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[The Real News Network] The Real News Network - Obama on Iraq, Iran and Israel in Cairo: President Barack Obama addressed a wide array of issues, in his address to Muslims in Cairo Thursday.

[Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Iran would face 'retaliation' for attack on Israel: Clinton: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday insisted that he and US President Barack Obama were united in wanting to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon. Speaking after talks with the US president Sarkozy also condemned what he called "senseless" remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad casting doubt on the Holocaust.

[Open Your Eyes News] Don't discount Israel pre-emptive strike, Hillary Clinton warns ...: The US Secretary Of State, speaking a few days before elections in Iran that will determine the fate of President Ahmadinejad, also warned that the country would face retaliation if it launched a nuclear attack on Israel. As President Obama extends “an open hand”, seeking direct talks with Tehran in his attempt to halt its nuclear programme, Mrs Clinton appeared ready to unnerve the Iranian leadership with talk of a pre-emptive strike “the way that we did attack Iraq”.

[General News] Obama: new messenger of world peace - modernghana.com/feature article: The whole rhetoric of the 'Clash of Civilisations' between Islam & Christianity and attempts by some thinkers & writers in the last decade to prove this, all the misconceptions regarding this were blown away when the American people elected an African American of Muslim origin, Barack Hussein Obama as their President. While a large 'credit' for deepening misunderstanding & hatred between the Muslim world & America goes to the American policies, this is also true that the people who are spreading terror in the name of Islam & Jihad are equally responsible for this.

[OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] OpEdNews » Obama's Outreach to Muslims - Empty Rhetoric, Same Old ...: He decried the "killing of innocent men, women, and children," yet US forces slaughter them daily in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and supply Israel with billions of dollars and the latest weapons and technology to commit slow-motion genocide against millions of Palestinians, deny their legitimate self-determination, and right of their refugees to return home as international law demands.

[Christian News from Jerusalem | Bible Prophecy News | Israel News | Middle East Conflict] Iran Would Face Retaliation For Attack On Israel: Clinton: We (the whole world in general) can not leave Iran get nukes, at any cost because they will use them, unlike Israel or the USA they will use them for religous reasons and because they hate Israel. Israelis are the most giving people in the world,I can tell you this if it we're not for Israel in sorts, we would still be in the stone age too !

[Honolulu Advertiser - Island Life] 5 U.S. contractors held in Iraq slaying | HonoluluAdvertiser.com ...: BAGHDAD — Five U.S. contractors have been detained in the investigation of the slaying of another American in Baghdad's Green Zone, officials said yesterday, in what may become the first case of U.S. citizens facing Iraqi justice under a security agreement that took effect this year.

[Iran News] A Relative Unknown Leads Challenge in Iran | Iran News: Those close to Mousavi, who is also an architect, describe a worldly intellectual who is not hungry for power but who thinks that Iran’s bad economy and international isolation require him to try to effect change. Others, however, accuse Mousavi of having played a pivotal role in the purging of pro-Western professors and students in the first years of the Islamic revolution.

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news] The Great, International, Truly Demonic Iran Threat | Mostly Water: In 2007, in a closed discussion, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that in her opinion "Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel." She "also criticized the exaggerated use that [Israeli] Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears." This appeared in Haaretz.com, October 25, 2007 (print edition October 26), but not in any US media or in any other English-language world media except the BBC citing the Iranian Mehr English-language news agency, October 27.

[Shakaama's Blog] When Iraq Declared They Would Trade Oil in Euros We Invaded ...: We were told that Iraq had “Weapons of Mass-Destruction” and that Iraq had close ”” if not direct ”” ties to Al-Qaeda.  And, we were also told that Al-Qaeda was responsible for 9-11.  Let me make this perfectly clear [I've read countless intelligence documents proving it] the previous sentence is totally and completely false. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.   Iraq not only didn’t have ties to Al-Qaeda, but they personally put them to death if they caught them inside of their country.  And, finally, Al-Qaeda and Ossama Bin Ladin had nothing to do with 9-11.

[RevolutionRadio.org] Obama's Outreach to Muslims: Empty Rhetoric, Same Old Policies: yet US forces slaughter them daily in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and supply Israel with billions of dollars and the latest weapons and technology to commit slow-motion genocide against millions of Palestinians, deny their legitimate self-determination, and right of their refugees to return home as international law demands.

[SWJ Blog] 8 June SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Obviously we would want to see recent evidence of their support for international terrorism." The administration is also pushing for a UN Security Council resolution that would punish the country financially and give the international community the power to interdict suspect North Korean cargo, but Clinton acknowledged that some countries have "legitimate concerns" about targeting international shipments.

[The Gaea News] 4 found liable for Omagh bombing that killed 29 in landmark civil case: Iran hangs 3 over mosque bombingTEHRAN, Iran ”” Three people convicted of involvement in a mosque bombing in southeastern Iran that killed 25 were hanged Saturday, Iran's official news agency reported. The three men supplied explosives to the perpetrators who carried out the Thursday bombing in Zahedan, 1,000 miles southeast of the capital Tehran, said a statement issued by the judiciary.

[Daily Intel] The Cairo Speech: Classic Obama -- Daily Intel -- New York News ...: Those are topics fraught with potential controversy, and what pleased Obama's audience .to what's happened in Iraq, "the most remarkable development in the region in decades." Obama also "called for women's equality in platitudes and the only country he singled out for criticism" was the United States.

[Aron's Israel Peace Weblog] Feature: Obama and the Settlements Issue: Israel dismantled the Gaza settlements because Sharon came to the realization that protecting the settlers through military occupation of  Gaza was way too costly and dangerous. The Israeli presence gave the Palestinians the motivation and the open passages gave them the access to enter and attack Israel.By withdrawing and turning Gaza into one big prison, Sharon effectively locked in the Hamas militants and made infiltrating Israel far more difficult.

[The Real Revo] June 7, 1981: Operation Opera | The Real Revo: Israel is the sixth-largest nuclear power in the world, Israel which is the sole possessor of an atomic arsenal in the Middle East and has at least 100 bunker-buster bombs. Israel, above all else, will allow no nation to subject them to a second Holocaust.

[Iran News] In Iran, disparate, powerful forces ally against Ahmadinejad ...: Tehran Mayor Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf, a conservative and Iran-Iraq war hero, has loosened rules to allow late-night campaigning and hung white banners in the capital as spaces for political graffiti, benefiting Mousavi’s young supporters. 

[Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis] Iran: The U.S. Needs a New Strategy | Security Debrief - a blog of ...: -    Military Victory: The rhetoric coming out of Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia which raised the specter of an Iranian-led Shiite power threatening Arab and Sunni culture and position in the region, was interpreted by the Iranians as part of the U.S. effort to build an anti-Iranian Arab coalition.   To counter this effort and show Sunni Arab Moslems the invalidity of such an argument, Iran engaged in trying to build a Shiite-Sunni coalition in Iraq - united under the banner of nationalism - to fight U.S. occupation of that country.  This Iranian effort proved to have had a very limited effect if any at all.  Another Iranian effort centered on securing an Israeli military defeat.  Nothing rallies Arab and Moslem public opinion like military actions against Israel.  In preparation for such an eventuality, Iran provided Hezbollah in Lebanon with the needed logistics, equipment, financing and training.   The opportunity came knocking on July 12, 2006.  The conflict started when Hezbollah fired rockets on Israeli border towns while simultaneously attacking a couple of Israeli military vehicles.  The attack resulted in the killing of three Israeli soldiers and the kidnapping of two others by Hezbollah.  Israel responded with an aggressive bombing campaign that escalated into a 33-day war in Lebanon.  Early statements by Arab officials coming out of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia condemned Hezbollah’s actions as “reckless” and endangering the region’s stability.  In Iran’s thinking, Hezbollah had to resist as long as possible and win that war in order to: first, prove to the Arab and Moslem worlds that Israel can be defeated when and if the appropriate strategies are employed against it; and, secondly, to embarrass the governments of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia by portraying them as more eager to appease (if not be in league with) the Israeli enemy instead of standing firm by the side of the Lebanese people who are facing Israeli aggression.  Iran’s calculus worked.  Hezbollah’s effective resistance and later victory (though limited and relative) dealt a major set-back to U.S. efforts to build an anti-Iranian Arab coalition.   Demonstrations were held in several Arab cities and towns, including Cairo, Egypt, in support of Hezbollah and the Lebanese people.  The governments of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia had to ”˜reverse course’ and strongly condemn Israeli actions and criticize the United States for not putting a quick end to the conflict.

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