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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (8938)	4/15/2005 10:01:32 PM
From: steve kammerer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

A balance of power can and is well calculated by military planners. Israel used to complain if the US was going to sell too many war planes to Saudi Arabia so Israel was able to determine when the balance was going to tip too much.

To: lorne who wrote (8938)	4/16/2005 3:19:22 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

Moscow Most Anti-Semitic Place in Russia — HR Organization Created: 15.04.2005 15:30 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:30 MSK, 19 hours 43 minutes ago mosnews.com MosNews Click Here The Moscow Human Rights Bureau has released a report on anti-Semitism in Russia in 2004 and the first quarter of 2005. It found that there has been a rise of anti-Semitic activity in Russia. Moscow was described as the most dangerous city for Jews with 27 anti-Semitic attacks in that period. Five similar acts were registered in each of the cities of Volgograd, Voronezh, and Petrozavodsk and in the Kaliningrad region. St. Petersburg and Penza were third on the list with four attacks in each city. The report’s authors have included both “heavy” and “light” attacks, the Izvestia newspaper wrote on Friday. The more serious incidents were violent acts and terrorist attacks, the other category included slander, public offences and discrimination. For instance, the report mentioned a grenade explosion on the territory of a synagogue in January 2004 in the North Caucasus city of Derbent, and a bomb explosion in Moscow near the entrance of the Mekor Haim education center in March 2004 that caused no casualties. In March 2004 the president of the World Mountain Jews Congress, Zaur Gilalov, was killed. In Dagestan, two Jews were also killed. In January 2005, two rabbis were beaten up in Moscow. The report also mentions attacks on Jews committed by policemen. In number of anti-Semitic articles in 2005 has already equalled the total number for 2004, the report said. At the end of March 2005, a group of famous Russian cultural figures sent a letter to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office demanding that several Jewish organizations be banned. A similar letter was sent to prosecutors at the end of January. Then, it was also signed by a group of Russian MPs. The authors called the Jewish religion “anti-Christian and inhumane, whose practices extend even to ritual murders”. However, the deputies retracted their letter shortly afterwards.