The U.S-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other members of his government reportedly are meeting with members of the Taliban to discuss a possible peace deal. According to The New York Times, the meetings apparently include members of the Taliban’s highest authority, the Quetta Shura, as well as members of the Haqqani network, although...
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This week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon to throngs of thousands upon thousands of cheering supporters who threw candies and rose petals at his passing motorcade. In a highly symbolic move, the Iranian leader went to Bint Jubail, just four miles north of the border with Israel, a southern Lebanese village that...
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“Get your facts first…then you can distort them as you please”- Mark Twain I left Israel, this week, with a heavy heart, wondering how the tables have been turned around so dramatically and in so remarkably short a time, against the Jewish state. It is with  incredible deft, that a physical war to eradicate...
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speeches to the United Nations, have something of a Barnum & Bailey feel to them. There are crowds outside the circus tent (most of them organized by pro-Israel organizations protesting his calls to genocide against the Jews, his Holocaust denial and his nuclear weapons program,) and usually Ahmadinejad can be counted on...
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