Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
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The Washington Times
By Struan Stevenson
Spanish-American political philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are destined to repeat them.” Current events in Iran indicate we had better prepare ourselves for some sharp history lessons. As the brutal, fascist regime tightens its grip in the Middle East, [...]
Courtesy of Iran Focus via the New York Times (fair and balanced for the enemy is the NYT’s new motto):
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
TEHRAN, July 29 — These should be heady days for Iran’s leaders. Hezbollah, widely regarded as its proxy force in Lebanon, continues to rain down rockets on Israel despite 17 days of punishing airstrikes. [...]
Moonbat dictators unite and give each other the warm fuzzies…
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Associated Press
By NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – The presidents of Iran and Venezuela, leading U.S. critics, pledged Saturday to support one another in disputes with Washington, with the Iranian calling Hugo Chavez “a brother and trench mate.”
As Chavez arrived for a [...]
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The Sunday Times
Comment
Andrew Sullivan
While the world remains understandably transfixed on Lebanon and Israel, one fact bears keeping in mind: more people were killed in Iraq in the past two weeks than in Israel and Lebanon combined.
At their joint press conference on Friday, both Tony Blair and George W Bush mentioned Iraq but [...]
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By NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iranian state radio said Saturday that the government would reject a proposed U.N. resolution that would give it until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of international sanctions.
“Iranians will not accept unfair decisions, even in the framework of resolutions by [...]
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The Palestinians in Gaza have begun to resent the linkage made between their conflict and that in Lebanon, the Washington Times reports. In their objections, they point out the key flaw in Hezbollah’s claims of self-defense and resistance:
As fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continues to rage in Lebanon and northern Israel, Palestinians [...]
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Israel attacked Hezbollah launching positions in the ancient city of Qana, resulting in the deaths of dozens of civilians. Ehud Olmert and his staff immediately expressed regret for the deaths, but pointed out that Hezbollah’s positioning made this kind of collateral damage unavoidable:
Olmert expressed deep regret for the harm inflicted on the [...]
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After successfully reducing Bint Jbeir and Maroun al-Ras, the IDF has amassed its forces at the border for more operations in southern Lebanon. With American diplomacy working towards an end to the fighting, the Israelis want to clear as much territory from Hezbollah as possible in the time remaining:
The IDF wrapped up [...]
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Some people have argued over the last two weeks that Hezbollah’s reputation for hiding among civilians is either false or overblown. However, Australia’s Herald-Sun newspaper published photographs that show Hezbollah firing positions within residential areas of Lebanon, confirming the terrorists’ use of civilians as human shields (via AJ Strata):
THIS is the picture [...]
Perfect title… However, since the bombing this morning I would not count on diplomacy working. Wouldn’t work any way…
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Events have moved quickly since last night, and Condoleezza Rice’s return to the Middle East may result in a cease fire rather quickly. After Hezbollah indicated last night that they would be willing to [...]
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By Douglas Farah
Twice in one week the airport at Mogadishu, Somalia, was the scene of something almost unseen in the past decade-the landing of two large Soviet-era IL-76 cargo planes, among the biggest in the world, capable of carryng more than 50 tons in its hold. The airport is under the [...]
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By Olivier Guitta
I just wrote a piece for the Weekly Standard on French-Hezbollah relations in light of the surely increasing French role in diplomatic negotiations.
Here’s an excerpt:
FRANCE HAS A LONG HISTORY in Lebanon, a country it administered under a League of Nations mandate from 1920 to 1943 and whose elite is [...]
Courtesy of NewsMax:
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s announcement that his country would respond on August 22 to Western demands regarding Iran’s nuclear program has worried observers asking: Why that date?
Some of the speculation is troubling.
A report that appears on the Web site Zionist.com and a number of blogs speculate:
“Ahmadinejad is a strong believer in the Shiite [...]
Courtesy of the Washington Post.com:
The government is building a highly classified facility to research biological weapons, but its closed-door approach has raised concerns.
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 30, 2006; Page A01
On the grounds of a military base an hour’s drive from the capital, the Bush administration is building a massive biodefense laboratory unlike [...]
Courtesy of the Jerusalem Post:
By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV KATZSince early morning Sunday, a total of 140 rockets have rained down on northern cities, including Nahariya, Kiryat Shmona, and Acre. Eight people were wounded over the course of the morning, one moderately and seven lightly. Some 29 people suffered from shock.
One person was moderately [...]
Courtesy of YNet News:
In Qana, corpses continue to be rescued from rubble. In Beirut, demonstrations condemning Israel’s massacre. Demonstrators demand Hizbullah take revenge on Israel, vandalize UN building in city
Ali Waked
Men and women shouted and lamented “massacre, massacre!” to the cameras in Qana on Sunday. Hundreds of protestors went wild in the streets of Beirut.
Reports [...]
Courtesy of My Way News:
By Tom Perry
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese protesters broke into the United Nations headquarters in Beirut on Sunday, smashing windows and ransacking offices, after an Israeli air strike killed at least 40 people in south Lebanon.
Several thousand people massed outside the building in downtown Beirut chanting “Death to Israel, death to America. [...]
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By KATHERINE SHRADER
JERUSALEM (AP) – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday she is “deeply saddened by the terrible loss of innocent life” from Israel’s attack on a Lebanese village, but she held firm to the internationally unpopular position that a quick cease-fire won’t solve the crisis.
Stymieing Rice’s diplomatic mission, Israel’s [...]
Annan for the enemy once again…
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday after an Israeli airstrike on a Lebanese village killed at least 56 people, most of them children.The meeting was called, at the request of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, to seek an [...]
They were warned to get out – more Hezbollah human shields. I do not blame the Israelis one bit – this is war and they are doing what they have to do to survive. Put yourself in their shoes…
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By KATHY GANNON
QANA, Lebanon (AP) – An Israeli airstrike killed at least 56 [...]
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By Yehudit Barsky
With the international community focused on Iran’s quest to develop nuclear weapons, little attention has been paid to Tehran’s preparations for a possible showdown with America and its allies. For more than a year, Iran has been preparing, together with terror organizations it controls and finances, for [...]
Courtesy of the DEBKAFile.com:
He warned the Lebanese government not to hurry to accept a ceasefire.
This dispute will not be resolved at the diplomatic table but on the battlefield, he said. The Rice mission is the outcome of our firm stand, said Nasrallah and promised his adherents victory.
DEBKAfile adds: The Hizballah leader took to the airwaves [...]
Courtesy of the DEBKAFile.com:
Saturday afternoon, Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah threatened to send more rockets into central Israeli cities after Afula was hit Friday night. Playing it safe, Israel also adjusted the orbits of its military satellites to allow them to track any Hizballah missiles at the moment they are launched from Lebanon. Military experts believe that [...]
Courtesy of WorldNetDaily:
Al-Firdaws channel offers speeches by bin Laden, al-Zawahiri
Al-Qaida has launched an Internet television channel that broadcasts speeches by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri and documentaries about its war with the West.
The Arabic–language site is called al-Firdaws and it appears to be in an experimental stage.
Currently the videos air between 8 p.m. and [...]
Courtesy of Little Green Footballs:
Andrew McCarthy has a good description of the ostrich-like self-blinding impulse that continues to hamper the war on Islamic fascism: Not Terrorism Related, and Certainly Not Islam Related.
The Post-Intelligencer story is so typical of what happens in a society and a government which default from the ideology part of an ideological [...]
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
More details on the jihadist killer who murdered one and wounded five at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle yesterday. “Hatred hits home: 6 shot at Jewish office,” from the Seattle Times, with thanks to Rudi:
A Muslim man angry with Israel barged into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle [...]
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Nou Shalhoub is dead. Nasrallah still lives. “Report: Hizbullah leader killed in IAF strike,” from the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
A senior Hizbullah leader, Nou Shalhoub, was killed Friday afternoon in an IAF strike in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.
Shalhoub was responsible for obtaining advanced weaponry [...]Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
A useful overview of Hizballah’s ties with Iran: “Hezbollah’s hate, made in Iran,” from the National Post, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
For the last two weeks, innocent Israelis have been killed in missile barrages from Lebanese-based Hezbollah terrorists and militia. On the other side of the border, more than 300 Lebanese civilians [...]
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by Allahpundit
Washington gave the same order at Yorktown, I believe.
If you thought those New York Times photo shoots were hot before, wait until they start doing over-the-shoulder shots of the “resistance” dropping medics at 300 yards.
Right there with the Mahdi army. Incredible courage.
Like Hezbollah firing on the IDF in Bint Jbail from [...]
Ramsey Clark furthers his treacherous support of islamofascism and wears his antisemitism for the world to see. This guy needs a one-way ticket to the middle east. He has betrayed the country he once served. Between defending Sadam and protest rallies, his schedule is full – death, death, death, lunch. Clark, you are a traitor [...]
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Russia: Once Again the Enemy
Hizbullah Hits Hospitals, Homes, Israel Hits Hizbullah
Too Little Too Late
Al-Qaeda’s New Fall Prime Time Lineup
Kill Two Vile Birds With One JDAM Flyover
Religion of Kidnapping Noncombatants for Ransom
IDF Continues to Chip Away at Shia Jihad
Gaza Still Hot
Mujahideen Glory – Iraq
A Million Little Jihads
Israel’s Peace Partners Kidnap, Murder & [...]
Courtesy of Vital Perspective:
In a bipartisan letter to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, 209 members — including members of the House leadership — today called on the EU to add Hezbollah to its terrorist list. Solana said on July 19 that the EU lacked “sufficient data” to add Hezbollah to its terrorist list — [...]
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From the inestimable Dr. Jack at To the Point (PAID Only);
On July 20, Iran said it would reply on August 22 to the Western package of incentives for ending its nuclear program. For Westerners, the only thing peculiar about this is the length of time Iran is taking to respond, since [...]
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This is the piece to read. Amil Imani is an Iranian born American citizen and pro-democracy activist who resides in the United States of America. His website is Amil Imani.
This is column at The American Thinker.
The Iranian Mullahs’ Aim
The world is presently at its most wicked. It [...]Ditto Pamela – we reeeaally mean it this time! Unbelievable – don’t wait until millions of Jews are slaughtered again! The US needs to get in there and produce a glass factory – does the US have a backbone or not?!
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Are they fucking crazy? We must remove that occupying force in Turtle [...]
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Israel is NOT winning, and possibly will not win, and a NATO force will mean the total Hezbollification of Lebanon.
In order to win this war against Islamofascism you need to have a revolutionary Government in Israel to lead it. What we have at the moment is very problematic in every sphere, not least [...]
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by Bill Levinson
Who at the United Nations knowingly and willfully intermingled Canadian soldiers with a legitimate military target (Hezbollah terrorists) for the purpose of getting them killed to make Israel look bad? Canada should demand an immediate investigation and no soldier on earth should be required to wear a United Nations uniform.
Per Andrew [...]
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Associated Press
By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN
Associated Press Writer
BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) – Somalia’s prime minister on Saturday accused Egypt, Libya and Iran of providing weapons for Islamic militants who have seized control of much of this country’s south.
“Egypt, Libya and Iran, whom we thought were friends, are engaged in fueling the conflict in Somalia [...]
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· Timetable ‘could lead to ceasefire by next week’
· Iran nuclear plan will lead to ‘confrontation’ – Blair
Patrick Wintour and Julian Borger in Washington and Ewen MacAskill
Tony Blair and George Bush delivered yesterday their sharpest warning yet to Iran over its involvement in Lebanon and its suspected nuclear weapons programme.
As they set [...]
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From NICK PARKER
in Beirut
IRANIAN hatemonger Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked fury yesterday by flying Hezbollah’s flag in his parliament building.
He ordered the flags to be placed on MPs’ desks as a show of support for the guerillas. Diplomats handling the Middle East crisis branded the stunt “unhelpful”.
Highly-placed sources revealed there had been a “torrent [...]
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Yesterday the UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution demanding that Iran comply with a previous UNSC resolution to stop enriching uranium while talks proceed on the nuclear crisis. The consequences of the new resolution were indeed dire—the UNSC might actually … really … pass another resolution:
The five permanent members of the [...]
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A week ago, Hamas went out of its way to disassociate itself with Hezbollah in Lebanon, leaking to the press that they understood the danger of linking its conflict with the Iranian/Syrian proxy in the north. Later, however, they floated an idea to team up with Hezbollah on prisoner swaps. Today, Mahmoud [...]
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Among the captured documents of the Iraqi Intelligence Services is a memo written in Arabic that describes pre-war intel from an Iraqi source working in Syria. Dated July 13, the memo itself was written after the invasion, but it describes the movement of trucks from Iraq into Syria just before the American [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Andrew Cochran
The entire video from Al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri is now available at various internet sites; the version posted on Thursday was an excerpt released by Al Jazeera. Thanks to Laura Mansfield for sharing this link to the full video with us.
Sphere ItCourtesy of the AP:
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press Writer
She tried calling her co-workers upstairs, but no one answered, so she called police and fled. “People got shot, some of our [...]
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
Tehran, Iran, Jul. 28 – Iran said on Friday that the United Nations Security Council could not deprive it of its “inalienable right” to obtain nuclear capabilities.
“The United Nations Security Council cannot deprive the great Iranian nation from its inalienable right to obtain peaceful nuclear technology”, senior Iranian cleric Ahmad Khatami told [...]
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Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel turned on the key to its own destruction by launching an attack on Lebanon, the official news agency reported on Friday.
“With the start of a new round of barbaric aggression against Lebanon, the regime occupying Palestine has effectively turned [...]
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Tehran, Iran, Jul. 28 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will arrive in Tehran on Saturday for a state visit.
During his three-day trip, Chavez will meet senior Iranian officials including hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Caracas and Tehran, both key members of the oil cartel OPEC, have developed strong strategic ties. Venezuela backs Iran in [...]
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