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By Elias Bejjani
Monday, September 24, 2007
Syria’s terrorist hand has struck again in Lebanon through its fundamentalist mercenaries spread across the territory of Lebanon. New victims fell today, as the car of MP Antoine Ghanem was targeted by an insidious and criminal bomb that killed him and eight other innocent bystanders, all of whom join the ranks of hundreds of thousands of new martyrs on this endless Calvary of the country of the Cedars.
By Ephraim Asculai
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
President Bush's initiative to convene an international meeting in November on the Israeli-Palestinian track has given a new boost to the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. This follows the dynamic created by Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip in June this year. The key question now is whether these stimuli can pull the cart of Israeli-Palestinian relations out of the bog in which it has been stuck since the end of 2000.
By Michael Travis
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
As always, the task of defending the West against the threat of the "Islamic Bomb" and nuclear terrorism has fallen on the broad shoulders of the Israel Defence Forces. The tiny Jewish Nation, marked for annihilation by consecutive American administrations and condemned to death by the "International Community", has taken military action against Iranian, Syrian and North Korean arms shipments and installations in Syria.
By Jim Kouri
Monday, September 10, 2007
The government of Iraq has failed to meet 15 of 18 benchmarks contained in the US Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007.
By Ephraim Asculai
Friday, September 7, 2007
On August 27, 2007, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published an Information Circular (INCIRC 711) that included the text of the "Understandings of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the IAEA on the Modalities of Resolution of the Outstanding Issues."
From Sean Osborne
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Excerpt of a report just received from HUMINT source in Israel.
"The Israeli media is quoting analysts and senior officials this evening
expressing grave concerns that the Syrian regime might be employing a
well known Soviet era tactic -- accuse your enemy of committing a major
provocation, trumpet it loudly, and then go on to launch an attack to
supposedly respond to the provocation. In other words, the Israeli
political and military establishment is on high alert to see what might
follow."
By Elias Bejjani
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
We denounce the hysterical outcry in Lebanon against the "Human Rights Watch" report which discussed with objectivity, transparency, and total neutrality Hezbollah's military actions which violated international law during the destructive war it started last year at the behest of Iran and Syria. These actions were defined as war crimes against civilians.
By Charles Jalkh
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
The formal partition of Lebanon into two states; a multi-ethnic Christian-Sunni-Druze democratic and liberal state, and a Shiite fundamentalist state is a good thing for the following reasons:
By David Singer
Friday, August 31, 2007
President Bush's planned Middle East peace summit is rapidly being transformed into an event that will rival the Tales from the Arabian Nights .
By Yoram Evron
Monday, August 27, 2007
Since July 11, when the Pakistani Army took over the Red Mosque in Islamabad and released the hostages being held there, the violent confrontation between the regime and radical Islamists has only escalated. That confrontation, which claimed many lives in the 1980s, revived after September 11 due to enhanced cooperation between the Pakistani government and the United States.
By Elias Bejjani
Saturday, August 25, 2007
The UN Security Council is scheduled to convene before the end of this month to debate the renewal of the UNIFIL forces mandate in South Lebanon. This European-led mission that comprises 13,600 troops was deployed in southern Lebanon in the aftermath of last year's war between Hezbollah and Israel in a bid to assist the Lebanese authorities in the implementing of UN resolution 1701. The Council is expected to renew the force's mandate unanimously for an additional year as of September 01/ 07.
By David Singer
Monday, August 20, 2007
False claims that Israel is 78% - not 17% - of historic Palestine whilst the West Bank and Gaza comprise the remaining 22% - not 5% - of historic Palestine have materially derailed efforts to resolve the issue of sovereignty in the West Bank and Gaza.
By Yiftah Shapir
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
On the eve of the departure to the Middle East of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the Bush Administration announced its intention to expand substantially its military assistance to the region. The proposed plan includes the sale of up to $20 billion of weaponry to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
By Dr. Steve Carol
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
The recent announcement of a planned U.S. $20 billion sale to Saudi Arabia and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates --and the new, U.S. three-line deployment strategy, is being discussed and questioned globally.
By David Singer
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is at it again talking up the prospects of ending the 140 years old Arab-Jewish conflict by the adoption of a two state solution involving the creation of an Arab state between Jordan and Israel - the 23 rd Arab State in the world should it ever eventuate.
By Gallia Lindenstrauss
Friday, July 27, 2007
In Turkey's recent elections, almost half the voters opted for continuity and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) won an impressive parliamentary majority (340 out of 550 seats in parliament) that will enable it to govern without coalition partners. With close to 47% of the popular vote, AK even surpassed its performance (34%) in the previous elections, although its parliamentary representation will actually drop somewhat because of the electoral system and the entry of an additional party into parliament.
By David Singer
Friday, July 27, 2007
US President George W. Bush held talks at the White House at a hastily arranged private dinner on Tuesday with Jordan's King Abdullah II to discuss major regional issues - with no joint public appearances afterwards.
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Last month has witnessed a tremendous power struggle between Hamas and Fatah in Palestine with the declaration of State of Emergency by President Mahmood Abbas in order to control the law and order situation as well as saving the entire nation from going into the tight grips of Hamas notoriety.
By David Singer
Friday, July 20, 2007
President George Bush is having a panic attack as his five year old vision of implanting an Arab state between Israel and Jordan in 6% of historic Palestine - the Bush Dream - has turned into a nightmare.
The President has been exposed as totally powerless and lacking in influence to resolve what seemed to him to be so readily achievable in 2002.
By Ephraim Asculai
Friday, July 20, 2007
In early July, two events raised some optimism about the prospects for peacefully resolving the crisis over Iran's nuclear program -- the pronouncement of the Director General (DG) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concerning the centrifuge enrichment program and the feeling that Iran, in its negotiations with the IAEA and the Europeans, had made significant concessions on the question of IAEA inspections. To buttress the impression that things are getting better, the IAEA has been promulgating several illusions.
By Elias Bejjani, Canadian Lebanese Coordinating Council (LCCC) Chairman
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
A second fiery terrorist message to the UN forces operating in South Lebanon (UNIFIL) has been delivered July 16, 2007, with hatred and grudgers, by the two pillars of the Axis of Evil, Syria and Iran, through their militia and fundamentalist instruments positioned in Lebanon. The message targeted a UN position manned by the Tanzanian Brigade on the newly repaired Qassimiyeh bridge. Fortunately no lives were lost.
By David Singer
Sunday, July 15, 2007
The Quartet's Road Map has failed according to the ten foreign ministers of the European Union's Mediterranean States - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, France, Greece, Italy , Malta, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia - ("the Mediterranean Ten").
By Elias Bejjani, Canadian Lebanese Coordinating Council (LCCC) Chairman
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Delusion is defined by the science of Mental and Psychological Disorders as a false belief that is firmly maintained in spite of incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence. A delusion is a detachment from tangible and lived reality, from the facts and the environment, and from the capabilities available to the inflicted individual. It is a thought or thoughts which can be neither addressed nor corrected through logic or persuasion. The most frequent types of delusions are the "Delusion of Grandeur", the "Persecutory Delusion", the "Nihilistic Delusion", and "Guilt".
By David Singer
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Israel's unilateral decision to release 250 Fatah terrorists from Israeli jails continues the insane policy of appeasement adopted by successive Israeli Governments since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993.
By Shlomo Brom
Thursday, July 12, 2007
According to some observers, the phoenix of Jordanian-Palestinian confederation seems to have risen from the ashes. Discussion of this issue has revived following the crisis in the Palestinian Authority which peaked with the violent takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas.
By Yaakov Lappin, Ynetnews.com
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Syria calls on citizens to evacuate Lebanon, reports say; Expert: Civil war possible
Syria has called on its citizens to leave Lebanon ahead of an expected "eruption" in that country, Arab and Iranian press reports have said.
The media reports were translated and made available by MEMRI in a special dispatch on Sunday.
By Lee Kaplan
Saturday, July 7, 2007
The International Solidarity Movement has consistently shown itself to be on the side of terrorist movements that prolong the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and prevent peace. At the same time, the Israeli government has been slow to react to ISM enablers helping those who wish to destroy the Jewish state and who defend murderers of Israeli citizens. However, newer restrictions on ISM activities by Israeli security services in the West Bank have slowed down the effectiveness of this subversive organization on land.
By Shlomo Brom
Saturday, July 7, 2007
The Hamas takeover in Gaza is a dramatic event that has ramifications for Israeli-Palestinian relations, as well as regional significance. The forceful takeover by an Islamic movement of an Arab political entity generates repercussions and shockwaves in the Arab world. The question that now confronts various players -- Israel, the Arab world and the international community -- is how to deal with this new situation. Does the situation contain only risks, or are there also opportunities?
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