Poll: 67% of Israelis want talks with PA gov't including HamasA majority of Israelis would support holding negotiations with a Palestinian unity government that includes the Islamic Hamas movement, according to the results of a joint Palestinian-Israeli poll released on Tuesday.
Sixty-seven percent of Israeli respondents said such a step could be a necessary requisite for achieving a peace agreement with Palestinians.
The survey, which polled some 1,270 Palestinians, 500 Israeli Jews and 401 Israeli Arabs, was conducted as a c... (more)
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Hi-tech firm boycotts Israel over 'war crimes' Following the recent war in Lebanon, Ynet has received several complaints from Israeli companies that have encountered refusal of companies from various countries to cooperate with Israelis because of the war.
Avner, an Israeli businessman specializing in product management and consulting approached a Belgian company in hopes of business cooperation. The company, U2U, refused to cooperate with the Israeli businessman because of what they called "Israel's war crimes and aparthei... (more)
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Report: Bombing of Gaza power plant war crimeThe B’Tselem human rights group published Wednesday a report on the implications of the bombing of the power plant in Gaza on June 28th, 2006. Findings show that the majority of residents in the Gaza Strip are only intermittently connected to the power supply and that the power cut has adversely affected medical services throughout hospitals and clinics in the Strip.
The report also found that the majority of the urban population is connected to the water supply for only two... (more)
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The Sound & The FuryTIME: Why do you attack President George W. Bush with such jolting language?
CHAVEZ: I believe words have great weight, and I want people to know exactly what I mean. I'm not attacking President Bush; I'm simply counterattacking. Bush has been attacking the world, and not just with words--with bombs. When I say these things I believe I'm speaking for many people, because they too believe this moment is our opportunity to stop the threat of a U.S. empire that uses the U.N. to just... (more)
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AP Propaganda About Iraq But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. -George Orwell
On Monday, September 18, Associated Press (AP) ran a story titled, "Iraqi tribes fight Insurgency." At first glance, the average reader cannot be blamed for thinking that this is a story about how tribes in Iraq have decided to take up arms against the "insurgency."
The reader certainly cannot be blamed for thinking this, because ... (more)
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Chavez: "Bush Has Called Me Worse Things" Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez caused a stir this week during his visit to New York City, denouncing President Bush as "the devil" in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly and, during a visit to Harlem the following day, calling him an "alcoholic." In an exclusive interview with TIME's Tim Padgett, Chavez defended his controversial rhetoric as a necessary part of his left-wing revolution's effort to counter what he calls Bush's "global imperalism."
"Bush has called me worse th... (more)
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Venezuelan official briefly detained at New York airportNEW YORK (CNN) -- The U.S. State Department apologized Saturday for the brief detention of Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro by airport security in New York, but a senior White House official said Maduro brought it on himself.
Maduro was detained and released at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport after a run-in with security personnel, the foreign minister said.
"The State Department regrets this incident. The United States government apologized to Foreign ... (more)
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Venezuela Says Police Cut Off Chavez Speech, N.Y. Post Reports Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan officials said the New York Police Department cut off the satellite feed of a speech President Hugo Chavez gave yesterday at a church in the city, the New York Post reported.
New York police stopped the feed, which was broadcasting in Venezuela Chavez's address to the Mount Olivet Church in Harlem, as a way to retaliate for remarks Chavez made about U.S. President George W. Bush in the United Nations the day before, said William Lara, Chavez's ch... (more)
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Officer condemns RAF's role in Afghanistan as 'utterly useless' A British Army officer in Afghanistan has highlighted the desperate shortage of resources and described the efforts of the RAF in the conflict as "utterly, utterly useless" in leaked e-mails.
Three sets of communications from a major serving in Helmand province talked of the death of a soldier, Corporal Bryan Budd, and more generally of the traumatic effect upon young men facing intense firefights.
The unnamed m... (more)
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Venezuela's Chavez says Bush may try to kill him for 'devil' commentsCARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez said Saturday that U.S. President George W. Bush may be seeking to kill him for calling him "the devil" at the United Nations.
"Some worried friends over there have called me (to say) that because I called him the devil they have condemned me to death," Chavez said without elaborating further on his sources.
"But they won't kill me. I have faith in life," he said. "I know how to take care of myself and the Lord will... (more)
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Betrayed, UK Soldier QuitsThe officer decided to leave after Tony Blair told exhausted troops they were in the war-torn country for "reconstruction".
He told how he and colleagues were furious with the message - because they had spent all their time in vicious battles with Taliban rebels.
The officer - a member of 16 Air Assault Brigade - has now turned whistle-blower to give a shocking account of how shortages have hit troops on the frontline.
He reveals how British soldiers ... (more)
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Ahmadinejad: Zionists different from JewsIranian president tells Time 'In any country in which the people are ready to vote for the Jews to come to power, it is up to them'; adds: Those who try to prove Holocaust never happened are persecuted
YNet - In an interview with Time Magazine, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposed that the five million Palestinian refugees scattered around the world be allowed to return to historic Palestine to take part in a referendum, in which Jews would participate, to determine a sy... (more)
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War Signals?As reports circulate of a sharp debate within the White House over possible US military action against Iran and its nuclear enrichment facilities, The Nation has learned that the Bush Administration and the Pentagon have moved up the deployment of a major "strike group" of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast. This information follows ... (more)
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Imam casts doubt over existence of bin LadenImam Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni answered a long string of questions posed by readers of Aftenposten.no on Monday, the fifth anniversary of terrorist attacks on the US.
He contended that even though the vast majority of Muslims firmly oppose terrorism, most believe that the West must understand that extremism and terror are difficult to eradicate as long as civilian Muslims face discrimination and are killed by western acts of war.
Asked for his honest opinion on the ... (more)
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UK politician: Pro-Israel lobby controls WestBaroness Jenny Tonge: ' The pro-Israeli lobby has got its grips on the Western World, its financial grips. I think they’ve probably got a certain grip on our party'
YNet - Baroness Jenny Tonge, a former British parliament member from the Liberal-Democrat party, was invited for a clarification discussion with the party leader following outbursts she made against 'the Israeli lobby' at a pro-Palestinian solidarity event.
"The pro-Israeli lobby has got its grips... (more)
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Ahmadinejad: I’m not anti-Semiticranian leader tells reporters in New York, ‘There were those who had accused me of being a murderer and anti-Semitic, but I’m not an anti-Semite’; adds: We have said that under fair and just conditions we will negotiate on nuclear program
YNet - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a press conference in New York on Thursday "We love everyone in the world - Jews, Christians, Muslims, non-Muslims, non-Jews, non-Christians.
"We are agains... (more)
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Chavez Extends Olive Branch To Poor New Yorkers In HarlemA day after calling President George W. Bush "a devil" at the United Nations, no less, Venezuela's controversial president comes calling in Harlem, bearing gifts. NY1's Gary Anthony Ramsay was there to hear what he had to say and to get reaction.
In Midtown Hugo Chavez used words as weapons, but Uptown he used oil as an olive branch.
"We are not the enemy of the United States,” Chavez said Thursday. “That is a lie."
The fiery leftist leade... (more)
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Senior intel official: Pentagon moves to second-stage planning for Iran strike optionThe Pentagon's top brass has moved into second-stage contingency planning for a potential military strike on Iran, one senior intelligence official familiar with the plans tells RAW STORY.
The official, who is close to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking officials of each branch of the US military, says the Chiefs have started what is called "branches and sequels" contingency planning.
"The JCS has accepted the inevitable," the intelligence official said... (more)
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