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The Gulf state of Bahrain is to normalise relations with Israel, the diplomatic correspondent for Israel’s public broadcaster Kan said on Friday, without citing sources. Another Israeli reporter, Raphael Ahren of the Times of Israel, said U.S. President Donald Trump would on Friday announce that Bahrain was joining its neighbour the United Arab Emirates in formally establishing ties with Israel. The White House had no immediate comment. Trump will on Tuesday host a White House ceremony solemnising the Israel-UAE deal, which was announced on Aug. 13. The Kan reporter, Amichai Stein, said in a tweet that Bahrain Crown Prince Salman...

US envoys to the region must realize that the problem Palestinians have is Israel's existence, not its borders. Special US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell, the man charged with reconciling the Israelis and Palestinians, resigned this weekend. Mitchell, a former Senate majority leader in the US, failed to achieve peace between the two sides. There’s no disgrace in that – the line of failed envoys is long and well-known. He successfully brokered peace in Northern Ireland, but couldn’t even get things started in the Middle East. The question is, why? Obviously, it’s impossible to solve a problem without...

    But we were told that the Arabs hate us because of supposedly being biased against Arab "Palestinians"...Nov/2007 REMEMBER? Wild Arabist writers/"activists" have been flooding us for years with brainwashing nonsense as if the Arab Muslim world is "enraged" mainly by the "Palestinian" Israeli conflict.If only... -- this is what they have been selling us for so many years -- if only we'd be on the side of the "palestinian" Arabs, all would be singing kumbaya, the "peace loving" Arab world would just come rushing to embrace us. LIARS! Never mind the blatant daring hypocrisy of that Arab world,...

Name one concession Israel has made in recent years that has been reciprocated by its sworn enemies. This is not a trick question. There are none. That's why next month's announced "Middle East Summit" in Annapolis should be viewed as one more installment payment in selling out Israel and U.S. interests in the Middle East. While the United States continues to struggle to shore up democracy in Iraq, the Bush administration — like others before it — proceeds to undermine the likelihood that the region's first democracy will endure. At every negotiating session, Israel is pressured into making concessions for...

'Palestine': UNITED WE STAND IN EVIL! 'Palestinian' unity Israel, US rebuff Makkah accord http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/19/stories/2007021902451400.htm For the only 'unity' among 'Palestinian Arabs' is the anti Israel fascism of not even recognizing the "stranger", the "other", the non Muslim (mainly), the non Arab (mostly). A "unity" Orchestrated by those that export to the world the textbooks as "Christians being Pigs, Jews apes", the wonderful "moderate" Saudi Arabia, the Hatred kingdom, of course. Did you ever think this oily rich Goliath would ever lift a finger for it's Arab brothers? "Next to the Jews, we hate the 'Palestinians' the most." said Saudi King...

Again, Israel VS "Palestine" - Culture of Life VS Cult of DeathEnemies of Israel, especially the Islamo Arab pro-Jihadi-Death-cult, will never be able to understand why Israel is so involved in a reaction to rescue just ONE of it's youngsters that was kidnapped (July 2006), another cruel method by all time cruel "Palestinians". How can a cult that worships: cruelty, suicide, homicide, genocide, have a concept of saving lives, of rescue, of humanity? When evil sees humanity & compassion as a weakness and viciousness & terrorizing as heroic. The death cult "Palestinians' that value death over life (words of: Sheik...

"Palestinians" death cult - Humanity turned Upside down 9/11 & other terror victims in agony are to be cheered, danced & laughed at but monsters on humanity (on non Arabs & on their own people like) Al-Zarqawi & Saddam Hussein are to be sympathized with. They tell us day & night that they are about "freedom", yet, in their entire violent totalitarian society, not one person is ever really free. If they deliberately send their kids to be killed as murderers (bombers or shields for adult shooters), How do they expect us to take them seriously when they make a...

General The Wrong Kind of Mass Murderer by Ariel ...Non-Arab Muslims such as the Kurds in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran; the Berbers ¯ also known as the Amazighes ¯ in ... Once again, Arab racism marches on. ... http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14118Uncle Boutros and Uncle Tom: A lesson in Arab tolerance ...Having written somewhat myself on the subject of the forced Arabization of ... keep in mind that Arab racist attitudes also extended to those who--to jump ... http://www.kurdmedia.com/articles.asp?id=11344Arab leaders 'Reap what they saw', their failed racist attempts distinguishing between blood all these years - terror comes home to roost. http://lightonthings.blogspot.com/2006/04/terror-made-in-arabia-in-islamia.htmlRADICAL ISLAMISM...

Full List of Palestinian Political Parties The Palestinians have said that they were sick of the ongoing corruption and disorganization of the Fatah party. But does that justify electing a terrorist group into power? Despite common belief it was not just a vote between Fatah and Hamas. As noted above the Palestinians had EIGHT OTHER PARTIES they could have voted for besides Hamas. So why did they choose Hamas? Why did they choose the only Islamist Palestinian political party? The Palestinian society is the only in the Arab world which doesn't enforce any form of the backwards sharia law. Why...

Actor Richard Gere has embarked on another Mideast peace mission, touring the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday and endorsing an end to violence. In his third visit to the region in recent months, Gere has met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, a day after seeing Israeli leaders. On Tuesday, Gere visited a cultural center in Ramallah, the Palestinian administrative capital in the West Bank. He said Abbas' call for a halt to attacks against Israelis is important. "It is time to encourage the true face of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian movement," Gere said. Inside...

Israeli state bodies have been secretly diverting millions of dollars to build illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, an official report has revealed. Former state prosecutor Talia Sasson has recommended criminal investigations against those alleged to be involved. Israel is meant to remove unauthorised outposts on Palestinian land under the US-backed roadmap peace plan. Anti-settlement groups say more than 100 such outposts have sprung up, outside existing settlements. The report details how officials in the Ministries of Defence and Housing and the Settlement Division of the World Zionist Organisation spent millions of dollars from state budgets to support the...

President interviewed by Itar-Tass in advance of European trip President Bush said he is looking forward to meeting with his friend Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, on February 24 and would like to "reinvigorate" the relationship between the United States and Russia. "We've got the framework for a good strategic relationship," Bush said during an interview at the White House February 18 with Itar-Tass in advance of his visit to Belgium, Germany and the Slovak Republic. Rather than a "fresh start," Bush said, "I'd call it 'reinvigorate.' We've got the framework, and it gives us...

Pressure appears to be mounting for Israel's ambassador to America to pull out of a Columbia University conference on the Middle East conflict. Some members of the Jewish community have urged Israel's top diplomat in the country not to attend the conference, as a way for his country to express dissatisfaction over the university's response to complaints from students against anti-Israel members of the university's faculty. A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy, David Siegel, told The New York Sun yesterday the Israeli ambassador, Daniel Ayalon, has received "several inquiries from the Jewish community" regarding the envoy's participation in the conference,...

Hopes for Mideast Peace Breakthrough High GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A rare optimism is taking hold among Palestinians amid signs of a possible breakthrough in the long-deadlocked Mideast peace process. Palestinians are looking to next month's election to replace Yasser Arafat as a new opportunity for peace and perhaps the first real democracy in the Arab world - and their support for violent militants appears to be waning, polls say. The new hopes for peace - stronger than at any time since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising four years ago - are shared by Israel and much...

As Jews around the world begin observing Passover at sundown tonight, area Jewish leaders are watching to see if a modern-day liberation will help bring peace in Israel. The eight-day holiday commemorates the exodus of Hebrew slaves, led by Moses, from Egypt to what is now Israel. The path to peace in Israel today will be led by men named Sharon, Arafat and Bush. While President Bush was preparing for war with Iraq, he announced in March a "road map" for peace in Israel. Bush has called for the acceptance of a Palestinian state and has left little room for...

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is establishing a special department that will be responsible for implementing the road map for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. According to reports reaching Jerusalem, the CIA officers will coordinate supervision and monitoring of the implementation of the road map, and track both sides' implementation of their responsibilities. One team within the CIA department will focus on the reorganization of the Palestinian security services. The CIA move is seen as an indication of the seriousness with which the Americans intend to see the road map implemented. A government source said last night that the U.S. administration...

<p>RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA -- A crescent moon is rising over the Arabian desert as we finish a dinner of mezze and grilled lamb, then retire to a courtyard laid with Persian carpets. Our Saudi host asks the visiting journalists to introduce themselves and, discovering that several hail from the Midwest, begins a spirited discussion of the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Twins' stadium woes and the career prospects of Jesse Ventura.</p>

Dear Mr. Carter, Any honest person must be ashamed for you after reading your op-ed piece in the April 21 issue of The New York Times. It is replete with so many distortions, omissions, inaccuracies, even blatant lies, and tilted so much against Israel that it is impossible to let it go without comment.The title itself speaks volumes: “America Can Persuade Israel to Make a Just Peace.” This wording implies that it is Israel that objects to peace and all efforts must be directed towards forcing her to make this “just peace.” To prove this, you begin by enumerating Ariel...

Former Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said Sunday that U.S. troops should not be sent to the Mideast to keep the peace between Israel and the Palestinians. "No. Only unless there's a total and complete agreement that that's what all sides want. And we don't have anything remotely resembling that," he said in an interview with WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. Even if both sides were amenable to an outside peacekeeping force, the Reagan defense chief contended it would be a mistake to send U.S. forces. "I don't see any reason why Americans should have to do it. There are plenty...

A day after President Bush hinted that peace negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians pushed by ex-President Clinton had backfired, Secretary of State Colin Powell contradicted him, saying instead that the Clinton administration had actually done a good job. "President Clinton gave it his all," Powell told "Fox News Sunday." "He and Secretary Albright and National Security Advisor Berger and Dennis Ross and so many other people put their heart and soul into trying to get that agreement," the top Bush official explained. "And they came quite close to what would have been an historic agreement at the end...