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  • Israel Minister: Prepare for Iranian missiles
    23 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Minister: Prepare for Iranian missiles
    Pensioner Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan calls on home front to prepare bomb shelters, protected rooms ahead of possible attack by Islamic Republic
    Ynetnews Published: 08.22.06, 11:53
    Minister of Pensioner Affairs Rafi Eitan told Israel Radio Tuesday that Israel faced the possibility of "an Iranian missile attack," and called on the home front to prepare bomb shelters and protected rooms in case of an Iranian attack.
    "The Iranians have said very (…)

  • US threatens Iran sanctions next week
    23 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US threatens Iran sanctions next week
    New York (dpa) - While the United Nations and European Union promised to study Iran’s reply, the United States said Tuesday it would begin discussion of economic sanctions if Iran continued to defy a UN Security Council demand to suspend all its uranium conversion activities by August 31.
    The European Union in Brussels confirmed Tuesday that it had received Iran’s formal reply to the package of economic incentives offered by Western nations in (…)

  • All’s wHELL that ends wHELL!
    23 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I came away from President Bush’s Press conference feeling invigorated; more alive and more jubilant than ever!
    The President told us that we must stay the course in Iraq (and obviously in Afghanistan) for as long as it takes; that our troops won’t be pulled out as long as he’s the Commander in Chief.
    I like that tough and courageous approach to peace and democracy in this precarious world. God and man, working in unison, with dedication and generosity to win hearts, minds, and a new (…)

  • THE MASTER STRATEGERY OF IMAGINATION
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Master Strategery of Imagination
    By Peter Fredson
    August 22, 2006
    At the press conference yesterday, a reporter quizzed Bush: ‘Mr. President, I’d like to go back to Iraq. You’ve continually cited the elections, the new government, its progress in Iraq, and yet the violence has gotten worse in certain areas. You’ve had to go to Baghdad again. Is it not time for a new strategy? And if not, why not?”
    President: “You’ve covered the Pentagon, you know that the Pentagon is constantly (…)

  • So Tell Me Again, Why Are We In Iraq?
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush says Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 08/22/06 — Despite White House efforts to expunge his clear and unambiguous statement from transcripts, I think enough people actually heard George W. Bush say, during yesterday’s Press Conference, that Iraq had "Nothing" to do with 9/11-to qualify the assertion that the text had been removed from the ’official transcript’, because of ’hecklers’, as ridiculous, if not criminal.
    At long last, the president has (…)

  • QUESTIO FOREHEAD TO THE ZIONIST TERRORISM ¿ANTI JEWS?
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yet the respect that deserves all the people, for being human beings fundamentally, I believe that who insist on accusing to us of “anti-Jews”, they do not understand or they do not want to include/understand, the dimensions of the genocide which implacable gangster commits itself at this moment against a town, who although are certain defends of the atrocities of the monstrous enemy, represents the weak opponent at the moment. And when I speak of weakness, I do not talk about the physicist, (…)

  • The most entrancing of them all is the almond-tree
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    August 17th, 2006
    Have you ever taken the time to listen to a tree, once in your life?
    You have to be fine of hearing, because such beings do not speak loudly. It’s all in the wind. The leaves are moving, then the branches, and it even happens that the entire tree is swaying. And after the passing of the wind, there comes the sun. Leaves that filter the sunlight. Shadows that are cast and shadows that are not. Greens that play with blues and browns. It is the dance of the (…)

  • Bush Loses Lebanon at the Roulette Table
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Loses Lebanon at the Roulette Table by Ahmed Amr
    Sunday August 20, 2006
    On the Arab Street, the United States is getting a well-deserved share of vilification for promoting the orgy of violence that has already claimed the lives of over a thousand Lebanese civilians. That figure might be no more than a statistic in America. But, due to extensive live coverage on satellite TV, millions of Arabs now have the ability to attend the funerals of many of the victims. Every casualty is (…)

  • Caught in a Net of Delusion. After Lebanon, Israel is Looking for More Wars
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JONATHAN COOK Nazareth.
    Late last month, a fortnight into Israel’s war against Lebanon, the Hebrew media published a story that passed observers by. Scientists in Haifa, according to the report, have developed a “missile-trapping” steel net that can shield buildings from rocket attacks. The Israeli government, it claimed , would be able to use the net to protect vital infrastructure — oil refineries, hospitals, military installations, and public offices — while private citizens could (…)

  • In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    de Robert Fisk
    In the sparse Baathist drawing rooms of Damascus, reality often seems a long way away. But it was a sign of the times that President Bashar al-Assad was able to bring the great and the good of Damascus to their feet by the simple token of telling the truth - which no other Arab leader has chosen to do these past five weeks: that the Lebanese Hizbollah guerrilla army has, in effect, won this round of their war with Israel.
    There was plenty of hyperbole in the Assad speech. (…)