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Palestinian Hamas supporters pray before a Hamas rally against cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad, published in several European newspapers, in Gaza February 17, 2006
Elected Hamas lawmakers Mahmoud al-Zahar (R) and Abdel Fatah Dukhan attend a meeting to prepare for the first session of the new Palestinian parliament in Gaza February 17, 2006.
Newly elected Palestinian parliament member from Hamas Abu Tir (L) from Jerusalem talks on mobile phone with colleague Yasser Mansour from Nablus in Ramallah, February 17, 2006.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (L) attends Friday prayers in Gaza February 17, 2006.
Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, attends a public talk at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel, February 16, 2006. The exiled Tibetan leader said on Wednesday he would be happy to meet members of the militant group Hamas but acknowledged it may be too soon for Israel to talk to the Palestinian election winner.
REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
A Sudanese youth distrbutes Palestinian flags and Hamas moto's to people in Khartoum, Sudan TFeb. 14, 2006. A Sudanese students association organized a youth rally as a Hamas delegation visited Khartoum where the Hamas Movement was lauded for its victory in the Palestinian elections.
(AP Photo/Abd Raouf).
German Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C) is accompanied by unidentified officials at the start of his his tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Israel has won support from Germany in its campaign to persuade the international community to maintain its isolation of the radical Islamist group Hamas after its Palestinian election victory
(AFP/Pool/Uriel Sinai)
Palestinian supporters of the Islamic movement Hamas take part in a rally at the Islamic University of Gaza City, 06 February, to celebrate the group's victory in the parliamentary elections.
sraeli security personnel prevent a Palestinian man from entering the Al-Aqsa mosque compound for Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City February 10, 2006.
British-based Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was accused by U.S. authorities of iciting terrorism and was found guilty by a London court in February 2006.
(Matt Dunham/Reuters)






By Joel Pett, Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate, for USA TODAY
The Golden Dome Mosque in Samarra was bombed on 22 February 2006 further escalating the Iraqi Civil War already underway.
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad is the current American power-broker in Iraq and the region.
The golden dome dominated the Samarra skyline
BBC - 23 Feb 2006
Kadima party candidates for March 2006 general elections stand beneath a portrait of ailing Israeli premier Ariel Sharon at a conference in Jerusalem.
(AFP/File/Yoav Lemmer)
A right-wing Israeli supporter holds the star of David with the word 'Jewish' written on it during a protest in Jerusalem February 5, 2006. Thousands of Israelis gathered in central Jerusalem to protest against acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and police's conduct during the evacuation of a Jewish settlement of Amona last week.
REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
A right-wing Israeli supporter holds the star of David with the word 'Jewish' written on it during a protest in Jerusalem February 5, 2006. Thousands of Israelis gathered in central Jerusalem to protest against acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and police's conduct during the evacuation of a Jewish settlement of Amona last week.
REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
Palestinian supporters of Islamic Jihad hold banners with pictures of President Bush (L-R), Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Israeli interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the Gaza Strip, January 31, 2006.
(Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
Israeli acting premier Ehud Olmert speaks at a Kadima party conference in Jerusalem.
(AFP/Yoav Lemmer)
Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (L) and veteran Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, who recently abandoned the Labour Party for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new party Kadima, attend the opening of the elections campaign for Kadima Party in Jerusalem January 31, 2006.
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and veteran Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, who recently abandoned the Labour Party for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new party Kadima, attend the opening of the elections campaign for the Kadima Party in Jerusalem January 31, 2006.
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sits next to the empty chair of ailing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem January 29, 2006.
(Baz Ratner/Pool/Reuters)

George Bush and Dick Cheney Walk Together Toward the East Room in the White House
Some in powerful positions in the West have taken to comparing today's 'radical Islam' with Nazi Facism
Israel, the Occupied Territories, and Surrounding Countries
George Bush - The Great Strategic Thinker (parady of course on The Daily Show)
Walter Cronkite - Known as one of the most credible and respected men in America.
George Bush's Poll Numbers were the lowest in history in February 2006
The 'Conditions' Pushed on Hamas
Robert Satloff - Long-time official of the Israeli-Jewish Lobby in Washington
Amjad Atallah - Long-time adviser for the PLO working with U.S. government and Israeli and Jewish organizations
Mahmoud Abbas Represents the past corruption and thievery of VIP Palestinians approved by the U.S. and Israel
Mahmoud Abbas Continues to head the Palestinian National Authority even with Hamas voted to power overwhelmingly
America's 'War on Terror' is a Successful Linguistic Device just as is the 'Peace Process in the Middle East'
American Soldiers Coming Home from the Iraq War and in bad shape psychologically.
Headlines aAs the Dubai Port Deal

Muslim protesters stamp on a photograph of U.S. President George W. Bush during a demonstration in Hyderabad, India on 1 March 2006. Bush headed for India after a 'surprise' visit to Afghanistan for talks on a landmark U.S.-Indian nuclear pact and as large numbers of Indians rallied in New Delhi to protest his visit.
(AP Photo/A. Mahesh Kumar)
Muslims shout anti-America slogans as they burn an effigy of the American President George W Bush in New Delhi, India on 24 Feb 2006 protesting the American President's visit next week.
(AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
National Intelligence Director John Negroponte testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill on Feb. 28, 2006, on national security threats.
(AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
Warnings Are Spreading Conflict Could Engulf the Whole Middle East Region

Downtown Area, Washington, DC





The IAEA Immediately Enthusiastically Endorsed the U.S.-India Nuclear Arrangements Announced by President Bush on 2 March 2006 by President Bush in India



George Bush Visited An Enragged Pakistan in early March 2006
George Bush Visited An Enragged Pakistan in early March 2006
Steven Hadley, National Security Adviser in the Bush/Cheney Second Term, was Condi Rice's Assistant in the first term.
Steven Hadley, National Security Adviser in the Bush/Cheney Second Term, was Condi Rice's Assistant in the first term.
A Jewish Analysis known for his rabid anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian views is a frequent paid commentator on NBC News
Huge Protests Greeted President Bush on his visit to Pakistan on 3 March 2006

Major Protests Greeted President Bush when he visited Pakistan on 3 March 2006
Mousa Abu Marzook - #2 Official in Hamas
Mousa Abu Marzook - #2 Official in Hamas


Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook - Top Officials - in Moscow with Hamas Delegation on 3 March 2006
Mousa Abu Marzook - #2 Official in Hamas in Moscow on 3 March 2006
Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook

Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
A Large Hamas Delegation visited Moscow in March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
A Large Hamas Delegation visited Moscow in March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
A Large Hamas Delegation visited Moscow in March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook

U.S. security personnel sit on a helicopter as it flies over the Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad March 4, 2006. Promoting democracy in Pakistan was part of the U.S. policy towards its ally in the war on terrorism and was raised in discussion with President Pervez Musharraf, Bush said on Saturday.
REUTERS/Mian Khursheed
British PM Invokes the Christian God as his Inspiration and Judge for the Iraq War
Top Officials Accompanied President Bush on his visit to India an Pakistan in late February 2006
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.

Marine General Peter Pace,
Marine General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Americans on Meet The Press on 5 March 2006 that things are going "very well in Iraq in every way."

Lowest Ever Public Support for the Bush/Cheney Administration was reported in March 2006
Support forthe Iraq War Has Plummeted - 5 March 2006



The New Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, holding pictures of Palestinian martyrs - 6 March 2006







Ismail Haniyeh - the new Palestinian Prime Minster from the Hamas Party
A member of the children's Palestinian parliament holds up a placard showing a picture of Rachel Corrie during a demonstration in 2005. A New York theatre's decision to postpone a play about Corrie, an American activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, has prompted trans-Atlantic charges of censorship from its British creators
(AFP/File/Said Khatib)
Palestinian prime minister designate Ismail Haniya holds photographs of prisoners as he speaks to protestors and relatives of loved ones being held in Israeli jails as they rally outside the International Red Cross offices in Gaza City. Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz warned that Haniya would not be immune from assassination if the radical Islamists carried out attacks.
(AFP/Said Khatib)
Incoming Hamas Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh kisses a girl, as he arrives for the first session of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City on March 6, 2006, as a demonstration demanding the release of prisoners from Israeli jails is held outside.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

The Washington Neocons - Considerable of Jewish Background and Zionist Outlook - dominate the foreign policy decision-making in the Bush/Cheney Years.
"Israel should be wiped out of the face of the world" reads a banner at a rally in Iran.

Palestinian schoolchildren wearing Hamas headbands attend a demonstration against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Around 500 children from a local Hamas-supported school attended the demonstration.
Immediately after Vice-President Cheney PubliclyThreatened Iran before the annual convention of the powerful Israeli-Jewish Lobby, AIPAC, the Iranians made some new threats of their own.
7 March 2006
Both 'Paradise Now' and 'Munich' were shut out at the 2006 Oscars in largely Jewish and Israeli-oriented Hollywood.
Iranians responded to U.S. and Israel threats saying 'harm and pain' could be brought to the U.S. as well and 'let the ball roll'
Iranians responded to U.S. and Israel threats saying 'harm and pain' could be brought to the U.S. as well and 'let the ball roll'
The German Chancelor has compared today's Iran with the Nazi period and Hitler
Reuters Ran This Picture of Vice-President Cheney in March 2006
Mordechai Vanunu - Prophet or Traitor?
Soon after retiring former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor ripped into the Washington establishment and warned of 'the beginnings of dictatorship'
Popular Iraqi Leader Muqtada Al-Sadr calling the U.S., U.K, and Israel the 'triad of evil' at a press conference in early March 2006
The sultry California-girl niece of Osama Bin-Laden has become something of a minor hit in the U.S.A.

The Great Wall of China
Europe's Foreign Policy Man Javier Solana with Mahmoud Abbas of the 'Palestinian Authority'
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, is surrounded by bodyguards as he tours the rubble of the prison damaged in an Israeli army raid in the West Bank town of Jericho on March 15, 2006. Israel's raid of a West Bank prison is an "unforgivable crime" and an insult to the Palestinian people, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said during a tour of the demolished complex.
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)






Anti-war demonstrations took place throughout the U.S. and Anti-War demonstrations took place throughout the world on the 3rd anniversary of the Iraq invasion on 18 March 2006

Patricia Duff
President George Bush has repeatedly pledged to 'Defend Israel' even though there is no formal Congress-ratified treaty between the two countries.
Iraqi Casualties as reported in the U.S. on the third anniversary of the Iraqi invasion.
U.S. Casualties as reported in the U.S. on the third anniversary of the Iraqi invasion.
The cost of the Iraqi Invasion/Occupation has been far greater than originally forecast in blood, money, and credibility.
The U.S. Is Building a New Iraqi as part of its geostrategic worldwide new New World Order Plan.
At his press conference on 21 March 2006 Bush publicly announced for the first time that American troops would be in Iraq after his term in office ends in 2009.
At his press conference on 21 March 2006 Bush publicly announced for the first time that American troops would be in Iraq after his term in office ends in 2009.
Top American Officials Have Continually Blamed the Media for telling only the 'bad' about the Iraq War. This picture is of kidnapped Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Caroll
Lying For Empire
The Case Against Israel
The Great War for Civilisation - Robert Fisk
The Age of War
The Politics of Anti-Semitism







In March 2006 President Bush Once Again Took His Case for War on a Roadshow Around The Country
In March 2006 President Bush Once Again Took His Case for War on a Roadshow Around The Country





Just a week before the Israeli election headlines of al-Qaeda planning to attack Israel have mushroomed.


Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in 2005 and the Prize of Europe in 2006 and he's angrier at the U.S. and U.K. governments than ever.
Bush's Big Public Approval Slide
Vice-President Cheney Has Some Demands When He Checks Into Hotels -- Including FOX News on all TVs
In mid-March 2006, his poll numbers and Washington powers lower than ever, President George Bush took to the country for a 'Victory' tour focusing on Iraq, himself, and the upcoming mid-term election.





Free fall: The speed at which the towers came down—they were almost in free fall—suggests controlled demolition rather than catastrophic collapse.
(Photo: Jim Collins/AP) New York Magazine March 2006



TIME Magazine - March 2006



In late March 2006 the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz did the following poll because of the Harvard Study titled 'The Israel Lobby'






A man in hazardous materials suit guards a train during a terror attack simulation in New York March 26, 2006. The exercise, which included approximately 1,500 first responders and more than 20 city, state and federal agencies, simulated an explosion on a freight train that affected a nearby passenger train. A hazardous materials element was also part of the drill.
Participants in a terror attack simulation take their positions as wounded civilians in New York March 26, 2006. The exercise, which included approximately 1,500 first responders and more than 20 city, state and federal agencies, simulated an explosion on a freight train that affected a nearby passenger train. A hazardous materials element was also part of the drill.



In 1917 the U.S. officially with a Declaration of War joined World War I. In 1918 the U.S. attended the 'Paris Peace Conference' which carved the borders of the Middle East to what they remain today.
The American Civil Rights Movement Changed America But Also Left Many Lingering Race Problems Unresolved
History Was Almost Changed at a Hotel in Washington when Ronald Reagan was almost killed in 1981.
Even Before the Iraq Invasion Began General Anthony Zinni, former Commander of U.S. forces in the region, said the Bush/Cheney Administration was lying in order to justify the war.












The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is the lead organization lobbying for Israel on Capitol Hill in Washington
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas chaired his first cabinet meeting in Gaza City by teleconference on 5 April 2006, blocked by the Israelis from traveling to the Palestinian center in Ramallah.
(AP)

Palestinian FM Mahmoud Zahar, right, and the Chinese representative to the PA Yang Wei Guo speaking to journalists in Gaza City on 4 April 2006

CBS NEWSROOM TUNES TO 'DRUDGE REPORT' DURING COURIC PEP RALLY...
Hamas ministers held their first cabinet meeting on 5 Aprl 2006
Palestinians believe Kadima's policies will worsen their plight
BBC Article today
This illustration was used by the NYTimes on it's Op Ed Page on 6 April 2006 to illustrate a column saying Iran does not have nuclear weapons.




Cover of the 10 April 2006 issue of THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE













Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh, Iran's nuclear chief, speaks in Mashhad, Iran's holiest city Tuesday, April 11, 2006. Iran has successfully enriched uranium for the first time, a landmark in its quest to develop nuclear fuel, hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, although he insisted his country does not aim to develop atomic weapons. Speaking before the president, Iran's nuclear chief _ Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh _ told the audience that Iran has produced 110 tons of uranium gas, the feedstock that is pumped into centrifuges for enrichment.
(AP Photo/Mehr News Agency)


Overwhelming Vote for Bush Impeachment in the online 'unscientific' NBC Poll on 14 April 2006
Cover of THE ECONOMIST with major article about 'The Conquest of Jerusalem' and the great danger to regional and world peace.
The Israelis have tried for years to get their spy, Jonathan Pollard, released from U.S. prison - now they are trying again with a possible swap for a prominent Palestinian prisoner who can be used to subvert Hamas.







George and Dick - 'Now Who Else Can We Go And Help?"


Worst President in History? Leading American Historian at Princeton Univ Gives His Conclusions in Rolling Stone

President Hu's White House Visit - Either Hu was a less-than-charismatic speaker or he was speaking to a very drowsy crowd. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice looks a little sleepy here.
(Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images)
President Hu's White House Visit - A new tactic for foreign policy? Hu was heading toward the wrong set of steps as he prepared to leave the stage during official South Lawn Arrival Ceremonies at the White House. President Bush gave him a gentle tug.
(Jim Bourg/ Reuters)
Wenyi Wang, 47, is temporarily silenced by an unidentified cameraman as she shouts from the press stand during Hu's speech at an arrival ceremony with President Bush on the South Lawn of the White House. Stephen Gregory, a spokesman for the Falun Gong-affiliated newspaper The Epoch Times, said she had received a press credential through the newspaper. He identified her as a doctor with a specialty in pathology and a practitioner of Falun Gong, a group that alleges widespread abuse in China. White House, 20 April 2006
President Hu Of China Visited the White House on 20 April 2006 - Either Hu was a less-than-charismatic speaker or he was speaking to a very drowsy crowd. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice looks a little sleepy here.
(Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images)
Vice President Dick Cheney says he was looking at his notes, not sleeping, during a briefing by President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao in Hu's first Oval Office White House visit on 20 April 2006
(Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images)
A new tactic for foreign policy? Hu was heading toward the wrong set of steps as he prepared to leave the stage during official South Lawn Arrival Ceremonies at the White House. President Bush gave him a gentle tug.
(Jim Bourg/ Reuters)
Wenyi Wang, 47, is temporarily silenced by an unidentified cameraman as she shouts from the press stand during China President Hu's speech at an arrival ceremony with President Bush on the South Lawn of the White House. Stephen Gregory, a spokesman for the Falun Gong-affiliated newspaper The Epoch Times, said she had received a press credential through the newspaper. He identified her as a doctor with a specialty in pathology and a practitioner of Falun Gong, a group that alleges widespread abuse in China.
(Mannie Garcia/ AP Photo )
The Vice-President Catches A Few Winks During the Visit of Chinese President Hu to the White House in April 2006
With the insertion of the Hitler image this graphic was used by a right-wing Zionist website, FrontPageMag.com, to further defame the Palestinians
Palestinian Fatah supporters hold their weapons as they take part in a demonstration at Khan Younis refugee camp, southern of the Gaza Strip.
22 April 2006
An Israeli IDF Soldier, Fully Equipped For Battle
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech in a conference for supporting the Palestinians in Tehran.
AP


Larry Silverstein was the owner of the old World Trade Towers and he is also the developer of the New Buildings to be built on the site.
Youths carrying Israeli flags during the 'March of the Living' in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland.
(AP)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he plans to set Israel's final borders by 2010. In the absence of a negotiated agreement, analysts foresee new boundaries defined by the West Bank barrier and an annexation of the Jordan Valley.

Members of the Council of Arab American Organizations speak with members of the media following a meeting at the U.S. State Department, in this April 3, 2002 file photo. The U.S. military is struggling to recruit Arab-Americans for its war on terrorism some five years after September 11, with many in the community wary of U.S. foreign policy and fighting wars in the Middle East.
(Win McNamee/Reuters) - NYTimes - 28 April 2006

Islamic Jihad Fighters in Gaza
28 April 2006
Award-Winning Journalist Robert Fisk was nearly beaten to death in Afghanistan in December 2001


Seen at an anti-war protest march in Manhattan on 29 April 2006.






The Only Person Charged in U.S.Courts with 9/11 Shouted 'America You Lost!' When Sentenced to Life in Prison in Solitary Confinement.

HufPo - 4 May 2006
Tomb of the unknown soldier. Baghdad, Iraq
Forbidden City In Beijiig, China

The Iranian President Surrounded by the Basij Military in Tehran in May 2006
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to President Bush in early May 2006 - the first time direct contact has been made since the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
George Bush and Tony Blair - Lower in the Polls Than Ever in May 2006
U.S. President George W. Bush speaks during a meeting about the situation in Iraq with current and former U.S. secretaries of state and defense at the White House in Washington May 12, 2006. From left are Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. 12 May 2006
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
As Vice President Dick Cheney, left, looks on, President Bush speaks with members of the media after a meeting, Friday, May 12, 2006, with the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, former Secretaries of State and former Secretaries of Defense in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. 12 May 2006
(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
The Vice-President Has Been Photographed Sleeping at Important White House Meetings Twice in Recent Weeks.
12 May 2006.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who reasserted Iran's right to peaceful atomic energy in a letter to President Bush
Photo in New York Times Week In Review Section, 14 May 2006

Israeli Is Moving to further isolate and restrict the Palestinians within new Expanded Israeli Borders which this map attempts to approximate.

The Americans Are Building Permanent Bases Throughout Iraq
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, shakes hands with House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Ill., center, as Vice President Dick Cheney looks on, prior to addressing a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill on 24 May 2006
At a new conference in May 2006 with British Prime Minister Tony Blair President Bush Finally Admitted to Making Serious Mistakes in how he has spoken about Iraq.


Splashed on the Drudge Report Website on 30 May 2006
The Hamas party Prime Minister of Occupied Palestine sitting under portraits of Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas
Israel Is Carving Up and Walling Off the entire West Bank for its own purposes.
One of the most important Jewish operatives in Washington on behalf of Israel is Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League
Reuters today ran photos of a 'shrinking' President Bush. This one was simply titled: U.S. President George W. Bush speaks about immigration reform at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington June 1, 2006.
REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)


American Ambassador John Bolton Tells the Iranians to 'Put Up or Shut' Up' on 1 June 2006
In early June 2006 a new 'Fateh Militia' was deployed with the help of Israel and the U.S. to oppose Hamas and prepare for civil war
A Palestinian boy looks at Aksa Martyrs' Brigades operatives marching during a protest against the new Hamas security forces and against Fatah and Hamas infighting in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip in early June 2006

Egyptian President Mubarak and Saudi King Abdullah Traveleled to Sharm-el-Sheik in early June 2006 to try to intervene with the Palestinians and recognize Israel.
The Haditha Massacre Became the My Lai of the Iraq War in June 2006.
A special new book about the history of Palestine.
The Hamas Palestinians and the Secular Fatah Palestinians Find Themselves Pushed Further Toward Conflict by Pressures from Israel, the U.S., and Europe.
This is how the Drudge Report played up reports of the Iranian President maybe attending the World Cup
Samia Halaby's drawing, "My Pal Palestine," exhibits Palestinian resistance and protest to the apartheid wall and occupation.
(Al-Awda NY)
Senator Joe Lieberman May Be a Political Casualty of his strong support for the Iraq War - so things looked in early June 2006.
Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas Islamic movement.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas holds Houda Ghalia as he meets her in his office in Gaza City. She is one of the only surviving members of her family, following an explosion on a Gaza beach.


On 13 June 2006 President Bush Made A Super Secret 5-Hour Visit to the Baghdad 'Green Zone'
Steve Bell - The Guardian

Steve Bell - The Guardian

Steve Bell, The Guardian
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao before their bilateral meeting at the Xijiao State Guest House in Shanghai.
The Washington underground has began circulating this story in June 2006 and there are some who believe it is true.
Not in the 'mainstream' media but rumors of a Laura-George tussle have been circulating in Washington more than ever since May 2006.



An illustration used in the July-August 2006 issue of FOREIGN POLICY finally broke the Washington Taboo about speaking opening about the Israeli-Jewish Loby.
The Taboo About Openly Debating the Israel Lobby was broken in 2006 - first in the London Review of Books, then in the New York Review of Books, then in Foreign Policy Magazine

On 23 June 2006 the New York Time and Los Angeles Times front-paged stories about further clandestine powers being used by USG.
In late June 2006 major newspapers finally broke the story of U.S. tapping into the international banking system

Abbas to Haniyeh: Israel will target you if kidnapped soldier comes to harm
Under Great Pressure And Facing Israeli Military Invasion of Gaza the Hamas Palestinian Government gave a tacit endorsement to the 2-State solution on 27 June 2006.
Under Growing Pressures and Threats Palestinians Leaders 'Agreed' to the 2-State Plan on 27 June 2996
Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, right, meets Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Teheran.
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War Tensions Grew in the Middle East as Israel arrested many leading Palestinians on 28 June 2006.

29 June 2006 - Israel Bombards and Invades the Imprisoned Gaza Strip
Palestinian PM Ismail Haniyeh speaking during Friday prayers at a mosque in Gaza City on 30 June 2006.
(Reuters)

On 30 June 2006 the Israelis Issued This Stark Unprecedented Warning
On 30 June 2006 the Israelis Issued This Stark Unprecedented Warning
Never Again Becomes Never Before - No Such Lawlessness Ever Before Yet World Watches
America Under George Bush Is On The Wrong Track Say 2/3rd of Americans
1 July 2006
A Major Assault on the New York Times and a Free Press was launched anew by the Bush Administration in late June 2006.

At a megachurch in Memphis, the Statue of Liberation Through Christ was consecrated Tuesday. The statue, says the church's pastor, is a way of "letting people know that God is the foundation of our nation."
NYTimes - 5 July 2006
Physicist Stephen Hawkings Has Questioned If Humanity Will Survive the next Hundred Years

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from Hamas, right, examines the damage to a Palestinian house after Israel forces withdrew from the area, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 8, 2006. The Hamas government on Saturday called for a cease-fire to end its violent two-week standoff with Israel, but Israel rejected it because it stopped short of offering to release an Israeli soldier held by Hamas militants.
8 July 2006
A protester shows a sign denouncing U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 7, 2006. Hundreds of Malaysian Muslims staged rallies outside the British and U.S. embassies to protest Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip.
(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
A protester shows a sign denouncing U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 7, 2006. Hundreds of Malaysian Muslims staged rallies outside the British and U.S. embassies to protest Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip.
(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
A protester shows a sign denouncing U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 7, 2006. Hundreds of Malaysian Muslims staged rallies outside the British and U.S. embassies to protest Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Vice Premier Shimon Peres (R) in the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva July 4, 2006.
(Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters)
sraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert delivers a speech during a party in celebration of U.S. Independence Day at the Herziliya residence of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Richard H. Jones, Tuesday July 4, 2006.
(AP photo/David Furst, Pool)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (R) watches as US Marines stand at attention on a podium during a party in celebration of U.S. Independence day at the Herziliya residence of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Richard Jones July 4, 2006.
REUTERS/David Furst/Pool (ISRAEL)
Israeli soldiers prepare their tank to enter Gaza from Nizmit hill at the borderline July 4, 2006. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defence Minister Amir Peretz decided Tuesday to gradually step up the operation in northern Gaza, where Palestinian militants routinely launched homemade rockets at Israel, defence officials said. Israeli troops and tanks conducted sweeps about 700 meters (half a mile) inside northern Gaza, looking to uncover explosives and tunnels, the army said.
REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (ISRAEL)
Hamas men hold various identification cards of Israeli soldiers that were found left behind after the army pulled back from the area in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, on 8 July 2006.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh speaks to a Hamas rally in Gaza on 8 July 2006
The Neocon/Evangelical/Zionist Plan for the 'New World Order' Is Running Into Many Roadblocks
The Neocon/Evangelical/Zionist Plan for the 'New World Order' Championned by the Americans Finding Many Roadblocks

‘LAWS OF WAR': Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal speaks during a news conference in Damascus on July 10. Meshaal said the law of prisoners of war was applicable to an Israeli soldier held by Palestinians and that 'our values require us to protect his life.'
Reuters
A young Palestinian boy with the words "I'm hungry" written in arabic on his chest, takes part in a protest against food shortages, the cutting of western aid and Israeli closures of cargo terminals, in front of the United Nations office in Gaza City.
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, center, flanked by Foreign ministers from the six countries trying to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear program, makes a statement after their meeting at the French foreign ministry in Paris on 12 July 2006
Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz's Aspen compound is on the market for $135 million, making it the most expensive home ever listed for sale in the United States.
(Aspen Times file)
In late July 2006 the Arab-Israeli conflict again escalated as the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinians and bullying of the entire region continued.

The Israeli Military Has Been Unleashed To Buttress Israel's Continuing Military Occupation of the Palestinians and Demands for Regional Supremacy
Popular Arab Cartoon from Arab newspaper al-Watan on 12 July 2006
Israel Began Bombing and Invading Lebanon again on 12 July 2006
Jubililation on the Streets of Beirut on 12 July 2006
Members of the United Nations Security Council vote on a resolution sponsored by Qatar demanding Israel halt its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 13, 2006, at United Nations headquarters in New York. The U.S. vetoed the Arab-backed Security Council resolution. The draft, sponsored by Qatar, accused Israel of a "disproportionate use of force" that endangered Palestinian civilians, and demanded Israel withdraw its troops from Gaza.
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Israeli artillery fire across the border into southern Lebanon from Kyriat Shmona
(Oded Balilty/AP)
As the G-8 Met in St. Petersburg the Middle East Erupted with Israel and the U.S. appearing to be provoking a wider conflict to pursue their 'New World Order'
The Americans and Israelis appear united in escalating war in the Middle East to pursue their 'New World Order'. As the G-8 met in St. Petersburg on 15 July 2006 war in the Middle East was quickly escalating with the Americans alone siding with Israel.
LAWRENCE Pintak, a former CBS News Middle East correspondent, is presently the director of The Adham Center for Electronic Journalism at the American University in Cairo. His latest book “America, Islam, and the War of Ideas Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens” is an attempt to understand why the United States lost the widespread sympathy it had earned in the aftermath of 9/11.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrives with Prime Minister Blair for a meeting between G8 leaders and outreach leaders at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2006.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
Israeli Prime Minister Pledged: 'Our answer will be war at full strength, with all determination' on 17 July 2006
Drudge Report Headlines on 19 July 2006
Headlines on 19 July 2006 as Israel's War on Lebanon and the Palestinians Escalated and Foreigners Evacuated from Beirut.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero came under criticism for posing with a Palestinian scarf on his shoulders after accusing Israel of using force "abusively" after a week of Israeli bombardment of Lebanon in July 2006.
20 July 2006
Drudge Report Headline on 20 July 2006

At the very height of Israel's Bombing of Lebanon and Palestine the U.S. is Rushing new High-Tech Bombs to the Israelis.
7-22-06




Lebanese youths look at a leaflet, dropped by Israeli forces, in the southern port city of Sidon, Saturday, with a cartoon depicting Nasrallah hiding behind a shield to which is tied a Lebanese man with a woman and child, shouting, "The ones guarding us are really robbing us."
7-23-06
24 July 2006 - U.S. Secretary of State finally visits the region as the Israeli-US Plan to restructure the Middle East escalates
A Palestinian girl holds a picture of an infant injured in Lebanon during a demonstration supporting Hizbullah in the West Bank town of Ramallah on 7-24-06.
AP - 7-24-06

As the July 2006 Destruction of Lebanon Took Place a Norwegian Cartoonist Licked the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to the Nazis

26 July 2006
Condi Rice in Malaysia on 27 July 2006 as Israel's War on Lebanon and the Palestinians escalated.


The Emergency Conference in Rome Failed to bring about a ceasefire in the Middle East - it was the world against the U.S. and Israel at the conference just as is the case often at the U.N.
The Emergency Conference in Rome Failed to bring about a ceasefire in the Middle East - it was the world against the U.S. and Israel at the conference just as is the case often at the U.N.
In late July 2006 the American President announced more rather than fewer American troops were going to Iraq


Mel Gilbson Went Into A Major Anti-Jewish Tirad When Arrested Drunk in the early morning of 30 July 2006


A billboard of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, dominates a Tehran street.
NYTimes - 31 July 2006

At the end of July 1006 the U.S. and Israel appeared determined to find the excuse to greatly expand the Middle East War of 2006 to Syria and Iran in accord with the plans long being cooked up in both Washington and Israel.
In late July 2006 the world appears sliding into some kind of much more serious quasi World War

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seen here in June 2006, vowed that the United States will receive "a destructive punch" for its support for "Zionists," and called on Muslims to resist US "bullying and aggression."
AFP/File

A Palestinian holds goats with portraits of U.S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, during a protest against the Israeli offensive in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip in Gaza City Wednesday Aug. 2, 2006.

The Top Positions in the White House are held by Zionist Neocon Jews Closely Associated With Israel and Israeli Policies
The Chief of Staff at the Bush White House, as well as his deputy, are both hard-line Zionist Jews long associated with Israel and Israeli Policies.
In July 2006 Israel and the U.S. Litterally Destroyed the country of Lebanon with 1 in 5 citizens becoming homeless refugees and the country set back a generation or more.
This in Washington on 3 August 2006 as Iraq Explodes in Civil War and Palestine and Lebanon are Crushed by Israel With Great American Applause and Help
3 August 2006
This on-line Poll abou the Bush Presidency on 3 August 2006


Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, Republican and Democrat, headed up the very questionable 9/11 Commission
After Major U.S. Efforts the UN Security Council Steps in largely on the Israeli Side
5 August 2006
Weeks Into Israel's War on Lebanon and the Palestinians in August 2006 Israeli Prime Minister Olmert Essentially Told the Europeans to Shut Up



Many Weeks Into Israel's Destruction of both Lebanon and Palestine the American President Kept Claiming He Had Not Even Spoken to the Israeli Prime Minister.
Many Americans - from leading Academics to people on the street -- think George W. Bush is the worse American President of all time.
In August 2006 the Neocons and Evangelicals Increased Still Further the Fear Factor approach to American politics
Washington Post Journalist Suggests Israelis Want Some Rocket Attacks for PR Reasons
Leading Officials of the 'Palestinian Authority' Were Arrested and Imprisoned by the Israelis in the summer of 2006 making clear to the rule that all the Palestinian Territories remain Occupied in one way or another.




10 August 2006



The Independent in the UK on 14 August 2006



Unity march : A young Muslim boy takes part in a demonstration in London where Muslims expressed their firm opposition to draconian anti-terror legislation, the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and the extraditions of Muslims to the USA.
(AFP/Alessandro Abbonizio)

The Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain, John Prescott, declared the Bush Policies CRAP on 16 August 2006.
Reality Aside the Bush White House Tried The 'No Civil War' Theme again on 16 August 2006 even as Iraqi kept exploding.
New Book Highly Critical of Pakistan's General President Pervaz Musharraf
In 1983 a huge blast in Beirut killed hundreds of U.S. Marines and precipated the Marine Withdrawal shortly thereafter.
Judge Orders Immediate Halt To Bush's “Unconstitutional” Wiretapping - 17 Aug 2006
Yes, there is a place for you if you are either a "moderate Muslim" or an "Islamist"








The Kurdish People live in many Middle East countries as this map indicates but have never been able to achieve their independence and sovereignty.
President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Olmert at the White House in May 2006


The US Congress, and the US Military, are Spending Literally Hundreds of Millions to 'Buy' Positive News Coverage
Syrian President Bashar Assad Meeting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Damascus on 30 August 2006



After Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld Compared War Critics to Appeasers of the Nazis a firestorm of further criticism of their policies and attitudes erupted in late August 2006.
This headline on 3 Sept 2006 at HuffingtonPost.com



The signing of the 'Camp David Accords' in September 1978 changed the history of the Middle East and the history of the United States.

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