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This is barely being reported on the MSM and yet it’s developing into a major clash. The recent Arab summit in Damascus was a flop and left Syria with a lot of anger and embarrassment. The Israelis have openly admitted to bombing that mystery installation in Syria for being a nuclear bomb assembly factory set up by the North Koreans. This ruination of their plans has naturally outraged the Syrians. At the same time, many Arab states are exasperated with Syria for their continued support of Hizbollah in Lebanon and their efforts to control that country. The other Arab states...

A few months ago, a day before one of the occasional marches the Capital sees demanding an end to the Iraq War, I began the descent into the Metro stop near my office, looked up, and saw a number of representatives of Code Pink standing at the railing overlooking the escalator. Or rather, I heard them first. They were screaming at the parade of commuters, at the top of their lungs and in a tone somewhere between simple frustration and righteous anger, "End the war!!!" Well, I thought, that ought to take care of things. Good work, hippies! I kid...

AMMAN, Jordan - Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, mistakenly said Tuesday that Iran was allowing al-Qaida fighters into the country to be trained and returned to Iraq. McCain, expressing concern about Iran's rising sway in the Mideast, said, "Al-Qaida is going back into Iran and is receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran." He made the comments Tuesday at a news conference in Jordan; he made similar comments earlier to radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt. Iran is a predominantly Shiite Muslim country and has been at pains to close its borders to al-Qaida fighters...

From our "eyes open" and be ready for the ME to go hot, not only are sources in Israel reporting that unofficially folks are being told to ready their safe rooms, but we now see that telecommunications cable breaks servicing that part of the world are now up to 5! "A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also...

Vatican City, Jan 18, 2008 / 10:55 am (CNA).- This morning at the Vatican, the Pope met with the Catholic bishops from Arab regions of the world and called upon all Catholics to help Arab Christians to remain in their countries. The prelates who spoke with Benedict XVI are from the Conference of Latin Bishops in the Arab Regions (CELRA), whose president is His Beatitude Michel Sabbah, patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins. In his talk to them, the Pope recalled how their episcopal conference "comprises many different situations in which the faithful, natives of many different countries, often live in...

Today's religious map of the Middle East traces to the unification of the Arabian tribes under the banner of Islam in the 7th century, and their subsequent conquest of much of the known world. Muhammad's genius was in finding a way to unite the myriad of fissiparous, feuding Bedouin tribes of northern Arabia into a cohesive polity. Just as he had provided a constitution of rules under which the people of Medina could live together, so he provided a constitution for all Arabs, but this one had the imprimatur not just of Muhammad, but of God. Submission -- Islam --...

11/2/07 The Arab Hala Gorani introduces us to a western-type Arab singer ‘Caramel’ as if that's a 'normal Arab today'. http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/gorani.hala.html The Arab Hala Gorani has a long history on CNN to 'glorify Middle east cultures' on her show 'Inside the Middle east', she's a master on picking & selecting the rare and never on the mainstream. In other words, not showing reality bit being a propaganda tool for the Arab world, when no one speaks [really] for the west in that wild jungle hatred empire. In this age of “multiculturalism� that is nothing but a tool by Islamists, it’s...

Responding to the call of Pope Urban II at Claremont in 1095, the Christian knights of the First Crusade set out for the Holy Land. In 1099, Jerusalem was captured. As their port in Palestine, the Crusaders settled on Acre on the Mediterranean. There they built the great castle that was overrun by Saladin in 1187, but retaken by Richard the Lion-Hearted in 1191. Acre became the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the stronghold of the Crusader state, which fell to the Mameluks in a bloody siege in 1291. The Christians left behind were massacred. The ruins of...

The infamous J. Carter has another destructive launch his hateful anti Israel book "Palestine peace not apartheid". Carter as in to be blamed partially for his role in today's entire world's danger from the fanatical Islamic regime in Iran, would he just not push so hard for a change in Iran, when we are told as Americans, time and time again, not to interfer into other states' affaires, but it seems it is a selective call. Now, Carter has from self hatred anti Americanism to anti Israelism, rest assuree it was by "advice" from his Arab tyrants buddies. As Prof....

Turkey is unlikely to join the EU for at least 15 years Turkey finally began talks on joining the European Union in October 2005, more than 40 years after it first began to woo the emerging bloc. Now it seems that things are already going wrong. What are the main problems? More generally, what are the main arguments for and against Turkish membership of the EU, and how does the accession process work? Why is Turkey's EU membership bid in trouble? There are two issues. TURKISH MARATHON 1959 - Turkey applies for associate membership of EEC 1963 - Association...

Arab lying racists (still) criticize beautiful democratic Israel? What happens when the Atlas (Arab) of Racism invents-lies libel "racism" on a remarkable democracy? Ignoring Israel's reality First, the Arab Islamic hate media Goliath is systematically ingnoring or lying openly about the fact that Israel's Arabs are not only equal, but giving opportunities & rights without demanding of them the natural obligation that exists on all Israelis to serve in it's service, moreover they're often first class citizens in courts etc. even ahead of Israeli Jews. Remarkable! Israel's free, democratic status should be held especially remarkable giving the fact of...

Ginko, Lapidot discover oil at Dead Sea drilling site At drilling site north of Dead Sea, oil struck at depth of 1,800 meters. According to estimates, there are about 6.5 million barrels of crude oil, worth about USD 300 million Golan Hazani Published:  09.19.06, 17:14   Oil spurted Monday at a depth of about 1,800 meters during drilling near the Dead Sea. The drilling was planned only to reach 2,000 meters. Drilling partners, Ginko Oil Exploration and Lapidot (20 percent) are expected to carry out a series of tests in the coming days in order to estimate the quantity of oil...

A Solution for the Mid-East ConflictModern means of communication give us the ability to see the ugly face of terrorism graphically: heartless beheadings, brutal murders, suicide bombings, the bloody deaths of innocent people and the like. No one can deny that terrorists who vow the destruction of individuals and even whole societies are just plain evil. It cannot be said enough: terrorism is satanic. A few days ago one official at the UN said that terrorism is like a cancer that can only be cut out of the body if we are to save the whole person. I do not...

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The Defining Moment of a century by Salena Zito, Tribune-Review, March 5, 2006 Khalilzad and the Iraqi officials he advises on creating a new government faced what could be Iraq's Fort Sumter on Feb. 22 when terrorists bombed a Shiite mosque and shrine in Samarra. "They came to the brink (of civil war) ... but they have decided that that is not what they want and they have pulled back from it."

http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp Third Intifada imminent - Friday, February 10, 2006 @ 1:24:49 AM Spoke several excellent sources re Israel and Palestinians, and all agree that a third intifada is imminent, though one did call it a war, not an intifada. Hamas will not relent on its position that it is committed to a violent defeat of Israel. The intifada will be run by Al Aqsa from the West Bank, especially the Balata refugee camp, and by Islamic Jihad from the West Bank and Gaza. The third intifada will include suicide belts as well as the first ever rocket attacks from the...

This describes it typically, the "payback" of a 'Palestinian' patient, From Patient to Suicide Bomber When she's also using that sick excuse of the notorious Arab boy, which -- as turned out -- was only a "Palestinian" stunt & was in fact murdered by Arabs! - The Israeli Crime That Wasn’t) Video - Palestinian patient tried to blow up in the Israeli hospital where she was treated. "Palestinian" woman that wanted to blow up the very hospital was treated in. SUICIDE BOMBER WANNABE: Wafa al-Biri, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman, attempted to kill the doctor who had saved her life. But...

President George W. Bush addressed the Hispanic Alliance for Free Trade at the Organization of American States in Washington First Lady Laura Bush spoke at a fundraiser for Rep. Jim Gerlach, R-Pa., in King of Prussia, Pa Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at the 75th anniversary celebration honoring the creation of the Department of Veterans Affairs held at Constitution Hall in Washington US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continues her middle east tour amid controversy over the treatment of US official and a NBC reporter Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2005 The Dearborn group ACCESS, which helps local Middle Easterners with financial help and other social services, is now accused of fraud involving visiting pregnant women. According to a criminal complaint, a task force has been investigating whether ACCESS employees have aided pregnant Middle Eastern women defraud the state’s Medicaid system. So far, only one employee has been formally charged. The pregnant women apparently come to Michigan on a visitor’s visa and a short time before they’re ready to deliver, apply for emergency Medicaid knowing they have no intention of establishing residency. After the baby is born,...

SYRIAN CHURCH Syrian Surprise: Christians Free to Worship By George Thomas CWNews CWNews.com –On Friday nights in the old city of Damascus, cars crowd through the streets and people relate to each other. It was a short distance from here that the apostle Paul had his dramatic encounter with God, and received his Life-Purpose to spread the Gospel. Today, Syrian Christians are continuing to follow in Paul's footsteps. On this Friday night, while some Syrians are wondering about the future, a small team of Evangelical Christians is out on the streets of Damascus, sharing about their encounters with the man...

POLITICAL reform and popular participation in decision-making are no longer optional in the Middle East but are necessary and almost inevitable, HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani said yesterday. “The absence of democracy and the slackening in political reform have led to most of the economic and social suffering, especially in the region,” the Emir said in an address read out by HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani at the opening session of the Second Doha Development Forum (DDF 2005) at the Ritz. The session was attended by a gathering of political leaders, intellectuals, economists...

NEWS Key role for NATO in Middle East? ReutersA Palestinian man gestures in front of an Israeli border policeman yesterday during a protest against Israel’s barrier in the West Bank village of Beit Surik. A key NATO role in the Middle East could help establish greater stability and improve prospects for peace.By Aristotle Tziampiris (1)NATO can play a key role in the stabilization and transformation of the Middle East. The longstanding alliance should in particular address the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. It is worth exploring not only the use of NATO training options, or dispatching NATO troops to police a future...

WHILE THE crowds of the Cedar Revolution were chanting “freedom and democracy” in the squares and streets of Beirut, another revolution that will go much further in reshaping the Middle East has gone unnoticed. Saudis have been queueing over the past few weeks to vote in the first elections in the oil-rich kingdom. To be sure, the exercise in Saudi Arabia is not a model of democracy. The elections concerned only half of the 1,200 seats in the municipal councils, with the other half going to government appointees. Worse still, women were not allowed to vote, let alone stand for...

March 14 issue - Events in the Middle East over the past few weeks have confirmed the theories of that great scholar of the region, Thomas (Tip) O'Neill. The late speaker of the House's most memorable aphorism was "All politics is local." It's true even of the politics of rage. As long-repressed societies in the Middle East open up, we are discovering that their core concerns are not global but local. Most ordinary Arabs, it turns out, are not consumed by grand theories about the clash between Islam and the West, or the imperialism of American culture, or even the...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Revolutions do not stand still. They either move forward or they die. We are at the dawn of a glorious, delicate, revolutionary moment in the Middle East. It was triggered by the invasion of Iraq, the overthrow of Saddam, and televised images of 8 million Iraqis voting in a free multiparty election. Which led to the obvious question throughout the Middle East: Why Iraqis and not us?</p>

President Bush, your country needs you. You are better situated than anyone else alive to pull Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects out of the ditch. Granted, success is a long shot, but you can shorten the odds, if anyone can. Ask your son to make you his special envoy to the Middle East. Maximal U.S. engagement is risky. But it might work -- if the president puts the right sort of person in charge. George H.W. Bush is 80 years old, happily retired, and presumably disinclined to wade into the world's most intractable conflict. But perhaps he could be tempted. After being...

Damascus (dpa) - Syrian President Bashar Assad underscored Wednesday the importance of conducting dialogue between Syria and the United States for the benefit of the two countries, the official Syrian news agency Sana reported. Assad spoke after a meeting with visiting U.S. congressman Gary Ackerman, who travelled to Damascus from Egypt. Sana said the talks centred on the ``situation in the region and the current developments in Iraq and the occupied Palestinian lands, as well as the Middle East peace process, terrorism and ways of combating it''. The American Cultural Center in Damascus said the talks covered ``the full range...

This has been bothering me since the first hostage was kidnapped in the Middle East and shown on "their" or Al Jasira [sp?] website. As a website owner and operator in order to still continue to have my ISP Host to still allow my website to be on the Internet, I have to agree to their Terms of Service agreement. Most of these ISP's TOS rules have been similar to these: 7. Using a #@%^&.com hosted domain that, in our sole opinion, has been used for the following (but not limited to) activities: a. Transmitting Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE). b....

Rana's father is going to the airport at 4 p.m., and she can either get married, or leave the country with him. He supplies her with a list of eligible bachelors who have asked for her hand in marriage. But she is in love with Khalil. Can she find him, ask him to marry her, find a registrar, get her hair done, gather the relatives and get married -- all before 4 o'clock? This could be the description of a Hollywood romantic comedy. And indeed it is a romantic comedy of sorts, as romance and comedy survive in the midst...

"The troops returning home are worried. "We've lost the peace," men tell you. "We can't make it stick." . . . Friend and foe alike, look you accusingly in the face and tell you how bitterly they are disappointed in you as an American. . . . Never has American prestige in Europe been lower. . . . Instead of coming in with a bold plan of relief and reconstruction we came in full of evasions and apologies. . . . A great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease. The taste of victory had...

03 Apr 2002 13:24Vatican says Israel "humiliating" Palestinians (Adds further quotes, background) VATICAN CITY, April 3 (Reuters) - The Vatican sharply criticised Israel on Wednesday for imposing "unjust conditions and humiliations" on the Palestinians and also denounced acts of terrorism targeting the Jewish state. In a strongly worded statement, the Vatican said it had called in the Israeli and U.S. ambassadors to the Holy See on Tuesday to discuss the crisis in the Middle East. Although it condemned acts of terrorism, in apparent reference to a recent wave of Palestinian suicide attacks, the statement also included a long list of criticisms of...

As casualties continue to mount in the Israeli-Palestinian imbroglio, questions are asked about what Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon#146;s next move will be. There are Jews on the right and Jews on the left who, for their own reasons are critical of Sharon for either doing to much or too little in dealing with Yasser Arafat#146;s violence and madness. In my opinion, there are three primary concerns facing Sharon. Firstly, Israel knows that it can shut down the Palestinian Authority within 24 hours and re-impose the Civil Administration after the guns have been confiscated and peace restored. Yet, Sharon has...