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7/16 Middle East Live Thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666163/posts ^ | 7/16/06 | me

Posted on 07/15/2006 11:24:32 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

09:19 MDA: More than 20 people hurt in Katyusha rocket strike in Haifa (Channel 2)

09:16 Residents of Acre, Haifa and its suburbs told to enter bomb shelters (Israel Radio)

09:15 Tenth Katyusha rocket lands in Haifa (Israel Radio)

09:15 Explosions heard in Rosh Hanikra (Israel Radio)

09:11 Katyusha rockets hit Acre and suburbs around Haifa Bay (Channel 2)

09:06 Report: Three to five explosion heard in central Haifa (Israel Radio)

08:47 Chirac: Forces threatening Lebanon`s security, sovereignty must be stopped (AP)

08:41 Sgt. Tal Amgar killed on Navy ship to be buried 16.00 Sun. at Ashdod cemetery (Itim)

08:39 Chirac calls for `show of moderation` in Lebanon, says cease-fire needed (Reuters)

08:37 IDF denies report of air raid on power station south of Beirut (Haaretz)

08:36 Hezbollah says it fought off attempt by IDF ground forces to cross Lebanese border (AP)

08:35 Bush urges Israel `to be mindful of the consequences` of its military actions (AP)

08:19 Jewish man arrested after threatening to stab Palestinians in J`lem`s Old City (Itim)

08:15 Al Manar: Nasrallah to give an interview later Sunday to prove he`s well (Israel Radio)


TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; islam; melivethread; middleeast; muhammadsminions; ww3; wwiii
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To: SE Mom

I posted that earlier...I thought that I had entered a parallel universe...


2,081 posted on 07/16/2006 4:36:46 PM PDT by sofaman ("Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." Franklin D. Roosevelt)
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To: SE Mom
" Ok- I don't get it. What is going on? This is getting out of hand. France says Israel has the right to defend itself "

Time to choose sides and france knows The U.S. is it's best bet in a crunch.

2,082 posted on 07/16/2006 4:36:46 PM PDT by Kakaze (American: a Citizen of the United States of America........not just some resident of said continent)
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To: SE Mom

Didn't France get the morning DNC talking points fax blast...the WH isn't supposed to have any allies on any subject at any time.


2,083 posted on 07/16/2006 4:37:06 PM PDT by Dolphy
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To: sofaman

oh dear..sorry I missed it...I would have checked to be sure I was breathing...

2 hours and counting ;)


2,084 posted on 07/16/2006 4:38:02 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: flaglady47

Judaism is a religion, not a race. Someone isn't half Catholic or half Protestant, so they aren't half Jewish. Wesley Clarke by virtue of the fact that his mother was not Jewish, is not Jewish, per Jewish law (Halachah).


2,085 posted on 07/16/2006 4:39:05 PM PDT by sofaman ("Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." Franklin D. Roosevelt)
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To: SE Mom
WOW. Too many shocks..Sunni's asking US for help...France saying Israel has right to defend itself...

What next?

Media won't say this, but recently in Iraq, there's been a dramatic drop in coalition casualties.

Let's cross our fingers and hope things will continue to improve in Iraq.

2,086 posted on 07/16/2006 4:39:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican (Everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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To: RasterMaster
I fixed the image


2,087 posted on 07/16/2006 4:40:06 PM PDT by jbstrick ( I've never been to heaven, but I've been to Oklahoma)
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To: sofaman

I'm good, sofa. Spending alot of time rooting for the IDF and the IAF. Hoping Israel will stay the course and get this job done right.


2,088 posted on 07/16/2006 4:40:26 PM PDT by Bahbah (Democrat Motto: Why not the worst)
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To: sofaman

Such a good point.

Just WHO would the Dems talk to, Hezbollah, and where, in one of their headquarters or training camps? Any Dem who says he/she thinks we should "talk" to them should be asked to go meet with them face-to-face themselves, on their turf. LOL.

Someone here said earlier that the way Dems talk, you'd think they have some magic machine to fix it all.


2,089 posted on 07/16/2006 4:41:46 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: Bahbah

Love your tagline, Bahbah..


2,090 posted on 07/16/2006 4:42:05 PM PDT by cardinal4 (America, despite the usual suspects, stands firmly with Israel..)
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To: justiceseeker93

P.S., here is Wesley Clark's early years background, from Wikipedia:

"lark was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 23, 1944. His father, Benjamin J. Kanne, was a Democratic Chicago Councilman, World War I veteran, delegate at the 1932 Democratic National Convention (where Franklin Roosevelt was first nominated) and lawyer who died in 1948 when Wesley Clark was almost 4 years old.

Benjamin was the son of Jacob Kanne and Ida Goldman, immigrants from Russia (Clark's middle name, Kanne, refers to his grandfather's lineage as a Kohen, a descendant of the ancient Jewish priests).1

After the death, Veneta Updegraff Bogard Kanne, Clark's mother, who was a Methodist, returned to her Ubdegraff parents' home in Little Rock, Arkansas. Through the UpdeGraff line, Wesley Clark's ancestry goes back to American colonial, pre-revolutionary times and the Pennsylvania Dutch/Germans.Three of the "Original 13" who came over from the Dutch sector of Kresfeld Germany and were the first settlers of Pennsylvania were UpdeGraffs (OpdeGraeffs) and UpdGraffs fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Veneta, Clark's mother, went back to work as a bank teller/secretary, raising her son as a single working mother, with the help of Clark's maternal grandparents who worked in an Arkansas lumber mill. The death of Wes Clark's biological father left the nearly four-year old Wes with a speech impediment that he would eventually overcome by the age of 7. During Clark's primary campaign in 2004, his cousin remarked that they grew up poor but that Clark always drove himself to study hard without any prodding from adults, a child consciously limiting his own play time so that he could go study. During this Cold War era, he started learning Russian on his own because he wanted to understand how the other side thought. He stated that the only thing his deceased Democratic Party activist father left him was a navy uniform and a love of family and country. He would find his life's calling in John F. Kennedy's speech, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

In 1954, when Wesley was 9, Veneta married a former banker Victor Clark, who adopted Wesley.

Wesley grew up Baptist in Little Rock, attended public school, and was very active in the Boys and Girls club and in Southern Baptist Church activities and summer camps.

He graduated from Hall High School in Little Rock as valedictorian, having led the swim team to the state championship."


2,091 posted on 07/16/2006 4:42:18 PM PDT by flaglady47
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To: jbstrick

I like it! Thanks, ROFL!


2,092 posted on 07/16/2006 4:43:14 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Big Tents" you get Clowns & Circus Freaks! The road to HELL is paved with LIEberals!)
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To: jbstrick
Word To Your Mother


2,093 posted on 07/16/2006 4:45:14 PM PDT by cmsgop ( President Mahmud Ahmadinejad Must Purify Himself in The Waters of Lake Minnetonka)
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To: flaglady47

This is an article that details just what Hezbollah's arsenal is expected to contain.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666857/posts


2,094 posted on 07/16/2006 4:45:22 PM PDT by Peach (Prayers for our dear friends in Israel.)
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To: sofaman

OMG...Chrissy Matthews just asked some buy from the WaPo..who is in the Middle East.

"What are the Israelis afraid of...??"


2,095 posted on 07/16/2006 4:45:54 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: MinorityRepublican
Media won't say this, but recently in Iraq, there's been a dramatic drop in coalition casualties.

Makes sense, the Iranian's attention is elsewhere these days..

2,096 posted on 07/16/2006 4:46:07 PM PDT by cardinal4 (America, despite the usual suspects, stands firmly with Israel..)
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To: cmsgop

Who is that?


2,097 posted on 07/16/2006 4:46:12 PM PDT by Dog
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To: jbstrick

LOL, that's good. It seems like "unvarnished" could be changed to "tarnished." Or even "why I made an ass of myself on Fox today" for the subtext.


2,098 posted on 07/16/2006 4:47:10 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: Peach

Anyone catch a report about Israel hitting a Lebanese Army base? It was on MSNBC, I think, a few minutes ago. Supposedly Israel killed some Lebanese soldiers.


2,099 posted on 07/16/2006 4:47:32 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
someone made a command decision to forgo the panel

They needed somewhere put the live update. As a rule, you cut out your own folks, not the guests.

2,100 posted on 07/16/2006 4:48:16 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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