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US helicopter-borne troops have carried out a raid inside Syria along the Iraqi border, killing eight people including four
children, Syrian officials say.
-October 26 2008
OPEC Cuts Production By 1.5 Million BPD
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided to lower supply by 1.5 million barrels a day from November,
oil ministers said today at the end of a meeting at the group's Vienna's headquarters. The reduction will be from the existing
quota for 11 members of 28.808 million barrels a day.
-October 26 2008
and oil prices dropped anyways.
Bending The Truth
Human rights group B’Tselem’s statistics are far from being trustworthy.
On Jan. 17, 2002 Abdul Salaam Sadek Hassouneh of Nablus burst into a bat mitzvah celebration at a Hadera reception hall,
shooting dead six and injuring 35 before Israeli security forces ended the bloodbath by killing him.
But Hassouneh has another, lesser known claim to notoriety. He was the first of several Palestinian terrorists killed while
attacking Israelis to appear that year in B'Tselem's list of "Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli security forces." He was
followed by numerous other so-called Palestinian "civilians" in 2002, including Omar Mahmoud Abu Rub and Yusef
Muhammad Abu Rub, killed by border police gunfire after they murdered six Israeli civilians in Beit She'an. Both attacks
were claimed by Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.
-October 19 2008
Dealing With Israel's Settler Movement
THE policy proclaimed by young Jewish settler-militants on the West Bank is called “Price Tag”. Whenever the Israeli
army tries to dismantle settler outposts—even individual caravans or huts—that have not been authorised by the Israeli
authorities, the militants retaliate violently. Not necessarily in the same place; they may hit Palestinians or soldiers
somewhere else. They stone cars, smash windows, burn olive trees and fields. They attack villagers and shepherds, and
tangle with the army and police.
Now a new government under Tzipi Livni, hitherto the foreign minister, looks likely to take over. Will she stiffen General
Shamni’s spine? For decades the Israeli establishment has been flaccid in the face of the settlers. But she has a chance to
build on the changing thinking of her three predecessors. Ehud Barak (1999-2001) accepted the principle of swapping
territory and sharing Jerusalem; Ariel Sharon (2001-06), actually evicted several thousand settlers; and Ehud Olmert (2006-
08) now says that the land swaps must be equal, so that the Palestinian state ends up with the full equivalent of territory
occupied by Israel in the war of 1967.
-October 19 2008
I have always said there is an easy answer to the settlement problems. All settlers should be offered full
compensation to move into Israel proper. Those who do are generously compensated, and those who dont
accept are welcome to stay in their homes in the illegal settlements, without the protection of ANY Israelis
soldiers. They will be living in Palestine and they will have to deal with the Palestinians all on their own. How
can this possibly not work?
Evangelicals Face Up To Ahmadinejad
A coalition of Jews and Christians around the world is being set up to have Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
charged with inciting genocide, a day after Kevin Rudd decided to drop a case against the Iranian leader over his comments
against Israel.
-October 16 2008
wishing for a government's collapse or calling a country a "stinking corpse" is simply an individual
expressing his right to free speech. NEVER has ahmadinejad directly threatened Israel, and as bad as he is,
he is certainly not guilty of "inciting genocide" or war crimes. See Was Ahmadinejad Misquoted?
Australia Drops Ahmadinejad Case
The Australian government has abandoned plans to take international legal action against Iranian president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.
Australian foreign minister, Stephen Smith, told parliament he did not wish to "give further profile to these obscene
remarks".
He also cited the complexity of the issues and the high legal threshold required to bring forward a case.
-October 16 2008
Ahmadinejad never "Threatened" to do anything to Israel, they simply "wished" that Israel's regime would
collapse. I, like most people, find these comments disturbing, but there is no basis for any international legal
action, as ahmadinejad is entitled to his own views and he was simply expressing them. Isn't free speech
values democracies like Australia and the U.S. hold dear?
Mccain Seeks To Renew Doubts About Obama On Israel
The McCain campaign issued a statement today from Randy Scheunemann, the candidate's senior foreign
policy adviser:
"According to a prominent Democratic supporter of Barack Obama, the 'Zionists who have controlled
American policy for decades' will 'lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White
House.' It should not surprise anyone that Obama�s supporters see what others, from the terrorist group
Hamas to Iranian President Ahmadinejad, have seen: an Obama presidency would bring real change to
America�s policy of support for Israel. Barack Obama has claimed that nobody has suffered more than the
Palestinians, praised a former spokesman of a Palestinian terrorist group for reminding him of his own
'blind spots' and 'biases,' and told the New York Times that Hamas and Hezbollah have 'legitimate claims.'
Barack Obama expressed support for Jerusalem being the undivided capital of Israel and switched his
position 24 hours later in the face of criticism from Palestinians. Barack Obama has said it is a �disgrace�
that the United States has not met unconditionally with leaders committed to Israel�s destruction. Now,
Barack Obama claims to be a strong supporter of Israel but his supporters -- here and abroad -- know better."
Obama spokeswoman Wendy Morigi responded:
�Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is not an adviser to the Obama campaign and is therefore in no position to interpret
or share Barack Obama's views on Israel and foreign policy. As he has made clear throughout his career
and throughout this campaign, Barack Obama has a fundamental commitment to a strong U.S.-Israel
relationship, and he is advised by people like Dennis Ross, Daniel Kurtzer, Rep. Robert Wexler, Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, and Senator Joe Biden who share that commitment. As President, he will ensure that
Israel can defend itself from every threat it faces, stand with Israel in its quest for a secure peace with its
neighbors, and use all elements of American power to end Iran�s illicit nuclear program. No false charges
can change Barack Obama�s unshakeable commitment to Israel�s security."
-October 15 2008
Obama, Jackson Disavow Column About Israel
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign sharply rejected on Wednesday a
conservative columnist's report that civil rights leader Jesse Jackson expects Obama to reduce Israel's clout
at the White House.
Jackson himself denounced New York Post columnist Amir Taheri for "selectively imposing his own point of
view and distorting mine" in the column that appeared Tuesday.
-October 15 2008
Ford Shares Cheaper Than Gas
Shares in Ford Motor Co. sank 4% to US$2.55, making one Ford share cheaper than a gallon of gasoline in
the United States.
The average price for a gallon of gasoline cost $3.18 in Detroit and $3.36 nationally as of Thursday morning,
gasbuddy.com reported on its website.
-October 10 2008
Palestinians Sue State Over Migron Land
For the first time in the history of illegal takeovers of privately owned Palestinian land, five Palestinians are
suing the State of Israel for allegedly doing nothing to restore their land, now occupied by the illegal Migron
outpost.
-October 9 2008
most people dont know that Palestinians have the right to sue Israel IN ISRAELI COURTS?
Yemen: Terrorist Cell With Link to Israel Arrested
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh disclosed the arrest of a terrorist cell five days ago. This cell had links
with the Israeli intelligence, despite raising a banner for Islam, the Yemeni leader announced. "You will hear
about what will be going on in the proceedings," said Saleh, calling all political parties and people of good
will to cooperate for facing terrorist acts for making all people in peaceful and stable conditions.
-October 7 2008
yep, those arabs just love blaming israel to scare their own people
The Russian Government Warms Up To 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
As the post-Georgia chill in U.S.-Russian relations con-tinues, the Russian govern-ment has repeatedly
declared its readiness to resume a friendly partnership if the United States will reciprocate and abandon its
Cold War rhetoric. Yet, at the same time, Moscow has encouraged an orgy of anti-American hysteria in the
loyalist Russian media. On September 12, the America-bashing reached a new low: a prime-time special on
national television peddling the notion that the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of September 11,
2001, were an inside job by American warmongers.
The special, aired in a program called Closed Screening on the government-controlled Channel One and
viewed by up to 30 million people, was built around the documentary Zero made by Italian journalist and
European Parliament member Giulietto Chiesa. Ignored in most of Europe and panned by the Italian press,
Zero is a hodgepodge of familiar "truth about 9/11" claims (the Twin Towers were brought down by
explosives inside the buildings, the Pentagon was hit by a missile, not a plane) accompanied by ominous
music and insights from such "experts" as Nobel Prize-winning literary clown Dario Fo.
Since these are not quite Soviet days, there was at least a semblance of debate. Several panelists, including
a building expert and (amusingly) a retired KGB analyst, rejected the conspiracy theory. Vladimir Sukhoi, a
former Channel One correspondent who was in Washington, D.C., on the day of the attacks and in New York
a few days later, spoke movingly of the horrors he witnessed and said that he could not "betray" those
memories by lending credence to Chiesa's thesis. Sukhoi also remarked that he had personally seen debris
from Flight 77 at the Pentagon, though Chiesa's coauthor, French 9/11-conspiracy theorist Thierry Meyssan,
earnestly assured him that he had not. Sukhoi listened with the patient, bemused expression of someone
forced to endure the ravings of a lunatic.
-October 6 2008