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© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com JERUSALEM – Newly installed Israeli President Shimon Peres has quietly drafted a plan for the Jewish state to evacuate and transfer to the Palestinians nearly the entire West Bank and several Arab Israeli cities located within territory that is undisputedly Israel's according to the international community, WND has learned. The West Bank is strategic territory that runs alongside Jerusalem and is within rocket range of Tel Aviv and Israel's international airport. It is home to many biblical Jewish communities and some of Judaism's holiest sites. Peres has presented his initiative to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and to...

To the South, or to the West? Syria, under pressure from the UN Tribunal investigating the murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and under additional UN (plus Lebanese, French and American) pressure to halt the flow of weapons and fighters into Lebanon and Iraq, has issued two sets of warnings: to the south and to the west. To Israel and to Lebanon. A Ba’ath official told The New York Sun, “If Israel doesn’t vacate the strategic Golan Heights before September, Syrian guerillas will immediately launch ‘resistance operations’ ... Damascus is preparing for Israeli retaliation following Syrian guerilla attacks and...

A member of PM Ehud Olmert's Kadima party proposed transferring control of Judea and Samaria to a European task force until the establishment of a Palestinian state. Following the establishment of the state, the strategic territory would be handed to security forces associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The proposal comes after WND broke the story earlier this week according to top European and Egyptian diplomatic sources Israel has been conducting behind-the-scene negotiations to hand over most of Judea and Samaria to Abbas' security forces. The sources said the transfer of security control to Abbas would be coordinated by...

Muslim’s association ‘surprised’ at absence of land The Muslim’s Association of Iceland has sent out a press release in which it expresses its surprise at not having been awarded land to build a mosque in Reykjavík, while the Reykjavík District Council has signed a declaration of intent to award the Russian Orthodox Church and the Pagan Society of Iceland land to build places of worship. This is reported in the main online media. The Muslim’s Association first applied for land to build a mosque seven years ago, but has received no definitive answer from the city. While the Association would...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50385 Friday, May 26, 2006 3rd intifada coming – thanks to Bush Posted: May 26, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern By Patrick J. Buchanan © 2006 Creators Syndicate Inc. When there is no solution, there is no problem, observed James Burnham, the former Trotskyite turned Cold War geostrategist. Burnham's insight came again to mind as President Bush ended his meeting with Ehud Olmert by announcing that the Israeli prime minister had brought with him some "bold ideas" for peace. And what bold ideas might that be?...

Israel's inner cabinet voted on November 1st to request the European Union to monitor and secure the Egyptian-Gaza border. Sylvan Shalom, Israel's foreign minister, told Haaretz, "Our objective is for the Europeans to have enforcement capabilities in the field, and not just a symbolic presence". That Israel would rely on the Europeans to help guarantee any dimension of a developing Israeli-Palestinian peace is a significant shift. It certainly presents a major foreign policy challenge for the EU, which has offered itself in many roles but not as an enforcer. But it also shows Israel's underlying desire for a stronger relationship...

Bible Scholar: Road Map a Path to America's Destruction By Stan Jeter For CWNews July 3, 2003 What does bad weather in the U.S. have to do with peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians? A lot-say some Bible scholars. CBN.com – What does bad weather in the U.S. have to do with peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians? A lot-say some Bible scholars. The problem, they say, is that America has been pressuring Israel to 'surrender land for peace'. Land the Jews say God promised them 4,000 years ago. It seems with every major U.S. action to pressure...

Jun. 16, 2003 Martin Indyk: Rabin, Peres, Barak, Bibi were all willing to return Golan By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF Former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said Monday that former Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak and Binyamin Netanyahu, who served during President Bill Clinton's presidency, were willing to return the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for a comprehensive peace agreement. Indyk was speaking at a Tel-Aviv University symposium as to the failure of the Camp David peace talks. According to Indyk, the greatest challenge for the Israeli leaders was to bring "the Lion...

With the latest attack on Israelis by Palestinian terrorists, it is time to re-evaluate Israel's current strategy with regard to the intifada. And it is time for America to re-evaluate its plan for peace in the Middle East. Israel's strategy under Ariel Sharon has been one of defensive retaliation. Mass movement of Israeli troops into Palestinian controlled areas has occurred only after Palestinian suicide attacks against Israelis. It has not been completely unsuccessful. With each incursion, Israeli troops have been able to target and either arrest or kill Palestinian terrorists and scatter others from their comfortable nests. Still, it hasn't...

PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST Senate Floor Statement by U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla) March 4, 2002 I was interested the other day when I heard that the de facto ruler, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah, made a statement which was received by many in this country as if it were a statement of fact, as if it were something new, a concept for peace in the Middle East that no one had ever heard of before. I was kind of shocked that it was so well received by many people who had been down this road before. I...