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The Muslim world can build nukes (Iran), commit genocide (Sudan), Obama will come bearing apologies and huge aid packages. North Korea is launching missiles, Iran is building nukes, Saudi Arabia is sponsoring hate that translates into worldwide terrorism, Sudan is still massacring and raping, China is busy ethnic cleansing Tibet into a Chinese province… but the Obama Administration is furious, yes “furious” at only one country, Israel. What did Israel do? Well it’s building a hotel in Jerusalem. Washington is furious over the Interior Ministry’s anticipated approval of a plan to build a new hotel in East Jerusalem, just 100...

Saddam should be given the chance to avoid a war that seems inevitable To be credible, a UN ultimatum has to offer Saddam's regime a genuine way out if he chooses to take itDonald Macintyre 17 September 2002 Seen through the headlines, it was all beginning to look pretty simple. The US was determined to go to war against Iraq and slowly, and in most cases reluctantly, the rest of the world was falling into line. There were some diplomatic preliminaries to come in New York, but America's fellow permanent members of the UN Security Council had been left...