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Jerusalem — Israeli troops are keeping at least 400,000 Palestinians under effective house arrest with round-the-clock curfews and largely barring the media from covering its escalating invasion of the West Bank — an operation that has faced minimal Palestinian resistance and limited international criticism. The army began Operation Determined Path last week, after two suicide bombings in Jerusalem killed 26 Israelis. An earlier wave of Palestinian attacks set off a similar six-week sweep through the West Bank in late March. But unlike that first extended foray, when Israeli troops encountered heavy fire in several towns and besieged the office of...

So far this is just a developing story. However, I hope the publishers lose a bundle on her book. I hope Bubba leaves his publishers holding the bag, just like he left Bob Bennett holding it over legal fees. Plus, anyone who thinks there will be any new revelations in this is crazy.

MIDI - I AM WOMAN I am rabbi with a gun…I will be victim of no one So you terrorists are warned, don't mess with me I will shoot you if I must…you'll be the one who's turned to dust On the streets of Brooklyn, you are gonna see So you can bet the whole farm…there won't be another Holocaust This time we'll stand up…too many people we've lost We're committed, we will defend ourselves We are strong…I'm set to lock and load…I am rabbi I am rabbi with a gun and…I am never gonna run and It is...

U.S. National Security No Longer the SALT of the Earth By The Globalist On June 13th, 2002, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union expired. Six months before, on December 13th, 2001, President Bush gave the required notice of the unilateral withdrawal by the United States from the treaty. On June 14th, 2002, Russia pulled out of the 1993 START II nuclear arms treaty. But arms treaties are not the only relics of the old superpower relationship that have disappeared. As Eastern European editor Alexei Bayer writes, superpower summits that gave rise...

<p>The GOP gubernatorial candidate has said his success as a businessman qualifies him to lead the state. But a closer look at his firm reveals bankruptcies, losses and layoffs.</p> <p>LOS ANGELES -- Republican candidate for governor Bill Simon is basing his first run for public office largely on his business record.</p>

Speech before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on September 7, 2000: Madam Justice Louise Arbour  "The Rule of Law and the Emerging Culture of Accountability on the World Scene" Thank you very much for this generous, too generous, introduction. I have to tell you--, although they were watching me, too, I can tell you, so I can testify first-hand as to how ferocious they can be in the pursuit of human rights ideals.I'm delighted to be amongst you today, particularly since I have left my post in the Hague almost a year ago--it will be a year next week. In...

Let Them Smoke Dope: Scots police forces stop arresting cannabis users Police officers have been told not to arrest anyone caught with cannabis for personal use, the Sunday Mail can reveal. All eight Scottish forces adopted the secret policy because they were wasting time arresting suspects with small amounts of the drug. Last night a source close to Justice Minister Jim Wallace confirmed cannabis has effectively been decriminalised in secret. Police have become frustrated after prosecutors binned 45,000 drug cases last year - one in five of all reported. The source said: "There might not be a formal signed policy...

UNCASVILLE, Conn. - The Mohegan Sun casino officially threw open the doors of its glitzy $1 billion hotel expansion this weekend with a star-studded $2 million bash that was more fun than creaming the house with a royal flush. Ex-President Clinton wailed on the sax with the Blues Brothers, talk-show titan Rosie O'Donnell dueted with Cyndi Lauper and Cher was Living Proof that Vegas-style entertainment has a new home in New England. ``When you have Cher, Cyndi Lauper and Steven Tyler in the house, why would you even think of going to bed?'' ex-``Party of Five'' gal Jennifer Love Hewitt...

This little girl, the same age as Gal Aizenman, is taking part in a “graduation exercise” at a kindergarten run by the “Islamic Charitable Association” in Gaza. She is commemorating the ghastly lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah. More than anything, this is what has turned me against the Palestinian “cause”—the systematic, organized perversion and abuse of their own children in the service of hate and bloodlust. If anything on this wretched planet deserves to be called evil, it is this. Tal G has an excerpt from the Maariv article: The article describes a "graduation exercise": The kids burned...

THE hottest new getaway place opened its friendly doors to the Northern Ireland public for the first time this summer. Families looking to find a safe haven for their kids, sun-seekers expecting an instant tan, and late-night revellers are all exceptionally catered for in the Turkish resort of Kemer. Based in the Antalya region of Turkey, this area was once home to the ancient Celts (who became the Galatians) during their migration eastwards, while the main tribes travelled westwards into Europe. Kemer itself is an hour's transfer from Antalya international airport - a four-and-a-half hour flight from Belfast International Airport....

Capitol Q&A Is Al Gore A Terrorist? Airport security officials searched former Vice President Al Gore twice this month as he attempted to board commercial airliners.On June 7, as he stood waiting to get on a Midwest Express flight at Reagan National Airport in suburban Virginia, the guards pulled Gore aside and frisked him. They then rifled his bag. "You’re looking out and seeing Al Gore’s unmentionables in his big, carry-on suitcase," eyewitness Mark Graul, chief of staff to Rep. Mark Green (R.-Wisc.) told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "You could tell what he was thinking, ‘This is not happening to...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Background / CNN blinks first in battle with Israeli officials After months of gnawing agitation over what they perceive as the pro-Palestinian bias of the international media, Israeli officials, and not a small portion of the public, were able to rub their hands with some glee Sunday as the mighty CNN news network appeared to be succumbing to the latest round of anti-media pique in Israel. After the founder of the 24-hour news network, Ted Turner, last week described...

There may be hope for the Clinton Library here in Little Rock after all. It could turn out to be more than the usual presidential shrine if it follows the lead of a seminar just held at Fayetteville, Ark., home of the University of Arkansas. Despite its typically soporific academic title ("Vantage Points: Perspectives on the Clinton Presidency") the two-day meeting turned out to be a serious, if early, exploration of the weird decade we've just gone through. The seminar brought together an assemblage of experts on the Age of Clinton and, glory be, most of them didn't come across...

The US Military Must Stay Strong Publisher/Editor Jack Browne Military electronics has long been the backbone of the microwave industry. For many companies, it was the only source of business. But then that long-await-ed commercial application—in wireless communications— came along during the 1990s. Many companies were lured by all the promises of fast growth and wealth from wireless service providers, infrastructure builders, and handset suppliers, and many said “farewell” to their former customers on the military side. Business is cyclical in most markets, however, and the microwave industry is no exception. Almost as quickly as the wireless markets emerged and...

By common consent, the "dirty'' bomb story bombed. Two weeks ago, John Ashcroft announced that authorities had apprehended an American citizen, Abdullah al-Muhajir, formerly Jose Padilla, for plotting to explode a ''dirty'' bomb, which, as Ashcroft helpfully explained, "is highly toxic to humans and can cause mass death and injury." He was being detained "for the safety of all Americans." As my colleague Robert Novak noted, the Dow Jones immediately dropped 80 points on the announcement, while the rest of America gave a massive shrug. That's because the Dow was at the mercy of a highly sophisticated, educated, well-informed elite,...

A lot of white people are upset with the reparations movement. The reparations movement is an effort by people of African descent to be remunerated, compensated or indemnified for labor that our ancestors performed for white land- and business owners during the period of slavery in America. Let us not deceive ourselves. Nothing the government or the people of America now possess, or are even willing to share, will come close to making up for the enormity of the moral, psychological, physical, cultural, economic and spiritual degradation that has been foisted on its black citizens. Here is an attempt to...

CNN erred in giving more programming time to the family of a Palestinian suicide bomber than to his Israeli victims and tried to rectify the mistake, the network's top news executive said Sunday during a damage-control visit to Israel. CNN's coverage of recent suicide bombings has provoked anger in Israel and led a local cable company to start carrying CNN's chief U.S. competitor, Fox News Channel. Fox said it expects others to follow suit. Recent comments from CNN founder Ted Turner describing both Israel and the Palestinians as terrorists have fueled Israeli anger. Interviewed on Israel Television, Eason Jordan, CNN's...

LONDON [MENL] -- The heir to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is said to have escaped an assassination attempt. Iraqi opposition sources said Qusay Hussein, the younger son of Saddam, survived a car bombing. The sources said Qusay was targeted on June 9 in Baghdad when his car was booby-trapped. The Supreme Revolutionary Council, a Shi'ite opposition group backed by Iran, said Qusay was coming out of the presidential palace and heading for the headquarters of Iraqi General Intelligence when he came under attack. Qusay was to have entered a waiting car that was rigged with a large bomb that came...

Filed at 3:53 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Sunday the war in Afghanistan was only partly a military success because of the ``enormous mistake'' of sending Afghan forces into the mountains after entrenched al-Qaida fighters rather than using tested U.S. troops. Last year's operation ousted Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia and routed the al-Qaida organization's forces the Taliban were shielding. Kerry, considered a potential presidential candidate in 2004, was asked whether he judged it a military success. ``Only partly,'' said Kerry, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. ``I think that our troops did a...

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Jean Chretien's not only fighting to remain as Liberal leader, he's battling to keep his anti-poverty struggle in Africa alive. When he sits down this week with the world's most powerful leaders for the two- day, G8 summit in Kananaskis, Alta. he'll be trying to keep U.S. President George Bush's eyes focused on Africa -- and away from the Middle East. Then there's the ever-present debate on international terrorism, the threat of nuclear war between Pakistan and India, and the anti-globalization protesters to further dilute his call to rich countries to help relieve the poverty in...