The above pictures are more than tragic. It is an example of the hatred that still lingers in a land where reverence to God is the lifestyle of the day. Sunnis killing Shi'ites. Hezbollah Shi'ites killiing Israelis. Israelis afraid to remove barriers. And the sad truth of the region continues to play out in a way that dictates nothing but saddness for an eternity. Can Arabia stop this? Can they find the fortitude in it's people to love peace? Is the USA a stimulus to all this violence and if so how much of our presence in any country including little Qater?
The Shi'ites and Kurds of Iraq have signed a power sharing agreement. They long for their brothers of the Sunnis to join them. The Sunnis anger and aggression is understood as Fallujah was the last straw to the occupation there. Will Arabia be able to secure Islam and find peace with Israel?
Haaretz
Livnat slams proposal to rush through outpost removal
By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Education Minister Limor Livnat rejected Friday a proposal to rush legislation on dismantling illegal outposts and called on the government to explicitly distinguish between outposts built before March 2001 and those built afterwards.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/550988.html
IDF may evacuate Philadelphi route after pullout
By Amos Harel and Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondents
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - The Israel Defense Forces will evacuate the Philadelphi route, along the Gaza-Egyptian border, sometime after the disengagement from Gaza is completed, according to a tentative understanding reached by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at a meeting here Thursday, Israeli security sources said.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/550769.html
Police cancel security alert in Jerusalem
By Jonathan Lis and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents
Jerusalem police cancelled a security alert Friday morning that was called a short time earlier due to a terror threat.
Security forces had received intelligence information that a Palestinian planned to infiltrate the city to carry out a terror attack.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/551006.html
Analysis / Report highlights the ugly occupation
By Ze'ev Schiff
The recently released report on the unauthorized settlement outposts in the territories exposes the occupation in all its ugliness.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/550786.html
Analysis / Mubarak pushing forward on all fronts
By Zvi Bar'el
Cairo's efforts to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will continue today with a meeting between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz. This meeting appears to be more than just a "strengthening of ties" with Israel, but rather a prelude to an internal dialogue among the various Palestinian factions that is scheduled to begin Tuesday and run through Saturday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/550151.html
IDF kit helps officers explain disengagement
By Amnon Barzilai
All settlements in the territories are part of the historic continuum of Zionist settlement in the Land of Israel, which has enjoyed the support of all Israeli governments, according to an explanatory kit on the disengagement plan prepared by the Israel Defense Forces' Education Corps.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/550780.html
Probing dubious money
Following the enactment of the Anti-Money Laundering Law and the establishment of an authority of the same name, the international Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) removed Israel, in June 2003, from its blacklist of countries that do not cooperate in this field. In September 2003, it halted supervision of Israel in the money-laundering field. Israel's presence on the blacklist, which included countries of dubious reputation, was a mark of shame for the state, and its removal from the list improved its position in international capital markets and among international rating agencies.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/550817.html
The Boston Globe
Crowd-control gun's accuracy is questioned
Type that killed Hub student in melee was tested in Israel
By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff March 11, 2005
Federal officials are urging the manufacturer of the pepper-pellet gun that took the life of 21-year-old Victoria Snelgrove last fall to respond to assertions by the Israel Police that raise questions about the weapon's accuracy.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/11/crowd_control_guns_accuracy_is_questioned/
Governor issues $31b transit plan
Initiative sets blueprint for next 20 years
By Mac Daniel, Globe Staff March 11, 2005
Governor Mitt Romney yesterday issued his transportation to-do list for the next 20 years, a $31 billion plan that promises to spend $1.2 billion to repair 600 of the state's worst bridges over the next five years and, for the first time, commits state money to help the MBTA expand its commuter rail and transit system.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/11/governor_issues_31b_transit_plan/
Kurds, Shi'ites agree on power-sharing deal
Jockeying is seen for ministry posts
By Anne Barnard and Thanassis Cambanis, Globe Staff March 11, 2005
BAGHDAD -- Leaders of the Kurdish and Shi'ite blocs that won the largest shares of the vote in January's elections said yesterday that they have surmounted major disagreements and plan to form a government together -- a move that would formalize a historic shift of power from the long-ruling Sunni minority to two ethnic groups oppressed for decades by Saddam Hussein.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/03/11/kurds_shiites_agree_on_power_sharing_deal/
Majority of those asked say governor should not run for president
March 11, 2005
BOSTON -- A majority of Massachusetts adults don't think Gov. Mitt Romney should run for president in 2008, according to a poll, and about half of those asked feel the state's top Republican would not make a good president if elected.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/11/majority_of_those_asked_say_governor_should_not_run_for_president/
Conservation Law Foundation suing over mercury pollution
March 11, 2005
CONCORD, N.H. -- The Conservation Law Foundation says it will sue "New Hampshire's dirtiest power plant" and one in Massachusetts to enforce federally mandated mercury pollution controls.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/03/11/conservation_law_foundation_suing_over_mercury_pollution/
Barge responsible for Buzzards Bay oil spill taken out of commission
March 11, 2005
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- The single-hulled barge that spilled about 98,000 gallons of oil into Buzzards Bay nearly two years ago was taken out of commission at the start of this year after its license expired under federal law.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/11/barge_responsible_for_buzzards_bay_oil_spill_taken_out_of_commission/
500,000 Black & Decker blenders recalled
March 11, 2005
WASHINGTON -- About 500,000 Black & Decker blenders are being recalled because the blades can weaken or break while in use, the government said Friday.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/11/500000_black__decker_blenders_recalled/
Judge nixes Schiavo intervention by agency
By Mitch Stacy, Associated Press Writer March 11, 2005
TAMPA, Fla. -- Hours after a judge refused to delay the removal of a feeding tube from a brain-damaged woman, a California businessman offered her husband $1 million if he would give up his right to decide her medical treatment.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/11/judge_nixes_schiavo_intervention_by_agency/
Democratic nations meet at U.N.
By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer March 11, 2005
UNITED NATIONS -- Many of the world's democracies met at the United Nations to examine an issue close to President Bush's heart -- how to advance democracy, freedom and human rights around the world.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/11/democratic_nations_meet_at_un/
Clinton in good spirits after surgery
By Sam Dolnick, Associated Press Writer March 11, 2005
NEW YORK -- Former President Clinton was in good spirits and looking forward to getting on his feet after surgery to remove scar tissue and fluid from his left lung, his wife said.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/11/clinton_in_good_spirits_after_surgery/
EU3 Say Iran Faces U.N. if Resumes Nuke Enrichment
March 11, 2005
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain, France and Germany told their European Union partners on Friday they would support referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council if it resumes uranium enrichment or breaches nuclear commitments.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/03/11/eu3_say_iran_faces_un_if_resumes_nuke_enrichment/
Americans in Indonesia warned of bombing
March 11, 2005
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The U.S. Embassy on Friday warned American citizens of a possible bomb attack on a shopping mall in the Indonesian capital over the next three days.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/03/11/americans_in_indonesia_warned_of_bombing/
Blair challenges world to help aid Africa
By Karen Sloan, Associated Press Writer March 11, 2005
LONDON -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday challenged the world to help end the poverty, conflict and disease plaguing Africa as he launched a major international report on how to ease the continent's woes.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/03/11/blair_challenges_world_to_help_aid_africa/
'Last Supper' Fashion Poster Banned in Paris
March 11, 2005
PARIS (Reuters) - A French fashion poster showing women imitating Jesus Christ and his apostles in the Leonardo da Vinci painting "The Last Supper" has been banned in Paris, the second time in a month it has been outlawed.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/03/11/last_supper_fashion_poster_banned_in_paris/
The Arab News
Bomber Kills Mourners
Naseer Al-Nahr, Arab News
The shattered windshield of the pickup truck Col. Ahmed Abeis was traveling in. (EPA)
BAGHDAD, 11 March 2005 — Insurgents in Iraq yesterday targeted a Shiite funeral service, killing at least 47 people as the country’s main political alliance struck a power-sharing deal with a Kurdish coalition.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=60256&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Qadeer Gave Iran Centrifuges
Huma Aamir Malik, Arab News
Abdul Qadeer Khan
ISLAMABAD, 11 March 2005 — Pakistan’s disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan gave Iran centrifuges, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed admitted yesterday, but insisted the government had nothing to do with this.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=60259&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Terrorist Website Drops Dirty Bomb
Saad Al-Matrafi, Arab News
JEDDAH, 11 March 2005 — A terrorist group has published a do-it-yourself plan to make a dirty bomb on its Internet site. Named Alma’sadah Al-Jihadiah, the site is run by a group whose aim is to promote and propagate terror activities in the region.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=60255&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Israeli Withdrawal Must Precede Syrian Pullout
Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali, Arab News
Syrian President Bashar Assad has announced full withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon, to be carried out in stages in accordance with the Taif agreement and UN Resolution 1559. His announcement came in the wake of sustained pressure from the Lebanese opposition and international community after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=60250&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Abdullah Greets Separated Polish Twins
Mohammed Rasooldeen, Arab News
Crown Prince Abdullah with the separated Polish twins, their mother Wieslawa Dabrowska and Dr. Jolanta Jezewska, at left. Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah is seen at extreme right and Polish Ambassador Adam Kulach at extreme left. (Photo by SPA)
RIYADH, 11 March 2005 — Crown Prince Abdullah gave a special audience on Wednesday to the separated Polish conjoined twins, Daria and Olga, along with their mother and a 50-member medical team headed by Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah at the National Guard headquarters here.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=60252&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Rescuing Our Values of Compassion Before It's Too Late
Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, Arab News
The sad story of domestic helper Blondie Colot Jumawan, a 29-year-old from Zamboanga del Sur who worked for a Saudi family in Dammam, made headlines in several newspapers around the world.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=60288&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Is It Forbidden for Women to Wear Jeans?
Lubna Hussain, lubna@arabnews.com
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9§ion=0&article=60265&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Critical Vs. Passive Mindset: Does It Really Matter?
Dr. Khalid Al-Seghayer, alseghayer@yahoo.com
When I thought of writing an essay on this subject, I felt that I was trying to say why I should have a critical mind and thus analyze and examine closely whatever I come across on a daily basis. Then as I started to write down some notes, I reached the conclusion that this is indeed a crucial characteristic which one needs to have and here is why.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9§ion=0&article=60266&d=11&m=3&y=2005&pix=community.jpg&category=Features
The Los Angeles Times
Iraq War Compels Pentagon to Rethink Big-Picture Strategy
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-na-milwar11mar11,0,4526900.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Iraq War Compels Pentagon to Rethink Big-Picture Strategy
Dan Gillespie never thought he'd have to look so hard for work.
When the Seattle-area resident left the Air Force in 1980, he earned a computer science degree and enjoyed 20 years of steady work. He saved enough money to buy his wife's childhood home last year.
Three months later, he was laid off.
Gillespie, 53, hasn't found a job since. Even the corner store won't hire him. He and his wife sold the house last month.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-na-milwar11mar11,0,4526900.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Fugitive Kept Low Profile in Quiet Brazilian Beach Town
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-james11mar11,0,812852.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Angels of Mercy and Death
They scour a vast landscape of debris, looking for victims of the tsunami. Helping families find closure is all in a day's work.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bodyhunt11mar11,0,637286.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Mercy Killing of Newborns
An ethics expert urges us to think twice before decrying Dutch doctors' report.
By Peter Singer, Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and the author of "Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics" (St. Martin's Press, 1994).
In Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, two doctors from the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands outline the circumstances in which doctors in their hospital have, in 22 cases over seven years, carried out euthanasia on newborn infants. All of these cases were reported to a district attorney's office in the Netherlands. None of the doctors were prosecuted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-singer11mar11,0,1523799.story
Antisemitism
Peace at What Price?
By Dr. Alex Grobman
IHC Abstract
Jews went to Israel to escape antisemitism and when they arrived, discovered it was everywhere. Israelis have been reluctant to acknowledge antisemitism in Arab media and try to ignore the virulent plague of hatred that surrounds them. At the same time, Israeli Left-wing intellectuals do not want to admit that Arab antisemitism has poisoned the psyches of the Palestinians, because it justifies those who question Arab sincerity in peace talks.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/iii/080320052
Do Jews Dominate World Politics and Finance?
By Jock L. Falkson
IHC Abstract
A group of Russian nationalist MPs recently called for a ban on all Jewish groups, blaming them for provoking antisemitism and ethnic hatred. A letter, signed by 20 members of the Duma, called on the prosecutor-general to punish all Jewish groups in Russia because Jews dominate politics and finance abroad!
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/090320053
The Conquest of ‘Eurabia’
By Jonathan Tobin
IHC Abstract
Twenty-five years ago, author Bat Ye'or set out to debunk the myth that Jews and other non-Muslims enjoyed a golden age of freedom while living in Muslim-ruled lands. Her book, Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam, focused on the plight of those who lived as legal inferiors. Now she has expanded her focus. Her main concern today is how contemporary Europe is being transformed into a dhimmi nation. The result is her new book, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/090320053
Sex Ed Revisions Blasted for Alleged Pro-Homosexual Bias
By Kathleen Rhodes
CNSNews.com Correspondent
March 10, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - A new sex education program for 8th and 10th graders in Montgomery County, Md., public schools is being attacked by conservatives for allegedly advancing a homosexual agenda. The chairman of the advisory committee that drew up the sex education curriculum is a homosexual activist whose writings on a religious website include, "Gay Marriage, A Jewish Perspective."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200503%5CCUL20050310a.html
A Holocaust Memoir, Minus the Holocaust
By Jo-Ann Mort
March 11, 2005
Nine Suitcases: A Memoir
By Bela Zsolt
Schocken Books, 336 pages, $25.
Irving Howe wrote that after reading Italian writer Primo Levi, he wanted "to start having a conversation with him." Bela Zsolt's memoir of his time spent as a member of a Hungarian labor brigade in the Ukraine and later in the Nagyvarad Ghetto near the Romanian border during World War II gave me the same feeling. I felt that I knew Zsolt — and he would have fit in well at a meeting of Dissent, the social democratic journal founded by Howe. Here is an unsparing memoir of a leftist journalist and politician, Jewish by birth but largely assimilated and without any religious sentiment — "my parents had inherited Christmas from their parents as a folk custom" — that exposes a despairing intellectual in a world where all touchstones have failed him. Zsolt didn't edit his own memoir, but his sensibility comes through as powerful and unyielding.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=mort20050309938
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