Johnson! Stop the presses!! Around 6,000 Egyptian protesters and an expatriate minority stood for nearly four hours at the Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo at noon on Monday protesting the ongoing Israeli massacre of Gaza, calling for Israel's destruction and denouncing the Mubarak government, seen by many as complicit with Israel for refusing to allow Palestinians from the neighboring Gaza Strip into Egypt.
"Eliminate fascist Israel before it eliminates you!" "Muhammad's army is coming" and "We are all Hamas" were a few slogans shouted by 6,000 protestors in solidarity with Palestinians undergoing the deadliest Israeli offensive in 60 years that so far has killed over 375 Palestinian civilians and wounded nearly 2000.
Demonstrators stood penned on both sides of the street for nearly four hours
"Israel is a criminal state that utilizes the memory of the Holocaust to deceive the world, yet its legacy is no different from Nazi Germany," Husam Mokhtar, member of the Ikhwan told Alarabiya.net.
Many protesters argued that Israel's ruthless and unyielding massacre of Palestinians despite condemnation of the international community forfeits the Jewish State's right to exist in the Middle East.
"Since Arab blood is cheap to Israel, Israel in turn means nothing to Arabs and must be destroyed," 32 year old protestor Abbas Hasan told AlArabiya.net.
"We are not asking Israel to stop because we know it won't. Instead we demand that our government and arab leaders take up arms against this questionable racist state and eliminate it," he added.
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TOPIX > VARIOUS - IRAN CRITICIZES EGYPT FOR FAILING TO HELP PALESTINIANS/PROTECT GAZA FROM ISRAEL.
Let the records of Pharoah [YUL BRYNNER = THE TEN COMMANDMENTS] show that it was Moud + Khatami + Shia Iran to the rescue, NOT that dastardly "His Mom Wears US-IDF Boots" Mubey + Egypt???
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Hey, Brotherhood mooks, it's a short drive from Cairo to Gaza. What are waiting for? Not enough burqas to hide behind?
I guess you will follow the example of your heroic brothers at Hezbollah and sit this one out.
MUSCAT - Gulf Arab heads of state were divided at a summit in Oman on Tuesday over how to address the conflict between Israel and Hamas, even though they were united in calling for an end to Israeli raids on Gaza. Qatar, one of the six U.S. allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council, has called for an Arab summit to discuss the offensive that has killed about 350 Palestinians, while regional power Saudi Arabia has said it saw little benefit in a meeting where leaders make weightless statements.
Saudi Arabia has urged an end to Israels attacks but appears inclined not to endorse a summit which may boost support for Hamas, an Islamist militant group backed by Shiite Muslim Iran and its Syrian all.
Obviously it will be difficult for them to reach a unified stance on the matter. Saudi Arabia has no interest in helping Hamas through political stances and it is aware that an Arab summit will do only that, a senior Arab diplomat said. For Qatar, this portrays it as a defender of Arabs. This divide is not unique to the Gulf; the Arab world is divided along these lines, he told Reuters.
Arab foreign ministers are scheduled to discuss holding an emergency Arab summit at a meeting in Cairo on Wednesday, a call also made by Syria.
Commenting on the idea, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has said: There would be no benefit in attending an Arab summit for statements.
Even he's tired of all the talk ...
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Sir? It's Johnson. Should I stop the presses? A Saudi cleric called in a religious edict on Sunday for attacks on Israeli interests everywhere in retaliation for the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip as Iran's supreme leader urged Muslim states to punish Israel and deplored what he called some Arab leaders' silence.
"The recent visit by Livni to Egypt, and her embrace by Egyptian officials in front of cameras, followed by her confirmation that the situation in Gaza is going to change, and the lack of any response from Egyptian officials, are part of the conspiracy"
Qarni
"All (Israeli) interests, and anything else related to Israel, are a permitted target for Muslims everywhere," said Saudi Sheikh Awad al-Qarni in what he described on the internet as a fatwa, or religious edict.
Qarni, who has no links to the official Islamic body of Saudi Arabia, said: "They (Israelis) should become targets. Their blood should be shed as the blood of our brothers in Palestine has been shed."
"They should feel pain more than our brothers," the cleric added.
"This is a fatwa that I am responsible for in front of Allah," Qarni said on the Islam Online website.
He also lashed out at Arab governments, mainly Egypt, which he accused of being "part of the conspiracy".
"The recent visit by (Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi) Livni to Egypt, and her embrace by Egyptian officials in front of cameras, followed by her confirmation that the situation in Gaza is going to change, and the lack of any response from Egyptian officials, are part of the conspiracy," he said.
He slammed Egypt's security reinforcements on the borders with Gaza "to ban Palestinians from breaking through the borders," saying it is "a proof of a conspiracy."
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Man, I knew that if Israel took action to protect itself from the Kassam rockets, the Muslim community would react in an unprecedented angry way.
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"
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#1 So what would Kipling make of present day Britain?
Kipling, Sir, would weep.
Mike
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or emigrate
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Mr. Kipling was awfully fond of India as it was then, and while I don't think he would have approved of her socialist interim, I think he might approve what she is in the process of becoming.
European Union nations pushed Tuesday for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas and gathered their foreign ministers in Paris for an urgent meeting on the crisis in Gaza.
Germany's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, spoke with Israeli, Egyptian and Syrian officials to explore the possibility of a "humanitarian cease-fire" in Gaza, his ministry said. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband also said the EU must maintain calls for a cease-fire and examine the need for humanitarian aid in Gaza. Norway announced it was giving 30 million kroner ($4.3 million) in immediate humanitarian aid for Gaza residents.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner spoke Tuesday to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to push an immediate cease-fire to allow aid and medical help into Gaza, and to evacuate the wounded, his ministry said. The proposal was being discussed at the Paris meeting.
The European Commission asked Israel to allow relief workers into the Gaza area. In a statement Tuesday, the European Commission asked Israel "to open up the humanitarian space" so aid and relief workers can reach the Gaza area. So...what's in it for Israel? Answer: Nothing.
So they might as well keep shooting.
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So...what's in it for Israel?
Europeans will build museums commemorating Israel---the way they did for (first) Holocaust victims.
NEW DELHI: Refuting Pakistan's allegations that India had not shared evidence with it on the 26/11 Mumbai mayhem, home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday wondered what more evidence was required after captured terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab's father had owned up to him on a television channel.
"If anyone is in state of denial, then anything we give is denied," Chidambaram, who has completed one month as home minister, told reporters at his first formal press conference.
"The fact is that GEO TV has admitted of interviewing Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab's father, who has admitted Kasab as his son. Kasab has also written a letter seeking legal assistance from Pakistan. Now, what more evidence does Pakistan require?" he asked.
Kasab was the lone terrorist to be captured alive by the security agencies during the Nov 26-29 attacks when a group of 10 militants allegedly from Pakistan stormed Mumbai and killed over 170 people. Nine terrorists were gunned down in operations that lasted for over 60 hours.
"The investigations into the Mumbai attack are in progress and are proceeding on right track," Chidambaram said.
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Rejecting Islamabad's contention that India has mobilised its armed forces, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said there was no question of such mobilisation. Mukherjee said only normal winter exercises conducted every year had taken place. He said there was no tension as was borne by the fact that India was releasing 66 Pakistanis detained for visa violations. Moreover, like in the past, India and Pakistan will be exchanging information on nuclear confidence building measures on the New Year's Day, he said. Mukherjee said India wanted Pakistan to dismantle terrorist camps, take action against those involved in terror attacks and hand over fugitives like the chief of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed, Masood Azhar. Mukherjee said while it cannot be 'business as usual' with Islamabad, "I do feel we should continue to put pressure diplomatically through international community to achieve our objectives".
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Both sides have been asked to de-escalate, and move their forces back to PRE-MUMBAI/ORIGINAL POSITIONS.
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OTOH, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN TO SEEK MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS FROM CHINA, includ one 1000-Mega Watt NUCREX. IRAN also desires to build the latter near the Pak border.
* WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC IRAN MAY DESIRE FOR CHINA TO BECOME PHYSICALLY INVOLVED IN ITS NUCPROG CONSTRUX + DEV + NORMAL OPERATIONS, as per IRAN-SPECIFIC NUCLEAR/ENERGY SECURITY AGZ US-ISRAEL???
Ansar Burney Trust Chairman Ansar Burney has requested the Indian government to allow him to contact alleged terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who was allegedly involved in Mumbai attacks. He said Kasab's confession - in custody - could not be valued legally, adding that other vital evidence against Kasab must also endorse it. He demanded fair trial for Kasab, urging the Indian government to allow the case to be completly accessible to Ansar Burney Trust.
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Interior Secretary Kamal Shah on Tuesday revealed that one of the mobile phone Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) allegedly recovered from the lone surviving gunman of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Ajmal Kasab, was issued from Austria.
He told a group of reporters at the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) headquarters that NADRA record did not verify Kasab as a Pakistani citizen. He also expressed doubts over the authenticity of the letter reportedly written by Kasab to Pakistani authorities seeking legal assistance, saying the language and contents of the letter did not match those of a 'real' Pakistani.
"They (Indians) have simply tried to make up a story and they have even failed in that too," the interior secretary said. He said, "Why did the Indians not share the identity of the others accused in the attacks? They are talking just about Ajmal Kasab who was not even arrested from the crime scene." Shah said according to Indian authorities, the terrorists reached India from Pakistan through a boat on the very day they attacked Mumbai. He asked how a foreigner could manage a terrorist attack of that scale within hours. About security arrangements for the month of Muharram, Shah said instructions had been issued to the provinces. He said law enforcement agencies would remain on high alert during processions of Aashura.
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The Punjab government is all set to appoint a chief administrator at Jamaatul Dawa centre, Markaz-e-Tayyaba in Muridke, following the recommendations of a report by intelligence agencies.
Government sources said on Tuesday intelligence agencies had recommended the appointment of a chief administrator, or a grade-19 officer to monitor activities at the centre to avoid accusations of Dawa's involvement in any international conflict.
The sources said agencies had also recommended provincial control of Dawa's 16 registered schools.
According to the report, the annual expenditure of the centre was between Rs 40 to 45 million, which Dawa meets through charities, school fees and money raised through fees at its dispensaries.
The report recommended only a chief administrator at the centre and administrators in schools should be appointed, without changing the rest of the setup. Punjab Chief Minister's Secretary Tauqeer Shah said the agencies were conducting operation against Dawa at the behest of the Interior Ministry.
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Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Wednesday blamed Palestinian divisions for Israel's onslaught on Gaza, a reflection of U.S.-allied Arab governments' anger at the Hamas militant group.
Saud al-Faisal made the comments at an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in the Egyptian capital, convened to try to put together a joint response by the deeply divided Arab nations to the Israeli offensive, which has killed more than 370 Palestinians and sparked outrage across the Middle East.
Pro-U.S. Arab countries - Egypt, in particular - have come under heavy criticism in widespread street protests, as well as from Iran, Hamas, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, for allegedly not doing enough to stop Israel or help Gazans. Officials and pro-government media in Egypt and Saudi Arabia have responded by blaming Hamas for provoking Israel and accusing the militant group of being a proxy promoting the power of regional rival Iran.
Saud's comments criticizing the Palestinians were notable because in past Israeli offensives against Arabs, Arab leaders would rarely voice anything but heavy condemnations against Israel. Saud stopped short of directly criticizing Hamas - but it was clear from his talk of "Palestinian divisions" that his words were directed at the militant group, which took over the Gaza Strip in 2007 in a battle against loyalists of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
"This terrible massacre would not have happened if the Palestinian people were united behind one leadership speaking in one voice," Saud said at the league meeting's opening.
"We are telling our Palestinian brothers that your Arab nation cannot extend a real helping hand if you don't extend your own hands to each other with love," he said.
At the end of the meeting, the ministers called on Palestinians factions to put aside their differences and urged the U.N. Security Council to issue a resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, according to a final statement.
The Mideast has largely been divided in two camps - pro-U.S. states like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan on one side, and Syria, Iran and their allied militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah on the other.
The U.S. allied camp has been concerned over growing Iranian influence - and worry that the Persian state will gain a foothold in Gaza through Hamas, which gets financial backing from Tehran. Israel says its offensive aims to halt Hamas rocket fire into its territory.
But the popular anger over the Israeli bombardment has put the heat on Egypt and its allies. Egypt this week turned to Turkey - a regional rival of Iran with close ties to Israel - to put together an initiative to end the Gaza fighting.
The Arab foreign ministers reviewed the plan Wednesday. It calls for an immediate, unconditional halt to the Israeli assault, followed by a long-term truce between Hamas and Israel, and international monitors to guarantee the truce and the opening of border crossings into Gaza, which Israel has kept largely sealed since
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"The Arab foreign ministers reviewed the plan Wednesday. It calls for an immediate, unconditional halt to the Israeli assault, followed by a long-term truce between Hamas and Israel, and international monitors to guarantee the truce and the opening of border crossings into Gaza, which Israel has kept largely sealed since..."
In other words Israel should stop bombing Gaza and Hamas should do what?
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"This terrible massacre would not have happened if the Palestinian people were united behind one leadership speaking in one voice," Saud said at the league meeting's opening.
Translation: "The Joos! You're supposed to be killing the Joos!"
Jordan's chief intelligence official was replaced on Monday after he asked King Abdullah II for a resignation, Jordanian news reports said on Tuesday, citing a royal decree. Maj.-Gen. Muhammad Dahabi, who served as head of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate since the end of 2005, held clandestine talks with Damascus-based Hamas politburo member Muhammad Nazzal in Amman, according to a report by the French news agency, AFP.
Dahabi's meeting in August with Nazzal was the first high-level meeting since Jordan expelled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and three other members in a 1999 crackdown on the Islamist group.
It was unclear why Dahabi resigned on Monday and whether it had anything to do with these talks, which were likely conducted with King Abdullah II's consent. In a letter to his staff, Abdullah offered his best wishes to Dahabi and said that he had "worked very hard, with honesty and sincerity." He said Dahabi was among "the loyal soldiers of the homeland" and "devoted to stability and security of the homeland," according to the official Petra news service.
"Thanks for your honorable service, now out you go!"
Dahabi was replaced on Monday by Maj.-Gen. Muhammad Ratha'n Raqqad, who previously served as director of intelligence for the governates and as an assistant to the director of intelligence for Irbid, the second-largest city in the kingdom, according to the London-based A-Sharq Alawsat. Raqqad played a primary role in arresting members of terrorist cells in the kingdom, including helping arrest three operatives who had plans to blow up a building belonging to the security services and the American embassy in Amman, the newspaper said.
Dahabi's team took office in November 2005, days after al-Qaida carried out its deadly blasts in three Amman hotels. His two predecessors hadn't lasted more than a year in the same post, which is considered one of the most important in the country.
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Looks like Mo wanted to "spend more time with the family" or "pursue other interests". We wish him luck in the future. Which hopefully won't include a prison cell...
I guess the truth is starting to come out. Looks like Greenpeace tactics don't work against the Israeli navy.
Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, standing beside a damaged yacht, Tuesday accused the Israeli navy of ramming the vessel to halt the delivery of medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip. "Our mission was a peaceful mission," McKinney told CNN after she and 15 others aboard the boat made it safely to the harbor in the Lebanese seaport of Tyre.
McKinney, the recent Green Party candidate for U.S. president and frequent center of controversy, is the most prominent political figure to join the relief voyages sponsored by the Free Gaza Movement.
McKinney was slated to travel by car to Beirut where she was expected to conducted media interviews and meet with Lebanese government officials, said Paul Larudee, a co-founder of the California-based Free Gaza group.
Larudee said the organization was determined to continue the relief mission, the sixth such trip to Gaza and the first to be interrupted. "We're going to get it repaired," Larudee said of the "Dignity," the cabin cruiser which he said sustained damage to the hull, the bridge and the engine room. Yeah, why don't you have the Hamas Shipyards patch that up for you.
A U.S. State Department spokesman said Tuesday that U.S. diplomats had issued no protests to Israeli authorities. "When you enter a zone of conflict, then you have to realize that it's very, very dangerous," the spokesman told reporters.
Later, State Department spokesman Noel Clay said "there were no injuries, that we're aware of at the moment" and that "to my knowledge, consular officials have not been in contact with the American who was aboard the ship." Lucky for you it wasn't the Hamas Navy that rammed you or you wouldn't be here to talk about it.
McKinney was the sole American on board.
A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington described the incident as an accidental "collision" after the aid vessel drew near to an Israeli military craft and was warned away. "The boat came very close, we called the ship to basically to turn around, we informed the ship that they wouldn't be allowed to enter Gaza," said the embassy spokesman, Jonathan Peled. "The ship wasn't rammed, that definitely wasn't the idea." Maybe they didn't see you. Better have McKinney be the lookout next time.
The Israeli naval craft did, however, prevent the aid ship from landing in Gaza, he said in a telephone interview. "We see all these ships as pure propaganda, they have journalists on them and all kinds of other people who are coming basically to provoke." Nothing special about this boat, then.
He said the intention was not to deny humanitarian aid to Gaza. In fact, he said, aid arrived there on Tuesday from Turkey, Qatar and Jordan. "We receive all aid and let it enter Gaza properly so that we can make sure that it's only humanitarian aid and they're not smuggling people and weapons and explosives into Gaza," Peled said.
He said Israeli military craft offered assistance to the aid vessel before escorting it toward Lebanese waters. "They said that the didn't need any assistance," he said. "It passed peacefully, apparently no damage, no wounded, no nothing, but a slight collision." But, what about the cannon fire we heard so much about? There are going to be a lot of disappointed liberals out there. Well, there will be if any of them read past the first day's headlines, anyway.
In a news release, the Free Gaza group offered a conflicting version of the incident. The Israeli gunboats "gave us no warning" and "rammed us three times," said Caoimhe Butterly, who was aboard the aid ship. Three times? Uh huh. You probably pulled a bit too close and bobbed three times before the Israeli boat could pull back.
"We began taking on water and, for a few minutes, we all feared for our lives," she said of the early morning incident. Feared for your lives. Uh huh. With an IDF boat at hand? BTW: Where's the patch below your waterline? All I saw was a bit of damage centered around your deck. And don't forget to register a complaint.
Larudee said the Dignity's bilge pumps worked well enough for the boat to sail to a safe harbor in Lebanon. The boat had shipped out of Cyprus Monday en route to Gaza.
McKinney's father, former Georgia state Rep. Billy McKinney, said in a phone interview Tuesday that he had a brief conversation with his daughter as she was heading toward Beirut. "I'm really relieved, but I'm not totally relieved because she's still in the Middle East," he said, adding that he expected her to continue her journey. Don't worry, Billy. She's safe in the loving arms of Hamas and their ilk.
"She's a crazyfoolishclueless determined woman," he said. "This isn't the first civil right and human rights mission that she's been on."
McKinney said his daughter had traveled to Cuba a few weeks ago and was "very well received" by President Raul Castro and that she had recently tried to visit Syria but had been turned away when she attempted to board the flight. Being well-received by Raul isn't something I'd be bragging about, Billy.
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besoeker you live in the ATL right? I f so thats 2 Georgians here who don't want her back and at least one that wishes it would have sunk with her on it
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah guerrilla movement _ widely seen as the Arab world's most effective force against Israel is a staunch Hamas supporter but has so far held its fire as its Palestinian ally faces down Israel's assault in Gaza.
Hezbollah possesses a formidable arsenal of rockets and missiles that bloodied Israel during a monthlong war between them in 2006, but is constrained by its own domestic political goals and fears of Israeli retaliation. Once considered as just a fighting force backed by Iran and Syria, Hezbollah has seen its political power in Lebanon grow since 2006. With Israel threatening massive retaliation if Hezbollah renews its rocket bombardments, that influence could come into doubt by Lebanese reluctant to be drawn into another war.
So Hezbollah is instead calling for protests in Lebanon and across the Middle East to pressure Arab governments to act against Israel. That call hasn't drawn any action for now. Egypt on Tuesday said it would not end its blockade of Gaza as long as Hamas remains in power there, and no Arab government has offered anything stronger than words and humanitarian assistance in response to Israel's assault.
Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah drew tens of thousands, waving Palestinian, Hezbollah and Lebanese flags, for a rally Monday in his south Beirut stronghold. He professed that Israel's Gaza offensive will ultimately fail. Nasrallah put his men on alert in southern Lebanon in case Israel attacks and claimed he was ready to fight back if provoked. He promised not to abandon Hamas. The Islamic Sunni group is also backed by Hezbollah allies Iran and Syria.
But he made no threat to open fire on northern Israel to relieve Gaza _ an act that would certainly provoke another war with Israel.
Hezbollah cannot afford to enter a full-scale war with Israel, which would be devastating for Lebanon," said Paul Salem, Beirut-based director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, an arm of the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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"Hezbollah cannot afford to enter a full-scale war with Israel, which would be devastating for Lebanon," said Paul Salem, Beirut-based director of the Carnegie Middle East Center"
No, Sir, Hezbollah does not give a damn about Lebanon as such. They are afraid that they would be devastated the next time.
It is amazing the ignorance (or bias?) shown by these so called "think tanks". I wonder which Eastern elite school this yoyo went to? /s
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I think you're right. Typical, they put Paleos on the front line and say "Go get 'em, we've got your back... WAY back, at least 200 miles away (just to be safe)."
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Another product of Hahvahd, tip. Where else would he have gotten a BA, MA, & PhD, and still be essentially stupid.
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Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah drew tens of thousands...
Nah. I'll bet the big screen with his picture on it drew tens of thousands. His poosy ass is probably so deep underground that he needs ultraviolet light to keep the mushrooms from growing on him.
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It's also possible that when Hezbollah and Israel had the hugely imbalanced (even by the standard of previous Arab-Israeli exchanges) prisoner exchange of many live terrorists for 2 dead bodies that there were secret terms, one of which might have been Hezbollah holding off rocket fire during a possible future Israel-Hamas conflict.
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yeah i'm sure hezbollah would live up too any secret terms. more like they see the ass whooping hamas is taking from a serious Israeli assault and don't want some of the same
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The Israelis should study Sherman's March for guidance on how to make sure your opponent NEVER tries again. Beat them until they KNOW and admit they have been beaten. See USA, Germany, Japan.
Ma'an -- Hamas' website, the Palestinian Information Center, posted an article accusing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of preparing to take control of the Gaza Strip after Israel topples Hamas.
The article was posted Tuesday morning and claims Hamas got hold of a "secret report" elaborating plans of Abbas to re-establish control in Gaza. The report says Abbas called Palestinian officials in Ramallah while he was in Egypt en route to Saudi Arabia. It said Abbas was in Cairo in order to coordinate a joint plan on facing the changes in the Gaza Strip.
Abbas reportedly asked his interior minister and security commanders to prepare an emergency unit prepared to take over after the Hamas regime collapses in Gaza.
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Good luck with that "taking over Gaza" bit, Abu. Why anyone would want the place is beyond me.
IDF Operation Cast Lead will continue until all its goals are met, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday. Speaking to Army Radio, Barak said that the operation would intensify "as much as needed to meet the goals we set for ourselves, to bring quiet to the South." The operation also aims "to strike a severe blow to Hamas," he said, "in order to bring about an end to firing and other operations against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers."
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If one of the goals is to get Arabs to swallow their pride then this is going to be a long one.
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Goal - a: to stop Qasams.
Goal - b: To show Iran that their calculations based on past Israeli reluctance to harm "innocent civilians" need to be redone.
Goal - c: To provide the incoming "Great White Father" with a touch of reality re Arab Israeli conflict.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry says China will offer $1 million in cash to the Palestinians for emergency humanitarian aid. Ministry spokesman Qin Gang says in a Tuesday statement that China urges all sides to "immediately halt armed conflict" and adopt measures to relieve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. No other details were given in the statement.
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WORLD MIL FORUM > REPORT: CHINA, RUSSIA TO CONSIDER GIVING MILITARY EQUIPMENT AID TO BESIEGED PALESTINIANS; + INDIANS EXPRESS ANGER THAT CHINA HAS RESUMED NUCLEAR COOPERATION WID PAKISTAN [new NucEnplants].
Egypt's president struck back against critics throughout the region and said he would not fully open the crossing into the Gaza Strip unless the Palestinian Authority was in control of the border to preserve Palestinian unity.
Egypt has come under heavy criticism in the Arab world over its refusal over the past year to open the Rafah crossing, which has helped complete an Israeli blockade of the territory. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni also visited Egypt just before the assault, leading many to accuse Egypt of giving a green light to the attack.
"We will not deepen the division and that breach [among the Palestinians] by opening Rafah border crossing in the absence of the Palestinian authority and the European union monitors," Mubarak said, referring to the 2005 agreement over the border.
Egypt resists dealing with Hamas because it opposes the group's 2007 takeover of the Gaza Strip and fears a spillover across the border of its terrorist influence.
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Ma'an -- The armed wing of the Hamas movement threatened Israel on Monday over its alleged plans to launch a ground invasion on the Gaza Strip. The movement's Al-Qassam Brigades said it would "teach Israeli forces a hard lesson if they dare to invade the Gaza Strip" in a statement sent to Ma'an.
Al-Qassam addressed Israel's leadership in the message, saying, "If you decide to enter Gaza, it will change into a volcano," adding that fighters would fire missiles even further into Israel.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades said that If Israeli soldiers enter Gaza, "your children will collect your soldiers' corpses."
"Hamas and Al-Qassam are in every house. They will attack you from under the debris. If you believe shelling homes will make us retreat, you will learn that your plans are wrong, and we will surprise you," Hamas spokesperson Abu Ubayda said in a televised speech.
Ubayda also told Israeli leaders to begin preparations for a second Winograd Commission, referring to the Israeli fact-finding commission that was appointed to inquire into the army's failures during the 2006 war in Lebanon.
Abu Ubayda claimed that Al-Qassam has launched 150 Grad missiles at Israeli towns over the past three days, reaching up to 30 kilometers from the Gaza Strip.
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"Hamas and Al-Qassam are in every house."
We know.
Now repeat this for the rest of the world to hear. Loud and often.
Now is not the time to back down or Hamas and the rest of the Arab world are going to believe this crap. And use it to Israel's detriment.
#2
Hamas is in every house? Fine, that makes them all targets, and eliminates "civilian casualties" from the equation. Begin napalming them until there's no oxygen left in even the deepest Hamass bunker.
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Israel is no better than Hamas. Let them kill each other...
#4
It is time for Christians to fire back at Iran and their satanic leader.
I call for Christians all around the world to storm Iranian embassies and lob petrol bombs into their buildings while chanting, "Death to Iran... Death to Islam!"
Sound familiar?
Don't forget to order your Mohammed Bomb-Head T-Shirt soaked in pigs' blood.
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"Hamas and Al-Qassam are in every house. They will attack you from under the debris. If you believe shelling homes will make us retreat, you will learn that your plans are wrong, and we will surprise you," Hamas spokesperson Abu Ubayda said in a televised speech.
We'll now that they've established the ground rules, let's play...
#6
"Israel is no better than Hamas. Let them kill each other..."
At the risk of being obliterated from this website, I have to say that is one of the most outrageously STUPID and bigotted comments I have ever read on this website.
I think that this Pro-Islam anti Judeo-Christian crap that the left keeps spewing is symptomatic of some serious variation of Tourette's or other borderline psychotic condition.
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How does it go? Some people are born stupid, some become stupid by circumstance, and some choose stupidity over better alternatives, thus proving they actually belong in one of the first two categories despite outside appearances.
And of course: Jew hatred is the stupid one's version of philosophy. He clings to it fiercely as the only way to prove to himself that he is only morally rather than mentally retarded.
Despite that, Mr. bernstein is correct that we should not interfere while Israel wars against Hamas until the job is done.
Ma'an -- The Israeli army is prepared to launch a ground invasion that is expected to last several weeks, announced Deputy to the Israeli Defense Minister Matan Vilnai Tuesday.
The Israeli army has launched hundreds of airstrikes at the Gaza Strip damaging, according to one Hamas spokesperson, at least 95% of the government infrastructure, killing close to 400 and injuring some 2,000 individuals.
Vilani said to the media that the Israeli army is prepared to deliver a painful blow and will prevent Palestinian resistance fighters from launching a single additional projectile into Israeli towns. He did not rule out, however, that more projectiles would land before the strike is successful.
In preparation for the invasion Israel has declared all areas in a 30 kilometer radius around the strip a "special situation" area. This essentially allows the Israeli military to dictate the civil situation in the areas, including the opening of schools, government offices and services.
Three Israelis have died since the Saturday attacks began; one of the casualties was a soldier at the Nahal Oz military base near the Gaza border. The other two casualties were civilians. The number of injured Israelis is close to 90.
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I'd rig up a few D9s for remote control and send them through and over any defences or boobytraps the Paleos have set.
#3
Gorb,
Not even a flail tank can stand a charge of 200 Kg TNT under its belly.
The Hamas learned that and probably prepared a lot of these massive booby traps for Israeli tanks.
I hope the IDF has learned the lessons well and has something up their sleeves to counter this.
When you are fighting animals you have to use cunning !
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Then maybe they should try one of these babies!
#5
It's not difficult to rig unmanned ground vehicles to sweep through a mine field. If the charges are set to go off only with heavy equipment, tho, that woud require UGVs that IDF probably doesn't have available.
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Gorb,
Since no hot linking is allowed, we cant use any :)
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How bout a fleet of light pickups with a cutout of a dozer blade on the front, bright lights, PA system playing dozer noises, rc drive them. Then for added effect, have some trucks behind them holding bigass movie screens like the drive-in type and backlight movie scenes onto them...I suggest original War of the Worlds craft and sound or a dude dressed as Elijah making boogity faces; AT-ATs might be fun too and some big time laser pointers would add to the effect with the smoke and all. Time the movie with artillery and bombs to make it look like the movie is making the explosions. Parachute some Ruperts with wireless PA capability to make background screaming noises and false conversation and have them walk around like humpbot.
#8
Will this op be still under way when adult supervision in DC ends Jan. 20? Will this be the young guy's first test? Won't his near-certain inability to change a thing about it or influence events in any way be hilarious - well, at least to observant freaks on the margins, as the "press" will surely not allow such obvious facts and unhappy/unhelpful thoughts to creep into the teeny-bopper fantasy story that they're desperate to prolong?
An Islamist group in Indonesia said on Monday it plans to recruit as many as 1,000 volunteers to fight in the Gaza Strip in response to Israeli air strikes that have killed more than 300 Palestinians. "Fighters should be in good physical condition, have a strong faith and be ready to die," Ahmad Soebri Lubis, secretary-general of the Islamist Defenders Front, told Reuters by telephone. "They will be provided with a one-way ticket until we defeat Israel."
" Fighters should be in good physical condition, have a strong faith and be ready to die, "
Ahmad Soebri Lubis, secretary-general of the Islamist Defenders Front
Lubis said the group would start recruiting at its Jakarta headquarters in the next few days, and would send volunteers for training at camps in Indonesia to prepare them for the "battleground". He said the group has in the past sent volunteers to Iraq and to Afghanistan. But don't go confusing them with a terrorist organization...
Many Indonesians support the Palestinian cause and are opposed to U.S. policies in the Middle East, particularly the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The Indonesian government on Sunday joined widespread international condemnation of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, which began with air strikes on Saturday.
This article starring:
Islamist Defenders Front
Ahmad Soebri Lubis
Islamist Defenders Front
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"Fighters should be in good physical condition, have a strong faith and be ready to die," Ahmad Soebri Lubis, secretary-general of the Islamist Defenders Front, told Reuters by telephone."They will be provided with a one-way ticket until we defeat Israel."
I, of course, am not ready to die so I don't have to go. But I will be at the airport passing out the one way tickets. And a firm handshake...
#2
Probably hoping to dredge up a bunch of folks who believe that they can pass go and head straight to the highest level of heaven by the simple act martyring themselves.
Hopefully it won't be long before they run out of those types.
#5
Got to be some way the USAF can provide Space-Available worldwide C-17 or C-5A transit to Gaza for these people. In-flight Halal meals, Mosque comfort pallets, limit two bags and an AK...whatever. (mind the steps with your man-dresses please)
A new raid by the Iranian authorities on an office of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, has been widely condemned.
A US state department official said the raid was another example of Iran's refusal to respect international norms.
The French authorities summoned the Iranian ambassador to inform him of the European Union's disapproval.
Canada said the raid appeared to be part of an effort to impede the work of Ms Ebadi and other rights campaigners.
Human Rights Watch, a US -based rights group, said it was extremely worried about Ms Ebadi's safety, following Monday's raid when officials removed computers and documents from her private office in Tehran.
Earlier this month the Iranian authorities closed the Tehran office of the Human Rights Defenders Centre headed by Ms Ebadi, saying it had operated for eight years without permission.
Ms Ebadi, a 61-year-old lawyer and human rights activist, became Iran's first Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2003.
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Or else they'll storm, occupy and/or burn the Gypto embassy, I'm guessing.
I don't think they'll try to destabilize the Gypto gummint: Hozni's thugs are very good at dealing with that, just ask the Islamic Brotherhood ...
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We'll see whether and to what degree they activate proxies throughout the middle east and elsewhere. An Egyptian embassy outside of Teheran might find itself with a missing wall, maybe.
Depends on whether their intent is to look strong or to sow chaos.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit mocked the military records of Iran and the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim movement Hezbollah in an escalating war of words over Egypt's cooperation with Israel in the blockade of Gaza.
Aboul Gheit, in an interview with Egyptian television broadcast on Monday night, said Hezbollah destroyed Lebanon in 2006 and that its Katyusha rockets and rocket-propelled grenades were nothing compared to the Egyptian army.
Addressing Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, he said: "You are a man who used to enjoy respect, but you have insulted the Egyptian people."
The Egyptian minister also attacked Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who criticised Arab governments on Monday for their lack of response to Israeli raids which have killed some 348 Palestinians in Gaza.
"It's as if hundreds of thousands of Iranians shed their blood over the last 30 years," he said, referring to the Egyptian view that its army bore the brunt of the suffering in wars with Israel for the sake of the Palestinians.
Egypt fought four wars with Israel between 1948 and 1973, losing tens of thousands of soldiers. In 1979, it became the first Arab country to make peace with the Jewish state.
"There are Iranian motives driving Arab parties to play in the interests of Iran," the minister added.
Nasrallah, whose guerrilla forces withstood the Israeli invasion of south Lebanon in 2006, angered the Egyptian government with a speech on Sunday calling on Egyptians to take to the streets in protest at Egyptian policy.
Aboul Gheit replied: "Egypt is big and strong and no one outside it can move anything inside it. Egypt moves when the Egyptian people and the Egyptian leadership ask it to."
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This is going to seriously put Egypt's collective nose out of joint. Already they, the Saudis and the Jordanians are rapidly losing patience with the Iranians and their antics, and have been secretly rooting for Israel and the US to kick seven bells out of them.
I think a good counter proposal to Egypt is that they might consider sending a substantial Sunni peacekeeping force to southern Lebanon. Which, of course, would put Hezbollah out of business for good and scare the poop out of the Syrians.
Gee. Maybe their education isn't as, err, politically correct"rounded" as it is in the West.
TEHRAN, Iran -- Hard-line Iranian student groups have appealed to the government to authorize volunteer suicide bombers to leave Iran and fight against Israel in response to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip.
The government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had not responded to the call by Wednesday. Five hard-line student groups and a conservative clerical group launched a registration drive on Monday, seeking volunteers to carry out suicide attacks against Israel.
"Volunteer student suicide groups ... are determined to go to Gaza. You are expected to issue orders to the relevant authorities in order to pave the way for such action," the students advised Ahmadinejad in an open letter, a copy of which was made available to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Volunteer suicide groups have made similar moves in the past and the government never responded to their calls. However, some hard-liners have claimed they successfully but secretly left Iran and carried out attacks against Israel. Their claims could not be verified.
The hard-liners started signing up volunteers after Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a religious decree on Sunday that said anyone killed while defending Palestinians in Gaza against Israeli attacks would be considered a martyr.
In a speech Tuesday, Ahmadinejad called for the trial of Israeli leaders on charges of massacring Palestinians in Gaza. His comments come a day after Iran's judiciary set up a court to try Israeli leaders for such "crimes."
Iran considers Israel its archenemy and Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Iran also is Hamas' main backer, though Tehran denies sending weapons to the Islamic militant Palestinian group that took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007.
Israel's airstrikes on Gaza have sparked outrage in Iran and throughout the rest of the Muslim world. Four days of Israeli air strikes have killed 374 Palestinians and prompted Arab and international condemnation and a global diplomatic push to end the fighting. Israel says it launched its campaign in retaliation for rocket fire aimed at civilians in southern Israeli towns.
Iranian student leaders claim that more than 10,000 people throughout Iran have registered for volunteer suicide attacks in the past three days. At a gathering Tuesday in Tehran to support Gazans and condemn Israeli attacks, hard-liners were distributing registration forms to volunteers.
Volunteer Ali Reza Takrim Namini said a "sense of religious obligation" made him register for suicide attacks against Israel. Another volunteer, Mostafa Babaei, said he was "willing to sacrifice" his blood in defense of Palestinian Muslims.
Hard-line students regularly rally in front of Egypt's interest section office in Tehran to condemn Cairo's refusal to reopen the Rafah border crossing with Gaza for humanitarian supplies. They have warned they will storm the mission by Thursday if Egypt doesn't condemn the Israeli attacks keeps the border crossing closed.
Protesters are also holding daily gatherings in front of Jordanian and Saudi embassies to denounce Arab silence over the Israeli bombing.
The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a ship carrying 2,000 tons of food to Palestinians living in Gaza to be delivered through Egypt and an Iranian military plane landed in Cairo Monday with 24 tons of food and medicines for Gaza. The head of Iran's Red Crescent, Masoud Khatami, said three more ships were waiting to be loaded with humanitarian aid, and Iranian hospitals were ready to receive injured Gazans, according to the official IRNA news agency.
#1
You mean, soft dick iranian students who seek not only the 72 virgins promised but also the perpetual erections promised to those who go in paradise.
#4
I think it's a good idea. Load a couple hundred of them onto a transport plane, fly over Israel, and have them jump out. 150 pound dumb bombs; messy, but not too dangerous except for a direct hit.
An Iranian student group announced on Monday that it is recruiting volunteers to fight Israel as the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah called on Palestinians to launch a new uprising in the face of Israel's three-day assault on Gaza.
The students said that they had started their campaign in response to a religious decree issued by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday stating that anyone who died in the defense of Gaza would be deemed a martyr. "In response to the supreme leader's orders for a jihad (holy war), students from the bassij militia are going to register... to go to fight in the occupied Palestinian territories," the Fars news agency quoted one of the students' leaders, Alireza Zahedi, as saying. Yeah, they'll probably be getting there about the same time I will. Which is half past never...
Fars said that several hundred students had already signed up and that the recruits would soon hold a parade. Ooooooh, a parade! Will they learn how to goose step?
Khamenei ruled on Sunday that "all... believers in the Islamic world are required to defend in any way they can the defenseless women, children and people of Gaza. "Anyone who is killed in this legitimate and sacred defense is a martyr," he said. I, of course, will remain here and think up more inspiring Muslim stuff to say...
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This is why the Islamic "University" needs to be finished off right now.
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Around 6,000 Egyptian protesters and an expatriate minority stood for nearly four hours at the Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo at noon on Monday protesting the ongoing Israeli massacre of Gaza, calling for Israel's destruction and denouncing the Mubarak government, seen by many as complicit with Israel for refusing to allow Palestinians from the neighboring Gaza Strip into Egypt. 
A Saudi cleric called in a religious edict on Sunday for attacks on Israeli interests everywhere in retaliation for the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip as Iran's supreme leader urged Muslim states to punish Israel and deplored what he called some Arab leaders' silence.
European Union nations pushed Tuesday for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas and gathered their foreign ministers in Paris for an urgent meeting on the crisis in Gaza. 
Ma'an -- Hamas' website, the Palestinian Information Center, posted an article accusing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of preparing to take control of the Gaza Strip after Israel topples Hamas. 
The Chinese Foreign Ministry says China will offer $1 million in cash to the Palestinians for emergency humanitarian aid. Ministry spokesman Qin Gang says in a Tuesday statement that China urges all sides to "immediately halt armed conflict" and adopt measures to relieve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. No other details were given in the statement.
Egypt's president struck back against critics throughout the region and said he would not fully open the crossing into the Gaza Strip unless the Palestinian Authority was in control of the border to preserve Palestinian unity. 
Ma'an -- The Israeli army is prepared to launch a ground invasion that is expected to last several weeks, announced Deputy to the Israeli Defense Minister Matan Vilnai Tuesday. 
An Islamist group in Indonesia said on Monday it plans to recruit as many as 1,000 volunteers to fight in the Gaza Strip in response to Israeli air strikes that have killed more than 300 Palestinians. "Fighters should be in good physical condition, have a strong faith and be ready to die," 
A new raid by the Iranian authorities on an office of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, has been widely condemned. 
An Iranian student group announced on Monday that it is recruiting volunteers to fight Israel as the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah called on Palestinians to launch a new uprising in the face of Israel's three-day assault on Gaza. 
