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Under Airstrikes and Missiles, Gaddafi Forces Roll BackFrom Ajdabiya in the east to Misrata in the west, coalition aircraft on Wednesday targeted Libyan mechanized forces, mobile surface-to-air missile sites,...

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In Libya, New Rifts Open in International Coalition - Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoungCoalition aircraft flew about 80 sorties over Libya on Monday, up from 60 sorties one day earlier. About half of those missions were flown by U.S. pilots. Meanwhile, NATO members bickered...

Bulletin: Israeli Navy Seizes Arms Vessel heading to Gaza

The IDF seized an arms vessel heading toward Gaza with tons of concealed weapons. There was no resistance and the crew was not aware of the concealed cargo. Navy soldiers seized a German merchant vessel ...

Israeli Family Stabbed to death by Palestinian Terrorists

While sleeping, three children as young as months old and both parents were stabbed to death in their beds. The terrorists escaped to a local village in the West Bank . The IDF has been making arrests including two Palestinian Security personnel. Pictures of the brutal murder...

Israeli speaker attacked in N. Ireland

Displaying their hypocrisy, activists protesting Israel’s alleged oppression of the Palestinian Arabs violently attacked an Israeli dignitary invited to speak at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern...

PM Fayyad criticizes US "extortion": "Our rights are not for sale

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a $150-million grant to the Palestinian Authority four months ago, raising the 2010 total to nearly $600 million. She said that US aid "underscores the strong determination of the American people and this Administration to...

A Dialog about Anti-Semitism

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" “Only loss is universal and true cosmopolitanism in this world must be based on suffering.” Ignacio Silone(The author is a Jew and an...

Israel and Turkey: The Impossible Alliance

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" In June 2010, Turkey voted against the UN Security Council resolution that imposed a fourth round of sanctions on Iran for its enrichment of uranium. Earlier in 2010, Turkey and Brazil have struck a deal ...

Hezbullah Provides Mercenaries to Iran

ranian authorities brought approximately 1,500 Hizballah fighters from Lebanon to Iran to suppress opposition movements, according to a report originally published in the London-based Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Monday. Members of the Iranian-proxy terrorist organization...

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Gaddafi's Grip Falters as His Forces Take On Protesters - David D. Kirkpatrick and Mona El-NaggarThe faltering government of Libyan Col. Muammar Gaddafi struck back at mounting protests with special forces and mercenaries. Roving the streets of Tripoli in trucks, they...

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U.S. Tries to Head Off UN Vote Against Israeli Settlements - David E. SangerThe Obama administration was trying to head off a vote in the UN Security Council on Friday that would declare Israel's settlement...

Riots in Egypt about Food, not about “Freedom”

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008-9, riots erupted all over the world, from Thailand to the Ivory Coast and from Yemen to Albania. For some reason, the demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt were...

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West Backs Gradual Egyptian Transition - Kareem Fahim, Mark Landler and Anthony ShadidThe U.S. and leading European nations on Saturday threw their weight behind Egypt's vice president, Omar Suleiman, backing his attempt to defuse a popular uprising without immediately...

Wow Big Surprise Galloway Endorses an Islamic Revolution in Egypt

Former British MP and Viva Palestina leader George Galloway slammed the United States, Britain and President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday in a fiery speech he delivered at a Stop the War Coalition meeting in support of the Egyptian revolution in London. "Mubarak is not a person...

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U.S. Open to a Role for Islamists in New Egypt Government - Paul Richter and Peter NicholasThe Obama administration said for the first time that it supports a role for groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Islamist organization, in a reformed Egyptian...

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