This is the latest in a series of missile tests by Pakistan this year (click here)
Bush's War Proliferation has to stop.
The USA has to come away from 'brinkmanship' to insure there isn't a nuclear nightmare in the Middle East.
There is absolutely no movement in any direction except escalating tensions.
Shalit family to 'celebrate' Gilad's second birthday in captivity (click here)
By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent
Friends and family of the Israeli soldier abducted by Palestinian militants last year plan to celebrate his 21st birthday Tuesday in a public rally in Tel Aviv. Gilad Shalit's relatives plan to place a large birthday cake in the middle of Rabin Square. The organizers will hand out refrigerator magnets reading: "Gilad Shalit, we're waiting for you back home," and "Indifference can kill." Shalit was abducted near the Gaza security fence on June 25 last year by a group of militants from Hamas, the Popular resistance Committees and a previously unknown group calling itself the Army of Islam. Hamas has reportedly been holding Shalit since the abduction....
Hamas sources differ on report of renewed attacks (click here)
By Amos Harel, Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent
Hamas officials offered differing opinions Sunday on the question of renewing terrorist attacks in the West Bank and Israel. A political adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Ahmad Yousef, told Haaretz that the Shin Bet's assessments that they are intensifying efforts to undermine diplomatic dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian Authority through a series of spectacular terrorist attacks are inaccurate. "There is no change in the Hamas position. Israel is threatening us and attacking us - we are only responding to provocations. But we do not intend to initiate any action, like the resumption of suicide bombings," Yousef said.
Abbas, Olmert to Meet This Week (click here)
Mohammed Mar’i & Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
GAZA CITY/RAMALLAH, 27 August 2007 — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are expected to meet again this week, Palestinian sources said yesterday.
Abbas earlier said that the Palestinian Authority would not consent to population exchanges as part of a permanent agreement that would leave some settlement blocs with Israel.
The Palestinian president was referring to a proposal formulated by Israeli President Shimon Peres while he was still vice premier, in which Israel would transfer to the Palestinian state areas equivalent to 100 percent of the territories conquered in the June 1967 war.
Mideast Peace: Critical Twelve Months Ahead (click here)
Walid M. Awad, Arab News
Israel’s Labor Party leader and defense minister, Ehud Barak, is not happy with the apparent resumption of peace talks, and seems to be frustrated with what he perceives as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s attempts to reach a peaceful agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Barak, who flaunted the opportunity in the year 2000 at Camp David in Washington to strike a final status agreement with the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, apparently, cannot entertain the idea that someone else can perhaps succeed where he failed. An Olmert peace deal with Abbas could mean the end of the political life of Barak; hence the recent intensification of the previously much taunted phrase “there is no Palestinian partner,” invented and propagated by Barak in late 2000 to justify his failure at the Camp David Summit in Washington....
Substantive Plan for Ending the Iraqi War (click here)
Jonathan Power, Arab News
...Here is a plan that will require not just American and British consent but active support from all over. It needs the full weight of the European Union and real credible backing from Moscow and Beijing. It also demands that the rest of the world pull their weight too — with troops, professionals and finance. Nearly every country in the world has a vested interest in making sure that Iraq does not go from bad to worse, that Iraq doesn’t become a major recruiting ground and front for Al-Qaeda.
For those who have doubts they should re-read the UN Charter. It was written with situations like this clearly in mind — when such is the hell that only the combined will and willingness of mankind can rectify the destruction being done.
