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The decision by three Arab states to make peace with Israel can be credited both to efforts by the Trump administration and the recognition by these Sunni states that their security would improve against the ongoing threats they face from Turkey and Iran. Iran and its proxies interfere with Arab states while promoting their Shi’ite revolutionary ideology; likewise, Turkey pushes its Sunni revolutionary ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the region. Turkey and Iran look to overthrow the Sunni Arab states that do not align with them, such as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. The normalization deals between the...

Newly acquired intelligence reports indicate several Arab countries in the Middle East are lobbying the US to strike Iran this year, Israel's Channel 10 reported. According to the report, which is said to be making its rounds in Britain's political circles, Saudi Arabia wants the Obama administration to attack Iran's nuclear facilities before the final withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. US president has vowed to close the door on American military involvement in Iraq by year’s end, but Riyadh is reportedly afraid Iran will use the American exit to take over the country.

Newly acquired intelligence reports indicate several Arab countries in the Middle East are lobbying the US to strike Iran this year, Israel's Channel 10 reported. According to the report, which is said to be making its rounds in Britain's political circles, Saudi Arabia wants the Obama administration to attack Iran's nuclear facilities before the final withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

Arab nations rejected Saddam exile plan From correspondents in Dubai29-10-2005 From: Reuters   Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had secretly accepted a last-minute plan to go into exile to avert the 2003 Iraq war, but Arab leaders shot the proposal down, Al Arabiya television reported today.UAE President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan made the proposal for Saddam to go into exile at an emergency Arab summit just weeks before the US-led war began in March 2003. But the 22-member Arab League, led by Secretary-General Amr Moussa, refused to consider the initiative. "We had got the final agreement from the...

KILROY: BEEB HAS GIVEN IN Television presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk says the BBC has "given way" to a lobby demanding his resignation. The Corporation has suspended his talk show while there is an investigation into anti-Arab comments in a newspaper report. Mr Kilroy-Silk said he had hoped the Corporation would have "kept the programme going and dealt with the criticisms". The 61-year-old caused a furore last week in his Sunday Express column by describing Arabs as "suicide bombers, limb-amputators, women repressors". Speaking on Tonight with Trevor McDonald, on ITV1 tonight, Mr Kilroy-Silk admitted he was in a "difficult position". However, he...

The United States gives out $13.3 billion tax dollars in direct Foreign Aid annually. The United States is above and beyond the single most generous benefactor of the United Nations, donating $2.4 billion dollars of YOUR money, to primarily third-world dictators. This amount is 25% of the United Nations budget. In addition, the United States also gives another $1.4 billion tax dollars to United Nations' programs and agencies. The American taxpayers fund more for the United Nations than ALL of the other 177 member nations COMBINED. What most Americans do not realize is that the vast majority of the recipients...

The Iraq war isn't about oil.  It's about overhauling the middle-east.  As one caller put it, there's a move on to advance a 'greater Israel' going on here.  Only those 'in the know' are aware of it.  Obviously he was.  Evidently you and I aren't. Shehata comes off as a moderate, then slips in the inuendo so gracefully that you wind up asking yourself, did he just say that?  Notably missing are any questions or answers regarding the evil that middle-eastern leaders perpetrate on their own citizens.  You get the impression that his own people are for the most part...

After the War 'Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.' So wrote British historian A.J.P. Taylor in 1961. All the 20th century empires forgot the lesson and all perished of wounds suffered in Great Wars: the Ottoman, Russian Austro-Hungarian, and German empires in World War I, the Japanese in World War II, the French and British the morning after. Comes now the turn of the Americans. Guided through the Cold War by conservative statesmen like Eisenhower and...

WASHINGTON –– The Justice Department has chosen Sept. 11 as the starting date for a new program that will require tens of thousands of foreign visitors to be fingerprinted and photographed at the border, U.S. officials announced Monday. The security program, developed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, will begin at several unnamed ports of entry and will mostly affect those from Muslim and Middle Eastern countries. After a 20-day testing period, all remaining ports of entry will implement the new system on Oct. 1, 2002. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the program will correct some of the problems that...

If when Moses said to Pharaoh, "Let my people go," Pharaoh had replied, "Good idea; I'll do it right away," that would have served one of God's purposes: Freeing the Jews to be His people and to worship Him. But it wouldn't have served God's other purpose: to demonstrate His power. The U.S. needs the Arab countries to stop supporting terrorist organizations, and it is trying to court them — especially Saudi Arabia — to back the U.S. fight against terrorism. But if these countries told the U.S., "good idea, we'll get right to it," it would serve only...

For all the saturation coverage of the Middle East situation, an important element has been missed by the passing caravans of instant experts. Namely: it is not a Palestinian-Israeli conflict but an Arab-Israeli conflict. President George W. Bush's statement that the Arab nations have a crucial responsibility shows someone in Washington understands the game. George Mitchell, of Mitchell Plan fame, is trotted out regularly by the big media to talk about his road map for negotiations. Mitchell was a key player in achieving the Good Friday Agreement for Northern Ireland peace. He emphasizes that while it was difficult, something very...