iran 'regime change' through UN Russia would oppose any effort to use the UN Security Council to promote a change of regime in Iran, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said in an interview.
10-21-06 - China says it will play "constructive role" on Iran "China is ready to continue with its constructive role in the process of peacefully resolving the Iranian nuclear issue through negotiations," Li said.
10-21-06 - Court Told It Lacks Power in Detainee Cases Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
10-21-06 - Hutchison: WMD info swayed vote on Iraq "If I had known then what I know now about the weapons of mass destruction, which was a key reason that I voted to go in there, I would not vote to go into Iraq the way we did," Hutchison said. "But I have to say, I don't think the president would have asked for that vote, either. We had intelligence that we relied on." The intelligence issue was addressed in "The Dark Side" a Frontline special on PBS which you still might be able to see here online.
10-21-06 - From Baghdad to Washington: How the war came to the White House The ISG has consulted 130 experts, in the military, the administration, in Congress, as well as academics, journalists and outside specialists, both American and foreign, including many senior Iraqis - in short, a far wider spectrum of opinion and knowledge than ever drawn upon by the White House in its calamitous rush to war. The group will publish its conclusions after November's mid-term elections. Just possibly, they will give Bush junior a way out of the débâcle he created. But why, oh why, didn't he listen to his father in the first place?
10-21-06 - US 'arrogant and stupid' in Iraq A senior US state department official has said that the US has shown "arrogance and stupidity" in Iraq.
10-21-06 - Iraq limits data on death toll from violence: UN Instead, the data would come from the Prime Minister's communications director, a change that could politicise the figures.
10-21-06 - Politics&Policies: Cheney - War going well Replying to a question on a radio talk show Vice President Dick Cheney said he believes the war in Iraq is going "remarkably well." Nope, oh no. Mm mm.
10-21-06 - GOP to air ad warning of terror attacks The ad portrays Osama bin Laden and quotes his threats against America dating to February 1998. "These are the stakes," the ad concludes. "Vote November 7."
10-21-06 - An Old Bush Hand Takes on a New Role on the Iraq War For years, James A. Baker III was asked to explain why the first President Bush, whom he served as secretary of state, did not oust Saddam Hussein in 1991 at the end of the Persian Gulf war. "Guess what?" Mr. Baker says nowadays. "Nobody asks me that anymore."
10-21-06 - Rice prods Moscow on press freedom, Iran Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday delivered a symbolic rebuke to Russia over shrinking press freedoms even as she courted President Vladimir Putin for help punishing Iran over its nuclear program Hmm, let's see. Israeli officials travel to Washington this week. Then, Olmert travels to see Putin yesterday and fails to get support on Iran. One day later, Rice is in Russia to get support on Iran.
10-21-06 - ICRC concerned over new US terror law The International Committee of the Red Cross raised concerns on Thursday about recent US legislation that creates military commissions to try prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and redefines American obligations under the Geneva conventions.
10-21-06 - Iran suggests talks with West
10-21-06 - More than 750,000 Iraqis displaced since US invasion: UNHCR Iraqis were also fleeing abroad in tens of thousands every month
10-21-06 - US call over Guantanamo detainees The US State Department's chief legal adviser has challenged foreign governments to stop calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay camp.
10-21-06 - Peres: Israel has no intention of attacking Iran ** Israel has said repeatedly it wants the United States and other countries to take the lead in dealing with Iran If they can get us to do it for them. Israeli officials have in the recent past demanded that the US deal with Iran and Syria.
10-21-06 - Inside the Hero Factory "When people ask me if this movie is applicable to today," Eastwood told NEWSWEEK, "I say, 'Well, you know, everything is ... Everyone's distorting things, just as they distorted them then'."
10-21-06 - Russia calls for one-step-at-a-time approach in talks with Hamas Lavrov said it was unrealistic for Hamas to fulfill all of the Quartet's requirements immediately and that the Islamist group should be given more time.
10-21-06 - The War Party, Then and Now
10-21-06 - South Lebanon gets first state reconstruction aid Owners of entirely destroyed houses receive 40,000 dollars, with compensation for lesser damage awarded according to an official assessment.
10-21-06 - Hezbollah again calls for 'national unity cabinet' The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah repeated its call for a national unity cabinet for the country, calling it a "serious option it is useless to try to avoid."
10-21-06 - Exclusive: Feds Probe a Top Democrat's Relationship with AIPAC Did a Democratic member of Congress improperly enlist the support of a major pro-Israel lobbying group to try to win a top committee assignment? That's the question at the heart of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors, who are examining whether Rep. Jane Harman of California and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) may have violated the law in a scheme to get Harman reappointed as the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, according to knowledgeable sources in and out of the U.S. government.
10-21-06 - A US soldier distributes candies to Shiite Iraqi children at a camp for displaced people, north of Baghdad
10-21-06 - Essential ally - Pro-Israel lobby gathering here will examine some of the most troubling challenges to U.S. foreign policy AIPAC's mission is almost as essential for the United States as it is for Israel. BS.
10-20-06 - Troops With Stress Disorders Being Redeployed Under pressure to maintain troop levels, military doctors tell CBS News it's become a "common practice" to recycle soldiers with mental disorders back into combat. This is outright BS.
10-20-06 - Report: N. Korea 'Sorry' for Nuke Test North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said Pyongyang didn't plan to carry out any more nuclear tests and expressed regret about the country's first-ever atomic detonation last week, a South Korean news agency reported Friday.
10-20-06 - Millions Stolen From Iraq's Treasury More than half a billion dollars earmarked to fight the insurgency in Iraq was stolen by people the U.S. had entrusted to run the country's Ministry of Defense before the 2005 elections, according to Iraqi investigators.
10-20-06 - Security officials: Britain now Al Qaeda's #1 target
10-20-06 - Iran asserts atom work is unaffected by N. Korea
10-20-06 - Ahmadinejad says to sell nuclear fuel to west in five years "We promise to produce (nuclear fuel) in the next five years and will sell it (to the West) at a 50 percent discount," Ahmadinejad told a rally in support of the Palestinian people in Tehran.
10-20-06 - Four Palestinian refugees killed in Iraq, eight injured An unknown armed group in Iraq fired, on Thursday night, mortar shells and rounds of live ammunition at a Palestinian neighbourhood of Al Baladiya an area in Baghdad, killing four Palestinian refugees and injuring at least eight others.
10-20-06 - Syrian Opposition To Open Washington Office The umbrella group, known as the National Salvation Front, already has the tacit approval of the National Security Council
10-20-06 - Judge orders Cheney visitor logs opened While researching the access lobbyists and others had on the White House, The Washington Post asked in June for two years of White House visitor logs. The Secret Service refused to process the request, which government attorneys called "a fishing expedition into the most sensitive details of the vice presidency."
10-20-06 - Oil price falls after Opec deal Oil prices have fallen despite Opec's announcement that it will curb crude output by 1.2 million barrels per day. Let's get 'er back down to 40/ barrel!
10-20-06 - UNHCR decries Palestinian plight in Iraq Shelling of a Palestinian neighborhood in Baghdad has left four dead, prompting the U.N. refugee agency to renew appeals for local and regional responsibility.
10-20-06 - Iraqis protest against Israel on 'Jerusalem Day' More than a thousand Iraqi Shiite protesters have taken to the streets of Baghdad, Basra and Najaf to condemn Israel and demand that Jerusalem be handed over to Palestinian control.
10-20-06 - The week the war unravelled: Bush to 'refocus' Iraq strategy The ranks of influential Republican senators and congressmen who proclaim that the present state of affairs cannot long continue are growing by the day.
10-20-06 - Glasgow rally to protest against 'unacceptable anti-Muslim rhetoric'
10-20-06 - Protest in Syria to mark 'Jerusalem Day'
10-20-06 - Israeli planes steering clear of Lebanon: France The French cabinet minister told a news conference at U.N. headquarters that the Israeli air incursions were "extremely dangerous" and should stop permanently.
10-20-06 - Iran 'should stop student bans' Human Rights Watch says according to documents it has obtained, Iran's Ministry of Information - which performs intelligence functions - is orchestrating what it describes as a campaign to deny student activists their right to education Speaking of HRW and student bans, where is HRW's condemnation of Israel's ban of the Palestinian student (from today's news), mm? Israel is doing the same exact thing.
10-20-06 - UN: UNIFIL won?t shoot IAF planes UNIFIL forces have no intention of firing at Israeli planes patrolling Beirut?s skies, United Nations spokesperson Stefan Dujarric said Thursday. Furthermore, the UN has no plans to change the rules of engagement to permit the targeting of IAF planes.
10-20-06 - Judith Miller Agrees To Testify in Chicago Hamas Trial She also said a former New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, would testify that she witnessed part of the interrogation of Mr. Salah and saw no torture or mistreatment Judy Miller - she's everywhere the neocons need her to be... Or so it would seem.
10-20-06 - Report: FBI Investigating SoCal Boeing Scientist Court papers show that Lesnik works in the development of anti-missile systems for aircraft and holds Pentagon security clearances for top-secret information.
10-20-06 - Putin jokes about Israeli sex scandal
10-20-06 - Ahmadinejad predicts Israel's collapse, warns of 'boiling wrath' "You (the Western powers) should know that any government that stands by the Zionist regime from now on will not see any result but the hatred of the people," he added. "The wrath of the region's people is boiling."
10-20-06 - Iranian leader threatens Israel's allies ** President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad branded Israeli leaders "a group of terrorists" Friday, after Israel's prime minister warned Tehran would have "a price to pay" if it does not roll back its nuclear program.
10-20-06 - Russia says Hizbullah used US arms
10-20-06 - Livni: Lebanon's calls for peace talks prove war has left its mark Speaking to Kadima party members in Dimona, Livni said Berri's statement is "the best proof that the war has changed the rules of conduct in Lebanon, and now different voices are heard."
10-20-06 - Israel, U.S. agree: Not the time for Syria talks
10-20-06 - NCC president finds fear, frustration in Lebanon In the town of Cana, just below a home that had been so recently bombed, there were pictures of the several families that were killed lining the walls of the makeshift cemetery where the bodies were buried. Many of the pictures were of children, one after another. I got about half way through, walking alongside the mayor of Cana, and was overwhelmed with grief
10-20-06 - Russia welcomes Fatah-Hamas vow to end internal violence
10-20-06 - Menendez backs Lieberman, for a few hours U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) withdrew an endorsement of Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) hours after he made it to a Jewish audience.
10-20-06 - Air Force dilutes 'pluralism' Evangelicals supported legislation that would have allowed chaplains to name Jesus in multifaith prayers but Jewish groups, spurred by reports of coercive evangelism in the military, led lobbying that killed the legislation.
10-20-06 - Carter Book Slaps Israel With 'Apartheid' Tag, Provides Ammo to GOP Israel's current policy in the territories, Carter writes in the book's summary, is "a system of apartheid, with two peoples occupying the same land but completely separated from each other, with Israelis totally dominant and suppressing violence by depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights." In a separate passage in the advance draft, the former president stated that "Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land." You can pre-order this book at Amazon.
10-20-06 - Lebanon receives 300 mln USD from Kuwait for rebuilding Lebanon has received a grant of 300 million U.S. dollars from Kuwait for helping its post-war rebuilding, Lebanon's newspaper Daily Star reported Wednesday
10-20-06 - LEBANON: Fishermen survive on handouts The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said in August that the Ouzai Harbour was "the most polluted and damaged harbour in Lebanon, after nearly 320 boats were destroyed and sank after Israeli air raids on the harbour, fish market and cafeteria".
10-20-06 - Lebanon's Hezbollah Marks Jerusalem Day
10-20-06 - N. Korea, Mideast states, refuse chemical arms ban
10-20-06 - Four detained in Saudi Arabia for supporting Hezbollah Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally, fears the rising influence of Shi'ite power in Iran and in the Arab world. It has criticized Israeli military action in Lebanon but has also blamed the Iranian-backed Hezbollah for provoking the crisis.
10-20-06 - Israelis coming to D.C. Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter met this week with Stephen Hadley, the White House?s national security adviser. Stephen Hadley is a neocon.
10-20-06 - Pollard to PM: Your silence costing me my life
10-20-06 - Turkish troops arrive in Lebanon Turkey is the first contributor with a majority Muslim population.
10-20-06 - Terror suspect says CIA recruited him
10-19-06 - North Korean General: 'War Is Inevitable'
10-19-06 - Britain says U.N. Iran resolution coming
10-19-06 - N Korea faces build-up of naval power The long-planned naval exercises involving the US fleet and ships from Japan's Self Defence Force are now taking place in an atmosphere of high tension.
10-19-06 - Troops With Debt Seen as Security Risks, Barred From Overseas Duty The Pentagon contends financial problems can distract personnel from their duties or make them vulnerable to bribery and treason. As a result, those who fall heavily into debt can be stripped of the security clearances they need to go overseas
10-19-06 - Scott Ritter on "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change" ** Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter: "The path that the United States is currently embarked on regarding Iran is a path that will inevitably lead to war. Such a course of action will make even the historical mistake we made in Iraq pale by comparison." ...Look, Bush has already said that he doesn't want to leave Iran to the next president, that this is a problem he needs to solve now. And the other factor that we haven?t woven in here that we need to is the role played by Israel in pressuring the United States for a very aggressive stance against Iran Thank you Scott Ritter for having the cojones to point out the elephant in the room.
10-19-06 - Iran issues stark warning over sanctions moves
10-19-06 - Hardship goes on for Palestinians on Iraq-Syria border Some 353 Iraqi Palestinians have been stranded on the Iraqi-Syrian border for almost six months now and no solution to their suffering seems at hand as the Syrian authorities are reluctant to admit them, fearing an exodus from war-torn Iraq.
10-19-06 - Lebanon denies arms smuggling from Syria
10-19-06 - Furor Over Carter?s South Africa Analogy several Jewish leaders have complained that the ads, by criticizing the entire Democratic Party for the hostile statements of a few members, are undercutting the broad pro-Israel coalition that has dominated American politics for decades. - "the broad pro-Israel coalition that has dominated American politics for decades." But if Walt and Measheimer say that they're anti-Semites. K.
10-19-06 - Russia and Israel to deepen military ties
10-19-06 - Israel Lobby Congressional Junkets ? as Usual PoliticalMoneyLine, a watchdog group that follows money in politics, reported on its website that while congressional travel spending has significantly dropped this election year from levels attained in 2003, the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) continues to spend freely on congressional junkets it runs to Israel. The junkets are underwritten by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), which is the 501(c)(3) wing of AIPAC.
10-19-06 - Lebanon: Israel greater nuclear threat than N. Korea
10-19-06 - Lebanese army dismantles Israeli pipes The Lebanese army said in a statement on Wednesday that "A tall sand barrier was built as a shield in response to the (Israel's) violation in order to prevent the diversion of rainwater into Lebanon and causing damages to the properties of Lebanese citizens. "
10-19-06 - Hizbullah 'used cluster bombs' Again, keep in mind HRW's sudden turn towards Israel of late. And again : "A leading human rights group called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to end its one-sided approach to the Middle East.
In a release Monday, Human Rights Watch said the recently formed council has passed three resolutions against Israel, but has ignored the actions of Hezbollah and armed Palestinian groups". Since when does a human rights organization lobby on behalf of Israel?
10-19-06 - Lebanon mines 'continue to kill' Landmines and cluster munitions are continuing to kill and injure between three and four civilians in Lebanon each day, a campaign group has said. The bad press from the almost daily reports about civilian casualties of the cluster bomblets Israel fired into Lebanon are enough to warrant a handy dandy new report from HRW about the 'cluster munitions' Hezbollah allegedly fired into Israel. They must do the Hasbara. It means more to them than the moral high ground, quite obviously.
10-19-06 - Unifil head hints at use of force The commander of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon (Unifil) has suggested the use of force to stop continuing Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace. ....Gen Pellegrini also said Unifil had seen no evidence of illegal arms being smuggled in from Syria.
10-19-06 - Opec approves cut in oil output Opec is trying to shore up global crude prices, which have fallen 20% since they hit record highs of $78 a barrel during the conflict in Lebanon in July. We are being deliberately soaked, folks.
10-19-06 - Hezbollah denies cluster bomb use HRW said Hezbollah made two strikes with Chinese-made Type-81 rockets - their first recorded use. But Hezbollah MP Hassan Hoballah told the BBC: "We did not use these bombs. We don't have them." ....HRW says until now Israel prevented publication of the details for security reasons.
: "HRW says until now Israel prevented publication of the details for security reasons. " Mm k.
10-19-06 - Olmert in Moscow / Sowing the seeds of a preemptive strike the prime minister has sown the seeds of the possibility that Israel may be forced to carry out a preemptive strike against Iran if the international community does not succeed in its diplomatic efforts, and if no international force is used against Iran.
10-19-06 - Bush tells Mubarak Syria still active in Lebanon
10-19-06 - Poll: Forty percent of American voters believe the Israel Lobby has been a key factor in going to war in Iraq and now confronting Iran A new poll commissioned by the Council for the National Interest Foundation shows that a significant number of Americans are wary of the power of the Israel lobby, and believe it is behind the invasion of Iraq and the current belligerent tone of the White House and Congress toward Iran. Those that don't agree may need to read this, for starters.
10-19-06 - New Research Shows FCC Media Ownership Rule Changes Will Harm Local Communities -- and Democracy -- Across Nation Oh let's see. The consolidation of media outlets into larger companies going on across the nation. "The president can now - with the approval of Congress - indefinitely hold people without charge, take away protections against horrific abuse, put people on trial based on hearsay evidence, authorise trials that can sentence people to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses, and slam shut the courthouse door for habeas petitions," ( source ) This story starts to sound familiar.
10-19-06 - Israel cannot survive: Ahmadinejad
10-19-06 - Iran must be intimidated, says Israeli leader
10-19-06 - Iran seen stopping Shalit release Iran reportedly bribed the top Hamas leader to prevent the release of an Israeli soldier being held in the Gaza Strip. Mm k.
10-19-06 - Dichter to White House: Egypt must do more Dichter also met with his U.S. counterpart, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. We've been given our orders.
10-19-06 - Hamas denies Iran's role in prisoner swap deal with Israel
10-19-06 - Israel Must Not Ignore A Devalued American Dollar Israel must not ignore such facts while perilously relying on one superpower, no matter how trustworthy, as an implied guarantor of its prosperity and perhaps viable existence..... It would be propitious, in the long run, for the Israeli shekel to grow in value based solely on the merits of Israel?s economy, implicitly suggesting that Israel not rely on the fortunes of its staunchest ally. .....Cut the cord now Israel, your brainpower needs no external help Ungrateful @$%@!~!@ers.
10-19-06 - Heated debate over use of torture The Israeli figure is interesting since it conceals a stark difference in attitude between the country's Jewish majority and its minority of Arab citizens.
This in turn is a reflection of their obvious differences in attitude towards the prevailing security climate.
And that would likely be because its the ARAB citizens that are most likely to get tortured (and have been). It's where the term 'Palestinian hanging' came from - an Israeli technique.
10-19-06 - Britain 'is blocking' cluster bomb ban The move coincides with the release of research suggesting that up to one million potentially lethal unexploded bomblets remain in Lebanon in the aftermath of the Israeli attacks on Hizbollah.
10-19-06 - Palestinian Puzzle - A Business Professor in Springfield Goes on Trial Today On U.S. Charges of Supporting Hamas. He Strongly Denies It.
10-19-06 - U.S. lawyer turns Israeli soldier A 37-year-old New York lawyer, inspired by the Lebanon war, joined the Israeli army.
Something wrong with joining the US army?
10-19-06 - Mideast conflict plays out in terrorism funding trial What's really interesting about the prosecution of Hamas-supporters in this country is that Israel itself helped Hamas along in its infancy (Israel "aided Hamas directly -- the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)," said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies.
") because it was seen as a counter to the secular PLO. Yet we aren't to focus on that little nugget of information.
10-19-06 - UNSC monthly Mideast debate turns into finger-pointing among participants
10-19-06 - Annan presses Lebanon on disarming Hezbollah
10-18-06 - China Dispatches Envoys to N. Korea Amid 2nd Test Rumors China is North Korea's last remaining ally and key aid donor, but it remains unclear whether Beijing could succeed in dissuading Pyongyang from testing another nuclear device, especially after Beijing supported a U.N. resolution that included punitive measures
10-18-06 - UN envoys work on Iran resolution Diplomats at the UN are working on a resolution proposing sanctions against Iran for its refusal to halt controversial nuclear activities.
10-18-06 - Defectors: No Kim Jong Il would mean no nuclear threat
10-18-06 - Four U.S. soldiers charged with rape and murder Four U.S. soldiers accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl and slaying her sister and their parents will face courts-martial on murder charges, military officials say.
10-18-06 - FBI director wants ISPs to track users
10-18-06 - Release the Iran NIE! and Hoaxster Hoekstra According to former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, writing in the October 9th edition of the American Conservative magazine, the Bush administration is withholding a new CIA National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. I wanted to type that column up for you (from the hard copy edition), as well as one prior to that, but you can read it by subscribing to The American Conservative and supporting a good magazine in the process.
10-18-06 - Bush Accepts Iraq-Vietnam Comparison Bush said he could not imagine any circumstances under which all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Iraq before the end of his presidency.
10-18-06 - North Korea heads toward hunger
10-18-06 - Mines and brides: UN staff tread lightly on Golan Strategic experts agree that Israel's command of the Golan, much of which is heavily mined, would make any assault by the lesser-armed Syrians easy to repel
10-18-06 - Americans anxious over U.S. foreign ties Americans are anxious and frustrated over the state of U.S. foreign relations, a survey indicates, with large majorities worried that the country's foreign policy is making the world increasingly dangerous for the United States and its people
10-18-06 - Iran must be intimidated, says Israeli leader
10-18-06 - Running from Iraq - Don't Imagine It Will Reduce the Jihadist Threat Neocons like this individual writing for the AEI- neocon central - just LOVE having American GIs taking the brunt of violence in the Middle East -it keeps the attention of the jihadis away from Israel. Now they want us to stay for awhile and continue this policy.
10-18-06 - From gunbelts to greenbelts After Hizbullah's 34-day war with Israel, Erlend Clouston tracks down its representatives and finds them keen to talk about parks and pollution
10-18-06 - Israel Lobby Initiates Hispanic Strategy: "Invadimos a Iran" The Israel lobby clearly sees Hispanic voters as a new and largely untapped force in American politics in need of leadership harnessed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) foreign policy issue framework.
10-18-06 - Lebanon's young begin return to normalcy Compared to many southern Lebanese schools, Ansariyeh was relatively fortunate. Israeli bombing completely flattened 50 schools, say officials from UNICEF, the UN's international children's fund.
10-18-06 - Arar given US human rights award, accepts by video Maher Arar was given an international human rights award Wednesday in Washington but he did not accept it in person because of fears that he might be detained again by the United States.
10-18-06 - Muslim scholars write the pope - and everyone else Thirty-eight Muslim scholars from 20 countries sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI urging mutual tolerance and respect over the weekend, and 500 prominent Muslims signed a religious ruling rejecting violence against civilians on Tuesday. Neither got much publicity. But when Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, issues his latest bloodcurdling threat it dominates the airwaves
10-18-06 - Between Syria and Israel, a strategic breakthrough for peace is possible Virtually all Arab and Muslim leaders - whether regarded in Washington as "radical," like Assad, or "moderate," like King Abdullah II of Jordan, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, or King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - share Assad's perception that the Bush administration is seriously biased in Israel's favor, and that it will make no serious move without Jerusalem's assent.
10-18-06 - MPs kept in dark over terror suspects
10-18-06 - Israel: Iran targeting us with drugs Israel accused Iran of trying to flood it with drugs via Lebanon.
10-18-06 - Jordan, Syria discuss river rights Jordan and Syria are negotiating water rights from the Yarmouk River, a source Israel also claims.
10-18-06 - Lebanon businesses try to bounce back
10-17-06 - NKorea: Sanctions are declaration of war
10-17-06 - N. Korea apparently preparing nuke test Satellite images indicate North Korea appears to be getting ready for a second nuclear test, officials said Tuesday, as the defiant communist regime held huge rallies and proclaimed that U.N. sanctions amount to a declaration of war.
10-17-06 - Iraq a 'helluva mess': former US secretary of state Former US secretary of state James Baker was visibly shocked when he last visited Iraq, and said the country was in a "helluva mess", the BBC reported.
10-17-06 - U.N. sanctions on Iran to exempt Russia project To dissuade Moscow from blocking U.N. action against Iran, Russia would be permitted to work on a nuclear reactor in Iran even if the U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions on Tehran for its nuclear program, U.S. and European officials said.
10-17-06 - Bush opposes three-way partition of Iraq: TV interview US President George W. Bush said in a television interview that he opposed dividing Iraq into a Kurdish, a Shiite and a Sunni region, which he said would create even more chaos.
10-17-06 - France nears U.N. resolution on Iran France said Tuesday it hopes to circulate a draft U.N. resolution that is expected to call for sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment and return to negotiations on its nuclear program.
10-17-06 - EU admits Iran nuclear talks have failed The European Union has admitted that its nuclear talks with Iran have run into a dead end and that it has been left with "no choice" but to return the matter to the UN Security Council.
10-17-06 - Bush signs controversial anti-terror Bill "The president can now - with the approval of Congress - indefinitely hold people without charge, take away protections against horrific abuse, put people on trial based on hearsay evidence, authorise trials that can sentence people to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses, and slam shut the courthouse door for habeas petitions," ACLU executive director Anthony Romero said.
10-17-06 - Is the Bush Doctrine Dead? by Patrick J. Buchanan
10-17-06 - A vile teen fad: beating the homeless This is off topic. It is the most hideous thing I've ever seen/heard of. Let me come across someone doing this to a homeless person, I beg you. I've got a little present for them.
10-17-06 - Bush and Blair isolated as criticism of war grows
10-17-06 - Talabani backs 'Iran-Syria plan' Violence in Iraq could end "within months" if Iran and Syria joined efforts to stabilise the country, says Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
10-17-06 - US opens Iran basketball inquiry US treasury officials are investigating whether American basketball players who were paid to play for Iranian teams have violated US sanctions.
10-17-06 - Oil above $60 ahead of Opec deal The gains come as member nations of oil-producing cartel Opec prepare to meet in Qatar later this week to discuss a long-awaited cut in output.
10-17-06 - Voting against nuclear war with Iran
10-17-06 - Web could be terror training camp in U.S., politician says "We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the Internet," Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International Association of the Chiefs of Police.
10-17-06 - Planespotting - Nerds with binoculars bust the CIA's torture taxis At a desert bar, one of his friends?a man with an unspecified connection to Base Camp?warned him over beers to "stop messing with those Base Camp guys or you'll wind up dead in the desert with two bullets in the back of your head." What an interesting tale of a man's passion - which is part hobby and part good old-fashioned detective work.
10-17-06 - Intelligence Laundry: To Paris again One source says they believe the meeting to be part of a larger campaign to allegedly create and launder falsified intelligence by planting it with key publications and individuals abroad, in hopes that it will seep back into official American channels as though it were legitimate information, collected by allied intelligence organizations. Such a campaign of disinformation, if it exists, would be difficult to track, precisely because it is designed to mask its origins through other channels.
10-17-06 - Saddam: Kurds dividing Iraq for Israeli benefit
10-17-06 - A Self-Defeating War
10-17-06 - Working women in rural Iran
10-17-06 - U.N. naval force patrols Lebanese waters An international force is in place to help the Lebanese navy prevent arms smuggling.
10-17-06 - Israel to help NATO patrols Details of the pact have not been released, but the accord, agreed to Monday, is seen as a way to bolster ties between Israel and Arab nations with borders on the Mediterranean.
10-17-06 - French forces: Stop Lebanon overflights or we'll open fire The commanders of the French contingent in UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) have warned that if Israeli warplanes continue their overflights in Lebanon, they may have to open fire on them, Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday
10-17-06 - HOW HEZBOLLAH DEFEATED ISRAEL - PART 3: The political war Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert adopted Bush's language on the "war on terrorism", reminding his citizenry that Hezbollah was a part of "the axis of evil". His remarks have been reinforced by Bush, whose comments during his address before the UN General Assembly mentioned al-Qaeda once - and Hezbollah and Hamas five times each. The United States and Israel have now lumped Islamist groups willing to participate in the political processes in their own nations with those takfiris and Salafists who are bent on setting the region on fire.
A very interesting take on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of this past summer.
10-17-06 - 9/11 - ALL THE PROOF YOU NEED!
10-17-06 - A foreign policy tailspin The administration's green light to Israel to do anything it wants to grind down the Palestinians, reversing 30 years of U.S. policy, as Powell pointed out, has caused structural damage to America's efforts toward a just settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian problem
10-17-06 - British MP apologizes for comparing Israeli tactics to the Nazis Turner slammed the British government for not calling for an immediate cease-fire during the summer conflict. He said even Human Rights Watch condemns Israel?s lawless attacks on south Lebanon that were followed by civilian casualties. "Those were the tactics of the Nazis in 1939 and 1940, attacking fleeing civilians from the air," he said.
IT's the truth.
10-17-06 - 'Minor' glitches delay Israel pullout from Lebanese village: UN Israeli troops continued to occupy the Lebanese northern parts of Ghajar, after their October 1 withdrawal from southern Lebanon. That came almost seven weeks after a UN-brokered truce took effect on August 14, ending 34 days of war against the Lebanese Hezbollah Shiite militant group.
10-17-06 - Lebanon asks Arab states for more help Prime Minister Fuad Saniora appealed to Arab countries Tuesday to increase and accelerate their donations to Lebanon to help it rebuild from what he called "a series of devastating Israeli invasions" in the past 30 years.
10-17-06 - Mussa calls on all Arab nations to help Lebanon rebuild Arab League chief Amr Mussa has called for all Arab nations to help with the massive task of Lebanese reconstruction following Israel's devastating summer offensive.
10-17-06 - Jewish political partisans in U.S. engaged in pre-election outreach
10-17-06 - May we criticize Israel?
10-16-06 - U.S. Intel: N. Korea Planning Another Nuke Test I know. Let's attack Iran.
10-16-06 - China may back coup against Kim
10-16-06 - Iran rejects U.N. stance on North Korea Iran's president said his country has no reservations about pursuing its nuclear ambitions despite the U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea for its purported nuclear test.
10-16-06 - Iran leader in Bush 'Satan' claim
10-16-06 - Report: British universities to be asked to 'spy' on Muslim students
10-16-06 - Time to Let Iraqis Take Over, Say Americans
10-16-06 - US Reportedly Building Military Base in N. Iraq The United States is allegedly planning to construct a big military base in northern Iraq as part of its military plans for the Middle East.
10-16-06 - Lawyer Sentenced to 28 Months on Terror Charges for Assisting Blind Sheik
10-16-06 - Russia demands U.S. lift sanctions Russia demanded Monday that the United States lift sanctions against two Russian companies accused of making deals with Iran involving sensitive technology and hinted that a U.S. refusal could affect negotiations on a U.N. sanctions resolution against Tehran.
10-16-06 - Americans Reject War with North Korea
10-16-06 - Lebanon implicitly rejects Olmert peace talks offer "Real peace resides in Israel accepting the Arab peace initiative, promoted at the time by prince (now King) Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and agreed to at the Arab League summit held in Beirut," said a statement from Siniora's office.
10-16-06 - Olmert says he will meet with Bush in November Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that he will meet with US President George W. Bush in November, to discuss arch-foe Iran's nuclear program.
10-16-06 - Israel wants Lebanon talks but not Syria
10-16-06 - Israeli bombs 'major threat' to Lebanese children: UNICEF The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the Israeli army fired at least 1.2 million bomblets into Lebanon during the 34-day conflict.
10-16-06 - Israel's internal security minister to dispense advice in the US He will also meet in Washington with Mueller, US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, National Security Adviser Steve Hadley, Drug Enforcement Agency administrator Karen Tandy and Frances Townsend, the homeland security adviser to US President George W. Bush. After Boston, Dichter, ministry director-general Ronny Falk and Israel Police's US representative, Cmdr. Mickey Levy, are expected to travel to the nation's capital to meet with government leaders from the White House and Congress as well as American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) heads The Israelization of the United States continues at full speed.
10-16-06 - U.N. force only protects Israel: top Shi'ite cleric "The widening of the scope of Israeli violations in the south and other areas in Lebanon and their repetition within the sight and hearing range of UNIFIL forces that don't interfere to stop these violations... affirm that these forces have come here to protect Israel not Lebanon,"
10-16-06 - Election 2006: A War Referendum - It's all about Iraq
10-16-06 - "Cedar revolution" hits Syrian sapling exports Five thousand cedar saplings at the Maysaloun nursery on the Damascus-Beirut road have been waiting for months to be transported to Lebanon, unexpected victims of the renewed animosity that divides the two countries. The saplings have been donated by Syria to help Lebanon recreate its famed cedar forests, which have shrunk as a result of uncontrolled logging throughout the ages.
10-16-06 - America Moves Toward War with Iran
10-16-06 - Moscow tells Israel it will tighten its export controls on weapons For all intensive purposes, the order is directed mainly against Syria, and intended to prevent the transfer of Russian arms to Hezbollah and other terror groups.
10-16-06 - Steep drop in travel spending after congressional scandals behind the American Israel Education Foundation, which has emerged as the new top sponsor despite its close ties to the most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington.
The foundation spent $583,131, sponsoring 62 trips to Israel for lawmakers, their relatives and staff from July 2005 to July 2006.....while the organization is considered an independent entity, its affiliation with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee -- a lobby that is consistently ranked among the nation's most powerful interest groups -- blurs the lines between lobbies and nonprofit educational groups. Members of Congress are banned from accepting travel expenses from lobbyists...Founded in 1990, the education foundation shares its office space and phone number with AIPAC -- the lobbying group. In 2005, 17 of the foundation's directors were also vice presidents on the group's board, and one was the president.
And just why are these trips allowed in the wake of the lobbying scandal? The Israeli lobby, of course.
10-16-06 - Error gets anti-war group on terror watch
10-16-06 - US: Jury picked for alleged Hamas supporters trial
10-16-06 - Golan Heights again center of land-for-peace deal On Monday, Olmert repeated his rejection in a speech before the Israeli parliament. U.S. officials also have rejected Assad's gesture.
10-16-06 - Olmert sees Arab axis of peace to counter Iran
10-16-06 - Confronting the War Pushers.
10-15-06 - Iran to pursue atomic work despite pressure: agency
10-15-06 - US presses to enforce North Korea resolution
10-15-06 - "Cold War Shivers": War Preparations in the Middle East and Central Asia ** The overall significance of these military drills must be assessed in relation to the sequence of Russian, Chinese and Iran war exercises conducted since late August. There is a consistent pattern. These war games are not isolated events. They are part of a carefully coordinated endeavor, in response to the US-NATO military build-up. They should also be considered as acts of deterrence, intended to display military capabilities to deter military action by US led coaltion......The issue is not whether the war will or will not take place but what are the instruments at our disposal which will enable us to shunt and ultimately disarm this global military agenda.
10-15-06 - Russia baulks at military action SANCTIONS on North Korea should not even hint at a use of military force, Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying overnight.
10-15-06 - U.S. soldier charged with smuggling weapons from Afghanistan Federal authorities suspected him of misusing operation funds and searched his baggage on Aug. 24 as he was returning to the United States, according to the indictment, and authorities found 32 pounds of plastic explosives, grenades and guns.
10-15-06 - 2 ordered not to discuss Gitmo claims A paralegal and a military lawyer who brought forward allegations about prisoner abuse at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have been ordered not to speak with the press, lawyers and a military spokeswoman said Saturday.
10-15-06 - China fears consequences of North Korea collapse A huge flow of refugees, a stronger U.S. presence in the region and economic pressures that could impact the stability of its government -- those are the worst fears for China in the event its neighbor, North Korea, collapsed.
10-15-06 - Bolton vows to 'build pressure' on N Korea
10-15-06 - Displease a Lobbyist, Get Fired The exchange illustrates how, more than two years after the corruption scandal surrounding the now-disgraced Abramoff came to light, people are still learning the extent of the lobbyist's ability to pull the levers of power in Washington. What did Rove and Abramoff talk about during their meetings, and why?
10-15-06 - Expecting U.S. Help, Sent to Guantánamo
10-15-06 - Iran threatens to limit nuclear inspection if sanctioned You know, this is getting to be like an SNL skit. This guy just runs down a list of the same old threats every few weeks or so. I mean. Can he change it up a bit? Maybe throw in a zinger every week or so? C'mon. 'Ok, this week we threaten limiting inspections. No wait that was last week's threat. Can't do that. I know. Let's threaten with oil! The oil always gets them.. '
10-15-06 - OPEC consensus to one million bpd cut: Algerian minister OPEC is set to announce a cut in its production by one million barrels of oil a day to check the slide in global prices, Algeria's Energy Minister Chakib Khelil has said. Bastards.
10-15-06 - 1 Man Still Locked Up From 9/11 Sweeps
10-15-06 - Hamas slams Jordan for plan on transferring Palestinian refugees to Canada Atef Adwan, Minister of Refugees of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)-led government, on Sunday accused Jordan of planning to transfer hundreds of Palestinians, who fled violence in Iraq, to Canada. The new Jews.
10-15-06 - Hamas denies reports saying it considers attacking U.S. interests You remember now, Aaron Klein who is presumed to be the same Aaron Klein of WND contributed to that TIME report. See news for 10-13.
10-15-06 - Israel calls for tough UN action on 'demented' Iran US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, warned Tuesday however that the resolution on Iran would likely take more time to draft than the one now being considered for North Korea.
10-15-06 - Muslims are the new Jews I reserve that phrase for the Palestinians who have been: forcibly expelled from their properties, had their properties seized, have been ghettoized and walled in, are deemed inferior by Zionists both past and present, are deemed a 'demographic problem' by Zionists both past and present, are collectively punished for the sins of a few, are impoverished and starving as most of the 'civilized world' turns a blind eye, are severely dehumanized in the Western media (at the behest of pro-Israeli media 'watchdogs'), are in need of a homeland
10-15-06 - Tensions despite Israeli PM pageantry in Russia Behind the official pageantry to mark 15 years of renewed diplomatic ties between Russia and Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s visit to Moscow this week will be tense, notably over Iran?s nuclear ambitions, observers say.
10-15-06 - Syria aiding arms smuggling into Lebanon: Israeli official "Syria is continuing to sabotage the implementation of (UN Resolution) 1701 and is playing a conspirator's role in sabotaging (Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad) Siniora's ability to carry out his agenda," Like clockwork with this sh@t.
10-15-06 - How Hezbollah Defeated Israel - Part Two: Winning the Ground War "We knew they were going to do this," Ilay Talmor, an exhausted Israeli second lieutenant, said at the time. "This is territory they say is theirs. We would do the same thing if someone came into our country."......"It seemed to them (USAF officers) that Israel threw away the book in Lebanon. This wasn't surgical, it wasn't precise, and it certainly wasn't smart. You can't just coat a country in iron and hope to win."
10-15-06 - I was wrong on Iraq General Cosgrove has apologised to Federal Police boss Mick Keelty for criticising Mr Keelty's view that the Iraq war inspired terrorist attacks in Spain.
10-15-06 - We're stuck in civil war that has no end in sight At the same time you've got to have a comprehensive and sustained effort at peace in the Middle East - something that pulls together all players and resuscitates dealing with the festering problem of Israel and Palestinian territories.
10-15-06 - Italy hands over UN Lebanon naval force to Germany The Italian navy has handed over to German command the UN naval force tasked with intercepting arms shipments along Lebanon's coastline following Israel's war with the Shiite movement Hezbollah.
10-15-06 - Peace Activists Beware: Homeland Security May Be Reading Your E-Mail, and Passing it on to the Pentagon
10-14-06 - Security Council Unanimously Approves Sanctions on N. Korea The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea including ship searches for banned weapons, calling Pyongyang's claimed nuclear test "a clear threat to international peace and security."
10-14-06 - Navy SEAL Saves Comrades By Falling on Grenade
10-14-06 - Blair backs army chief on Iraq pull-out British Prime Minister Tony Blair says there is no rift between the Government and the head of the army over the deployment of British forces in Iraq.
10-14-06 - Iran says foreign enrichment offer still stands
10-14-06 - Iran says sanctions threat part of psychological war
10-14-06 - US will stay at full strength in Iraq until 2010, says army chief
10-14-06 - Bush keeps revising war justification When no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, Bush shifted his war justification to one of liberating Iraqis from a brutal ruler.....Vice President Dick Cheney takes it even further: "The hopes of the civilized world ride with us," Cheney tells audiences.
10-14-06 - 'Give us names of soldiers who killed Terry', say family Defence minister Des Browne is under renewed pressure to secure co-operation from the US military into the investigation into the death of an ITN reporter shot by American troops in Iraq.
10-14-06 - MoD forced to hire civilian helicopters in Afghanistan Britain is so short of helicopters in Afghanistan that military chiefs are being forced to scour the world for civilian aircraft to support its troops after the US rejected a plea to help plug the shortfall.
10-14-06 - US sowing Iraq strife, says Iran
10-14-06 - Americans Question Bush on 9/11 Intelligence Here is my 911 conspiracy theory page from a few years ago, on geocities no less. Enjoy. Just think about the circumstantial evidence for a minute. A certain group of people said the US needed a 'new Pearl Harbor' in order to achieve their agenda. With the right people in place (in the Bush administration), coincidentally they got one. Who benefits? is ever the question that must be asked about Middle Eastern terror - Pat J. Buchanan.
10-14-06 - Debunking the Armitage Story Another reason for skepticism about the Armitage story is that it is filled with suspicious gaps and internal contradictions ? far too many to catalog
10-14-06 - NATO backs Pakistan deal with Taliban A CONTROVERSIAL peace agreement with Taliban-supporting militants in the rugged frontier region of Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding, emerged yesterday as the blueprint for a possible accord with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
10-14-06 - Paris, Berlin: Warn Tehran by getting tough with Pyongyang
10-14-06 - Lebanon?s new disabled 'There are children who have been left disabled by the war and are now in wheelchairs,' said Nizar Amine of Christian Aid partner Mouvement Social, which is repairing three schools damaged by bombing in the southern Lebanese village of Srifa
10-14-06 - Clint, what about Iran? ** Why isn't Sheriff George W. Bush pulling out his rifle in order to drive the bad guys out of town, before they make the global village evaporate in smoky mushrooms? Because thanks to the neocons, he's got his hands full in Iraq. And secondly, whose war is it? Fight your own battles (sh#t), or get off the pot. Enough of the whining.
10-14-06 - Spy Jonathan Pollard caught on tape NBC News has obtained surveillance video, which for the first time, actually shows Pollard pilfering classified documents and stuffing them into a briefcase supplied by Israel. Pollard stole a "ten-volume intelligence bible". Israel denied Pollard spied for it until only a few years ago. Pollard will get $3.6 million dollars from the Israeli government when he is released.
10-14-06 - Lebanese man killed by stray bullet at Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon
10-14-06 - Stop Belittling the Theories About September 11
10-14-06 - Hamas minister discusses police training with Syria
10-14-06 - Two grenades hit building near U.N. HQ in Beirut
10-14-06 - Muslims face 'voluntary apartheid', warns Davis
10-14-06 - Daunting challenges face war-devastated Lebanon: minister Lebanon's ailing economy urgently needs world financial aid, reforms and an end to political rows in order to overcome the devastation of this summer's war, Finance Minister Jihad Azour has said.
10-14-06 - Lebanon: IAF planes infiltrating Lebanese airspace will be shot
10-14-06 - U.S. wasted chance to improve the world: Gorbachev
10-14-06 - HOW HEZBOLLAH DEFEATED ISRAEL - PART 1: Winning the intelligence war Hezbollah had identified key Israeli human-intelligence assets in Lebanon. One month prior to the abduction of the IDF border patrol and the subsequent Israeli attack, Lebanese intelligence officials had broken up an Israeli spy ring operating inside the country
10-14-06 - Syria, Spain talk of relaunching Mideast peace process
10-14-06 - Nero, Not Hitler For an entire month this summer ? while Israel?s latest war of aggression was devastating Lebanon, costing at least a thousand Lebanese civilians their lives and hundreds of thousands their homes ? Bush prevented the UN Security Council from ordering a cease-fire.
10-13-06 - Source: U.S. has evidence of radioactivity from N. Korea The United States has evidence of radioactivity from a site where North Korea was suspected of conducting a nuclear weapons test, a U.S. official said Friday.
10-13-06 - Pentagon rejects coroner's verdict on killing of British journalist
10-13-06 - British TV journalist 'unlawfully killed' by US forces in Iraq: coroner A coroner has ruled that British television journalist Terry Lloyd was unlawfully killed by US forces in southern Iraq in 2003 and said he would try to ensure that those responsible are prosecuted.
10-13-06 - EU to hand Iran nuclear question to UN
10-13-06 - British Army chief: Military presence in Iraq 'exacerbates security problem' The Financial Times reports that the White House, in reaction to Dannatt's remarks, reiterated its position on Iraq becoming a "beacon of hope" for the region.
10-13-06 - Former Weapons Inspector, Experts Warn Against Military Action Toward Iran ** "Iran does not today, and in my judgment will not for some time, pose a nuclear threat to the United States or the state of the (Middle East) region," Kay said......However, Kay and others, citing media reports in recent months, worry that some officials in the Bush administration may be pressing for military action and regime change in Iran
10-13-06 - S Korea demands US nuclear shield The US has formally, but only in the broadest terms, guaranteed South Korea's security from nuclear attack since 1978.
10-13-06 - US to try KSM for Pearl murder KSM was the mastermind of the attacks on 911, so why isn't the US trying him for THAT?
10-13-06 - Guantanamo guards 'admitted abusing inmates' In a sworn affidavit, Heather Cerveny, a 23-year-old Marine Corps sergeant, says she met several prison guards at a club on the base where they told her over drinks of harsh abuse of detainees, she said the guards claimed the abuse was both commonplace and justified.
10-13-06 - Nonprofits laundered cash for Abramoff: Senate panel Five conservative nonprofit groups laundered money and wrote opinion pieces for disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and sold their influence with U.S. government officials, according to a Senate report.
10-13-06 - Senate questions nonprofits' tax status Five nonprofit groups, including one of President Bush's biggest supporters, may have broken tax laws and put their tax-exempt status at risk by helping convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a Senate Finance Committee report concludes.
10-13-06 - British presence in Iraq 'exacerbates' security problems: army head The continued presence of British troops in Iraq "exacerbates" Britain's security problems and they should be withdrawn "sometime soon", the head of the country's army said in an interview
10-13-06 - An Indian al-qaeda operative stuns UK A British Hindu convert to Islam of ethnic Indian origin has admitted ? and been convicted by a London court for plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty" bomb and other explosive devices to commit mass murder in Britain and the US.
10-13-06 - Olmert urges Moscow to boost Middle East role Olmert said that Russia will no longer have a one-sided policy to the Middle East as the Soviet Union did. "But Israel does not expect that a turn in this direction will cause damage to relations between Russia and the Arab countries,"
10-13-06 - American Prison Camps Are on the Way Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Bush's "unlawful enemy combatants." Americans are certain to be among them.
10-13-06 - A New Kind of Neocon? as realists and conservatives in the Republican Party are hoping to challenge the dominance of the neoconservatives over their party's foreign policy, many leading Democratic activists and liberal intellectuals seem to be calling on their party to embrace an even more "pure" or radical version of the neoconservative ideology
10-13-06 - Attacks on Muslims rise after veils row Islamophobic attacks have surged in the past month in the wake of controversial remarks by ministers about British Muslims, say campaign groups.
10-13-06 - Documents Reveal Scope of U.S. Database on Antiwar Protests
10-13-06 - UK minister urged Aljazeera bombing
10-13-06 - 3 more Canadians alleging torture seek Arar-style inquiry
10-13-06 - Mexico probes alleged Hezbollah financing: reports Mexico started the investigation three months ago on a request from the United States, which is helping in the probe, the daily El Universal said.
10-13-06 - British MP: Israel employed Nazi tactics in Lebanon "Those were the tactics of the Nazis in 1939 and 1940 - attacking fleeing civilians from the air," he said. Turner then turned to Jewish MP Louise Ellman, saying, "I know this offends the honorable Member for Liverpool, Riverside, but I must tell the truth."
10-13-06 - U.N. picks Ban He met with a number of Jewish groups and leaders in recent weeks in his quest to win Friday afternoon's vote, and was favored by the United States and Israel.
10-13-06 - Senate cites 'Toward Tradition' A report by U.S. Senate investigators cited a Jewish group for possible fraud in its dealings with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
10-13-06 - Rove 'described fundamentalist Christians as nuts' Efforts by the Republican Party to rally grassroots support for next month's mid-term elections were knocked yesterday by a new book suggesting that right-wing evangelical Christians are regarded with contempt by the White House's top strategists and courted strictly for their votes.
10-13-06 - IDF: Only US operation can stop Iran **
10-13-06 - New U.N. head may make body fairer to Israel, groups hope Ban has said he would make reforming the United Nations - a cause close to the hearts of Jewish organizations who say the world body treats Israel unfairly - a top priority. The terms 'fair' and 'balanced' to pro-Israelis translate to: Israel is not to be blamed for anything.
10-13-06 - Israel punishes civilians There are plenty of things wrong with Mr. Masse's article. I happen to think so thoroughly misrepresenting Israel's human rights record is the most odious. In perpetuating this myth, Mr. Masse has taken a page from one of the most infamous twentieth century leaders: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it."
10-13-06 - Ignatieff planning trip to Israel Liberal leadership front-runner Michael Ignatieff says he'll travel to the Middle East next month in the wake of comments that have enraged Canada's Jewish community and members of his own party.
10-13-06 - New Calls by Hamas Militants to Target the U.S. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Tel Aviv Reporter for World Net Daily - a magazine run by a Christian Zionist, Aaron Klein - now providing reports for TIME magazine. If any 'reporter' can get 'facts' from Palestinians that serve the Israeli position - and conflate the US-Israel 'war on terror - it would be Aaron Klein.
10-13-06 - Cleric Pleads Guilty In Secret Court Case The imam of a mosque pleaded guilty to providing material support to the militant group Hamas in a case in which the agreement, charges and even the plea hearing were handled in secret. More US prosecutions of Palestinian terrorism. Where are the US prosecutions of Al Qaeda? For whom is our government working?
10-13-06 - Suicide bomber who finds a welcome in the living room
10-13-06 - Joan Rivers: Mel Gibson Should Die
10-13-06 - Poll: Most Lebanese see war as attempt to remake region A Jordanian poll published Thursday showed that 84 percent of Lebanese believe that the recent war on Lebanon was a premeditated attempt by the United States and Israel to impose a new regional order in the Middle East.
10-13-06 - The role of public opinion ** The United States is up to its neck in Iraq and Afghanistan, and cannot open another front. The U.S. weakness and the fact that even Japan and South Korea reject the use of force against North Korea - thereby accepting its nuclearization - encourages Iran to accelerate its own nuclear project. The "soft" sanctions on Iran, if they are imposed at all, will not bring forth salvation.
Translation: "we may have to fight our own battle, and so we must prepare".
10-13-06 - Mel Gibson Blames Anti-Semitic Remarks on 'Passion' Criticism The 50-year-old Gibson said his tirade also may have been triggered by Israel's war in Lebanon. The Middle East has troubled him for a long time.
"I remember thinking when I was 20, man, that place is going to drag us all into the black hole, you know, just the difficulty over there," he said. Asked by Sawyer what Jews are responsible for, Gibson replied: "What are they responsible for? I think that they're not blameless in the conflict. There's been aggression and retaliation and aggression. It's just part of being in conflict, and being at war. So, they're not blameless."
10-12-06 - Briton admits plot to detonate series of 'dirty bombs' While no specific targets were identified in Britain he had planned to bomb the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup buildings in New York and the Prudential skyscraper in Newark.
10-12-06 - General seeks UK Iraq withdrawal
10-12-06 - US, Britain reject study that claims Iraqi death toll tops 600,000
10-12-06 - US admits 'tough times' in Iraq US President George W Bush has acknowledged "tough times" in Iraq amid escalating violence, but vows the United States will stay the course.
10-12-06 - Naval exercise planned ** Facing nuclear disputes with Iran and North Korea, the US, Bahrain and other
states will hold their first naval exercise in the Gulf this month to practice interdicting ships carrying weapons of mass destruction and missiles, US officials said.
10-12-06 - US General: Strikes on Iran possible by 2007 ** Israel prefers Washington to act on its behalf but academics, left-wing politicians and experts say a military option is not on the cards for the Bush administration because of the situation in Iraq "Israel prefers Washington to act on its behalf" - no s%#t? Really? I never would have guessed.
10-12-06 - US no-talks policy comes under fire
10-12-06 - Jim Baker, Savior?
10-12-06 - Envoy: Iran should watch action on N. Korea "I am sure they're watching in Tehran what we do on this North Korea resolution," John Bolton told reporters Thursday at U.N. headquarters in New York. "And I hope they watch closely."
10-12-06 - America's Iran-watchers flock to Dubai
10-12-06 - Iran and Syria 'use Iraqis as cannon fodder': US And some would say that Israel is using US GI's as cannon fodder. Whose war is it?.
10-12-06 - Former general: Israel testing its limits
10-12-06 - Harvest of death is reaped where the cluster bombs were scattered Dalya Farran, of the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre, said that there were 770 new cluster bomb sites across south Lebanon but complained that they had received little help from Israel. ?All we got were maps giving areas ?highly likely? to contain unexploded ordnance, but they didn?t mention what type and said they were not exhaustive,? she said
10-12-06 - AN IMPERFECT HERO - Joseph Wilson's War
10-12-06 - FO's human rights report omits attacks on Lebanon By contrast with the absence of Israel's conduct in Lebanon, the report says: "We remain deeply concerned by Syria's ongoing support for Hizbullah. Hizbullah's role in the major outbreak of violence this year with Israel included abducting and detaining two Israeli soldiers and firing unguided rockets into Israeli towns and cities. In total, Hizbullah fired nearly 4,000 rockets into Israeli territory."
10-12-06 - Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran ** Is the Israeli government using Shalev, wittingly or not, and is he in turn using the BBC, to spread Israeli propaganda? Propaganda that may soon propel us towards the "clash of civilisations" so longed for by Israel's leadership. This is in reference to the BBC's program of the same topic from this week.
10-12-06 - Olmert urges action against Iran
10-12-06 - ADL presses pope on Iran The leader of the Anti-Defamation League asked Pope Benedict XVI to help protect Jews from Iranian threats.
10-12-06 - Comments on Israel harm Canadian pol A leading Canadian politician is under fire after calling an Israeli bombing of a Lebanese town this summer a war crime
10-12-06 - Civic leaders condemn attack on Calif. Muslim candidate A powerful Republican Party operative who earlier this week accused a Muslim City Council candidate of supporting Islamic extremists on Thursday challenged the Syrian-born man to a debate on his views of Hezbollah and the Middle East.
10-12-06 - If Peres truly wants peace with Syria, let him make a genuine overture
10-12-06 - AIPAC Runs Right
10-11-06 - China Says It Will Back Sanctions On N. Korea China on Tuesday expressed a rare willingness to support U.N. sanctions against its ally North Korea, but it said any punitive action would have to be narrowly targeted at the country's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs.
10-11-06 - U.N. disagrees on sanctions against Iran while the U.S. called for broad sanctions to punish Iran's defiance in pursuing its nuclear program, Russian and Chinese representatives at a top-level Vienna meeting favored less severe measures.
10-11-06 - 'Huge rise' in Iraqi death tolls An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died since 2003 who might still be alive but for the US-led invasion, according to a survey by a US university.
10-11-06 - Americans Still Peeved at Iraq WMD Reports 58 per cent of respondents think the federal government purposely misled the public about evidence that Iraq had banned weapons in order to build support for war.
10-11-06 - Rice says US will not invade North Korea
10-11-06 - U.S. Waits for Firm Information On Nature and Success of Device
10-11-06 - We'll make sanctions hurt, vows US THE US is pushing for UN sanctions so severe they will make dictator Kim Jong-il "rue the day" he ordered his country's first nuclear test explosion, the State Department's point man on North Korea said yesterday.
10-11-06 - 'Weaker' West should change its attitude on Iran: Ahmadinejad
10-11-06 - Dobbs: Middle class needs to fight back now Political, business and academic elites are waging an outright war on working men and women and their families, and there is no chance the American middle class will survive this assault if the dominant forces unleashed over the past five years continue unchecked. They've accomplished this through large campaign contributions, armies of lobbyists that have swamped Washington, and control of political and economic think tanks and media. Lobbyists, in fact, are the arms dealers in the war on the middle class, brokering money, influence and information between their clients our elected officials
10-11-06 - Bush created a mess in Iraq. Here's how to clean it up. It is time to pull our troops out of Iraq. It is also time, here at home, to hold accountable those who made the disastrous decisions that brought our forces there in the first place
10-11-06 - North Korea's Nukes:
10-11-06 - Iraqi parliament approves federal law
10-11-06 - Neocons Call for Action Against N. Korea The neoconservatives, whose influence on the Bush administration has generally been on the wane since late 2003 when it became clear that the Iraq war that they had done so much to champion was going badly, nonetheless retain some clout, particularly through the offices of Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon chief Rumsfeld.
10-11-06 - U.S. terror hunter calls Lodi case hyped "Terrorism itself can be a rallying cry for political purposes,"
10-11-06 - American Al Qaeda Member to Be Indicted for Treason Adam Yahiye Gadahn, whose exact whereabouts is unknown but is believed to be in Pakistan, is expected to be charged with material support and treason,
10-11-06 - An Asian Nuclear Arms Race? by Patrick J. Buchanan
10-11-06 - Israel and North Korea / Maybe now they'll take Iran seriously the key to imposing sanctions on Iran lies in Russia, which has avoided effective handling of Iran's nuclear ambitions until now. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will visit President Vladimir Putin next week in Moscow and again try to change his mind.
10-11-06 - Crown Prince denies secret Saudi-Israeli meeting Israel's top-selling daily Yediot Aharonot reported last week that Olmert had held a secret meeting lasting several hours with Saudi officials at the palace of Jordan's King Abdullah II.
10-11-06 - Muslim Anger Burns Over Lingering Probe of Charities
10-11-06 - Israel group gets $2 million NIF is targeting what it calls "invisible Israelis" - Arabs, Sephardi Jews and immigrants - as it helps residents of the North recover from this summer's war against Hezbollah.
10-11-06 - British shift in ties with Muslim groups She criticised groups and individuals who choose to boycott commemorations such as Holocaust Memorial Day, although she added that they have a right to do so without specifying whether state funding would be withheld.
10-11-06 - Anti-terror ad hits Mideast networks
10-11-06 - Will Israel bomb Iran? ** with its ongoing commitments in Iraq, some of Israel's strategic thinkers believe America has too much at stake to intervene militarily....According to Israeli intelligence sources, Iran's scientists are now within a year of reaching the technical point when they could enrich uranium to the level required for atomic arms.....The former chief of staff of Israel's armed forces, Moshe Yaalon concludes: "As a last resort, the West should be ready to launch military strikes to deal with Iranian nuclear capabilities ...but Israel should be ready to deal with this kind of threat, if anyone else doesn't do it."
10-11-06 - Lebanon: We seized arms from Hizbullah
10-11-06 - A New Fence Is Added to a Border Town Already Split To the Lebanese, the fence, erected over the past several weeks to separate the northern side of the village from the rest of Lebanon, amounts to a new occupation of their territory, potentially worsening tensions over the disputed Shabaa Farms area nearby.....Lebanese officials say the continued presence of Israeli soldiers on Lebanese soil is a violation of United Nations Resolution 1701, which settled this summer?s conflict. Well now.
10-11-06 - Sharansky quitting politics He entered politics in 1996 with the new immigrant party Yisrael Ba'Aliyah, eventually serving as a Cabinet minister. He resigned from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government last year to protest the looming Gaza Strip withdrawal. That move coincided with the publication of his book "The Case for Democracy," which was co-authored by Israeli diplomat Ron Dermer and drew praise from President Bush. Sharansky is widely expected to write a new book on geopolitics. Sharansky's idea of spreading of 'democracy'in the Middle East was taken up by Bush.
10-11-06 - Richardson man gets 7 years in '04 export case Bayan Elashi, former chief executive officer of InfoCom Corp., said in his first public comments about the case that federal prosecutors couldn't find anything related to terrorism ? so they went after him for common errors normally punished with administrative fines.
10-11-06 - UNRWA Must Be Brought in Line with UN High Commissioner for Refugees While not advocating the de-funding of UNRWA, JINSA believes its mandate should be changed to resemble the mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an agency that sees the resettlement of refugees as its priority. Both Sen. Coleman and Rep. Kirk agreed that UNRWA?s mandate was problematic while acknowledging that the organization provides valuable services for Palestinians refugees. So says the pro-Israeli outfit JINSA and its minions on Capitol Hill. JINSA- neocon central, placing matters to the fore of US politics in line with a policy that can best be summed up by two words: Israel first!
10-10-06 - Blasts rock US army base in Iraq "Given the number and the scale of these explosions - and this is a very large base with a large number of troops - casualties are a possibility," he said.
10-10-06 - North Korean test 'went wrong,' U.S. official says
10-10-06 - Quake raises fears of 2nd N. Korea test A strong earthquake shook northern Japan on Wednesday and Japanese media reported the government had detected tremors in North Korea as well, leading it to suspect Pyongyang had conducted a second nuclear test.
10-10-06 - North Korea warns of attack ROGUE state North Korea last night threatened a nuclear missile attack if trade and financial sanctions are not dropped, but also offered to return to negotiations about disbanding its atomic weapons program.
10-10-06 - Russia and China may stand in way of united response to nuclear test
10-10-06 - Khamenei defends nuclear 'right' His comments come as the United Nations discusses its response to North Korea's claimed nuclear test on Monday.
10-10-06 - Japan, US to step up missile defence
10-10-06 - Syria welcome in Israel - Peres President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was welcome to come to Jerusalem for peace talks, Israel's deputy prime minister, Shimon Peres, has said.
10-10-06 - More Americans Want Immediate Iraq Withdrawal
10-10-06 - Will Iran follow N. Korea's lead?
10-10-06 - Hu, Bush discuss N. Korean nuclear moves by phone Hu told Bush that China has issued a statement condemning the North's nuclear test but warned against taking action which could further aggravate the situation, the ministry said
10-10-06 - Analysis: N. Korea still unable to mount nuclear attack
10-10-06 - Israel warned: Lebanon war could start again Hizbullah will resume its military campaign unless Israel withdraws from the disputed Shebaa farms area and other pockets of territory occupied during this summer's 34-day war, Nabih Berri, the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, has warned. "If Israel does not pull out we will have to drive them out," Mr Berri, who acted as a link to the militant organisation during this summer's war with Israel, said in an interview with the Guardian.....Mr Berri also expressed concern that UN forces could be involved in gathering information that could fall into the hands of Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad
10-10-06 - UN says Israel provides maps of minefields in southern Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel has provided maps of minefields it had laid in southern Lebanon, a move that falls in line with the UN cease-fire resolution that ended the Israel-Hezbollah fighting, a UN statement said Monday.
10-10-06 - Suing Over the CIA's Red Pen Retired Operative Says Agency Unfairly Edited His Book
10-10-06 - As North Korea tests nuke, Israel worries about precedent for Iran "Perhaps the case of North Korea will teach the international community a lesson in the case of Iran," Ephraim Sneh, a senior Labor Party lawmaker and retired army general, told Israel Radio. "We, the Israeli PR and policy apparatus, must take advantage of what happened to explain, and to persuade the international community to do something before it's too late."
10-10-06 - Iran: Nuke disarmament must begin with Israel Iranian government spokesperson Gholam-Hossein Elham told a press conference Tuesday that ?the dismantling of nuclear arms in the Middle East must begin with the Zionist entity.?
10-10-06 - Kucinich to Hold Congressional Briefing on October Surprise "Is the Administration Ramping Up For A War Against Iran?"
10-10-06 - Lebanese children go back to school with tales of horror "What affected me most was my cousin being wounded," said Hadil, holding back her sobs. "On the road that took us to Damascus, we saw decapitated people," said Salam.
10-10-06 - Envoy welcomes U.N. appointment The next United Nations secretary-general can be expected to be friendly to Israel, Israel?s U.N. envoy said.
10-10-06 - Row over Danish cartoon escalates
10-10-06 - Israel: No Syria talks unless it shuns militants
10-10-06 - Syria calls on Germany to help solve problems of Mideast
10-10-06 - Olmert: Syria peace overtures are a ploy "Olmert could have gone down in history as Menachem Begin, who gave Sinai back to Egypt," journalist Tom Segev wrote in the Haaretz daily Tuesday. "Instead, he is reacting to Syria's offers of peace with contempt, loathing and threats."
10-10-06 - Sony backs Israeli environment Sony Pictures also donated $25,000 to the Red Cross in Lebanon
10-09-06 - Russia: NKorea test greater than reported Russia's defense minister said Monday that North Korea's nuclear test was equivalent to 5,000 tons to 15,000 tons of TNT.
10-09-06 - Western powers dismiss Iran-N.Korea comparisons Although President Bush has named both countries as part of an "axis of evil," a U.S. official who declined to be named said: "North Korea is a different case ... I don't expect our strategy on Iran will change. Iran certainly won't get put on the back burner."
10-09-06 - U.S. proposes sanctions against N. Korea
10-09-06 - Iran warns of retaliation if sanctions imposed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed to impose retaliatory sanctions on world powers if the UN Security Council carries out threats to penalise Iran over its nuclear programme.
10-09-06 - Abramoff knew about war on Iraq a year before it happened
10-09-06 - Right to privacy destined for endangered list
10-09-06 - Opposition to Iraq War Reaches 61% in U.S.
10-09-06 - How Pakistani scientist sold bomb secrets to North Korea
10-09-06 - Ex-secretary Baker readies Iraq policy As secretary of state, Baker was a close adviser to Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, before and during the first Gulf war in 1991, which forced Iraq to reverse its annexation of Kuwait but did not march to Baghdad to unseat President Saddam Hussein. Baker and other Bush advisers recommended against extending the war until Saddam was out of power. "As much as Saddam's neighbors wanted to see him gone, they feared Iraq would fragment in ways that would play into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists in Iran," Baker said.
Read that paragraph again, folks.
10-09-06 - Kim's message: War is coming to US soil
10-09-06 - Lebanon- Prelude to the Rape of Iran **
10-09-06 - Bush?s Nuclear Apocalypse ** The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran
10-09-06 - Homeless men are aging on the streets So where does he go, this aging veteran, now that his legs and kidneys don't work and everything he owns fits inside the pair of pajama pants tied to his wheelchair?
10-09-06 - North Korea test 'alarm bell': Israel Israel has slammed North Korea's nuclear test as "provocative," arguing that it sounded an "alarm bell" for a world also facing the prospect of an atomic-armed Iran unless firm action is taken. Israel and its acolytes in our government have made sure that our attention has been focused more closely on Iran than on N. Korea. The results speak for themselves.
10-09-06 - Lebanese children trickle back to war-ravaged schools Israeli artillery pounded southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs in a bid to force out the guerrillas, killing around 1,200 people -- one third of those killed were children under 12 -- and destroying massive numbers of homes, apartments, businesses, bridges and schools.
10-09-06 - Sports programs help disabled veterans Army Pfc. Joshua Stein grew up in the water, swimming, diving and spearfishing at his native island of Saipan in the Pacific Ocean. Now, however, Stein is learning to water ski without his legs, which were blown off when a roadside bomb hit the Bradley fighting vehicle he was driving.
10-09-06 - Anti-Muslim video sparks new outrage against Denmark Danes have been warned against travelling to a number of Muslim countries after the release of a video showing young members of an anti-immigrant party mocking the Prophet Mohamed.
10-09-06 - Barghouti prosecutor to think tank Dvorah Chen started at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Oct. 5.
10-09-06 - Syria: US lacks Mid-East vision The implementation of UN resolutions by all parties - Syria, Israel, America, the UN and EU - was the only way to achieve peace, Mr Assad said.
10-09-06 - Syrian president's patient wait for peace
10-09-06 - 'N. Korea nuke test should worry Israel' "It could be a good thing," Sneh told Israel Radio, explaining that Israeli policymakers and advocates should use the developments in North Korea to convince the international community to "do something (about Iran) before it's too late."
10-09-06 - No Middle Way The breakup of Iraq has been the goal of the War Party from the very beginning: the atomization of the Arab states, and their degeneration into squabbling splinters, is a goal dearly beloved by the Likudnik progenitors of this war, and a partition plan would merely formalize it
10-09-06 - UN plans to resettle Palestinians from Iraq in Canada The UN refugee agency is hoping to resettle in Canada around 50 Palestinians who fled Iraq three years ago but is deeply concerned for the plight of thousands of others still stuck in Iraq, Syria and Jordan.
10-09-06 - Danish PM, Iran president condemn Muhammad cartoons
10-09-06 - Lebanese army: We'll use Hizbullah north of Litani The Lebanese army warned that should Israel attack Lebanon north of the Litani river, the military would be aided by Hizbullah armed forces to respond to the aggression, the Lebanese daily al-Balad reported Sunday
10-08-06 - Breaking News >> U.S. Official Confirms North Korean Nuclear Test to FOX News While we are bogged down in a clusterf'ck in the Middle East, Jong test fires a nuke. Way to go, neocons.
10-08-06 - North Korea says nuclear test successful North Korea said Monday it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test. U.S. and South Korean officials could not immediately confirm the report.
10-08-06 - Iran rejects six nations' demands
10-08-06 - Source: North Korea may drop nuclear test North Korea informed China it may drop its plan to test its first atomic bomb if the United States holds bilateral talks with the communist country, a former South Korean lawmaker said Sunday.
10-08-06 - US, China hold talks on nuclear threats The US China talks also come as the United Nations Security Council moves to draft a sanctions resolution against Iran for its failure to halt sensitive nuclear work
10-08-06 - America ponders cutting Iraq in three The Baker commission has grown increasingly interested in the idea of splitting the Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish regions of Iraq as the only alternative to what Baker calls "cutting and running" or "staying the course"....Baker, a leading exponent of shuttle diplomacy, has already met representatives of the Syrian government and is planning to see the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations in New York. "My view is you don't just talk to your friends," he said last week. "You need to talk to your enemies in order to move forward diplomatically towards peace." Baker shows them how it's done.
10-08-06 - US secretly woos Khatami The clandestine contacts with Mr Khatami reflect a significant shift in American policy, away from preparation for military action and towards increased diplomatic pressure on Iran, which is defying United Nations demands to suspend its nuclear programme.
10-08-06 - US casualty rate in Iraq worst since Fallujah The number of US troops being wounded in Iraq is now at its highest level for two years as American forces are confronted by increasing sectarian violence and a continuing insurgency.
10-08-06 - Iran: Sanctions threat a 'rusty' weapon
10-08-06 - Afghans 'may swing to Taliban' says Nato commander Nato's commander in Afghanistan has warned that the country is at a tipping point and that the majority of Afghans will begin supporting Taliban militants unless conditions improve in the country in the next six months.
10-08-06 - Japan and China unite against Korean threat
10-08-06 - Guantánamo defense lawyer forced out of Navy The Navy lawyer who took the Guantánamo case of Osama bin Laden's driver to the U.S. Supreme Court ? and won ? has been passed over for promotion by the Pentagon and must soon leave the military.
10-08-06 - OPEC ministers back first supply cut in two years This is price gauging. If it were happening in America, the Justice Department would be investigating the matter. Meanwhile, the sheep graze on.
10-08-06 - Britain tried to curb U.S. on Iraq - ex-minister David Blunkett, Home Secretary at the time of the invasion, told newspapers that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could not diverted from their goal of dismantling the Iraqi Ba'athist government system
10-08-06 - Schieffer stresses need for free press He said Thursday the government will always cover up its mistakes if it operates in secret and that it was up to journalists to expose the truth.
10-08-06 - Troops 'spread superbug' Acinetobacter baumannii commonly inhabits soil and water and is associated with warmer climates such as the Middle East. It is resistant to most common antibiotics and, if left untreated, can lead to pneumonia, fever and septicemia
10-08-06 - Syria signs two exporation and exploitation contracts with Shell
10-08-06 - US claims Guantanamo 'saved lives' John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, claims information obtained from inmates at the camp has proved vital in thwarting a series of terror attacks around the world, including in Britain. But the claim has provoked anger among human rights groups, which argue it is being used to justify a number of practices at Guantanamo that may constitute torture.
10-08-06 - The head of the Mossad and the Saudi connection The unofficial liaison between Riyadh and Jerusalem was Prince Bandar, from his luxurious suburban Washington home in McLean, Virginia. Bandar's Israeli contact is Mossad head Meir Dagan, who discreetly reported on their meetings to Sharon. The connection was maintained when Bandar returned to Saudi Arabia, and according to Israeli sources became closer during the war in Lebanon.
10-08-06 - UN in talks with Israel on completing Lebanon pullout Despite pulling out of the rest of south Lebanon on October 1, Israeli troops continue to occupy the Lebanese part of the divided village of Ghajar, which borders the Syrian Golan Heights that Israel has held since 1967.
10-08-06 - Olmert to convene panel of top officials to discuss Iran ** The group will debate Israeli policy toward Washington's proposed sanctions. It will also discuss developments in light of the Lebanon War, with even moderate states expressing concern about Iran. Olmert will update participants on his conversations last week with Condoleezza Rice on regional organization.
10-08-06 - Israel seeks to shoot down rockets with rockets Two Israeli arms firms are developing systems that would use miniature rockets to shoot down the rockets favoured by Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militants, security sources said on Sunday.
10-08-06 - US Jewish Left calls on Bush to promote negotiations between Israel and PA, Syria
10-08-06 - Israel: No intention of attacking Syria Israeli officials have said over the weekend that despite what the Syrians believe, Israel has no intention to attack Syria. This statement comes in reaction to the words of President Bashar Assad who said that his country was ready for an Israeli offensive at any moment.
10-08-06 - Lebanon's Speaker Says U.N. Should Stick To Mandate Berri was commenting on the recent report issued by UNIFIL that said the international peacekeeping force could use force against "hostile activity." The report added that if the Lebanese army is unable to intercept unauthorized weapons, they would conduct the activity.
10-08-06 - Israel's Lebanese Allies At Risk Israeli troops have left southern Lebanon, but some of their former Lebanese allies are refusing to go back to their own villages. Hated by Hizbollah who regard them as traitors, they're part of a rebel force which once fought alongside Israel. Israelis 'Lebanese allies' also slaughtered hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children (Sabra and Shatilla) and Israel allowed it to happen by encircling the camps, and even offered the Phalangists body bags as they set about their gruesome task.
10-08-06 - Second boy dies of wounds from ISF clash "The ISF came to break down the half-erected illegal buildings" but were blocked by a crowd, said Ismael's cousin, Mohammad Jbeili, 17 who also saw the incident. "One ISF personnel attacked a woman and the people got angry and clashes started before ISF personnel started shooting at the crowd."
10-08-06 - Analysis: Watch the Syrians, very carefully A credible Israeli threat to heavily bomb Damascus may help cool the escalating war-like atmosphere created by the young Ba'athist president, and thereby deter a spree of violence. This despite the fact that Israel's strategic profile coming out of the Lebanese war would be bolstered by a sweeping and conclusive military victory in the immediate future against any one of its enemies.
10-08-06 - FEATURE - Israelis divided on invoking Holocaust against Iran "Denying the Holocaust is considered an existential threat in Israel," said historian Tom Segev. "If we are looking for reasons to attack Iran, Ahmadinejad is certainly giving them."..Another historian, Michael Oren, suggested that Israel's comparisons of Ahmadinejad to Hitler were not for domestic ears, but rather aimed to shore up Western resolve to curb the Iranian nuclear programme through the threat of U.N. sanctions. The cry of wolf?
10-08-06 - SYRIA: Stranded Palestinians should be allowed into the country, say UNHCR and rights group
10-08-06 - Cary man tackles U.S., Arab relations with hummus
10-08-06 - If killing civilians is terror, then who's the terrorist?
10-07-06 - U.S. Says It Has Deal With Other U.N. Nations to Penalize Iran for Nuclear Drive The United States said it had won agreement on Friday from the other four permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany to seek sanctions against Iran over its refusal to shut down a nuclear enrichment program that could be used to build bombs.
10-07-06 - Prosecutor: Libby Wants to Load Up Trial Fitzgerald wrote that Libby's proposals for introducing classified information are "so extraordinary both in breadth ... and in depth" that the evidence takes on "a misleading aura, is confusing" if presented to a jury.
10-07-06 - Secret Papers Could Halt CIA Case The danger for prosecutors is that the sheer volume and sensitivity of the classified information Libby wants to introduce could scuttle the trial. Once the judge identifies classified information Libby is entitled to present, U.S. intelligence agencies must rule on whether the secrets can be declassified. The trial would collapse if the intelligence agencies refuse to declassify the information.
10-07-06 - Afghans enjoy freedom despite growing fear
10-07-06 - Meet the "Whack Iran" Lobby ** A new Iran directorate inside the Pentagon features some of the same people who brought you the Iraq intel-cherrypicking operation at the Office of Special Plans.
10-07-06 - Canada in protest over rendition Canada is to make a formal protest to the United States over the case of a Canadian man deported to Syria in 2002 over suspected al-Qaeda links.
10-07-06 - US medic jailed over Iraq murder
10-07-06 - Lebanese PM urges UN action over Israeli flights Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has appealed to United Nations chief Kofi Annan to put pressure on Israel to stop its warplanes from overflying Lebanon and withdraw from a village, his office says
10-07-06 - Warner's Iraq Remarks Surprise White House Speaking to reporters on Thursday after returning from a trip that included a one-day stop in Baghdad, Mr. Warner said the United States should consider ?a change of course? if the violence there did not diminish soon.
10-07-06 - Nuclear bomb test 'just a day away' NORTH KOREA could carry out a nuclear test as early as tomorrow, according to Chinese sources.
10-07-06 - UN 'to drop' N Korea sanctions threat
10-07-06 - Video of Kristol being taken to task by audience members In that video, Kristol seems to deny the fact that the PNAC said that the US needs a new Pearl Harbor (to essentially get the ball rolling for what the PNAC wanted to achieve). I had had two links that proved PNAC said this, but both no longer work. I did retrieve one from ABC News from the Internet Archiver. I don't know for how much longer these links will continue to work.
10-07-06 - Palestinian Islamic extremist shot dead in Lebanon's largest refugee camp Gunmen shot a Palestinian extremist Saturday as he walked through a refugee camp in south Lebanon banging a drum to wake Muslims for their pre-dawn Ramadan meal, security officials said
10-07-06 - Iran says Japan can regain lost stake in oil project
10-07-06 - Smuggled nuclear waste cases double Investigators believe that the smugglers, who come mainly from the former Eastern bloc, are interested only in making a swift fortune and have no idea that their customers are jihadist groups plotting an atrocity
10-07-06 - Iran 'using British banks to channel money to terrorists' The Financial Services Authority is urgently scouring Britain's banking system for evidence of Iranian terrorism funding following an alert from the US authorities.
10-07-06 - 9/11 widows blast Bush Administration over Rice, Tenet meeting
10-07-06 - Lebanese PM: Army to seize any weapons found in South Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Thursday that Lebanese Army has clear instructions to seize any weapons found in the South.
10-07-06 - Israelis Would Welcome Negotiations with Syria
10-07-06 - Syria ready to repulse any possible Israeli aggression-Blal Syria is ready to repulse any possible Israeli aggression, Information Minister Muhsen Blal confirmed on Saturday.
10-07-06 - The US, Israel and Lebanon - Historical Roots and Patterns of Conflict Georges Hanna, manager of a factory for prefab housing: "They hit everything: 25,000 square meter coverage area, factories, all of them damaged. We think it's about -- they have also some factories that made the same products like us, and they made this attack to eliminate us from the market."
10-07-06 - Jordan's Queen Rania 'very worried' about rift between West, Muslim world "The priority is to treat the problem that is at the heart of the frustrations and recriminations of all Arabs ? the Palestinian question," she said. "This injustice has gone on only too long."
10-07-06 - Robert Fisk: The Age of Terror - a landmark report When will the bombers arrive? After further massacres in Iraq? After the Israelis cross the border again? After Israel - or the US - bombs Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months?....Even when Ariel Sharon was staging his withdrawal of 8,500 settlers from Gaza last year, he was shifting 12,000 more settlers into the West Bank, and George W Bush had effectively accepted this illegality by talking of the "realities" of the Jewish settlements still being enlarged there. And that was the end of UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 upon which the "peace process" was supposed to be based - Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 Middle East war, in return for the security of all states in the area. One of the few honourable American statesmen to grasp what this portends is ex-President Jimmy Carter
Great article. Read the whole thing.
10-07-06 - Straw faces angry backlash over Muslim veil comments (Roundup)
10-07-06 - Blair and Rice talk Middle East She said the breakfast was private and not intended as a follow-up to Friday night's ministerial meeting of six world powers that agreed to discuss further steps to pressure Iran into halting its nuclear programme.
10-07-06 - The Israel connection across the Taiwan Strait "I think with the correct kind of dialogue, Israel can play a role in reducing this tension. Unfortunately, we have had a lot of experience in such things." Oh dear God, no.
10-06-06 - Bush says he can edit security reports President Bush, again defying Congress, says he has the power to edit the Homeland Security Department's reports about whether it obeys privacy rules while handling background checks, ID cards and watchlists. This is like watching Edward Hermann's character (Grant) unravel in the yacht scene towards the end of the movie "Overboard". Yikes.
10-06-06 - Ultimatums against Iran 'counterproductive': Russia
10-06-06 - World powers agree to consult on Iran sanctions Russia and China agreed it was "absolutely unacceptable" to threaten force and talk of ultimatums was counter-productive, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alexeyev was quoted as saying earlier on Friday.
10-06-06 - US Senator Hagel in Vietnam criticises "unwise decisions" in launching Iraq war Hagel said he had been one of the few US Congress members to ask "some very significant questions about going to war" in Iraq before it started, adding that "Iraq is a far more complicated situation and country than Vietnam."
10-06-06 - Journalist 'shot by US troops in Iraq', inquest told A British journalist covering the war in Iraq was shot in the head by US troops as he was driven away from a gunfight, a colleague of the dead reporter has said, citing witnesses.
10-06-06 - Experts Warn of an Accidental Atomic War Russian military officers might misconstrue a submarine-launched conventional D5 intercontinental ballistic missile and conclude that Russia is under nuclear attack
10-06-06 - Opec 'to cut oil production' Oil prices have risen back above $60 a barrel on the expectation that producers will cut output by one million barrels a day. Bastards.
10-06-06 - Kurds show signs of seceding from Iraq
10-06-06 - Danish TV shows cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammad I'll bet if they were mocking Judaism that it wouldn't be so funny to these clowns. Imagine the uproar.
10-06-06 - Lebanon riot leaves 1 dead, 16 injured Police clashed Friday with hundreds of rioters protesting attempts to demolish illegal housing in a southern suburb of Beirut. One person was killed and at least 16 were wounded.
10-06-06 - Marine medic admits role in Iraqi's murder A US Navy medic has admitted taking part in the kidnap of an Iraqi civilian killed by his squad and says the murder was prompted by his patrol leader's anger at the release of a suspected "terrorist" from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
10-06-06 - States of Denial - Bob Woodward's best-selling State of Denial dooms the official 9/11 narrative Surely Zelikow has some explaining to do, but this yawning gap in the official narrative isn't so inexplicable given his ideological background. A strong supporter of the neoconservative foreign policy agenda, Zelikow is very close to Rice, having co-authored a book with her. She had him rewrite the original National Security Strategy authored by Richard Haass, to emphasize the neocon commitment to the principle of brazen aggression, otherwise known as "preemption."
10-06-06 - Thousands Nationwide Protest Bush
10-06-06 - The Hunt Continues One such source Hoekstra touted was Georges Sada, a one-time Iraqi Air Force general who claimed in a book published earlier this year that he knew of hundreds of tons of chemical weapons being flown from Iraq to Syria prior to the U.S. invasion. Sada, who first made the claims to promote his book, admitted he never actually saw any of the weapons. But his allegations were prominently featured on Fox News and conservative media outlets. Hoekstra met with Sada and later dispatched House Intelligence Committee staffers overseas in an effort to verify the Iraqi's claims. That search, too, came up emtpy.
About Hoekstra. And again.
10-06-06 - Rice meets Iraq's Kurdish leader over sharing oil resource Rice, who arrived in Baghdad on a surprise visit Thursday, urged Iraqi leaders to halt the upsoaring wave of violence throughout the country and to persuade the Kurdish region to share its oil wealth with the rest of the country
10-06-06 - Syria says U.S. embassy attack planned in S.Arabia Last month's attack on the U.S. embassy in Damascus was planned in Saudi Arabia and the four Syrians who carried it out had no links to al Qaeda, a government investigation said on Thursday.
10-06-06 - Japan to lose most of Iranian oil mega-project Japan has said that it is losing most of its stake in a project to develop Iran's largest onshore oil field in face of possible sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program.
10-06-06 - Iran behind Rice's Mid-East tour There is a need, as Philip Zelikow put it, for a "sense of progress" in the Arab-Israeli dispute, in order to reassure US Arab allies. A sense of progress, but no actual, real progress. ....the logic of this line of reasoning is that military action against Iran is now being very seriously considered in Washington.
10-06-06 - Israelis Win Contract To Secure US Borders As Chertoff announced the awarding of the contract, estimated to be worth some $2.5 billion, he was giving a very lucrative and sensitive contract to an Israeli company with close ties to the Israeli military. This was also reported in the Jerusalem Post. Israelis or Israeli companies influencing or directly providing our airport security is also taking place and it's nothing new. Why is it that a foreign nation is protecting our borders and airports? (and also training our soldiers, and influencing our police agencies nationwide). Read on: "Huntleigh U.S.A., another Israeli-owned security company, provided passenger screening at Boston's Logan Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Huntleigh, which is wholly owned by the Israeli company International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) apparently failed to intercept the Arab terrorists who hijacked the two planes that hit the World Trade Center, according to the government version. Now, the same administration that failed to stop the terror attacks of 9-11 is hiring an Israeli-owned company to help protect the entire U.S. land border. " Scary stuff.
10-06-06 - Israeli Human Rights Abuses in the Recent Israel/Hezbollah War What should be even more shocking is the fact that the United States, a source of moral influence in the world, did not once condemn Israel for committing such violations of humanitarian law during its war with Hezbollah and continued to provide it with arms for fighting the war. Amnesty International?s Secretary General Irene Khan stated that, "governments supplying Israel and Hizbullah with arms and military equipment are fuelling their capacity to commit war crimes,"
10-06-06 - Greenpeace Warns of Toxic Risks to Two Million in Lebanon Two million residents of Lebanon, about half the population, could face health risks posed by toxic releases from Israeli bombing in the July-August war, Greenpeace warned.
10-06-06 - Israeli warplanes overfly Hezbollah strongholds in Bekaa Two jets screamed over the region which borders Syria on Friday, without drawing a response from guerrillas of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah or the Lebanese army. Israel has been violating Lebanese airspace on an almost daily basis since the August 14 ceasefire in its war with Hezbollah sparked by the guerrillas' capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12.
10-06-06 - Karl Rove Aide Resigns in Abramoff Flap
10-06-06 - Stop Big Media (Again!) Once again, media industry lobbyists and their allies on the Federal Communication Commission are working to revise the rules on media ownership to allow a single corporation to own most, if not all, of the newspapers, radio and TV stations and internet news and entertainment sites in your town.
10-06-06 - Israeli Bomblets Plague Lebanon Since the war between Israel and Hezbollah ended in August, nearly three people have been wounded or killed each day by cluster bombs Israel dropped in the waning days of the war, and officials now say it will take more than a year to clear the region of them.
10-06-06 - Software Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S.
10-06-06 - U.S. pays to clear cluster bombs The United States is paying $9 million to clear explosives in southern Lebanon, most of them cluster bombs fired by Israel. If there was any justice, that money would come from the aid money we give to Israel each year. Or better yet, it would be cut entirely for the fact that Israel committed war crimes by firing those cluster bombs into civilian areas (see related article in today's news batch).
10-06-06 - Congressman opposes security funding Jewish groups received the majority of $25 million allocated in Homeland Security funding to non-profits in 2005, and Congress released another $25 million last week.
10-06-06 - Indonesian troops President Bush budgeted $3 million to assist Indonesian forces in Lebanon.
10-06-06 - Jordan denies Israeli reports about Saudi-Israeli meeting in Amman Israeli newspapers reported that a meeting took place recently at the Jordanian royal court between senior Saudi and Israeli officials. The reports claimed that the meeting was also attended by Egyptian and Palestinian officials.
10-06-06 - EU body seeks closer ties with Syria The European parliament's foreign affairs committee has voted to deepen cooperation with Syria and ultimately sign an association agreement.
10-06-06 - UN warcrimes prosecutor attacks international double standards "We are faced with conflicts where, according to credible reports, serious violations of international humanitarian law were committed, for instance during the recent Israel-Lebanon conflict, but no independent criminal investigation is taking place," she told a seminar of international prosecutors here.
10-06-06 - Israel Lobby Debate at the Cooper Union A video recording of the debate in 11 segments can be found here.
10-06-06 - Lieberman Is No Friend of Israel
10-06-06 - Israel 'must explain' war probes Israel's highest court has ordered the government to explain its decision not to set up a state commission to probe the handling of the war in Lebanon.
10-05-06 - Inadequate equipment, health problems face Iraq, Afghanistan veterans: poll US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan lack proper equipment, are overstretched and face serious health problems upon their return home, according to a poll released by an advocacy group.
10-05-06 - 6 nations to meet, talk action on Iran Russia's foreign minister, however, said he believes it is too soon to impose sanctions on Iran and that further efforts are needed to push Tehran to negotiate. To avoid alienating the Russians and the Chinese, any sanctions are likely to be relatively mild, including embargoes on missile and nuclear technology, and possible travel bans and other penalties on Iranian officials involved in their country's nuclear program
10-05-06 - British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran Other senior British military leaders spoke as explicitly in interviews over the previous two months. Britain, whose forces have had responsibility for security in southeastern Iraq since the war began, has found nothing to support the Americans' contention that Iran is providing weapons and training in Iraq, several senior military officials said.
10-05-06 - October Surprise? - A scary but plausible scenario ** To maintain his macho image, however, the president will also announce that the U.S. will bomb Iran's nuclear facilities if that country refuses to stop enriching uranium within a week.....Employing force against Iran will please the pro-Israel lobby and the hawks in and out of the administration. Vice President Dick Cheney has been urging an attack on Iran and will be outspoken in his support
10-05-06 - The March to War: Naval build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean.** If war is to be waged or not against Iran and Syria, there is still the undeniable build-up and development of measures that confirm a process of military deployment and preparation for war.
10-05-06 - China warns North Korea against nuclear test
10-05-06 - How Al Qaeda views a long Iraq war A letter from Al Qaeda leaders found in Iraq shows that the group sees the war as a boon for its cause.
10-05-06 - Iran tells West not to miss chance to solve atomic row Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the West to solve a nuclear standoff through talks but reiterated that Iran would not give up its atomic plans
10-05-06 - Double blow to nuclear detente On the same day, the crises over the nuclear policies of North Korea and Iran have taken a turn for the worse.
10-05-06 - Australian PM says had to plead with Bush for Iraq intelligence Rather than follow White House orders and allow unfettered access to its intelligence network, the Pentagon instead created a parallel version that excluded information the military did not want Australia and Britain to see, Woodward said.
10-05-06 - Out of Iraq, Out with Bush By Sean Penn by leading our country as a citizenry and demanding of our government an immediate end to our own military and profit investments in Iraq, display for the entire world that democracy is a government of the people. What more powerful message to send the world than that we ourselves can choose in policy, in peace, and in humanitarian support
10-05-06 - Iraq: Palestinians Targeted With Death Threats Shi'a armed groups have threatened to kill Palestinian refugees living in Baghdad if they do not leave Iraq within 72 hours, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged the Iraqi government and the Multi-National Forces to investigate these threats and provide greater security to Palestinians in Iraq.
10-05-06 - U.S. raises Jordan aid to over $500 mln in 2006 The United States on Wednesday granted Jordan, a staunch Middle East ally, an extra $50 million in aid to bolster its economy, bringing total assistance this year to over $500 million, officials said
10-05-06 - Russian FM: Abducted IDF troops alive, in good condition Russian FM: Abducted IDF troops alive, in good condition
Sergey Lavrov meets in Strasbourg with wife of kidnapped soldier Ehud Goldwasser and delegation of MKs; says Russia has information indicating that troops held by Hizbullah are alive and in good physical condition
Ilan Marciano Published: 10.04.06, 18:14
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sent a reassuring message about the fate of the kidnapped soldiers held by Hizbullah, reporting that according to information in the hands of Russia, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser are alive and their physical condition is good.
10-05-06 - Lebanese army prevents Hezbollah supporters from protesting near border with Israel It came a week after Israel Defense Forces chief said IDF soldiers have been instructed to shoot Lebanese stone-throwers along the border if they feel their lives are in danger There's your reason right there. Israel routinely shoots stonethrowing Palestinian children - killing some of them. They deem them a 'threat', evidently.
10-05-06 - Arab, Muslim states blast UN human rights envoys' report on war Arab and Muslim countries on Wednesday angrily rejected a report by four UN human rights investigators on the Lebanon war, calling it "biased" and too soft on Israel.
10-05-06 - Israel sacks war critic general Maj Gen Yiftah Ron-Tal was fired by Lt Gen Dan Halutz for breaching the ban on Israeli troops making public comments on political and diplomatic issues.
10-05-06 - Hezbollah listened in on IDF beepers, cell phones Israel has been doing this sort of intelligence gathering for many years. But it seems that Hezbollah has now become adept at this form of intelligence and analysis as well.
10-05-06 - New lawsuits challenge Congress's detainee act
10-05-06 - Lieberman Queries Lamont Over Commitment to Israel Senator Joseph I. Lieberman questioned his opponent?s commitment to Israel at a fund-raiser in Manhattan yesterday, saying he had received important support from several Democrats who have been critical of Israel. Which country will they be representing, America or Israel? You know the answer.
10-05-06 - Bush Opposed to Israeli Withdrawal from the Golan
10-05-06 - Muslim PC in Israeli embassy row feared being targeted by Islamists The constable, whose wife is from Lebanon and has relatives there, works in the Metropolitan police diplomatic protection group. He has never been stationed at the Israeli embassy, but requested during the summer that he not be sent there because of his family background and concerns for his safety.
10-05-06 - Ex-Mossad chief says Hezbollah lost war
10-05-06 - America and Israel How would you describe U.S. support for Israel under the Bush administration? 62% Too strong
10-05-06 - Berri: Lebanon more imperiled now than during war "We will resort to the arms of the resistance if Israel stalls in withdrawing from the Shebaa Farms," the speaker said.
10-05-06 - What Assad needs to do State that Syria, recognizing that no territorial gains should accrue from war, will respect in negotiations the international boundary between Syria and Palestine as it existed in May 1948. Israel is demanding other nations not to recognize land taken by force? The height of hypocrisy.
10-05-06 - Syria: U.S. Embassy attackers not linked to terror groups While not affiliated with known terrorist groups, the men had attended religious lessons in Saudi Arabia and were influenced by the United States' role in the region and perceived bias for Israel, the ministry said
10-05-06 - The Neocons Made it happen with the assistance of a foreign government It is my contention that there are rogue elements in and around our government that have very close ties to rogue elements in the Israeli government- unfortunately for both peoples, the Palestinians, and Israel's neigbhors. The Israeli people (the majority), much like the American people, are led like sheep (by their govt and press) by hardline elements. Like I said, to the detriment of all. Cheney and the neocons have mutually beneficial interests in the region, and that's why he has filled his office with them. He runs the Bush admin - it's getting to be common knowledge by now. Thus, do I believe that the aforementioned rogue elements would sacrifice a few thousand American lives to put forth their policies? Is there a precedent? Is that why five Israelis who would appear to have advanced knowledge of the attacks on 911 were waiting just across the river, and cheering this attack? Indeed. As Buchanan says : "Cui Bono? - Who benefits? - is ever the question that must be asked of Middle Eastern terror"
10-05-06 - Appeals Grow For Comprehensive Settlement Hopes for a more flexible U.S. position were also raised by remarks to a pro-Israel group last month by a top Rice adviser, State Department Counselor Philip Zelikow, warning that "some sense of progress and momentum on the Arab-Israeli dispute is the sine qua non" for European and Arab support on Iran and "other things we care about".
10-05-06 - Israelis Crank Up Volume on Total War Mantra
10-05-06 - IDF: Troops in north permitted to fire beyond fence The officer added that in case of a mass gathering on the Lebanese side that the soldiers believe is endangering the lives of Israeli civilians or their own, they will be permitted to carry out the suspect apprehending procedure, including firing at the lower part of the main suspect?s body, in the case he is identified.
10-05-06 - Update: Truck Drivers at Odds Over Facts in Halliburton Convoy Ambush
10-05-06 - World Net Daily Ditches Its Last Antiwar Writer WorldNetDaily has done it again. First they cut Lew Rockwell and Alan Bock, now Gordon Prather has finally gotten the axe from their list of columnists. WND is owned by Joseph Farah - a Christian Zionist.
10-05-06 - A Libby Pardon for Christmas? In such a scandal-ridden, edge-of-election moment in Washington, it's easy enough to let older scandals slip from sight. Right now, that's the case with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's upcoming prosecution of I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Cheney's former right-hand man......With the jury selection date fast approaching and the possibilities of a court dismissal evaporating, the White House appears to be shifting to Plan B: a PR effort to pave the way for a presidential pardon of Scooter Libby ? before the trial.
10-05-06 - Middle Eastern 'Strategic Consensus' Redux? Like his neoconservative descendants today, Safire argued that Arab fears of Iran should be used as leverage to get them to either put aside or compromise their demands for the U.S. to put serious pressure on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.
10-05-06 - Israeli PM secretly met Saudi officials in Amman: press The meeting, at the palace of Jordan's King Abdullah II, lasted for several hours and focused mainly on Iran's nuclear program and the spread of "Shiite terrorism" in the region, the paper said.
10-05-06 - UNIFIL says it boosts Lebanon's economy
10-05-06 - Former envoy opposes Ahmadinejad-Hitler parallels Israel Radio quoted Indyk as saying that, while Ahmadinejad?s Holocaust denials and calls for the Jewish state to be eliminated were reprehensible, the fact that 25,000 Jews live largely unharmed in Iran means Nazi parallels are inappropriate.
10-04-06 - Iran: Sanctions won't derail enrichment
10-04-06 - Iran to open nuclear sites for tourists
10-04-06 - Court temporarily OKs domestic spying The Bush administration can continue its warrantless surveillance program while it appeals a judge's ruling that the program is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
10-04-06 - EU warns Iran 'time running out' Time is running out for Iran to avoid UN sanctions over its nuclear policy, Europe's foreign policy chief says.
10-04-06 - Fox warns over Russian military He said Russian President Vladimir Putin had spoken recently "of having armed forces capable of fighting a global, regional and, if necessary, a few local conflicts".
10-04-06 - Iran says Japan mega oil deal off after talks fail
10-04-06 - Iran: Rice warns international community time "running out" on nuclear issue
10-04-06 - Arrest over Cheney barb triggers lawsuit A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies concerning Iraq.
10-04-06 - Congress members urge dialogue with Iran A bipartisan slate of 19 members of the U.S. House of Representatives called on President Bush to initiate direct talks with Iran.
10-04-06 - Condi's Conundrum Rice has always played the role of a neocon-facilitator. In the run-up to war, her office ? in the person of her chief adviser, Stephen J. Hadley ? gave a pass to every tall tale that came out of the neocons' Pentagon policy shop, including the Mohammed Atta-in-Prague story and the Niger uranium forgeries, and assiduously blocked any reports ? including those from Richard Clarke, former counter-terrorism chief ? indicating that the alleged Iraq-9/11 connection was bogus.
10-04-06 - Scholars Land Book Deal for Attack on 'Israel Lobby' The David Duke card is being played again by the ADL in an attempt to smear the authors of the study to try to discredit it. This actually proves one of the points of the study - the smear of anti-Semitism is used by individuals and organizations like the ADL in the Israeli lobby in an attempt to silence dissenters.
10-04-06 - Hezbollah received intel from Russian-Syrian listening post during war
10-04-06 - The Prince of Darkness: Iraq "canvas simply too small"
10-04-06 - Stay Home, Ms. Rice Will she insist that Israel stop murdering innocent Palestinian civilians; stop expanding its settlements; and commit itself to the creation of an independent and viable Palestinian state? Nothing could be further from her mind.
10-04-06 - The Cooper Union "Israel Lobby" Debate no one denied the fact that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ? the epitome of the Lobby ? was one of the most powerful forces on Capitol Hill. Khalidi reminded the audience of the framing of the debate it does in Congress, from the resolutions it drafts, to the congressmen it harasses, to the candidates for public office that it vets. It works tirelessly to demonstrate that U.S. and Israeli interests are exactly the same......It was a travesty of news coverage that it was not televised, not even by C-Span, and no major media covered the event, including the major newspapers
10-04-06 - UNIFIL says could resort to 'use of force beyond self-defense' The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said it could resort to the "use of force beyond self-defense," but did not give details on the means which will be used.
10-04-06 - Cleanup to Start at Old Sites in Lebanon
10-04-06 - Many children need professional help to shake off effects of war Another aggravating factor is the widespread presence of unexploded ordnance around the houses and in the courtyards of southern towns and villages, which prevents children from playing normally.
10-04-06 - Analysts warm to Lebanon results The war destroyed the group's positions in southern Lebanon, wiped out a good deal of its rocket arsenal, left hundreds of Lebanese civilians dead and wrecked the country's infrastructure, angering the general public.
"We really must shake ourselves out of this mood of pessimism and negative thinking," wrote Daniel Gavron on the English language Web site of the Ha'aretz newspaper. So, killing civilians was part of the success? Because this made them angry at Hezbollah? Targeting civilians to achieve a political end is in fact terrorism. And our government wholly supports it (only in the case of Israel).
10-04-06 - Controversial Air Force commander promoted
10-04-06 - Syria still against Lebanese government: Israeli DM Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz told cabinet ministers on Wednesday that Syria still works against the Lebanese government of Prime Minister Fouad Saniora and is calling for peace "while keeping open the option of war." This coming from the folks that just put Lebanon back ten years.
10-04-06 - US support for Israel threatening peace: Iran Iran warned yesterday that the current Middle East tour of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will end in failure unless Washington ends its support of Israel ? Tehran?s arch-foe in the region. That view was shared by a number of newspapers in the Arab world. ....?Its own policies have helped promote the extremism it now fears, and have weakened the impact and credibility of the so-called moderate Arabs it now seeks to bolster,?
10-04-06 - Israel takes fresh look at Golan
10-04-06 - Israel sets conditions for Syria talks
10-04-06 - Oregon House speaker discloses trip to Israel paid for by private group The state treasurer said he had reported the $4,000 that came from private citizens, who are associated with the Jewish Federation, to pay for his trip to Israel. He said the trip was valuable because it allowed him to visit personally with managers of a Tel Aviv-based buyout company with whom the state has invested $50 million.
10-04-06 - Tony Judt Speech Shut Down by ADL I was due to speak this evening, in Manhattan, to a group called Network 20/20 comprising young business leaders, NGO, academics, etc, from the US and many countries. Topic: the Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.
10-04-06 - Saudi doctors battle for hearts and minds in Lebanon
10-03-06 - Rumsfeld, Ashcroft received warning of al Qaida attack before 9/11 The State Department's disclosure Monday that the pair was briefed within a week after then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was told about the threat on July 10, 2001, raised new questions about what the Bush administration did in response, and about why so many officials have claimed they never received or don't remember the warning.
10-03-06 - Iran proposes French role to break nuclear deadlock
10-03-06 - Iran moots new nuclear plan amid sanctions threats Iran has made a last-ditch proposal to break the deadlock over its nuclear programme as world powers warned it still risked being taken to the UN Security Council within a week for possible sanctions.
10-03-06 - US wants Iran answer in nuclear standoff this week: official The United States will give European negotiators until the end of the week to convince Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program, and then pursue sanctions if Tehran fails to comply, a senior US official has said.
10-03-06 - Analysis: If and when Bush 'Iraqs' Iran Unlike the six months of preparations for Operation Desert Field and the deployments that preceded Iraqi Freedom, the Iran buildup will "not be a major CNN event." They will take place below the media's radar screen, such as moving Air Force tankers to staging bases and the movement of additional Navy assets to the region. "We can expect the number of administration references to Iran to significantly increase," Gardiner wrote, with four principal themes -- Iran's nuclear program, terrorism, the threat to Israel's existence, and the Iran-al Qaida link
10-03-06 - Iran and North Korea defy nuclear warnings
10-03-06 - Key powers to seek Iran sanctions The US and key EU powers will seek a fresh UN resolution imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear policy.
10-03-06 - Israel, Hizbollah broke human rights law: U.N. envoys
10-03-06 - EU official pushes Iran on nuclear plans The EU foreign policy chief said he was resuming talks with Iran's top nuclear negotiator and warned Monday that the time for continuing negotiations on Tehran's atomic program was limited.
10-03-06 - Israel should face war crimes probe over Lebanon: UN rights expert Israel should be held to account for possible war crimes during its offensive in Lebanon, the United Nations' food rights expert has said in a report.
10-03-06 - John Bolton: N. Korea Nukes Pose 'Grave Threat' to Peace U.S. Ambassador John Bolton urged the U.N. Security Council Tuesday to respond to North Korea's threat to conduct a nuclear test, saying it would be a grave threat to international peace and security.
10-03-06 - Confirmation hopes dim for Bolton at UN "The skies aren't looking too favorable for Bolton," says one US official Oh sweet mystery of life at last I've found thee.. oh...
10-03-06 - Rice seeks Saudi help to stabilize Iraq
10-03-06 - Sanctions will threaten U.S. interests, not Iran, Tehran officials, state radio say
10-03-06 - US supports Egyptian nuclear program -- Rice US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Egyptian television that the US supported the Egyptian initiative to acquire peaceful nuclear technologies, expressing readiness to provide technical support to Egypt in this regard.
10-03-06 - Diplomats: Iran nuke stance hurts talks
10-03-06 - State Dept. confirms Rice-Tenet meeting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did receive a CIA briefing about terror threats just about two months before the Sept. 11 attacks, but the information was not new, her chief spokesman said
10-03-06 - Rice to Arab FMs: Sever economic ties with Iran
10-03-06 - Musharraf U-turn on Taliban Retired Pakistani intelligence officers could be running the Taliban insurgency against coalition forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan's president, Gen Pervez Musharraf, has said
10-03-06 - U.N. moves to maintain peace in Lebanon A Lebanese army statement said four Israeli jets flew over southern towns and villages as well as areas in northern Lebanon. UNIFIL has asked Israel to end this practice, which violates the cease-fire. Israeli officials said previously that air patrols would continue. A military spokesman declined comment on the latest overflight reports
10-03-06 - Palestinian volunteer to remove unexploded Israeli Cluster bombs in Lebanon Abu Ali, has become the only hope for the farmers of that region who are worried about farming their fields filled with these internationally prohibited cluster bombs Israel fired at the southern Lebanon during the war with Hezbollah, which claimed the lives of 1500 Lebanese and 157 Israelis. In addition, over one million Lebanese were displaced from their homes as a result of the Israeli shelling.
10-03-06 - Hezbollah denies seeking U.S. money A veteran member of the Hezbollah political party in Beirut says the organization is not involved in fundraising in the United States.
10-03-06 - UNHCR "Deeply Concerned" over Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Iraq UNHCR Spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis said at the press briefing today at the Palais des Nations in Geneva that the security situation of Palestinian refugees in Iraq has deteriorated - particularly since the Samarra bombings last February - and an increasing number of them have left or are trying to leave the country.
10-03-06 - Rice off to Middle East - with no new ideas the Saudi foreign minister. He described the Israel-Palestinian conflict as the region's "core problem" on whose settlement the resolution of other disputes depended. Similar appeals have come from Egypt and Jordan.
But Ms Rice, conscious of neo-con opposition at home to any pressure for Israeli concessions and aware that Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, is in no shape politically to reopen peace talks, offered no concrete res
10-03-06 - Lebanese government under pressure to resign "The main ally of the Siniora government was the Americans and they didn't seek to end the war but in fact sought to prolong it. Certainly, what happened during the war really strengthened the hand of the government's opponents; it allowed them to say, 'look what your alliance has brought us'."
10-03-06 - Yushchenko: I believe in cooperating with Israel Ukrainian president tells Ynet that he will use his visit to Jerusalem next month to advance initiative for joint Israeli-Ukrainian development of missiles and satellites for peaceful purposes
10-03-06 - Pro-Israel political funds in U.S. target friendly incumbents - and challengers Since he lost the Democratic party's nomination - and its financial backing - for his Senate seat, Lieberman has become the top fund-raiser among American Jews whose primary political focus is support for Israel.....Among the trends in pro-Israel money, fund-raisers say, is a rush to defend endangered Israel-friendly incumbents, the majority of whom are Republicans. There is also significant support directed toward challengers of incumbents such as Chafee and Hostettler, who are not considered friendly to Israel. America's interests factor in, exactly how?
10-03-06 - Rice plea on Palestinian clashes "Innocent Palestinians are caught in this violence," She makes no such plea when it's Israel that is doing the killing, and that goes for Lebanon too.
10-03-06 - Can Rice rally Mideast against Iran? Hizbullah is seen by the US as an Iranian proxy that could harass Israel if the nuclear dispute with Iran moves to open conflict; disorder in Iraq is seen as serving Iranian interests by tying up US forces and creating the possibility that the country's Shiites could rise up against US forces in support of their coreligionists; and Hamas, too, is seen by America as a threat to speed attacks against Israel in the event of war....Washington's conviction that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons (Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only) trumps all other concerns.
10-03-06 - Palestinians Assess Hezbollah's Techniques
10-03-06 - UNIFIL sets rules of engagement in Lebanon
10-03-06 - Arabs Pressure Rice On U.S. Peace Efforts During talks Tuesday in both Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Rice was confronted by friendly but firm pressure from eight Arab governments -- Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain -- to follow up on promises by President Bush to help achieve a two-state solution in the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians Rice's visit to the Middle East, under the guise of restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, is a front to gain Arab support for the upcoming war on Iran. This comes just after a number of high-ranking Israeli officials visited Washington in the preceding weeks.
10-03-06 - Israeli jets fly over Lebanon despite withdrawal Israeli warplanes flew over Lebanon on Tuesday two days after Israeli forces withdrew from virtually all of south Lebanon, witnesses said.
10-03-06 - U.N.: Israeli military won't answer probe A U.N. panel investigating the July deaths of four U.N. military observers in Lebanon says Israel will not allow interviews with tactical operations officers.
10-03-06 - Cries of victory, sighs of defeat from Jews as Congress recesses The American Israel Public Affairs Committee scored a victory in a separate bill setting up an office within the Homeland Security Department that would coordinate cooperation with counterparts in Israel, Britain, Australia, Canada and Singapore.....Appropriations for U.S.-Israel programs, victory. An AIPAC priority, the $460 million allocated for such programs in the U.S. Defense Appropriations bill is separate from the $2.8 billion Israel receives each year in assistance, and is considered an investment. Some of the innovations, including protective tiles for armored vehicles, a targeting and navigation pod and unmanned aerial vehicles, already are in use in Iraq.
10-03-06 - Outburst on Bush and Blair threatens foreign policy rift He also accused them of making "an enormous error" by refusing to press Israel for a ceasefire during the war in Lebanon.
10-02-06 - Rice: No memory of CIA warning of attack
10-02-06 - Six-nation group on Iran could meet in Europe this week: Rice
10-02-06 - Iran says it won't suspend atomic work
10-02-06 - Are You an 'Unlawful Combatant'? Maybe so? It establishes the principle that an American citizen may be seized and locked up in a military prison, stripped of the protections traditionally afforded him by the Bill of Rights. 1984 is here.
10-02-06 - Iraq soldiers unlawfully killed Two soldiers ambushed in Iraq were unlawfully killed by Iraqi military intelligence, a coroner has ruled.
10-02-06 - EU hopes for new pact with U.S. on passenger data The European Union hopes to reach a new agreement with the United States on sharing air passenger data next week after failing to do so before the previous pact expired, the European Commission said.
10-02-06 - Iraq war draws foreign jihadists, but not in droves
10-02-06 - Iran warns Japan as oil deal hangs in balance Government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham said that if no positive answer was forthcoming Tehran would seek another partner to develop the Azadegan oil field in southwestern Iran close to the Iraqi border
10-02-06 - Congressional Duplicity the Likudniks ? who also unreservedly support the U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement ? have just dealt another potentially fatal blow to the NPT, the IAEA, and perhaps even the UN Security Council itself
10-02-06 - Erdogan seeks US crackdown on PKK Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will urge the US to take concrete action to crack down on Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq
10-02-06 - Bush, Putin to keep 'united position' on Iran: White House In Monday's phone conversation, which was initiated by Washington, the two also discussed Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization and Iran's nuclear programme, the statement
10-02-06 - Report: US rendition threat forced Britain to act on airport terror plot The Americans' demand for Rauf's quick arrest dismayed the British intelligence services, which were worried that it could prompt terrorist cells in the UK working on separate plots to bring forward their plans or go underground.
10-02-06 - IDF threatens Lebanon raids Officers say army would not hesitate to carry out incursions into Lebanon if UN peacekeeping force fails to prevent Hizbullah from reclaiming border posts or waging attacks
10-02-06 - No Ground Troops in Iran, Say Americans Many adults in the United States think it would be a mistake to launch direct military action against Iran, according to a poll by Zogby International released by Reuters. 70 per cent of respondents oppose the use of U.S. ground troops in the country. Look at the second part of that poll.
10-02-06 - During war, PM ignored Livni's plan for early exit from Lebanon
10-02-06 - Lebanese troops deploy on border In a small ceremony near the border, Lebanese army commander Brig Gen Michel Suleiman promised to reassert Beirut's control of the area by stopping arms smuggling and cross-border attacks from either side. He urged his soldiers to take tough action against Israel too, if needed. "I call on you to confront any Israeli aggression and violations," he said.
10-02-06 - UN to study Lebanon environment
10-02-06 - Arms industry 'flouting export laws' The report, Arms Without Borders, by Oxfam, Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms, points out, for example, that the European Union prohibits selling helicopters to Israel. But Apache gunships used in the recent attacks in Lebanon, which drew widespread condemnation, were built with components made in Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands.
10-02-06 - Israel's Lebanon bombardment visible from space Israel's recent bombardment of Lebanon was clearly visible with "the naked eye" from space, a Russian cosmonaut based at the time on the international space station has said.
10-02-06 - Condoleezza Rice arrives in Saudi on Mideast tour Iran's nuclear program and the crisis in Lebanon were also to figure on the agenda, he said
10-02-06 - Lebanon economy reels under hardships since war Lebanon's finance minister said last month the offensive and Israel's blockade on the country had increased Lebanon's public debt to 41 billion dollars.
10-02-06 - Gooood morning Tehran! This is Jerusalem
10-01-06 - RIP, Bill of Rights, RIP By passing the Military Commissions Act (a.k.a. the torture bill), Congress has granted the Bush administration extraordinary powers to detain, interrogate and prosecute alleged terrorists and their supporters. Anyone anywhere in the world at any time may be summarily classified an "unlawful enemy combatant" by the executive branch, seized and detained indefinitely in military prisons
10-01-06 - Video shows 2 9/11 hijackers laughing The Sunday Times, which originally reported on the video and posted it on its Web site, said the footage was taken in Afghanistan and was meant to be released after the men's deaths
10-01-06 - US may accept Iranian nuclear bomb ** John Negroponte, director of national intelligence, has told President George W Bush that there is no rush to use force as Iran's nuclear programme is beset with technical errors. "He has been saying, 'Slow down, it's not an immediate problem'," said Patrick Clawson, an Iran expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Unfortunately, Bush is listening to some other 'intelligence agency' (again).
10-01-06 - US kept spying data from Blair After complaints from Blair, Bush promised to lift the NOFORN restrictions, but the Pentagon simply began creating a new, separate SIPRNET to cut out the British, Woodward claims.
10-01-06 - HOW AN ATTACK WOULD UNFOLD - A military assault on nuclear plants in Iran remains an option for U.S. ** "The evidence is overwhelming that plans have not only been dusted off, but they are at the White House," Gardiner said. "The president believes that he has got to do this."
10-01-06 - Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites The document said that China could blind American satellites with a ground-based laser firing a beam of light to prevent spy photography as they pass over China.
10-01-06 - Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice The July 10 meeting between Tenet, Black and Rice went unmentioned in the various reports of investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks, but it stood out in the minds of Tenet and Black as the starkest warning they had given the White House on bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Though the investigators had access to all the paperwork on the meeting, Black felt there were things the commissions wanted to know about and things they didn't want to know about.
10-01-06 - Focus: CIA abandoned plan to snatch Bin Laden from Afghan farm
10-01-06 - U.S. believed Arar wouldn't be tortured, official says Mm k.
10-01-06 - Iran says no suspension offer in EU talks Iran has denied it had made any offer to suspend uranium enrichment in talks between EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and its top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani.
10-01-06 - Military force won't stop illegal weapons entering Lebanon: Assad
10-01-06 - Ruined Towns Look to Beirut, Mostly in Vain
10-01-06 - Congress pulls 'Jesus' out of troop prayers Congress rescinded language in Pentagon orders that allowed military chaplains to mention Jesus in official prayers.
10-01-06 - Rice will try to get Arab allies to join efforts against Iran ** Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was headed to the Middle East on Sunday night to rally Arab allies against Iran and try to resurrect Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
And that's the real reason for this - to garner international support, to build a coalition for the coming confrontation with Iran. It's the same situation as the run-up to the Iraq war.
10-01-06 - To contain Iran, keep military options open For Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to snare an invitation to speak before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) recently, after threatening several times to destroy Israel, is what's known in military parlance as a successful "information op." The Christian Science Monitor giving airtime to what would appear to be a neoconservative - and it's not the first time either.
10-01-06 - UN hails Israel's Lebanon pullout The UN has said Israel has withdrawn the bulk of its troops from Lebanon, fulfilling a key condition of the UN ceasefire ending war with Hezbollah.
10-01-06 - Syria shifts troops to Lebanon border But the troop movement was still likely to draw criticism from the U.S. and Iraqi governments, as President Bashar Assad said Syria shifted forces away from its eastern border with Iraq to fortify its frontier with Lebanon.
10-01-06 - Abramoff Knew US Would Invade Iraq in March, 2002 I was sitting yesterday with Karl Rove, Bush's top advisor, at the NCAA basketball game, discussing Israel when this email came in. I showed it to him. It seems that the President was very sad to have to come out negatively regarding Israel, but that they needed to mollify the Arabs for the upcoming war on Iraq. That did not seem to work anyway. Bush seems to love Sharon and Israel, and thinks Arabfat (sic), is nothing but a liar. I thought I'd pass that on.
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