RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's announcement of its largest anti-terror sweep ever was timed ahead of the Muslim Hajj as a warning to those who might be plotting attacks during the pilgrimage, a security official said Thursday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said the arrests of more than 200 al-Qaida-linked militants was "a warning" to those who seek to abuse the December event to "disturb" the pilgrims and to "damage the image of a forgiving Islam."
The kingdom said Wednesday it had arrested 208 suspected terrorists in six cells, including some who were planning to carry out attacks against oil installations in the country's east, home to most Saudi petroleum reserves. The announcement came less than three weeks before the Hajj, when more than 2 million Muslim pilgrims travel to Saudi Arabia each year. The government usually steps up security during this period.
The Interior Ministry listed six separate arrests in its statement, including the capture of 18 suspects led by a non-Saudi missile expert who were allegedly "planning to smuggle eight missiles into the kingdom to carry out terrorist operations." The security official told The Associated Press that the cell leader was a Yemeni rocket expert who had sneaked across Saudi Arabia's southern border with Yemen.
Some clerics in the kingdom have been accused of feeding hard-line ideology to Saudi youth to fuel militancy and terrorism. The security official urged Saudi parents to closely monitor their sons' behavior and be on guard "toward the danger of terrorism." The official also urged them to report to authorities any "ideological deviation" on the part of their sons.
The Interior Ministry said the detained militants had been linked to a number of plots, such as attacks on oil installations, the smuggling of fighters to and from Afghanistan and Iraq, and plans to assassinate the kingdom's religious leaders and security officials.
By ABDULLAH SHIHRI
Yemen..They should need some help to get stabilized there again..
Friday, November 30, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Livni: 'Train is on the right tracks'
"The Annapolis summit was successful… the train is now on the right tracks," Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday evening, soon after landing in Israel from the US. In an interview with Army Radio, Livni expressed her satisfaction with the joint statement agreed upon minutes before US President George Bush's opening speech at the conference. She reiterated that the talks due to start on December 12 would deal with all core issues, including Jerusalem. "It is no secret that in previous talks we agreed that future negotiations would deal with all the core issues," she said. With regard to coalition members' threats to leave the government if core issues were discussed, Livni said that as negotiations progress, "everyone will have to decide on their final stances." Livni mentioned in the joint declaration. "We cannot negotiate according to a time limit. We will make every effort to meet this goal but if we don't reach a deal by then, we will continue negotiating."
As the Foreign Ministry had done moments earlier, Livni denied she had called on Arab delegates at Annapolis to stop treating her "as a pariah."
Olmert pointed out that he four years ago, when he was deputy prime minister under Ariel Sharon, in which he revealed for the first time his proposal for a withdrawal from most of the occupied territories. "Since then, I have systematically repeated those positions," he said, adding that people "will say I'm having problems and that's why I'm trying to do a peace process, but the facts must be dealt with justly."
Yes..Even peoples wishes for peace is being used in different ways in propaganda machines, as we hear it from different "corners" .
As the Foreign Ministry had done moments earlier, Livni denied she had called on Arab delegates at Annapolis to stop treating her "as a pariah."
Olmert pointed out that he four years ago, when he was deputy prime minister under Ariel Sharon, in which he revealed for the first time his proposal for a withdrawal from most of the occupied territories. "Since then, I have systematically repeated those positions," he said, adding that people "will say I'm having problems and that's why I'm trying to do a peace process, but the facts must be dealt with justly."
Yes..Even peoples wishes for peace is being used in different ways in propaganda machines, as we hear it from different "corners" .
And the refugee Palestinians are afraid to lose their right of return.
Yes of course they are. We do need to find some solutions and clear answers to give them, at least in some form, even if it´s not solved all the way. As we know this issue is used in others interests to stand in the way for solutions. They do need to know what´s going on and what opinions are circulated.
We..know we can´t go back to 1948..and we do not want that, even if we could. But it´s our opinion that there must be room and resources in the Palestinian state to take in refugees. And that there is need for flexibility. If there are going to be peace, we can´t see any obstacles for why some Palestinians can´t live in a Israeli state if they have relatives and family members there..If it´s going to be true peace, we can´t see any obstacles for why there couldn´t be Israelis living in a Palestinian state or Palestinians living in a Israeli state..in connection to work, living, studies, families and such circumstances. If true peace and security are implemented, we do believe such issues will be solved quite naturally. This is a issue that have been exploited for some own political gains. We sholdn´t let it be a obstacle for peace. If there is true peace it´s not a obstacle!
We..know we can´t go back to 1948..and we do not want that, even if we could. But it´s our opinion that there must be room and resources in the Palestinian state to take in refugees. And that there is need for flexibility. If there are going to be peace, we can´t see any obstacles for why some Palestinians can´t live in a Israeli state if they have relatives and family members there..If it´s going to be true peace, we can´t see any obstacles for why there couldn´t be Israelis living in a Palestinian state or Palestinians living in a Israeli state..in connection to work, living, studies, families and such circumstances. If true peace and security are implemented, we do believe such issues will be solved quite naturally. This is a issue that have been exploited for some own political gains. We sholdn´t let it be a obstacle for peace. If there is true peace it´s not a obstacle!
A U.N. inquiry has made progress in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
UNITED NATIONS - A U.N. inquiry has made progress in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, closely examining the possibility that two or more teams may have carried out the attack, the chief investigator said Wednesday.
While not identifying anyone, Belgian prosecutor Serge Brammertz said in his final report to the Security Council that progress by the U.N. International Independent Investigation Commission has led to the identification of new "persons of interest" and other new leads. "The commission has also deepened and broadened its understanding of the possible involvement of a number of persons of interest, including persons who have recently been identified by the commission, who may have been involved in some aspects of the preparation and commission of the crime or who may have known that a plan to carry out the crime was being prepared," Brammertz said. Brammertz said the commission also confirmed its hypothesis that "operational links may exist" between the perpetrators of 18 other targeted assassinations and bombings in Lebanon, adding that confirming these links and establishing new links will also be a priority in the near future.
The most recent assassination, of Parliament member Antoine Ghanem on Sept. 19 — just three days after he returned to Beirut from a prolonged trip overseas — showed that the perpetrators were able to conclude their surveillance and arrange a car bomb on short notice, he said. This and evidence from the Hariri probe and some other attacks confirms "that the perpetrators or groups of perpetrators had and still have advanced and extensive operational capacities available in Beirut," Brammertz said. The report was issued just after the Security Council unanimously approved Brammertz' nomination to head the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands, starting Jan. 1. The U.N. chief has appointed former Canadian prosecutor Daniel Bellemare to head the Hariri probe. Investigators have previously confirmed that a single blast from a Mitsubishi Canter van packed with 3,960 pounds of high explosives was detonated "most likely" by a male suicide bomber in central Beirut on Feb. 14, 2005, killing Hariri and 22 others.
The first U.N. chief investigator, Germany's Detlev Mehlis, said the plot's complexity suggested that Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services had a role, but Brammertz has not echoed his view. Four pro-Syrian Lebanese generals have been under arrest for almost two years for alleged involvement in the murder. Syria denied involvement in Hariri's assassination but was forced to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, ending a 29-year presence. Brammertz reiterated in Wednesday's report that Syria's cooperation with investigators "remains generally satisfactory." The commission is preparing to hand over the results of its investigation to the prosecutor of the new U.N.-backed tribunal that will prosecute suspects in the Hariri assassination, he said.
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Maybe..The Israelis don´t have to do so much about those rockets..
A Kassam rocket fired at the western Negev landed in Palestinian territory on Thursday. No casualties or damage were reported.
They seems to manage it quite well..themselves..
They seems to manage it quite well..themselves..
Safety...
HAWIJA, Iraq - Nearly 6,000 Sunni Arab residents joined a security pact with American forces Wednesday in what U.S. officers described as a critical step in plugging the remaining escape routes for extremists flushed from former strongholds. The ceremony to pledge the 6,000 new fighters was presided over by dozen sheiks — each draped in black robes trimmed with gold braiding — who signed the contract on behalf of tribesmen at a small U.S. outpost in north-central Iraq. The tribesmen will man about 200 security checkpoints beginning Dec. 7, supplementing hundreds of Iraqi forces already in the area.
A request to freeze any plans to demolish Bedouin homes
Two weeks ago, Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit and former interior minister Ze'ev Boim relayed a request to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, asking him to freeze any plans to demolish Bedouin homes in the Negev for one year, so that a public committee could discuss the issue. Mazuz has yet to respond.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
More than 300,000 people from the southern provinces condemned the interference of the Iranian regime in Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 300,000 Iraqis including 600 Shi'ite tribal leaders have signed a petition accusing Iran of sowing "disorder" in southern Iraq, a group of sheikhs involved in the campaign said.
The sheikhs showed Reuters two thick bundles of notes which contained original signatures. The sheikhs said more than 300,000 people had signed the pages. Iranian influence has grown steadily, especially in the predominantly Shi'ite south, since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. "More than 300,000 people from the southern provinces condemned the interference of the Iranian regime in Iraq and especially in spreading security disorder in the provinces," the sheikhs said in a statement.
But some Iraqis chafe at the influence of Iran's more conservative brand of religion in the south. Shi'ites comprise around 60 percent of Iraq's population, generally put at 26-27 million before the 2003 invasion. "The most poisonous dagger stabbed in us, the Iraqi Shi'ites, is the Iranian regime shamefully exploiting the Shi'ite sect to implement its evil goals," the statement said. "They have targeted our national interests and began planning to divide Iraq and to separate the southern provinces from Iraq."
The statement said that besides 600 Shi'ite tribal leaders, the petition was signed by a number of lawyers, engineers, doctors and university professors. The group of sheikhs is the same one that told Reuters last month that Shi'ite Islamist political parties were imposing strict Islamic rules in southern Iraq and using their armed wings to create a state of fear. Such fears are not unfounded -- two provincial governors were blown up by roadside bombs in August, apparent victims of infighting between the Shi'ite parties for political dominance in the region, source of most of Iraq's oil wealth. Aides to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the reclusive religious leader of Iraq's Shi'ites, have also been killed.
The Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) and the movement of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are the dominant political forces in the Shi'ite provinces. Both have links to neighbouring Iran and believe Iraq should be governed according to Islamic principles. SIIC and the Sadrists saw their rise to power cemented by the December 2005 elections which brought the Islamist Shi'ite Alliance to power. The Sadrists have since pulled out of the Alliance and the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, leader of the smaller Islamist Dawa party. The growing strength of the Shi'ite parties in the south has weakened some secular tribal leaders and excluded them from power structures, a source of patronage and revenues.
Iran routinely pledges its support for a stable Iraq, and political leaders from Baghdad regularly visit Tehran.
The sheikhs showed Reuters two thick bundles of notes which contained original signatures. The sheikhs said more than 300,000 people had signed the pages. Iranian influence has grown steadily, especially in the predominantly Shi'ite south, since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. "More than 300,000 people from the southern provinces condemned the interference of the Iranian regime in Iraq and especially in spreading security disorder in the provinces," the sheikhs said in a statement.
But some Iraqis chafe at the influence of Iran's more conservative brand of religion in the south. Shi'ites comprise around 60 percent of Iraq's population, generally put at 26-27 million before the 2003 invasion. "The most poisonous dagger stabbed in us, the Iraqi Shi'ites, is the Iranian regime shamefully exploiting the Shi'ite sect to implement its evil goals," the statement said. "They have targeted our national interests and began planning to divide Iraq and to separate the southern provinces from Iraq."
The statement said that besides 600 Shi'ite tribal leaders, the petition was signed by a number of lawyers, engineers, doctors and university professors. The group of sheikhs is the same one that told Reuters last month that Shi'ite Islamist political parties were imposing strict Islamic rules in southern Iraq and using their armed wings to create a state of fear. Such fears are not unfounded -- two provincial governors were blown up by roadside bombs in August, apparent victims of infighting between the Shi'ite parties for political dominance in the region, source of most of Iraq's oil wealth. Aides to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the reclusive religious leader of Iraq's Shi'ites, have also been killed.
The Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) and the movement of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are the dominant political forces in the Shi'ite provinces. Both have links to neighbouring Iran and believe Iraq should be governed according to Islamic principles. SIIC and the Sadrists saw their rise to power cemented by the December 2005 elections which brought the Islamist Shi'ite Alliance to power. The Sadrists have since pulled out of the Alliance and the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, leader of the smaller Islamist Dawa party. The growing strength of the Shi'ite parties in the south has weakened some secular tribal leaders and excluded them from power structures, a source of patronage and revenues.
Iran routinely pledges its support for a stable Iraq, and political leaders from Baghdad regularly visit Tehran.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - More than 200 al-Qaida-linked suspects involved in different plots against the kingdom have been arrested in recent months in Saudi Arabia's largest anti-terrorism sweep to date, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
The ministry first reported the arrest of eight men, said to be linked to al-Qaida and allegedly planning to attack oil installations in the kingdom. An Interior Ministry statement, carried by the Saudi Press Agency, said the eight were part of a terrorist cell led by a non-Saudi man, who was one of those arrested. The planned attacks were to take place in the eastern region of the country, which is home to Saudi's main oil resources. The arrest of the eight "pre-empted an imminent attack on an oil installation," the statement said without naming the target or providing more details. The ministry also said 22 other suspects were arrested for allegedly supporting the al-Qaida terror network. This group plotted to assassinate the country's religious leaders and security officials, it said.
The ministry also gave the following breakdown of other arrests:
• 18 suspects, led by an alleged expert in launching missiles, were arrested separately. "They were planning to smuggle eight missiles into the kingdom to carry out terrorist operations," the ministry's said.
• 112 Saudis were arrested for links and "coordination with outside circles" to assist in smuggling men to troubled areas — shorthand for Iraq and Afghanistan — for training, after which they would be brought back for attacks in the kingdom.
• 32 men — both Saudis and non-Saudis — were arrested for providing financial aid to al-Qaida operations in the kingdom.
• 16 men were arrested in the holy city of Medina for colluding to issue a publication propagating "misleading ideology" and criminal acts. The group also worked on helping volunteers go fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The ministry said a total of 208 were arrested.The statement gave no timeline on the arrests of the separate groups. Saudi Arabia, which has a quarter of the world's proven oil reserves, has seen a rise in attacks by Islamist extremists over the last few years.The kingdom, which is the birthplace of Osama bin Laden, has been waging a crackdown on al-Qaida militants since a wave of attacks on foreigners in the kingdom in 2003. In February 2006, two suicide bombers attacked the oil facility at Abqaiq on the east coast, killing two security guards and wounding eight foreign workers in an incident later claimed by the Saudi branch of al-Qaida.The previous large sweep by the Saudi authorities was announced in April, netting 172 militants, including pilots they say were trained for oil refinery attacks using civilian planes. In August, Saudi Arabia said it was setting up a 35,000-strong special force to protect its oil facilities due to the increasing threats against al-Qaida.
By ABDULLAH SHIHRI/AP Press Writer Maamoun Youssef contributed to this report from Cairo, Egypt.
The ministry first reported the arrest of eight men, said to be linked to al-Qaida and allegedly planning to attack oil installations in the kingdom. An Interior Ministry statement, carried by the Saudi Press Agency, said the eight were part of a terrorist cell led by a non-Saudi man, who was one of those arrested. The planned attacks were to take place in the eastern region of the country, which is home to Saudi's main oil resources. The arrest of the eight "pre-empted an imminent attack on an oil installation," the statement said without naming the target or providing more details. The ministry also said 22 other suspects were arrested for allegedly supporting the al-Qaida terror network. This group plotted to assassinate the country's religious leaders and security officials, it said.
The ministry also gave the following breakdown of other arrests:
• 18 suspects, led by an alleged expert in launching missiles, were arrested separately. "They were planning to smuggle eight missiles into the kingdom to carry out terrorist operations," the ministry's said.
• 112 Saudis were arrested for links and "coordination with outside circles" to assist in smuggling men to troubled areas — shorthand for Iraq and Afghanistan — for training, after which they would be brought back for attacks in the kingdom.
• 32 men — both Saudis and non-Saudis — were arrested for providing financial aid to al-Qaida operations in the kingdom.
• 16 men were arrested in the holy city of Medina for colluding to issue a publication propagating "misleading ideology" and criminal acts. The group also worked on helping volunteers go fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The ministry said a total of 208 were arrested.The statement gave no timeline on the arrests of the separate groups. Saudi Arabia, which has a quarter of the world's proven oil reserves, has seen a rise in attacks by Islamist extremists over the last few years.The kingdom, which is the birthplace of Osama bin Laden, has been waging a crackdown on al-Qaida militants since a wave of attacks on foreigners in the kingdom in 2003. In February 2006, two suicide bombers attacked the oil facility at Abqaiq on the east coast, killing two security guards and wounding eight foreign workers in an incident later claimed by the Saudi branch of al-Qaida.The previous large sweep by the Saudi authorities was announced in April, netting 172 militants, including pilots they say were trained for oil refinery attacks using civilian planes. In August, Saudi Arabia said it was setting up a 35,000-strong special force to protect its oil facilities due to the increasing threats against al-Qaida.
By ABDULLAH SHIHRI/AP Press Writer Maamoun Youssef contributed to this report from Cairo, Egypt.
An IAF aircraft targeted a Hamas base in southern Gaza
An IAF aircraft targeted a Hamas base in southern Gaza on Wednesday, killing two Hamas men and wounding more than 10 others, Palestinian officials said. The IDF confirmed the strike, saying it was retaliation for Palestinian rocket and mortar fire from Gaza into Israel.
The Syrian Middle East-docu-Soap! Episode: 458.00099
Michel Aoun 1988, Emile Lahoud 1998, Michel Suleiman 2008?
Well...It´s not that interesting with releasing militants and then the Lebanese army fights them and Palestinians which believing they will be "liberated by Iran´s nuclear, serving as their "nuclear weapons", believing they have some radiation-immunity like no others, while the "jihad-fabric" teacher stands at the gate to hell in Gaza, with one foot in there, having his Palestinian-children-pupils as a shelter letting them be the first to enter, and then Michel Suleiman gets popular.. And the fact that Syria have both Hezbollah nodding Michel Suleiman as president, and Michel Suleiman ..And their peace-effort hoax with returning refugees to homes that don´t exists and sits in a peace conference claiming if there will be solutions - it´s because the Israelis, while Israel being fired rockets at from their supported militants in Gaza, which starts to look more and more like the refugee camp in Lebanon! And their supported Hamas using the very same refugee-issue as a tool to stay in power and oppress their own people, working against solutions for the refugees, while claiming it´s all about them, while they getting colder at the border to Iraq, while the Iranian president having Islamic-suicide-exhibitions urging Palestinian women to blow up themselves and sits with a big grin on his face, claiming it is the Israelis that are committing crimes, shouting like a maniac because of peace efforts, at the same time women blow up themselves in Iraq, at the same time Israel working with solutions with the Palestinians that do want peace!
Maybe Lebanon first and foremost should give some sort of guaranty to the Syrian people..to be able to keep working in Lebanon, no matter who is president or how Lebanon's future politic will look like, because we have had enough of letting "ordinary" people all over the Middle East suffer because of the mess the Syrian old guard have made in their Middle east docu-soap, using the "Palestinian cause, when it serves their own interests, while the Palestinians being treated as a "forth-world-people", in Syria´s no-mans land! And they have people in Damascus claiming a peace conference aimed to get to agreements for a Palestinian state beside Israel, is a tool to deepen divisions among Palestinians and an attempt to 'crush the armed resistance, because Syria can not breath if there is no reason for "resistance" and are choking by the very thought of solutions that will lead to no reasons for "resistance" and will have no use of the Palestinians anymore..,
..as they have done since they started the war in 1967, claiming the only way to achieve peace is to show no flexibility and to go back there, where they started!! And use the Palestinian refugee´s as a tool to not going anywhere, but keep to their docu-soap with suffering, puffing in their self-righteous balloon! And using the "Palestinian cause" they have been very much a part of creating, making sure there will be no end of the suffering for the Palestinians if they don´t get 100 meters of the East side of the Sea of Galilee! Haven´t we?
SYRIA WILL NOT ALTER THE EAST SIDE OF THE SEA OF THE GALILEE! AND SYRIA HAVE NO RIGHTS TO MAKE THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST SUFFER, BRINGING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO THE WHOLE F***** WORLD, BECAUSE OF THAT THEY STARTED A WAR IN 1967 AFTER 16 YEARS OF TERROR,AND USE THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES TO GO BACK THERE! OR SINCE BACK TO THE STONE WALLS, WHEN THEY TERRORISED AND KILLED PEOPLE IN .....BCE. WHILE THEY HAD NOTHING BUT STONE WALLS TO PROTECT THEM WITH AT THE VERY SAME SITE!
SYRIA WILL NOT GO TO THE END OF THE WORLD, WITH THEIR SICK TWISTED MINDS, MAKING THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST SUFFER BECAUSE THEY CAN´T FIND OTHER THINGS TO DO, SYRIA WILL GO TO HELL!
Well...It´s not that interesting with releasing militants and then the Lebanese army fights them and Palestinians which believing they will be "liberated by Iran´s nuclear, serving as their "nuclear weapons", believing they have some radiation-immunity like no others, while the "jihad-fabric" teacher stands at the gate to hell in Gaza, with one foot in there, having his Palestinian-children-pupils as a shelter letting them be the first to enter, and then Michel Suleiman gets popular.. And the fact that Syria have both Hezbollah nodding Michel Suleiman as president, and Michel Suleiman ..And their peace-effort hoax with returning refugees to homes that don´t exists and sits in a peace conference claiming if there will be solutions - it´s because the Israelis, while Israel being fired rockets at from their supported militants in Gaza, which starts to look more and more like the refugee camp in Lebanon! And their supported Hamas using the very same refugee-issue as a tool to stay in power and oppress their own people, working against solutions for the refugees, while claiming it´s all about them, while they getting colder at the border to Iraq, while the Iranian president having Islamic-suicide-exhibitions urging Palestinian women to blow up themselves and sits with a big grin on his face, claiming it is the Israelis that are committing crimes, shouting like a maniac because of peace efforts, at the same time women blow up themselves in Iraq, at the same time Israel working with solutions with the Palestinians that do want peace!
Maybe Lebanon first and foremost should give some sort of guaranty to the Syrian people..to be able to keep working in Lebanon, no matter who is president or how Lebanon's future politic will look like, because we have had enough of letting "ordinary" people all over the Middle East suffer because of the mess the Syrian old guard have made in their Middle east docu-soap, using the "Palestinian cause, when it serves their own interests, while the Palestinians being treated as a "forth-world-people", in Syria´s no-mans land! And they have people in Damascus claiming a peace conference aimed to get to agreements for a Palestinian state beside Israel, is a tool to deepen divisions among Palestinians and an attempt to 'crush the armed resistance, because Syria can not breath if there is no reason for "resistance" and are choking by the very thought of solutions that will lead to no reasons for "resistance" and will have no use of the Palestinians anymore..,
..as they have done since they started the war in 1967, claiming the only way to achieve peace is to show no flexibility and to go back there, where they started!! And use the Palestinian refugee´s as a tool to not going anywhere, but keep to their docu-soap with suffering, puffing in their self-righteous balloon! And using the "Palestinian cause" they have been very much a part of creating, making sure there will be no end of the suffering for the Palestinians if they don´t get 100 meters of the East side of the Sea of Galilee! Haven´t we?
SYRIA WILL NOT ALTER THE EAST SIDE OF THE SEA OF THE GALILEE! AND SYRIA HAVE NO RIGHTS TO MAKE THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST SUFFER, BRINGING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO THE WHOLE F***** WORLD, BECAUSE OF THAT THEY STARTED A WAR IN 1967 AFTER 16 YEARS OF TERROR,AND USE THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES TO GO BACK THERE! OR SINCE BACK TO THE STONE WALLS, WHEN THEY TERRORISED AND KILLED PEOPLE IN .....BCE. WHILE THEY HAD NOTHING BUT STONE WALLS TO PROTECT THEM WITH AT THE VERY SAME SITE!
SYRIA WILL NOT GO TO THE END OF THE WORLD, WITH THEIR SICK TWISTED MINDS, MAKING THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST SUFFER BECAUSE THEY CAN´T FIND OTHER THINGS TO DO, SYRIA WILL GO TO HELL!
ANNAPOLIS
Md. - Just 24 hours after securing an agreement between Israeli and Palestinian leaders to resume long-stalled peace talks, U.S. President George W. Bush invited the pair to the White House to ceremonially inaugurate the first formal, direct negotiations in seven years. Israel and the Palestinians will begin final-status negotiations on December 12, Olmert and Abbas announced Tuesday in a joint statement read out by Bush at the Annapolis conference. In a meeting with Olmert and Abbas before the conference, Bush said that the U.S. would not impose a solution on the parties, but would assist them.
In the joint statement, which was finalized only a few minutes before the conference, Olmert and Abbas promised to try to conclude the final-status agreement by the end of 2008. However, implementation of the agreement will be conditional on fulfillment of each side's obligations under the road map peace plan. Both sides agreed that Washington will determine whether those obligations have been fulfilled.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposed a follow-up conference in Moscow in the spring of 2008. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa supported this idea, and said that negotiations should be expanded to include Syria and Lebanon as well. The Saudi foreign minister also urged that negotiations begin on the Syrian and Lebanese tracks, adding that much is riding on the success of the Annapolis initiative. He urged Israel to freeze construction of the settlements and the "wall" (i.e. the separation fence), free prisoners and evacuate outposts.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni urged the Arab states to "get off the fence" and understand that normalization is not a prize for Israel. She proposed normalization in stages.
Addressing the Palestinians, she urged them to stop mourning Israel's establishment and instead build a state of their own.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at the Annapolis summit's closing speech that the negotiations for a final settlement must not be allowed to fail. "No one believes that failure is an option," Rice told reporters at the Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland.
In the joint statement, which was finalized only a few minutes before the conference, Olmert and Abbas promised to try to conclude the final-status agreement by the end of 2008. However, implementation of the agreement will be conditional on fulfillment of each side's obligations under the road map peace plan. Both sides agreed that Washington will determine whether those obligations have been fulfilled.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposed a follow-up conference in Moscow in the spring of 2008. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa supported this idea, and said that negotiations should be expanded to include Syria and Lebanon as well. The Saudi foreign minister also urged that negotiations begin on the Syrian and Lebanese tracks, adding that much is riding on the success of the Annapolis initiative. He urged Israel to freeze construction of the settlements and the "wall" (i.e. the separation fence), free prisoners and evacuate outposts.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni urged the Arab states to "get off the fence" and understand that normalization is not a prize for Israel. She proposed normalization in stages.
Addressing the Palestinians, she urged them to stop mourning Israel's establishment and instead build a state of their own.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at the Annapolis summit's closing speech that the negotiations for a final settlement must not be allowed to fail. "No one believes that failure is an option," Rice told reporters at the Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland.
A woman wearing an explosives belt blew herself up
BAGHDAD - A woman wearing an explosives belt blew herself up near an American patrol northeast of Baghdad — a rare female suicide bombing that wounded seven U.S. troops and five Iraqis, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
Annapolis
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Tuesday urged delegates at a U.S.-sponsored peace gathering to work toward a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement by reviving stalled peace talks between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Syria and Lebanon, as early as possible.
"In order for the region to enjoy permanent peace, security and stability, peace must be comprehensive," said al-Bashir. "This requires we also address the two other tracks: the Syrian-Israeli peace track including the issue of the occupied Golan Heights; and the Lebanese-Israeli peace track."
Arabs have always called for a comprehensive settlement to a crisis that has plagued the Middle East since 1948. Toward that end, Saudi Arabia proposed a peace initiative in 2002 — later adopted by the Arab league — that trades peace with Israel for land seized by the Jewish state in the 1967 Middle East war. Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi ambassador to Washington, sounded upbeat hours after the conference began. "You have a sense of seriousness and commitment to this process that we've seen," he said. "The question becomes, can the words be translated into deeds?" In his statement, Saud stressed that stagnation in the peace process has increased the appeal of extremist ideologies. "Feelings of despair and frustration have reached a dangerously high level," he said. "It is time to bring this conflict to an end, and to enable the people of the region to divert their energies from war and destruction to peace and development." "This is the fundamental reason behind this important gathering, and the ultimate benchmark for its success," he added. Saud ended his statement with an appeal to spare lives and let hope replace despair.
"In Arabic we usually end by saying 'May peace be upon you,' and this time let me say in addition, 'May peace be achieved by you,'" he added. This is the second time that Saudi Arabia has participated in a peace conference that includes Israel. The previous time was at the Madrid Conference in 1991, the first time Israel and Arabs sat down at same table for peace talks. We believe that the time for handshakes will come when there is a peace agreement ... and we believe that any attempts to try to convey feelings that we do not yet have would not be productive."
In a statement at the Annapolis peace gathering, Prince Saud also said effort must be made to prevent the Middle East from sliding into turmoil and chaos. "We have come to support the launching of serious and continuing talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis that will address all the core and final status issues," said Saud. "These talks must be followed by the launching of the Syrian and Lebanese tracks at the earliest." His remarks were echoed by Jordan's foreign minister, Salaheddin al-Bashir.
"In order for the region to enjoy permanent peace, security and stability, peace must be comprehensive," said al-Bashir. "This requires we also address the two other tracks: the Syrian-Israeli peace track including the issue of the occupied Golan Heights; and the Lebanese-Israeli peace track."
Arabs have always called for a comprehensive settlement to a crisis that has plagued the Middle East since 1948. Toward that end, Saudi Arabia proposed a peace initiative in 2002 — later adopted by the Arab league — that trades peace with Israel for land seized by the Jewish state in the 1967 Middle East war. Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi ambassador to Washington, sounded upbeat hours after the conference began. "You have a sense of seriousness and commitment to this process that we've seen," he said. "The question becomes, can the words be translated into deeds?" In his statement, Saud stressed that stagnation in the peace process has increased the appeal of extremist ideologies. "Feelings of despair and frustration have reached a dangerously high level," he said. "It is time to bring this conflict to an end, and to enable the people of the region to divert their energies from war and destruction to peace and development." "This is the fundamental reason behind this important gathering, and the ultimate benchmark for its success," he added. Saud ended his statement with an appeal to spare lives and let hope replace despair.
"In Arabic we usually end by saying 'May peace be upon you,' and this time let me say in addition, 'May peace be achieved by you,'" he added. This is the second time that Saudi Arabia has participated in a peace conference that includes Israel. The previous time was at the Madrid Conference in 1991, the first time Israel and Arabs sat down at same table for peace talks. We believe that the time for handshakes will come when there is a peace agreement ... and we believe that any attempts to try to convey feelings that we do not yet have would not be productive."
Source: Reuters By Donna Abu-Nasr
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
ANKARA
Turkey - The Turkish military has begun dropping leaflets urging rebels to surrender and "be welcomed with love," an official said Tuesday.
Thank You
"The representatives of the government of the state of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, represented respectively by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Mahmoud Abbas, in his capacity as chairman of the PLO executive committee and president of the Palestinian Authority, have convened in Annapolis, Maryland, under the auspices of President George W. Bush of the United States of America, and with the support of the participants of this international conference having concluded the following joint understanding:
"We express our determination to bring an end to bloodshed, suffering and decades of conflict between our peoples; to usher in a new era of peace, based on freedom, security, justice, dignity, respect and mutual recognition; to propagate a culture of peace and nonviolence; to confront terrorism and incitement, whether committed by Palestinians or Israelis." "In furtherance of the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, we agree to immediately launch good-faith bilateral in order to conclude a peace treaty resolving all outstanding issues, including all core issues without exception, as specified in previous agreements. "We agree to engage in vigorous, ongoing and continuous negotiations and shall make every effort to conclude an agreement before the end of 2008." "For this purpose, a steering committee led jointly be the head of the delegation of each party will meet continuously as agreed. "The steering committee will develop a joint work plan and establish and oversee the work of negotiations teams to address all issues, to be headed by one lead representative from each party. "The first session of the steering committee will be held on 12 December, 2007.
"President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert will continue to meet on a biweekly basis to follow up the negotiations in order to offer all necessary assistance for their advancement. "The parties also commit to immediately implement their respective obligations under the performance-based road map to a permanent two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict issued by the Quartet on 30 April, 2003" - this is called the road map - "and agree to form an American, Palestinian and Israeli mechanism led by the United States to follow up on the implementation of the road map.
"The parties further commit to continue the implementation of the ongoing obligations of the road map until they reach a peace treaty. The United States will monitor and judge the fulfillment of the commitment of both sides of the road map. "Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, implementation of the future peace treaty will be subject to the implementation of the road map, as judged by the United States."
The Palestinian people are blessed with many gifts and talents. They want the opportunity to use those gifts to better their own lives and build a future for their children. They want the dignity that comes with sovereignty and independence. They want justice and equality under the rule of law. They want freedom from violence and fear. The people of Israel have just aspirations as well. They want their children to be able ride a bus or to go to school without fear of suicide bombers. They want an end to rocket attacks and constant threats of assault. They want their nation to be recognized and welcome in the region where they live.
Today Palestinians and Israelis each understand that helping the other to realize their aspirations is key to realizing their own aspirations. Both require an independent, democratic, viable Palestinian state. Such a state will provide Palestinians with the chance to lead lives of freedom and purpose and dignity. Such a state will help provide the Israelis with something they have been seeking for generations, to live in peace with their neighbors.
Achieving this goal is not going to be easy. If it were easy, it would have happened a long time ago. To achieve freedom and peace, both Israelis and Palestinians will have to make tough choices. Both sides are sober about the work ahead. But having spent time with their leaders, they are ready to take on the tough issues. As Prime Minister Olmert recently put it, "We will avoid none of the historic questions. We will not run from discussing any of them." As President Abbas has said, "I believe that there is an opportunity not only for us, but for the Israelis, too. We have an historic and important opportunity that we must benefit from."
Our purpose here in Annapolis is not to conclude an agreement. Rather, it's to launch negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians. For the rest of us, our job is to encourage the parties in this effort and to give them the support they need to succeed.
"We express our determination to bring an end to bloodshed, suffering and decades of conflict between our peoples; to usher in a new era of peace, based on freedom, security, justice, dignity, respect and mutual recognition; to propagate a culture of peace and nonviolence; to confront terrorism and incitement, whether committed by Palestinians or Israelis." "In furtherance of the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, we agree to immediately launch good-faith bilateral in order to conclude a peace treaty resolving all outstanding issues, including all core issues without exception, as specified in previous agreements. "We agree to engage in vigorous, ongoing and continuous negotiations and shall make every effort to conclude an agreement before the end of 2008." "For this purpose, a steering committee led jointly be the head of the delegation of each party will meet continuously as agreed. "The steering committee will develop a joint work plan and establish and oversee the work of negotiations teams to address all issues, to be headed by one lead representative from each party. "The first session of the steering committee will be held on 12 December, 2007.
"President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert will continue to meet on a biweekly basis to follow up the negotiations in order to offer all necessary assistance for their advancement. "The parties also commit to immediately implement their respective obligations under the performance-based road map to a permanent two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict issued by the Quartet on 30 April, 2003" - this is called the road map - "and agree to form an American, Palestinian and Israeli mechanism led by the United States to follow up on the implementation of the road map.
"The parties further commit to continue the implementation of the ongoing obligations of the road map until they reach a peace treaty. The United States will monitor and judge the fulfillment of the commitment of both sides of the road map. "Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, implementation of the future peace treaty will be subject to the implementation of the road map, as judged by the United States."
The Palestinian people are blessed with many gifts and talents. They want the opportunity to use those gifts to better their own lives and build a future for their children. They want the dignity that comes with sovereignty and independence. They want justice and equality under the rule of law. They want freedom from violence and fear. The people of Israel have just aspirations as well. They want their children to be able ride a bus or to go to school without fear of suicide bombers. They want an end to rocket attacks and constant threats of assault. They want their nation to be recognized and welcome in the region where they live.
Today Palestinians and Israelis each understand that helping the other to realize their aspirations is key to realizing their own aspirations. Both require an independent, democratic, viable Palestinian state. Such a state will provide Palestinians with the chance to lead lives of freedom and purpose and dignity. Such a state will help provide the Israelis with something they have been seeking for generations, to live in peace with their neighbors.
Achieving this goal is not going to be easy. If it were easy, it would have happened a long time ago. To achieve freedom and peace, both Israelis and Palestinians will have to make tough choices. Both sides are sober about the work ahead. But having spent time with their leaders, they are ready to take on the tough issues. As Prime Minister Olmert recently put it, "We will avoid none of the historic questions. We will not run from discussing any of them." As President Abbas has said, "I believe that there is an opportunity not only for us, but for the Israelis, too. We have an historic and important opportunity that we must benefit from."
Our purpose here in Annapolis is not to conclude an agreement. Rather, it's to launch negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians. For the rest of us, our job is to encourage the parties in this effort and to give them the support they need to succeed.
A common respsonsibility. Absolutely no one want a physical partition of Jerusalem.
"Abbas: We must have e. J'lem as capital. "
*"Jerusalem should be an open city. Within Jerusalem, irrespective of the resolution of the question of sovereignty, there should be no physical partition that would prevent the free circulation of persons within it". "Palestine and Israel shall be committed to guaranteeing freedom of worship and access to religious sites within Jerusalem. Both states will take all possible measures to protect such sites and preserve their dignity."
*"Israel to remove all economic and other incentives luring Israelis into Occupied Territory". Freezing settlement constructions and any constructions until agreements have been established. And further activities in the West Bank shall be in consultation and cooperation with the Palestinians.
*Recognize each others connection to Jerusalem and holy sites and the equal and common responsibility for your common heritage to the future and coming generations!
* Israeli and Palestinian security and police forces are very much capable to cooperate. Don´t let politic stand in their way!
*The Palestinian authority will work with education minister and establish a functioning cooperation between school, parents and other responsible to offer children and youths meaningful activities after school, with volunteer's and adults presence. We want to see progress and actions in this issue at ones! In both calm and in restless areas.
You are here to take your common responsibility towards coming generations for your heritage and security! That´s yours core issue!
Does freezing of natural growth means that people aren't allowed to have children anymore?
Well...it looks like some have a bit problem to imagine what a two state would look like. An independent Palestinian state beside a Israeli state is just like any other states. With it´s own borders and authorities. We just do not start to build houses and schools at our neighbours borders just because we had children or grandchildren..Do we? If there would be need to build something it would be in a agreement between two states..Wouldn´t it? The main thing is that we do not leave Bedouins out between two states living on a common dump! Isnt it?
*"Jerusalem should be an open city. Within Jerusalem, irrespective of the resolution of the question of sovereignty, there should be no physical partition that would prevent the free circulation of persons within it". "Palestine and Israel shall be committed to guaranteeing freedom of worship and access to religious sites within Jerusalem. Both states will take all possible measures to protect such sites and preserve their dignity."
*"Israel to remove all economic and other incentives luring Israelis into Occupied Territory". Freezing settlement constructions and any constructions until agreements have been established. And further activities in the West Bank shall be in consultation and cooperation with the Palestinians.
*Recognize each others connection to Jerusalem and holy sites and the equal and common responsibility for your common heritage to the future and coming generations!
* Israeli and Palestinian security and police forces are very much capable to cooperate. Don´t let politic stand in their way!
*The Palestinian authority will work with education minister and establish a functioning cooperation between school, parents and other responsible to offer children and youths meaningful activities after school, with volunteer's and adults presence. We want to see progress and actions in this issue at ones! In both calm and in restless areas.
You are here to take your common responsibility towards coming generations for your heritage and security! That´s yours core issue!
Does freezing of natural growth means that people aren't allowed to have children anymore?
Well...it looks like some have a bit problem to imagine what a two state would look like. An independent Palestinian state beside a Israeli state is just like any other states. With it´s own borders and authorities. We just do not start to build houses and schools at our neighbours borders just because we had children or grandchildren..Do we? If there would be need to build something it would be in a agreement between two states..Wouldn´t it? The main thing is that we do not leave Bedouins out between two states living on a common dump! Isnt it?
"Including core issues without exception."
Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed Tuesday to immediately launch peace negotiations in order to reach an agreement by the end of 2008, U.S. President George Bush said in his remarks at the Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland. Prior to his prepared address, Bush read a joint statement agreed on by the sides during last-minute negotiations at the summit.
"We agreed to immediately launch good faith, bilateral negotiations in order to conclude a peace treaty resolving all outstanding issues, including core issues without exception." According to the statement, Israel and the PA also agreed to implement their commitments under the long-dormant U.S.-backed road map for Middle East peace.
Bush said it would not be easy to achieve the goal of creating two states - Israel and Palestine - living side by side in peace after decades of conflict and bloodshed, but also said the two sides nevertheless must work together for the sake of their people.
"Today, Palestinians and Israelis each understand that helping the other to realize their aspirations is the key to realizing their own, and both require an independent, democratic, viable Palestinian state," Bush said in remarks he was making later Tuesday morning.
"Such a state will provide Palestinians with the chance to lead lives of freedom, purpose and dignity. And such a state will help provide Israelis with something they have been seeking for generations: to live in peace with their neighbors."Bush, who met separately with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday ahead of the conference, said the purpose of Annapolis is to not only restart talks, but also gain support from the Arab world and the international community for the hard work ahead.
Olmert added that there were various post-Annapolis meetings planned, a central one of which was the December 17 international donors' gathering in Paris, at which the Palestinian Authority is supposed to produce a plan for improved security in the West Bank, and international partners are to discuss funding for various economic projects to bolster the Palestinians.Olmert praised Quartet envoy Tony Blair for his work in this area, calling him "a great guy, in the right place." He also said Israel would "do our best" to help make a success of the planned economic projects.
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said ahead of his participation in the Annapolis summit Tuesday that the United States had promised that negotiations would be concluded within a year. "We felt from the United States and the international Quartet of Mideast peace negotiators, some encouraging assurances on following up the negotiations through specific mechanisms and reciprocal commitments among all the active parties".
Syria is attending the conference "because peace is its choice and because it has made strides in previous negotiations to achieve it," the state-run Syrian daily Tishrin said in an editorial Tuesday. Syria "is ready to go to the ends of the earth to achieve this objective."
"We agreed to immediately launch good faith, bilateral negotiations in order to conclude a peace treaty resolving all outstanding issues, including core issues without exception." According to the statement, Israel and the PA also agreed to implement their commitments under the long-dormant U.S.-backed road map for Middle East peace.
Bush said it would not be easy to achieve the goal of creating two states - Israel and Palestine - living side by side in peace after decades of conflict and bloodshed, but also said the two sides nevertheless must work together for the sake of their people.
"Today, Palestinians and Israelis each understand that helping the other to realize their aspirations is the key to realizing their own, and both require an independent, democratic, viable Palestinian state," Bush said in remarks he was making later Tuesday morning.
"Such a state will provide Palestinians with the chance to lead lives of freedom, purpose and dignity. And such a state will help provide Israelis with something they have been seeking for generations: to live in peace with their neighbors."Bush, who met separately with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday ahead of the conference, said the purpose of Annapolis is to not only restart talks, but also gain support from the Arab world and the international community for the hard work ahead.
Olmert added that there were various post-Annapolis meetings planned, a central one of which was the December 17 international donors' gathering in Paris, at which the Palestinian Authority is supposed to produce a plan for improved security in the West Bank, and international partners are to discuss funding for various economic projects to bolster the Palestinians.Olmert praised Quartet envoy Tony Blair for his work in this area, calling him "a great guy, in the right place." He also said Israel would "do our best" to help make a success of the planned economic projects.
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said ahead of his participation in the Annapolis summit Tuesday that the United States had promised that negotiations would be concluded within a year. "We felt from the United States and the international Quartet of Mideast peace negotiators, some encouraging assurances on following up the negotiations through specific mechanisms and reciprocal commitments among all the active parties".
Syria is attending the conference "because peace is its choice and because it has made strides in previous negotiations to achieve it," the state-run Syrian daily Tishrin said in an editorial Tuesday. Syria "is ready to go to the ends of the earth to achieve this objective."
Shooting in northern Baghdad's Shaab neighborhood
BAGHDAD - American troops fired on a minibus carrying bank employees to work Tuesday, killing as many as four passengers, Iraqi officials said. The U.S. military said two people were killed after the driver disregarded a warning shot and drove into an area limited to cars. The shooting took place in northern Baghdad's Shaab neighborhood, known as a Shiite militia stronghold, as the driver was collecting employees to go to work at Rasheed bank, police said.
U.S. troops fired when the bus reached the U.S. roadblock and tried to drive through, killing four passengers — including three women, police and hospital officials said. In a statement, the American military said the driver was traveling on a street restricted to cars only, and failed to heed a warning shot. The U.S. statement said two people were killed and four wounded. A manager at Rasheed bank also said the shooting claimed two lives.
Shaab is the same neighborhood where masked gunmen killed 11 relatives of a journalist critical of the Iraqi government on Sunday, according to colleagues and the media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. Khalaf, however, denied the earlier deaths had taken place. "The killing of the 11 family members did not take place and that is totally confirmed," he said.
In Amman, Jordan, the journalist challenged the Iraqi government's account and accused the Interior Ministry forces of involvement in the deaths. Dhia al-Kawaz said they raided a wake in Iraq for his slain family Tuesday in the predominantly Shiite city of Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, tearing down banners commemorating the dead. Al-Kawaz, who has lived outside Iraq for 20 years, said the killing of his family members was "a message to me to any journalist inside Iraq or outside Iraq who opposes the policies of the Iraqi government."
U.S. troops fired when the bus reached the U.S. roadblock and tried to drive through, killing four passengers — including three women, police and hospital officials said. In a statement, the American military said the driver was traveling on a street restricted to cars only, and failed to heed a warning shot. The U.S. statement said two people were killed and four wounded. A manager at Rasheed bank also said the shooting claimed two lives.
Shaab is the same neighborhood where masked gunmen killed 11 relatives of a journalist critical of the Iraqi government on Sunday, according to colleagues and the media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. Khalaf, however, denied the earlier deaths had taken place. "The killing of the 11 family members did not take place and that is totally confirmed," he said.
In Amman, Jordan, the journalist challenged the Iraqi government's account and accused the Interior Ministry forces of involvement in the deaths. Dhia al-Kawaz said they raided a wake in Iraq for his slain family Tuesday in the predominantly Shiite city of Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, tearing down banners commemorating the dead. Al-Kawaz, who has lived outside Iraq for 20 years, said the killing of his family members was "a message to me to any journalist inside Iraq or outside Iraq who opposes the policies of the Iraqi government."
RAWALPINDI
Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf said farewell to military colleagues on Tuesday as he prepared to become a civilian president ahead of January's general election.
This is NOT Research!
And there is no way Japan can make people all over the world to accept it as a research!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Separating Gaza from West Bank?
Maybe for the moment. But Gaza will be a part of a Palestinian state! Even if it´s not accomplished in this season. We will not stop working for the Palestinians in Gaza and their rights, just because there are Hamas parrot clan humming their Syrian mantras, Iran´s paid jihadists making people suffer. Denying them their rights, claiming others are responsible for it and exploring the Palestinians in camps all over the Middle East! Destroying their mentally exhausted children, sending their women out to blow up themselves, if they are not being blown up while baking bread, while the Iranian president sits with a big grin on his face, and the Syrian "spinal cord", tapping their chest, puffing and puffing in their self righteous balloon, working against other peoples will, while Palestinians getting colder at their border!
The world will never accept such conditions for the Gaza citizens or Palestinians in camps!
The world will never accept such conditions for the Gaza citizens or Palestinians in camps!
So..
"Always, always, the pain and hurt of the city can break through and curdle the best intentions. Izhiman describes what it was like to cope with the aftermath of a suicide bombing. "We're trying to help the injured, and people are pointing at us, yelling, 'You're Arab! You did this to us, and what, now you're here to save lives?' It was like a knife in my heart." Adds Alian, "On the Israeli side, human lives are being lost, and the Arab side is demanding rights for statehood. I'm caught in between, angry and frustrated. All I can do is focus on my training and try to keep the wounded from dying."
Dome hysterical people yelling, shouting viewing with their arms wanting to forbid peace
Thousands of right-wing activists took part in the rally in Jerusalem's Paris Square and police closed streets in the surrounding area, At Monday afternoon's demonstration, speakers denounced the Annapolis conference and asked whether the government officials taking part in the talks really represented the Jewish people.
100 land mines and nine bombs hidden in the northern Sinai desert
Police have found more than a 100 land mines and nine bombs hidden in the northern Sinai desert, a security officer said Monday. Authorities believe Islamic militants had buried the explosives, but no militants were in the vicinity when the police, acting on a tip, uncovered the cache, said the northern Sinai security official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the land mines and bombs had been stashed in sacks buried a few meters in soil about 40 kilometers to the west of the Egyptian-Israeli border. Islamic terrorists have carried out three major bomb attacks in the Sinai since October 2004. The blasts in the resorts of Sharm el-Sheik, Taba and Dahab killed 125 people. The government blamed the attacks on a local Islamic militant group, which appears to have been inspired by al-Qaida ideology.
Smuggled from Syria
Lebanese customs authorities on Monday seized more than 2 million illegal pills that were allegedly being smuggled from Syria, the state-run National News Agency and security officials said. The Captagon pills - an amphetamine-like medication - were hidden in different parts of a bus that came from Syria, NNA said. The drugs were discovered when the bus was scanned at the Beirut Port before it was to be put on a ship going to Qatar, the agency said. Authorities showed an Associated Press photographer about 15 sealed sacks and several boxes that they said were filled with pills. Security officials said after the bus was scanned, dogs were brought to check the vehicle. The first group of dogs sniffed for explosives and found nothing, but drug sniffing dogs later found the pills, which were hidden mainly under the seats.
In a desolate northwest corner of Iraq's Anbar province nearly 2,000 victims of Iraq's sectarian divide live in a squalid encampment of tents
BAGHDAD - Masked gunmen stormed the family home of a pro-Baath journalist and killed 11 of his relatives, colleagues said Monday, as Shiite legislators denounced a proposal to ease curbs on former members of Saddam Hussein's ruling party, dimming hopes for national reconciliation.
Ahmad Haj Ali, a political analyst and member of Syria's ruling Baath party. "If Syria goes, it would have achieved what the others want without achieving anything for itself. The price will be extremely high," he said. Syrian lawmaker Mohammed Habash said Syria is the "spinal cord" of a front that includes Iran, the "resistance" in Iraq, Hezbollah and Hamas.
In a desolate northwest corner of Iraq's Anbar province nearly 2,000 victims of Iraq's sectarian divide live in a squalid encampment of tents and garbage. Just a short walk away from the camp is the Syrian borderSince 2006 we've been targeted, especially after the attacks on the Shiite mosques in Samarra, because we are Palestinians," said Awad Dalah, an elder at the camp on the outskirts of al-Waleed. "We've lost about 300 people in Baghdad. Some were killed; others were kidnapped and just disappeared. "The Iraqi media talked about Arabs being involved, and Palestinians are Arabs and Sunni, so people started talking about us being involved, and the Shiite militias came after us." Our children are suffering. We are suffering. Just look. You think we want to live like this, in tents, with snakes around?" The al-Waleed Palestinian camp lies on the outskirts of the town, which if it wasn't at a border entry point with Syria and on the main Damascus-Baghdad roadThe Palestinian camp is even more depressing to look at: row upon row of tents, discarded fruit juice cans, water bottles, peelings, and other garbage everywhere. The pride of the camp, however, is an old one-story building repainted by the displaced Palestinians.
It's being used as a school. But the basic lessons for many of the estimated 700 children in the camp under the age of 15 aren't given by professional teachers. They're given by camp adults. The camp population is a blink over 1,900 now, up from 1,400 just a few weeks ago. And the promise is that it will continue to grow. International aid organizations fear increasing difficulties as winter approaches, and the United Nations is working to find new countries for its occupants but the process is slow. Food, tents, and cooking fuel are supplied by international aid organizations. There is also a new, U.N.-supplied generator for electricity and fuel given to run it.
Ahmad Haj Ali, a political analyst and member of Syria's ruling Baath party. "If Syria goes, it would have achieved what the others want without achieving anything for itself. The price will be extremely high," he said. Syrian lawmaker Mohammed Habash said Syria is the "spinal cord" of a front that includes Iran, the "resistance" in Iraq, Hezbollah and Hamas.
In a desolate northwest corner of Iraq's Anbar province nearly 2,000 victims of Iraq's sectarian divide live in a squalid encampment of tents and garbage. Just a short walk away from the camp is the Syrian borderSince 2006 we've been targeted, especially after the attacks on the Shiite mosques in Samarra, because we are Palestinians," said Awad Dalah, an elder at the camp on the outskirts of al-Waleed. "We've lost about 300 people in Baghdad. Some were killed; others were kidnapped and just disappeared. "The Iraqi media talked about Arabs being involved, and Palestinians are Arabs and Sunni, so people started talking about us being involved, and the Shiite militias came after us." Our children are suffering. We are suffering. Just look. You think we want to live like this, in tents, with snakes around?" The al-Waleed Palestinian camp lies on the outskirts of the town, which if it wasn't at a border entry point with Syria and on the main Damascus-Baghdad roadThe Palestinian camp is even more depressing to look at: row upon row of tents, discarded fruit juice cans, water bottles, peelings, and other garbage everywhere. The pride of the camp, however, is an old one-story building repainted by the displaced Palestinians.
It's being used as a school. But the basic lessons for many of the estimated 700 children in the camp under the age of 15 aren't given by professional teachers. They're given by camp adults. The camp population is a blink over 1,900 now, up from 1,400 just a few weeks ago. And the promise is that it will continue to grow. International aid organizations fear increasing difficulties as winter approaches, and the United Nations is working to find new countries for its occupants but the process is slow. Food, tents, and cooking fuel are supplied by international aid organizations. There is also a new, U.N.-supplied generator for electricity and fuel given to run it.
Joint Israeli-Palestinian statement
An elusive joint Israeli-Palestinian statement on the contours of future peace talks is within reach, a senior member of the Palestinian delegation said Monday, hours before a high-stakes international conference on the Mideast was to begin. After months of trying to forge a joint declaration, Israel and the Palestinians have made an 11th-hour push in recent days to come up with a statement for presentation at the gathering, which is to be the first time that Israel, a large group of Arab states and international envoys from around the world sit down together to try to relaunch the peace process. "We will reach a joint paper today or tomorrow," Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior aide to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, told reporters.
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The municipality of the settlement-city of Ariel plans to evict from temporary caravan homes a number of former residents of the evacuated Gaza settlement of Netzarim, Mayor Ron Nahman said Monday. The eviction is slated to take place in five months, Nahman told Army Radio. The former Netzarim settlers said they had only recently succeeded in purchasing land on which to build permanent homes in Ariel, but were then notified by the Defense Ministry that as a result of a sweeping freeze on settlement activity announced ahead of this week's Annapolis conference, they would be unable for the time being to begin construction. The freeze was also to include Israel's declaration of willingness to dismantle illegal West Bank settlement outposts.
If Binyamin Netanyahu want´s another partner for peace, we suggest he go to Gaza, have a coup of tea and discuss your common view with Hamas
And if Binyamin Netanyahu want´s another partner for peace, we suggest he go to Gaza, have a coup of tea and discuss your common view with Hamas. And the Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman blaha blaha´s about how happy he is for no Palestinian state until Mahmoud Abbas regained control over the Gaza Strip from Hamas as he don´t expect Abbas to overthrow Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Constructive..This is a peace conference - Not your own private psychopathic battle field!
"Syria will attend the Annapolis conference in order to examine the US's commitment to peace," according to Monday's editorial in Syria's official daily newspaper Teshreen.
Or...You are just here to spread your bullshit and negativity and make an awful smell in the air as you have done before the conference even took place! And your anti-Israel rhetoric, anti-agreements, anti-peace, anti-everyone and anti-everything, blaming them for both your own and others actions, and negativity towards peace and towards everyone! "examine the US's commitment to peace"..Show your own commitment to peace instead of claiming to be there to examine the US! Straighten up, mind your words or we will collect every negative bullshit you have said and put it in here to be documented and showed what Syria have to contribute with, even in a peace conference to the rest of the world and for history!
Upon the breakup of the Ottoman Turkish Empire after World War I, Britain and France did some imperial trading at Golan. The territory had changed hands often throughout the centuries. Jews also had a long history here. Recall how Syria used the Heights to rain death and terror on Israelis below prior to the 1967 War--which it also largely instigated. In 1973, Israel was attacked on its holiest day, Yom Kippur, from the Syrian side of the Heights. Not long ago, an Israeli Prime Minister offered, as was done after 1967, an almost complete return of the Heights in exchange for true peace. The exception would cover a tiny stretch of land at the east side of the sea of Galilee´! Israel currently controls the passes Syrian tanks would use to roll down hill to kill Jews. Right now Syrian artillery and gunners can't do this anymore to Jews.
Despite appalling treatment of Kurds, native Jews, Lebanese, Palestinians and others; despite support for terrorists undermining Iraq's attempt at democracy; despite the great likelihood that many of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction found their way to Syria; despite Damascus' support of major terrorist organizations whose aim is the destruction of the Israel, giving safe haven to those organizations within its own borders; despite its record as mass slaughterer of any and all who decent, author of the infamous "Hama Solution;" etc., etc.
Despite the fact that Israel sits in a peace conference at the same time they being attacked by rockets from Syria´s supported militants from Gaza. Despite the fact that Nasrallah functioning in Lebanon to divide people, working against a presidential vote, inciting sectarian violence and claiming the US is responsible for doing that, in Syria´s interests. Despite the fact that it´s very much Syria that claiming the Palestinians can go back to 1948 as another lead to put obstacles in the way for peace, as we know that one can not go back in time. Despite the fact that Syria legitimizes war against the Kurds. Syria sits in a peace conference "examine the US's commitment to peace!"
We said: Bow you heads or we will sweep the floor with you! We´ll walk right over you! We´ll make a hole on your self-righteous- smug- conceited balloon you sitting in, in a second!
And we mean it!
Or...You are just here to spread your bullshit and negativity and make an awful smell in the air as you have done before the conference even took place! And your anti-Israel rhetoric, anti-agreements, anti-peace, anti-everyone and anti-everything, blaming them for both your own and others actions, and negativity towards peace and towards everyone! "examine the US's commitment to peace"..Show your own commitment to peace instead of claiming to be there to examine the US! Straighten up, mind your words or we will collect every negative bullshit you have said and put it in here to be documented and showed what Syria have to contribute with, even in a peace conference to the rest of the world and for history!
Upon the breakup of the Ottoman Turkish Empire after World War I, Britain and France did some imperial trading at Golan. The territory had changed hands often throughout the centuries. Jews also had a long history here. Recall how Syria used the Heights to rain death and terror on Israelis below prior to the 1967 War--which it also largely instigated. In 1973, Israel was attacked on its holiest day, Yom Kippur, from the Syrian side of the Heights. Not long ago, an Israeli Prime Minister offered, as was done after 1967, an almost complete return of the Heights in exchange for true peace. The exception would cover a tiny stretch of land at the east side of the sea of Galilee´! Israel currently controls the passes Syrian tanks would use to roll down hill to kill Jews. Right now Syrian artillery and gunners can't do this anymore to Jews.
Despite appalling treatment of Kurds, native Jews, Lebanese, Palestinians and others; despite support for terrorists undermining Iraq's attempt at democracy; despite the great likelihood that many of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction found their way to Syria; despite Damascus' support of major terrorist organizations whose aim is the destruction of the Israel, giving safe haven to those organizations within its own borders; despite its record as mass slaughterer of any and all who decent, author of the infamous "Hama Solution;" etc., etc.
Despite the fact that Israel sits in a peace conference at the same time they being attacked by rockets from Syria´s supported militants from Gaza. Despite the fact that Nasrallah functioning in Lebanon to divide people, working against a presidential vote, inciting sectarian violence and claiming the US is responsible for doing that, in Syria´s interests. Despite the fact that it´s very much Syria that claiming the Palestinians can go back to 1948 as another lead to put obstacles in the way for peace, as we know that one can not go back in time. Despite the fact that Syria legitimizes war against the Kurds. Syria sits in a peace conference "examine the US's commitment to peace!"
We said: Bow you heads or we will sweep the floor with you! We´ll walk right over you! We´ll make a hole on your self-righteous- smug- conceited balloon you sitting in, in a second!
And we mean it!
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Annapolis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Washington on Sunday ahead of a conference to be held in nearby Annapolis this week that U.S. President George W. Bush hopes will relaunch peace negotiations with Israel. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are due to hold further discussions in Washington on Sunday to try to reach agreement on a joint document to be presented at the conference, Abu Rdainah said.
*"Jerusalem should be an open city. Within Jerusalem, irrespective of the resolution of the question of sovereignty, there should be no physical partition that would prevent the free circulation of persons within it". "Palestine and Israel shall be committed to guaranteeing freedom of worship and access to religious sites within Jerusalem. Both states will take all possible measures to protect such sites and preserve their dignity."
*"Israel to remove all economic and other incentives luring Israelis into Occupied Territory". Freezing settlement constructions and any constructions until agreements have been established. And further activities in the West Bank shall be in consultation and cooperation with the Palestinians. Began withdraw trailers that have been placed resent in out posts as soon as possible.
*Recognize each others connection to Jerusalem and holy sites and the equal and common responsibility for your common heritage to the future and coming generations! You are here to take your common responsibility towards coming generations for your heritage and security! That´s yours core issue!
*And some hint or prediction of where in the process a timetable can be set! Try to write down some goals. We know this issue is very much connected with security. Work on cooperation. Israeli and Palestinian security and police forces are very much capable to cooperate. Don´t let politic stand in their way!
*The Palestinian authority will work with education minister and establish a functioning cooperation between school, parents and other responsible to offer children and youths meaningful activities after school, with volunteer's and adults presence. We want to see progress and actions in this issue at ones! In both calm and in restless areas.
*"Jerusalem should be an open city. Within Jerusalem, irrespective of the resolution of the question of sovereignty, there should be no physical partition that would prevent the free circulation of persons within it". "Palestine and Israel shall be committed to guaranteeing freedom of worship and access to religious sites within Jerusalem. Both states will take all possible measures to protect such sites and preserve their dignity."
*"Israel to remove all economic and other incentives luring Israelis into Occupied Territory". Freezing settlement constructions and any constructions until agreements have been established. And further activities in the West Bank shall be in consultation and cooperation with the Palestinians. Began withdraw trailers that have been placed resent in out posts as soon as possible.
*Recognize each others connection to Jerusalem and holy sites and the equal and common responsibility for your common heritage to the future and coming generations! You are here to take your common responsibility towards coming generations for your heritage and security! That´s yours core issue!
*And some hint or prediction of where in the process a timetable can be set! Try to write down some goals. We know this issue is very much connected with security. Work on cooperation. Israeli and Palestinian security and police forces are very much capable to cooperate. Don´t let politic stand in their way!
*The Palestinian authority will work with education minister and establish a functioning cooperation between school, parents and other responsible to offer children and youths meaningful activities after school, with volunteer's and adults presence. We want to see progress and actions in this issue at ones! In both calm and in restless areas.
*And the whole process with negotiations and follow up´s will be based on equal conditions.
* Comprehensive measures taken by Israel and Syria to start cooperation with security at Golan due to earlier documents. And taking actions to ease the conditions for Druze families at Golan, reunite them and establish conditions following UN conventions on human rights. And the rest will follow..
* The East side of the sea of Galilee´and it´s connection to Dan city may not be altered in any circumstances!
* We want a document signed between Israel and Syria stating their common responsibility for living up to human rights convention concerning families at Golan.
Peace camps, lawmakers, The Arab League. And thank you: responsibility
Hundreds of members of the left-wing peace camp gathered outside the Prime Minister's Residence on Saturday night, on the eve of his departure for the Annapolis conference, to show their support for the upcoming peace talks.
"The Arab League will participate for the first time in a peace conference with an Israeli presence," Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said on his departure Sunday. "We will say that there can be no normalization except in the framework of the Arab peace initiative and in the framework of total peace." "We will speak with all frankness and we will inform the world everything that happens at the conference," he added.Representatives from Peace Now and the Geneva Initiative joined MKs from the Meretz and Labor parties to address the demonstrators. "The message was that if the prime minister came to a real peace agreement, he would have the support of the Israeli public behind him," said Yariv Oppenheimer, secretary-general of Peace Now.
While Prime Minister Ehud Olmert traveled to the airport to leave for the US, demonstrators packed the narrow sidewalk and a nearby street junction carrying placards reading, "This is the time - choose peace" and "Yes to a peace treaty."
In recent weeks there has been increased criticism of the left-wing parties and organizations for remaining silent on Annapolis. Olmert, who was scheduled to leave for Annapolis early Sunday morning, has received increasing criticism from lawmakers across the political spectrum for attending the conference. While right-wing lawmakers have criticized him for taking part to please American interests, the Left has slammed him for not putting enough new issues on the table.
"It is important to let the prime minister know that he has a real opportunity here, and that the opportunity extends beyond the summit to do real things on the ground to change things, to get the peace process moving," said MK Ephraim Sneh (Labor) at the rally. Also taking part were dozens of university students, who had embarked on a "three-day march" on Thursday around and through Jerusalem to encourage Olmert to make an agreement. "If the summit addresses the need for compromises in Jerusalem, we will have succeeded. The students also orchestrated a "newspaper-exchange", delivering Palestinian newspapers to homes in Rehavia, while sending Hebrew dailies to Palestinian communities outside Jerusalem, to highlight the schisms between the two groups.
Source: J-Post
Olmert told journalists he hoped the meeting would "allow the launch of serious negotiations on all the core issues, which will lead to a solution of two national homes for two peoples."
During a meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Minister Without Portfolio Ami Ayalon appealed to Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to resist calls for the party to quit the government and to support "a diplomatic process that is essential to the existence of the state of Israel." Ayalon met Yosef at the rabbi's residence in Jerusalem on Sunday. Shas chairman Eli Yishai was also present during the sit-down. Ayalon communicated to Yosef his belief that Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party would quit the coalition following the Annapolis peace conference, a move that would endanger the Olmert government's ability to rule effectively. As a result, Ayalon called on Shas to "show responsibility, stay in the government and support a diplomatic process that is essential to the existence of the State of Israel."
Ayalon also told the Shas leader that Lieberman's projected resignation does not necessarily mean that Shas should follow suit. The minister said he hoped the government's stability would remain intact after the Annapolis conference. Yosef mostly listened to Ayalon's statements, however did not respond when the minister inquired into Shas' plans following the summit.
Senior politicians said The prime minister presented before the elections and the investigations his daring and ambitious plan, the principle of which was to leave the Palestinian territories, and he was elected on this platform. All of the attempts to doubt the motives for the political process are destined to fail." Olmert campaigned for prime minister in 2006 on his much-touted convergence plan to follow the Gaza disengagement by unilaterally withdrawing from West Bank settlements. The plan was since essentially discarded.
Source: Haaretz
Well...As lawmakers they should know that keeping Status Quo with the Palestinians is against human rights on both sides! Shouldn´t they..
Russian police detained opposition leader
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained opposition leader and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov on Saturday when they broke up an anti-Kremlin protest eight days before Russia's parliamentary election.
Scuffles broke out between police and protesters in central Moscow after around 3,000 people tried to march to the central election commission's headquarters. "No election. For Russia. Against Putin," shouted the protesters, organized by the opposition Other Russia group, which accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of destroying personal liberties and the freedom of the press.
The umbrella group, which unites Kremlin opponents from liberal free market thinkers to anarchists, also says a parliamentary election scheduled for December 2 is unfairly weighted towards pro-Putin party United Russia. Police have cracked down on Other Russia marches this year, hitting protesters with batons and detaining hundreds, but they recently adopted a softer approach. On Saturday they kept their distance until a squad of riot police blocked the march.
Plain clothes police roughly pushed and pulled people into vans and police armed with batons grabbed protest leaders. Kasparov, a leader of Other Russia, was charged with public order offences and police said they would hold him for five days, said his spokeswoman.
Police detained about 60 protesters, a Kasparov spokesman said. Police declined to comment. After police broke up the march, protesters moved away in small groups and said they had expected the authorities to block the demonstration. "In a free country you can express your opinions but in Russia you can't," said Alexei Alexeyev, a 26-year-old protester. "The police are very aggressive and I fear them," he said, explaining that police had detained him for 12 hours at an opposition protest in March.
Putin, who is hugely popular in Russia, will step down as Russian president next year after his second and final consecutive term but has said he will continue to play a role in Russian politics. Young and old mingled at the protest, uniting the elderly who had lived in Soviet times with young students. Tatiana Manukova, 61, had wrapped up in woolly hat and thick coat to ward off the chilly Moscow air. "Censorship is all around us and our freedoms have decreased," she said. "Putin's way will not mean a better future."
By James Kilner and Tanya Mosolova; Editing by Charles Dick
Scuffles broke out between police and protesters in central Moscow after around 3,000 people tried to march to the central election commission's headquarters. "No election. For Russia. Against Putin," shouted the protesters, organized by the opposition Other Russia group, which accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of destroying personal liberties and the freedom of the press.
The umbrella group, which unites Kremlin opponents from liberal free market thinkers to anarchists, also says a parliamentary election scheduled for December 2 is unfairly weighted towards pro-Putin party United Russia. Police have cracked down on Other Russia marches this year, hitting protesters with batons and detaining hundreds, but they recently adopted a softer approach. On Saturday they kept their distance until a squad of riot police blocked the march.
Plain clothes police roughly pushed and pulled people into vans and police armed with batons grabbed protest leaders. Kasparov, a leader of Other Russia, was charged with public order offences and police said they would hold him for five days, said his spokeswoman.
Police detained about 60 protesters, a Kasparov spokesman said. Police declined to comment. After police broke up the march, protesters moved away in small groups and said they had expected the authorities to block the demonstration. "In a free country you can express your opinions but in Russia you can't," said Alexei Alexeyev, a 26-year-old protester. "The police are very aggressive and I fear them," he said, explaining that police had detained him for 12 hours at an opposition protest in March.
Putin, who is hugely popular in Russia, will step down as Russian president next year after his second and final consecutive term but has said he will continue to play a role in Russian politics. Young and old mingled at the protest, uniting the elderly who had lived in Soviet times with young students. Tatiana Manukova, 61, had wrapped up in woolly hat and thick coat to ward off the chilly Moscow air. "Censorship is all around us and our freedoms have decreased," she said. "Putin's way will not mean a better future."
By James Kilner and Tanya Mosolova; Editing by Charles Dick
Humpbacks are some of the most wonderful and mysterious creatures in the ocean, with the longest vocalization produced by any animal
Vessels from the groups Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace tail and harass the whaling fleet, while strong protests are lodged by environmental groups, many marine biologists, and officials from the United States, Australia and other countries. But this year those complaints have intensified, largely because Japan has added a new animal to its planned harvest of more than 1,400 whales from seven species — the humpback, Megaptera novaeangliae.
Whaling nearly wiped it out, reducing the humpback’s numbers to perhaps a 1,000 by the mid-1960s. Today, estimates put the total at roughly 30,000. They are considered at high risk of extinction by the World Conservation Union.
“Humpbacks are some of the most wonderful and mysterious creatures in the ocean, with the longest vocalization produced by any animal, including humans, with their bouts of song that last up to 23 hours,” said David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of a forthcoming book on whale songs and science.
Whaling nearly wiped it out, reducing the humpback’s numbers to perhaps a 1,000 by the mid-1960s. Today, estimates put the total at roughly 30,000. They are considered at high risk of extinction by the World Conservation Union.
“Humpbacks are some of the most wonderful and mysterious creatures in the ocean, with the longest vocalization produced by any animal, including humans, with their bouts of song that last up to 23 hours,” said David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of a forthcoming book on whale songs and science.
A dam collapse in northeast China
BEIJING (Reuters) - A dam collapse in northeast China sent a torrent of mud and debris into two nearby villages, killing six and leaving another seven missing, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.
The collapse of the dam, holding back waste from iron ore production, in Liaoning province's Shiqiaozi village injured another 17, all of whom were in a stable condition. Rescuers were searching for the missing as 10 bulldozers cleared mud and ore. An 80-metre wide river of debris spilled across fields and into two low-lying villages, destroying cropland and 33 houses. "The priority of our work is to look for the missing and resettle the homeless," Xinhua quoted Yang Jinfang, head of the publicity department in the nearby city of Anshan, as saying. The dam, which Xinhua said belonged to the Dingyang Mining Co. Ltd, an iron ore producer, was supposed to be used to contain waste ore, but over the years there had been a buildup of water. Authorities had sent inspectors to check four similar dams in the area, the report said. China is frequently beset by industrial and environmental disasters. Last week, 31 people were crushed in a landslide in central China, most of them trapped in a long-distance bus that was buried under an avalanche of boulders, earth and mud at the entrance to a railway tunnel being built near the site of the Three Gorges Dam.
Reporting by Lindsay Beck
The collapse of the dam, holding back waste from iron ore production, in Liaoning province's Shiqiaozi village injured another 17, all of whom were in a stable condition. Rescuers were searching for the missing as 10 bulldozers cleared mud and ore. An 80-metre wide river of debris spilled across fields and into two low-lying villages, destroying cropland and 33 houses. "The priority of our work is to look for the missing and resettle the homeless," Xinhua quoted Yang Jinfang, head of the publicity department in the nearby city of Anshan, as saying. The dam, which Xinhua said belonged to the Dingyang Mining Co. Ltd, an iron ore producer, was supposed to be used to contain waste ore, but over the years there had been a buildup of water. Authorities had sent inspectors to check four similar dams in the area, the report said. China is frequently beset by industrial and environmental disasters. Last week, 31 people were crushed in a landslide in central China, most of them trapped in a long-distance bus that was buried under an avalanche of boulders, earth and mud at the entrance to a railway tunnel being built near the site of the Three Gorges Dam.
Reporting by Lindsay Beck
Indoctrination of Children
- New Animated Film on Hamas TV Focuses on Child Martyrdom Al-Aqsa TV Hamas- October 12, 2007
-Children Show Demonstrates Iranian Perspective of Israel-Palestinian Conflict through a Bird Parable Channel 2 (Iran) - October 5, 2007
- Lebanon War of 2006 and Attack on Israeli Missile Boat in an Animated Iranian Children Film Aired on "Jerusalem Day" Channel 2 (Iran) - October 5, 2007 -
- Hamas-Style Lion King Vanquishes Fatah Rats in an Al-Aqsa TV Animated Film Al-Aqsa TV - August 23, 2007
-Gaza Children Play Fatah-Hamas War Games Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai/Saudi Arabia) - August 10, 2007
-Nahoul the Bee Replaces Farfour - Hamas Mickey Mouse - and Vows to Continue on His Path of Martyrdom and Jihad Al-Iraqiya TV (Iraq), Al-Aqsa TV -Hamas - July 13, 2007
-Farfour, Hamas' Mickey Mouse Character, Is 'Martyred' in the Final Episode of the "Pioneers of Tomorrow" Children Show on Hamas TV Al-Aqsa TV - June 29, 2007
-Graduation Ceremony at the Islamic Association in Gaza on Hamas TV Al-Aqsa TV -May 31, 2007
-"New Order" - An Anti-American Short Movie on the Iranian Bushehr TV - June 21, 2007
-Hamas TV Insists on Continuing Inciting Children TV Show Al-Aqsa TV- May 11, 2007
-Children Show Demonstrates Iranian Perspective of Israel-Palestinian Conflict through a Bird Parable Channel 2 (Iran) - October 5, 2007
- Lebanon War of 2006 and Attack on Israeli Missile Boat in an Animated Iranian Children Film Aired on "Jerusalem Day" Channel 2 (Iran) - October 5, 2007 -
- Hamas-Style Lion King Vanquishes Fatah Rats in an Al-Aqsa TV Animated Film Al-Aqsa TV - August 23, 2007
-Gaza Children Play Fatah-Hamas War Games Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai/Saudi Arabia) - August 10, 2007
-Nahoul the Bee Replaces Farfour - Hamas Mickey Mouse - and Vows to Continue on His Path of Martyrdom and Jihad Al-Iraqiya TV (Iraq), Al-Aqsa TV -Hamas - July 13, 2007
-Farfour, Hamas' Mickey Mouse Character, Is 'Martyred' in the Final Episode of the "Pioneers of Tomorrow" Children Show on Hamas TV Al-Aqsa TV - June 29, 2007
-Graduation Ceremony at the Islamic Association in Gaza on Hamas TV Al-Aqsa TV -May 31, 2007
-"New Order" - An Anti-American Short Movie on the Iranian Bushehr TV - June 21, 2007
-Hamas TV Insists on Continuing Inciting Children TV Show Al-Aqsa TV- May 11, 2007
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Lebanon is taking part in peace/ "conspiracy" efforts
Lebanon's acting Foreign Minister Tarek Mitri headed to the United States Saturday to take part in a US-sponsored Mideast conference to be held next week, his office said. "Lebanon is taking part in the Annapolis meeting on the basis of the Arab consensus," Mitri said before his departure."The Lebanese delegation goes to Annapolis, like other Arab teams.
Now peace efforts are called a conspiracy..We assume people will understand our statements about psychopaths that claims 45 or 49? nations don´t counts..
Now peace efforts are called a conspiracy..We assume people will understand our statements about psychopaths that claims 45 or 49? nations don´t counts..
"If Syria goes, it would have achieved what the others want without achieving anything for itself."
Ahmad Haj Ali, a political analyst and member of Syria's ruling Baath party. "If Syria goes, it would have achieved what the others want without achieving anything for itself. The price will be extremely high," he said. Syrian lawmaker Mohammed Habash said Syria was keeping its options open, but said Syria is not interested in going to Annapolis "to attend a carnival." Habash said Syria is the "spinal cord" of a front that includes Iran, the "resistance" in Iraq, Hezbollah and Hamas. "If Syria goes to such a conference, it will naturally shake this alliance. So do not think for one second that Syria would go just to get a piece of chocolate over there," he said. "It would be political folly."
Mr Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other political leaders
BEIJING (Reuters) - A long-distance bus was buried under an avalanche of boulders, earth and mud at the entrance to a railway tunnel being built in Hubei province near China's massive Three Gorges Dam.
Rescuers had recovered all but one of the bodies by Saturday, four days after the landslide, Xinhua news agency reported. The landslide struck near a tributary of the 660-km (410-mile) Three Gorges Dam reservoir. Reports of the disaster have not speculated on whether the slide could be linked to the dam's rising waters, which are due to peak at 175 meters (574 feet) above sea level next year. But local residents are concerned by what they say has been an increase in landslides and tremors since the water level rose last year, putting pressure on steep brittle slopes in places like Badong.
In September, dam officials warned of potential "environmental catastrophe" unless erosion and geological instability around the reservoir were controlled -- an abrupt departure from bright propaganda about the world's biggest dam. Since then they have repeatedly said those threats are being dealt with and the dam's environment is better than expected.
Reporting by Alan Wheatley and Chris Buckley; editing by John Chalmers
We have not heard yet what exactly caused this landslide, but you shouldn´t save money on such a important issue!
And it´s time so speak up against this bombings which ever are responsible for them. We will not tolerate any sectarian thinking from the Iraqi government! You have a responsible towards all people in your country so it´s time to take a stand and stand up for it! Loud and clear! We do have heard the voice of the Iraqi Prime Minister to his neighbours to respect the sovereignty of Iraq. And we have heard Iraq´s neighbours they do respect Iraq´s sovereignty and have vowed to secure their borders, but as there are people both outside Iraq and inside, working against reconciliation out in the regions, we do want to see progress from the Iraqi government to gather the Sunni representatives who ever they will be and make your unity show clearly towards your people!
Use this time well and make it show which are the really backbone in Iraq!
Rescuers had recovered all but one of the bodies by Saturday, four days after the landslide, Xinhua news agency reported. The landslide struck near a tributary of the 660-km (410-mile) Three Gorges Dam reservoir. Reports of the disaster have not speculated on whether the slide could be linked to the dam's rising waters, which are due to peak at 175 meters (574 feet) above sea level next year. But local residents are concerned by what they say has been an increase in landslides and tremors since the water level rose last year, putting pressure on steep brittle slopes in places like Badong.
In September, dam officials warned of potential "environmental catastrophe" unless erosion and geological instability around the reservoir were controlled -- an abrupt departure from bright propaganda about the world's biggest dam. Since then they have repeatedly said those threats are being dealt with and the dam's environment is better than expected.
Reporting by Alan Wheatley and Chris Buckley; editing by John Chalmers
We have not heard yet what exactly caused this landslide, but you shouldn´t save money on such a important issue!
And it´s time so speak up against this bombings which ever are responsible for them. We will not tolerate any sectarian thinking from the Iraqi government! You have a responsible towards all people in your country so it´s time to take a stand and stand up for it! Loud and clear! We do have heard the voice of the Iraqi Prime Minister to his neighbours to respect the sovereignty of Iraq. And we have heard Iraq´s neighbours they do respect Iraq´s sovereignty and have vowed to secure their borders, but as there are people both outside Iraq and inside, working against reconciliation out in the regions, we do want to see progress from the Iraqi government to gather the Sunni representatives who ever they will be and make your unity show clearly towards your people!
Use this time well and make it show which are the really backbone in Iraq!
Priority of the Annapolis conference is for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
At Friday's meeting, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for the inclusion of the Syrian track at Annapolis. Nimr Hamad, an adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said that the priority of the Annapolis conference is for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, "without exluding the Syrian and Lebanese angles."
He said there is a proposal to hold a second conference in several months in Moscow to launch Syrian-Israeli peace negotiations. According to Arab diplomats, while Washington's invitation did not specifically call for resumption of negotiations on the Golan, it referred to UN resolutions concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the 2002 Arab peace initiative, which calls for a return for lands seized in 1967 in return for full peace with Israel. Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said there would be room at Annapolis to talk about the Golan.
A minor earthquake was felt throughout Israel early Saturday.
The quake, which occurred at approximately 12:15 a.m., lasted several seconds and was felt across various cities in central Israel as well as in some of its more northerly towns. The exact level of the quake's intensity was not yet clear. This is the second earthquake to hit Israel in the past week. On Monday, two successive earthquakes were felt across most of the country: the first was measured at 3.0 on the Richter scale and the second at 4.2.
Tel Aviv University scientists recently said that a major earthquake in the region was long overdue. The university's Dr. Shmuel Marco noted that the Syrian-African Rift is a high-risk location for earthquakes. "We have not had any strong ones since 1033, which means another one is long due. It's impossible to know when it will strike, just like you can't predict road accidents."
Source:J-Post
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich contributed to this report.
Tel Aviv University scientists recently said that a major earthquake in the region was long overdue. The university's Dr. Shmuel Marco noted that the Syrian-African Rift is a high-risk location for earthquakes. "We have not had any strong ones since 1033, which means another one is long due. It's impossible to know when it will strike, just like you can't predict road accidents."
Source:J-Post
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich contributed to this report.
The Maryland Muslim Council president doesn't think diplomats are the only ones with a role to play in seeking peace.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Anwer Hassan isn't bothered by talk from Washington that little progress is likely at the Mideast peace talks planned for next week. That's because the Maryland Muslim Council president doesn't think diplomats are the only ones with a role to play in seeking peace.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Lebanon's outgoing President Emile Lahoud asked the army to take control of the country's security
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's outgoing President Emile Lahoud asked the army to take control of the country's security on Friday, after rival leaders failed to agree on his successor, creating a vacuum in the presidency from midnight. Lahoud said in a statement read on his behalf that "the dangers of a state of emergency" existed and entrusted "the army with the authority to maintain security."
The president cannot declare a state of emergency without approval from the government, but Lahoud's spokesman said Saniora's government is considered unconstitutional. Saniora's government rejected the announcement. "It has no value and is unconstitutional and consequently it is considered as if it was not issued," said a government spokesman, who asked not to be identified because an official announcement has not yet been made by the prime minister. The spokesman said the constitution stipulates that the Cabinet — not the president — has the authority to declare a state or emergency and to give the army the authority to take over security. "Any decision not issued by the Cabinet has no constitutional value," the spokesman told The Associated Press.
The army command refused to comment on the developments. The military had already been on alert for several days, deploying hundreds of troops in tanks, armored personnel carriers and jeeps along intersections leading to Beirut and around the downtown area where the parliament building is located. The city was normal throughout the day, but traffic was lighter than usual, and most schools were closed.
But his talk of a "state of emergency" raised already high tempers as both sides enter a new phase of trying to find a new president for the country. Parliament made a final attempt Friday afternoon to convene to vote on a president before Lahoud leaves office. But the opposition, led by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, boycotted the session, preventing it from reaching the necessary two-thirds quorum. Leaders from each side were pledging not to take steps to provoke the other — though Lahoud's announcement raises the heat. "We have no choice but to have a consensus," Saad Hariri, leader of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, said after the failed session. "It is not in Lebanon's interest that the presidential palace is left empty."
The president cannot declare a state of emergency without approval from the government, but Lahoud's spokesman said Saniora's government is considered unconstitutional. Saniora's government rejected the announcement. "It has no value and is unconstitutional and consequently it is considered as if it was not issued," said a government spokesman, who asked not to be identified because an official announcement has not yet been made by the prime minister. The spokesman said the constitution stipulates that the Cabinet — not the president — has the authority to declare a state or emergency and to give the army the authority to take over security. "Any decision not issued by the Cabinet has no constitutional value," the spokesman told The Associated Press.
The army command refused to comment on the developments. The military had already been on alert for several days, deploying hundreds of troops in tanks, armored personnel carriers and jeeps along intersections leading to Beirut and around the downtown area where the parliament building is located. The city was normal throughout the day, but traffic was lighter than usual, and most schools were closed.
But his talk of a "state of emergency" raised already high tempers as both sides enter a new phase of trying to find a new president for the country. Parliament made a final attempt Friday afternoon to convene to vote on a president before Lahoud leaves office. But the opposition, led by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, boycotted the session, preventing it from reaching the necessary two-thirds quorum. Leaders from each side were pledging not to take steps to provoke the other — though Lahoud's announcement raises the heat. "We have no choice but to have a consensus," Saad Hariri, leader of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, said after the failed session. "It is not in Lebanon's interest that the presidential palace is left empty."
A Gaza businessman, said he prays the conference will ease the stifling closure of Gaza
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Mohammed Naji's son was killed by Israeli soldiers. Ron Kehrmann's daughter died at the hands of a Palestinian suicide bomber. Beyond their grief, the two fathers share something else — both are skeptical next week's Mideast summit called by President Bush in Annapolis, Md., will do anything to end decades of conflict between their two peoples.
"I think it's all a big waste of time," Kehrmann said, saying the leaders on both sides are weak. "This is not the first conference to be held," Naji said. "None of these conferences produced peace."
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said Thursday a Nov. 17-dated draft of a joint document being worked on by Israeli and Palestinians negotiators showed wide gaps on issues that have derailed peace talks in the past — final borders, the status of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees. Palestinian envoy Saeb Erekat, identified by Haaretz as one of the draft's authors, denied its authenticity, but he acknowledged "serious difficulties" in the negotiations. Israel wouldn't comment on the report, though officials did not dispute its authenticity.
Polls indicate most Israelis and Palestinians have little hope ahead of the Annapolis gathering, which is the first formal attempt to launch peace talks in seven years. More than 4,400 Palestinians and 1,100 Israelis have died in fighting since the last breakdown of talks.
Naji and Kehrmann lost their children in vastly different circumstances — and the deaths cannot be equated. Naji's son, Abdel Moneim, was a militant who was targeted by an Israeli undercover unit in 2004. Kehrmann's daughter Tal was a 17-year-old girl killed four years ago while riding a bus on her way to shop for her high school graduation.
Naji has seven other sons in Israeli prisons, one of whom is expected to be among the roughly 450 Palestinian prisoners to be released in the coming days as a confidence-building measure ahead of the conference. Some 9,000 Palestinians are serving time in Israeli jails.
"I am happy he will be released, but I am sad that others are not," Naji said. For Kehrmann, the prisoner release touches the rawest nerve of all. Although the decision is in keeping with long-standing Israeli policy of not freeing those convicted in deadly attacks, he sees the militants set for release as "potential killers."
Kehrmann said he doesn't trust the Palestinians' intentions and thinks it is a mistake to talk peace before the Palestinian leadership reins in militants and changes its mentality. "We've been killing each other here for 60 years. Let's give it a year or two of not killing and not talking and then we'll see," he said. "I don't see any positive result that could come out" of the Annapolis meeting.
In a poll released this week, 57 percent of Palestinians said they don't believe the conference will lead to progress in peacemaking. The poll, conducted by the independent Near East Consulting firm, surveyed 1,200 people and had a margin of error of three percentage points.
An Israeli poll, conducted in recent days by the Dahaf polling institute, said almost 70 percent of Israelis support holding the conference, but roughly the same percentage believe it won't help move along the peace process. The institute said the survey of 500 people had a 4.5-point margin of error. "I am full of hope that something will come out of it, but I don't believe it. Experience has taught us that nothing comes from these gatherings," said Yehuda Cohen, a 52-year-old Israeli green grocer.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received a boost earlier this week when a group of prominent Israeli intellectuals and former army officers pledged their support for his peace efforts. But the feeling does not appear to be trickling down to the street.
"The conflict is too deep to solve in words. We need deeds," said Daniel Nevo, 24, from Jerusalem. "I don't think that the conflict can be solved in my lifetime."
The Palestinian poll indicated a slight increase in optimism. But many remain skeptical. "I think they will not succeed," said Nidal Khalaf, a 38-year-old restaurant operator in the West Bank city of Nablus. "If they do, I will make a huge party in my restaurant to celebrate, but it seems unlikely."
With Abbas unable to halt Gaza militants firing crude Qassam rockets into Israel almost daily, many Israelis question the point of peace talks. Israel has responded to the Hamas takeover by closing Gaza's borders, allowing in only food and other basic humanitarian supplies.
Fayez Ali, 38, a Gaza businessman, said he prays the conference will ease the stifling closure of Gaza that has devastated his clothing business. "I am full of hope that the conference will change our life," he said. "We live in a hell now and we want to get out from this hell to live again as humans, to have a good economy and to have a good future."
Shaaban Abdel Radi, 44, a Gaza farmer, said he doubts the current leadership could bring about a compromise, but said it was worth a try. "The conference will bring nothing, but it will revive the hope in our hearts," he said. "Hope is all we have."
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and ARON HELLER
"I think it's all a big waste of time," Kehrmann said, saying the leaders on both sides are weak. "This is not the first conference to be held," Naji said. "None of these conferences produced peace."
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said Thursday a Nov. 17-dated draft of a joint document being worked on by Israeli and Palestinians negotiators showed wide gaps on issues that have derailed peace talks in the past — final borders, the status of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees. Palestinian envoy Saeb Erekat, identified by Haaretz as one of the draft's authors, denied its authenticity, but he acknowledged "serious difficulties" in the negotiations. Israel wouldn't comment on the report, though officials did not dispute its authenticity.
Polls indicate most Israelis and Palestinians have little hope ahead of the Annapolis gathering, which is the first formal attempt to launch peace talks in seven years. More than 4,400 Palestinians and 1,100 Israelis have died in fighting since the last breakdown of talks.
Naji and Kehrmann lost their children in vastly different circumstances — and the deaths cannot be equated. Naji's son, Abdel Moneim, was a militant who was targeted by an Israeli undercover unit in 2004. Kehrmann's daughter Tal was a 17-year-old girl killed four years ago while riding a bus on her way to shop for her high school graduation.
Naji has seven other sons in Israeli prisons, one of whom is expected to be among the roughly 450 Palestinian prisoners to be released in the coming days as a confidence-building measure ahead of the conference. Some 9,000 Palestinians are serving time in Israeli jails.
"I am happy he will be released, but I am sad that others are not," Naji said. For Kehrmann, the prisoner release touches the rawest nerve of all. Although the decision is in keeping with long-standing Israeli policy of not freeing those convicted in deadly attacks, he sees the militants set for release as "potential killers."
Kehrmann said he doesn't trust the Palestinians' intentions and thinks it is a mistake to talk peace before the Palestinian leadership reins in militants and changes its mentality. "We've been killing each other here for 60 years. Let's give it a year or two of not killing and not talking and then we'll see," he said. "I don't see any positive result that could come out" of the Annapolis meeting.
In a poll released this week, 57 percent of Palestinians said they don't believe the conference will lead to progress in peacemaking. The poll, conducted by the independent Near East Consulting firm, surveyed 1,200 people and had a margin of error of three percentage points.
An Israeli poll, conducted in recent days by the Dahaf polling institute, said almost 70 percent of Israelis support holding the conference, but roughly the same percentage believe it won't help move along the peace process. The institute said the survey of 500 people had a 4.5-point margin of error. "I am full of hope that something will come out of it, but I don't believe it. Experience has taught us that nothing comes from these gatherings," said Yehuda Cohen, a 52-year-old Israeli green grocer.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received a boost earlier this week when a group of prominent Israeli intellectuals and former army officers pledged their support for his peace efforts. But the feeling does not appear to be trickling down to the street.
"The conflict is too deep to solve in words. We need deeds," said Daniel Nevo, 24, from Jerusalem. "I don't think that the conflict can be solved in my lifetime."
The Palestinian poll indicated a slight increase in optimism. But many remain skeptical. "I think they will not succeed," said Nidal Khalaf, a 38-year-old restaurant operator in the West Bank city of Nablus. "If they do, I will make a huge party in my restaurant to celebrate, but it seems unlikely."
With Abbas unable to halt Gaza militants firing crude Qassam rockets into Israel almost daily, many Israelis question the point of peace talks. Israel has responded to the Hamas takeover by closing Gaza's borders, allowing in only food and other basic humanitarian supplies.
Fayez Ali, 38, a Gaza businessman, said he prays the conference will ease the stifling closure of Gaza that has devastated his clothing business. "I am full of hope that the conference will change our life," he said. "We live in a hell now and we want to get out from this hell to live again as humans, to have a good economy and to have a good future."
Shaaban Abdel Radi, 44, a Gaza farmer, said he doubts the current leadership could bring about a compromise, but said it was worth a try. "The conference will bring nothing, but it will revive the hope in our hearts," he said. "Hope is all we have."
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and ARON HELLER
We are going with seriousness
Al-Faisal told a news conference that an Arab League meeting Friday had decided that Arab countries will attend Annapolis at the level of foreign minister. "I'm not hiding any secret about the Saudi position. We were reluctant until today. And if not for the Arab consensus we felt today, we would not have decided to go," al-Faisal said. "But the kingdom would never stand against an Arab consensus, as long as the Arab position has agreed on attending, the kingdom will walk along with its brothers in one line." But he cautioned, "We are not prepared to take part in a meeting that don't express political positions. We are going with seriousness and we work on the same seriousness and credibility."
Hospitals, medication and water
JERUSALEM - Israel plans to reduce electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip beginning Dec. 2, according to a document submitted to the Israeli Supreme Court — the Jewish state's latest move against the Hamas rulers of the impoverished territory.
China confirms participation
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will attend a Middle East peace conference in the United States next week, a government spokesman said Thursday. "We're willing to take part in all international efforts that will be conducive to the proper settlement of this issue," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao. China's decision to take part reflects its more active role recently in world politics and peacemaking and growing commercial and diplomatic ties with the Middle East. "I think the international conference ... has attracted the attention of the international community, including Arab countries, and we all have high expectations and hope substantial results can be achieved," Liu said at a regular ministry briefing.
China has sent peacekeepers on UN missions in Lebanon and Darfur and has used behind-the-scenes diplomacy in dealing with unrest in Myanmar and Sudan. EU: China making 'considerable progress' in toy safety.
Source: J-Post
China has sent peacekeepers on UN missions in Lebanon and Darfur and has used behind-the-scenes diplomacy in dealing with unrest in Myanmar and Sudan. EU: China making 'considerable progress' in toy safety.
Source: J-Post
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Scandalous..Something hard in the head or chocolate? Something hard in the head or chocolate?
One could assume a political analyst would have such knowledge to be aware of that events in this time will affect everyone. No one lives in their own corner but are very much affected of what happens in the region. A political analyst should be aware of that and mature enough to take their responsibility. Otherwise they should get themselves another job! Listen to your President in this issue or do something else for a living!
Look at this!
Ahmad Haj Ali, a political analyst and member of Syria's ruling Baath party. "If Syria goes, it would have achieved what the others want without achieving anything for itself. The price will be extremely high," he said. Syrian lawmaker Mohammed Habash said Syria was keeping its options open, but said Syria is not interested in going to Annapolis "to attend a carnival." Habash said Syria is the "spinal cord" of a front that includes Iran, the "resistance" in Iraq, Hezbollah and Hamas. "If Syria goes to such a conference, it will naturally shake this alliance. So do not think for one second that Syria would go just to get a piece of chocolate over there," he said. "It would be political folly."
Yes..Talking about put ones feet in the red colored bloody soil!
We wonder...Is it some genetic wrong..with some people in Syria? That have terrorised for 16 years, dragging the whole region with them in wars, loosing Golan, brainwashing the whole region with occupying the occupied against the occupiers, while occupying a whole country for 29 years, supporting people that works against solutions, breaking human rights laws against Israelis, Palestinians, Kurds, human rights people, Iraqis, Shiites, Sunnis, Lebanese, children, breaking UN resolutions, having their "resistance" in Lebanon, Iraq and in their occupied Gaza, bathing in blood, using "the Palestinian cause" when it serves to terrorise the whole region and the Palestinians. Working against solutions, agreements and peace, using the Palestinians and Islamic-Suicide for decades! And when it counts you talking about carnivals and chocolate!
Where are you from? Have you a black dog behind your back? Can we smell sulphur ? Yes..we can..can´t we? It comes with the wind after the storm..Baath party members..as the "spinal cord" for the big "Shiite ally"! And the Sunni psychopath in Qatar! Yes we already knew that! didn´t we?
So why don´t you just shut your dirty mouth up! It´s smelling and it causes draught all the way from your prostituted Damascus!
AS! We have several carcasses here! Harlots! Satan´s soul pushers! Psychopaths! Murderers! Carrions!
Ban! Ban! Barrier that none can pass, Barrier of the gods, that none may break, Barrier of heaven and earth that none can change, Which no god may annul, Nor god nor man can loose, A snare without escape, set for evil, A net whence none can issue forth, spread for evil. Whether it be evil Spirit, or evil Demon, or evil Ghost, Or evil Devil, or evil God, or evil fiend, Or Hag-demon, or Ghoul, or Robber-sprite, Or Phantom, or Night-wraith, or Handmaid of the Phantom, Or evil Plague, or Fever sickness, or Unclean Disease, Which hath attacked the shining waters of Ea, May the snare of Ea catch it; Or which hath assailed the meal of Nisaba, May the net of Nisaba entrap it; Or which hath broken the barrier, Let not the barrier of the gods, The barrier of heaven and earth, let it go free; Or which reverence not the great gods, May the great gods entrap it, May the great gods curse it; Or which attacketh the house, Into a closed dwelling may they cause it to enter; Or which circleth round about, Into a place without escape may they bring it; Or which is shut in by the house door, Into a house without exit may they cause it to enter; Or that which passeth the door and bolt, With door and bolt, a bar immovable, may they withhold it; Or which bloweth in at the threshold and hinge, Or which forceth a way through bar and latch, Like water may they pour it out, Like a goblet may they dash it in pieces, Like a tile may they break it; Or which passeth over the wall, Its wing may they cut off; Or which lieth in a chamber, Its throat may they cut; Or which looketh in at a side chamber, Its face may they smite; Or which muttereth in a chamber, Its mouth may they shut; Or which roameth loose in an upper chamber, With a basin without opening may they cover it; Or which at dawn is darkened, At dawn to a place of sunrise may they take it.
Look at this!
Ahmad Haj Ali, a political analyst and member of Syria's ruling Baath party. "If Syria goes, it would have achieved what the others want without achieving anything for itself. The price will be extremely high," he said. Syrian lawmaker Mohammed Habash said Syria was keeping its options open, but said Syria is not interested in going to Annapolis "to attend a carnival." Habash said Syria is the "spinal cord" of a front that includes Iran, the "resistance" in Iraq, Hezbollah and Hamas. "If Syria goes to such a conference, it will naturally shake this alliance. So do not think for one second that Syria would go just to get a piece of chocolate over there," he said. "It would be political folly."
Yes..Talking about put ones feet in the red colored bloody soil!
We wonder...Is it some genetic wrong..with some people in Syria? That have terrorised for 16 years, dragging the whole region with them in wars, loosing Golan, brainwashing the whole region with occupying the occupied against the occupiers, while occupying a whole country for 29 years, supporting people that works against solutions, breaking human rights laws against Israelis, Palestinians, Kurds, human rights people, Iraqis, Shiites, Sunnis, Lebanese, children, breaking UN resolutions, having their "resistance" in Lebanon, Iraq and in their occupied Gaza, bathing in blood, using "the Palestinian cause" when it serves to terrorise the whole region and the Palestinians. Working against solutions, agreements and peace, using the Palestinians and Islamic-Suicide for decades! And when it counts you talking about carnivals and chocolate!
Where are you from? Have you a black dog behind your back? Can we smell sulphur ? Yes..we can..can´t we? It comes with the wind after the storm..Baath party members..as the "spinal cord" for the big "Shiite ally"! And the Sunni psychopath in Qatar! Yes we already knew that! didn´t we?
So why don´t you just shut your dirty mouth up! It´s smelling and it causes draught all the way from your prostituted Damascus!
AS! We have several carcasses here! Harlots! Satan´s soul pushers! Psychopaths! Murderers! Carrions!
Ban! Ban! Barrier that none can pass, Barrier of the gods, that none may break, Barrier of heaven and earth that none can change, Which no god may annul, Nor god nor man can loose, A snare without escape, set for evil, A net whence none can issue forth, spread for evil. Whether it be evil Spirit, or evil Demon, or evil Ghost, Or evil Devil, or evil God, or evil fiend, Or Hag-demon, or Ghoul, or Robber-sprite, Or Phantom, or Night-wraith, or Handmaid of the Phantom, Or evil Plague, or Fever sickness, or Unclean Disease, Which hath attacked the shining waters of Ea, May the snare of Ea catch it; Or which hath assailed the meal of Nisaba, May the net of Nisaba entrap it; Or which hath broken the barrier, Let not the barrier of the gods, The barrier of heaven and earth, let it go free; Or which reverence not the great gods, May the great gods entrap it, May the great gods curse it; Or which attacketh the house, Into a closed dwelling may they cause it to enter; Or which circleth round about, Into a place without escape may they bring it; Or which is shut in by the house door, Into a house without exit may they cause it to enter; Or that which passeth the door and bolt, With door and bolt, a bar immovable, may they withhold it; Or which bloweth in at the threshold and hinge, Or which forceth a way through bar and latch, Like water may they pour it out, Like a goblet may they dash it in pieces, Like a tile may they break it; Or which passeth over the wall, Its wing may they cut off; Or which lieth in a chamber, Its throat may they cut; Or which looketh in at a side chamber, Its face may they smite; Or which muttereth in a chamber, Its mouth may they shut; Or which roameth loose in an upper chamber, With a basin without opening may they cover it; Or which at dawn is darkened, At dawn to a place of sunrise may they take it.
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