WTF v3.5

This is like the third or four piece of news from UPI, in the past couple of weeks, where they quote information obtained from Debka. I mean, I've been reading the site since they opened the joint and although they have interesting articles and information, their track record on veracity is suspect... Is UPI, and other big names in information gathering and reporting, being lazy and off the field not to be able to come up with news like this on their own??


Egypt supporting Hamas, report claims - UPI.com

A group of suspected Hamas fighters were arrested after allegedly returning from training courses in Iran and Syria. About 15 of the suspects were allegedly allowed to cross into Gaza with a cache of weapons and ammunition in ambulances, the Jerusalem military intelligence Web site DEBKAfile said.

Sources told DEBKAfile that the immigration of Hamas fighters coincided with the escalation of conflict between Israel and militants in Gaza. Israeli officials were hesitant to highlight the movement of fighters for fear of angering Cairo, as it expresses its support for Israel's fight against militants.

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How's this for drumming in Armageddon?

The linked article is also reporting U. S. Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates was forced to cancel a trip to South America due to the emergency situation throughout West Asia (Middle East). It is an alarming situation to Washington and European governments since it has finally dawned on them Tehran was never interested in any peaceful resolution to its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, nor was Iran ever interested in waging a major war with Israel, since Israel is by no means the rival for international dominance and regional influence the West is. That is why Tehran really noticed and monitored the Rome Conference last year and the arrival of European units in south Lebanon afterward. Tehran knew it meant Rome was back and leading the West again into the region something Tehran did not want to see, so Iran had al-Qaeda declare them an enemy of Islam. That is why Rome's role in World War III is very similar to London's role in World War II. Rome is replacing Brussels and not only during the war but in the post-World War III world because the area of concentration for the West is no longer the North Atlantic but the Mediterranean.

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Terence McKenna on the Yijing

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Bush Lost the War - Pass it on...

From Sam Crane's blog:


The Useless Tree: Bush Lost the War - Pass it on

It seems to me that the simplest, most direct response to the continuing efforts of the Bush administration to deflect responsibility for the fiasco that Iraq has become, is to say: Bush Lost the War. If many just said that, whenever confronted with the dissembling and lying and evasions, it would remind us all of the one clear fact in all of this: Bush Lost the War. He lost it in a variety of ways, but surely he lost it, not the media, not the Democrats, not Iran, not the liberal professorate; no, none of these. Bush Lost the War.

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George Soros on Israel, America and AIPAC

Kudos to Soros and his article in the New York Review of Books. It is about time that the State of Israel steps down its high war horse and starts seeing things from the ground level. Only then would fellow human beings be able to relate to each other's problems. Furthermore, if last year's reactionary invasion and destruction of much of Lebanon --an exercise in futility if the goal was to eradicate or even teach a lesson to Hizballah-- is an indication of how ineffective Israel policies have become, people in power, bent south of Armageddon, should start reconsidering their positions and find a path to peace.

On Israel, America and AIPAC - The New York Review of Books

The Bush administration is once again in the process of committing a major policy blunder in the Middle East, one that is liable to have disastrous consequences and is not receiving the attention it should. This time it concerns the Israeli–Palestinian relationship. The Bush administration is actively supporting the Israeli government in its refusal to recognize a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas, which the US State Department considers a terrorist organization. This precludes any progress toward a peace settlement at a time when progress on the Palestinian problem could help avert a conflagration in the greater Middle East.

The United States and Israel seek to deal only with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, in the hope that new elections would deny Hamas the majority it now has in the Palestinian Legislative Council. This is a hopeless strategy because Hamas has said it would boycott early elections, and even if their outcome would result in Hamas's exclusion from the government, no peace agreement would hold without Hamas's support.

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