Iran Reviews > Hard Rain Journal 8-1-06: Ray McGovern on the Neo-Con Amateur Hour Performance of "No Exit"
[Words of Power] According to [Paul] O'Neill, Secretary of State Colin Powell seemed "startled," and warned that US disengagement would unleash Sharon and the Israeli army. Bush shrugged dismissively, adding, "Sometimes a show of strength by one side can really clarify things." After his requiem for the decades of US sweat and blood expended on the effort to work out a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, the president turned immediately to Iraq.
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[Andrewhagen.com] Andrew Hagen: Middle East In a speech yesterday to AIPAC (*) , an influential pro-Israel lobbying group, Secretary of State Colin Powell warned Syria and Iran that they .
[Solomonia.com] Solomonia: Please, if you support freedom in the Middle East and the continued leadership and strength of the United States you must adamantly oppose Israeli Military strikes on nuclear facilities - because the simple fact remains that no matter how some pundits criticize and characterize the United States/freedom's current predicament, America and all people in the world who demand freedom are in fact in a good position and have the cards stacked in our favor - we mustn't waste this opportunity. Remember: Regime change is the objective - but there are countless ways to go about this other than through the most devastating and counterproductive method of nuclear assaults, which would result neither in regime-change nor anything the United States would be the least bit favorable of.
[Blogs.telegraph.co.uk] Telegraph Blogs: Foreign: Alec Russell: July 2006: The gathering storm: It was created to help the jews build a new life for themselves, to get out of the persecution (that was by the way, the deed of the Europeans not the arabs for which the Israelis have profound hate today as Fred Chubin's honest remark, but so blunt and racist, shows.) For the last 60 years it became the tool that the israeli government uses to persecute with no regard to human rights whatsoever, the weaker neighbours (on which Israel has been forced). Israel is using the difficulty the world has to condemn its actions as a green light to continue killing lebanese civilians, destroying their villages their homes, hospitals, schools, infrastructure etc...
[Gnn.tv] Hezbollah defies Israeli pressure: By Anne Penketh, Ben Russell, Colin Brown and Stephen Castle Published: 21 July 2006. Israeli warplanes continued their bombardment of Lebanon yesterday, .
[Kycouncilofchurches.org] Intercom of the Kentucky Council of Churches: We are not shown a map of US military facilities that could threaten the security of Iran, even though it was the US, not Iran, that invaded a neighboring country (Iraq) in 2003 in an unprovoked act of aggression, has troops fighting in another neighboring country, Afghanistan, ensures that no serious pressure will be exerted against Israel's possession of nuclear weapons, and just agreed to accept the legitimacy of India's nuclear weapons. We also see the same kind of scary satellite photos of Iranian buildings that Colin Powell trotted out at the UN during the long campaign of deception designed to justify an invasion of Iraq.
[Words of Power] Hard Rain Journal 7-6-06: Axis of Drivel, and... : The headlines and hot air expended on North Korea, Iran and Iraq dubbed the “axis of evil” by Bush-Cheney, are disproportionate in relation to where they should fall on any reasonable scale of geopolitical or military threats to the US or its allies. They are just problems that got out of hand.
[A Daily Briefing on Iran] Iraq and the Democratization of the Middle East: . From the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, American, European, and Israeli officials supported a Palestinian dictatorship on the logic believing that a strongman could better deliver Palestinians to a peace accord with Israel. The strategy failed. Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasir Arafat refused to abandon terrorism, seeing violence as both a negotiating tactic and, when applied against Palestinian civilians, a method to enforce discipline. The European Union, meanwhile, provided ten million euros monthly to subsidize Palestinian Authority salaries. Patten insisted that "the EU has not seen any hard evidence that the EU funds have been misused to finance terrorism," but former Federal Bureau of Investigations analyst Matt Levitt found that Arafat regularly exaggerated his needs by thirty percent, doctored exchange rates to net his terror fund 16 cents of every euro dispensed by Brussels, and even applied EU salary subsidies to fund Fatah, a group responsible for shootings and suicide bombings.
[Mavi Boncuk Archives] Kurds in the new Iraq By Dr Mohammed M. A.... : Ahmed ABSTRACT: This study analyzes the impact of the ongoing struggle for power by different Iraqi factions on the future status of the Kurds. It is unlikely that the Kurds will be able to preserve the gains they have made under the allied protection in the safe
[Peak Oil News] Pump Dreams: “I want an America that relies on its own ingenuity and innovation”not on the Saudi royal family,” Senator John Kerry said in his speech at the Democratic Convention, in July. “And our energy plan for a stronger America will invest in new technologies and alternative fuels and the cars of the future”so that no young American in uniform will ever be held hostage to our dependence on oil from the Middle East.” President Bush has countered by pushing his own energy agenda, which includes a controversial proposal to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an idea that Congress has so far rejected.
Peak Oil News: The New YorkerIn the predawn hours of October 6, 1973, on Yom Kippur, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a surprise attack on Israeli positions in the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Two weeks later, after the Pentagon had started airlifting matériel to Israel, to counter Soviet shipments to Egypt and Syria, King Faisal, of Saudi Arabia, cut off his countrys oil exports to the United States.
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