A broad cross-section of Jewish and human rights groups are mounting demonstrations and rallies this week to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN General Assembly.
The Iranian leader - set to address the assembly on Wednesday afternoon - will be met by an abundance of protesters outside the UN headquarters on First Avenue. […]
It has been almost ten years since President Bill Clinton rebuffed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a trip to the U.S. In 1999, Clinton refused to meet with the Israeli leader, and was in many ways instrumental in bringing about the election of Ehud Barak. Now, Netanyahu is faced with having […]
In the words of Ronald Reagan during the second Reagan-Carter debate in 1980, “There you go again!” Jimmy Carter was not content to skew the facts in Palestine Peace not Apartheid; he is at it again in his latest book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land.
A recent opinion piece in […]
Source: Asharq Alawsat
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) - Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his feared Mehdi Army on Thursday to maintain its six-month ceasefire as members of the militia clashed with U.S. and Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad.Shi’ite Sadr’s spokesman Salah al-Ubaidi said the ceasefire, which expires later this month and has been vital to cutting violence in Iraq, […]
By CHRISTOPHER CHESTER
Associated Press Writer
Source: Breitbart.com
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi Arab lawmakers from rival sects joined forces Sunday to criticize what they claim is overreaching by the Kurds, alleging the powerful U.S.-backed minority’s go-it-alone style in oil and other major issues threatens national unity.
The 145 Shiite, Sunni and other legislators signaled their opposition to Kurdish ambitions […]
Amid growing pressure ahead of the January 30 release of the Winograd Report investigating the Second Lebanon War, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ruled out on Monday any possibility that he would let political maneuvering shorten his tenure.
In closed conversations, Olmert reacted to Labor chairman Ehud Barak’s hints that he was seriously considering quitting and reports […]
BAGHDAD, (AP) -Iraqi security forces were on high alert Sunday around Baghdad and in the Sunni heartland north of the capital as the country marked the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s execution.
Iraq army Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said security forces were “ready and prepared for any emergencies that might happen.”
In Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit, hundreds […]
By Walter Pincus
Monday, December 31, 2007; Page A13 Buried in the latest Defense Department quarterly report on Iraq is the disclosure that the Baghdad government is now responsible for setting the size of its security forces, and that it has authorized a level of 550,000 military and police forces — an increase of more […]
