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Israel: Self-Made Nakba
2008-05-19 20:43:00 By Barry Rubin It’s become fashionable to match celebration of Israel ’s founding (though part of the media can’t even admit Israelis are celebrating) with Palestinian marking of their 1948 “nakba” catastrophe. Yet whose fault is it that they didn’t use those six decades constructively? And who killed the independent Palestinian state alongside Israel that was part of ... More About: Made , Arab League
The New Cold War With Iran
2008-05-19 15:05:00 The next American president will inherit many foreign policy challenges, but surely one of the biggest will be the cold war. Yes, the next president is going to be a cold-war president ? but this cold war is with Iran . That is the real umbrella story in the Middle East today ? the struggle for influence ... More About: Israel , Cold War , Editorial
Should a Saudi School Lease Be Put on Hold?
2008-05-19 14:52:00 The American Textbook Council recently published a review on how many text books in public schools give a light touch to Middle Eastern history, Islam and Jihad . (FSM published it; you can find all five parts here.) If public school texts are alarming, what should we think about texts being provided by the Saudi government ... More About: School , Curriculum
Putin?s Gulag Stability
2008-05-19 14:46:00 Vladimir Putin hails stability among his greatest achievements as president of Russia . But stability in Russia exists in appearance only, supported by enormous oil revenue and massive propaganda from the government-controlled mass media. Behind the facade lies an unprecedented increase in corruption, a population largely mired in poverty, and a bureaucracy and domestic intelligence apparatus ... More About: Poverty , Corruption , Vladimir Putin
Healthy Old Europe
2008-05-19 14:44:00 The population of western Europe is aging steadily, and the region’s birthrate is well below the replacement level, but Europe’s elderly are exceptionally healthy. That means they could be more productive for longer than their predecessors were. If western European governments learn to tap this potential, healthy aging could become the region’s next great economic ... More About: Immigration , Healthy , Demographics , Western Europe
Disappearing Act
2008-05-19 06:14:00 by Barry Rubin Exaggerations of Israel ’s demise are greatly exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark Twain . The question is: why is this suddenly happening now and–even more important–what is the impact of this fad going to be? The answer to the second question is very surprising so keep reading. The suddenness of this trend is illustrated by a telling anecdote. ... More About: New York Times , Gaza Strip , Fatah
Zimbabwe regime ?has received weapons shipment from China?
2008-05-19 05:17:00 Fear are growing that Robert Mugabe ’s regime had been strengthened ahead of a presidential election with the secret delivery of a shipment of arms from China . Reports said the weapons, including three million bullets, mortar bombs and rocket-propelled grenades, had been off-loaded from the Chinese vessel, the An Yue Jiang, at the Angolan port of Lobito ... More About: Africa , Zimbabwe , Fear
What to Do About South Korean Anti-Americanism
2008-05-19 05:12:00 This is an interesting article. It gives us a clue about why South Korea ns have no problem showing their anti-Americanism but might be hesitant about showing anti-Chinese behavior. They fear the Chinese and don’t fear the Americans. From the article: An American living in Seoul recently asked me this unexpected question: “What would have happened ... More About: Korean , Koreas , Anti
Venezuela: Hard-Drive Diplomacy
2008-05-19 04:42:00 Evidence of Venezuela ’s support for terrorism could carry Hugo Chávez to the pariah status he deserves. THE CONFIRMATION by an international forensics team that laptops and hard drives captured by Colombia originated in a camp of FARC terrorists ought to open a new era in relations between the democratic world and Hugo Chávez’s Venezuelan government. Whether ... More About: Terrorism , United States , Laptops , Drive
The Truth About Putin and Medvedev
2008-05-19 04:35:00 In their concise and eloquent report, Nemtsov and Milov present a devastating picture of Putin ’s eight years in the Kremlin. Indeed, the report’s appraisal of Putin and his administration is so damning that the Kremlin attempted, with considerable success, to block its distribution. Originally, the publisher, Novaya Gazeta (which produces the newspaper of the same ... More About: Truth , Medvedev , The Truth
Oil?s Murky Outlook
2008-05-18 23:24:00 At about $124 a barrel, the price of crude oil has more than doubled since the start of 2007. The vast majority of government forecasters, stock analysts, economists, traders, and journalists who follow oil failed to see it coming. Even now their price estimates for the next several years are all over the place, ranging ... More About: Middle East , China , Outlook , Oil , Economists
When the Kremlin Tried a Little Openness
2008-05-18 23:18:00 Still, it is worth recalling a time when a little openness flew out of control. As a correspondent and bureau chief for The New York Times in Moscow in the late 1980s, I had a ringside seat to observe the slow disintegration of the Soviet Union under Mr. Gorbachev. The collapse of the Soviet empire and ... More About: Russia , Kremlin , Russians
U.S. boosts naval presence near Lebanon
2008-05-18 22:18:00 The U.S. Navy has positioned its advanced communications flagship off the coast of Lebanon ahead of a larger mission, an intelligence report says. U.S. Navy spokesman Lt. Patrick Foughty said the the USS Mount Whitney, a 620-foot command and control flagship for the U.S. Navy’s 6th Fleet, is in the region “to support additional communications requirements ... More About: Middle East , Military , Israel , Presence
The Old Titans All Collapsed. Is the U.S. Next?
2008-05-18 16:22:00 More than 80 percent of Americans now say that we are on the wrong track, but many if not most still believe that the history of other nations is irrelevant — that the United States is unique, chosen by God . So did all the previous world economic powers: Rome, Spain, the Netherlands (in the maritime ... More About: Literature , Vulnerabilities , Titans , Illusions
A Voice of Mother Russia, in English
2008-05-18 16:18:00 JUDGING from the news lately, Russia is well on its way to restoring that old Evil Empire image. Military parades have returned to Red Square. Key businesses are choked by corruption or are under state control. Journalists who probe too deeply turn up dead. And critics of the Kremlin are jailed, pushed out of elections ... More About: Voice , European Union , English , English Language , Mother
Israel?s ?American Problem?
2008-05-18 16:09:00 WHEN the prime minister of Israel , Ehud Olmert, arrived at a Jerusalem ballroom in February to address the grandees of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (a redundancy, since there are no minor American Jewish organizations), he was pugnacious, as is customary, but he was also surprisingly defensive, and not because of ... More About: Problem
Russia accused of annexing the Arctic for oil reserves by Canada
2008-05-18 16:06:00 The battle for “ownership” of the polar oil reserves has accelerated with the disclosure that Russia has sent a fleet of nuclear-powered ice breakers into the Arctic. It has reinforced fears that Moscow intends to annex “unlawfully” a vast portion of the ice-covered Arctic, beneath which scientists believe up to 10 billion tons of gas and ... More About: Plants , Canada , Scientists , Control
Study Warned of China Quake Risk Nearly a Year Ago
2008-05-18 16:02:00 Just ten months before a deadly earthquake struck Sichuan Province’s Beichuan county on May 12, a scientific study warned that the Chinese region was ripe for a major quake. “The faults are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking earthquake, making them potentially serious sources of regional seismic hazard,” the Chinese, European, and U.S. geoscientists wrote ... More About: Horror , China , Study , Quake , Earthquake
China upgrades nuclear enabled missiles, threat to India?
2008-05-17 19:53:00 China has completed the upgrade of its intermediate range CSS2 ballistic missiles in Tibet from liquid to solid fuel. Missile experts say the upgrade reduces the logistic train for these missiles and will enable shorter launch times, increasing India ’s vulnerability to a pre-emptive strike. Read More… China’s Boomers [Ballistic missile submarines are called "boomers".] This summer’s public revelation that China ... More About: Israel , China , Nuclear , National Security
Ex-IAF Chief: Expect thousands of rockets on Israel in future war
2008-05-17 19:49:00 The Israel Air Force’s outgoing commander-in-chief has said that during a future war Israel’s home front is likely to be bombarded with thousands of missiles and rockets in the possession of Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria. Major General Eliezer Shkedi made the comments in an interview with Israel Radio which was aired Saturday. He also said that ... More About: Missiles , Chief , Possession , Future
Burma?s Junta Has the West over a Barrel
2008-05-17 19:41:00 NARGIS POSES HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA The stubbornness of Burma ’s military junta puts the West into a hopeless situation. If the international community wants to provide relief to victims of Cyclone Nargis, then it has to play by the regime’s rules. But the West’s submissiveness sends a dangerous signal to despots everywhere. By our reporter in Rangoon more… Junta ... More About: Asia , Tragedy , Police State
Russia: A totalitarian regime in thrall to a Tsar who?s creating the new Fa
2008-05-17 19:39:00 Despite the fact that Putin’s Russia is increasingly autocratic and irredeemably corrupt, the man himself - their born-again Tsar - is overwhelmingly regarded as the answer to the nation’s prayers. Russia has a bloody and tormented history. Its centuries of suffering - its brutalities, its wars and revolutions, culminating in the collapse of communism and the ... More About: Prayers , Creating
Superstitions about China Earthquake Worry Some
2008-05-17 19:34:00 While the vast majority of people in her generation abandoned religion long ago, there is another ?strange coincidence? which leaves many of my friends and students uneasy. The earthquake occurred on May 12th, or 5.12. My friends show me how if one adds each individual number together (5 + 1 +2), the sum is 8. ... More About: Religion , China , Earthquake , Olympics , Fortune
China warns of threat from dams weakened by quake
2008-05-17 06:51:00 The earthquake that devastated southwest China has left many dams badly damaged, posing an unknown threat of collapse and flooding made worse by poor management and information, the country’s water minister said. In Sichuan and Chongqing, at least 17 reservoirs have been damaged, with some dams cracked or leaking water since the quake struck on Monday, ... More About: Quake , Threat
Israeli military intel: Tel Aviv within range of Hamas rockets by 2010
2008-05-17 06:41:00 Israel’s military intelligence has projected that Hamas would be capable of producing missiles with a range of up to 50 kilometers. The military has concluded that Iran wants the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip to achieve the capability of firing missiles and rockets at targets in Tel Aviv, about 50 kilometers from the Gaza Strip. ... More About: Military , Israel , Intel , Missiles
China boosts Jiangxi air defense
2008-05-17 05:50:00 China’s air force has substantially reinforced its air defense posture in Jiangxi province in the past year. There are indications that China has completed its second-line air defense operational deployment against Taiwan centered on Fujian and Jiangxi provinces. This has greatly expanded the depth of China’s air defense coverage. The People’s Liberation Army Air Force has ... More About: Military , China , Defense , Launch
Canada: Ocean survey looks promising for Arctic sovereignty effort
2008-05-17 05:41:00 Jacob Verhoef, the federal geoscientist leading Canada ’s bid to assert control of offshore territory in the High Arctic , told Canwest News Service on Friday that preliminary results of a seabed mapping project off Ellesmere Island suggest the submerged Alpha Ridge is attached to the Canadian landmass and appears likely to qualify under the UN Convention ... More About: Survey , Ocean , Sovereignty
A Dangerous Passage
2008-05-17 05:33:00 The Israelis are also worried, and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made repeated statements about an ?Iranian threat? that must be dealt with decisively. He does not mince words. According to Netanyahu, we are obliged to believe those who promise to wipe us out. He points to the example of Hitler, who publicly ... More About: Dangerous
Venezuela weapons worry US, Colombia
2008-05-17 03:59:00 The United States and Colombia have long been wary of Venezuela ’s peacetime military buildup, suspecting the weapons could end up in the hands of drug-trafficking Colombian rebels. Now they have documented reasons for their worries ? certified by Interpol. Colombian rebel computer files described Thursday as authentic by the international police agency suggest a dramatic arms buildup ... More About: Hugo Chavez , Worry
Anti- Semitic Hate Speech in the Name of Islam
More articles from this author:2008-05-17 03:54:00 ‘WIPE OUT THE JEWS’ Though most Muslims reject Islam ism and its propaganda, anti-Semitic messages from satellite channels like the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa are helping to bring a message of hate and intolerance to Europe . The effects of such hate preaching can already be felt in Germany . By Matthias Küntzel more… TERROR RAIDS IN EUROPE Police Arrest Members of Alleged ... More About: Hate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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