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On May 18, Israeli peace activists demanded: “Talk With Syria.” Some on Israel’s left and right also like the idea. NYTimes 27 May 2007






Iranians holding posters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khomeini before a speech by the president on 3 June 2007.
An approaching aircraft flies overhead past a marker indicating the route of the jet fuel pipeline supplying JFK airport near 157 Ave. and 99th St. in the residential neighborhood of Howard Beach, Queens, N.Y. on Sunday, June 3, 2007. The lengthy pipeline was installed decades ago to replace barge deliveries of jet fuel.
(AP Photo/Rick Maiman)
The Democratic Debaters for President as of 3 June 2007

On 6 June 2007, just as the G8 Summit began in Germany, Turkish Forces Crossed into Northern Iraq to battle the PKK
A UN armored vehicle patrolling the border between Syria and Israel.
(Reuters)
.S. Marines aboard the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa command ship USS Mount Whitney enroute to the Indian Ocean.
US Navy
Pilotless Israeli Attack Planes Are Used to Kill Palestinians from the Air
German riot police refuse to let a crowd of protesters approach the summit perimeter near the village of Brodhagen where the G8 Leaders met in June 2008.
German police officers in riot gear use batons against G8 opponents in Hinter Bollhagen near Heiligendamm. Despite massive security precautions thousands of protesters managed to block roads leading to the Baltic Sea resort - June 2007
(Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
Oxfam activists, wearing masks depicting the G8 heads of state, pose on the beach in Kuehlungsborn Germany.
(Morris Mac Matzen/Reuters)
German police officers in riot gear use batons to force away plastic foil used by G8 opponents as a protection shield against a water cannon - June 2007
(Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)






President Bush Jointed an International Meeting of Neocon in Praque on his way to the G8 Summit. The Theme of the Conference was Regime Change and/or Attacking IRAN
Former Knesset Speaker and Chairman of the Jewish Agency Avraham Burg
The Ofek 7 satellite launching on 10 June 2007. The satellite orbits over Iran, Iraq and Syria every 90 minutes.
Israel's Ofek 7 spy satellite was launched on 10 June 2007, the same day Senator Joseph Lieberman said loudly on Face The Nation the U.S. must seriously consider bombing Iran. The satellite orbits over Iran, Iraq and Syria every 90 minutes.
Headlines in June 2007 as the U.S. and Israel Prepare for War with IRAN
President Bush is a reformed Alcoholic not supposed to drink alcohol. This picture was taken at the G8 summit in June 2007, a summit at which Bush missed the group photo because of a 'stomach flu' that lasted only a few hours.
President Bush is a reformed Alcoholic not supposed to drink alcohol. This picture was taken at the G8 summit in June 2007, a summit at which Bush missed the group photo because of a 'stomach flu' that lasted only a few hours.

A major regular section in the Jerusalem Post is "The Iranian Threat"
Jerusalem Post




A Palestinian militant from Hamas stands guard on a rooftop in Gaza City, June 12, 2007. Hamas gunmen captured the headquarters of the Fatah-allied security forces in northern Gaza, seizing control of a key prize in the bloody power struggle between the sides, Hamas and Fatah officials said.
(AP Photo)
In this image released by the Iraqi government, a bombed Shiite Golden Dome shrine in Samarra i Iraq, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, is seen from the air, centre right, Wednesday, June 13, 2007. In a bold blow to Iraqi hopes for peace, suspected al-Qaida bombers toppled the towering minarets of Samarra's revered Shiite shrine on Wednesday, adding new provocation to old, a year after the mosque's Golden Dome was destroyed.
(AP Photo/Iraqi Government, HO)



November 2005 - Prospect Magazine

Palestinian militants from Hamas stand at the desk of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas inside Abbas' personal office after it was taken over by Hamas in fighting in Gaza City on June 15, 2007. Fatah forces collapsed under the onslaught by Hamas, which showed superior organization and motivation.
(Hatem Moussa/ AP Photo )
A Palestinian militant from Hamas stands over pictures of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the late Yasser Arafat inside Abbas' personal office after it was taken over by Hamas in fighting in Gaza City on June 15, 2007. Fatah forces collapsed under the onslaught by Hamas, which showed superior organization and motivation.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)


Hamas militants at the desk of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after storming Mr Abbas' personal office. 15 June 2007
Hamas militants celebrated as they seized rival faction Fatah's Preventive Security compound, their intelligence headquarters in Gaza. 15 June 2007
Hamas moved to cement its control over the Gaza Strip as the fighting escalated in June 2007
The green flags of Hamas are flying over Gaza as the Palestinian militant group says it is close to taking control of the territory. 15 June 2007
Hamas militants storm the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, from Fatah, in Gaza City. 15 June 2007




This warning from the Nobel Prize-winning Head of the IAEA. The Americans tried unsuccessfully to have Mohamed ElBaradei removed from his position.
This warning from the Nobel Prize-winning Head of the IAEA. The Americans tried unsuccessfully to have Mohamed ElBaradei blocked from his new term at the IAEA.
This headline from Huffington Post on 16 June 2007 got it backwards - Should be U.S.-Israel backed Fateh Seizes...
Palestinian Fatah supporters hold flags after taking over the Palestinian parliament building in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, June 16, 2007. Hundreds of Fatah gunmen on Saturday stormed Hamas-controlled institutions in the West Bank, including parliament and government ministries, and told staffers that those with ties to Hamas will not be allowed to return. At the parliament, the Fatah supporters chanted, "Hamas Out," climbed on the roof of the building and fired in the air. They planted Fatah and Palestinian flags on the building. They also tried to seize the deputy speaker, but were stopped by employees. The gunmen planted Fatah flags and Palestinian banners on the buildings they had taken over. 16 June 07
AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen



15 June 2007




A prescient Hamas banner is photographed during the Israeli disengagement of 2005/6

At the White House on 19 June 2007



A MIGHTY HEART’: A film about Daniel Pearl and his killing in Pakistan.

The spendthrift super rich Arabs are building artificial islands and ski resorts in Dubai.







































Armed Palestinian women burn Israeli and U.S. flags during a protest against Israel’s operations in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon in 2006.
Martin Indyk, William J. Clinton, and Haim Saban.
Shimon Peres, Ted Koppel, William J. Clinton, and Haim Saban.
















A poster that shows Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah with Arabic writing reading :' more than twenty thousand missiles,' is seen on an armored vehicle in southern Lebanon on July 2007.
Robotic Attack Planes Will Start Killing in IRAQ






The first YouTube/CNN Debate - 23 July 2007
In July 2007 Hezbollah Announced Its Missiles Can Reach Everywhere in Israel

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan leads a march from Arlington National Cemetery on July 23, 2007 to Capitol Hill where her group was to ask the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., to begin impeachment proceedings against the Bush administration. After neeting with Conyers she and 45 others were arrested.
. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)


Attorney General Gonzales Has "Nothing to Hide but the Truth" protestors demonstrated on 24 July 2007 at the Senate Judiciary Committee.








After Seeing the Kinds of Questions Citizen Voters Might Ask...Republicans Manuevering to Bow Out
On 1 August 2007 at a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington Barack Obama Talked About Invading and Bombing Pakistan

Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States under George Bush and Dick Cheney.












Mousa Abu Marzook - the #2 Official in Hamas living in exile in Damascus









A Hamas gunman stands guard in front of a mural showing the late Yasser Arafat outside his former compound in Gaza City.
Jerusalem Post, 11 August 2007
A U.N. 'Blue Helmet' Force Patrols Southern Lebanon.

An anti-war anti-Cheney in Wyoming on 12 August 2007







Hezbollah chief Nasrallah addressing supporters on a video screen Tuesday, during a Beirut rally marking the end of the Second Lebanon War.
(Reuters)







Former Secretary General Kofi Annan unveils a bust of the late Sergio Vieira de Mello outside the headquarters of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The bust is in memory of the former High Commissioner and the twenty-one others who lost their lives in the bombing of the UN's headquarters in Iraq on 19 August 2003

President Bush Placing the Medal of Freedom on the former CIA Director at the time of the Iraq invasion George Tenet.




The Top General in the Army, Peter Pace, was Forced Out as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in mid 2007.







The Israeli Prime Minister and Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas Met in Jerusalem at the PM's residence on 28 August 2007.
The latest Shamed Republican Leader - Senator Larry Craig of Idaho

President Bush Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars Conference in August 2007.
On 29 August 2007 Muktadr Sadr Ordered His Militia to Begin a Six-Month 'Suspension' of attacks on the Occupier.





President George W. Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq on 3 Sept 2007.






Anti-war protesters, one wearing a mask depicting a sheep, representing politicians, call for the end of the war in Iraq during a demonstration outside Capitol Hill in Washington September 5, 2007.
The GAO's David Walker testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - 5 Sept 07.
(AP Images/Dennis Cook)


Geordolf W. Bushler



Keith Olbermann

Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer - authors of THE ISRAEL LOBBY

Senator Joe Biden Declared General Petraeus 'Dead Wrong' on MEET THE PRESS the Sunday before Petraeus's Monday 10 Sept 2007 Testimony to Congress
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shakes hands with former Revolutionary Guards chief General Yahya Rahim Safavi (center) as newly-appointed head of the elite Revolutionary Guards force, General Mohammad Ali Jaafari, looks on, in Tehran, Sept. 3, 2007.
10 September 2007

Fifty Protesters Moon Bush In Australia - 7 Sept 2007




BBC Poll - September 2007
BBC Poll - Sept 2007
BBC Poll - Sept 2007
BBC Poll - Sept 2007
BBC Poll - Sept 2007
BBC Poll - Sept 2007





U.S. Ambassador to IRAQ Ryan Crocker with General David Petraeus on 12 Sept 2007 in Washington.

President Bush shakes hands with Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, right, leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, also known as the Anbar Awakening -- an alliance of clans backing the Iraqi government and U.S. forces -- during a meeting with tribal leaders at Al-Asad Air Base in Anbar province, Iraq, in this Sept. 3, 2007 file photo. Abu Risha, the most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaeda in Iraq, was killed Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007 in an explosion near his home in Anbar province. Also seen at rear, from left to right: Gen. David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, partially obsured.
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Ten Days After Shaking Hands in this Photo taken in Iraq, Sheik Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha was assassinated. 13 Sept 2007











Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz - Long-time Far Right Israeli Champion
DershoClown






Headlines on 15 Sept 2007 from a new book by one of Washington Most Respected personalities, Alan Greenspan.
Capitol Hill in Washington on 15 Sept 2007 - The "Die-In"
A mock flag draped coffin in remembrance of Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, from Randolph, Mass., is positioned across the street from the White House as anti-war protesters gather at Lafayette Park Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Washington.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Demonstrators opposing the war in Iraq march in front of the White House Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Washington.
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Handcuffed anti Iraq war protestors are escorted by the U.S. Capitol Police on the steps of the Capitol building following their arrest after jumping over a security barricade erected on Capitol grounds, Saturday, Sep. 15, 2007, in Washington. At least 150 protesters were arrested Saturday 15 Sept 2007 as many thousands of demonstrators marched to the Capitol demanding an end to the Iraq war.
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
An unidentified member of a counter protest, center, yells at anti-war demonstrators as they march down Pennsylvania Ave., towards the U.S. Capitol grounds, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Washington. At least 150 protesters were arrested Saturday as thousands of demonstrators marched to the Capitol demanding an end to the Iraq war.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Capitol Hill - 15 Sept 2007
Nearly 200 Protestors Were Arrested Protesting the IRAQ War and calling for the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney on 15 Sept 2007
Laura Bush and Channel 4's Barbara Harrison flank Rima al-Sabah at a baby shower, one of four for the Kuwaiti ambassador's wife. WPost 16 Sept 2007




Commander in Chief of the Bahrain's military, Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, meets with Adm. William Fallon, head of the U.S. Central Command at Riffa Palace, Manama, Bahrain - Sept. 16, 2007. The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East is steering the topic away from Iraq and pressing Arab allies to form a more united front against Iran, seen by Washington as the region's longterm threat.
(AP Photo/Bahrain News Agency, HO)
Professors Stephen Walt (Harvard) and John Mearsheimer (Univ Chicago)










A small group of protesters gather outside Columbia University on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007 to protest plans for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus tomorrow.
(AP Photo/John Smock)


Emir Feisal and Chaim Weizmann in 1918 in Damascus






Dr. Haider Abdul Shafi - Head of the Palestinian Delegation at the Madrid Conference in 1991 - Dead in Gaza at 88 on 25 Sept 2007
The Cover of Canada's #1 Magazine, Macleans, in September 2007
The Cover of Canada's #1 Magazine, Macleans, in September 2007
Haidar Abdel-Shafi Represented the Palestinian People at the Madrid 1991 Conference and subsequently in two years of negotiations that followed.



Front Page of THE HILL on 27 Sept 2007

This headlined on 27 Sept 2007 at Huffington Post
27 Sept 2007








Japanese Photographer Kenji Nagai was shot at close range and killed 28 September as troops stormed the anti-government protest in Rangoon




Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to Defence Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. Paul Wolfowitz, and Doug Feith, and Dov Zakheim, et. al, may be out, but there are many other hard-line Neocons who remain.

Israeli Prime Minister Olmert with Palestinian Territories 'President' Abbas


Che Guevara lies dead on a stretcher held by Bolivian soldiers after his CIA-masterminded capture and execution












The Archbishop of Canterbury
Pope Bendict
The Armenian Genocide in which about 1.5 million were killed began in 1915.





Archbishop Desmund Tutu



Iran's double gold olympic champion, Arash Miresmaeili, favourite for the 2004 olympics - he forfeited his gold medal for boycotting Israel. Then he was threatened with sanctions from the International Judo Federation but he stood his ground.
Vatican Officials Claim to see Pope Paul in this Fire from Heaven!
General John Abizaid, Retired Command of U.S. Troops Throughout the Middle East.



In addition to signing the Tehran Declaration, the five presidents also issued a statement and agreed to hold a joint economic conference in Moscow, Russia, next year. 16 Oct 2007




American Task Force on Palestine President Ziad Asali congratulates US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after her speech at the ATFP's inaugural gala, October 2006.
(ATFP)



Screaming 'War Criminal' And Waving Red Hands in her Face a protestor got up close to Rice at Congressional Hearing today, 24 Oct 2007.


Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm., Michael G. Mullen, at a news conference at the Pentagon, on Oct. 18, 2007.
AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari












Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, former top AIPAC officials, accused by FBI in 2003 of Spying for Israel


Nicolas Sarkozy - Now President of France, long-time part-time "spy" for Israel?

THE LOOK SAYS IT ALL: The US might have a hidden agenda as far as Annapolis is concerned, but the November summit is certainly not a ploy to create a Palestinian state
Al Ahram Weekly - late Oct 2007
Gamal Nasser in 1967

A US Air Force F-22 Raptor, an F-117 Nighthawk, an F-4 Phantom and an F-15 Eagle fly over Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.
U.S. Air Force
A centrifuge. According to nuclear experts, 3,000 working centrifuges are enough to successfully enrich uranium.










Secretary of State Rice Meets With Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman at the State Department on 11 Dec 2006.

Palestinians gather during a demonstration against the upcoming United States-sponsored Annapolis meeting in Gaza City on 24 Nov 2007.
Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, left, shakes hands with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin as President Carter looks on at Camp David in September 1978.
On 29 November 1947 the United Nations General Assembly, under considerable U.S. pressure, voted to Partition Palestine.
Hillary and Personal Assistant Huma -- known as 'Bodyman' if you're President'.
Palestinian Prime Minister of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh - 26 Nov 07
When CBS News Broadcast the Story around these documents, knowing the election was at stake the Bush/Cheney forces attacked the messenger and got Dan Rather and crew fired.






ANNAPOLIS - NYTimes Page1: Officials from 49 nations gathered at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., for a one-day conference on Middle East peace on 27 November 2007.
NYTimes, 28 Nov 2007
The Front Gate to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.




Thousands of Hungarian demonstrators form a glowing peace sign in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square to mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
500,000 Hamas supporters gather during a rally in Gaza City on 16 Dec 2007 marking the 20th anniversary of the group's founding. Leaders touted the group's strength and popularity. "Our people are capable of launching a third and a fourth intifada until the dawn of victory rises up," Khaled Meshaal, a leader living in exile, said in a recorded speech.
By Emilio Morenatti -- Associated Press Photo
Democrat Jewish Neocon Joe Lieberman Endorsed Republican Christian Neocon John McCain in a major cross-party switch on 17 Dec 2007
Iranian President Ahmadinejad in Mecca for the Haj in December 2007

By mid-Dec 2007 one of the Iranian Internet Services Showed This Picture of Battered Bush
Uzi Arad - Long-time Mossad Operative and Adviser to Bibi Netanyahu. Arad has long preached destruction of the Palestinian leadership and Attack of Israel's Enemies.
Israel's President, Shimon Peres, Takes to Blogging

The Palestinian "Fateh" Organization Celebrated Anniversary 43 in 2007










A Jerusalem municipal worker hangs a US flag as a bus passes with a poster of George Bush, the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and the Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah - The Guardian 7 Jan 08
Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP



Financial Times - 8 Jan 08
Iranian helicopters and ships taking part in manoeuvres in the Strait of Hormuz in 2000
TimesOnLine - 7 Jan 08

This Simple woodcut map in the form of a cloverleaf recalls the geographical ideas of the Crusaders. Jerusalem is in the Center of the World, the crossroad of three continents. In contrast, the Crusaders map showed the division of the world among the three sons of Noah. The Jewish Mayor of Jerusalem presented this to U.S. President George Bush at the King David Hotel on 9 January 2007, his first day on his first visit as President to Israel.


Jonathan Pollard, Israel's Great Spy in Washington
Scattered clouds are pictured over Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland
Telegraph, UK, 11 Jan 08
This ad on the Drudge Report on 11 Jan 08 as Bush Departs Israel
Bush Surrounded by Christian Figures As He Visits Israel - 11 Jan 08
Haaretz - 11 Jan 08
The Annaoplis 'Peace Summit' Was Held in November 2007 at the U.S. Naval Academy
President George Bush with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
This Map of Israel Is Displayed one one of Israel's most Popular News Services
Ynetnews

Torture Has Become A Major Problem for the Americans


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Washington DC, Van Ness & Connecticut Ave - 9 February 2008
Washington DC, Van Ness & Connecticut Ave - 9 February 2008 with the Primary 3 days away
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