Iran displayed three of the detained Britons on television

On Friday, Iran displayed three of the detained Britons on television and released a letter from one saying she was being held because of "oppressive" British and U.S. behavior in Iraq. Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards detained the British navy personnel on March 23 in the Gulf. Iran says they had illegally crossed into its territory, but Britain maintains they were in Iraqi waters and has demanded their immediate release.

Right of return...

Israel opposes giving Palestinian refugees the right of return to their former homes in what is now the Jewish state, and it wants to hold onto some of the major settlement blocs in the occupied. West "There are interesting ideas there in the Arab plan, and we are ready to hold discussions and hear from the Saudis about their approach and to tell them about ours," Olmert told the Haaretz newspaper. But he added: "We will act cautiously and wisely out of a willingness to create a dynamic that will improve and strengthen the process." The right of return, Olmert told the Jerusalem Post, is "something we certainly can't agree to and we won't agree to." It is out of the question, he said. "I'll never accept a solution that is based on their return to Israel, any number."

I´m happy that the Israelis are positive to the Arab plan. I would like to see Israels proposals and describe some their own views. I get the impression that the Arab plan calls for a solution that the two sides could work out in negotiations. It would be a good thing to make so much clear..that there is not a question of signing the Arab plan as it is, but there will be negotiations and meetings with the quartet as well. I believed that was understood..Or maybe it´s me that haven´t looked into everything yet.. The Israelis and the Palestinians do need to take in consideration that Palestine is going to be an independent state to start with. And that issues as Palestinians refugees, mutual recognition and working to get militants to stop attacking Israel with rockets, which is a common problem both the Palestinians and the Israelis etc...have to be implemented in the peace process among other issues. I do think you you complicate things with the Palestinian refugees right to return, in that meaning; when Palestine is an independent state they can come home as much as they want..

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"I reiterate the sincerity of the Palestinian will in extending the hand of peace to the Israeli people"

Speaking at the end of the summit in Riyadh, Mahmoud Abbas urged Israel not to waste the chance for peace, saying the region would be face the threat of more war without a solution. "I reiterate the sincerity of the Palestinian will in extending the hand of peace to the Israeli people ... We should not waste more chances in the history of this long and painful cause," the Palestinian president told the closing ceremony.

Talking peace while attacked...

JERUSALEM - On the face of it, it's what the Jewish state has been yearning for ever since its founding nearly 60 years ago: full acceptance by its Arab neighbors. Polls say most Israelis have come to accept the idea of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. But many worry violent extremists would rule the state next door, a fear that may explain, in part, why the Arab initiative has been so coolly received by the Israeli public. However, some Israelis see the Arab offer as a golden opportunity that should not be squandered with lukewarm nods of tentative approval. They say Arab backing could be just what is needed to make a deal with the Palestinians stick, with leading Muslim states underwriting what are sure to be excruciating compromises, like shared sovereignty over Jerusalem's holy sites.

The Arab plan doesn't demand the return of all refugees to Israel, but rather calls for a solution that the two sides could work out in negotiations, said Ghassan Khatib, an analyst and former Palestinian Cabinet minister. Khatib said Palestinians also could accept some modifications to the 1967 frontiers in a final peace deal, as long as they were compensated, presumably through land swaps.

Cabinet minister Meir Sheetrit said Israel "should grab it with two hands" and urged Olmert to invite Arab leaders to Jerusalem or "go to Riyadh maybe." In general there's no question that the prime minister and government of the state of Israel see the Saudi initiative as interesting and as the possible basis for a dialogue.

Nafez Azzam, a leader of the violent Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza, called the Riyadh meeting "the most dangerous summit in the history of Arab summits" and rejected any initiative that "gives legitimacy to Israel's existence."

A U.S. commander said that revenge-seeking police apparently were behind retribution killings in northwestern Iraq

BAGHDAD - A U.S. commander said Thursday that revenge-seeking police apparently were behind retribution killings in northwestern Iraq, but he blamed al-Qaida for starting the carnage with a bombing in its bid to foil a security sweep in Baghdad by stoking sectarian violence elsewhere.

Petraeus, who made his remarks after attending a graduation ceremony for Iraqi special operations forces with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the western outskirts of Baghdad, said al-Qaida was trying to provoke a resurgence of violence by Shiite militiamen, who have largely laid low since the Baghdad operation began Feb. 14.

Rice says 'path of cooperation' exists

JERUSALEM - The Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to meet every two weeks to discuss day-to-day issues, but also a "political horizon," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Tuesday, after shuttling between the two sides for three days. Rice also said her envoy will try to set benchmarks for implementing a cease-fire, including the halting of rocket fire from Gaza, and for improving the flow of Palestinian travelers and goods through Israeli crossings. The secretary said doors had been opened during her visit and that she was laying the ground work for future peace talks. Rice said she believed it was still possible for a peace deal to be reached during President Bush's term. She said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas showed flexibility. "They achieved something, which is the very regularized meetings between the two of them, in which they will not just talk about their day-to-day issues, but also about a political horizon," Rice said, speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem.


"The time is right to reach a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict," the Palestinian Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amr said. "I think if the relevant parties are serious we have a good plan that can achieve peace and security in the region for all."

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Two-day Arab summit

The two-day Arab summit, due to open on Wednesday, is expected to renew an offer to the Jewish state of normal ties with all Arab countries if it withdraws from all territories it occupied in the 1967 war, accepts the creation of a Palestinian state and agrees to a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees.

Prime Minister Tony Blair...

Iran says it may charge the 15 sailors and marines with illegally entering its waters. Britain insists the two boatloads of sailors were in Iraqi waters in the northern Gulf and has demanded their immediate release. Iranian Vice Foreign Minister Mahdi Mostafavi said on Monday the Britons were being interrogated to see if they had crossed into Iranian territory deliberately or not.

"What we are trying to do ... is to pursue this through the diplomatic channels and make the Iranian government understand these people have to be released and that there is absolutely no justification whatever for holding them," Blair said.

capture of leaders of a car-bombing ring blamed for killing hundreds of Iraqis.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military announced on Monday the capture of leaders of a car-bombing ring blamed for killing hundreds of Iraqis.

262 the number of people killed or unaccounted for so far this year after attempting the crossing by boat to Yemen

SAN`A, Yemen - Smugglers taking illegal migrants from Somalia to Yemen forced hundreds of Africans overboard in stormy seas in an effort to make a fast getaway from security forces, officials said Monday. Thirty-one bodies have been found and nearly 90 people remained missing. Passengers who resisted the smugglers were stabbed or beaten with wooden and steel clubs, then thrown into the water where some were attacked by sharks, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said, citing survivors. Smugglers toss hundreds of refugees to sharks

Thursday's attack brings to 262 the number of people killed or unaccounted for so far this year after attempting the crossing by boat to Yemen to escape violence and anarchy in Somalia, the agency said. Smugglers, usually Somali, often drop migrants in deep waters because Yemeni authorities have increased sea patrols closer to shore. Since January 2006 at least 30,000 people have fled violence and hardship in Somalia and Ethiopia for Yemen, according to UNHCR. About 500 people have died and at least 300 are missing and believed dead. The victims are people "who are desperate to escape persecution, violence and poverty in the Horn of Africa," she said.

Olmert and Abbas would initially hold low-key "confidence-building" sessions

JERUSALEM - A senior U.S. official said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to sit down with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time since Abbas sealed a desperation pact with the militants. Also Monday, Israel welcomed the idea of a regional peace summit, although no such meeting is set, and Saudi Arabia suggested it would consider changes in a dormant peace initiative that could make it more acceptable to Israel.

The new developments came at a time of high-profile diplomacy, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and United Nations chief Ban Ki-Moon both in the region for talks with Israeli and Arab leaders. The two will hold "regular face-to-face discussions," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of a planned address by Rice on Tuesday.

The U.S. official said Olmert and Abbas would initially hold low-key "confidence-building" sessions. The talks have "an open door to all issues,"The prime minister is interested in keeping an open line of dialogue with the Palestinian Authority chairman on humanitarian and security-related issues and has met with him twice in the last month," said David Baker, an official in Olmert's office.

JERUSALEM - Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to hold biweekly meetings that will begin to discuss steps that could lead to formation of a Palestinian state, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday. These are initial discussions to build confidence between parties," Rice said.

Pakistani police clashed with suspected Taliban militants trying to recruit schoolchildren

Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police clashed with suspected Taliban militants trying to recruit schoolchildren in a northwestern town on Monday and a policeman and two militants were killed, police said. The fighting began after a group of Taliban fighters visited a school and urged the children to give up their studies and join jihad, or holy war. "They assembled the students in the school ground and told them jihad is more important than education," said Fareed Khan, principal of the privately-run Oxford Public School.

Northern Ireland's power-sharing government

Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley (L) and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams speak to the media during a news conference at the Stormont parliament buildings in Northern Ireland, March 26, 2007.

Photo By Paul Faith/courtesy of Reuters

BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's main Protestant and Catholic parties agreed on Monday to start sharing power on May 8 after their leaders put aside decades of hostility to hold a historic first meeting.

"We must not allow our justified loathing of the horrors and tragedies of the past to become a barrier to creating a better and more stable future for our children," Paisley said after the meeting at Belfast's imposing assembly building. Britain and Ireland have pushed Northern Ireland's feuding parties for years to agree to share power, seeing it as a crucial step toward cementing peace in the province of 1.6 million people that has been torn by years of violence. Adams said that after centuries of conflict and hurt "now there is a new start, with the help of God."

The power-sharing government will run Northern Ireland's day-to-day affairs but London will retain sovereignty over the province, which has a Protestant majority. The DUP wants to maintain Northern Ireland's links with Britain while Sinn Fein's ultimate aim is a united Ireland. Blair hailed the deal as a very important day for the people of Northern Ireland: "In a sense everything we've done in the last 10 years has been a preparation for this moment," he said. His Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern said the agreement "has the potential to transform the future of this island." State Department spokesman Tom Casey said: "This was a historic meeting ... This is certainly a very positive step and one that moves the process forward."

Arab leaders would be willing to consider changes in the 2002 peace offer

In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister suggested Monday that Arab leaders would be willing to consider changes in the 2002 peace offer to make it "compatible" with new developments. "It is expected from us to take notice of new developments, which require additions and developments," al-Faisal said.

"The kingdom is keen that this summit should come out with one Arab voice toward issues of destiny, and in particular the Palestinian issue," he added.

JERUSALEM (Reuters)- The United Nations raised the idea of gathering Israel, the Palestinians and Arab states at a meeting to try to revive peace talks as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday shuttled between the sides.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would "not hesitate to participate" if invited to an expanded meeting of the Quartet of Middle East mediators that could also include Saudi Arabia. U.S. officials said the idea was only one of several being considered and no decisions had been made.

"The only decision that has been made by the Quartet is that we will meet at some point in the region. Precisely what geometry we might use has not really been decided or really fully considered by the Quartet or by other parties," Rice told reporters before meeting Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, also on a visit to the region, said on Monday that Israeli and Palestinian leaders, along with officials from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, could be invited to attend the next Quartet meeting, expected to take place in Egypt. "It is a very interesting, useful idea to consider. But we need more consultations," Ban said.

Need for Iraqi national reconciliation

At a donor's conference in Istanbul last week King Abdullah said he hoped the two-day summit in Riyadh would lead to solutions to help Iraq break out of the current cycle of violence. Abdullah emphasized the need for national reconciliation, a reference to stopping the Sunni-Shiite sectarian violence that has plagued Iraq for four years.

How come?

CAIRO, Egypt - In a new video posted Sunday on the Internet, an al-Qaida militant who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan called on militants in Somalia to fight a gangland-style holy war against government troops.

Why don´t you just simply nuke this web sites? I mean...It´s criminal to use Internet this way!

Rice said she would meet twice with both Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

Rice said she would meet twice with both Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during her fourth trip to the region in as many months. "It's extremely important to establish a common agenda to move forward toward the establishment" of a Palestinian state, she said. Abbas said he and Rice also talked about holding more meetings with Olmert. "All these meetings are part of the bilateral relations with Israel and the future vision that we are all seeking and working toward," Abbas said.

Now you stop this fighting and killing!

The Swedish foreign minister, Carl Bildt, was to meet later Saturday with Abbas and others at Abbas West Bank headquarters. Bildt also planned to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and members of the Israeli parliament.

Carl Bildt is a good man with a lot of experience
and I have full confidence in him.

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In Gaza, Fatah supporters clamored for revenge against the Islamic militant Hamas, as they buried the fourth victim of factional fighting this week.

There are a lot of work going on now and there are Gentleman´s and Ladies coming from all over the world to engage themselves and take an active interest in making conditions for peace meetings! And Haniyeh have dispatched the new interior minister, Hani al-Qawasmi, to meet Hamas and Fatah leaders in Gaza to "work intensively to put an end to the clashes immediately," the aide said. So now you stop this killing each other! There is not acceptable that a few of you shall destroy for so many others! It´s obvious you can´t have weapons! You should not have any weapons! Bring in your weapons!
Take their weapons away! There seems to be some Unidentified gunmen. Well if they are unidentified you don´t even know who they are! Or what they might want with this stir up violence!

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Open the border with Armenia..

The Akdamar church, one of the most precious remnants of Armenian culture 1,000 years ago, is seen after Turkey completed its restoration in Lake Van in eastern Turkey, Friday, March 16, 2007. The church will showcase Turkey's tentative steps to improving ties with its ethnic Armenian minority, as well as neighboring Armenia. Turkey completed a $1.5 million restoration of the sandstone building, and invited Armenian officials to a ceremony there on March 29 to mark what Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has called a "positive" message. "Akdamar is an extroverted church," said Zakarya Mildanoglu, an ethnic Armenian architect who helped restore it. "It doesn't hide its face." Akdamar, called the Church of Surp Khach, or Holy Cross, was inaugurated in A.D. 921. Written records say the church was near a harbor and a palace on the island on Lake Van, but only the church survived.

A positive sign and a move on the part of Turkey.. would be the opening of the border with Armenia and establishment of diplomatic relations," the news agency Armenpress quoted Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian as saying this week. He said the Armenian delegation could reach the church by land in just a few hours if the border were open, but instead will have to fly to Istanbul, and then take another flight back toward the Armenian border.

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A deal has been reached to free a captured Israeli soldier?

JERUSALEM - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that a deal has been reached to free a captured Israeli soldier, but details still have to be worked out.

KARNI CROSSING, GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER - The double column of trucks loaded with oranges, crackers and furniture stretched for a mile at Gaza's only trade link with the world. It took much of the day to get their loads through arduous Israeli security checks and onto trucks waiting across the border. "Karni is a bit better now," said Pundak, "but it is much less than it could or should be."

"A “flagrant” violation of the Palestinian national harmony "

GAZA, -Armed men affiliated with Fatah faction kidnapped on Wednesday Palestinian academician Hamdan Al-Sofi of the Islamic University while returning from a nearby mosque to his home in Gaza city. The kidnapping of Al-Sofi, who is a known member of Hamas Movement, is viewed as a “flagrant” violation of the Palestinian national harmony on the part of Fatah faction. According to eyewitnesses, the kidnappers boarded a blue Golf car and forced the professor into it at gunpoint before fleeing the place. “It is indeed regrettable to see a group of vandals, unpleased with the Palestinian unity, tamper with the Palestinian people’s future and strive hard to fuel tension anew in the Palestinian arena”, Ayman Taha, the representative of Hamas in the Hamas-Fatah joint office, asserted.

In an apparent bid to avert an untoward escalation due to the incident, Taha urged Fatah faction, mother movement of the kidnappers, to exert all possible efforts to release Al-Sofi immediately.

Abbas said that Israel had proposed a reciprocal truce to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence

JERUSALEM AFP - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Friday that Israel had proposed a reciprocal truce to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence. "The contemplated reciprocal truce is an Israel project, a project presented to us by the Israeli government with a view to establishing a reciprocal and simultaneous truce," Abbas said in an interview on Israeli television. "We are now working on this basis," he added, saying it would be beneficial to both sides.

After senior UN and EU officials met with members of the Palestinian government this week, Germany is making its own efforts to improve relations. Angela Merkel will travel to the region at the end of the month.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday she hoped to persuade Israelis and Palestinians to agree on a common set of issues to discuss as she headed to the Middle East amid skepticism about the U.S. commitment to pursuing peace. Speaking to a small group of reporters, Rice also said she hoped that Arab states would find a way to actively follow up on their 2002 peace initiative, which an Arab League summit is expected to reaffirm next week. Rice said, she wants to use meetings like those she will attend in coming days in Jerusalem and the West Bank to draft a common set of questions and concerns on both sides. She gave no timetable for either effort but made clear that the United States would be at the center of them. Rice said she hoped to speed up reconciliation between Israel and its Arab neighbors as she prepared to leave Friday on a new tour of the Middle East.

Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt will travel to the Middle East and meet over the weekend with Abbas and members of the new government who do not belong to the Hamas party, a Swedish foreign ministry spokesperson said Wednesday.

The EU began its slow resumption of contact with the new Palestinian government on Tuesday, when Marc Otte, the EU's Middle East envoy, met with Palestinian Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amr, an independent member of the cabinet. France, Austria and Belgium have also announced they will meet non-Hamas government officials.

CAIRO-AFP- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was in Egypt Friday on the second leg of a Middle East tour amid a flurry of diplomatic activity in the region aimed at re-energising the peace process.

AMMAN (AFP) - A dormant five-year-old Arab initiative for peace with Israel is a serious offer and will be the cornerstone of discussions at next week's Arab summit, Jordan's foreign minister said on Thursday. "The Arab initiative represents a constructive Arab position and a serious peace offer," Abdel Ilah Khatib said, ahead of the March 28-29 summit to be hosted by Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. "It merits particular attention and serious action to be submitted to all parties and for its application," Khatib said, a day after accompanying Jordan's King Abdullah II to Riyadh for talks with Saudi King Abdullah.


Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht urged the new government to secure the release of a captured Israeli soldier, halt all violence and bring its chaotic security forces under a single authority. De Gucht also called for a halt to Jewish settlement in the West Bank and said he expects a reluctant Israel to be prepared to enter into talks on a final peace deal with President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah — the government's point man on negotiations.

One state or two states?

"Israel should not make any requests to reformulate the initiative before negotiations, as the process of negotiations in itself will bring modifications," Khalaf said. The Arab plan offers Israel recognition and peace in return for full withdrawal from the land Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War, plus the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. It also calls for allowing Palestinian refugees the right to return to homes in Israel.

"allowing Palestinian refugees the right to return to homes in Israel"...
Then it would be one state named Israel..Well...I do not mind..As long as there is peace and you living up to the Geneva convention: equal rights, children's rights..etc..I mean you are adults, you should be able to make it. And it would probably save some farmers land when you don't have to construct: one road for the Israelis, one road for the Palestinians, one road for the Israelis, one road for the Palestinians..So if it´s going to be one state named Israel..Or if you going to rename it.. I would like to see you getting along what you are going to call your country: Isrestine? And which flag and colors you will have!

Exchange of prisoners?

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iranian naval vessels on Friday seized 15 British sailors and marines who had boarded a merchant ship in Iraqi waters of the Persian Gulf, British and U.S. officials said. Britain immediately protested the detentions. In London, the British government summoned the Iranian ambassador to the Foreign Office and demanded "the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment." Iran had no immediate comment.

Exchange of prisoners? I thought you have a dialogue about your Iranian people that are in detention...How was it now..with communication and using your mouths? Or are you just a bunch of old men having so hurry with everything so the worlds spin? Being so far back in line, so you think you are the first?

President Robert Mugabe !

You are just an old fool living in the past! No one will take you seriously!
Do something good for your people before you die or
you will die as lonely as you are now!

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al-Qaida militant who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan

CAIRO, EGYPT - In a new video posted Thursday on the Internet, an al-Qaida militant who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan urged Sunni militants in Iraq to join the terror group and claimed the U.S. military's security plan for Baghdad has failed.

Who, wich, when, how, why?

And we have not heard anything from anyone that claims responsibility or what they want, of the kidnapping of Hamad al-Sousi that was abducted while leaving evening prayers at a mosque south of Gaza City?

Strange days indeed..

Yeah..right..Reality exceeds fantasy!

#1397 - Hizbullah’s representative in Iran, Abdallah Safialdeen: Hizbullah Will Not Need a Large-Scale War. It Will Be Able to Walk into Palestine, Once the Americans Leave Iraq.
Iran, Channel 4 - 3/4/2006 - 00:02:42

Fatah and Hamas fighters clashed in a second straight day of factional violence

GAZA (Reuters) - Members of a Hamas-led police force clashed on Thursday with gunmen loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction in a second straight day of factional fighting since the formation of a unity government. Aiming to quell the tensions, Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas agreed to step up contacts between both sides, a Haniyeh aide said. Haniyeh dispatched the new interior minister, Hani al-Qawasmi, to meet Hamas and Fatah leaders in Gaza to "work intensively to put an end to the clashes immediately," the aide said.

Ohhh...my...What are they fighting for?

A Palestinian child was killed by gunfire in Gaza on Thursday, medical officials said, as Fatah and Hamas fighters clashed in a second straight day of factional violence since the formation of a unity government.

yea..yea..Some flexibility thanks!

Palestine recognizes Israels right to exist and as a independent state, but not in the West Bank! Palestine urge Israel to stop this monkey business by other companies trying to sell and build and urge Israel to put an end to settlements in the West bank at this very moment! The Palestinian government will make security reforms and keep working on stabilize their factions and prevent rockets attacks on Israel. The Palestinian people need funds to build bridges or/and other communication ways, between Gaza and the West Bank to get full access in their land!

Israel on their hand can not accept the formulation "refugees to return to Israel" but it shall be rewritten to "refugees right to return to Palestine. And Israel will evacuate from the West Bank in gradual steps, because they can not evacuate all the people at the same time. And Israel should really need some financial support and funds to offer settlers the same living standards as they have now. And the Israel people that will have to resettle also need support from the internationally community where they can resettle and not just: nje, nje , nje!
And Israel recognizes Palestine as a independent state!

And both the Israelis and the Palestinians shall respect and let the Bedouins stay where they are, they shall not be hunted and pushed around any more!

The part of walls on the east side of Jerusalem shall be brought down as the first wall to go, as soon as peace agreements are signed. And al-Haram al-Sharif/ Temple Mount will be on the worlds list of heritage and it´s ancient remnants both mosques and it´s surroundings are under internationally laws common used world wide for ancient treasury's. And there is not allowed to build anything more inside the complex. It shall be left as it is from now! And if there should really be need for some preservations or restorations of any pillars at the Dome of the Rock or any other places inside the complex in the future it shall be done by authorised archaeologists under supervision of other archaeologists organizations and authority´s. And we do not want to end up with small stores around Temple Mount/ al-Haram al-Sharif with tassel/ dassel and rattle for tourists..And is forbidden to use in a political way or for political gain from no one. And the only ones that are allowed to do excavations are authorised archaeologists under supervision of other archaeologists organizations and similar authority´s.

And both Israel and Palestine signs and follows the Geneva convention of children´s rights and will do some reforms in school education and will make the environment for their children a friendlier place to grow up in with peace among themselves, their neighbours and with the world!

And Israel and Palestine shall work together to protect environment and farmers land. And clean up Jerusalem and it´s surroundings from dump places. There shall be no trash dumps in the city, but they shall find other places and work together to take care of their dumps and develop ways to recycle and take care of the dumps in the best way for the environment.

And if there ever should be any thoughts of doing some canal at the boarder to Egypt, you should be very careful and think about it and don´t take in salt water, because that most certain can have a negative effect on the rest of the environment!

World Water Day

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Dogs....Wolfs, Hyena, catanimals etc..

Staring them in their eyes a longer time = challenge to fight

Smiling and showing your teeth's ( if you are unfamiliar) = aggression

Pat them on their chest = safety, can be used to calm them and give them feeling of security.

Press on their backs = dominance

Expose and bare throat (larynx) = I´m friendly, I´m not your enemy,
I trust you - you can trust me.

Play with your finger in the corner of their mouth = Friendship

Searching contact and stroke their mouth at your hands for a very short second = Are you with me? I´m alert..give me some words of award, we are a team yes?

Drag/pull them gently in one ear = Dejavú ! That´s what mother did when I was a puppy and I dind´t listen to her! ( To be used only in education purpose, as a reminder..One can observe the glimpse of their puppy-be-up-to-mischief-teasing behaviour in their eyes and body language..)

Sitting between you and with their back cover their leader/companion and maybe sits on their companion´s feet = You can be seen as a threat, depending on the situation.
One step closer and you are dead meat!

On guard places = bed, food, stairs, doors, hasty suddenly moves (like someone/children comes running suddenly) , cars and on duty.

I didn´t wanted to hurt her, I just did my job, grabbed her and hold her. And if it had been a male I had been a lot tougher..She came suddenly when I was on duty and had material suspiciously moving in the wind..If I wanted to hurt her I would have bitten her really badly..And we don´t do that, other on command or if there is serious threats. We are not wild stroke-dogs. We are educated dogs with a work to do and we need to have only one leader. One leader with commands.

Police stations is needed

Yes...the Palestinian government have a lot to do. With kidnappings and clashes..There is need for some structure in you police forces that is needed to be stationed in both Gaza and in the West Bank. This are young people getting killed in clashes. These Palestinian youngsters are in the age to get married and get a family..Or some of them have small children. This is heartbreaking... to see how young people get killed and their lives destroyed. There is need for some structure and storage for your weapons and ammunition. And rules for possession of a weapon. What kind of dreams will this young people have with weapons under their beds and pillows..?

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Something change-something stay the same..

There is still an embargo on direct aid to the Palestinian government...
While keeping in place the aid embargo, the Quartet said the new Palestinian leadership would not be judged solely on its "composition and platform, but also its actions."

There is in fact a renounce of violence at least from Hamas. We can see that there are some other interests that want to cripple this united government with different ways as attacking Israel. And there is still clashes between factions..even as some of them seems to be more of "personal matters" you should be aware of that there are maybe attempts to cripple your government in several ways . So I hope your factions and members will stay calm and not go along with any attempts to incite violence.

Yes..there is a lot of work to do and somethings have stayed the same. But I hope you can see that there have been some changes as well. I´m happy to see more diplomatic work and a communication that in fact will lead you to better conditions in the long run. Both the Israelis and the Palestinians are not alone in their hopes for a better future and there is a lot of countries and diplomatic efforts with a communication that is really something to note for history in this first months of 2007. I would say 2007 is a year for communication. And there is in fact changes follow communication.

It´s not just diplomatic work and signing papers that is needed. There is a lot of work for both the Israelis and the Palestinians to live in the present and see the future and not in the past and to change old outlooks and attitudes towards each other. It is both the Israelis and the Palestinians duty of society to its citizens to teach and educate your children in a positive atmosphere in life and in your schools.

Defenition of resistance is needed..

The army said it identified two Palestinian gunmen, one carrying a weapon and the other a firebomb, near the village of Abud, near Ramallah, and fired in their direction, hitting one of the men. Palestinian police confirmed the two were throwing firebombs, They identified the dead man as Mohammed al-Barghouti, 17. His companion, Hatem Barghouti, was wounded, Palestinian police said. Palestinian hospital personnel said the soldiers shot the 22-year-old man while exchanging fire with gunmen from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction in the Askar refugee camp near the city of Nablus. The IDF had launched a raid in the area before dawn and arrested six wanted militants, the Palestinian security sources said.

This is so sad..And so unnecessary..Young people...There is need for definition of resistance in several ways. Both diplomatic and for your youths sake. The Palestinian security forces should need to have some communication with your youths and try to get them collect in weapons and explosive and hand it over to you. There is a different between resistance in form of demonstrations and other ways and this unnecessary spilling of youngster's life's. You know..it doesn´t have to be this way. And as a government and authority´s you have the responsibility for your youngsters now.

Security reform is needed

Hamas and Fatah agree security reform is needed. There are 12 Palestinian security apparatuses, some controlled by the president, and others by the Interior Ministry. The apparatuses have unclear, often overlapping roles, and there is poor discipline. The two disagree on what reform will mean. Hamas has called for unifying security apparatuses under the Interior Ministry. Dahlan said the Executive Force "is not the biggest problem we face." "Right now we have to work on other, more important issues," he told reporters, citing the wave of kidnappings, murders and other violence in Gaza.

Muslims killing Muslims..

"Jihad-killing-Muslim-children-Muslim-killing-Muslims-united-front-killing-children-against-Islam-Enemies "

Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations on the Joint Staff, said Tuesday that a vehicle used in the attack was waved through a U.S. military checkpoint because two children were visible in the back seat. He said this was the first reported use of children in a suicide car bombing in Baghdad. "Children in the back seat lowered suspicion, (so) we let it move through, they parked the vehicle, the adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back," Barbero told reporters in Washington. "The brutality and ruthless nature of this enemy hasn't changed."

Other U.S. officials said later that three Iraqi bystanders were killed in the attack near a marketplace in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Azamiyah, in addition to the two children, and seven people were injured. The officials had no other details, including the estimated ages of the children. Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, confirmed Barbero's account but said he couldn't provide more details. An Iraqi police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concern, said witnesses had reported seeing two children inside the car before it exploded. He said eight civilians were killed and 28 others wounded in the attack in the predominantly Shiite northern neighborhood of Shaab. The police officer also said three other cases had been registered since last year in which women and children were used in parked car bombings, although they reportedly got out of the cars before the explosions in those cases.

The European Union and the United Nations eased their diplomatic boycott of the Palestinian government

RAMALLAH, West Bank - The European Union and the United Nations eased their diplomatic boycott of the Palestinian government on Wednesday, by agreeing to hold talks with non-Hamas ministers. The contacts followed a meeting on Tuesday between a senior U.S. diplomat and Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, an independent with close ties to the White House and President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction.

The new Palestinian government accepts the agreements signed between the PLO and Israel, and these agreements include the Palestinian leadership's recognition of Israel.

Difficult choices?

Forming your own future.
So how about teaching your children both Israeli and Palestinian to be future partners for peace! And change your language in your schools textbooks!

Israeli textbooks should as well as Palestinians textbooks contain the objective treatment of the conflict. And recognize the rights of a Palestinian state as the Palestinians should teach their children to recognize the rights of a Israeli state. And maps saying "future Palestinian state" - "future Israeli state."

And follow the Geneva convention of children's´s rights! And not use your schools as a impediment to peace! Or teaching your children that they will preform some kind of "religion war"!

Article 29 1. States Parties agree that the education of the child shall be directed to:

(b) The development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and for the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations;
(c) The development of respect for the child's parents, his or her own cultural identity, language and values, for the national values of the country in which the child is living, the country from which he or she may originate, and for civilizations different from his or her own;
(d) The preparation of the child for responsible life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of sexes, and friendship among all peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups and persons of indigenous origin;

Recognizing that the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding, Considering that the child should be fully prepared to live an individual life in society, and brought up in the spirit of the ideals proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, and in particular in the spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity.


http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm

Clashes..

However, Palestinian defense sources yesterday suggested another explanation for the attack. They said two commanders of Hamas military wing, Jamal al Jarah Yusuf al Zahar, brother of former foreign minister Mahmoud al Zahar, were responsible for the attacks. The two are spearheading a move within the militia against the unity government, as well as initiating abductions and shooting incidents directed at Fatah people, they said.

In the next few days they will continue to attempt to carry out terror attacks and escalate their activity against Israel. They hope that Israel will react sharply and cripple the national unity government," a Palestinian defense source predicted. Both al Jarah and al Zahar have political ambitions and expectations of Hamas' leadership in Gaza and Damascus, the source said. "We have no doubt that senior officials in the political wing of Hamas, who have not received a position in the unity government, are also involved in these attacks," the source said, hinting at al Zahar and former interior minister Said Siyam.

So how will it be? "Little Red Baghdad"/Hezbollah/Lebanon/Jihad-against-Islam-enemies-killing-Muslims-united-front-against-children...
or making changes in your teaching in school, follow the Geneva convention of children´s rights and stop mentally abuse your children? And working to get the Palestinian refugees home from Lebanon to an independent Palestinian state!

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Rival Palestinian factions clashed in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Monday, shaking the camp with explosions and wounding at least two gunmen, officials at the camp said. Lebanon's state-run news agency said as many as five were wounded in the battle.

Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas called for an end to violence.

KARNI CROSSING, Gaza Strip - Hamas militants shot and wounded an Israeli civilian near the main cargo crossing between Israel on Monday. There was no immediate comment from the government. But a confidant of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas called for an end to violence. "Our position is still the same. We are calling for mutual calm, and desire continuous calm," Ghazi Hamad said.

It also refers to resistance "in all forms" to Israeli occupation.

Maybe they will kill themselves committing Jihad on each other..

Hamas using their TV network to brainwash children and tell them to count on their fingers how many Jews that have been killed.. I do think Israel should wait for a moment and think about it properly before any response or actions..

Maybe they will kill themselves committing Jihad on each other..Just as they do in Iraq..
Then you don´t have to bother.. You know...it´s not far from becoming "little Red Baghdad"..It´s just need for little Hezbollah´s, some al-Qaida´s and trained Hamas and some Sunni Arab´s that have crawled over some boarder joining in..Yes! That the Palestinian people wants! That is good for Palestine..

Psychopaths and child abusers!

Clean brainwashing! Mentally abusers and criminals! One can hear you talking about your rights and how the human right organizations criticise to right and left and no words so whatever against the most disgusting mentally abuse on small children there is on that very same side that claims their rights! The one statement after the other and words like Israel is not for peace! While you want your children to count on their fingers how many Jews that have been targeted and pure brainwash in early ages and playing on small children's feelings of losing their mother and connecting suicide bombings to this children´s wishes to meet their mother again!

Manipulating Psychopaths! Child abusers! YOU be reported to U.N. and humans rights organizations!

And YOU Mr! Talking to other how they play with fire!

I can tell YOU that the only way out of this for YOU now is changing your "education" of children in school. These textbooks written by the Palestinian Curriculum Development Center. The director of the curriculum committee, Dr. Naim Abu Al-Humos! And other educational learning's, to follow the Geneva convention of children's rights to teach your children in a spirit of a life in security and peace among people and other countries! And the way you treat your children overall! And we want to see changes in open public!

You don´t give your children an education that is comparison with the Geneva convention of children's rights, you give them an indoctrination!!

Twilight Zone..Or Stuck in time..

Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas chopped noses and ears of at least five truck drivers in eastern Afghanistan as punishment for transporting supplies to U.S.-led troops, officials and residents said on Sunday.

Yes...that was like the Assyrians did 2000 years ago! Chopping of ears and noses, put people on poles, skinning Israeli rebels alive, torture and barbaric actions!

GOUSCH!

Are you people for real?

Hezbollah that confirms their intentions of kidnapping soldiers, was in fact a declaration of war, because they knew the Israelis would respond! And now claiming victory of that war..In a Lebanon of ruins! And because there where no more civilians dead!

And are now sitting in Iran and confirms how they work against the Iraqi government in that meaning they want to see destruction there and claiming US have failed in Iraq, planning how they will just walk into Palestine, after the US left Iraq. Yes Palestine and the Palestinian people and Hamas that you support and train is "Little Lebanon" for you people isn´t them? And the Lebanon government complains about the Israelis and Hamas think they are politicians, while they mentally abuses their children and opens the door for Iran´s proxy war with Hezbollah and just waiting to see Palestine in ruins, just like Lebanon! Yes it´s good to start shooting at UN workers, isn´t it? Incite conflicts and violence just as in Iraq, with bombing Shrines!

And Hamas thinks they have "won" anything when Israel pull out of Gaza to reach ways for the road map. So when Israel acts for peace, Hamas thinks they win wars! And Hamas thinks more pullouts would be their "victory of war"? As if that should make anything easier for the Palestinian people..

Yes Iran and others that use other country´s people in their interests to see death and destruction in other countries than your own, are really living up to what the US say you are! Ain´t you?

The Palestinian people "reject violence in all its forms" and seek a comprehensive "peace of freedom and equality"

Abbas focused on conciliatory language, asserting that the Palestinian people "reject violence in all its forms" and seek a comprehensive "peace of freedom and equality" that would be based on negotiations. Presenting the government's program to parliament, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said the governing alliance would work "first and foremost to establish an independent Palestinian state," with disputed Jerusalem as its capital, on lands Israel occupied in the 1967 Mideast War.

The preparation of the child for responsible life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of sexes, and friendship among all peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups and persons of indigenous origin; States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons who have not attained the age of fifteen years do not take a direct part in hostilities.

Sinai desert

The Egyptian parliamentary delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) demanded Saturday an international inquiry into the suspicion that Egyptian prisoners of war were killed by Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the Six-Day War.

UN..Human rights here and there

Ninth: the international relations
The government stresses on its Arab and Islamic depth, it shall work on establishing sound and solid relations with the various world countries and with the international institutions, including the UN and the Security Council and the international regional organizations in a manner that assists reinforcing world peace and stability.

The European Union has offered lots of assistance to our Palestinian people and supported our people's right in freedom and independence and the EU has had serious standpoints in launching criticism to the Israeli occupation policies, therefore, we are interested in solid ties with the EU and we expect from it a larger role in exerting pressure on the occupation authorities to respect the human rights as stipulated by the international charters to withdraw its troops from the occupied Palestinian Territories and halt all and repeated aggressions against our people.

http://www.wafa.ps/english/body.asp?id=9561

Recognized the children´s rights!

And you better change your policy in your school reform!
Because it also violates the children's rights! The terminology that is used in schoolbooks reinforces the message that youth should not accept Israel as a neighbor with a right to exist. The following terms all replace Israel, its founders, and status: “The Zionist enemy;" “The Zionist entity;” “The enemy of this people;” “The Zionist gangs;” “Zionist Imperialist plan.” you use maps of the region likewise teach children to visualize a world without Israel, as Israel does not exist on any map and its area is marked as "Palestine." Since all of Israel and all its cities are taught to be an "occupation" of "Palestine," and "Palestine" in all the school books replaces all of Israel, the following teaching can only mean that Israel's destruction is inevitable.With these as the educational messages, the next generation of Palestinian youth is actively being prevented from having any reasonable possibility of accepting Israel as a neighbor in reconciliation and peace.

Example, recognize the right of every child:

Recognizing that the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding, Considering that the child should be fully prepared to live an individual life in society, and brought up in the spirit of the ideals proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, and in particular in the spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity.

Article 29 1. States Parties agree that the education of the child shall be directed to:
(a) The development of the child's personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential;
(b) The development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and for the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations;
(d) The preparation of the child for responsible life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of sexes, and friendship among all peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups and persons of indigenous origin. States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons who have not attained the age of fifteen years do not take a direct part in hostilities.

Palestinian farmers plans to work additional dunams of farmland next season due to their latest success.

The Palestinian Bureau of Statistics recently said 19,100 unemployed Gazans found jobs this past quarter. Airports Authority workers at the Karni cargo crossing into the Gaza Strip haven't worked so hard in a long time. In the past four months, they have facilitated the transfer of 1,300 tons of strawberries and 18 million flowers to Europe, as well as 14,000 tons of vegetables to Israeli markets, the highest numbers in exports from Palestinian Authority-controlled territory in over two years.

Palestinian farmers plans to work additional dunams of farmland next season due to their latest success.

No surprises!

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's army commander has warned the United States and other Western powers not to make any "stupid move" over Tehran's nuclear work, and suggested they would be surprised by Iran's military response if they attacked.

Attack of a senior UN aid official in Gaza

Palestinian security officials are looking into a possible al-Qaida link to the attack of a senior UN aid official in Gaza on Friday, said a security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media. The official did not provide evidence for such a suspicion, saying only that "we are looking into all possibilities." Palestinian officials have been worried about al-Qaida activity in the Palestinian territories ever since Ayman al-Zawahri, the No. 2 in al-Qaida, accused Hamas last week of selling out by accepting a power-sharing deal with the Fatah Party.

Exploration and mentally abuse of children

Interviewer: What did mama do?
Dhoha: She committed martyrdom.
Interviewer: She killed Jews, right?
Interviewer: How many did she kill, Muhammad?
Muhammad: Huh?
Interviewer: How many Jews did mama kill?
Muhammad: This many...
Interviewer: How many is that?
Muhammad: Five.
Interviewer: Dhoha, what would you like to recite for us?
Interviewer: What else would you like to recite? You have read the surra:
"When comes the help of Allah, and victory." What would you like to recite for us now?
Interviewer: Muhammad, do you know how to recite?
Muhammad: Yes.
Interviewer: Go on then, recite something for us. What would you like to recite?
Muhammad: I am in kindergarten
Dhoha: I am in kindergarten, I want to tell.
Dhoha: In kindergarten.
Interviewer: You're in kindergarten too.
Dhoha: I want to talk about kindergarten, I want to talk.
Interviewer: Muhammad, go ahead and recite...
Interviewer: What would you like to recite for us? Have you heard the poem "Mama Rim"? Go on then, recite it for us.
Dhoha: "Rim, you are a fire bomb."
Interviewer: Go on, recite it.
Dhoha: "Your children and submachine gun are your motto."
Muhammad: I'm in kindergarten.
Dhoha: That's it, I'm done.

Interviewer: OK, do you want to go to mama?
Dhoha: Yes.

This is the most disgusting exploration and mentally abuse of children that suffer from loss of their mother and should be viewed and examined by the U.N as an act that breaks the Geneva convention of Children's rights!

http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1398
http://www.memritv.org/

Freedom and rights -responsibility, obligations and duty

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Recognizing that the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding, Considering that the child should be fully prepared to live an individual life in society, and brought up in the spirit of the ideals proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, and in particular in the spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity.

Article 6 1. States Parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life.
2. States Parties shall ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child.
(e) Encourage the development of appropriate guidelines for the protection of the child from information and material injurious to his or her well-being, bearing in mind the provisions of articles 13 and 18.

Article 271. States Parties recognize the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development.

Article 29 1. States Parties agree that the education of the child shall be directed to:
(a) The development of the child's personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential;
(b) The development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and for the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations;
(c) The development of respect for the child's parents, his or her own cultural identity, language and values, for the national values of the country in which the child is living, the country from which he or she may originate, and for civilizations different from his or her own;
(d) The preparation of the child for responsible life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of sexes, and friendship among all peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups and persons of indigenous origin;
(e) The development of respect for the natural environment.

2. No part of the present article or article 28 shall be construed so as to interfere with the liberty of individuals and bodies to establish and direct educational institutions, subject always to the observance of the principle set forth in paragraph 1 of the present article and to the requirements that the education given in such institutions shall conform to such minimum standards as may be laid down by the State.

Article 321. States Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.

Article 36. States Parties shall protect the child against all other forms of exploitation prejudicial to any aspects of the child's welfare.

Article 381. States Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for rules of international humanitarian law applicable to them in armed conflicts which are relevant to the child.

2. States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons who have not attained the age of fifteen years do not take a direct part in hostilities.

3. States Parties shall refrain from recruiting any person who has not attained the age of fifteen years into their armed forces. In recruiting among those persons who have attained the age of fifteen years but who have not attained the age of eighteen years, States Parties shall endeavour to give priority to those who are oldest.

4. In accordance with their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect the civilian population in armed conflicts, States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure protection and care of children who are affected by an armed conflict.

Article 39. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to promote physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of a child victim of: any form of neglect, exploitation, or abuse; torture or any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; or armed conflicts. Such recovery and reintegration shall take place in an environment which fosters the health, self-respect and dignity of the child.

Article 401. States Parties recognize the right of every child alleged as, accused of, or recognized as having infringed the penal law to be treated in a manner consistent with the promotion of the child's sense of dignity and worth, which reinforces the child's respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of others and which takes into account the child's age and the desirability of promoting the child's reintegration and the child's assuming a constructive role in society.


http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm

Admit it President Robert Mugabe!

HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe on Thursday: "It's the West as usual ... when they criticize the government trying to prevent violence and punish the perpetrators of that violence we take the position that they can go hang," Mugabe said after a meeting with Tanzanian leader Jikaya Kikwete.

You can as well admit it! That you have given your police forces to much free hands to use brutal and not acceptable outrage in the cause of what you claim: prevent violence. And this time it happened to be a politician. This was not about "abduct sby by force", but a violent crime in cover of what you say punish the perpetrators. You can as well admit it, that this time they happened to "take the wrong guy and use their outrage on"! And it will do you no good with your choice of words in your defence!

Cause and effect

Gaza Strip - Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of the Islamic militant Hamas announced the final coalition agreement and platform after months of stop-and-go negotiations. It is to be approved by the Palestinian parliament on Saturday. Hamas and Fatah movements formed a long-elusive unity government Thursday, hoping to end bloody infighting and lead the Palestinians out of yearlong international isolation.

Officials identified the new minister as Hani Kawasmi, a senior Interior Ministry civil servant who has good relations with Hamas and Fatah, but does not belong to either party. Mustafa Barghouti, the incoming information minister, confirmed the appointment. Barghouti said other key appointments included Salam Fayyad, an internationally respected economist, as finance minister, and Ziad Abu Amr, an independent lawmaker, as foreign minister. Haniyeh will remain as prime minister, and Azzam al-Ahmed, head of Fatah's parliament bloc, will be deputy prime minister.

As I said: The choices of independent ministers make this formation looks as it is done with a lot of responsibility and good judgement. And Mr Hani Kawasmi seems to have a lot of authority, so it looks good indeed.

I have not seen any documents or program for this new government yet, but I do wonder how we shall interpret: right to resist..Everyone have the right to defend themselves. But it seems that both Hamas and the government in Lebanon blames Israel for their own short-comings concerning taking control of their own armed militants and movements as Hezbollah and factions in Hamas. And that is not acceptable! Either the government in Lebanon or Hamas should underestimate the internationally community´s capability to judge whether there is "Israeli aggression", or if they are attacked and it´s about defence.

Well..UNESCO!

In February, UNESCO concluded that the excavations posed no threat to the stability of the site, and the new report also credits Israel with adhering to "professional standards." A spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, Mark Regev, said Wednesday the U.N. report proved that Israel's work would not harm Muslim holy sites.

Right to defence

UNITED NATIONS- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday criticized Israel and Lebanon for violating the resolution that ended last summer's Israeli-Hezbollah war, and suggested an independent mission examine the monitoring of their border amid allegations of arms smuggling. Ban also said the Chebaa Farms, captured by Israel during the 1967 war, "remains a key issue" in implementing the resolution.

Ban warned that without progress on "core issues" including Israeli and Lebanese prisoners, the disputed Chebaa Farms area, halting Israeli over-flights of Lebanon, and respect for the arms embargo "progress on 1701 could be severely tested in the months to come." While the Lebanese government continues to protest that the over-flights are a serious cease-fire violation, Israel maintains they are "a necessary security measure" until the two abducted Israeli soldiers are released and the arms embargo is fully respected. Ban urged Israel to reconsider its policy.

There is good beginning to let an independent mission examine the monitoring of their border amid allegations of arms smuggling. But it´s not enough since Hezbollah claims that it is rebuilding its armed presence and has plenty of weapons.

Syria denied Lebanese allegations

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria denied on Wednesday Lebanese allegations that it had links to a group accused of bombing two buses near Beirut last month and said it was hunting the group down for ties to al Qaeda.

Formation of a government

GAZA (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas agreed on the make-up of a Palestinian unity government on Wednesday and will submit it to parliament for approval on Saturday, officials said. Our message to the world is clear. We are united under a unity government and one political agenda. The people now have a united choice and we expect great world support," said Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for the Hamas-led government. Ahmed Bahar of Hamas, said Saturday's special session would begin at 11 a.m. (0900 GMT). Lawmakers will discuss the unity government's political platform and hold a vote of confidence, he said.

"We have finished all the issues relating to the formation of the government," Haniyeh said after talks with Abbas in Gaza. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said he would present the new government to parliament this weekend for final approval. "Today is an occasion to celebrate. We have done everything," he said after a late-night meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah. The new interior minister will be Hani Kawasmi, according to Mustafa Barghouti, the incoming information minister. Kawasmi is currently a senior civil servant in the Interior Ministry who has good relations with both Hamas and Fatah, but does not belong to either party.


Yes...you go and celebrate. I think you Gentleman´s have done a great work with your choices of independent ministers. It looks as this formation is done with a lot of responsibility and good judgement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070314/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_government;_ylt=As4jHq.ZhYE1tAnEOUhAWygLewgF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070314/wl_nm/palestinians1_dc;_ylt=AvMBffeSgVLRGnyFvfmC9ftm.3QA

You must be kidding me..

Israel and US says that Iran is a threat with their nuclear ambitions. And then Iran of course have to say Israel is a threat with nuclear weapons..And then Blair says there is a threat with Iran and Nord Korea and must retain nuclear weapons.

You must be kidding me..Yeah?
Hello...it was a Conference on Disarmament!

Antonov-airplanes..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070313/wl_nm/britain_nuclear_dc
Why am I not surprised? And no support for UN troops while help workers are getting killed and 200.000-300.000 people dead. Why does a government thanks no to help in a war ravage country?

Well...I must say the outlook for some..seems not to get better..

So do the Muslim world view the UN as part of a Western conspiracy? In this case..The Sudan war, it´s the Russians that says no to UN troops..I do think there must be some wrong in the system if there is only one country´s voice that is going to decide a whole populations destiny..In fact..It´s terrifying..and it sounds very strange..Are there not a majority decision in UN?

Shall two countries economical interests have preference for nearly 300.000 people dead? What kind of world is this? Yes..one c

Condemning the Zimbabwe government

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe riot police cleared a Harare courtroom on Tuesday as opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was brought in to face charges, ordering all people out except the accused. The correspondent in court said Tsvangirai, who appeared with more than 50 others arrested on Sunday over a banned prayer meeting, had a deep head wound and was limping. "His face is swollen and his head is partly shaved around the wound. One of his eyes looks swollen, and is partly closed," the correspondent said.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was in intensive care with a broken skull on Wednesday following what he says was a brutal police attack while in custody, his spokesman said.

"it's "indisputable" Iran is training and arming militants to fight against U.S.-led troops in Iraq"

The top U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq said in an interview released Monday that it's "indisputable" Iran is training and arming militants to fight against U.S.-led troops in Iraq. He also told ABC News that suicide bombers are streaming across Iraq's border from Syria and making their way into the country's volatile western Anbar province. In the interview with ABC, Petraeus said cooperation from Iran and Syria would be key to stopping the violence in Iraq. He said there are elements of Iran's Revolutionary Guards elite Quds Force that are training fighters and sending them into Iraq to fight U.S.-led forces. He said Iran is also sending "rockets, mortars and other explosives and munitions" into the country.

"And if it's something that can be brought to a halt through these initiatives of the Iraqi government, we would applaud that vigorously," he said, referring to the talks in Baghdad aimed at bringing security to the country.

Yemen

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's president said on Monday there was no room for dialogue with Shi'ite rebels fighting government forces in the north and he urged them to surrender. "What these terrorist elements want is to topple the republican system ... they falsely raise a deceptive slogan 'death to America, death to Israel'," Saleh said. "They are enemies of security, stability and the homeland."

Yemen that are neighbours to Qaatar in wich Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi who heads an umbrella group of Sunni imams, have meetings and supports Jihad and suicide bombings by the Palestinians on the Israelis. And who was in Iran and that pressed for a binding Shi'ite edict ordering Iraqi Shi'ite militants to refrain from violence and that said to the Iranians:
"This is the stance that can solve the problem, extinguish the fire and prevent a civil war ... in which we all would be loser and the only winners would be the American, the Zionists and the enemies of this Islamic nation."

And Qatar with Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, neighbouring to Saudi Arabia that neighbours to Iraq with all it´s insurgents that kills Shiite´s, that neighbours to Iran in which Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi was and said that the Americans and the Zionists and the enemies, while he support the Palestinians to blow up themselves, while al-Qaeda leader flips out about Hamas getting political gains.

And Qatar that neighbours to Kuwait with all their Jihadist-students..Kuwait that the U.S.-led 1991 Gulf War, liberated from a seven-month Iraqi occupation under Saddam Hussein. And that made Osama Bin Laden think he was the one that decided which are put on this earth as a creation of God and who´s not, and declared war on The United States, without declaring war first...

Right to return..

According to the Arab League's 2002 initiative, relations with Israel would be normalized in exchange for Israel's complete withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines, including in Jerusalem and on the Golan Heights.

Israel should accept the principle of the right of return for Palestinian refugees and then negotiate the terms of its implementation, a senior Arab diplomat has told The Jerusalem Post. To settle the conflict, Israel must at least "recognize that right [of return] and to give them [the Palestinians] the right of choice. The plan "is a framework of a settlement. The final outcome is in the negotiations," the diplomat said. He urged Israelis to talk with the Palestinians and the larger Arab world on the broad basis of the principles set out in the 2002 plan, with the understanding that the terms of a permanent solution could come about only through negotiations. The exact details are less important at this stage since Israel and the Palestinians would have to agree to terms under which the right of return would be implemented as part of a permanent solution, he said.

"The Israelis cannot have land and peace together. They have to give up land." The Arabs in turn cannot have the land without ensuring security for Israel, said the diplomat. While he was clear on the principles of the matter, he was more vague on how the actual process of negotiations would work. But he said the Palestinians would be represented by their chairman, Mahmoud Abbas. He added that he envisioned a multilateral dialogue, or even an international conference under the auspices of the Quartet, that would include the Arab League, the Israelis and the Palestinians.

When the Palestinians or the Arab League speak of the right of return to Israel they are rejecting the two-state solution. "That's the essence of the vision," Steinitz said. A two-state solution means that the area is divided into two parts, one for Israel and one for the Palestinians