November 2006 archive
11-30-06 - Riyadh could arm, fund Iraq's Sunnis if US withdraws: Saudi expert Saudi Arabia will launch a "massive" intervention to help Iraq's minority Sunni Muslims against Iran-backed Shiite attacks if the US pulls its troops out, a senior Saudi government adviser said.
11-30-06 - Iran Resolution, Still Not Final, Drops Mention of Sanctions The six world powers seeking to rein in Iran?s nuclear ambitions are circulating a significantly weakened draft for a United Nations Security Council resolution against Tehran?s nuclear program, in a bid to keep their fragile coalition from falling apart.
11-30-06 - Mystery illness hits former Russian PM
11-30-06 - Iraq, Iran reach agreement on security Iraq's president said Wednesday he had reached a security agreement with Iran, which the United States accuses of fueling the chaos in the war-torn country. Iran's president called on countries to stop backing "terrorists" in Iraq and for the Americans to withdraw.
11-30-06 - FBI joins investigation of poisoned spy The FBI is joining the British probe into the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic, the agency announced Thursday as investigators found traces of radiation at a dozen sites in Britain and a former Russian prime minister reported symptoms consistent with poisoning.
11-30-06 - Iran War Games Aimed at Warning Shot to U.S. Allies ** Kenneth Pollack, a Middle East senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said Iran and its surrogates could take a toll on U.S. facilities in the Middle East and seriously undermine efforts to secure and stabilize Iraq. ''We don't want to lose Iraq in the course of taking down Iran's nuclear program,'' Pollack said.
11-30-06 - Russia Downplays Iran Nuclear Links Russia -- which along with China has the right of veto as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council -- has been the main obstacle to efforts by Western nations to punish Iran for its refusal to halt sensitive uranium enrichment activity. Read that excerpt and then think about recent events.
11-30-06 - Moscow points the finger of blame at billionaire exile Boris Berezovsky The Kremlin mounted a concerted campaign yesterday to point the finger of suspicion at the billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky over the death of his friend, Alexander Litvinenko, after traces of radioactive polonium-210 were found at the London offices of the exiled Russian oligarch.
11-30-06 - Sushi bar identified as key link in poisoning Detailed forensic analysis, including radiation testing, of the places Mr Litvinenko visited in the hours before he went to Itsu in Piccadilly have found no trace of radioactivity. This strongly suggests he was poisoned while in the restaurant, where traces of nuclear material were found.
11-30-06 - Former Russian PM Gaidar poisoned, say his doctors
11-30-06 - Lawyer: Navy submariner to plead guilty in espionage case Navy officials said Weinmann gave a foreign government classified information relating to national defense before he destroyed the computer. The Navy has not disclosed for which government or governments Weinmann is charged with spying, nor what he allegedly sought in exchange.
11-30-06 - Iraq panel to recommend U.S. shift from combat role Israel is expected to be part of the proposed regional dialogue, including the international conference, sources close to the group said. "They live in the neighborhood ... The aim is to engage the neighborhood, including addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue," one source said.
11-30-06 - U.S. opposes Georgia-Iran deal The United States publicly opposes gas cooperation between Georgia in the Caucasus and Iran, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Monday.
11-30-06 - Jewish Groups To Challenge Ethics Reform Jewish groups, though supportive of most measures, are concerned about two aspects of the reform: the ban on privately funded congressional travel, and the limitations on earmarks. Both measures might - depending on the final language adopted - restrict actions of Jewish and pro-Israel groups on Capitol Hill.
11-30-06 - FBI pays $2 million to US Muslim in terror-suspect case Mayfield is also allowed to continue his lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the Patriot Act. He charges that the antiterrorism law violates the Fourth Amendment because is allows for government searches without first establishing "probable cause" of a crime.
11-30-06 - Rice sees hope in Mideast truce but urges patience Rice visited Russia last month and told Moscow firmly that it needed to improve its human rights record, particularly after a prominent investigative reporter was gunned down. As a sign of solidarity, she met the reporter's editor and son at her hotel. "I feel very strongly that the Kremlin is too powerful at the expense of other countervailing institutions," Rice said when asked if she saw any irony in the fact that Russia was co-hosting the Jordan conference.
11-30-06 - Iran envoy in Argentina criticizes bombing case Iran's top diplomat in Argentina appeared before an Argentine judge on Tuesday and criticized an investigation alleging Tehran masterminded the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center.
11-30-06 - Lebanese PM vows to defy protests Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has said his government will not be brought down by mass protests planned by pro-Syrian opposition groups.
11-30-06 - With Notable Exceptions, Congress Rushes To Support Israel?s Attack on Lebanon
11-30-06 - Hezbollah calls for huge protests The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has called for a huge turnout for opposition protests aimed at bringing down the anti-Syrian government.
11-30-06 - German foreign minister may visit Syria during Middle East trip Germany's foreign minister may visit Syria on a visit to the Middle East starting Thursday that also will take him to Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Israel, an official said Thursday.
11-30-06 - Shorbagi testifying in Chicago
11-29-06 - Bipartisan group reaches accord on Iraq A bipartisan commission has reached a consensus on new U.S. policies for Iraq and will announce its recommendations next week, the group's co-chairman said Wednesday.
11-29-06 - Iraq one of greatest presidential blunders: Carter
11-29-06 - Bush set for delayed Iraq talks
11-29-06 - US forces kill two women in Iraq
11-29-06 - Bush tells Abdullah time not ripe for dialogue with Syria
11-29-06 - Hezbollah denies training Iraqis Hezbollah spokesman Hussein Rahal said the accusations were baseless and reflected attempts to blame others for "the disastrous situation in Iraq".
11-29-06 - Judge Strikes Down Parts of Executive Order on Terrorism A Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that key portions of a presidential order blocking financial assistance to terrorist groups are unconstitutional, further complicating the Bush administration's attempts to defend its aggressive anti-terrorism tactics in federal courts.
11-29-06 - Powell: Iraq meets civil war definition Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday at a business conference here that the war in Iraq "could be considered a civil war," the conference organizer said.
11-29-06 - Is Putin Being Set Up? by Patrick J. Buchanan As the predictable effect of Litvinenko's death has been to put a cloud of suspicion over Putin and a chill over Russian relations with the West, one must ask: To whose benefit is the discrediting of Putin? Who would seek a renewal of the Cold War?
11-29-06 - Mofaz: Arafat agreed to house secret Iranian bases inside PA Iran and the Palestinian Authority, then headed by Yasser Arafat, reached a secret agreement in 2002, which called for the creation of branch Iranian revolutionary guard corps bases in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in exchange for military aid to the Palestinian Authority. And they just discovered this NOW. Mmm k.
11-29-06 - Egyptian intelligence chief to visit Israel
11-29-06 - Radio Spoof Draws Support for Nazi-Like Treatment of U.S. Muslims; CAIR Says Callers' Reaction is a 'Wake-Up Call' on Anti-Muslim Bigotry
11-29-06 - Court Rejects N.Y. Times on Leak Probe The one-sentence order came in a First Amendment battle that involves stories written in 2001 by Times reporters Judith Miller and Philip Shenon
11-29-06 - Baker Panel Aide Expects Israel Will Be Pressed AIPAC's Congress (formerly the US Congress) will never allow it. 100 new pieces of legislation will be passed therein to counter such a move.
11-29-06 - Congress to Ponder Conscription? by Rep. Ron Paul
11-29-06 - Syria accuses Israel of building dam in Golan to secure water Damascus accused Israel on Monday of building a dam on the Golan Heights to steal water and deprive Syria and Jordan from badly needed resources, Syria's official news agency reported.
11-29-06 - Iran leader appeals to US people The Iranian leader's discursive, five-page letter also urged Washington to recognise a Palestinian state, saying it was ignoring public opinion in "trampling the rights of the Palestinian people".
11-29-06 - The Litvinenko Mystery
11-29-06 - Avigdor Lieberman to Washington ** Lieberman, whose Yisrael Beitenu Party joined Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s government last month, will participate in a conference at the end of next week at the Brookings Institution?s Saban Center. The conference, which is closed to the public, will include other top Israeli and U.S. officials.
Lieberman is the new guy in charge of Israel's 'attack Iran' department.
11-29-06 - Abdullah asked to probe Bush on overflights Jordan?s king may raise Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace during talks with President Bush.
11-29-06 - Colin Powell: Reach Out to Arabs and Muslims
11-29-06 - China shows solidarity with Palestinian people China strongly condemns Israel's military actions, which have caused heavy casualties to innocent Palestinian civilians. China is also concerned with the human rights situation in occupied Palestinian territory, he said.
11-29-06 - Ahmadinejad's letter to Americans
11-29-06 - Judge strikes ban on terrorist funding A California judge declared unconstitutional a 2001 presidential order blocking funds for terrorist groups, a decision that could affect funding for Hamas and Hezbollah.
11-29-06 - Rebuilding Lebanon: the task ahead Lebanon's finance minister, Jihad Azour, says that physical losses from the 34-day war amount to $2.5bn.
11-29-06 - Man ordered imprisoned for threatening President Bush An Israel-born Palestinian was sentenced Tuesday to federal prison but was credited with time already served on charges that he threatened to castrate President Bush while involuntarily committed at a mental hospital.
11-29-06 - Energy-hungry China breaks ground in Middle East The Chinese have cleared thousands of cluster bombs and other ordnance -- including the bomb 2nd Sergeant Liu was tackling in Zebqin -- since the Israeli-Hezbollah war ended on August 14, winning them a degree of affection from Lebanese villagers.
11-29-06 - And now a word from neocon Daniel Pipes Who is trying to decide for YOU, the American public at large, what you will and will not learn about in college. Message to Pipes (the look on that guy's face in the photo is priceless).
11-29-06 - Is 'American era' ending in Middle East?
11-28-06 - Five young girls killed in US attack on Iraqi insurgents
11-28-06 - Bush says U.S. won't pull out of Iraq "There's one thing I'm not going to do, I'm not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete," he said in a speech setting the stage for high-stakes meetings with the Iraqi prime minister later this week.
11-28-06 - Iran to let atomic watchdog take more samples
11-28-06 - UN nuclear probe of Iran hampered by blind spots: ElBaradei
11-28-06 - Bush rules out talks with Iran until it stops nuclear program
11-28-06 - Iraq 'on the brink of civil war'
11-28-06 - Iran tells Talabani that US-led forces must leave Iraq
11-28-06 - Gingrich: US may be forced to reexamine freedom of speech
11-28-06 - The Nuking of Alexander Litvinenko
11-28-06 - Senior EU officials accused of covering up secret CIA prisons for terror suspects The document also said that Nicolo Pollari, former head of Italy's Sismi intelligence service, had "concealed the truth" when he told a European Parliament committee in March that Italian agents had played no part in the CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric
11-28-06 - Militant killed at Syrian border A Syrian interior ministry statement said Abdullah opened fire at security forces before attempting to escape.
11-28-06 - Lahoud 'to block' Lebanon panel
11-28-06 - UN Security Council gives US-led force in Iraq until end-2007 "We are obviously very pleased with the adoption of Resolution 1723 unanimously extending the mandate of the multinational force in Iraq for another year," US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton told reporters after the vote.
11-28-06 - Palestinian elderly refugee abducted, killed in Iraq
11-28-06 - Salvaging Bush's Mideast disaster like it or not, the fact remains that the now 39-year-long Israeli occupation of Palestinian land continues to be the most incendiary issue in the Arab-Muslim world, the single thing that most inspires hatred of the U.S. A U.N.-sponsored group recently found that tensions between Islam and the West are caused not by religion but overwhelmingly by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has acquired a symbolic significance larger than itself......Bush's neoconservative brain trust is urging him to maintain his hard line against Syria and Hezbollah. But as Israel's recent, unsuccessful war shows, the Shiites in Lebanon are too powerful to smash into submission. The only long-term solution to Lebanon's woes, as former ABC News chief Middle East correspondent Charles Glass, who was kidnapped by Hezbollah in 1987, recently argued, is to remove Hezbollah's raison d'être by providing justice for the Palestinians. Excellent article there at Salon.
11-28-06 - Lebanon's farm business is suffering Lebanon's agriculture sector suffered about $280 million in damage during this summer's conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, a U.N. food agency said Monday.
11-28-06 - Briton tells of surviving blast from Israeli mine
11-28-06 - Jordan to urge Bush action on Israel-Palestinian conflict "The best way to counter this Iranian danger is to resolve the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state solution, which will strengthen the moderate trends in the region and allow stability."
11-28-06 - Jordan will reject 'unjust' Mideast settlement
11-28-06 - Hezbollah Said to Help Shiite Army in Iraq The interview occurred at a time of intense debate over whether the United States should enlist Iran?s help in stabilizing Iraq. The Iraq Study Group, directed by James A. Baker III, a former Republican secretary of state, and Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic lawmaker, is expected to call for direct talks with Tehran. Wow, what a coincidence, this finding. For, the Iraq Study Group is going to release it's recommendations very soon, and well, we can't negotiate with Iran NOW, can we?
11-28-06 - China's Muslims look to Middle East as ties grow
11-28-06 - U.S. Critiques Russia as It Readies for Mideast Democracy Forum
11-27-06 - Israelis avoiding Cyprus due to Lebanese refugees
11-27-06 - US panel on Iraq to urge aggressive regional diplomacy According to The Times, the draft of the section on diplomatic strategy was heavily influenced by panel co-chairman and former secretary of state James Baker and seemed to reflect his public criticism of the administration for its unwillingness to talk with nations like Iran and Syria.
11-27-06 - U.S. envoy: Iran nears nuclear weapons "Our assessment ... the assessment from our intelligence community, is that the soonest they could produce a nuclear weapon would be the beginning of next decade, 2010 to 2015," said Gregory L. Schulte, U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
11-27-06 - Iran offers Iraq all possible help with security "The Iranian nation and government will definitely stand beside their brother, Iraq, and any help the government and nation of Iran can give to strengthen security in Iraq will be given," Ahmadinejad said, according to Iran's ISNA news agency.
11-27-06 - Iran and China poised to sign pact on oil field TEHRAN: Iran and China have moved a step closer to signing an energy deal worth as much as $100 billion, with the Islamic republic saying it had invited China Petrochemical's managing director to Tehran to sign an accord first reached in 2004
11-27-06 - We Must Do What? I was surprised that an essay of such ignorance, such hatred, and such embarrassing lack of credibility was published at all in a major newspaper. I was surprised that Joshua Muravchik has an audience; that he apparently does is frightening.
11-27-06 - Justice Department eyes spy program The Justice Department has begun an internal investigation into its handling of information gathered in the government's domestic spying program. However, Democrats criticized the review as too narrow to determine whether the program violated federal law.
11-27-06 - 'Neocons' abandon Iraq war at White House front door
11-27-06 - Cheney and Neo-Cons Plotting More Wars suddenly, the Saudis, along with several other Sunni Arab regimes, find themselves as strange bedfellows with Washington's neo-cons and with the Ehud Olmert government in Israel--in common cause against Iran.
11-27-06 - TV Blowhard Barks at Iran: Let?s Hold CNN Accountable His name is Glenn Beck, a smiley-toothed monologist and proselytizer who is a recovering alcoholic, talk-radio host, convert to Mormonism and self-described ?rodeo clown.? His crude rants would be easy to ignore except that CNN -- part of the Time Warner conglomerate ? has chosen to give Beck a primetime platform which he uses day after day to cheer on a confrontation with Iran.
11-27-06 - Military plane crashes in Tehran An Iranian military plane has crashed while taking off from an airport in Tehran, killing elite troops.
11-27-06 - Bolton: Bush to discuss nations, Lebanon Iranian and Syrian interference in Lebanon is a major U.S. concern and will be a subject of discussion during President Bush's trip to the Middle East later this week, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Monday.
11-27-06 - Secret Pentagon Documents Classify "If we aren't investigated by the government, we probably aren't doing our job,"
11-27-06 - IDF officials: Mines in Lebanon could have been laid by Syria, Hezbollah Dalya Farran, a spokeswoman for the UN agency, said its experts found the land mines and were able to tell they were new Israeli anti-personnel mines based on their "type, shape and condition." Right. Like that 'mine' that Hamas planted on the Gaza beach in July. K.
11-27-06 - Israelis Split on Unilateral Attack Against Iran Do you count on the United States and on the Europeans to succeed in stopping the nuclear program of Iran by peaceful means and via United Nations (UN) Security Council resolutions? That's PEACEFUL means. Look at the results. They forgot to ask the most important question: are you expecting America to attack Iran for Israel?
11-27-06 - Oil price falls as US stocks rise
11-27-06 - Flurry of diplomacy as US seeks to regain Mideast initiative The burst of US diplomacy is seen in part as an effort to counter Iran's bid for a greater role in the region, where it has significant influence with Shiite militants who have been foiling US policies in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian areas Iran is the reason.
11-27-06 - Dollar's downward slide continues The dollar has continued its downward slide against the euro, slipping to 20-month lows.
11-27-06 - A Storm Is Brewing in Kurdistan.
11-27-06 - Iraq's Palestinians in bull's-eye international officials warn that Palestinians are in an especially precarious position because they are considered outsiders, even after decades of living in Iraq, and have difficulty gaining admission to other countries because they do not carry Iraqi passports
11-27-06 - Carter shares insight on peace in Mideast I mention in the book that we've vetoed resolutions, some of them overwhelmingly supported by the world community, probably now about 45 times, in fact twice within the last two weeks when Israel attacked the Gaza people and killed those 18 civilians. The United States vetoed the resolution that condemned that action. And I have to tell you that I have always considered myself a supporter of Israel -- but with the premise that Israel comply with international law and withdraw from occupying territories of the West Bank and Gaza. And what's degenerated in recent years, to a very disturbing degree, is the gross abuse of the Palestinians by the Israeli occupying powers. It's one of the most serious human-rights abuses about which I'm familiar. It aggravates and alienates not only the Palestinians and the Arab world, but most of the rest of the world
11-27-06 - Spy death linked to nuclear thefts
11-27-06 - Bush Asking Arab Friends for Iraq Help Meanwhile, one of Ms. Rice?s most trusted aides, Philip D. Zelikow, announced Monday that he was resigning his post as State Department counselor. Mr. Zelikow, widely viewed as a voice of candor in the administration on the Iraq crisis, said in his resignation letter that he would return to teaching at the University of Virginia
11-27-06 - Murdered KGB Agent Visited Israel
11-27-06 - Saudi urges US to play fair in Mideast
11-27-06 - The Saudis strike back at Iran Three things must be said about Cheney's beliefs. First, he is steadfast in his belief that the Iraq war is still a "doable" job. Second, he consistently maintains that an Iraq settlement is inconceivable without a regime change in Iran. Most important, Cheney believes that when it comes to Israel's security, US politicians are alike. Name them, they are all "friends of Israel" - Democratic presidential hopefuls Senators Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, and the incoming chairman of the House Committee on International Affairs, Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos.
11-27-06 - Zuckerman, Tisch and Lauder: Rock stars of the Jewish world honored at ZOA dinner R. James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA under President Bill Clinton, was ZOA?s Keynote Speaker. Woolsey was honored with the ZOA?s Defender of Israel Award .....Among the numerous distinguished guests who attended the Dinner were Kenneth Bialkin, Malcolm Hoenlein, Steve Emerson and a number of national board members of AIPAC.
11-26-06 - Iran says it's set to help U.S. on Iraq Iran said Sunday it is willing to help Washington calm Iraq's escalating sectarian violence if the U.S. drops its "bullying" policy toward Tehran, but denied organizing a summit with the leaders of Iraq and Syria to discuss the troubles in its neighbor.
11-26-06 - Anti-war Democrat has ties to U.S.' prewar Iraq claims Carney, 47, is not apologetic about his work for Feith's unit at the Pentagon. "I certainly stand by the fact that I believe there was some sort of relationship," he said in an interview. "On a scale from zero to 10, with zero being no relationship and 10 perfect operational coordination," Carney said, the Iraq-al-Qaida link was "somewhere in the 2.5 range."
11-26-06 - Tehran to protest to UAE over 'anti-Iran activities' "Despite some slogans and stands taken by the Americans for changes in policy, there is no practical change. An example is their operations in UAE," foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters.
11-26-06 - Iraqi president to hold talks in Tehran Iran had invited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the talks, but Syria did not respond.
11-26-06 - "America's moment in the Middle East is about to end" So, who benefits from greater antagonism between Washington and Damascus? Who gains from the continuing bloodshed in Iraq? Prime Minister Olmert helped answer this question just a few days ago when he said: "I know that (Bush's) policies are controversial in America. (but) I stand with the president because I know that Iraq without Saddam Hussein so much better for the safety and security of Israel?Thank God for the determination and leadership of George Bush". (Reuters)
11-26-06 - US man allegedly spied for Israel, China A federal grand jury in Honolulu has indicted a leading former military engineer for allegedly transferring classified information to Israel, China, and other countries.
11-26-06 - Bonkers Diplomacy it now appears that the principal result of Bush-Cheney-Rice-Bolton ramming the US-India nuclear deal through Congress and the NSG will be the establishment of a Russian-Chinese-Indian co-prosperity sphere, encompassing the Caspian Sea nuclear-oil-gas energy resources of Kazakhstan and Iran, as well as the Persian Gulf oil-gas energy resources of Iran and perhaps even Iraq.
11-26-06 - Needed: A Big Stick Iran and Syria are ruthlessly waging war against Western interests in the Middle East. Offering to talk is only a small part of what it will take to stop them. This is an editorial by the Washington Post that falls in lockstep with the neocons' agenda.
11-26-06 - Peacekeepers bring calm to south Lebanon
11-26-06 - Lebanon divide hits dangerous deadlock over UN court plans
11-26-06 - Jordan king warns on Mideast civil wars "We could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having three civil wars on our hands," he said, citing conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon and the decades-long strife between the Palestinians and Israelis.
11-26-06 - Lebanon's grief for lost leader turns to dread of new civil war The funeral took place on the day Hezbollah had been due to call a million supporters on to the streets with the aim of toppling the government in which Gemayel served
11-26-06 - Egypt threatens to quit importing Israeli cotton over price hike Under the agreement, Egypt is obligated to incorporate in the production Israeli output to a minimum of 11.7% in order to receive customs tax exemptions in the United States
11-25-06 - US involved for longer time in Iraq than in World War II The US involvement in Iraq will pass another sad milestone on Sunday, when it overtakes the length of America's engagement in World War II.
11-25-06 - Cheney returning to U.S. after talks with Saudis A Western diplomat said the United States wanted to counter the threat from Iran and Syria by co-opting moderate Arab nations on both Iraq and the Palestinian-Israeli issue and the current diplomatic push was proof of this.
11-25-06 - Rumsfeld okayed abuses says former U.S. general Karpinski, who ran the prison until early 2004, said she saw a memorandum signed by Rumsfeld detailing the use of harsh interrogation methods.
11-25-06 - Woes for Baker group Accusations that Syria was behind Tuesday's assassination of Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel are expected to make an opening to Syria more difficult. Well isn't that conVENient (Church Lady)?
11-25-06 - And now - Deep Background by Philip Giraldi FBI reportedly has kept the case open as Wells, an Israeli citizen who claims to be a student but does not appear to be registered for a course of study anywhere, is suspected of working for Israeli intelligence in some capacity. If it is determined that he might be from Mossad, he will undoubtedly be quietly deported on immigration charges to avoid embarrassing the Israeli government.
11-25-06 - U.N. group: Israel laid mines in Lebanon The Israeli military said it wasn't convinced the mine was recently laid or used by Israel, saying it could have placed by Hezbollah or another party during the decades of conflict in Lebanon. But officials were evasive when asked whether Israel laid mines in Lebanon this summer. More deceptive behavior from the Israeli government.
11-25-06 - Larijani says Israel cannot attack Iran with US support: report "How could IAEA and the West blame Iran for any illegal activity while the Agency's cameras are covering every activity and its inspectors have been inspecting each of Iran's nuclear installations?" Larijani asked.
11-25-06 - Mubarak: identifying those behind Lebanon killings 'premature'
11-25-06 - US hawk judges 'war on terror' a mistake Rejecting calls to arms by the same neo-conservatives who advocated invading Iraq, he says a pre-emptive attack on Iran "would be a catastrophic failure".
11-25-06 - UN says Israel planted landmines in Lebanon as four wounded Four members of an international demining team have been wounded in an Israeli-laid minefield in south Lebanon, a UN spokeswoman said, adding it was the first evidence of use by the Jewish state of anti-personnel mines in the summer conflict
11-25-06 - Hezbollah 'to rule within five years' Not all Israeli experts believe the Syrian Government was involved in the assassination of the Lebanese minister. Zvi Barel, Arab affairs analyst of the daily Ha'aretz, noted that Syria was in the midst of chalking up significant diplomatic points that could only be harmed if it were shown to be involved in another political assassination.
11-25-06 - West must prepare for Chinese, Indian dominance: Wolfensohn Because corporate interests sold America down the river by outsourcing our jobs to both countries. This is high treason, IMO.
11-25-06 - Hariri court gets Lebanon backing While he did not want to pre-judge any investigation into Mr Gemayel's death, Mr Bolton said, proof of Syrian involvement would show it was "not just a supporter of terrorism but is a state actor in a terrorist fashion".
11-25-06 - Saudis may pull out of Eurofighter contract over fraud probe: report
11-25-06 - U.S. Groups To Host Rightist Minister With Anti-Arab Plan In a further indication of his acceptance into the political mainstream, controversial right-wing Israeli politician and newly minted government minister Avigdor Lieberman will be hosted next month in New York by the most influential umbrella organization of American Jewish groups. It speaks volumes. He's coming here to speak about Iran.
11-25-06 - From Nov. 2005: UN Amb. John Bolton And Jerusalem Post's Caroline Glick The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is pleased to announce that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will be the Keynote Speaker at the annual ZOA Louis Brandeis Award Dinner. He will also receive ZOA?s Defender of Israel award
11-25-06 - From Dec. 2005: Israeli Aides Warn U.S. Not To Drop Ball on Iran Israeli officials, sources said, were surprised by reports that rather than take the lead in pressuring Iran, the Bush administration instructed its ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khaklilzad, to open a dialogue with Iran's ambassador there. In addition, Israeli officials were also upset by Washington's restrained reaction to the deal that Russia is finalizing to sell Tehran more than $1 billion worth of anti-aircraft missiles, which could be used to help Iran protect its nuclear facilities against a possible air strike.
11-25-06 - Israeli military chief may quit over failed campaign Many Israeli officers regard this year?s battles as a ?dress rehearsal for the real thing? ? a war against the combined might of Hezbollah and Syria, and possibly Iran.
11-25-06 - Syrian Jews: Talk to Syria now
11-24-06 - Iran makes concession to UN nuclear investigation
11-24-06 - Russian rocket deliveries to Iran started Russia has begun deliveries of the Tor-M1 air defence rocket system to Iran, Russian news agencies quoted military industry sources as saying, in the latest sign of a Russian-US rift over Iran.
11-24-06 - Russian nuclear chief to visit Tehran
11-24-06 - US interference 'allowed terror gang to escape' A team of suspected terrorists involved in an alleged UK plot to blow up trans-atlantic airliners escaped capture because of interference by the United States, The Independent has been told by counter-terrorism sources.
11-24-06 - 'US troops kill four' on Iraq bus
11-24-06 - US in contact with anti-Iran Kurds: PKK Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed recently in the New Yorker magazine that American forces were supporting the PJAK movement as part of their strategy to destabilize the Tehran government.
11-24-06 - Who Decides on War With Iran?
11-24-06 - Expert: Bush can't attack Iran ** US President George Bush does not have sufficient credit to initiate a military strike on Iran , Giora Romm, senior researcher for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, told a forum attended by members of the Foreign Ministry and delegates from the American Jewish community in Jerusalem Tuesday.
11-24-06 - Australian Company AWB 'knew Iraq plans a year before' The documents, released at the Cole inquiry yesterday, undercut previous statements by Prime Minister John Howard that Australia did not agree to join the war before the UN debate in late 2002 and early 2003.
11-24-06 - Leaving Iraq, Honorably By Chuck Hagel
11-24-06 - The rise and decline of the neo-cons ** There is no doubt that the top foreign policy priority for neo-conservatives in the final two years of Bush's presidency will be to goad him into attacking Iran's suspected nuclear facilities, if ongoing diplomatic efforts to contain or roll back Tehran's nuclear program stall or fail. Wrote Joshua Muravchik, an AEI scholar, in the November 2006 issue of the influential magazine Foreign Policy: "Make no mistake, President Bush will need to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities before leaving office."
The neoconservatives, hoping to find an excuse to foist their 'Clean Break' strategy on the US, also signed on to the PNAC - an outfit whose website proclaimed that the US needed a 'new Pearl Harbor'. Coincidentally, they got just that (in the form of 9/11) very shortly into the Bush presidency and with all of the neocons in key positions therein.
11-24-06 - Lebanon strikers call for unity
11-24-06 - Cluster bomb wounds two experts Two mine-clearing experts were rushed to hospital in Lebanon after a dormant cluster bomb left behind by Israel exploded.
11-24-06 - Netanyahu warns on Iran The boy who cried wolf.
11-24-06 - There's no accounting for it Gemayel's murder will be fully investigated - but there is no sign of justice for the 1,183 Lebanese civilians killed in this summer's war Good point.
11-24-06 - Palestinians on Iraq-Syria border UNHCR is very concerned about five Palestinians ? three men and two boys ? who were arrested on Tuesday by Iraqi security forces at Al Tanf border crossing between Iraq and Syria.
11-24-06 - Syria: Convenient but Unlikely Fall Guy for Gemayel's Death Gemayel's death, and Syria's blame for it, strengthens the case of the neoconservatives in Washington ? Israel's allies in the Administration ? whose star had begun to wane. They can now argue convincingly that Syria is unreformed and unreformable. Such an outcome helps to avert the danger, from Israel's point of view, that White House doves might win the argument for befriending Syria.
11-24-06 - Killing plunges Lebanon deeper into crisis The assassination of Gemayel, and the fingerpointing at Syria, at a time when the ice was thawing between Syrian and the West - is highly reminiscent of the Lavon Affair. Somebody sought to poison the warming relations between Egypt's Nasser and the West. Who was it? And who are the experts at assassinations?
11-24-06 - Lebanese viewpoints I think Israel and the USA are benefiting from the situation; but I don't know who did it. We should wait for the investigation.
11-24-06 - Tycoon blames Kremlin in spy death Leonid Nevzlin, who fled to Israel in 2004 after Russian authorities charged officers of the Yukos oil giant with tax evasion, murder and fraud, said Alexander Litvinenko had shared with him evidence of Kremlin malfeasance in the Yukos affair.
11-24-06 - Syria expects foes to slander it over killing of Gemayel Syria, while clearly unhappy with the tribunal and with Lebanon's Western-backed government, argues that Gemayel's death plays into the hands of its Lebanese opponents and hurts its chances of dialogue with Europe and the United States.
11-24-06 - Keeping it unreal Built by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) more than 30 years ago, the purpose of this replica town is to train Israeli soldiers in the strategies of modern urban combat. It was here that the IDF rehearsed the invasion of Beirut in 1982 and the withdrawal from Gaza last year. It was here, too, that US forces drilled the battle of Fallujah and the raid of Baghdad three years ago
They trained our guys in 'urban combat', among other things. Now you know why there are so many similarities (the origin of the term "Palestinian hangings"). Then one wonders why Iraqis didn't accept us as 'liberators'. (Because Israeli tactics work so well on Palestinians..)
11-24-06 - Iran and Syria Helping Hizballah Rearm additional reporting by Aaron J. Klein/Tel Aviv Wouldn't you know - Aaron Klein reported this propaganda, I mean news.
11-24-06 - Kremlin critic who died in London suffered radiation poisoning: Britain Litvinenko's rapid, and previously unexplained decline, was reminiscent of that of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who became ill with nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea after eating dinner in his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Oct. 12, 2004. The symptoms continued for more than two weeks before he was evacuated to France where he died on Nov. 11.
11-24-06 - When will Israel attack Iran?
11-23-06 - Iran offers UN new nuclear access
11-23-06 - Mideast diplomacy / Bush to visit Jordan, won't meet PM, Abbas We can assume that Bush informed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of his intentions to limit the American presence in Iraq during their meeting last week. That would explain Olmert's controversial statements regarding a rushed American pullout from Iraq that would "undermine stability" in the region. From Israel's point of view, there is tremendous significance to the thinning American presence in the Middle East, at a time when Iran is getting stronger and is seeking to form a regional alliance against America and its allies.
11-23-06 - Gunmen clash with Lebanese-Palestinian security forces in refugee camp, 3 wounded
11-23-06 - Louise Arbour: Israel may be more to blame than Hizbullah "I left Gaza with a sense that the right of its people to their physical integrity - their right to life - was particularly imperiled," Arbour said.
11-23-06 - France okays firing at IAF over Lebanon French soldiers in Lebanon who feel threatened by aggressive Israeli overflights are permitted to shoot at IAF fighter jets, a high-ranking French military officer told The Jerusalem Post.
11-23-06 - Thousands attend Beirut funeral
11-23-06 - Civil war In Lebanon
11-23-06 - The Next Act: Will the Republicans? Mid-Term Loss Hurt Chances of a War on Iran? ** What's happening right now and the reason some of the people talked to me about the new Israeli intelligence, is that there's a great debate inside the community about how good it is, whether it's for -- you know, there is human intelligence about a warhead being manufactured, but nobody in the CIA knows much about it, who the source is, knows ? are there drawings, any evidence, any technical evidence? Those questions aren?t being asked and answered because the White House likes it. The Israelis are supplying us with intelligence on a Middle Eastern country's alleged WMD program - again.
11-23-06 - Ex-council leader jailed for contacting Iranian agents
11-23-06 - Poll: More than half of Israelis support Syria talks More than half of Israelis would like to see Israel engage in negotiations with Syria, but are unprepared to withdraw from the Golan Heights as a price for peace
11-23-06 - What the U.S. Has Failed to Learn in Lebanon a key reason for the U.S.'s setbacks in the Middle East is it's chronic refusal to wholeheartedly address the root causes of conflict, such as the lack of a negotiated end to Israel's occupation of Arab lands, the failure to establish a Palestinian state and Western support for repressive Arab regimes.
11-23-06 - Damascus awaits a renewed political backlash Syria now expects its enemies to use the killing to blacken its image and dash its hopes of a thaw in ties with the West. This particular killing is reminiscent of the Lavon Affair. Who did it and why?
11-23-06 - Israel's Rumsfeld Takes Heat In my opinion were Israel to attack Iran, and if Iran takes revenge the world's oil market will be in a mess.
11-23-06 - War on terror is WWIII: Israeli Lt Gen The West should confront the threat through diplomatic and even military action if necessary, and Iran and Syria must be held responsible for their support of militants in Iraq, Lt Gen Yaalon said.
11-22-06 - Volunteer Drivers Needed More than 9,000 volunteers drive veterans to their VA medical center and clinic appointments as part of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Volunteer Transportation Network (VTN). Additional volunteer drivers are needed to sustain the program of providing free rides to veterans. Support the veterans of this country. While some may disagree with this war, that doesn't mean we don't care about our veterans.
11-22-06 - Iraqi death toll hits record high
11-22-06 - Top Marine: Troops under too much strain The new Marine Corps commandant said Wednesday that the longer than anticipated pace of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is putting an unacceptable strain on his troops.
11-22-06 - Cheney to meet with King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will travel to Saudi Arabia on Friday for a meeting with King Abdullah to discuss issues of "mutual interest" in the Middle East "mutual interest"=Iran
11-22-06 - Reno, Former Justice Department Officials Criticize Bush Administration Terror Laws
11-22-06 - Web site wants every name listed of those killed in Iraq
11-22-06 - Italy Replaces Intelligence Chief The government on Monday replaced the head of Italy's military intelligence agency, who was under investigation for the alleged CIA abduction of an Egyptian cleric and links to a fake dossier that purported to show Iraq tried to buy uranium ahead of the U.S.-led invasion.
11-22-06 - Iraq war was good for Israel: Olmert "I stand with the president because I know that Iraq without Saddam Hussein is so much better for the security and safety of Israel, and all of the neighbors of Israel without any significance to us," added Olmert, who was speaking in English.
11-22-06 - US to boost military help for Lebanon Cui bono ? Who benefits? ? is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror
11-22-06 - UN agency to turn down Iranian reactor request: diplomats
11-22-06 - UN agrees to probe Lebanon murder
11-22-06 - Israel eyes trade deals from China visit Beijing has also sought closer ties with Israel in recent years, particularly in trying to source military technology and hardware Yeh, OURS. And Israel has indulged them.
11-22-06 - US could bomb Iran nuclear sites in 2007: analysts Israel has also been pushing Washington to get tough on Iran.
11-22-06 - Bush pledges to stand by Lebanon US President George W Bush has pledged to support Lebanon's independence from what he called the "encroachments of Iran and Syria",
11-22-06 - Israel army trains U.N. in bomb disposal for Lebanon Isn't that nice of them? Why not refrain from dropping those cluster bombs into civilian areas in the first place? Too easy.
11-22-06 - israel opts for MAJOR war in Gaza The deeper the domestic crisis erupting in Lebanon in the wake of the assassination of Pierre Gemayel on Tuesday, Nov. 21, the less Hizballah will be free to start another war against Israel.
11-22-06 - UN approves tribunal to try Hariri murder suspects
11-22-06 - Neo-Cons or Just Plain "Cons"
11-22-06 - Oil price falls as US stocks rise
11-22-06 - Arms deals frozen because of Chavez Anti-Israel comments by Venezuelan president delay weapon deals with Israel
11-21-06 - Annan sees US 'trapped' in Iraq The US is effectively "trapped" in Iraq, with the prospect of staying in the country as problematic as pulling out, the head of the UN has said.
11-21-06 - Hersh: US Backs Kurdish Rebels in Iran He explained that Washington backed the PKK?s Iranian wing PEJAK in order to destabilize the Iranian administration.
11-21-06 - Selective Service: Ready for a draft Although Congress is unlikely to follow calls from a top Democrat to bring back the military draft, the United States does have a plan, if necessary, aimed at inducting millions of young men for service.
11-21-06 - U.S. Sets Up a Perch in Dubai to Keep an Eye on Iran
11-21-06 - War Supporters Must Face the Music by Jesse Jackson the American people have begun to understand the scope of the fiasco. They went to the polls to demand a change in course in Iraq. Bush dismissed Rumsfeld, leader of the neocons, and brought in the pros -- James Baker, Robert Gates -- from his father's administration. They, with the new Democratic leadership in the Congress, will have the impossible task of trying to extricate America, with as little damage as possible, from the mess the neocons got us into. The neocons and anyone else that contributed to one of the greatest deceptions in the history of America need to be brought to justice. We owe it to our men and their families.
11-21-06 - Military Data Reveal Tips on Antiwar Activities The head of the office that runs the military database, which is known as Talon, said Monday that material on antiwar protests should not have been collected in the first place.
11-21-06 - Elder Bush takes on son's Arab critics His son was snookered by the VP and his office-full of neocons.
11-21-06 - Lebanon mourns murdered minister BBC Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen says the assassination seems to have been designed to inflame sectarian tensions at a time when Lebanon was already going through a profound political crisis. Cui bono? - who benefits? - is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror.- Patrick J. Buchanan
11-21-06 - Oil prices rise on Opec cuts talk
11-21-06 - American foes step into the Iraq fray The US has repeatedly accused Iran and Syria of stirring up violence inside Iraq, but recently the notion of isolating them as punishment has lost favor in Washington. A growing number President Bush's advisers are urging direct dialogue with both nations. Not going to happen now, is it?
11-21-06 - Israel's Domestic Political Game Raises the Danger of a U.S.-Iran War ** One reason it won't be debated publicly because it's based on a fallacy promoted by a calculated campaign of hysteria by Israel's leadership
11-21-06 - Israel backers say no need to worry as Iraq Study Group prepares report
11-21-06 - Iraq and Syria restore relations Correspondents say Iraq hopes the move will help to stem a flow of militants across the border with Syria. What will the AIPACers do if they can't blame Syria for this? Wait a minute, wait a minute. What happened today.... in Lebanon..
11-21-06 - 'Israel should embrace, not fear, James Baker' In 1989, Baker also stunned many by telling an AIPAC conference that "now is the time to lay aside once and for all the unrealistic vision of a Greater Israel. Israeli interests in the West Bank and Gaza, security and otherwise, can be accommodated in a settlement based on [UN Security Council] Resolution 242. Forswear annexation; stop settlement activity; allow schools to reopen; reach out to the Palestinian as neighbors who deserve political rights." Demand Israel abide by international law? The horror!
11-21-06 - Support Information Clearinghouse This man has many many videos and daily updates of news of Palestine, neocons, etc.
11-21-06 - Reid "can't afford not to (support israel)"
11-21-06 - The Geriatric Squad It has occurred to me that perhaps the real goal of the invasion of Iraq has already been accomplished. That is, the real goal all along might well have been to half-destroy the country and create chaos. A country in chaos is not a strong country. It's been taken out of the play. That might explain Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's statement that the Iraq invasion has contributed greatly to Israel's security.
11-21-06 - U.S. to address cluster bombs
11-21-06 - Netanyahu and the End Times In a congressional spinoff, the FBI and Justice Department are investigating claims of collusion between AIPAC and Rep. Jane Harman of California, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. In return for lobby support for her reappointment, Harman allegedly agreed to press the government to go easy on Rosen and Weissman
11-20-06 - Iran and Syria try to upstage US in Iraq President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has invited the leaders of Iraq and Syria to a summit in Tehran this weekend to discuss ways of ending the sectarian violence in Iraq, upstaging the US and underlining the growing influence of Iran.
11-20-06 - U.S., EU oppose atomic aid for Iran at tense IAEA meet Western powers urged the U.N. nuclear agency on Monday to deny Iran's request for help with a plant that could yield plutonium for atom bombs, but Washington voiced no objection to seven other projects presented by Tehran.
11-20-06 - Iranian militia threatens Gulf if US strikes A hardline Iranian group has threatened to send suicide bombers to attack pro-American Gulf neighbours if the United States uses its military bases to strike Iran.
11-20-06 - Military Plea Bargains Raise Questions of Justice Four of the U.S. soldiers on trial for the murder of a disabled Iraqi man have reached plea bargains with military prosecutors, drastically minimizing the time they will spend in jail.
11-20-06 - Ahmadinejad is no Hitler American officials have historically discounted its bluster and paid attention to its actual conduct. And they were right to do so. Khamenei and Rafsanjani, despite their irresponsible assertions and pernicious support for a variety of terrorist organizations, have pursued a relatively pragmatic foreign policy that has sought to eschew direct confrontation with the U.S. and Israel.
11-20-06 - Report: Pentagon's 'closely guarded' review of Iraq offers three options The Post reports that the military is acting independently of any other group that may be studying the Iraq situation, such as bipartisan Iraq Study Group, led by former Secretary of State Jim Baker
11-20-06 - Syria plays Iraq card against US
11-20-06 - Iran wants 60,000, not 100,000, centrifuges: agency "We intend to install 60,000 centrifuges and, God willing, Iran will be able to provide for its needs in nuclear fuel by next year," Ahmadinejad was quoted by ISNA as saying in a corrected report.
11-20-06 - White House dismisses Hersh article ** In his interview, Hersh alluded to a spat between the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency over an alleged Israeli intelligence assessment that puts Iran close to developing a trigger for a nuclear bomb. "The CIA isn't getting a good look at the Israeli intelligence," Hersh said
Perhaps because it's BS (like the intel Israel provided us with regard to Iraq prior to our invasion thereof)?
11-20-06 - Bush: I would understand if Israel chose to attack Iran ** The United States lacks sufficient intelligence on Iran's nuclear facilities at this time, which prevents it from initiating a military strike against them, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told European politicians and diplomats with whom she has recently met. An attack on Iran by Israel would automatically involve us in it.
11-20-06 - Ahmadinejad: Israel weak, won't attack Iran The ISNA news agency reported Monday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel would not attack the Islamic Republic as ?its regime is weak and it has many problems.?
11-20-06 - Time to toughen up on Iran: Israeli FM
11-20-06 - Security Council put off decision on Hariri tribunal
11-20-06 - France, Israel talk on Lebanon flights: ambassador
11-20-06 - Israeli army disobeyed order not to use cluster bombs: TV For its part, the Internet site of the Yediot Aharonot daily said an initial probe by the army had determined that Israeli artillery used the munitions contrary to a ban by Halutz. Months later they discover this? Please. This is simply the latest in a series of Israel's attempts to correct its image in the world, nothing more. And for the record, Halutz was behind this incident. It's unlikely that he gives a rat's about using cluster bombs on Arabs.
11-20-06 - The Gewalt agenda Olmert is foiling any possible progress on this track: On his way home from Los Angeles, the prime minister "calmed" the reporters - and perhaps even himself - by saying there is no danger of U.S. President George W. Bush accepting the expected recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton panel, and attempting to move Syria out of the axis of evil and into a coalition to extricate America from Iraq. The prime minister hopes the Jewish lobby can rally a Democratic majority in the new Congress to counter any diversion from the status quo on the Palestinians. Note the source (horse's mouth).
11-20-06 - Cheney, the neocons and Israel work together again - this time, Iran **
11-20-06 - 2nd man charged in terrorism TV case A man was charged Monday with supporting terrorists by enabling customers to obtain satellite broadcasts of a Hezbollah television station, the second person accused in a case that has drawn scrutiny over how far the government can go in claiming someone is aiding terrorist groups.
11-20-06 - Stalemate over West Bank settlements We were there, a small group of witnesses, to try to make sure that the settlers did not simply attack the Arab families with their automatic weapons and truncheons, as they had done in the past..... this is not the real reason that Baker is disliked by Jews. He is also the only U.S. secretary of State since the Camp David accords in 1979 to have taken credible action against the proliferation of Jewish settlements like Havat Maon. In 1991, he and the first President Bush got the Senate to hold up a program of American loan guarantees for Israel that were earmarked to help settle Russian Jewish immigrants; he had tried, and failed, to elicit a promise from then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir not to use any of this money for expanding settlements. This is proof positive, Jews tell themselves, that he is "anti-Israel."
11-20-06 - Oil falls after Opec warns of cut
11-20-06 - IDF admits targeting civilian areas in Lebanon with cluster bombs According to the officer, in order to compensate for the rockets' lack of precision, they were told to "flood" the area with them. "We have no option of striking an isolated target, and the commanders know this very well," he said. Strange, because that's exactly what Hezbollah did with its rocket fire toward Israeli civilian population centers. One is no better than the other.
11-20-06 - Ahmadinejad dismisses Israeli threats Iran?s president shrugged off Israeli threats to attack his country?s nuclear facilities as psychological warfare.
11-20-06 - London mayor: Muslims demonized like Jews The mayor of London said Muslims are demonized like Jews were in the past.
11-20-06 - Previously unknown group warns of 'Shiite death squads' preparing to attack Sunni Muslims in Lebanon The statement's authenticy could not immediately be verified.
More collaberators with Israel, perhaps?
11-20-06 - Group alleges Israeli, Hezbollah crimes Amnesty International again criticized Israeli and Hezbollah forces' handling of the 34-day war in southern Lebanon, saying both sides committed war crimes by attacking civilians and singling out Israel for its use of cluster bombs.
11-20-06 - Sharansky exits
11-20-06 - Blair indicates policy shift in West's "war on terror" Resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict was a key first step in "untying the knot of terrorism",
11-20-06 - Ties to Israel are nothing new for Senate?s next majority leader As the newly elected majority leader in the U.S. Senate, Reid will play an instrumental role in crafting U.S. policy in the Middle East. Friends and political observers are confident his position on Israel won't change.
11-20-06 - A different course in the Mideast?
11-19-06 - Military victory in Iraq impossible: Kissinger
11-19-06 - The Next Act - Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more? ** by Seymour Hersh
11-19-06 - Alarm over China's arms pursuit - in space
11-19-06 - Bush May Limit Scope of Iran Sanctions A Security Council resolution should aim at denying technology to Iran for its nuclear industry and its enrichment programs but not crimp Iran's oil and gas production, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said.
11-19-06 - Democrats vow to stand in the way of sending more troops
11-19-06 - Congress to probe UK's claims on Iraq uranium Senator Carl Levin, a long-time critic of the handling of pre-war intelligence who will head the Senate's Armed Forces Committee, said: "I want the Niger yellowcake affair to be explored in all its inglorious aspects ? including the British role." Why not investigate Michael Ledeen's(neocon) role in it?
11-19-06 - Bomb Iran ** This individual had a similar article published on the AEI website - a notorious neocon outfit - just weeks ago. It's a curiousity why the LA Times felt the need to give his bellicose blatherings (additional) air time.
11-19-06 - Rep. Rangel will seek to reinstate draft That way, Americans will be FORCED to serve in wars in the Middle East that primarily benefit a nation other than this one.
11-19-06 - Federalist Society's Annual Lawyers Convention Featured Speaker Michael Chertoff Scroll down to the section about Israel's wall. Now isn't it a coincidence that Chertoff - whose mother was Israeli - is advocating against international law and citing the ICJ's opinion on Israel's wall as an example of why America should disregard said law. Notice his spin on the issue. And then read the actual decision here. The issue is not with the wall itself - the issue is that this wall is unlawfully built within occupied Palestinian land. Pro-Israelis seem to have an awfully hard time grasping that concept.
11-19-06 - German globe maker 'establishes' Palestine Pro-Israel advocacy groups campaign around the globe against the use of the word Palestine, since no such country exists, but it turns out that globes being sold in Israel bear the term.
Palestine was on the maps before Israel's creation. It's why the British mandate of the region was called the Palestine Mandate. So, what happened that Palestine is no more? Who/what literally 'wiped (Palestine)off the map'?
11-19-06 - Syria seeks US pullout timetable
11-19-06 - Is the Next Congress For Sale?
11-19-06 - Bolton is Israel's secret weapon, says Gillerman According to Arutz Sheva, Gillerman told the Jewish assembly the Israeli delegation to the United Nations is not five people as most believe, but six, including Bolton, who is the Israeli government's secret weapon. Bolton in no way represents the US at the UN, it is clear.
11-19-06 - From Nov 2002: After Iraq, Bush Will Attack His Real Target The real target of the coming war is Iran, which Israel views as its principal and most dangerous enemy. Iraq merely serves as a pretext to whip America into a war frenzy and to justify insertion of large numbers of U.S. troops into Mesopotamia
11-18-06 - CIA analysis finds no Iranian nuclear weapons drive: report ** A classifed draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, a top US investigative reporter has said. Seymour Hersh, writing in an article for the November 27 issue of the magazine The New Yorker released in advance, reported on whether the administration of Republican President George W. Bush was more, or less, inclined to attack Iran after Democrats won control of Congress last week.....A current senior intelligence official confirmed the existence of the CIA analysis and said the White House had been hostile to it, he wrote.
Seymour Hersh does it again! This guy is golden.
11-18-06 - Baker met Syrians to discuss Iraq cooperation: report
11-18-06 - Condi's Iraq surprise Abshire bristled a bit when asked about speculation in the press that somehow Baker had set up the group as some sort of favor to help out the president's father. "It is sometimes misunderstood that this is a group that Baker formed," he said
11-18-06 - Americans Say U.S. Should Have Stayed Out of Iraq 3+ years too late.
11-18-06 - Public to get a look at Libby documents In today? ruling, Walton ordered the CIA and Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to begin a review of classified court filings and transcripts of closed hearings related to requests by I Libby, who is seeking to introduce certain classified documents at trial. Walton said he wants the government to provide him redacted versions so that the public will have an opportunity to view them.
11-18-06 - Iran declaring 'economic warfare' Iran may have signed a virtual "death warrant" by openly declaring a governmental decision to move away from the dollar in the country's foreign-exchange transactions, says WND columnist Jerome Corsi
11-18-06 - Russia implementing arms contract with Iran - official Russia is going ahead with a contract to deliver sophisticated air defence systems to Iran, a Russian defence ministry official said, despite appeals from Washington to reconsider.
11-18-06 - Judge: Detainee can't speak to attorney A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison is not allowed to speak to a civilian attorney until an appeals court decides what rights military detainees have, a federal judge said Friday.
11-18-06 - A 'Grand Bargain' with Iran a ?grand bargain? represents the only real hope of for finding a way of curbing the sectarian violence in Iraq and avoiding a regional conflagration over the Iranian nuclear program. It has the advantage of being able to refer to an Iranian proposal to the United States in spring 2003 which laid out a very concrete framework for negotiating such a bargain.
11-18-06 - US judge refuses to derail domestic spying case
11-18-06 - Iran despises weakness by Henry Kissinger
11-18-06 - Iran presses on with plans for Arak nuclear reactor Iran has said it will only shut down its four-decade-old light-water research reactor in Tehran after a heavy-water reactor in the town of Arak is up and running, a news agency has reported.
11-18-06 - Britain denies Blair's Iraq 'disaster' comment
11-18-06 - Crisis-hit Lebanon awaits UN decision on Hariri court
11-18-06 - Russia questions Lebanon approval of Hariri court
11-18-06 - Olmert's drums of war ** The Democrat's victory in midterm elections in the United States also lessened the likelihood that Bush will bomb Iran. Israel, it seems, is facing Ahmadinejad alone.
11-18-06 - U.S. Lawyers: Libby May Have Disclosed Iraq Secrets
11-18-06 - Bolton in extraordinary outburst against United Nations Despite the resolution being significantly watered down at the behest of the United States, and being passing by 156 votes to seven, Bolton launched a blistering attack on the UN, and many of its members. John Bolton IS - Israel's man at the UN.
11-18-06 - Aides to Abbas, Olmert to meet in Washington for summit meeting: report Sama news agency quoted Palestinian officials as saying that the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has asked both Abbas and Olmert to send their aides in order to "discuss ways of removing obstacles that prevented the pair from meeting." I would like to believe that this is geniune. However, given these events toward peace also happened in the recent past and were seen as necessary to get Europe (and others) on board for the Iraq war, and given that Olmert and other Israeli officials were just here calling for someone to do something about Iran, I think that it is safe to say that the peace efforts now underway are toward the same ends: to get support for forthcoming action on Iran by the US.
11-18-06 - Chertoff says U.S. threatened by international law
11-18-06 - The Stab in the Back This war was always about enhancing Israel's strategic position, and nothing else: not oil, not democracy, not WMD. The goal was to extend Israel's sphere of influence, and that is precisely what is occurring. To the victor go the spoils, and Hersh's revelations highlight the Israelis as the real winners of this war
11-18-06 - Annan urges Syria, Iran to aid Lebanese stability
11-18-06 - Washington gets real ** A senior political advisor to the Republican Party who has criss-crossed America in his clients' Congressional election campaigns, estimated this week that the chances of an American attack have dropped to zero. This, in his opinion, is the implication of the Democrats' victory last week. The public does not want to hear about a new military adventure. Only a large terror attack in the United States, or some other shocking event that can be connected to Iran, would make it possible to enlist public opinion for new hostilities. Ambassador Ayalon disagreed with this assessment this week. He believes that Bush will stop Iran, even by force. A good assessment of the president's intentions, but not necessarily of his ability to realize them.
11-18-06 - Syria exerts backstage influence on Hamas Open to a rapprochement with the West, Damascus has been gently pushing its ally Hamas into solving differences with President Mahmoud Abbas on a new Palestinian government that have played into the hands of Israel, they said.
11-18-06 - 'Bush cronies' or Salah? Salah, of Bridgeview, was caught by Israeli authorities during a January 1993 money-running mission to the Occupied Territories. He was accused of delivering cash to high-ranking Palestinian militants, but Salah's lawyers insist the money was for the charitable arm of Hamas.
11-18-06 - Syrian president, Annan discuss Lebanon U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke with Syrian President Bashar Assad by telephone Saturday to discuss political developments in Lebanon and Iraq.
11-17-06 - Former Iran leader urges Bush on 'axis' Rafsanjani also warned the U.S. not to consider military intervention in Iran, saying Washington's "iron fist policy" has failed.
11-17-06 - Russia, U.S. disagree on Iran sanctions
11-17-06 - Iran dismisses U.N. report on uranium Iran on Wednesday dismissed a U.N. report that inspectors found new traces of enriched uranium and plutonium at a nuclear waste facility, saying it had already explained that discovery.
11-17-06 - Iran leader offers talks with Rome on Iraq, Mideast Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a letter that he is willing to consult Rome on working for peace in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
11-17-06 - Russia doesn't want Iran punished in nuclear stand-off: Lavrov Russia does not want to see the UN Security Council punish Iran over its refusal to freeze sensitive nuclear work, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
11-17-06 - Blair accepts 'disaster' in Iraq
11-17-06 - US soldier jailed for life A US military judge has sentenced a soldier to life in prison with possibility of parole for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family.
11-17-06 - Invasion of Iraq was Blair's 'big mistake', says Hodge
11-17-06 - Dutch military in Iraq abuse row
11-17-06 - Syria denies arming Somali Islamists Syria denied sending weapons to Somali Islamists in violation of the arms embargo imposed on Somalia since 1992, rejecting the conclusions of a United Nations report.
11-17-06 - Iran says had no role in 1994 bombing of Argentina Jewish group "We can prove with documents that Iran had nothing to do with the attack. I am talking concrete proof," Iranian Trade attache Moshen Baharvand said in an interview published in the daily Clarin.
11-17-06 - The New Media Offensive Against Withdrawal I'll tell you why the media is now against Iraq withrawal.
11-17-06 - Pentagon wants to build mini-city for terror trials To anybody it would beg questions: . . . 'What are we doing here? Why are we doing it this way? What is the requirement? Why is it going to cost that much?' These are routine oversight questions and we will do this,''
11-17-06 - Italy welcomes Iran's offer for dialogue on Mideast issues
11-17-06 - Road to peace in Iraq is through Jerusalem and Beirut For American neo-conservatives, the toppling of Saddam Hussein was supposed to put other adversaries like Iran and Syria on notice, spread democracy throughout the region, and ultimately lead to peace with Israel on the Jewish state's terms.
11-17-06 - U.N. calls on Israel to end operation The resolution passed Friday by a vote of 156 to 7, with six abstentions. The U.S., Israel and Australia voted against the document, while all the European Union members supported it after last-minute changes were made to soften the tone.
11-17-06 - French UN troops prepare guns against Israeli jets in Lebanon He said "UNIFIL observed and reported 14 Israeli air violations this morning, on November 17, 2006, and 11 of these violations occurred in the area of operation of the French battalion with UNIFIL." Israel will not stop violating Lebanon's airspace and menacing both the Germans and the French who are there to keep the peace. Ingrates.
11-17-06 - Pastor's trip to Syria draws criticism A trip to Syria that U.S. megachurch pastor Rick Warren says was inspired by a backyard chat with a Muslim neighbor has triggered criticism and questions that highlight the potential risks when preaching meets international politics.
11-17-06 - Carter Discusses New Book on Israel and the Middle East I?ve seen the coverage given to Israel?s activities in Europe and in Israel itself ? a highly contentious debate over (Israel). There is no such debate in the United States. There?s not any debate in the Congress. There?s not any debate in the White House, at least since George Bush Sr. and I were there, and in the news media of the United States there is very rarely any editorial comment that would criticize some of the practices of Israel which I consider to be deplorable ? and that is the persecution of the Palestinians, and the occupation and confiscation and the colonization of Palestinian land.
11-17-06 - UNIFIL protests about Israeli flights over Lebanon
11-17-06 - Israel's July attack on UN post in Lebanon 'error': leaked document An Israeli attack on a UN base in Lebanon that killed four peacekeepers in July was the result of "severe professional errors" due to poor planning, according to a leaked army document. How to get away with murder - join the IDF, blame it on 'error', 'technical problem', etc etc etc.
11-17-06 - Groups Side With Bush on Bolton Bolton is viewed as a strong supporter of Israel, and exercised the American veto last week on a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. While American support for Israel at the U.N. is unlikely to change with a new ambassador and a Democratic Congress, Bolton had cultivated especially close personal bonds over the years with all major Jewish groups
11-17-06 - UN General Assembly set to slam Israeli offensive in Gaza Strip The text expected to be overwhelmingly endorsed by the General Assembly would condemn the Israeli killing of 19 Palestinians, mainly children and women, in Beit Hanun last week, as well as Palestinian rocket firing into Israel.
11-17-06 - Israeli-Arab activist in mission to tackle Iran over Holocaust A text on the wall of his museum declares: "The Palestinians are the only people in the world who for the sake of providing shelter to the Jews have paid their homeland as a price for the sins and the deeds of the Nazis."
11-17-06 - PM uses al-Jazeera to target Mid East
11-17-06 - Mid-East peace 'crucial' - Blair
11-17-06 - Oil stabilises after 17-month low US light, sweet crude settled down 45 cents to $55.81 a barrel in New York, while Brent crude gained ground up 45 cents to $58.99.
11-17-06 - Israel's Elbit unit get $51 mln U.S. army deal
11-17-06 - Former Lebanese Army sergeant brings torture suit against 2 ex-Syrian officers
11-17-06 - Leak case judge denies motion Prosecutors asked for an exemption from having to prove that the leaking harmed U.S. interests. In denying their motion Thursday, Ellis exhibited exasperation, because his earlier decision, rejecting a defense motion to dismiss the case, had favored the prosecutors overall
11-17-06 - Al-Arian Gets 18 More Months For Contempt
11-17-06 - FBI agent, defense clash over 1993 meeting
11-17-06 - On Iran, U.S. may have to differ with Israel ** For the past six years there has not even been a sliver of light between the positions of the United States and Israel. It's safe to say that no administration has been as supportive of Israel's policies as the administration of President George W. Bush..... Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University, says it might be too late to stop Iran from developing weapons-grade nuclear fuel. But he says it could well be another decade or more before Iran would actually have a deliverable nuclear weapon; we are not in a crisis now, and we shouldn't be acting as if we were.
11-17-06 - GOP House leaders remain the same Both men have strong Jewish community ties and Blunt, who is married to a Jewish woman, has led numerous congressional delegations to Israel.
11-17-06 - Britain dragging its feet on treaty to ban cluster bombs, say activists
11-17-06 - 'Blue Dogs' endorse Harman Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is set to become speaker now that Democrats have won the House, opposes Harman, who is Jewish, partly because she's incensed that Harman solicited lobbying for the post from top Jewish donors to the Democrats. Harman has been the top-ranked Democrat on the committee for four years. Harman is under investigation by the USDOJ because she "agreed to pressure the administration to "go lighter" on two former AIPAC lobbyists facing trial on classified information charges" according to TIME.
11-17-06 - From June: Alleged AIPAC informant promoted The Bush administration promoted David Satterfield, an alleged informant for a former AIPAC lobbyist facing trial in a classified information case.
11-17-06 - Pelosi drops the ball - AIPAC takes all What a line up - AIPAC couldn't ask for anything more. It matters not if Dems or Repubs won the elections. AIPAC still wins. It always does.
11-17-06 - Political Blogging as Hate Crime
11-16-06 - Iran hints at new nuclear talks
11-16-06 - U.S. will talk to Iran, but not Syria
11-16-06 - Official says U.S. may mull pre-emptive Iran strike **
11-16-06 - Rumors of Neoconservatism's Death Exaggerated unfortunately for them, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice embracing what looks like a realpolitik-lite foreign policy on Iran and North Korea, it seems that the neocons' last bureaucratic bastion in the Bush administration is now the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, a stronghold from which neocons like David Wurmser will probably try to counter the rising power of the old realists.
11-16-06 - Neoconservatism -- RIP In 1997, many leading neocons started a pressure group called the Project for the New American Century, which called for America to overthrow Saddam Hussein. A number of PNAC members, including Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams and Richard Perle, went on to hold high positions in or to function as influential advisors to the Bush administration.
11-16-06 - Iran Hawks Reorganize Among the latest efforts is the creation earlier this month of the Iran Enterprise Institute, a privately funded nonprofit drawing not just its name but inspiration and moral support from leading figures associated with the American Enterprise Institute
11-16-06 - US warns on China sub encounter
11-16-06 - Hoyer wins leadership
U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), one of the pro-Israel community?s closest friends in the U.S. House of Representatives, was elected majority leader.
11-16-06 - International aid to Lebanon coming slower than planned: mininster
11-16-06 - Bush gives go-ahead for building 'Bush Center' in Israel United States President George Bush was informed on Tuesday of an initiative to establish a center under his name in Israel, as a sign of gratitude for his support for the country and its security. It would appear that Bush was elected to serve Israel.
11-16-06 - Who Lost Iraq? Neocons run for cover
11-16-06 - The Coming Sellout - The Democrats won't deliver on the war So many of the outright falsifications peddled by the administration in selling the American public on the war came out of the OSP, and by such a circuitous route, that a failure to probe this shadowy outfit would be a clear dereliction of duty.
11-16-06 - Libby: No White House plot, no crime in CIA leak
11-16-06 - US assails UN rights forum probe into Israeli Gaza attack
11-16-06 - The neocons' last stand The neocon logic in favour of the Iraq war was that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad: an invasion would install an Iraqi democracy that would force the Palestinians to submit to the Israelis. Now near-unanimity exists on Baker's commission to reverse that formula. The central part of a new policy must be, they believe, that the road to Baghdad leads through Jerusalem.
11-16-06 - US contradicts UN pessimism on Lebanon munitions removal his portrayal of the progress being made contrasted with a UN complaint last week that Israel's failure to provide detailed maps of where its forces dropped so-called "cluster bombs" in Lebanon had hamstrung clearance operations.
11-16-06 - Peres: Israel can't lead efforts on Iran Israel must not take the lead in international efforts to curb Iran?s nuclear program, Shimon Peres said.
11-16-06 - $120m Iran aid to Palestinians
11-16-06 - An Exodus of Hawks Follows Rumsfeld from the Pentagon
11-16-06 - Syria and UNRWA to Improve Situation of Palestinian Refugees
11-16-06 - Bin Laden not top Islamist thinker: study The Militant Ideology Atlas, compiled by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, instead showed Palestinian cleric Mohammed al-Maqdisi as the most influential living Islamist thinker.
11-16-06 - Lobbyists' hearing scheduled Three other trial launch dates ? in January, April and August of this year ? have all lapsed
11-16-06 - Pentagon hands back clearance to bomb expert ?The renewal of Dr. Baum?s security clearance is clearly consistent with our national interest, as it allows him access to classified information needed to perform duties in support of contracts with the United States,? said Susan Weinberg, the JCRC president.
11-16-06 - Emanuel to leadership In his victory statement, Emanuel recalled the arrival to the United States of his grandparents from the Russia-Romania border and of his father from Israel.
11-16-06 - Wanted: A moderate pro-Israel lobby Indeed, AIPAC sometimes tries to be more Israeli than the Israeli government, urging American Jews and their elected representatives in Washington to oppose moderate, responsible positions on Israel, while hewing to the hardest line on the Israeli and American Jewish political spectrum.
I don't understand why AIPAC officials are allowed to say such things and yet AIPAC is still not forced to register as a foreign agent.
11-16-06 - Tilt toward Ehrlich doesn't take place; in area, Jews favor Dems Some pro-Israel activists, though, are raising questions about Webb's position on the Jewish state.
Morris Amitay, the founder of the pro-Israel Washington PAC and a former American Israel Public Affairs Committee executive director, said that Webb's endorsement during the campaign of negotiations with Iran and Syria as part of a regional approach on the Iraq war could indicate support for a similar approach on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
11-16-06 - Newspapers Endorse John Bolton Now you know which rags are run by the staunchest of Israel-supporters, folks.
11-16-06 - Lebanon inflation to rise to 7 percent due to Israel war Inflation in Lebanon is forecast to rise sharply to seven percent by the end of 2006 due to Israel's devastating summer offensive, the central bank governor has said.
11-16-06 - Falling In Line On Israel The election of a Democratic majority in the House and Senate is unlikely to result in any serious challenge to the Bush administration?s support for Israeli attacks against the civilian populations of its Arab neighbors and the Israeli government?s ongoing violations of international humanitarian law.
11-15-06 - US 'broadly ready' for Iran talks President George W Bush had earlier appeared to rule out talks with Iran That's because Olmert was puppeteering him at the time.
11-15-06 - Bush Initiates Iraq Policy Review Separate From Baker Group's The initiative, begun after Bush met at the White House with his foreign policy team, parallels the effort by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to salvage U.S. policy in Iraq, develop an exit strategy and protect long-term U.S. interests in the region. The two reviews are not competitive, administration officials said, although the White House wants to complete the process before mid-December, about the time the Iraq Study Group's final report is expected. Mm k.
11-15-06 - US denies rift with Blair on Syria, Iran The White House has rushed to deny claims of a diplomatic rift with its closest European ally Britain, after Prime Minister Tony Blair mooted a "partnership" with US foes Iran and Syria.
11-15-06 - Iran says IAEA report shows nuclear programme peaceful
11-15-06 - Gates May Rein In Pentagon Activities The nomination of Robert M. Gates as secretary of defense has begun to ease concerns in the intelligence community about the rapid growth of Pentagon intelligence activities since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, said experts inside and outside the government and on Capitol Hill
11-15-06 - Baghdad: The New Saigon? By Patrick J. Buchanan
11-15-06 - Syria ruled out of Iraq solution as state department looks to Iran
11-15-06 - US marine jailed for Iraq death
11-15-06 - US soldier admits Iraq girl rape A US Army soldier has pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and helping murder her and her family.
11-15-06 - Olmert calls for 'one voice' on Iran ** In his remarks Tuesday, Olmert called Bush "a great friend ... of Israel" but said America must have the support of the international community to "defuse this mortal threat."
11-15-06 - Bush will not hesitate to use force in Iran: Israeli ambassador ** "First the president will try to exhaust the diplomatic process," he said. "I estimate that there is a 50 percent chance that the diplomatic effort will succeed. If not, he will advance another step and consider imposing isolation and a blockade on Iran, like the US imposed on Cuba in the past. "If this too does not succeed, he will not hesitate to employ force," he said. "If sanctions succeed, all the better. Otherwise, he will act by all means possible, including military action."
11-15-06 - Iran and Syria supplied Somali Islamists with arms, says UN The report also claimed that 720 Somali Islamists had fought in Lebanon alongside Hizbollah during the war with Israel. Syria is accused of sending an aircraft loaded with guns to Mogadishu, while Iran is believed to have sent three shipments of weapons between July and September. Who penned this report, John Bolton? ...
11-15-06 - Al-Jazeera English hits airwaves In the United States, the channel will be available via a broadband internet connection, but not distributed by a major cable or satellite system.
11-15-06 - Views from Iran, Syria and Iraq
11-15-06 - Israeli leader pays L.A. a visit ** Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a Los Angeles audience Tuesday night that it would be "an unbearable sin to future generations" if Iran is not stopped from developing nuclear weapons. Olmert and Netanyahu come HERE to discuss the dangers of Iran. Not Germany, not Britain, HERE. Because they want US to deal with Iran.
11-15-06 - Thank You John Bolton By: SHOSHANA BRYEN, JINSA
11-15-06 - Iran leader says Lebanon will mark US-Israel defeat Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the United States and Israel would be defeated in Lebanon, in talks with Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri, the media has reported.
11-15-06 - Rice rejects any link between Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
11-15-06 - Syria accuses U.S. and Israel of torpedoing chances for peace in the Middle East
11-15-06 - NCC delegation finds Lebanese looking for hope, action
11-15-06 - 'Sliding Doors' in Washington en route to Washington it became clear to Olmert that the bastards had changed the rules, and that the administration is looking for a way out of the Iraqi quagmire and the diplomatic paralysis in the Middle East
11-15-06 - Al Jazeera English version - website
11-15-06 - Abizaid: Israeli-Palestinian conflict poses dangers The failure to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace remains a major strategic danger to U.S. interests, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said.
11-15-06 - Not Coming Soon to a Channel Near You
11-15-06 - UJC adopts Iran resolution The resolution, passed Wednesday by the group's Board of Trustees and the Delegates Assembly at the UJC's General Assembly in Los Angeles, calls for education and media outreach to raise awareness about "the drumbeat of hostility against Israel and the Jewish people emanating from Iran" and the global threat posed by Iran's potential nuclear capability.
America beware: propaganda for war on Iran about to ramp up a notch or two.
11-15-06 - Bibi Woos Techies, Demands Bombing of Iran
11-15-06 - Aaron Klein on Gallagher, Liddy shows this morning Frankly, I think this guy pulls the majority of his 'facts' straight out of his ass. The fact that TIME, YnetNews and now Gallagher and Liddy are giving him airtime is not a really a suprise either.
11-15-06 - In Mideast, time for White House to push for new peace negotiations If one goes to the Web sites of most U.S. Jewish organizations, it's hard to find clear statements supporting the Israeli government's commitment to a two-state solution. One can find advocacy efforts against Hamas and Syria, Hezbollah and Iran, but little that reflects the Jewish majority's desire to end the Israeli-Arab conflict. This may explain why Congress and even the White House see no benefit in engaging in a concerted and unrelenting diplomatic effort to help Israel find a peaceful solution to the threats that surround it. That should now change.....The American Jewish community has well-deserved political clout. For those who remember Jewish passivity and powerlessness, there's great pride in the ability of Jewish advocacy groups to affect policy in Washington.
11-15-06 - AIPAC and NeoCon Policy
11-15-06 - Israel army to resume guerrilla training
11-15-06 - Scott Ritter: Israel's influence of US policy & the Israeli lobby He is right on the money.
11-15-06 - Movers and Shakers of U.S. Foreign Policy Having convinced America to attack and destroy Iraq, ?independent? institutions that serve Israel?s interests, are now persuading the White House to destroy Iran, with no regard for the country that has stood staunchly behind Israel ? America itself
11-14-06 - Iran expands nuclear ambitions drawing new US criticism
11-14-06 - U.N. agency: unclear if Iran's nuclear aims peaceful James Baker, a Republican and former U.S. secretary of state who is co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group, had a three-hour dinner in New York with Iran's U.N. ambassador Javad Zarif, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
11-14-06 - Fourth US serviceman pleads guilty to Iraq civilian death charges A fourth US serviceman is to plead guilty for his role in the death of an Iraqi civilian outside Baghdad earlier this year, lawyers representing the soldier said.
11-14-06 - Chinese submarine stalks US carrier: report A Chinese submarine approached a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times has reported.
11-14-06 - International Lawyers File Suit against Rumsfeld in Germany
11-14-06 - Al-Qaida plotting nuclear attack on UK, officials warn British intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is determined to attack the UK with a nuclear weapon, it emerged yesterday. The announcement, from an officially organised Foreign Office counter-terrorism briefing for the media, was the latest in a series of bleak assessments by senior officials and ministers about the terrorist threat facing Britain.
11-14-06 - Rumsfeld faces German legal test
11-14-06 - IAEA asks Tehran to explain traces found at nuke plant International Atomic Energy Agency experts have found unexplained plutonium and highly enriched uranium traces in a nuclear waste facility in Iran and have asked Tehran for details, a report from the U.N. watchdog said Tuesday.
11-14-06 - Iran will talk to 'corrected' US
11-14-06 - Don't Look for Much From the "Bipartisan" Iraq Study Group if past is precedent, Bush is likely to be give as much weight to Olmert?s views as to those of the Iraq Study Group
11-14-06 - Abramoff Is to Begin Sentence Today Jack Abramoff, the former lobbyist blamed for a corruption scandal that contributed to the Republican loss of Congress last week, is scheduled to report to federal prison today.
11-14-06 - Cheney, Libby ask dismissal of civil complaint Vice President Cheney's attorneys argue that the suit should be dismissed on various grounds including that, "the Vice President is entitled to qualified immunity," and that Cheney is "absolutely immune from suits for civil damages."
11-14-06 - Lebanese leader rejects UN court Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud says he opposes his government's approval of UN plans to try suspects in the killing of former PM Rafik Hariri.
11-14-06 - Blair under new pressure to announce war inquiry
11-14-06 - Americans Disagree with Congress on Interrogation
11-14-06 - Neo-Conservatives: New Bush Advisers Will Raise White Flag in Middle East However, Ullman, who coined the phrase "shock and awe," the term co-opted by the Pentagon to describe the bombing campaign of Iraq in March 2003, said it's time for the neo-cons to go off somewhere and "commit political suicide. "These people jeopardized American security," he said. "My advice for Bush is to stay as far away from the neo-cons as possible."
Couldn't agree more.
11-14-06 - US authorizes return of all embassy staff, dependents, to Damascus The United States said that embassy staff and dependents who left Damascus following an attack on the mission in September have been authorized to return to the Syrian capital.
11-14-06 - Germany urged to prosecute Rumsfeld for war crimes
11-14-06 - Blair presses case for solution in Palestine Tony Blair used a one-hour video testimony to the Iraq Study Group in Washington yesterday to repeatedly press his case that a settlement of the Palestinian-Israel dispute would be the single best way of calming the chaos in Iraq.
11-14-06 - 'We must reject hatred of U.S.' Mr Howard, in his address, said creation of a secure Palestinian state would do more to counter fundamentalist terrorism in the Middle East than co-opting Syria and Iran to assist in Iraq.
11-14-06 - Lebanon: Palestinians doubtful of camp improvement initiatives ?None of this will happen. No one here helps the Palestinians,? said Ahmed Hassan, an unemployed Palestinian refugee who lives in Chatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut.
11-14-06 - Olmert: World has reached the pivotal moment of truth on Iran "America's leadership in preventing Iran's nuclearization is indisputable and unequaled," said Olmert in his speech. "But America must have the support of the international community if we are to successfully defuse this mortal threat."
All of this bluster on Iran by Israel and its officials in the US are for one reason alone: preparing America for a war on Iran. Will Americans fall for it (again)? History is now repeating itself.
11-14-06 - Bush assures Israel Iran seen as threat Olmert, who also met with Vice President Dick Cheney and members of Congress, was heading to Los Angeles on Tuesday to speak to Jewish groups.
11-14-06 - Profile: The Iraq Study Group The Iraq Study Group is charged with correcting the US course in Iraq in a manner that will be broadly acceptable to the ruling Republicans and the opposition Democrats.
11-14-06 - Argentine Report Casts Doubt on Iran Role in '94 Bomb
11-14-06 - Germany tries Holocaust denier Where is the outcry for freedom of speech now (recall the Mohammed cartoons affair)?
11-14-06 - Worried about Gates' views on Iran, Israel backers hope he toes Bush line Neumann of JINSA said that however Gates turned out, Rumsfeld - known for his closeness to Israel - would be missed. He cited a recent revelation by Colin Powell that some State Department staff referred to Rumsfeld and his staff as the "JINSA crowd." "The administration today was stronger on Israel than any administration in my life," Neumann said.
11-14-06 - Netanyahu: Iran Preparing Another Holocaust The boy that cried wolf and Chicken Little have just morphed into one.
11-14-06 - For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is 'God?s Foreign Policy'
11-14-06 - Scott Ritter on 'My Good Friend,' Israel He said that Israel is our close ally; and if Iran actually intends to develop nuclear weapons, not nuclear power (as the Iranian Ambassador had said, in the speech preceding Ritter's), and if Iran fails to repudiate Ahmedinejad's hateful rhetoric about Israel, well then, Israel's "legitimate national security concerns" are ours, and could even bring war.
11-14-06 - Report: Israel chose cheap bombs Israel reportedly decided against using a local, safe variety of cluster-bombs during its war against Hezbollah for cost reasons.
11-14-06 - Dershowitz criticizes Israeli bombing Alan Dershowitz criticized Israel's use of cluster bombs during the war with Lebanon.
Aww gee, wasn't that noble of him?
11-14-06 - Blair calls for new focus on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
11-14-06 - Poll: Lebanese opinion of U.S. worse A Gallup World Poll conducted Sept. 18 to Oct. 12 found that 64 percent of Lebanese surveyed said their opinion of the United States was worse following the summer war, during which the Israeli army damaged Lebanese infrastructure while retaliating, with U.S. backing, for Hezbollah attacks launched from Lebanon. Winning the battle for hearts and minds, one Arab country at a time we are.
11-14-06 - Israel's Supreme Court rejects jailed U.S. spy's former Mossad handler from Cabinet post Israel's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by jailed Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard to boot his former Mossad handler from his Cabinet post.
11-14-06 - Jewish leaders ask Chirac to use influence Jewish officials asked France?s president to put pressure on the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority and Hezbollah to stop endangering Israeli civilians.
11-14-06 - Robert Fisk: Conflict in the Middle East is Mission Implausible the Hizbollah - here is a fact which will not sit happily with the John Boltons of this world at the UN - are watching every car that drives south of the Litani river. For they know that if a suicide bomber attacks the French, they - the Hizbollah - will be blamed. They will not be to blame. It will be the Sunni Muslim al-Qa'idists to the north who wish to attack Nato. So Hizbollah will be the most powerful defenders of the European armies in southern Lebanon. Now there's something to think about.
11-14-06 - E.U. commissioner slams Iran Benita Ferrero-Waldner made the remarks Sunday in Paris to the governing board of the World Jewish Congress.
11-14-06 - FBI: Pollard passed info to Pakistan and Australia In a presentation given by FBI agent Ronald Olive, which was broadcast on Channel 10, it was revealed that Pollard was also involved illegally in arms sales to Taiwan, France, Kenya, Afghanistan, and Argentina.
11-14-06 - Video: Pollard steals secret documents Ron Olive, the FBI agent who apprehended Jonathan Pollard has released footage taken from a surveillance camera showing the convicted spy taking suitcases full of top secret documents to his Israeli operatives.
11-14-06 - Budget-saving, American-made cluster bombs left vicious legacy in Lebanon This would appear to be another 'Blame America' article.
11-14-06 - Hizbullah leader sees collapse of government A poll published last week by the Beirut Centre for Research and Information suggests nearly 60% of Lebanese support the opposition, with 70% seeking the formation of a new national government.
11-13-06 - Iran asks nuclear watchdog for reactor help Iran has asked the International Atomic Energy Agency for technical aid in constructing a nuclear research reactor despite world calls to freeze its nuclear programme.
11-13-06 - Bush meets with Iraq Study Group
11-13-06 - Russia, U.S. spar over Iran's nuclear, missile trade
11-13-06 - BAKER ON CLEANUP CREW AFTER 'SONNY'S' BIG ADVENTURE Baker is unquestionably the only American statesman of the last five administrations who combines brilliant cunning, supreme common sense and uncommon personal decency.
11-13-06 - Libby can use some secret documents Judge Reggie Walton - in an opinion Monday - writes that substitutions and summaries which Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has offered the Libby defense team instead of their using actual classified documents at trial are inadequate for them to put on a proper defense. Judge Walton ordered Fitzgerald to "go back to the drawing board and come forth with a more balanced proposal."
11-13-06 - Cheney?s Revenge ** So, how far will Cheney go to remove the obstacles for realizing his dark vision? Would he be willing to incite a war with Iran to restore himself to power?
11-13-06 - Baker's panel has 'no magic bullet' to end the agony
11-13-06 - Syria: An urgent appeal for Palestinians feeing Iraq Iraqi Palestinians are recipients of a collective "fatwa" (or death sentence) issued by several militia or sectarian groups, and their ethnicity - displayed on all their identification papers - is tantamount to committing a capital crime. Many have been kidnapped, tortured and killed.
11-13-06 - Iraq disaster warning ** Sources indicate increasing indications of "something big" happening between the Nov. 7 congressional election and Christmas. That could be the long-planned attack on Iran.
11-13-06 - No cakewalk in the park? ** The neo-conservatives (neocons) who gave us the "cakewalk" prediction for Iraq before the war are now plugging "a walk in the park" in Iran -- i.e., a U.S. bombing campaign to consign the mullahs' nuclear ambitions to oblivion, or at least to retard the advent of an Iranian bomb for a few years, hoping that in the interim good democrats would rise up and send the clerics and their Revolutionary Guards packing
11-13-06 - Democratic Lawmakers Will Seek a Phased Withdrawal from Iraq White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten indicated that the president would block legislation calling for a scheduled withdrawal.
11-13-06 - Blair urges White House to shift focus to Israel-Palestine conflict
11-13-06 - Bush, Olmert warn of threat in Iran Bush saw Olmert on the same day he was interviewed by an independent panel studying U.S. options in the Iraq war. It matters not if the Dems are in power or if the chicanery behind the Iraq debacle has been brought to light - the same lobby is still calling the shots as it was before. And until that changes, America remains a puppet of Israel and is thus in grave physical danger.
11-13-06 - Lebanon approves Hariri court draft despite cabinet walk-outs Hezbollah objected "at the way" the ruling majority had approved the UN document.
11-13-06 - Weakened Bush firm on Iran, Syria, Iraq US President George W. Bush, sticking to his guns despite a stinging election defeat, rejected calls for new overtures to Iran and Syria and opposed a fixed timetable for a US withdrawal from Iraq. And coincidentally, Bush met with Olmert today who does not want to see America pull out of Iraq. See yesterday's news batch.
11-13-06 - Annan: Politics cause Muslim-West divide Political tensions, rather than religious differences, are the source of the rift between the West and the Muslim world, and any resolution must include an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday.
11-13-06 - No clash of civilizations, says UN report A UN-sponsored group says the Israel-Palestinian conflict is the main cause of global tensions.
11-13-06 - Annan links Arab-Israel to broad conflict U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday that any effort to stop growing violence between Islamic and Western societies must include an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict
11-13-06 - Israeli PM Brings Iran Agenda to U.S. ** The fear is that with American public opinion turning against the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Bush would be less likely to take decisive military or diplomatic action against Iran. Whose war is it?
11-13-06 - Lebanon war's deadly legacy continues to kill On Friday, farmer Mohammed Rizk became the latest victim of the summer war. Police said he was killed and a companion was wounded as they gathered olives in the village of Kfar Roumman, near Nabatiya.
11-13-06 - Israel, US have 'complete understanding' on Iran: Olmert Olmert said that he had had a "deep conversation" with Bush and that the two leaders had "complete understanding over their objectives" regarding Iran. Bush has been given his orders. And now, like before with Iraq, Israel's minions in the US will go to work on our government to achieve Israel's wishes.
11-13-06 - Danes on trial over Iraq secrets In articles published in 2004 they quoted from analysis by a Danish intelligence agent, Frank Grevil. His report, written before the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, concluded that there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq.
11-13-06 - Lebanon's Hariri probe at heart of Hezbollah walkout A UN probe into the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri lies at the heart of the resignations of five Shiite ministers from the Lebanese government.
11-13-06 - Will the US be competitive in 10 years? The economic factor is related: America's is importing a lot more than it exports. And when other nations sell goods to the US, they often plow the resulting dollars back into the US as loans or investments. It's a good deal for now, but it effectively makes US dependent on foreign lending. Not neocon-related, but important all the same.
11-13-06 - To Israel with love Why is America so much more pro-Israeli than Europe? The most obvious answer lies in the power of two very visible political forces: the Israeli lobby (AIPAC) and the religious right.
11-13-06 - Olmert draws fire in U.S. over praise of Iraq war Politicians from the Democratic Party said they wanted to speak to Olmert about his comments on the Iraq war before responding publicly, but said they were uncomfortable with the comments. If Olmert planned his remarks and intended them to come out as they did, a Democratic official said, then they are not acceptable and can be seen as an attempt to influence the American political dispute.....Bush expressed pride in the American veto at the UN Security Council regarding a condemnation of the Israeli shelling of the Gaza town of Beit Hanun
11-13-06 - Iran calls for Argentine arrests Iran's attorney general called for the arrest of Argentinian officials in response to arrest warrants issued in the AMIA bombing case.
11-13-06 - Olmert talks of Military Action against Iran **
11-13-06 - Bush to Olmert: No international peace convention "I said I am in favor of a compromise, if this compromise prevents them from reaching this threshold. I have no special desire to be dragged into a confrontation with the Iranians," the prime minister said, refusing to refer to a possibility of an american military operation in Iran.
11-13-06 - More charges against B2 bomber designer accused of spying Ashton Gowadia described his father as a hero who has risked his life for 40 years doing work behind the scenes for the United States, had to travel with armed guards and had to carry suicide pills to swallow if he were ever captured. "To go out doing something stupid for $100,000 is ridiculous," he said.
11-13-06 - Hostility to Zionism Seen as 'Major Threat' in the fevered minds of JINSA and hard-line Zionist elements, the real concern is that there are growing numbers of people high up in the FBI and the CIA and in the military who are getting "fed up" with Zionist power in America You are required to pledge allegiance to a foreign nation, or be branded a traitor. An Orwellian phenomenon that I have personally experienced. To the true patriots in my country and govt: God bless ya and fight the good fight.
11-13-06 - The root of terror is clear Only a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict will stop al-Qaida recruitment
11-13-06 - Pelosi backs challenge to Hoyer Hoyer is considered one of Israel?s best friends in Congress, isolating Democrats within his party who have been critical of the Jewish state and leading numerous congressional missions to the region.
11-13-06 - Miller testifies in 'torture' case Salah's defense raised allegations that Miller left the New York Times because she was found to have perpetuated faulty evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but the judge in the case upheld a prosecution objection against such characterizations Miller the neoconette.
11-13-06 - U.N. negotiations continue, but can they stop Iran?s nuclear push? Many worry that Israel could act alone if it thinks the United States is progressing too slowly to contain Tehran. His menu of policy recommendations to the United States notwithstanding, Berman said he believes Israel will feel forced to strike within the year. "I think we're quite clearly entering a season of hard choices on the part of the Israelis," he said.
11-13-06 - Facing challenges, Olmert and Bush seek to avoid regional deterioration "We in the Middle East have followed the American policy in Iraq for a long time, and we are very much impressed and encouraged by the stability which the great operation of America in Iraq brought to the Middle East," Olmert said after the meeting "We pray and hope that this policy will be fully successful so that this stability which was created for all the moderate countries in the Middle East will continue."
11-12-06 - US considers Iran, Syria contacts for Iraq What the? Just yesterday they were blasting them. Make up your mind.
11-12-06 - Bush considers dialogue with Iran among 'fresh options' for conflict
11-12-06 - Rice: Syria is a 'dangerous state behaving in a dangerous manner'
11-12-06 - Israeli unease grows over fraying U.S. ties ** As the Lebanon war demonstrated, Bush has been reluctant to impose the kinds of restraints on Israel that his father employed, to press negotiations with the Palestinians in the style of Bill Clinton or even to push Israel to ease up on Palestinian travel. That has pleased Israel's supporters in the Jewish community and among an increasingly vocal, fiercely pro-Israel community of evangelicals, who visited the White House at least once during the Lebanon war to voice support for allowing the air attacks on Hezbollah to continue unabated......"Can we rely on the United States alone and say we abdicate our responsibility for dealing with the matter, and let the United States do what it wants? No, by no means.".....The message seemed to Israelis perfectly clear: The Bush administration would demand Israeli concessions on the Palestinian issue to hold together an American-led coalition on Iran. .....No Israeli knows if the next American president will be as tough on Iran or as loyal to Israel as Bush. If Bush does not act, Israelis say, by the time the next president takes office in January 2009, Iran will be well on its way to a bomb, and Washington may not back Israeli responses....."We would like to be liked by everyone, of course," he said, "but it's the relationship with the United States that really matters."
11-12-06 - After GOP's midterm drubbing, Olmert will tread delicately in D.C. "It's the right time to exchange views with the president on what is expected in the coming two years," Olmert told reporters Expected of whom? ...
11-12-06 - Olmert warns US against 'premature pullout' from Iraq US GIs serve as human shields for Israel.
11-12-06 - Israel warned off nuclear 'folly' Iran's foreign ministry spokesman has warned Tehran will not hesitate to retaliate with a crushing blow if Israel attacks its nuclear sites.
11-12-06 - Iran key as Israeli PM meets Bush **
11-12-06 - Olmert hardens stance on Iran
11-12-06 - 'Gates will uphold solid US-Israel ties' At any rate, some in the American Jewish community have suggested that Gates was more positively disposed toward Israel than Baker and Scowcroft.
11-12-06 - Bush calls for help in Argentine warrants President Bush called on the international community to assist Argentina in arresting a former Iranian president wanted in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center. Why is this a matter for the US president?
11-12-06 - UJC General Assembly in L.A. This year's meeting of the North American federation system, which will run Sunday through Wednesday, is focused on Israel under the theme "Together on the Frontline, One People, One Destiny."
11-12-06 - Israel general quits over Lebanon
11-11-06 - What Is the Iraq War Really Like? The Veterans Tell Their Stories
11-11-06 - Remembrance Sunday Special: Remember the war of words
11-11-06 - W.House brands Iran, Hezbollah as terror "nexus" The White House branded Iran and Hezbollah on Saturday as a "global nexus of terrorism" and applauded an Argentine court for seeking the arrest of former Iranian officials in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center.
11-11-06 - US soldiers become citizens in Veteran's Day ceremony in Iraq
11-11-06 - Iran TV broadcasts 'US ship spy plane footage' Iran's Arabic language television station broadcast footage it claimed showed a US aircraft carrier cruising in Gulf waters it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian drone.
11-11-06 - Russia, Iran to work on resumption of six-party talks
11-11-06 - Iraqi official: War dead 100,000 Iraq's health minister says between 100,000 and 150,000 civilians have been killed in the war, far more than other previously accepted figures.
11-11-06 - Analysis / A meeting in handcuffs for Ehud Olmert, George Bush ** In an ideal world, Ehud Olmert and George W. Bush would finish the weighty part of their meeting in five minutes and move on to talking about their families, their children and sports. Bush would promise to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities and thus remove the existential threat hanging over Israel.....That will be Olmert's primary message to Bush. Will a veiled threat be sufficient to rouse the U.S. into saving Israel and attacking Iran? Will Olmert's promises to withdraw from the territories in exchange persuade the administration? "Will a veiled threat be sufficient to rouse the U.S. into saving Israel and attacking Iran? " And what veiled threat would that be? Israeli blackmail (refer back to my comments in a previous post this week).
11-11-06 - Warrantless wiretaps unlikely to be OK'd
11-11-06 - U.S. engineer indicted for passing secrets to Israel Gowadia is charged with passing information for an unspecified period to business sources in Israel, although he in no instance received payment for his services Received no payment? Then why did he do it?
11-11-06 - Threat to Blair as Democrats pledge inquiry on Iraq "We have found that there is substantial evidence the President, the Vice-President and other high-ranking members of the Bush administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to go to war in Iraq, misstated and manipulated intelligence information regarding the justification for such war, countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in Iraq, and permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of their administration."
This really has been a long time coming. They should've listened to us 'conspiracy theorists' a lot sooner, eh?
11-11-06 - A Staggering New Bill For Iraq? The U.S. armed services have requested a $160 billion supplemental appropriation to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the remainder of fiscal year 2007
11-11-06 - Argentina order for Rafsanjani arrest 'baseless:' Iran
11-11-06 - Al-Qaeda in Iraq threatens to blow up the White House The authenticity of the message could not be independently confirmed.
11-11-06 - Eagleburger to join U.S. Iraq study group Eagleburger, a retired foreign service officer, served Baker as deputy secretary of state and became secretary of state in August 1992 when Baker became White House chief of staff.
11-11-06 - Cluster bomb kills Hezbollah guerrilla in Lebanon
11-11-06 - Outrage at London sting by US spies It is not known whether the sting operation is connected to a British investigation launched in August after Israel accused Britain of indirectly supplying Hezbollah terrorists with military night-vision equipment that helped them target Israeli soldiers in Lebanon.
11-11-06 - 'Israel Has Many Options' Wouldn?t it be worth trying to separate Syria and Iran?
I don?t believe Assad wants to be separated from Iran. What he wants is to recover the Golan Heights, and I don?t see any signs that he understands that he needs to pay for it. ???
11-11-06 - Hezbollah ministers quit cabinet
11-11-06 - Iran in UN protest over Israel 'military threats' "Unfortunately the Security Council's inaction over the Israeli regime's terrorist acts have emboldened this regime to continue its crimes and not heed the most obvious international principles and the UN convention,"
11-11-06 - War of Aggression Thwarted?
11-11-06 - Iran state media plays down Argentina
11-11-06 - Indonesians join UN peacekeepers in Lebanon amid tensions A first batch of Indonesian troops have flown in to Beirut to join a UN peacekeeping force, whose commander warned of growing tensions in south Lebanon.
11-11-06 - AIPAC Eats New Congress Critters for Lunch
11-11-06 - Waging war won't eliminate terrorism, says Jesuit magazine
11-11-06 - Analysis: Full plate for Bush, Olmert More whining that America isn't doing enough with regard to Iran. We're real sorry, but we're in this clusterf#ck that is Iraq at the moment.
11-10-06 - Military service linked to Lou Gehrig's disease Major U.S. report suggests Gulf War vets face double the risk
11-10-06 - New Senate, New Probe Into Pre-War Intel Levin and Reed said they want to find out how the intelligence - much of it reportedly cooked up by Iraqi exiles in a top secret Pentagon shop called the Office of Special Plans - made its way to the White House when numerous CIA analysts said privately that it was highly unreliable....Rice, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and other top Bush administration officials lobbied for a pre-emptive strike against Iraq based entirely on the bogus intelligence that claimed Iraq was a threat to the United States and its neighbors in the Middle East. Do we dare hope?
11-10-06 - Iranian nuclear negotiator warns against UN sanctions Top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani has warned that Tehran would reconsider its cooperation with UN nuclear monitors if the UN Security Council imposes tough sanctions currently under consideration.
11-10-06 - City Will Stop Deducting From Reservists? Pay at least one other problem still needed to be resolved. The city is still demanding that veterans repay their gross salaries rather than the smaller amount they take home after taxes.
11-10-06 - Iran warning over UN resolution Iran's top nuclear negotiator has said Tehran will review its ties with the IAEA unless Russian changes to a UN draft resolution on Iran are accepted.
11-10-06 - Bush's 'neocons' in crisis after midterm election rout
11-10-06 - Key Republican joins Dems opposing Bolton nomination
11-10-06 - Bush to meet with Iraq Study Group
11-10-06 - Sen. Reid Backs Lieberman for Homeland Security Chairmanship In a private phone call on Wednesday, Nevada?s Reid told Lieberman that he would recognize Lieberman as the senior Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which would facilitate Lieberman?s move into the post.
11-10-06 - NeoCon Continuity at the Pentagon: Robert Gates Involved in Iran-Contra Scandal Washington's appointee to replace Rumsfeld at the helm of the DoD is part of the same stable of Iran-Contra officials.
11-10-06 - The Cheney-Gates Cabal In 1991, when President George H. W. Bush nominated Robert Gates for the post of director of Central Intelligence, there was a virtual insurrection among CIA analysts who had suffered under his penchant for cooking intelligence Ruh roh.
11-10-06 - MI5 chief says Iraq war is driving British Muslims into terrorism
11-10-06 - 'UK must share Iraq blame' Kenneth Adelman, the former US assistant defence secretary and United Nations ambassador, criticised Britain for not raising the alarm when problems emerged after Saddam Hussein was ousted. Neocons blame everyone but themselves for the Iraq debacle.
11-10-06 - Exclusive: Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse
11-10-06 - Russia Makes Deal on Entry Into Trade Group
11-10-06 - Saudi and Iranian oil output falls The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the cartel that controls 40 per cent of the world?s oil supply, last month announced it would reduce its production to 26.3m barrels-a-day, cutting more than 4 per cent of its output in an attempt to stop the recent 25 per cent slide in international oil prices.
11-10-06 - Khamenei calls Bush defeat a victory for Iran
11-10-06 - Olmert to focus on Iran in visit to U.S. **
11-10-06 - Iran State Media Plays Down Argentina "Iran's Foreign Ministry dismissed the arrest warrants as a decision influenced by Zionists," the newscaster said, referring to Israel.
11-10-06 - Olmert warns against hasty U.S. withdrawal from Iraq
11-10-06 - 12 Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace as Paris seethes over mock attacks
11-10-06 - Italy calls on the U.S. to press Israel on Palestinian conflict he called on Bush to press Israel, where he said the military was lashing out in Gaza to prove its might after failing to defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon.
11-10-06 - Olmert to focus on Iran in Washington, hoping for steady course ** "Without the political support at home and in his party and among the American public, a decisive military or diplomatic move (by Bush) against Iran seems less and less likely."
11-10-06 - Does Father Know Best? It was the Lobby that, in large part, lured us into the Iraqi quagmire, and this same concatenation of forces stands in the way of an orderly withdrawal of U.S. forces.
11-10-06 - R.I. senator may leave Republican Party
11-10-06 - UN bemoans slow Lebanon cluster bomb clearance "If the Israelis give us the exact locations of the targeted sites, it will accelerate our work," Dalya Farran, the spokeswoman of the United Nations' Mine Action Coordination Center (MACC), told AFP.
11-10-06 - Former aerospace engineer pleads not guilty to selling U.S. military secrets to China
11-10-06 - UN hands Lebanon draft on Hariri murder tribunal One official source said the tribunal, to be made up of Lebanese and foreign judges, would have no power to try or question heads of states as the killing would not be defined as a "crime against humanity" or a "terrorist attack."
11-10-06 - Analysis: Bush, Olmert, Iran and Palestine ** Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will probe the likelihood of the United States providing a nuclear umbrella against Iranian nuclear threats when he meets President Bush in Washington next Monday. Yediot Aharonot Friday quoted sources close to Olmert as saying he "expects to hear" such a promise from Bush.
11-10-06 - Lieberman's Opposition in 2000 and 2006 Received the EXACT Amount of Votes
11-10-06 - UN urges Israel to cease flights over Lebanon The UN says the flights, conducted regularly by Israeli warplanes, are a clear violation of the Security Council resolution adopted in August to end the war between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah.
11-10-06 - Iran slams Western 'silence' at Israeli killings "The West's silence towards this huge atrocity shows that Palestinian children, men and women's lives are worthless for these self-professed human rights backers,"
11-10-06 - Israel official: Strike on Iran possible ** Such a move would implicitly involve the US in the fight, thereby endangering our guys in Iraq, and threatening the world economy via its oil supply. This is nothing short of blackmail on the part of Israel to get us to do the job for them.
11-10-06 - Blair will urge US to talk to Syria and Iran Mr Blair faces an uphill battle to persuade Mr Bush to include a big initiative on Palestine in any revised Iraq strategy
11-10-06 - Israel, U.S. ponder new ways to collect intelligence in Lebanon Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will discuss the issue of the overflights during his visit to Washington on Monday. Olmert will inform President George W. Bush of the continued supply of arms to Hezbollah and the fact that the international embargo is only being implemented partially.
11-10-06 - Syria attacks UN report of arms traffic to Lebanon Roed-Larsen's allegations had also been denied by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh and Defense Minister Elias al-Murr, Jaafari said.
11-10-06 - Journalists' Coverage of Middle East Shallow and Distorted
11-10-06 - IAF negotiates purchase of 100 F-35 fighter jets in $5 billion deal The F-35 project, funded jointly by the U.S., Canada and the U.K., is still in the developmental stage and is scheduled to fly for the first time in late 2006
11-10-06 - From 2005: Nancy Pelosi Gives A Pep Talk To AIPAC
Nancy Pelosi Speech to American Israel Public Affairs Committee
11-10-06 - Israel Is In Crisis. What Part Will American Jews Play?
11-10-06 - In parting interview, ambassador says Israel must build more bridges Ayalon described a determination in the Bush administration to confront Iran over its nuclear program, which international inspectors believe is a precursor to the manufacture of weapons. He predicted U.N. sanctions in place by December unless Iran relents. Making sure that America remains under the influence.
11-10-06 - Protesters rally in Mideast capitals against Israel, US I bet they hate 'our freedom'.
11-10-06 - Back to Palestine - Only America can move matters forward in the Middle East The second fact is the liberation that a final stint in office brings. George W. Bush has no need now to fear the electoral consequences of defying powerful lobbies in America: like Bill Clinton, he can afford to pursue a Middle East settlement
11-10-06 - Dems pledge to sever ties to lobbyists Ethics watchdog groups are hopeful as incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., readies the Democrats' "Honest Leadership and Open Government" initiative for opening day in January You're kidding me right? Our legislators will never sever ties to one of the most powerful lobbies in America - AIPAC. Not going to happen.
11-09-06 - Bolton unlikely to win Senate approval Democrats indicated that even should the Senate try debating Bolton's nomination when lawmakers reconvene next week - still under Republican control - they would stretch out debate on Bolton with the aim of killing it. Republicans lack the 60 votes needed to force a vote on the nomination.
11-09-06 - Biden says U.N. envoy Bolton "going nowhere" "I never saw a real enthusiasm (for Bolton's nomination) on the Republican side to begin with. There's none on our side. And I think John Bolton's going nowhere."
11-09-06 - Iran said seeking help with nuclear reactor Robert Einhorn, a former top U.S. nonproliferation official now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Daryl Kimball, head of the Arms Control Association, both based in Washington, said the request should be rejected because it would advance Tehran's nuclear weapons capability.
11-09-06 - Top Iranian nuclear negotiator expected in Moscow Top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani is expected in Moscow on Friday for talks aimed at unblocking an international standoff over Iran's nuclear programme, officials said.
11-09-06 - A Come-to-Daddy Moment
11-09-06 - AP: Startling findings in Tillman probe
11-09-06 - Mubarak warns on Saddam execution Mr Mubarak said hanging the former president would only enhance sectarian and ethnic divisions between Iraqis. It would make a martyr out of him.
11-09-06 - Chris Hedges: Bush and Israel, Midwives to Radical Islam
11-09-06 - Sen. Reid Backs Lieberman for Homeland Security Chairmanship Newly re-elected Sen. Joe Lieberman has been promised by Sen. Harry Reid ? who is in line to become the next Senate Majority Leader ? that he will support Lieberman?s efforts to become chairman of the powerful Homeland Security Committee God help us. A neocon in charge of anything related to Homeland Security is very dangerous for America. These nitwits never learn. And America will soon find out that no matter which party 'controls Capitol Hill', AIPAC and its neocon minions still reign supreme. War on Iran will soon follow.
11-09-06 - Saddam verdict timing 'suspect'
11-09-06 - Iraq corruption 'costs billions'
11-09-06 - Enter Bush the elder's statesman, to relief all round The icing on the cake would be the resignation of Dick Cheney, and the removal of the neocons in the Pentagon and elsewhere. For, they are the REAL problem in this Bush administration.
11-09-06 - Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace as France protests Israeli jets violated Lebanese airspace on Thursday, hours after France summoned Israel's ambassador to protest about Israeli warplanes diving on French UN peacekeepers in the south, police said.
11-09-06 - A profound pessimism has taken hold of Israel Palestinians are being made to pay for Israel's failure in Lebanon. It seems to give the Israelis a warm fuzzy feeling to know that they can revert back to shooting fish in a barrel.
11-09-06 - Bush awards humanities medal President Bush awarded a National Humanities Medal to Bernard Lewis, the Jewish Arabist whose tough critiques of Islamism and autocracy in the Middle East have guided administration policy.
11-09-06 - France summons Israeli ambassador over Lebanon incident The French government has summoned Israel's ambassador to Paris to complain about an incident in Lebanon in which Israeli warplanes dived menacingly on French UN peacekeepers, officials said.
11-09-06 - Whither the architects of war?
11-09-06 - Bush resubmits Bolton A number of Jewish Democrats in the Senate have since considered dropping their opposition because of Bolton?s outspoken defense of Israel and his tough stance on Iran.
11-09-06 - Referendum against Iraq war gaining ground With 52 percent of the votes counted in the 36 House districts where an anti war question appeared, voters instructed their state representatives, 147,202 to 99,140, to approve a resolution calling on President Bush and Congress to end the war immediately and bring the troops home.
11-09-06 - Mehlman to step down? Ken Mehlman, the Jewish chairman of the Republican Party, reportedly is stepping down.
11-09-06 - The Boys Are Back in Town Time to finish the job and neutralize Cheney and his covey of neocon cohorts.
11-09-06 - Can Jim Baker Save the American Establishment? Is Bush ready to be saved by Baker? Inquiring minds in the American establishment want to know.
11-09-06 - US gives Lebanon army 10.5 million dollars of equipment
11-09-06 - Russia, Bahrain urge renewed efforts to find Mideast peace Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Bahraini counterpart, Khaled ben Ahmed al-Khalifa, called for renewed diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in the Palestinian territories.
11-09-06 - Lebanon's Hezbollah slams Israeli attack on Gaza "The savage massacre committed by the Zionists in Beit Hanoun today is new proof of the racism and wantonness of this enemy and the nature of its aggression and criminality, coming on top of a moving series of massacres especially in Palestine and Lebanon."
11-09-06 - After the elections in America Political struggles between the administration and Congress should not be allowed to impede the handling of the existential threat to Israel, and the danger that the entire region will come under the influence of the radical Islamic regime in Tehran.
Israel afraid US won't deal with Iran (in the way that they want us to).
11-09-06 - Opponents of Pro-Israel Lobby Releasing DVD The CNI Foundation was founded in 1989 by former Republican congressman Paul Findley, to counter the influence of pro-Israel lobbying groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Findley was voted out of office in the early 1980s by an opponent who received significant backing from donors who were affiliated with Aipac.
11-09-06 - AIPAC's Nov. 9 message to its supporters "AIPAC reached nearly every lawmaker elected in Tuesday?s mid-term congressional elections as part of its effort to educate political candidates on the value of the U.S.-Israel relationship. During the campaign that ended Tuesday, nearly every viable candidate met with AIPAC professional staff members and submitted a position paper summarizing his or her views on U.S. Middle East policy."
11-09-06 - Rummy Out - But Don?t Start Cheering Just Yet
11-09-06 - The lame-duck syndrome Bush's well-wishers are suggesting to him that he remove Israel from this dubious group. They are imploring him to follow in the footsteps of his father, who marked the conclusion of the first Gulf War with the Madrid peace conference. Will the son listen to them, or will he be attentive to Christian evangelists and Jewish lobbyists, "friends of Israel," who will take the wind out of his sails and remind him how, a year later, they sent his parents home to the ranch and his party into the opposition? Wow. A frank admission there by a writer for Israeli news site Ha'aretz. A keeper. They took Bush's daddy down, and now they're jumping ship seeing as how the war on Iraq wasn't the cakewalk that the neocons, their cohorts in the US, promised and also harping on Bush to do their bidding with regard to Iran. Junior should pay them back in kind.
11-09-06 - French troops 'came close to shooting down Israeli jets' Defence Ministry officials would not elaborate on why the French troops decided not to fire, nor explain why they waited eight days to announce the incident. Ahh France. A wee bit enthralled by that 'sh@tty little country', are we?...
11-09-06 - Gates expected to push Israel-Palestinian talks supporters of Israel were quietly raising concerns that Gates's associations with members of President George H. W. Bush's foreign policy team would reignite calls for active US engagement towards the end of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks With Capitol Hill teeming with Israel-firsters, as noted by the many articles by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (the horse's mouth) these past few days, I'd say that we've still got a ways to go before America's foreign policy is one in which AMERICA'S interest come first. However, Gates is a step in the right direction. Keep it coming.
11-09-06 - Casey rejoices in his election as Pennsylvanians reject Santorum Betsy Sheerr, an adviser to the campaign who had traveled to Israel with Casey and serves on the board of trustees for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, was enthusiastic. "Israel won big tonight, as did the U.S.-Israel relationship," declared Sheerr America's interests factor in exactly how?
11-09-06 - Democrats' victory won't affect Israel policy, but could impact Iran The tone of the U.S.-Israel relationship remains the same whoever controls Congress, but Democratic pledges to stringently oversee the Iraq war could affect how the United States confronts Iran. Oh dear.
11-09-06 - Warrant issued for former Iranian president Israeli Ambassador Rafael Eldad called the development "highly significant."
11-09-06 - Key US policies will not see major changes following elections McCormack, said, however, there will be few changes with regard to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programmes and the Israeli- Palestinian conflict
11-08-06 - Washington shake-up, Part 2: Rumsfeld departs It's not yet clear whether Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld chose to leave on his own, or whether he was pushed. It's quite possible that it was a mutual decision, as Mr. Bush implied in his press conference Wednesday afternoon.
11-08-06 - Russia reassures Europeans on Iran's nuclear aims Russia has told European envoys it is committed to ensuring Iran does not make nuclear bombs, even though Moscow gutted a draft U.N. resolution on sanctions against Tehran, diplomats said on Wednesday.
11-08-06 - Iran says U.S. misjudges world view on nuclear row
11-08-06 - US serviceman admits Iraq charges A third US serviceman has pleaded guilty to charges related to the murder of an Iraqi civilian.
11-08-06 - British ex-diplomat to disclose secrets on 'disaster' of Iraq war
11-08-06 - First Muslim Elected to Congress
11-08-06 - China-Egypt nuclear energy deal China says it has reached an agreement with the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, to co-operate on the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
11-08-06 - Bush nominates 'realist' to Defense Gates served as CIA director under Bush's father and was close then to the elder Bush's secretary of state, James Baker, and national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft.
11-08-06 - Rumsfeld and Israel Rumsfeld, like other members of the Bush administration, cited threats to Israel among other reasons for pursuing the Iraq war and containing Iran.
11-08-06 - New dispute on U.S. firm's billing in Iraq
11-08-06 - World welcomes shift in U.S. politics
11-08-06 - U.N. Calls Meeting on Israeli Offensive Qatar, the only Arab nation on the Security Council, had asked for an emergency council meeting Monday on the Israeli offensive along the northern Gaza border. Israel says the offensive is aimed at halting Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli communities near the coastal strip. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Qatar's request was discussed by the council on Tuesday "and there was no support for it."
11-08-06 - French UN troops 'seconds' away from firing at Israeli aircraft over Lebanon "Two seconds later there would have been a shot against the aircraft which were directly menacing our forces," ..."When Israeli aircraft recently 'dived' on French UNIFIL soldiers, it is a miracle that nothing serious happened, because there could have been a response on the part of French troops," Here these UN troops are, attempting to alleviate the situation on behalf of Israel, and this is the thanks that they get (and that includes the fact that Israel fired on German ships). Ingrates.
11-08-06 - Syria urges UN sanctions for Israel ?state terrorism? Syria called for UN sanctions against Israel for its act of ?state terrorism? after 18 Palestinians were killed, including women and children, when Israeli shells slammed into their Gaza homes on Wednesday.
11-08-06 - U-turns the neocon way
11-08-06 - Upgrade of Palestinian bureau to embassy?
11-08-06 - Running as independent, Lieberman overcomes primary loss to keep seat The Jewish vote, which was widely believed to hinge on whether support for Israel was a voter's principle issue, went to Lieberman, as had significant financial support from pro-Israel factors across the country.
11-08-06 - Riding Jewish support and opposition to war, Klein takes close Florida race In the weeks leading up to the elections, the Republican Jewish Coalition had placed full-page advertisements in local Jewish newspapers urging voters to look out for Israeli security first
11-08-06 - Fit to Print - The top censored news stories of 2005-2006 Halliburton and Iran , World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
11-08-06 - Arabs react to U.S. election results ** "Israelis perceive the Iranian threat as imminent," said Prof. Menahem Blondheim of Hebrew University. "Without political support at home and in his party and among American public, a decisive military or diplomatic move against Iran seems less and less likely."
11-08-06 - New leadership in the House could breathe life into Jewish domestic concerns Jewish groups have also established strong ties with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the frontrunner for majority leader, and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a Jewish lawmaker who led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and is now considered a shoo-in for a leadership position. Hoyer is close to Howard Friedman, the Baltimore-based president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and is considered one of Israel's best and most influential friends on Capitol Hill. Hoyer makes it a point to educate freshmen lawmakers about Israel issues and he has led delegations to the Jewish state multiple times. He prides himself on making Israel a bipartisan issue, vetting proposed legislation with his GOP counterpart, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri.
11-08-06 - Pelosi's support for Israel is heartfelt, supporters say With Pelosi as speaker, Jewish activists and officials are confident that the U.S. Congress will remain strongly pro-Israel...... At an AIPAC members luncheon in San Francisco right after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Pelosi was speaking when an alarm sounded.
"Everybody started getting nervous, scrambling toward the door," Lauter recalled. One person, though, was reading the words of Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, above the din. It was Pelosi. True patriots beware.
11-08-06 - Santorum concedes defeat
11-08-06 - Lieberman retains his seat He had drawn significant pro-Israel funds, and Jews from around the region went to Connecticut to help get out the vote.
11-08-06 - Pelosi slated for speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is close to national Jewish leaders, is set to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
11-08-06 - Israel Wins at the Polls .S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), who drew strong pro-Israel opposition, was projected to lose his bid for re-election to Sheldon Whitehouse. Whitehouse
drew funding from the pro-Israel community. Chafee, the chairman of the Senate's Middle East subcommittee, was strongly critical of Israel's settlement policy and recently blocked the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador to protest a planned settlement expansion
11-08-06 - Jewish Democrats win big, both as candidates and as voters Pro-Israel money was also a factor in Rhode Island, where Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the Republican chairman of the Senate's Middle East subcommittee, was projected to lose to Sheldon Whitehouse. Chafee was a tough critic of Israel's settlement policy, and blocked the nomination of John Bolton - who is very friendly to Israel - as ambassador to the United Nations to protest a planned settlement expansion. Pro-Israel contributors boosted Whitehouse's bid. They also helped Brad Ellsworth, a Democrat, defeat U.S. Rep. John Hostettler (R-Ind.). Hostettler was a social conservative who was cool on Israel. the United States of Israel
11-07-06 - Major UN powers still deadlocked over Iran sanctions resolution
11-07-06 - Iran proposes defence pact with Gulf states Iranian Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najar said that countries bordering the Gulf should sign a defence pact to provide security along the strategic waterway
11-07-06 - Saddam 'executed by end of year' "I call on all Iraqis, Arabs and Kurds, to forgive, reconcile and shake hands," the former president told the court.
11-07-06 - Al-Qaeda plotter jailed for life
11-07-06 - Iran calls for Saddam to be executed
11-07-06 - This was a guilty verdict on America as well
11-07-06 - Dear Mr. Secretary We have a duty to see to it that justice is served when it comes to crimes committed against our own. What if it were YOUR brother, or father, uncle, grandfather, or son? These guys have a right to have their day in court. We owe them that much in the very least.
11-07-06 - ISRAEL: Unexploded Hezbollah rockets pose risk (Still) trying to one-up Lebanon's victim status with regard to the cluster bombs, are we? Please.
11-07-06 - LACK OF ECONOMIC SECURITY POSES GREATER THREAT THAN TERROR Meanwhile, a more insidious force -- globalization -- has eaten away at our economic infrastructure. For 30 years now, global competition has been quietly gaining on us, melting the broad base that lifted so many Americans into the middle class. Steel mills are shuttered; textile plants have disappeared; domestic automakers are in their death throes
11-07-06 - UN says it found no evidence of uranium-based munitions in Lebanon The investigation confirmed that Israel had used artillery and mortar ammunition containing white phosphorus, the statement said
11-07-06 - UN humanitarian chief calls for freeze on use of cluster bombs The United Nations said the density of unexploded cluster munitions in Lebanon was higher than those found after conflicts in Kosovo and Iraq which had already caused alarm among humanitarian agencies. The unexploded ordinance is a "constant threat" to 200,000 refugees and internally displaced people in Lebanon as well as for hundreds of thousands of people returning to their homes and for humanitarian and reconstruction workers, it added.
11-07-06 - US diplomat: Israel won?t attack Iran The official further stated that he did not believe Israel would attack Iran?s nuclear facilities, as 'Israel has repeatedly stated that this is an international problem and such an attack would make it an Israeli one.' Right. They won't attack if they can get somebody else (namely us) to do it for them.
11-07-06 - Wolfensohn: US may lose interest in Israel Not if the Israeli lobby can help it.
11-07-06 - WJC meets with Chinese president The two met Tuesday to discuss international affairs, including the Iranian threat to Israel and the rest of the world.
11-07-06 - Withdrawal around Ghajar Israeli forces withdrew from areas around a village straddling Israel?s border with Lebanon.
11-07-06 - Former Israeli PM speaks out on Iraq Speaking at Indiana University recently, Ehud Barak cited Iraq's deterioration into civil war, adding: "The U.S. presence is more and more a part of the problem and not the solution," according to CampusJ.com.
11-07-06 - Olmert seeks Lebanon talks "Two senior world leaders are working at my behest to try to create the conditions for my meeting Siniora, and I am personally in touch with them."
11-07-06 - Jews favor Democrats as number of Jewish senators jumps Deadlock between Congress and the White House "will influence domestic policy, immigration, health care, taxes, social policies, the Supreme Court," said Daniel Ayalon, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to Washington. "It won't influence foreign policy, with the possible exception of Iraq. For sure, not the U.S.-Israel relationship."
11-07-06 - US official: Israel won't bomb Iran "I do not see that Israel is going to do something like that. ... In all our conversations, thus far, Israel has stressed that this is an international problem. Israel does not want to make it an Israeli problem. Israel is committed to the political approach that the international community it taking,' .....The US official said the text of UN sanctions against Iran would be discussed with Olmert when the Israeli leader met with the US President George Bush in Washington next Monday The last sentence tells you who is really running the show, folks.
11-07-06 - Lieberman projected to win Lieberman had drawn significant pro-Israel funds and Jews from around the region went to Connecticut to help get out the vote.
11-07-06 - South Africa trade union: Hizbullah fighters heroic
11-06-06 - Hundreds of US soldiers call for Iraq withdrawal in petition "Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for US troops to come home,"
11-06-06 - Families of troops killed in Iraq press for probe into war Families of British troops killed in Iraq went to court to challenge the government's refusal to hold a full independent probe into its decision to invade.
11-06-06 - Iran tests new automatic cannons in war games
11-06-06 - Cheney says unlikely he would comply with Congress subpoena "I have no idea that I'm going to be subpoenaed, and obviously, we'd sit down and look at it at the time," he told ABC's "This Week" "But probably not, in the sense that the president and the vice president are constitutional officers and don't appear before the Congress," Cheney said
11-06-06 - FBI willing to go undercover in Congress if necessary
11-06-06 - Dick Cheney to Spend Election Day Hunting The vice president, after working at the White House on Monday morning, will head to South Dakota to spend several days at a private hunting lodge near Pierre Local residents take heed. Everybody run, Dick Cheney's got a gun...
11-06-06 - Blair against death penalty for 'Saddam or anybody else' I say keep Saddam alive, then force him to do restitution in the form of community service (if and when Iraq simmers down). Put it on pay per view. Give the money to his victims and/or their families.
11-06-06 - What to Do Before Tehran Gets the Bomb
11-06-06 - Iraq Vets Target Congressional Races Veterans of the Iraq war are mobilizing for Tuesday's elections nationwide--mostly on the side of Democrats critical of President George W. Bush's handling of the war.
11-06-06 - Prosecutors reject 87% of FBI's terror cases: report
11-06-06 - Injuries in Lebanon revive bid to ban cluster bombs According to the UN, Israel dropped 90 percent of the cluster bombs in the last 72 hours of the war - when all parties knew a cease-fire was imminent.....The UN says Israel has not provided vital information that would speed up clearance and south Lebanon's safety and recovery. "We have been asking for the grid references and how many were dropped, but we still haven't received them,"
11-06-06 - World oil prices slip below $59 US light crude was down 31 cents at $58.83 a barrel,
11-06-06 - Israel: Divorce America, Marry Russia There used to be a time when Israel had no other "superpower partner" to align herself with other than the US.
Today, that is not the case. Although few Israelis realize it, Israel has strategic options that it didn't have 15 years ago. In many respects, Russia is a much more suitable partner for Israel than the US. Their audacity reaches new levels. They've soaked the American bloke and now it's time to move on to the next one.
11-06-06 - Red Cross calls for end to cluster bombs Philip Spoerri, director of international law for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said countries needed urgently to address the bombs, which were used by Israel against Lebanon during fighting in July and August. Spoerri said innocent Lebanese continue to be killed by the bombs every week.
11-06-06 - Iran ready to share missile systems with others:TV "Tehran also considers this as its duty to help friendly countries which are exposed to invasion of the Zionist regime ( Israel)," Sheibani was quoted saying, in response to what he said was a request by Lebanon's army commander, General Michel Suleiman, for help from friendly states.
11-06-06 - Israel gearing up for second war with Hezbollah "We will do everything now to prevent Hezbollah from coming back and sitting on the border."
11-06-06 - Saddam trial not independent or impartial: UN official
11-06-06 - Seeking Iraq exit strategy, U.S. pushes Israel toward peace talks former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, who has been working on the exit strategy, is expected to make proposals soon for a renewal of talks on both the Syrian and Palestinian tracks......In advance of the Bush-Olmert meeting, U.S. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte came to Israel in early November to discuss ways of weakening Iran's fundamentalist regime. Negroponte reportedly was particularly interested in Israeli assessments of the degree to which disaffected minorities in Iran could destabilize the mullahs' rule.
Israel and the United States see Iran as the major threat to their security in coming years, and Olmert will use his meeting with Bush to exchange assessments and coordinate future moves. Israeli officials note that although both sides prefer a diplomatic solution, neither is ruling out a military option.
You have to get to the last few paragraphs to get to the real reason for the sudden moves toward 'peace': the upcoming attack on Iran that Israel is pushing for. For, this is the very same sequence of events that happened in/around the runup to the Iraq war. Same sh%t, different year.
11-06-06 - Hezbollah says UN envoy has 'dangerous, suspicious role' 'This is not the first time Terje Lord-Larsen carries out a dangerous, suspicious role that serves the goals of the Israeli enemy and the United States which contradicts his diplomatic mission and puts quesion marks on the role of the United Nations,'
11-06-06 - Palestinians protest Saddam death sentence, threaten reprisals against foreigners Under Saddam's rule Iraq donated $25,000 per household for Jenin residents to rebuild homes destroyed in a 2002 Israeli military offensive there.
11-06-06 - Some Democrats Are Worse Than Others But there is another Democratic party, and this one gets less airtime. It is the Democratic members of the House of Representatives who joined their Republican counterparts in 2004 to pass by a vote of 376-3 a resolution urging the administration to use "any and all appropriate means" to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. That is a testament of the power of AIPAC.
11-06-06 - Let us export hope, not fear, former US adviser urges In a further criticism of the Bush Administration's foreign policy, Mr Armitage described as "inexplicable" the US's support of Israel's six-week-long bombing of Lebanon in July and August this year. He said while it was understandable Israel wanted to retrieve its soldiers and make Hezbollah pay a price, it was inexplicable that the US would "hold their coat for them and let them do it".
11-06-06 - IDF girds for possibility of war with Syria, Hezbollah in 2007 A decision in Washington to withdraw the majority of its forces from Iraq will contribute to this atmosphere and will necessitate concentrating on the possibility that Iraq may become part of an eastern front comprising Iran and Syria. Trying to get us to stay in Iraq, perhaps?
11-06-06 - Syria predicts relaunch of peace process in 2007 "If they are planning to start a war in 2007, we, for our part, believe the peace process will be relaunched in 2007,"
11-06-06 - Bush, Olmert to meet at White House November 13 Last month, Olmert said he would meet with Bush in November to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions. "The international community should prevent Iran from getting nuclear arms," he said on October 16.
11-06-06 - The War God That Failed - The neocons turn on their 'leader' Evil knows no party. Remember that as you vote. The Democrats are just another wing of the War Party: once they are in power, the war becomes their war
11-06-06 - Slide show chronicles conflict
11-06-06 - Jewish group calls for end to attack ads against Democrat Jim Davis
11-05-06 - Iran says would consider talks with U.S. on Iraq Iran said on Sunday it would consider entering talks with the United States on security in Iraq if it received an official request. It isn't going to happen. Neocons want war on Iran, not talks.
11-05-06 - Why do so few people vote in the U.S.?
11-05-06 - White House: Anti-Rumsfeld editorial 'shabby'
11-05-06 - Pentagon targets Kim?s nuclear sites US defence officials said detailed planning was under way for precision strikes on nuclear facilities such as the North Korean plutonium reprocessing plant at Yongbyon.
11-05-06 - Bush welcomes Saddam death sentence
11-05-06 - UN inspectors visit Iran's nuclear sites
11-05-06 - Russian minister says U.N. sanctions against Iran should be for limited period Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that Moscow would only support sanctions against Iran if they were for a limited time and spelled out a clear mechanism for lifting them, Russian news agencies reported.
11-05-06 - End of the Neo-Cons I disagree with the author's take on the definition of neoconservatism. Thomas Paine was hardly a neocon. An insult if I've ever heard one. There's no greater cause than the American cause. Neoconservatism has nothing to do with it. The latter is about making the world safer for ISRAEL, not the US. It's an ideology based on treason. Just look at the results. And the neocons ain't done yet.
11-05-06 - Saddam verdict date 'rigged' for Bush Saddam Hussein's defence team has urged a delay of his possible death sentence and said the ousted Iraqi leader believed today's expected verdict was timed to boost President George Bush before US mid-term elections
11-05-06 - Nuclear Lab Breach Could Be 'Devastating'
11-05-06 - Suicide Terrorism and Democracy: What We?ve Learned Since 9/11 Understanding that suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation rather than a product of Islamic fundamentalism has important implications for how the U.S. government should conduct the war on terrorism
11-05-06 - Saddam urges Iraqis not to take revenge on U.S.
11-05-06 - On Second Thought: Neocons Rethink Iraq War Vice President Dick Cheney declined to comment on the article during an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, but he rejected the analysis that the administration failed in not anticipating Iraq's chaos.
11-05-06 - Bush Says U.S. Pullout Would Let Iraq Radicals Use Oil as a Weapon You mean like somebody is doing NOW? Why isn't gasoline below $2 a gallon, folks?
11-05-06 - Cheers and jeers as Mideast torn over Saddam verdict
11-05-06 - Car bomb goes off near Beirut barracks
11-05-06 - A Fanciful Neocon Version Of Our Expansionist History
11-05-06 - Iran ready to supply Lebanon with anti-aircraft arms
11-05-06 - Israel stays silent on Saddam "We prefer not to state our position on the matter, which could be used by the rebels in Iraq who are attempting to drag Israel into the conflict there,"
11-05-06 - Kentucky notes: GOP, Israel, Dirt In recent weeks a debate has been heating up among the movers and shakers of the Jewish community over a key question: Who's better for Israel - the Republicans or the Democrats? Things reached such a point that, on Wednesday, the main pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, had to address the subject and issued a decisive announcement: They're both good, the Republicans and the Democrats. No kidding? Next we'll hear that both grizzly bears AND black bears sh@t in the woods. Will wonders never cease?...
11-05-06 - Crist, Davis dart across state, make final pitches to voters Davis said. "I've been standing up for peace and security in Israel and Charlie Crist has done nothing." I pledge allegiance to the flag of..
11-04-06 - US military newspapers to demand Rumsfeld's resignation: report Four US military newspapers catering to all the branches of the US armed forces will reportedly publish an editorial on the eve of the November 7 congressional election, demanding the resignation of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
11-04-06 - Iran test-fires more new weapons in war games
11-04-06 - Rice warns Iran after missile launches
11-04-06 - US stops audit of Iraq rebuilding The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has embarrassed the US administration with its reports on corrupt practices.
11-04-06 - U.S. Air Force prepares to fight in cyberspace
11-04-06 - THE ARCHITECTS OF WAR: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded - not blamed - for their incompetence.
11-04-06 - Neocons turn on Bush for incompetence over Iraq war Those responsible for conning this nation into going to war need to be brought to justice. And it's not just the neocons.
11-04-06 - Iranians mark US embassy siege
11-04-06 - 1999 war games foresaw problems in Iraq
11-04-06 - Six Arab states join rush to go nuclear
11-04-06 - Neo Culpa Richard Perle: "Huge mistakes were made, and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost no voice in what happened, and certainly almost no voice in what happened after the downfall of the regime in Baghdad. I'm getting damn tired of being described as an architect of the war. Neocons all now blame Bush, rather than take responsibility for what they advocated for and helped push through. Preposterous.
11-04-06 - Are Israelis gearing up to bomb Iran?
11-04-06 - Who's Targeting Iran ? and Why? ** So, even if Iran is telling the truth ? Iran says, 'We have no nuclear weapons program. We just want peaceful nuclear energy'? Israel says, 'So long as Iran has any enrichment capability, this constitutes a threat to Israel,' and they are pressuring the United States to take forceful action."
11-04-06 - Germany says Israel not respecting Lebanon airspace "That Israel is still trying to control the airspace over Lebanon despite the international presence of French, Italian and other soldiers, runs contrary to every agreement," Gernot Erler told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
11-04-06 - Many fear FBI's anthrax case is cold Scary. The perpetrator is a free man, and they are likely in the US. If it was an inside job (which it would appear to be), then is the individual being protected by somebody?...
11-04-06 - South Koreans Reject U.S. Attack on North Korea
11-04-06 - Israel urges world action after Iran missile test ** Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz urged the world to act after Iran claimed to have fired longer-range ballistic missiles for the first time, the defence ministry said.
11-04-06 - Iraqi-Palestinian refugees to find haven in Canada
11-04-06 - UN calls for end to Israeli flights over Lebanon The United Nations has given a positive assessment of the situation in south Lebanon almost three months after the Israel-Hezbollah war except for continued Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace.
11-04-06 - A British soldier shakes hands with a boy at a checkpoint in Basra
11-04-06 - Hardline Muslims protest Bush visit "Bush should not come to Indonesia," shouted Muhammad Ismail Yusanto, saying Bush was responsible for the violence in the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Afghanistan.
11-04-06 - Poll: Bush policy threatens world peace Conversely, only 9 percent of the Israeli respondents found that Bush represented a danger to the world, while Iran's leader drew 81 percent of those polled in Israel. A few years back, a poll in Europe found that the majority of Europeans saw Israel as the threat to world peace. Now the world sees it as Bush. It's not a coincidence given that, and that the Bush administration is doing Israel's bidding in the ME, and that only 9 percent of Israel's think he's a danger. See the pattern.
11-03-06 - Russia says Iran sanctions draft goes too far Russia has objected to including Bushehr in the resolution in the first place, saying it was a power plant that is legal under the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
11-03-06 - US closes 'bomb secrets' website Weapons experts had complained that the site contained details on making nuclear bombs, the New York Times said.
11-03-06 - UN says Iraqi humanitarian crisis worse than before war The agency says many of its staff in the region are volunteering to go without their salaries so crucial humanitarian projects can continue.
11-03-06 - Iran test-fires 3 new missiles in Gulf ** "Our enemies should keep their hostility out of the Persian Gulf," said Adm. Sardar Fadavi, the deputy chief of the Revolutionary Guards navy.
11-03-06 - Embattled candidates call on Rumsfeld to quit A string of Republican candidates called on Donald Rumsfeld to resign yesterday, rejecting the surprise assertion by President Bush that his Defence Secretary would stay in office for another two years
11-03-06 - New worries abound about reliability of US voting machines
11-03-06 - Most Americans Want Timetable for Iraq War
11-03-06 - Abu Ghraib dog handler blocked from going back to Iraq
11-03-06 - Judge Excludes Memory Expert From Libby Trial The issue provided the case's first courtroom drama last week when Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald spent hours questioning memory expert Elizabeth F. Loftus's research. Fitzgerald picked apart the psychologist's testimony until she acknowledged errors and misstatements in her findings.
11-03-06 - "Weapons of Mass Destruction": Building a Pretext for Waging War on Iran? **
11-03-06 - US dissatisfied with Israeli flights over Beirut: Israel US officials "expressed their dissatisfaction on Thursday," during telephone conversations with senior Israeli officials, the source said Friday.
11-03-06 - 5 Jewish Brooklyn Teens Charged In Hate Crime "They were saying, you Muslim scumbag, you have f---ed up this country. You don't have the right to live here. Go back to your country,"
11-03-06 - Baptist Convention told: Muslims 'are here to take over our country' Clippard said that Muslims were hoping to take over the United States government one city at a time, and that they were starting with Detroit, where there is already a large Muslim population. That's funny, those ain't Muslims that keep banging down my door and leaving literature when I'm not here/don't answer...
11-03-06 - The Neocons, Undaunted The Israelis are reportedly blackmailing us into a strike by declaring that they'll do it if we don't. And that's what this is all about. John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt are quite correct in noting that Israel's American lobby is in the forefront of the "let's bomb Iran" contingent, just as they were in the case of Iraq, and Muravchik's analysis perfectly reflects the Israeli perspective. These neocons need to be neutralized, contained and then brought to justice for deliberately deceiving the American people (into supporting the Iraq war). They are at it again.
11-03-06 - The Case for Engagement While Ahmadinejad plays to the Iranian street with his inflammatory rhetoric, the true authority in Iran has been attempting to navigate a path of moderation.
11-03-06 - Official: Israel ignoring U.S. plan to leave Iraq "I am very fearful," said a senior official in Jerusalem. "The American withdrawal from Iraq will have a very severe impact on us, unless developments take place that are not currently visible on the ground."
The official said the pullout could lead to two negative outcomes for Israel - the emergence of a terrorist entity with ties to Iran, and American hesitation to send troops to the Middle East.
American GIs being used as human shields for Israel.
11-03-06 - Britons Regret Decision to Invade Iraq
11-03-06 - Ex-Judges: Detainee Law Unconstitutional Seven retired federal judges from both political parties have joined dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees in urging an appeals court to declare key parts of President Bush's new anti-terrorism law unconstitutional.
11-03-06 - America fights to take charge of UN peacekeepers around world The unprecedented US bid for the top UN peacekeeping post would place an American in command of the 95,000 UN peacekeepers in trouble spots from Lebanon to Sudan.
11-03-06 - Kirchner urged to back AMIA progress to express support for prosecutors? Oct. 25 decision to demand the arrest of eight Iranians
11-03-06 - Evil Is as Evil Does
11-03-06 - US demands Israeli Air Force stop flights into Lebanese airspace
11-03-06 - Kissinger meets with Jewish leaders on Iranian threat to Israel The meeting was attended by leaders of several major U.S. Jewish organizations, including David Harris of the American Jewish Committee, AIPAC's Howard Kohr, Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League and Morley Levine from Hadassah.
11-03-06 - Germany expects no more 'incidents' off Lebanese coast The German defense ministry said last week that in two separate incidents, Israeli warplanes fired shots over a German helicopter and on an unarmed German vessel off the Lebanese coast.
11-03-06 - Joe Lieberman's Dangerous Alliance with Christian Zionists Using his second favorite tactic -- race baiting -- Lieberman pointed to black congresswoman Maxine Waters, who abstained from voting for the Hezbollah condemnation, and Al Sharpton, who seldom speaks of Israel, but who has had tension with Jews in the past.
11-03-06 - How to Put U.N. Rights Council Back on Track Strange that this piece by the Jewish news outfit The Forward is published on the Human Rights Watch website. HRW has fallen under the influence, as has been noted previously.
11-03-06 - U.S. accused of interfering Lebanon's national unity Hezbollah on Thursday accused the United States of interfering Lebanese national unity, saying that Washington is using Lebanon to wage "war" against Syria and Iran.
11-02-06 - Russia, China won't back Iran sanctions Russian and China indicated that they will not support a draft U.N. resolution imposing tough sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt its nuclear enrichment program.
11-02-06 - US accuses Syria, Iran, and Hizbullah of plotting to topple Lebanon The New York Times reports that the White House declined to offer any proof of the plot. However, US officials have said that because of the evidence, the US government feels it cannot diplomatically engage Syria or Iran, an approach advocated recently by several leading Republicans, including former Secretary of State James Baker. Read that again. The neocons in Cheney's office and the Pentagon are behind the 'evidence', no doubt. Israel-lovers can't stand James Baker.
11-02-06 - Bush Reaffirms Support for Rumsfeld and Cheney The president?s verbal embrace of Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Cheney, offered during an interview with The Associated Press, seemed to be another reflection of Mr. Bush?s belief in the basic wisdom of the Iraq war and his determination not to back away from it as the Congressional elections approach
11-02-06 - Iran in first firing of longer-range missiles on exercise Iran has fired its longer-range Shahab-3 ballistic missile on exercise for the first time as it began 10 days of war games amid a mounting standoff with the West over its nuclear programme.
11-02-06 - Ex-US soldier charged in rape, murder of Iraqi girl, family Green was one of five US soldiers who were alleged to have broken into a house near the Iraqi town of Mamudiyah on March 12 and raped a 14-year-old girl, then killed her and set fire to her body.
11-02-06 - Child victims of Iraq's war trouble U.S. medics
11-02-06 - Taking the road to Damascus
11-02-06 - Syria, Iran dismiss U.S. accusation on Lebanon The Syrian newspaper said the United States should make public any evidence of the alleged Syrian role in efforts to topple the Lebanese government. U.S. officials say the information is classified.
Classified. Hilarious. Which neocon supplied this 'evidence'?? - is the real question.
11-02-06 - Khatami labels US policy 'a joke' The former president of Iran, Mohammad Khatami, has branded US attempts to impose Western-style democracy in the Middle East as "a great joke".
11-02-06 - The Neocons' Nadir? Baker's words and activities set off a storm of protest by Perle's associates at the American Enterprise Institute, notably Michael Ledeen, who called the former secretary's approach "active appeasement," and Michael Rubin, who warned that "Baker's cold realist calculations may surrender Iraq to Iranian suzerainty."
11-02-06 - Revealed: U.S. Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting to Interrogation Techniques
11-02-06 - Syria switches to the Euro due to US sanctions
11-02-06 - How Neocon Favorites Duped U.S.
11-02-06 - More Troops-or Less Empire by Patrick J. Buchanan Because the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are going badly for lack of U.S. troops, and because, says the Standard, President Bush needs to have the strategic option to put ground forces into "Iran, North Korea, Somalia, Lebanon, or wherever the next crisis erupts." The Standard wants the U.S. Army increased by 250,000
11-02-06 - Bush 'would understand' attack on Iran ** Israel endorses US-led efforts to curb Iran s atomic ambitions through the threat of UN Security Council sanctions but, like Washington, has hinted that military action could be a last resort
11-02-06 - Who is Holding Peace Hostage? Text of a CNI Foundation ad that appeared in the New York Times on November 5th, 2006
11-02-06 - Israel seeking to pressure UN with Lebanon flights Commanders want the international community to intervene actively on behalf of the two soldiers 'You will do our bidding, or else.'
11-02-06 - 98 percent of cluster bomb victims are civilians: report Quoting from UN figures, Simonazzi said that 1.2 to 1.6 million of the four million submunitions Israel dropped on Lebanon during the conflict have not exploded Cluster bombs that were made in the USA and given to Israel KNOWING FULL WELL what they would do with them. In the 80s, Ronald Reagan banned the sale of cluster bombs to Israel because it was using them on Lebanese civilians even THEN.
11-02-06 - Iran 'sending funds to Hezbollah'
11-02-06 - An article from the AEI, neocon central Deploy More Than the Military. Recent elections in the Palestinian territories and Egypt have brought disconcerting results that suggest democratizing the Middle East may be more difficult than we imagined. Naturally, we're treated to the same mantra that neoconservative is a code word for 'Jew', among other things. But the above paragraph spells out to you what I've known all along: the very definition of the idea of democracy that these neocons have in mind for the Middle East. For, there is no question of whether the elections in Egypt and the Palestinian Territories were democratic or not -they were. The problem that these neocons have with them is that parties not friendly to Israel were elected. Neocon democracy defined: elect Israel-frienldy regimes - or else. And you may note the second to the last topic addressed starts with 'Prepare to bomb Iran'. Same sh$t, different year.
11-02-06 - From June 2005: Bolton Said to Orchestrate Unlawful Firing A former Bolton deputy says the U.S. undersecretary of state felt Jose Bustani "had to go," particularly because the Brazilian was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Baghdad. That might have helped defuse the crisis over alleged Iraqi weapons and undermined a U.S. rationale for war.
11-02-06 - Bush tells Rush he's 'deeply concerned' about the US leaving the Middle East Bush said that he was "worried that rival forms of extremists will battle for power, obviously creating incredible damage if they do so; that they will topple modern governments, that they will be in a position to use oil as a tool to blackmail the West."
"People say, 'What do you mean by that?'" The president continued. "I say, 'If they control oil resources, then they pull oil off the market in order to run the price up, and they will do so unless we abandon Israel, for example, or unless we abandon allies.'"
11-02-06 - Full-Page New York Times Ad: 'Congress is in Thrall to the Israel Lobby' The Council for the National Interest Foundation argues in a full-page New York Times ad scheduled to run this Sunday, Nov. 5, two days before the 2006 midterm elections, that the U.S. Congress is in thrall to the Israel lobby....The Israel lobby, the ad says, was able to defeat a recent amendment to the defense appropriations bill introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that would ban the export of cluster bombs to countries that use such weapons in civilian areas, including Israel's use of U.S.-made cluster weapons in Lebanon
11-02-06 - Mubarak meets Putin for talks on nuclear power, Middle East
11-02-06 - Iraq exit strategy The prospect of a Palestinian state in the foreseeable future looked even dimmer with the creation of a newly-formed evangelical Christian organization in the U.S. that aims to include all pro-Israel Christians, and, according to its founder, will soon make it the single most powerful Christian organization in America. "We are a one-issue organization -- and the issue is Israel, Israel and then Israel," Here's an idea: why don't you move there? Leave the rest of us out it.
11-02-06 - Iran says Holocaust cartoon contest expresses hatred toward oppressors Iran awarded a Moroccan artist late Wednesday the top prize in an exhibition of cartoons against the Holocaust, saying it wanted to emphasize that Palestinians were the indirect victims of the Nazi's killing of six million Jews in Europe during the Second World War. "Palestinians have been victim of a deceptive history by Zionists," Iran's Culture Minister Hossein Saffar Harandi was quoted as saying by the Kayhan conservative daily on Thursday.
11-02-06 - From June 2005: Israeli warplanes draw Lebanese anti-aircraft fire Four Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese air space, drawing anti-aircraft fire from the army, Lebanese police said. Same sh#t, different year.
11-01-06 - Leaked US report shows Iraq close to 'chaos'
11-01-06 - Iran announces military maneuvers ** Iran unexpectedly announced Wednesday that it would be holding military maneuvers in the Gulf this week, only days after U.S.-led navies held exercises in the same waterway.
11-01-06 - White House dismisses chart of Iraq sliding toward 'chaos' The White House dismissed a leaked military chart that shows Iraq sliding toward "chaos" as an outdated snapshot of sectarian violence at the height of Ramadan that has since dropped sharply.
11-01-06 - Iraq invasion increased extremist threat: Iran's Khatami
11-01-06 - Russia says won't back draft text on Iran sanctions State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said he was optimistic Russia would support a U.N. sanctions resolution. "While there are still negotiations that will need to be had concerning the contents of the resolution, the process is moving forward and we hope that it will move forward with some speed,"
11-01-06 - US tells Iran, Syria 'hands off' Lebanon The White House sounded the alarm over what it called "mounting evidence" that Iran, Syria and the Hezbollah militia were "preparing plans to topple" Lebanon's government. Hypocrisy.
11-01-06 - Depleted uranium risk 'ignored' a senior UN scientist said research showing how depleted uranium could cause cancer was withheld.
11-01-06 - Ahmadinejad laments Europe's lack of clout
11-01-06 - Fitzgerald doesn't want to talk about Armitage Fitzgerald writes, "The fact that no other person was charged with a crime relating to the disclosure of classified information says absolutely nothing about whether defendant Libby is guilty of the charged crimes."
11-01-06 - Incoming UN chief calls on Iran to halt enrichment
11-01-06 - Russian, U.S. military chiefs ink pact
11-01-06 - British lawmakers reject Iraq probe
11-01-06 - Oil steady as Opec cuts kick in
11-01-06 - Israel vows to continue Lebanon flights The Lebanese army also confirmed it had fired off anti-aircraft batteries towards Israeli warplanes flying over the south on Tuesday, having been ordered to oppose Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty by all means
11-01-06 - Blair's Syrian peace initiative fails to impress The White House also distanced itself from Mr Blair's initiative. Tony Snow, George Bush's press secretary, said the administration was concerned over what it called mounting evidence that Syria and Iran were joining Hizbullah to try to topple the Lebanese government through demonstrations, violence and threats against Lebanese leaders
11-01-06 - Hizbullah confirms talks on prisoner exchange He said his party did not distinguish between US and Israeli policy in the region. "There are not two separate policies for the region, there is one policy: it's the Israeli-American policy. The Europeans need to decide on their options for the future. Do they want their position to be identical with the Americans and thereby incur the same hatred that exists towards America?"
That's because US policy in the region is crafted in Tel Aviv, not Washington.
11-01-06 - Matters of faith A large majority (84 percent) believe Muslims should emphasize shared values with Christians and Jews, and 77 percent say they worship the same God. Yet 55 percent are afraid the war on terror has become a war on Islam.
11-01-06 - Playing second fiddle in Syria But even though improved relations could also help isolate Iran and increase pressure on Hamas to moderate its views, Washington hardliners will oppose a Syrian rapprochement. The Dick Cheney wing of the Republican party and assorted neo-conservatives would portray it as a base betrayal of the Bush "freedom doctrine" of promoting democracy in the Middle East.
11-01-06 - Sweeney breaks with Bush on Iraq, contradicts own vote on partitioning ON OTHER international issues, Sweeney said the United States must take steps to prevent North Korea and Iran from becoming nuclear powers. "No doubt, if we allow the proliferation of nuclear weapons, our children will see Hezbollah attack Israel with nuclear weapons," he said
Is Sweeney running for office to serve Israel, or America?
11-01-06 - Canada welcomes 63 Palestinians stranded between Iraq, Jordan Jordan and Syria turned them away, claiming they had already welcomed their quota of Iraqi refugees from the previous Gulf War and Israel was not warm to the idea of them returning to the occupied territories
11-01-06 - Hadley on visit asserts U.S. view
11-01-06 - Israeli agent scoffs at Hamas defendant's torture claims
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