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

To: Scoobah who wrote (11645)	1/20/2006 9:36:21 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Iran's leader challenges Europe to take back Jews in Israel The guy's definitely a lunatic, but he makes a certain point in this. Israel simply would not exist if it weren't for a combination of Old European anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. The project would not have been likely to have gotten off the ground. And it's been a win-win-win-win situation for Europe. After getting caught with the Holocaust going down under their watch, Europeans get to atone for the "error" by giving Jews their own state. In the process, they manage to get rid of a bunch of "those people". They allow Israelis to carry out a little bit of the Crusades by proxy at no cost to Europe. And last but not least, they get to demonize Jews all over again, now that the Palestinian "refugee problem" has been a festering sore in everybody's faces. Could one have asked for a more brilliant bit of geopolitics ? You've got to hand it to those Europeans.

To: Scoobah who wrote (11645)	1/20/2006 9:57:48 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

It seems Ahmadinejad is ignorant of the fact that when a practicing Jew builds his home in a land other than in Israel, he deliberately leaves one part of his home (usually the back or bathroom) unfinished as a constant reminder that the home is but a temporary one and that one day he is going to return to Israel. In other words, practicing Jews would return to Israel as if in fulfillment of prophecy. Yet Ahmadinejad believes that Jews would rather leave Israel for Europe if Europeans would lay down the welcome mat for them. Please correct me if I am mistaken: I have always thought that Jews were allowed to live anywhere in Europe but that most of them prefer to go home (Israel). BTW, I read a rather cryptic prophecy many years ago: "When all the Jews return to Israel, it would signal the end of the world." Care to comment, anyone? .

To: Scoobah who wrote (11645)	1/21/2006 7:09:16 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 32591

Closely following on the heels of the Osama tape is a tape by Al-Zawarhiri, Osama's deputy and buddy. It seems these two guys are very considerate of Bush and are uncanny in knowing when to issue taped messages calculated to help boost Bush's sagging image as a terrorist fighter. Hhhmmm, the tapes are very probably bogus; isn't the CIA insulting the intelligence of Americans? ========================================= Al Qaeda's No. 2 Follows bin Laden's Lead and Resurfaces By HASSAN M. FATTAH Published: January 20, 2006 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 20 - Just a day after Osama bin Laden resurfaced in a lengthy audiotape, a new recording by his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appeared today, praising the "martyrs of holy war" in Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories and elsewhere. The Central Intelligence Agency confirmed today that the voice on the 18-minute audiotape, posted on an Internet forum that has carried Al Qaeda communiqués before, was Mr. Zawahiri's. He read a poem honoring the "martyrs of jihad," or holy war, and dedicated it to "Muslim brothers everywhere, to the mujahedeen brothers in Islam's fortified borderlines against the Zionist-Crusader campaign in Palestine and Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya and to the lions chasing the crusaders' gangs and hired hands in Afghanistan's mountains and valleys and its wounded capital, Kabul." "I am honored to present this mujahedeen poem, written by Maulai Muhibbulla al-Qandahari, who carried the pen and the sword and was known in the circles of scholars and the training camps and the battlefields of jihad," he said. It was not immediately clear when the recording was made and whether it had any connection to the release of the Mr. bin Laden's recording on Thursday. There was no mention, either, of last week's missile attacks by the United States on a Pakistani village in the country's remote northeast, where Mr. Zawahiri was thought to be attending a dinner. Mr. Zawahiri appears not to have been present, but his son-in-law and two senior members of Al Qaeda are believed to have been among those killed, Pakistani officials said. The attacks, which killed 18 civilians, including women and children, stirred anger across Pakistan, particularly in the autonomous tribal regions, and were condemned by the Pakistani government. On Thursday, Mr. bin Laden broke a year's silence in a new recording on Al Jazeera, the Arab satellite television news channel, warning Americans that Al Qaeda was planning more attacks on the United States but also offering a "long truce" on undefined terms. The C.I.A. verified the recording's authenticity, and officials reasoned that the release might have been timed to assure his followers that Mr. bin Laden was alive and well days after the American airstrikes. In the tape, Mr. bin Laden addressed the American people directly, saying of his supporters, "Our situation is getting better while yours is getting worse." Mr. bin Laden offered the American people a vague truce, saying "both sides can enjoy security and stability under this truce so we can build Iraq and Afghanistan." Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking Thursday on Fox News, rejected the offer of a truce, saying: "We don't negotiate with terrorists. I think you have to destroy them." .