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Is Israel planning to lose the next war?
By Emanuel A. Winston

Israel Matzav comments on this article. Don’t miss it.

You can’t make this stuff up.

The London-based Arabic daily al-Hayat is reporting this morning that Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert and ‘moderate’ ‘Palestinian’ President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen are holding ’secret’ talks on the big three ‘final status’ issues: borders, Jerusalem and ‘refugees.’

The newspaper also reported that the two discussed the issue during their recent meeting in Jerusalem and decided that there was a need for deep discussions on the more “burning issues.”

The source reportedly said that the talks were focusing on the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, the Palestinian refugee issue, West Bank settlements and the future of Jerusalem.

“There were talks on these issues but as yet there has been no breakthrough on any of them,” the source was quoted as saying.

However, the Prime Minister’s Office was unaware of the report, a PMO spokeswoman told The Jerusalem Post.

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Canada’s CBC Newsworld produced this documentary.

What an eye opener. The article doesn’t do it justice. The money was sent to Iraq in $100 notes and they referred to it in terms of how many tons were being shipped and they showed front end loaders loading the stacks and stacks of cash. There was no way this money could be adequately managed. I was a fiasco.

George W. Bush declared that billions of dollars entrusted to the American Coalition would go toward developing infrastructure in Iraq. Rich with close to 20 billion dollars of Iraq’s money, and full of promises, the coalition went into the war torn country. But after only fourteen months, nearly all of the money was spent. No accountability. No records. With Iraq’s essential services now worse than before the war, where has all this money gone? How can this be explained?
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Or those who support infanticide while consorting with racists and anti-Semites
by Bill Levinson

We received the following from Barack Obama’s campaign:

I’m looking forward to having dinner with Dorothy, but there are still three seats left at the table. Will you be in one of them?
If you make a donation by 11:59 pm tonight, Tuesday, July 31st, you could join us for dinner very soon:

We don’t do dinner with people who are on record as enabling* genocide and infanticide while consorting with prominent racists and anti-Semites. (more…)

By Ted Belman

The US policy today is to align the “moderates” against the radicals, like its a natural thing. To make it even more natural, Bush has offered $20 billion arms package to Saudi Arabia and $13 billion to Egypt. All “moderates” should be happy to go along. Yet its not going well.

Saudi Arabia who has the most to gain from a united front against the radicals is dragging its feet. They, along with the Arab League are refusing to attend the conference proposed by Bush unless Syria and Hamas are there and the proposed settlement be comprehensive. Never mind that any deal they sign with the infidel isn’t binding or that they are committed to win back all of Israel.
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By SARAH HONIG JPOST

On the (Hebrew calendar’s) second anniversary of the callous sacrifice of existential security interests for political expediency, Uri Yarom’s Kenaf Renanim is must reading. It puts into context the viciousness of disengagement, the ongoing demonization of its victims and the indifference to their anguish.

Yarom - the decorated commander of Israel’s first helicopter squadron - is the salt of this country’s earth, especially as he suitably hails from the left side of its great and definitive political divide. That lends him ultra-respectability and credibility.

In 2001 he included in his autobiographical book (p. 71) an eyewitness account of what he saw on June 22, 1948, as the IZL arms ship Altalena blazed off Tel Aviv. The men on board - mostly idealistic Holocaust survivors intent on joining their reborn nation’s struggle for independence - dove into the sea under a hail of gunfire. Some were hurt, but the bullets still kept coming, even though the boys flailed desperately among the waves. CONTINUE