Posted on 01/10/2007 1:06:43 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
RIGHT!
See my link at post #1....
Its great that they hate us; when they also fear us, I would say mission accomplished.
CAMERA staff prompted a correction at the Associated Press, after the wire service again misreported the details of United Nations Security Council Resolution 242. The amended language makes clear the differences between the actual wording of 242 and the “Arab interpretation” of the resolution:
Error (Associated Press, Salah Nasrawi, 3/18/05): The Jordanian proposal is meant to amend a Saudi peace initiative adopted at the 2002 Arab summit held in Beirut, which offered Israel peace with all Arab nations on condition it returns all land seized in the six-day war of 1967 - including East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Syria's Golan Heights - in line with U.N. resolutions 242 and 338. [emphasis added]
Correction (Updated story, 3/18/05): The Saudi initiative offered Israel peace with all Arab nations on condition that Israel returns all land seized in the six-day war of 1967 in line with the Arab interpretation of U.N. resolution 242. [emphasis added]
The initiative also calls for the creation of a Palestinian state and a solution to the Palestinian refugee issue. Resolution 242, passed after the 1967 war, calls on Israel to withdraw "from territories occupied in the recent conflict" but does not say explicitly that the pullback should be from all such territories. However, Arabs view the resolution as just that - calling for Israeli withdrawal from East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Syria's Golan Heights.
While AP's Middle East coverage is still problematic, this same-day correction is a positive sign that the influential media outlet may be taking more seriously its journalistic responsibilities to "acknowledge substantive errors and correct them promptly."
Are the democrats going to have a prime time response right after the President speech?
Oh please, the Muslims have hated us since our country began. It has nothing to do with the fact that our soldiers were at their 'holy sites', or even that we support Israel. They hated us before that country even existed. They hate us because we're free, and we won't submit to their death cult.
I'm sure...of course Kennedy has already spoken....
U.S. Reportedly Targeted 20 in Somalia ~ of an Islamic movement linked to al-Qaida
LOL...... with gay pride days like Disneyland has??
This AP writer looks like he's been playing two ends against the middle and we're the middle.
I'd love to see a companion story: "Recent Events Fuel U.S. Ire Toward Arabs."
I just heard on Chris Matthew's Hardball that there would be no (D)emocrats response.
Outline of the speech:
This will be used to excuse the head choppers when they succeed in carrying out a big terrorist attack.
Lawmaker Warns Saudi Arabia against Crisis
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian MP here on Wednesday warned Saudi Arabia against the adoption of provocative measures, stressing that any regional crisis will be detrimental to Riyadh's interests as well.
Speaking to FNA, member of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Heshmatollah Felahat-Pisheh pointed to the recent warning of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei about the appearance of an anti-Iran coalition by the US, Britain and some regional Arab states, and mentioned, "They are seeking to take Iran into a critical condition."
"They actually aim to forge a situation similar to the Taef Plan in 1982, when some western and Arab countries hatched a plot against Iran," he reminded.
"The Supreme Leader's warning was meant to remind the other party that final result of the Taef plan was nothing but the defeat of Saddam's autocrat rule," the lawmaker added.
Stressing that Iran does not welcome crisis, he said, "The Iranian foreign minister in recent days has sent several messages to the western countries to voice Iran's preparedness to attend talks as we believe that negotiation is the final path for the settlement of Iran's nuclear issue."
The legislative official further pointed out that there won't arise any crisis in the region unless regional countries pave the ground, cause or act as the means for the creation of such a crisis.
He reminded that some Arab countries of the region have earlier served as the means and channels for the crises that Saddam Hussein created, and said, "The said crises inflicted huge damage on the region."
The MP warned that if any crisis arises, it won't be only Iran but all the regional countries which will have to sustain the inherent harms and damage of such a crisis.
"If Arab states do not play a negative role, Iran can reach compromise with other countries," he stated.
Referring to Saudi Arabia's role in sowing discord between the Muslim Shiites and Sunnites and deteriorating violence in Iraq as well as its negative stances in the face of the Israeli war against Lebanon, the official warned Saudi officials that they will also have to sustain the damage if any crisis emerges in the region.
"Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia did not continue the role which it took up at the time of Malek Abdullah and brought some profound and sudden changes to its foreign policy strategy instead," he mentioned, adding that the country's new strategy is based on sowing discord.
"performance of such a role which is practiced in the form of a regional strategy has been imposed by trans-regional states," the representative of Islam abad-e Gharb at the Islamic Consultative Assembly underscored.
Warning the neighboring countries about the consequences and aftermaths of sowing discord among Muslim Shiites and Sunnites and participating in an anti-Iran coalition, he said, "Regional countries are more in need of mutual understanding than confrontation. Therefore, if western powers choose the path to the enhancement of understanding, they will win success, otherwise, they will have to face continued crises in the region, which will result in their failure."
He called on regional states to give up any factor or measure of threat and invited them to move towards a diplomatic convention and understanding instead.
The parliament member further reminded that the plans devised and practiced by Arab countries have so far turned to be unsuccessful due to the fact that they have ignored Iran's role and served to be of a merely Arab nature.
"There is a reality in the Persian Gulf which is named Iran, thus, no Arab plan will be successful in the region unless it heeds Iran's role. We expect Arab countries to reach understanding with Iran to solve regional problems and not to turn the region into a battlefield for the wars of trans-regional states," he concluded.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8510200444
Gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims home from Saudi Arabia in central Iraq today, killing at least nine people, a provincial governor ...
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia denied the arrest of an aide to Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada Al Sadr in Madinah. Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour ...
OPINION
Dawn of a new Middle East Order
MAI YAMANI
10-Jan-07
SOMETIME this month, President George W Bush will _ reluctantly _ announce a new policy for the United States in Iraq. A new policy is needed not only in order to halt America's drift into impotence as it tries to prevent Iraq from spiralling into full-scale civil war, but also because the map of power in the Middle East has changed dramatically.
That map has been in constant flux for the last 60 years, during which the main players _ Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel, and Iran _ have formed and broken alliances. Now, something like a dividing line is emerging, and if Bush finally begins to understand the region's dynamics, he may be able to craft a policy with a chance of success.
This regional realignment is typified by the emergence of a de facto alliance that dare not speak its name. Israel and Saudi Arabia, seemingly the most unlikely of allies, have come together to contain their common enemy _ Iran, with its mushrooming influence in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine. Iran not only threatens Israel (and the region) with its desire for a nuclear capability and its Shi'a proxy militants, it is also seeking to usurp the traditional role of moderate Sunni Arab regimes as the Palestinians' defenders.
After decades of using concern for the Palestinian cause to shore up popular support for their own ineffective and undemocratic regimes, these moderate Arab leaders have now been put on the defensive by Iran's quest for hegemony. If Iran succeeds in being seen as the genuine patron of Palestinian national aspirations, it will also succeed in legitimising its claim for dominance in the Middle East.
Israel, a country in shock following its failure to destroy Hezbollah last summer, and humiliated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejhad's vow to "wipe Israel off the map" _ a threat backed up by Iran's support of Hamas and Hezbollah _ now talks about a "quartet of moderates" as the region's only hope. Indeed, Israel now sees its security as relying not so much on a US guarantee, but on Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey (which is seeking regional influence in fear of rejection by the European Union) restraining Iran and its paid proxies. According to Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres, Israel hopes to isolate and contain the Shi'a/Farsi spheres of power by forging open cooperation with the Sunni/Arab domain.
Saudi Arabia is just as eager to contain the Iranian threat and the growing "Shi'a crescent" that, with the empowerment of the Shi'a in Iraq, has moved westward to begin to include the Shi'a regions of the Kingdom. So it should be no surprise that the Saudi regime was the first to condemn Shi'a Hezbollah at the start of the war with Israel, and that it announced in December that it would support Iraq's Sunnis militarily should a precipitate US withdrawal incite a Sunni/Shi'a civil war there.
The Shi'a threat to the Saudi government is ideological. Indeed, it goes to the heart of the Saudi state's authority, owing to the Al Saud royal family's reliance on Wahhabi Islam to legitimate its rule. Since the Wahhabis consider the Shi'a apostates, the challenge from the Shi'a _ both within and without Saudi Arabia _ represents a mortal threat.
So Saudi Arabia is ready to cooperate with Israel not only against Iran, but also against other "radicals", such as Hamas. Remarkably, Palestine's Hamas prime minister, Ismael Haniyeh, was not received in Saudi Arabia in December, when he was travelling through the region pleading for support for his beleaguered government. Conservative Saudi Arabia prefers dealing with traditional and predictable leaders, such as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Lebanon's premier, Fouad Siniora, rather than firebrand populist leaders like Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah, Hamas' Khalid Meshal, and Iran's Ahmadinejhad.
Last year, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, worried by Shi'a expansionism, was persuaded by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the head of his National Security Council, to coordinate policy with Israel to counter Iran's growing influence. Israel, after all, is a "reliable enemy" for Saudi Arabia, having destroyed Nasser's Egyptian army in 1967 _ a time when the Saudis were fighting Egypt by proxy in Yemen. So Prince Turki al-Faysal, the long time head of Saudi intelligence, has met with Meir Dagan, the head of Israel's Mossad, while Bandar met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jordan the same month.
Yet covert support from Israel, America and the Saudis for Abbas and Siniora does little to help them in their domestic battles. From Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Sudan to Bahrain and Yemen _ indeed, throughout the Muslim world from Jakarta to Nigeria _ Islamic radicals have won the popularity sweepstakes.
A recent poll in Egypt ranked Nasrallah, Meshal and Ahmadinejhad as the three most popular figures. This leads to an unavoidable dilemma: Bush will have to choose between supporting democracy and backing those who want to fight Islamic radicalism.
Yet Israel, America, and the region's moderates can benefit from the deepening schism in the Arab/Muslim world. That schism is being consolidated by Saudi support of all the region's Sunni Muslims. It is this sense of "Sunni solidarity" that is becoming the decisive factor in the war for the soul of Islam and in the struggle for mastery in the Middle East that is now underway.
Mai Yamani is an author and broadcaster. Her most recent book is Cradle of Islam.
Project Syndicate
http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=16604
That's why I would rather spend $4 per gallon or more for my gasoline (Ethanol-based) or Diesel (Bio-Diesel) than buy it from these Rag-head terrorists. I am willing to spend more for home-grown fuels (and theoretically, the costs should go down if full-scale production were to come about).
I would love to be able to tell those Islamists- drink your crap...
I heard Laura Ingraham say once that the Left's logic is that we should not do anything to upset people who hate us and want to kill us, because they might hate us and want to kill us.
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Arab ire? When do the Arabs ever , ever stand up against their own Islamic violence and its perps? When do they ever, ever stop displaying anger, rioting, complaining and marching against Western values? Never. Ire? I hope Israel and W give them Ire!
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