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January 2005 Archives Back to MER World Prof Sparks Controversy Over 9/11 'A Little Matter of Genocide' - Ward L. Churchill Jews-Only Land Sales Further Manipulated by Israelis Israeli Govt Surreptitiously Takes Over More Palestinians Jerusalem Lands CIA To More Directly 'Oversee' Palestinians Putin's Russia: Back to the Middle East EU Wants to 'Boost Image' in Israel! Sharon Invokes Holocaust To Justify Israeli Policies More U.S. Money To Israel in guise of 'Gaza Withdrawal' Still More Israeli Repression in Jerusalem Another Major Israel-Turkey Arms Deal A property theft that must not be allowed Border Police plans to destroy Arab neighborhood in J'lem Sharon Does Davos A Rigged Occupation 'Election' Israelis use barrier and 55-year-old law to quietly seize Palestinians' land Senator Biden Quite Publicly Warns Iran of WAR The Real Crisis is Global Warming, Not S S More Pressure To Bring AlJazeera Down Closing it outright would be more than the Royal Qataris want to risk. Cutting it back substantially or pressuring/censoring it's content more than ... more Soros Finally Admits Kerry 'Flawed Candidate' The Handover: Restoration of Iraqi sovereignty - or Alice in Wonderland? The Handover: Restoration of Iraqi sovereignty - or Alice in Wonderland? By Robert Fisk Jun 30, 2004, 29 June 2004 So in the end, America's enemies ... more Axis of Logic Articles on Middle East An Iron Wall of Colonization An Iron Wall of Colonization Fantasies and realities about the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians By Saree Makdisi The recent ... more THE STALEMATE - by Uri Avnery THE STALEMATE by Uri Avnery, 29.1.05 Perhaps the second intifada has come to an end. Perhaps the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip will develop in ... more ABC News on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict New 'Crescent of Shiite Power' Shiite Ascent Unsettles Iraq's Sunni Neighbors The Associated Press Saturday 29 January 2005 Sunni Arabs concerned over a 'Shiite cresce ... more Sharon and Abbas to Summit Just days after the MER Newsflash that Abu Mazen and the reconstituted PA were about to accept 'the Sharon Plan' coms the announcement that Sharon and ... more Hamas on the March - Fatah Opens Fire Survey Finds Deep Divisions in Iraq Survey Finds Deep Divisions in Iraq Zogby International Fish on the Iraq Vote This Election Will Change the World. But Not in the Way the Americans Imagined By Robert Fisk The Independent U.K. Saturday 29 Januar ... more U.S. A Declining Power - CIA Report The Report doesn't focus on how much the Bush era has pushed the U.S. further and faster in the direction of decline; others will have to fill in thos ... more 'Jews Only' Land Sales To Get New Legal Methodology Sharon sees `historic breakthrough' with Palestinians Israelis Just Don't Get It Two Die in Election-Eve Attack on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Two Die in Election-Eve Attack on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad The Associated Press Saturday 29 January 2005 BAGHDAD (AP) - A rocket or m ... more Davos Focuses on Iraq and Terrorism Zhao Paid Dearly For Doing Things Right Saudis Under Pressure Will Push Fake Voting While Keeping Power in the Royal Court False Optimism Portrayed By Media About Palestinians Hamas Fights Fatah As Civil War Inches Closer Americans Loosing As Insurgents Escalate Even Further U.S. Baghdad Embassy Hit! Hamas Wins Big - Abbas and Fatah Put On Notice Abu Abbas has already agreed -- one of those little things he did in order to get himself elected and get his main challenger off the ballot -- to 'pa ... more The Children of Iraq - Pictures Maggie Snubbed - No Honorary Deree from Oxford Hamas wins local elections in Gaza Hamas wins local elections in Gaza JPost Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 28, 2005 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Sho ... more Chalabi Rises Again Yossi Beilin on the world's Jews Israelis announce suspension of military activites in Gaza and parts of West Bank Hamas Wins Big in Gaza Even as Abu Abbas 'deploys' his US and UK trained and paid troops in Gaza...the vote there has gone to Hamas even bigger than expected. This on the d ... more Abdullah Warns Against Dangers of Divided Iraq Bush Finally Clearly Says U.S. Will Leave Iraq 'if asked' Capturing Zarqawi Makes Headlines Just In Advance of Vote State Dept Expanding to the Mall in Guise of 'Think Tank' US Troops Almost Alone Promoting Iraqi Election Strongman Allawi prepares to tough it out Upbeat Sharon Sharon's real goal is probably to push Abu Abbas right over the edge -- either he becomes Israel's cop and enforces an end to the Palestinian Intifada ... more Feith Leaving - AP Report January 27, 2005 Rumsfeld's Top Policy Adviser to Quit By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:50 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Donald H. ... more Friedman on Bush - No Hope In Europe Unless he Shuts Up LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING by Thomas L. Friedman: Having spent the last 10 days traveling to Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland, I have one small su ... more Sharon Twists Abu Mazen To Accept Bantustans Sharon to Pardon PA Official Who Planned School Bus Bombing Arutz-7 News: Thursday, January 27, 2005 Prime Minister Ariel Sh ... more Strom Thurmonds's Black Daughter Comes Out of the Shadows Abbas Tries To Ban Guns Other than the P.A. It's been a long-standing demand of both Israel and the U.S. to the P.A. -- 'disarm' everyone else other than the P.A. which 'we' will arm and control ... more Top U.S.Commander Expresses Public Doubts About Iraqi Forces Top U.S. Commander: Iraq Forces Not Ready The Associated Press Wednesday 26 January 2005 BAGHDAD - The top American commander in Iraq on Wed ... more Feith Departing Iran and the Bomb How History Turns. Israel's Destruction of Osirak in 1981 convinced the Iranians to build much of their program in total secret and underground. The ... more Secret U.S. Military Bases in Israel US book exposes secret US military presence in Israel William Arkin: The US Army has at least five bases in Israel, including one at Ben Gurion Ai ... more Bush Roots In Muderous Kin in Ireland U.S. Troops Exhausted Plans for Massive Israeli Land-grab in East Jerusalem Come to Light The Palestine Monitor A PNGO Information Clearinghouse UPDATE Plans for Massive Israeli Land-grab in East Jerusalem Come to Light 27 January 2005 ... more Senator Byrd - Why NO on Condi Rice Nomination Standing for the Founding Principles of the Republic By U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd CommonDreams.org Tuesday 25 January 2005 Rem ... more Seymour Hersh - We've Been Taken Over By A Cult U.N. Report Calls for Help to Ease U.S. Budget and Trade Deficits U.N. Report Calls for Help to Ease U.S. Budget and Trade Deficits By Elizabeth Becker The New York Times Wednesday 26 January 2005 WASHING ... more Anti-Davos Combating anti-Semitism Israeli Intellectuals Do Some Soul Searching The Last Big Fence To Imprison Gaza Israeli Troops will remain to seal off Gaza from Egypt just as all of Gaza is sealed off, essentially imprisoned, from not only Israel but the rest of ... more Israel Takes Bold new Steps To Hold All of Jerusalem and Push More Palestinians Out Scalia for Chief Writes SLATE Chomsky Interview on Iraq in The Independent China Signals Big Turn from U.S. Dollar Few Expat Iraqis Register To Vote in American Election Cheney Too Attends Holocaust Ceremonies Sharon Invokes Holocaust To Blast Israel's Critics Justice Scala Challenges 'Fools for Christ' Scalia's advice Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday that people of faith should not fear being viewed by "educated circles" as "fo ... more Top Journalists Come Down Hard on Corporate News - 'Blind Eye on Foreign News?" Wolfowitz Declares War A Terrible Thing Wolfowitz on war Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said this week that President Bush's second administration will stay focused on counter ... more Wolfowitz Commemorates Holocaust at U.N. for U.S. and Israel Chomsky: It's the Oil Stupid! Noam Chomsky: 'Controlling the oil in Iraq puts America in a strong position to exert influence on the world' The Monday Interview: Professor of ling ... more Blair, Bush, Iraq Even as the Americans say their troops are going to stay in Iran strong as now at least for the next few years, even as the American Congress is set t ... more Bush Goes For Blacks Racing to get in front of the cameras today George Bush held one of his rare news conferences just after the devastating news that it was the worst da ... more Bush Admin LIES Finally Loudly Denouced on Senate Floor Palestine ghost haunts UN Commemoration of Camp Liberation Palestine ghost haunts UN Commemoration of Camp Liberation By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD* Kofi Annan reminded the UN in a special session to commemorate t ... more Israelis End 'Targeted Killings'...for now Senate 9 Hour Debate about Rice, War, and Bush Ban on Jewish 'Extremist' Groups Called for By Russian Nationalists Info and Facts about Palestine - AlJazeera Special Report Abbas In Coordination with Israel Now Brings in 'Palestinian' Bulldozers Temporary Truce Based on Time-Limit and Conditions The 'new truce' puts two other parties in the forefront and under pressure -- the new PA of Abu Abbas and the 'new' government of Sharon-Peres. ... more US Deficit and 'War Spending' Soar Psychological and Propaganda Battle to Escalate - Israeli Army Arming Again NYC Subway Line Out for 5 Years!! Sharon Wanted To Shell Palestinian Towns Mercilessly Europe Steps Up Further Anti 'Militant Muslim' Efforts Now US-Iraqi Regime Faces More Public Torture Charges Don't Call The Collaborator A Collaborator Sharon's Own Likud Leadership Calling for Civil Disobedience Israelis To Reconstitute Psyc Warfare Against Palestinians Israel National Anthem Plays for First Time at U.N. General Assembly Mossad Chief Says Iran This Year Reaches Point of No Return Further Apartheid Restrictions for Palestinians US Factions Fight Over Iran Policy Palestinian Police Face the Enemy Within Palestinian Police Face the Enemy Within By Laura King The Los Angeles Times Sunday 23 January 2005 Gaza City - Abu Salim, an ea ... more Israel to U.S.: Press Syria in Order to Aid Abbas Israel to U.S.: Press Syria in Order to Aid Abbas By Aluf Benn, Arnon Regular, and Amos Harel Haaretz Israel plans to ask the United States t ... more King George King George By Uri Avnery Avnery News Saturday 22 January 2005 When King George V died, we got a day off from school as a sign o ... more Israel Seizes Palestinian Land in Jerusalem Cut Off by Barrier Saudi Religious Estabishment In A Quandary - Points Fighters to Iraq Israelis Using Old Tactics To Take New Lands, especially in crucial Jerusalem area Arab Birthrate Down and Israelis Make A Point to Quietly Cheer Woman Mayor #1 in Palestine Brainwashing America After Iraqi election, key dilemma looms Turkey Supports Iraqi Insurgents, US Supports PKK! Demonize to Colonize by Ramsey Clark Demonize to Colonize by Ramsey Clark, Covert Action Quarterly, Spring 2004 “In the determination of any criminal charge ... everyone shall be entitl ... more Let's Attack Iran! Central Banks Betting Against Dollar and Bush Global Ecological Catastrophe Looming Soon Hillary Declares Country On Brink of Economic Collapse Will Bush Quit Iraq? January 19, 2005 We Aren't Dealing With Rationality Will Bush Quit Iraq? By ALEXANDER COCKBURN "Any appearance of a permanent occupation o ... more Occupied Palestine and Iraq - 24 Jan Palestinians agree to halt attacks Militant groups have agreed to halt their attacks as they near a final ceasefire deal with Palestinian leader ... more Iran dismisses 'stupid US threat' Iran dismisses 'stupid US threat' - 24 Jan Iran said that a US military strike against it would be a strategic blunder, but brushed aside tough ... more 60th Auswitz Remembrance at U.N. Set-Up To Make Abu Mazen Look Good? The Invasion of Falluja: A Study in the Subversion of Truth The Invasion of Falluja: A Study in the Subversion of Truth by Mary Trotochaud and Rick McDowell 01/23/05 "Peacework" -- The illegal invasion, occ ... more In One Night, Iraqi Turns From Friend to Foe In One Night, Iraqi Turns From Friend to Foe Man Who Supported U.S. Occupation Calls Americans 'the Devil' After Alleged Raid on His House By Jack ... more Settler Mission Impossible The Last Palestinian Volume 52, Number 2 · February 10, 2005 The Last Palestinian By Hussein Agha, Robert Malley 1. Much as his political ascent gave shape to the conte ... more Aba Mazen in the pages of The New York Review of Books and Ha'aretz The last Palestinian Palestinian exhaustion Ariel Sharon has won the current round of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His goal, an a ... more Abbas in the Shadow of Arafat Abbas Follows Israeli and U.S. Orders More Than Ever Chilly World Reception for Bush Doctrine Pentagon Spying and Secret Operation Expanding Without Congressional Oversight Terror Threats Foreseen Back in 1970s resulting from U.S. policies Former Israeli Justice Minister Condemns Sharon Govt For Massive Unprecedented Palestinian Property Theft Pentagon Spies and Special Ops Expanding Worldwide Cheney, 9/11, and the Case Against the VP Injustice and stupidity in Jerusalem - Ha'aretz w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m Last update - 01:31 21/01/2005 Injustice and stupidity in Jerusalem In July 2004, Israel's cabinet adopted a decision ... more $50 Million for Osama! Freedom's New Ring: War on Terror Recast Freedom's New Ring: War on Terror Recast By Roger Cohen The International Herald Tribune Saturday 22 January 2005 New York - When w ... more Britain 'argues against Iran attack' Europe vs. America - Tony Judt Europe vs. America By Tony Judt The New York Review of Books 10 February 2005 Issue By T.R. Reid Penguin, 305 pp., $25.95 By Jere ... more Syria, Iran, everyone is in Bush's crosshairs - Patrick Seale Syria, Iran, everyone is in Bush's crosshairs By Patrick Seale 01/22/05 "Daily Star" --In recent days Washington has been awash with speculation th ... more Iraqi Election "surprise"? Bush Sr Steps Forward To Tone Down Bush Jr Jewish Groups Charge Harrassment at Columbia U Jewish Neocons Control Washington Washington's War Party - Feith, et. al. Georgie Anne Geyer, Universal Press Syndicate April 23, 2004 WASHINGTON -- It would be strange if it were not so, well, "Washington." The American ... more Neocon Victory in Washington Los Angeles Times Bush Pulls 'Neocons' Out of the Shadows Sat Jan 22, 7:55 AM ET By Doyle McManus Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — In the unending ... more Zbig and Scowcroft Point at Israel - Kondracke Points At Them January 11, 2005 Bush Is Right To Push Jan. 30 Elections in Iraq By Mort Kondracke As Iraq's Jan. 30 elections approach, a dense gloom is descending ... more Bush Speech Not a Sign of Policy Shift, Officials Say Bush's War on Words The 'Salvador' Option In Iraq US Admits Fewer Countries 'Helping' in Iraq The Iraqi In Or Out Debate Jewish Land Grab Jerusalem Even as the U.S. and Israel corner Mahmoud Abbas and the new P.A. into doing their police work for them and stopping the Intifada, the settlements go ... more Horrific Pictures Family Killed by U.S. Troops Arabs Say U.S. Rhetoric Rings Hollow Protestors Won - Though Not By Force Muslims Unable to Celebrate Eid in Washington this year Truman's Inaugural Address Abbas and Israel Deploy Forces in Gaza US Loosing In Iraq - Military Options All Bad Bush's anti-tyranny drive to be tested quickly Israel Forcing Abbas To End Intifada FBI Software Hell U.S. Adds Israel to the Iran Equation U.S. Adds Israel to the Iran Equation By Paul Richter The Los Angeles Times Friday 21 January 2005 The Jewish state 'might well deci ... more Dresden parliament in uproar at neo-Nazi outburst Abbas Makes Hamas An Offer Trying To Prevent Civil War While Ending Intifada US Looking and Preparing Its Way Out of Exploding Iraq Bad Feelings About Bush Inaugural Address Europe in Shock and Awe that Americans Reelected Bush LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING by Thomas L. Friedman: Watching George Bush's second inaugural from a bistro in Paris is like watching the Red Sox win the Worl ... more Cheney Warns Iran Israel Might Strike First 27x 'Freedom' in 21 minute Inaugural Speech Israeli Army Chief 'Approves' PA Police to Control Gaza Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, who approved the Palestinian deployment after officers from both sides held a rare meeting on Wednesday, said ef ... more Abbas Tries to respond to Israeli and U.S. Demands - Situation Tenuous and Explosive Bush Doctrine - LATimes Abbas CIA trained Israeli armed PA Army Cautiously Moves to Control Gaza Master of Delusion - Covering the Bush Inaugural The dangers of silencing Saudi dissent Musharraf Lets US and UK Prepare for Iran using Pakistan Israel and Iran No Doubt Bush Bush and the Battle of the Tyrants The President's 'Ideals' The Times on Bush's Mission to End Tyranny Worldwide Iranian Blogger Responds to Bush Air Marshals Flying Blind The Anti-Empire Report - 20 January 2005 The Anti-Empire Report, No. 17 January 20, 2005 by William Blum Freedom means knowing how big your cage is On Ja ... more Redford Sundance Film 'Festival of Dissent' BRITS MOCK BUSH INAUGURATION PLEDGE Editors of major London newspapers wasted no time mocking President Bush's inauguration address. Assorted splash headlines will greet readers on Frid ... more Praying Hillary Iranian President Calls U.S. Bluff Abbas and Shaath Move To End Intifada under US instructions and Israeli demands Police State Realities in Washington on Inauguration Day Public Space Along Parade Route at Issue Lawsuit Filed Over Availability Of Tickets Gaza - Who Is Really In Charge? Who's in charge here? By Amira Hass The Israeli intelligence officials and those who quote them in the press are right when they say that it's not A ... more Why the Hawks Are Circling Over Iran Rice Quick To Rise to Israel over Iran No Way But Down for US Dollar Pope Calls for Christian Unity It's too ominously close to the calls for Muslim Unity and Jewish Unity...if you know what we mean... Boston Nuke Bomb Threat Iranians View Recent Press Stories and Govt Comments as Psychological Campaign Against Them Tsunami was Great Opportunity to Show America's Best Says Rice British 'Abuse and Sexual Humiliation' Photos Dems OK Rice with a Snip Orgy of Scandals, Fraud, and Lies in Bush Washington US Covert Ops in Iran Hersh on Democracy Now World Very Anxious About Bush Four More Years In Iraqi Vote, the Writing Isn't on the Wall Missiles and Fighter Jets Dominate Washington for First Time Anti-US Attitudes Widespread Worldwide Iraqis Want Out Before Election Why the Japanese Internment Still Matters Why the Japanese Internment Still Matters by Daniel Pipes New York Sun December 28, 2004 www.danielpipes.org/article/2309 For years, it has been m ... more Mass Hypnosis in the Middle East Horrendous in Gaza Departing head of UN refugee agency decries conditions in Gaza as horrendous Genevieve Cora Fraser, The Electronic Intifada, 18 January 2005 Khan Yun ... more 'Enough' in Egypt - Wash Post Editorial Abbas Complies with Israeli demands but dares not fight militants Iranian Military Warns It Can and Will Fight Back US official confirms Allawi shot six dead US official confirms Allawi shot six dead 01/18/05 "SMH" -- A former Jordanian government minister has ... more Mideast Tensions Are Getting Personal on Campus at Columbia NYTimes - January 18, 2005 Mideast Tensions Are Getting Personal on Campus at Columbia By N. R. KLEINFIELD As students resume classes at Columbia Un ... more Palestinian Refugees -- Compromise Possible? China builds up strategic sea lanes Rice Makes 'Personal Commitment' to M E Peace Palestinians Inch Closer to Civil War Even Before Inaugural...but well after the election... Washington Downgrades 'Terrorist Threat' U.S. Sanctions Chinese Firms for Aiding Iran Abbas Meets With U.S. Official then heads to Gaza Japanese Foreboding At China's Rise No WMD After All -- After the $1billion Search Readying To Attack Iran Fearful US TV networks censor more shows Hotel Journalism Gives American Troops a Free Hand Hotel Journalism Gives American Troops a Free Hand As the Press Shelters Indoors By Robert Fisk The Independent U.K. Monday 17 J ... more Abbas Orders Stop To Attacks on Israel Kerry Finally Speaks Up About the Vote... A Little Abu Mazen Orders 'Security Services' To Prevent Attacks on Israel King Mubarak Declares He Will Not Give Up the Egyptian Throne Sharon Declares Super War on Palestinian Resistance Kennedy on Bush's Vietnam Pentagon Plan for SUPER GAY SEX BOMB U.S. conducts secret missions inside Iran Israelis lift army restraints in Gaza US and Israel further prepare to destroy Iran's weapons Report: U.S. Conducting Secret Missions inside Iran Reuters Sunday 16 January 2005 WASHINGTON - The United States has been conducting secret rec ... more Barbra Interviews George Israel's Channel 2 Israeli Journalists Further Threaten Syria, Iran, et. al. Further Destruction of Gaza Ahead before 'Settlement Withdrawal' Independent Palestinian Election Commission Resigns Analysis / Israel doesn't have time to wait for Abbas Honeymoon Ended Before the Marriage Palestinian Public Opinion Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People, Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People By Bertell Ollman ---------------- "Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, wh ... more Gonzales' Unbelievable Argument Gonzales' Unbelievable Argument By Alan Berlow Salon.com Thursday 14 January 2005 The attorney general nominee claims he and the ... more The Normalization of Horror The Normalization of Horror By Ted Rall CommonDreams.org Wednesday 12 January 2004 American gulags become permanent. New Yo ... more A Global Gulag to Hide the War on Terror's Dirty Secrets A Global Gulag to Hide the War on Terror's Dirty Secrets By Jonathan Steele The Guardian U.K. Friday 14 January 2005 Bush is now ... more PLO's 'Legal Unit' Being Closed THe PLO's 'Legal Unit' was a little too independent of the PA and a little too critical of the Israelis and the U.S. Under Abu Mazen it's being quick ... more Iraq a New Terror Breeding Ground Iraq a New Terror Breeding Ground By Dana Priest The Washington Post Thursday 13 January 2005 War created a haven, CIA advisers ... more The Media's New Cold War The Media's New Cold War By Stephen F. Cohen The Nation 31 January 2005 Issue Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, ... more The Critical Battle for Iraq's Energy The Critical Battle for Iraq's Energy By Karl Vick The Washington Post Saturday 15 January 2005 Attacks by saboteurs cripple inf ... more Babylon Wrecked by War Babylon Wrecked by War By Rory McCarthy and Maev Kennedy The Guardian U.K. Saturday 15 January 2005 U.S.-led forces leave a trail ... more How a Flying Carpet Took Me Back in Time - Until I Landed in Baghdad How a Flying Carpet Took Me Back in Time - Until I Landed in Baghdad By Robert Fisk The Independent U.K. Saturday 15 January 2005 Th ... more Can't Live With; Can't Live Without What the World Wants from America - NYTimes NYTimes Editorial: Double Blow to Peace Abbas Takes office amidst Battles and Deaths Death Fears Haunt Iraq Elections Growing anxiety in US ruling circles over Iraq debacle Growing anxiety in US ruling circles over Iraq debacleNew York Times calls for postponing January 30 electionBy Patrick Martin14 January 2005Voicing t ... more Abbas Appeals to legacy of Arafat to win votes Crisis Already As Abbas Sworn in Israelis Debate How Hard To Pressure Abbas Bush - Hollow Accountability Powell Blames Abbas Demands Clamp Down Former British Foreign Secretary Tells U.S. To Leave Iraq After Election Months of War Ruined Centuries of Heritage New Generation of Terrorists Generated by Iraq War Babylon Wrecked by U.S. War Getting Rather and CBS News Few remember now that just a few days before the story that has publicly brought CBS News to its knees it was CBS Evening news that first broadcast th ... more Asali Sees 'Hope' in Arafat's Death Asali Pushes Abu Mazen and the 'Roadmap' Blowback - New Missiles to Syria Last year the Israelis bombed Syria for the first time in decades, and 'buzzed' the Presidential Palace near Damascus to make their point. Now in his ... more Israelis Push Abu Mazen Hard To Be Their Top Cop Karni Attack Shows Motivation and Daring of Ongoing Intifada Sharon Cuts All Ties With Abbas - Arafat in a Suit Soros to spend more millions to 'counter' conservative ideas Protestors In Saudi Arabia Get the Lash and Prison CIA Techniques Come to Air Travel No More Internet for Them Cost of Inaugural in the Age of Osama SEX BOMB prepared by pentagon Bush Urged to Seize the Moment on Mid-East Peace More Pentagon Dissent About Iraq Don't Buy Americans Say Europeans Et. Al. Abbas links himself and future to Old 'Roadmap' Drones Now Protect Sharon Israel to Destroy Hundreds More Palestinian Refugee Homes As Part of 'Gaza Withdrawal' Russia and Syria About to Close Arms Deal Iran's Missile Threat Pictures Worth A Thousand Words of Hatred The Real Reality Ahead Israelis Seek Legal Recognition Not Real Peace Touchy subject of royal links with Nazi Germany Foreign Troops Out Says Indonesia Russia Publicly Warned About Selling Missiles to Syria Prince Harry and the Swastika Global Reaction to 'Palestinian Election' Kaballah Leader Makes 'Holocaust Slur' WMD Search Officially Finally Over CBS DownFall - Just the Tip of the Iceberg Kid Rock Booted from Bush Twin Festivities Israel's 'Master Plan' Published in Arabic in Lebanon Top Israeli Again Warns About Nukes of Iran on the way Halliburton - Now Making Money In 'Axis of Evil' Iran Halliburton wins gas contract in Iran SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Tuesday, January 11, 2005 Iran has awarded a U.S. energy firm a contract to devel ... more Israel's excuses are running out Israelis Policies Beginning to Work New study: Palestinian birth rate dropping, emigration on the rise SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Tuesday, January 11, 2005 A new U.S.-financed study ... more L.A. Times: Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman? L.A. Times: Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman? by ROBERT SCHEER January 11, 2005 Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as ... more CIA and Military Beat/Torture Iraqi Prisoners CIA, SEALs beat prisoners in Iraq, witness says Associated Press 01/11/05 -- San Diego — A former U.S. Navy SEAL says he saw fellow SEALs and CIA of ... more US Regime Gives Cash To Reporters to Cover Press Conferences http://news.ft.com/cms/s/a3828a0c-6346-11d9-bec2-00000e2511c8.html Bush, Osama and Israel Bush, Osama and Israel Concealing Causes and Consequences By William A. Cook 01/10/05 "Counterpunch.org" -- As we approach the crowning of our Empe ... more Paying the Media... And they say the media isn't bought and paid for... Monday 10 January 2005 @ 09:50 An interesting tidbit from David Corn at The Nation: It was a rare ... more Avneri Predicts Intifada III "Give Me Some Credit!" Mazen vs. Barghouti ......... by Uri Avnery December 01, 2004 Gush Shalom Printer Friendly Version EMail Article to a Frien ... more Anger Still Flowing From Destroyed Fallujah Why Hot, WASPy Chicks Love Jews The Secret Lives of Just About Everybody Crosses Banned from Inaugural - Weapons Could Be Hidden Destruction of Falluja Further Revealed de Borchgrave on the Muslims U.S. Threats To Take Out Mecca? Has U.S. threatened to vaporize Mecca? Intelligence expert says nuke option is reason bin Laden has been quiet Posted: January 7, 2005 1:00 a.m. Easte ... more MEMRI's Influence More Big Chill for the Media when Big Politics is involved Iraq - Coming Apart at the Seams Pig-headed Bush Will Declare Victory in Iraq Come What May *LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING By MAUREEN DOWD: The president prides himself on being a pig-headed guy. He is determined to win in Iraq even if he is not win ... more Wrapping Prisoners In Israeli Flags - Literally and Figuratively David Fromkin On the Middle East Map Past and Present *LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: After Saddam Hussein seized neighboring Kuwait in 1990, the historian David Fromkin published an essay ... more Paying Propaganda Columnists More Assassination Squads for Iraq It's really a further 'copying' of Israeli policies and tactics in the Middle East; though the U.S. and its various regimes have employed assassinatio ... more 24-Hour Curfew in Musharraf's Pakistan Carter Used to Warn Abbas The AP Feed on the Palestinian Election CIA et. al. shopping for new blood, lots of it Gigi Geyer on the Palestinian Election PERFECTION AN UNREALISTIC GOAL FOR PALESTINIAN ELECTION WASHINGTON -- This Sunday's elections in the Palestinian territories actually look promising. ... more Pakistan Uses Washington Meeting To Deter India/Israel with Threat of Nuclear War US Money to Abbas to buy loyalty U.S. FUNDS SEEK TO WIN OVER INSURGENCY LEADERS RAMALLAH [MENL - 8 January 2005] -- The Palestinian leadership has received millions of dollars from ... more Israeli settlers call for civil disobedience against evacuation Israeli settlers call for civil disobedience against evacuation SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Thursday, December 23, 2004 JERUSALEM – Israel faces th ... more The Other Tsunami American Gulag Low-Flying US Spy Planes Spotted Over Iran Nuke Sites Iran: U.S. spy planes spotted over nuke sites SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Tuesday, January 4, 2005 Iran has reported flights by U.S. military aircr ... more 'Zionism Has Exhausted Itself' 'Zionism Has Exhausted Itself': An Interview with Amos Elon "Maybe the young people at the news desk are right: Amos Elon doesn't interest anyone he ... more Christian Zionism: Road Map to Armageddon? Christian Zionism: Road Map to Armageddon? Ayoon wa Azan (Don't Know Much) Jihad Al Khazen Al-Hayat 2005/01/7 No matter how deep I de ... more Ziad Asali Fronts for Abu Mazen and PA On the road to a viable, independent Palestine Ziad Asali The harmony and adroitness displayed by the Palestinian leadership in reaction to the drama ... more What Osama Has Done to America's Inauguration Day Wash Post Hoagland on the Palestine Election Dennis Ross on 'Palestinian Stirrings' Commanding General: Expect 'Spectacular Attacks' in Iraq Abbas Abruptly Cancels Jerusalem Visit with Israeli Security Israel Pushed U.S. To Invade and Occupy Iraq We Are All Torturers Now Abbas Pledges to Walk Arafat's Path, but Goes Extra Mile Total 4-Star General Review of Iraq Saudi Arabia way low on Tsunami aid Flushed with petrodollars from high oil prices and near the region devastated the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia failed once again to show basic understandin ... more Abbas Playing Israel's Game Rewarding Barghouti for Not Running... Electoral College Results Challenged as rarely before Abbas Declares Sharon His 'Parnter for Peace' 7 Killed in Gaza's Strawberry Fields The Palestine Monitor A PNGO Information Clearinghouse UPDATE Seven Palestinian Children Killed in Strawberry Fields by Israeli Anti-Personnel Shell ... more Information Overload Major Cause of Stress Australian terror suspect alleges he was tortured while detained in Egypt Bush Tsunami Gambit Dissolves Into U.N. Takeover U.S. Army Reserve Becoming 'Broken Force' - Mercenary Soldiers Criticizes Top General Sharon and Abu Mazen - Narrow Shoulders US troops 'laughed as Iraqi died' Winds of Change Pushing Across Egypt Richard Gere Speak For The World And Tells Palestinians to Vote! Oh my oh my. Just shows how nutty the world has really become. Handsome actor no doubt. And that's just where he should leave things! more Israelis Shoot More Journalists And Nobody Cares Marwan was threatened out; Mustapha they let keep running Marwan Barghouti, in Israeli prison, was a serious threat -- he was forced out. Hamas the movement was a serious threat -- in this case the Israelis ... more Israeli media silent on IDF shooting of Channel 10 cameraman in Gaza Giving the Palestinian False Hopes and Something to do Abu Mazen never mentions his 'Oslo' UN Fronts for the Occupied Elections 'Exploiting' Turkey Further Awaits Sharon's #2 says Abu Mazen's Comments 'Intolerable' Gaza Could Become like 'Southern Lebanon' David Frum - Bush, the best hope for peace Anti-Jewish Anti-Semitism Rising Further Britons rank Israel 'worst country' Jailing Them Forever - No Trial Not Enough Evidence Long-Term Plan Sought for Terror Suspects By Dana Priest The Washington Post Sunday 02 January 2005 Administration officials a ... more Abbas Assails 'Zionist Enemy' for first time publicly in advance of election US 'Advisors' Now for Iraq - Omens of Vietnam...in reverse Israeli Tanks Kill 7 Days Before Abbas 'Election' Baghdad Region Governor and Body Guards Assassinated Tsunami: Turning Point for the World? Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reportedly arrested in Iraq Abbas Again Says 1948 Refugees Will One Day Return to their Homes Refugees Will 'Return One Day' Insists Abbas Massive Army Revolt Against Gaza 'Withdrawal' Threatened Orthodox officers lead military revolt against Israeli withdrawal SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM January, January 3, 2005 TEL AVIV — The planned Is ... more Chomsky on 'Civilization vs Barbarism' at end of year 2004 > 'Civilization' vs. 'Barbarism': An Interview with NorAm Chomsky > > "It's not correct that the media haven't reported the war crimes. They often rep ... more Jewish Settlers Vow Historic Defiance Abbas Pledges "Right of Return", "return to their homes" In recent days Mahmoud Abbas has publicly pledged to uphold all that Yasser Arafat did, to defend the militants and never turn on them, and to uphold ... more Israel's Fifth Columnists >The American Conservative >> January 17, 2005 >> >> >> Fifth Columnists >> >> by Taki >> >> They were originally Falangist sympathizers inside Madrid ... more Once Again Peres As 'Super Minister' Outside the Law Kerry and Chums Wants Another Shot Saving Kofi but not the U.N. Israel's Latest 'Unity' Government The Plan to 'Disengage' from and 'Politically Assassinate' Abu Mazen Mossad Wants Double Money For War Years Ahead Israel's 'Palestinian State' Palestinian state as Israeli demand Azmi Bishara It is pointless to ask why the British prime minister or why the chief executive of the ... more 'Axis of Evil' Tops Bush's Second-Term Agenda 'Axis of Evil' Tops Bush's Second-Term Agenda By ANNE GEARAN, AP WASHINGTON (Jan. 1) - The three countries U.S. President George W. Bush called an "a ... more America's Alhurra - $100 million to propaganda Arabs from VA American On The Move - 5 Parts Wash Times Abbas Promises to Protect Gunmen Militants Allawi Threatens: Harming Iraq and its people is not allowed Abbas' Meeting With Gunman Raises Questions 400,000 Dead in Indonesia Alone!? Gift King - Justice Clarence Thomas Kerry Actually Won Says Jesse Jackson ‘We Will Not Faint’ Jesse Jackson on why he thinks John Kerry really won the election WEB EXCLUSIVE By Susannah Meadows Newsweek Updated: 2:13 p.m. ET ... more The Possible Cost of the Rush from the Dollar? December 31, 2004Grimacing our wayFrom the Commentary sectionThe U.S. government spends about $10 billion a year on travel. Some 70,000 employees are ... more More Pentagon Shake-Ups, Leaks, Disinformation? 'Stingy' West Bush Undermines U.N. With 'Aid Coalition' Report - Freeze: Pentagon not talking to Israelis after China standoff Freeze: Pentagon not talking to Israelis after China standoff SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Thursday, December 30, 2004 Israel has failed to end a cr ... more Israel talks of pullout from West Bank - Very Misleading Al-Jazeera headline Olmert Plays the 'Hope' Card Again In advance of the partial and carefully controlled Palestinian election, the Israelis keep toying with world 'hopes' using Ehud Olmert, as they have b ... more

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