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A masked Palestinian militant of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with the Fatah movement, holds posters showing late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat holding a picture of the Israeli-jail imprisoned Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi.
(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
Under the watchful eye of Israeli soldiers, background top, a boy holds a Palestinian flag as men perform their traditional Muslim Friday prayers, during a demonstration at a construction site where Israel is building part of its controversial separation barrier, in the southern West Bank village of Idna, near the city of Hebron, Friday, Dec. 10, 2004. Israel insists the barrier is necessary for its security, while Palestinians say it is a land grab.
(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
A Palestinian boy holds an election poster of jailed presidential candidate Marwan Barghouthi during a rally for the Fatah (news - web sites) movement in Rojeeb village near the West Bank city of Nablus, December 10, 2004.
REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini
A Palestinian artist paints murals of late the President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) (R) and Palestine Liberation Organization (news - web sites) leader Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza, December 10, 2004.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
A Palestinian artist paints a mural of Palestine Liberation Organization leader Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza December 10,2004
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites), left, talks with Labor Party opposition leader Shimon Peres, right, during a ceremony for Independence Day, marking the 56th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, in Jerusalem on April 27, 2004.
Palestinian artist Baha Al Khedra paints a mural of interim Palestinian leader and presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas, close to a painting of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), right, in Gaza city, Friday Dec. 10, 2004.
Rami Siyam, a brother of 7-year-old Palestinian Rana Siyam, shot and killed by Israeli forces, mourns over her body in the morgue of Nasser hospital at Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday Dec. 10, 2004.
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - A Palestinian protester lies on the ground as Israeli border police try to arrest him during a demonstration against the construction of Israel's controversial security barrier in the West Bank village of Biddu April 7, 2004.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Palestinian medics carry four children with the youngest being six month old (R), who were wounded after an Israeli tank fired a shell while they were sleeping at their home, in Beit Lahiya town north of Gaza Strip (news - web sites) October 6, 2004. Israeli tanks shelled a town in the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, killing three Palestinians and wounding 10 children in their houses, witnesses and medics said.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem REUTERS
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Palestinian security officers protect the coffin late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, inside Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 12, 2004. Yasser Arafat was buried on Friday in a chaotic scene of grief and gunfire at the compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army and powerless to realise his dream of a Palestinian state.
REUTERS/Oleg Popov
A Lebanese soldier (C) stands guard as dozens of Palestinian refugee children wait to see Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmud Abbas in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon. 12-09-2004
(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
A Palestinian refugee holds a portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (L) and Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmud Abbas during a crowded rally at the Rashidiyeh refugee camp in southern Lebanon. 12-09-04
(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
A Palestinian armed guard stands behind Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmud Abbas (R) and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei during their visit to the Rashidiyeh refugee camp, on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre. 12-09-04
(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
Relatives of 7-year-old Palestinian Rana Siyam, shot and killed by Israeli forces, mourn over her body in the morgue of Nasser hospital at Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday Dec. 10, 2004.
Palestinian artist Bahaa al-Qudra puts the final touches on his portrait of Palestinian Liberation Organisation chairman Mahmud Abbas in one of the main streets of Gaza City.
(AFP/Mohammed Abed)
Israeli soldiers shoot tear gas at Palestinians during a protest at a construction site of Israel's controversial West Bank barrier in the village of Edna, near Hebron.
(AFP/Hossam Abu Allan)
Palestinian members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades hold pictures of late president Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) and Fatah (news - web sites)'s jailed West Bank leader Marwan Barghuti in Rojeeb village during a gathering in support of Barghuti.
(AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)
A masked Palestinian gunman from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) takes part in a rally in the refugee camp of the West Bank town of Jenin
(AFP/Saif Dahlah)
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Palestinian security officers protect the coffin late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, inside Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 12, 2004. Yasser Arafat was buried in a chaotic scene of grief and gunfire at the compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army and powerless to realise his dream of a Palestinian state.
REUTERS/Oleg Popov
PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie speak during a news conference in Amman December 9, 2004. The two Palestinian leaders said on Thursday that they will visit Kuwait next week, the highest level visit since Iraq (news - web sites)'s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
REUTERS/Majed Jaber
Palestinian youths walk next to posters of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), right, and imprisoned Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, who is one of the candidates for the upcoming Palestinian elections, in Gaza city, Thursday Dec. 9, 2004.
Palestinians gather a round the bodies of four Palestinians who were killed by Israeli soldiers, during their funeral in Rafah refugee camp southern of Gaza Strip (news - web sites) December 9,2004. Israeli troops killed four Palestinians at a flashpoint Palestinian town on the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt on Wednesday, witnesses and medics said. Israeli military sources confirmed troops shot at a group of men spotted near the frontier at Rafah.
REUTERS/ Mohammed Salem
Palestinians inspect the damage to militant leader Jamal Abu Samhadana's car after an Israeli missile strike in the southern of Gaza Strip (news - web sites) December 9, 2004. Jamal Abu Samhadana, head of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), an umbrella group of militant factions, survived an Israeli missile strike on his car in Gaza on Thursday in Israel's first apparent assassination attempt in the Palestinian territories since Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) died in a Paris hospital.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinians mourn over the bodies of four Palestinians during their funeral in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004. The Israeli army said it shot at four suspicious figures crawling toward the Egyptian border late Wednesday, wounding at least two. Palestinian medics recovered the four bodies in the area of the incident.
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
A Palestinian school girl waits for a friend in front of wall graffiti, which reads in Arabic, 'Hamas', in Gaza City. US judge ordered four Islamic charities accused of raising money for the militant Palestinian group Hamas to pay 156 million dollars in damages to the parents of a teenager slain in the West Bank.
(AFP/File/Mohammed Abed)
Joyce and Stanley Boim get into a cab outside federal court in Chicago Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004, after three Islamic charities and an alleged fund-raiser for the Palestinian militant group Hamas were ordered to pay $156 million to the parents, whose 17-year-old son, David, was shot and killed by terrorists on Israel's West Bank eight years ago. The Boims, Americans who moved to Israel in 1985, sued under a U.S. law that allows victims of terrorism abroad to collect damages in American courts from organizations that furnish money to terrorist groups.
(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Norway's Minister of Development Hilde Frafjord Johnsen (R) welcomes Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath to the donors conference in Oslo. Shaath urged the world community to provide 4.5 billion dollars in reconstruction aid to help the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) lay the foundation for an independent state.
(AFP/Scanpix/Richardsen Tor)
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qureia, top, follows interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas out of an airplane at Beirut airport, Lebanon, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2004. Top Palestinian leaders made their first visit to Lebanon since Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) and his PLO guerrillas were driven out of the country more than two decades ago, in a sign of fast improving relations after Arafat's death.
(AP Photo/Adnan Hajj Ali)
Israeli soldiers scuffle with foreign peace activists during a protest at the construction site of Israel's controversial security barrier in the West Bank village of Budrus.
(AFP/Abbas Momani)
Palestinian mourners carry the body of Islamic Jihad activist Amir Islam during his funeral in Gaza City. Islam, 22, is one of two fighters from the radical Palestinian group who were killed in air strikes after an Israeli soldier died in an explosion
(AFP/Mahmud Hams)
Members of the armed wing of Hamas claim responsibility for an attack against Israeli troops during a press conference in Gaza City December 7, 2004. Four Palestinian militants and an Israeli soldier were killed Tuesday in the heaviest Gaza fighting since Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s death, raising the prospect that renewed violence could complicate a vote for his successor.
Photo by Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
Amnah Kamil the mother of Islamic Jihad militant Mahmoud Kamil Dobie holds a picture of her son as she sits with grandchildren Mohammed, 4, left, and Saja, 2, at the family house in the West Bank town of Jenin, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004. An elite Israeli army unit was suspended in recent days and the army is investigating whether soldiers killed the wounded Palestinian militant while he was in custody, army officials said. (
AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas
A Palestinian militant from Hamas stands with a rocket launcher as he takes a position during clashes with Israeli forces in eastern Gaza City, Tuesday Dec. 7, 2004. Israeli troops moved into the neighborhood early Tuesday after militants set off explosives in a booby-trapped chicken coop killing one Israeli soldier and wounding four, the Israeli army and militants said. Four militants were killed and seven Palestinians, including two teenagers, were wounded, Palestinian officials and militants said.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Members of the armed wing of Hamas, Izz eldeen al-Qassam Brigades, claim responsibility of an attack against Israeli troops during a press conference in Gaza City December 7, 2004. An Israeli soldier and two Palestinian militants were killed on Tuesday in the heaviest Gaza fighting since Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s death, raising the prospect that renewed violence could complicate a vote for his successor.
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Israeli soldiers scuffle with Israeli and foreign peace activists as they try to block construction at a site where a section of Israel's separation barrier is being built in the village of Budrus, near the West Bank town of Ramallah , Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security, while Palestinians say it is a land grab.
(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Yahoo Provided Wrong Caption Showing How Little Is Understood by U.S. Media: Israeli soldiers surround Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouthi(C) as he was prevented from entering Hebron's old city during a campaign stop, December 6, 2004. Barghouthi is considering pulling out of the presidential race to avoid splitting his mainstream Fatah (news - web sites) faction, an Israeli-Arab lawmaker said after visiting him in jail.
Photo by Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters
A wounded Palestinian is carried to hospital after Israeli's military fired a missile during a raid in the central Gaza Strip (news - web sites), December 7, 2004. An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian militant were killed in Gaza in a resurgence of violence that could threaten efforts to instill calm before a Palestinian election for a successor to Yasser Arafat (news - web sites).
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
(From L to R) Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei, Palestine Liberation Organization (news - web sites) (PLO) Chairman Mahmud Abbas and Syrian Foreign Minister Faruk al-Shara meet in Damascus.
(AFP/Louai Beshara)
Palestine Liberation Organization (news - web sites) (PLO) chairman Mahmud Abbas (pictured) and prime minister Ahmed Qorei are making the first visit by the Palestinian leadership to Syria since 1996 this week as part of efforts to open a new chapter in the often troubled relationship with Damascus.
(AFP/Mohammed Abed)
Palestinian artist Baha al-Khedra paints a mural of jailed West Bank Fatah (news - web sites) leader Marwan Barghuti at his studio in Gaza City.
(AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)
A Palestinian artist paints a large poster of jailed Fatah (news - web sites) leader Marwan Barghouthi in the street of Gaza city December 3, 2004. Marwan Barghouthi, 45, a popular uprising leader jailed by Israel, faced mounting criticism at home and abroad for his decision to run in a Jan. 9 presidential election to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat (news - web sites).
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
An Islamic Jihad militant waits outside a mosque in Khan Younes. Israeli soldiers killed a leading member of the armed wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in the north of the West Bank.
(AFP/File/Christophe Simon)
A Palestinian man touches a giant poster of Fatah's jailed leader and Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) presidential candidate Marwan Barghuti at his electoral office in Ramallah.
(AFP/Awad Awad)
Palestinian Mukbel Barghuti, brother of Fatah's jailed leader and Palestinian Authority presidential candidate Marwan Barghuti, stands in front of a giant poster of his brother at his electoral office in Ramallah.
(AFP/Awad Awad)
Palestinian representative to the United Nations and nephew of Yasser Arafat, Nasser Al-Kidwa, right, hands the late-Palestinian leader's medical records to caretaker President of the Palestinian Authority Rauhi Fattouh at Arafat's former headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Saturday Dec. 11, 2004. Al-Kidwa handed over the medical records Saturday to Palestinian Authority officials, but did not reveal any new information on what led to his demise.
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Palestinian students from the American University of Jenin pray over the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Sunday Dec. 12, 2004. Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, the candidate of Arafat's Fatah movement, is considered the front-runner in the Palestinian Jan. 9 election to choose Arafat's successor. Jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, however, has received strong support in recent polls, though pressure has increased on him to drop out in recent days. 12-12-04
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
BBC News Flash - Barghouti Out of Palestinian Race
Senior Jewish Neocon in the Bush Administration Elliot Abrams is in charge of the Middle East at the National Security Council.
Professor Rashid Khalidi teaches at Columbia University after the death of Edward Said.
Elliot Abrams - Bush Administration National Security Council Middle East Director
Professor Rashid Khalidi teaches at Columbia University in the Edward Said chair.
People hold a painting with an image of slain Shiite cleric Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr with Arabic sign for "No" with Britain, Israel and the United States depicted as dogs during prayer in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City Friday Dec. 17, 2004.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
The U.S., and Israel, now have Iran militarily surrounded.
Asia Times - 16 Dec 2004
The powerful Israeli/Jewish Lobby is thought to intersect with a network of 'dually-loyal' personalities and kindred spirits as the boundaries in this special case of Israel between loyalities and spying is not quite clear.
antiwar.com
'Lines in the Sand - The Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East' - a unique Multimedia CD made by Tiger Media in Canada in 1996.
'Lines in the Sand - The Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East.' 10 Top Middle East Experts Uniquely Share their Views and Experiences.
'Lines in the Sand - The Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East' - a unique Multimedia CD made by Tiger Media in Canada in 1996.
Ten Middle East Experts Discuss the 'Peace Process' in this unique multimedia CD published by Tiger Media in Canada in 1996 - 'Lines in the Sand - The Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East.'
A Palestinian woman walks next to posters of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and a inflatable Santa Claus in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Monday Dec. 20 2004. For the first Christmas season in five years, Israel and the Palestinians are cooperating to boost tourism to encourage Christian pilgrims to visit the Holy Land during the holiday.
(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
A group of self-serving American Palestinians who have cashed in over the years is now being pushed forward by the Abu Mazen-led Regime, the Americans, and the Israelis. Pictured here: Omar Kader, Jesse Oweida, Reema Ali, George Salem, Ziad Asali, Rashid Khalidi, George Hishmen, Talat othman, Naila Asali. Others not pictured include: Rafi Dajani, Hussein Ibish, Nino Kader, Hani Masri, Alfred Khoury, Rashid Khati, Marwan Atalla.
A sign instructing people to stop sits atop a holiday message posted by Israeli tourism, as Israeli border police officers wait for vehicles at the main checkpoint leading into the West Bank town of Bethlehem Thursday Dec. 23, 2004. For the first Christmas season in five years, Israel and the Palestinians are cooperating to boost tourism to encourage Christian pilgrims to visit the Holy Land during the holiday.
(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
Interim Palestinian leader and presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas, left, sits in the chair that was reserved in previous years for the late Yasser Arafat during the Christmas midnight mass at the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem Friday Dec. 24, 2004. Caretaker of the Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) Rawhi Fattouh is seated second from left.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
Palestinians carry the bodies of three Fatah militants killed by Israeli troops during their funeral in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, December 24, 2004. Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian militants in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm Friday, medics said. The shootings occurred hours before Christmas celebrations were to begin in another West Bank town, Bethlehem, site of Jesus' birth.
REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini
A bowling pin signed by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (C) sits between those of pop singer Deborah Gibson (L) and actor Omar Epps in a case at Bowlmor Lanes in the Greenwich Village section of New York, December 23, 2004. The bowling alley, that boasts celebrity customers, said it was returning $1.3 million reported to have come from Yasser Arafat (news - web sites).
Photo by Henny Ray Abrams/Reuters
Palestinian relatives of Rami Abu Aker, who was killed in an explosion on Thursday, mourn during his funeral at the Khan younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza strip, December 24,2004.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
The young Palestinian brother of Rami Abu Aker, who was killed in an explosion on Thursday, cries during his funeral at the Khan Younis refugee camp southern Gaza strip December 24, 2004.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palstinians pass a large mural of Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza city December 26, 2004. Prominent Palestinian figures appealed for an end to violence, adding weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
Photo by Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
Interim Palestinian leader and presidential front-runner Mahmoud Abbas is surrounded by his bodyguards as he is cheers by his supporters during a rally to mark the 40th anniversary of Fatah movement's foundation in Gaza City, Friday Dec. 31, 2004. Thousands of Palestinians gathered at the Palestinian Legislative council to mark the anniversary of the 1965 founding of Fatah.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Interim Palestinian leader and presidential front-runner Mahmoud Abbas speaks to supporters during a campaign rally in the Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2005. Palestinians are going to the polls on Jan.9 to elect the successor to the late Yasser Arafat.
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
An illustration of the extra-legal U.S. plans for indefinite imprisonment and 'interrogation' without sufficient evidence for trial and without any legal process.
'DeathDealer' - From Page 1 of the Washington Times on 4 January 2005.
Interim Palestinian leader and the front-runner in the upcoming presidential elections Mahmoud Abbas, center, greets his supporters during a campaign rally in the old city of the West Bank city of Nablus Thursday, Jan. 6 , 2005. During the rally Abbas described Israeli leader Ariel Sharon as a partner for peace talks and said he hopes negotiations will resume soon after the weekend elections. Palestinians go to the polls Jan. 9 to elect a successor to the late Yasser Arafat.
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Interim Palestinian leader and presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas holds a child during a campaing rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday Jan. 7, 2005. Palestinians are going to the polls on Jan. 9 to elect a successor to the late Yasser Arafat.
.(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
Shiite Muslims chant slogans prior to the beginning of Friday prayers, in Baghdad's Shiite enclave Sadr city, Friday, Jan. 7, 2005. The poster contains portraits of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, center, his late father Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right, and uncle Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

From the DrudgeReport on U.S. Inauguration Day, 20 Jan 2005
Bill Dixon sits in the lobby of the Madison Hotel, where he waited to join a friend for a reception for Vice President Cheney. 20 Jan 2005
(Tetona Dunlap -- The Washington Post)
Palestinian police deployed across the northern Gaza Strip on Friday to prevent rocket fire on Israeli communities. 21 Jan 2005
AP
Palestinian police deployed across the northern Gaza Strip on Friday to prevent rocket fire on Israeli communities.
AP
President Bush talks with his father, former President George H. W. Bush, left, during the 55th Presidential Inaugural Prayer service at Washington's National Cathedral, Friday, Jan. 21, 2005. First lady Laura Bush and daughters Barbara Bush, partially hidden, and Jenna Bush, right, also attend the service. 21 Jan 2005
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Bush with Outgoing Sec of State Colin Powell on Inaugural Day, 20 Jan 2005
Special Video Documentary with Noam Chomky - THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Fireworks Over The White House the Night Before the Inaugural - 19 January 2005
The Bush/Cheney Second Term Began With Billy Graham at the Washington National Cathedral the day after the Inaugural.
21 January 2005
Prayer Service Launches Bush Second Term. Billy Graham Proclaimed Bush's Re-Election an act of God at the Washington National Cathedral the day after the 2005 Inaugural.
United Jewish Appeal Poster After World War II - "Their Fight Is Our Fight - For Refugees, Overseas Needs, and Palestine"
Library of Congress - 31 Dec 2004
In The Denver Post following the Bush Inaugural Speech on 20 Jan 2995
A commentary on the second Bush Inaugural Address
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
Inauguration Day in Washington, DC - 20 January 2005
Christian Abraham
A caricature that appeared in the Village Voice soon after the 20 January 2005 Bush Inaugural
Village Voice
Ariel Sharon on 27 January 2005
PBS News Hour
Ayatollah Sistani and Muqtada Sadr are the popular candidates even in U.S. occuped Iraq
Palestinians chant Islamic slogans, as they participate in a Hamas movement rally in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, Saturday Jan. 29, 2005. The Islamic group won an overwhelming victory in local elections in 10 Gaza towns, in a setback for the Fatah Party of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The Hamas victory reflected widespread support in Gaza for the movement, which provides welfare, schools and kindergartens to the impoverished residents of the territory.
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) - 29 Jan 2005
Residents of Sadr City rally with election posters and flags of Shiite clerics Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Muqtada al-Sadr, Baghdad, Saturday Jan. 29, 2005. Iraqis are to choose a 275-member National Assembly and legislatures in each of the 18 provinces in Sunday's balloting.
(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) 29 Jan 2005
Residents of Sadr City parade with election posters and flags of Shiite clerics Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Muqtada al-Sadr, during a rally in Baghdad, Saturday Jan. 29, 2005. Iraqis are to choose a 275-member National Assembly and legislatures in each of the 18 provinces in Sunday's balloting.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim) - 29 Jan 2005
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - MiddleEast.org
Condi Rice on Face the Nation Days After Becoming Secretary of State
Face The Nation, 30 Jan 2005
Front Page Headlines - Washington Times - 31 Jan 2005
Front Page Headlines - Washington Post - 31 Jan 2005
Front Page Headlines - Washington Post and Times - 31 Jan 2005
A U.S. judge ruled on January 31, 2005 that the Guantanamo military tribunals for terrorism suspects are unconstitutional. In a setback for the Bush administration, U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green also ruled the Guantanamo prisoners have constitutional protections under the law. Detainees hold onto a fence Guantanamo in this August 26 file photo.
Photo by Pool/Reuters
An unidentified woman looks at a sign on the floor following a mock Palestinian refugee camp at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Monday, Jan. 31, 2005. Jewish groups are condemning the University of Toronto for permitting an Arab student club to hold a week-long series of lectures entitled, "Israeli Apartheid Week." The program, organized by the Arab Students Collective, began Monday with lectures about the roots of what the students call Israels ethnic cleansing and segregation of Palestinians.
(AP PHOTO/Aaron Harris)
Posters of Ayatollah Sistany Prominently Appeared on the Election Day called by the U.S. occupation regime
From Steve Bell in The Guardian - February 2005
Steve Bell, The Guardian, 2-2-05
U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, left, shakes hand with his Pakistani counterpart Hamid Nawaz Khan, right, prior to their meeting in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. Senior officials from Pakistan and the United States began talks Thursday aimed at increasing defense cooperation with Pakistan.
(AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) - 2-2-2005
One of the weakest and least credibible Secretary of States in American history.
An Israeli standing near an unexploded Qassam rocket that hit the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip.
Reuters - 10 Feb 2005
Massive Demonstrations sponsored by Hezbollah in Beirut on 8 March 2005
nbctoday
Massive Demonstrations sponsored by Hezbollah in Beirut on 8 March 2005
NBCToday
This cartoon appeared shortly after Senator Robert Byrd made oblique comparisons between the Bush and Hitler Administrations
At the massive anti-U.S. demonstration in Beirut on 8 March 2005
At the massive anti-U.S. demonstration in Beirut on 8 March 2005
At the massive anti-U.S. demonstration in Beirut on 8 March 2005
At the massive anti-U.S. demonstration in Beirut on 8 March 2005
At the massive anti-U.S. demonstration in Beirut on 8 March 2005
Picture Caption on Al-Jazeera.com - "At least 1.5 million pro-Syrian protesters gather in a central Beirut square, Lebanon" on 8 March 2005
Ultimatum to Syria from U.S. via U.N.
11 March 2005
U.S. Gaining World Respect and Fear Says Rumsfeld
11 March 2005
Secret Team of U.S. Doctors Treated Ukraine Leader
Professor Noam Chomsky - Widely Applauded by Students and Intellectuals around the world.
Palestinian policemen support the door at the entrance of the Muqata'a, the Palestinian government compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, after demonstrators tried to push their way through during UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's visit for talks with the Palestinian leadership, on 14 March 2005. Palestinians gathered to denounce Israel's controversial West Bank security barrier, with protestors trying to bash down the metal gates, as Annan arrived, angry at his refusal to tour the Wall that the ICJ declared was "illegal" in 2004.
Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images
Some 400 drivers line up their taxis to form the word "peace" during a protest denouncing Beijing's recent approving an anti-secession law aimed at Taiwan Tuesday, March 22, 2005, in Taipei, Taiwan. The protest leads up to Saturday's planned protest to gather one million Taiwanese to show public disapproval to the anti-secession law that give China legal means to halt any form of Taiwan independence including military attack.
(AP Photo Ran You-shun)**TAIWAN OUT**
A boy, center, wears a costume intended to look like a rocket, like those fired against Israelis from Palestinian Gaza Strip, the outfit and those of the other children is part of the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim, in Gush Katif Israeli settlement block, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 23, 2005.
Ziad Asali at White House supporting Bush war policies
Noam Chomsky Delivered a Lecture in memory of Edward Said at the University of Edinburgh on 22 March 2005.
Noam Chomsky Delivered a Lecture in memory of Edward Said at the University of Edinburgh on 22 March 2005.
Ziad Asali used by President Bush at White House to give impression of Arab and Palestinian support.
Example of subscribers from around the world during just the morning hours of 25 March 2005
Subscribers to MER during a few hours on 25 March 2005
Subscribers to MER during a period on 25 March 2005
Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli occupation forces in March 2003
Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev visited the White House on September 23, 2002, to formalize agreements allowing U.S. basing rights near Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital. On March 24, 2005, he fled the presidential palace as protestors opposing his authoritarian rule overran government buildings.
(Photo: White House)
Israel's Apartheid Wall under construction between Tantura and Beit Sahour.
Leading Neocon Ambassador John Bolton
Leading Bush Neocon Ambassador John Bolton
Leading Bush Adminstration Neocon Ambassador John Bolton
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
This Illustration Used In Israeli Newspaper Haaretz With Article by Former Mossad Chief about Pax Americana
The U.S. and Israeli-supported leadership of the 'Palestinian Authority'
The crisis over other countries developing modern weapons has reached a boil
Norman Finkelstein - Author of THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY
Caricature of new Pope Benedict and his German Nazi youth past
British MP George Galloway Made A Full-Scale One-Man Assault on U.S. Policies and the U.S. Congress on 17 May 2005
British M.P. George Galloway Blasted the U.S. Congress in a most unusual upstaging not often scene in Washington.
Israel's Mr. TV, Haim Yavin, Condemned Israel's Brutal Occupation in 2005.
Hamas Is On the March in Occupied Palestine - This Woman With Picture of Assassinated Hamas Founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin
Professor Avi Shlaim was born in Iraq, emigrated to Israel, and teaches at Oxford in the U.K.
Militants of the Al-Asa Martyrs Brigades, a militia linked to the ruling Fatah movement, march during a rally against the alleged desecration of the Quran by Israeli prison guards, in Gaza city, Monday June 13, 2005. On Sunday also, two Islamic militant groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, responsible for dozens of suicide bombings threatened to pull out of a four-month-old cease-fire, accusing Israel of violating the truce.
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
U.S. President George W. Bush appeared to give a Hitler-like salute when he spoke at the 2005 President's Dinner, a Republican Party fundraiser, in Washington D.C. on June 14, 2005.
REUTERS/Chris Kleponis
In this handout photo made available by Lebanon's official photo agency, a man holds a photo of Lebanon's slain former Premier Rafik Hariri, right, together with his son and political successor Saad, left, during a rally for Saad Hariri's electoral coalition in the northern port of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, June 16, 2005.
AP
James Jeffrey, acting U.S. ambassador to Iraq, left, bids farewell to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani goodbye during a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 16, 2005. Five U.S. Marines died yesterday in a roadside bomb blast in western Iraq amid surging violence in the region.
(AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
The Neocon Secretary of State and the Evangelical President Pursue Crusading Democracy in the Middle East
TIME Magazine's MAN OF THE YEAR in 1938 was Adolph Hitler, Chancellor of Germany
TIME Magazine's MAN OF THE YEAR in 1938 was Adolph Hitler.
Hitler was on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1936, and two years later he was the Time Magazine Man of the Year.
Judith Miller, working with the Washington Neocons, and writing in the New York Times, considerably helped build up public opinion for the invasion of Iraq
The London Sun spoofs and mocks Iraq's former President
The Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 led to the election of Ronald Reagan. Today's Iranian President-elect is said to have been among the leaders who took the American Embassy and Hostages at that time.
The Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 led to the election of Ronald Reagan. Today's Iranian President-elect is said to have been among the leaders who took the American Embassy and Hostages at that time.
The Iranian Revolution in 1979 led to the takeover of the American Embassy in Iran and the holding of American hostages for more than 400 days. It also lead to the election of Ronald Reagan in the U.S. in 1980.
The Iranian Revolution in 1979 changed history in the Middle East and in the U.S. Ronald Reagan was election partly as a result in 1980. The new President-elect of Iran is now said to have been one of the student organizers who captured the American Embassy and held American hostages for more than 400 days.
AIPAC - Power House in Washington
AIPAC is the powerful Israeli-Jewish Lobby in Washington
test of adding photo with same AIPAC name
test of adding photo with aipaC name
Subscribers on just one day to MiddleEast.Org
The may sins of NYTimes Judith Miller
The U.S. will be greatly reducing military forces in Iraq possibly for use in other conflicts and partly because of troops shortages. Iraq may descend into civil conflict.
The U.S. will be greatly reducing military forces in Iraq possibly for use in other conflicts and partly because of troops shortages. Iraq may descend into civil conflic
Washington Times Editor Rants about Clash of Civilizations and 'West's Last Chance'...
The tips of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles obscured a poster of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, yesterday during annual 'Sacred Defense Week' celebrations in Tehran.
AP - Wash Times - 25 Sept 05
Palestinian gunmen from eight armed factions attend a news conference in Gaza declaring unity if attacked.
Reuters - October 8, 2005
Mahmoud Abbas Appeared Before the Press in Ramallah on 8 October 2005 Under the beaming picture of Yasser Arafat.
President George Bush Letting Out His Frustrations as his political fortunes deteriorated in 2005.
The Washington Underground's Approach To 'Bush's Brain' Karl Rove
President George Bush Again... "No One Anticipated..."
President Bush with Condi Rice to his right and Michael Chertoff tohis left
Judith Miller of the NYTimes - 'Woman of Mass Destruction'
Armored vehicles from a reconnaissance squadron based in Fort Lewis, Wash., were stationed along a 20-mile stretch of highway 9 between Columbus and Playas, N.M., watching for illegal immigrants. Wash Times - 4 Nov 2005
AP - 3 Nov 2005
Winning the 'Clash of Civilizations' - Wash Times Editor Screams
Mustapha Akkad was killed in the Amman bombings in November 2005
A Palestinian policeman stands under a picture of the late Yasser Arafat during a rally to mark the first anniversary of Arafat's death in Gaza City Saturday Nov. 12, 2005. Arafat died in a French hospital on Nov. 11, 2004, after a two-week illness.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
A jet-lagged President Bush tries unsuccessfully to exit a Beijing news conference during his Asian economic summit trip.
(By Jason Reed -- Reuters)
President Bush Found Himself Locked In At A Press Conference in Beijing
A Mysterious X appeared on CNN over Cheney's Picture as he spoke at AEI in downtown Washington on 21 Nov 2005
A Mysterious X appeared on CNN over Cheney's Picture as he spoke at AEI in downtown Washington on 21 Nov 2005
Bush/Cheney Wanted to Bomb Al-Jazeera HQ headlines the Daily Mirror on 22 Nov 2005
Bush/Cheney Wanted to Bomb Al-Jazeera HQ headlines the Daily Mirror on 22 Nov 2005
Bush Wanted To Bomb Al-Jazeera HQ last year according to the British
Dick Cheney is considered by many the Rasputin of Washington in the era of the neocons and the evangelicals
VP Cheney Is Even Lower in the Polls than Pres bush
Mid-November 2005



In Austria you can be charged with 'denying the holocaust'

Sharon, your middle of the road candidate
The story of Bush wanting to bomb AlJazeera HQ has created an unprecedented threatening and gagging of the media in Britain.
Americans Knews No Iraqi Connection with Al-Qaeda from the start

New Wireless Skype Phone from Linksys

King Abdullah II speaks with his newly-named Prime Minister, Maaruf Bakhit, the former Jordanian Ambassador to Israel.
Saddam Hussein, Awad Hamed Al-Bandar and Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid appear at their trial held under tight security in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone in Iraq on Oct. 19, 2005. The court trying Saddam Hussein and seven others for a 1982 massacre of 148 Shiites.
(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
IDF Navy, Dolphin submarine. Media recently reported that Germany has agreed to sell Israel two Dolphin submarines that could be armed with nuclear weapons and used against Iran in the event of an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel.
IDF - Jerusalem Post - 1 Dec 2005
Military rally in Iran last week. Banner on bus reads "Israel should be wiped out of the face of the world."
AP - Jerusalem Post - 1 Dec 2005
The Obelisk of Buenos Aires is covered with a giant condom to commemorate World AIDS Day December 1, 2005. According to a report issued by ONUSIDA (UN AIDS), the number of people infected with the HIV virus in Latin America had risen over the last year from 1.6 to 1.8 million.
REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian
Murielle Degauque was, by all accounts, a normal child. A typical girl next door in Belgium. But she became the first Western 'Suicide Bomber',

Pentagon Scandal About Writing, Buying, and Planting Media Stories Eruped in December 2005. Washington-based CIA-connected 'Lincoln Group' on K Street at the core of it




Bill O'Reilley Screamed Out on Today Show as hosts joked about a little 'padded room' and caffein craziness


Alan Dershowitz (left), Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Noam Chomsky (right), Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, debated the future of Israel and Palestine at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in December 2005.
(Staff photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office)
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti berate the court during their trial in Baghdad.
Photograph: David Furst/pool/AP


The American Ambassador With the Biggest Spin of all just before the 15 Dec 2005 Elections in U.S.-occupied Iraq



Bush Speaking at the Government Funded Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Ronald Reagan Building Near the White House on 14 Dec 2005






Massive P.R. Advertising by the Saudi Government in the American Media




President Eisenhower Made His Legacy a blatant warning about the Military-Industrial Complex - 1 of 4
President Eisenhower Made His Legacy a blatant warning about the Military-Industrial Complex - 2 of 4
President Eisenhower Made His Legacy a blatant warning about the Military-Industrial Complex - 3 of 4
President Eisenhower Made His Legacy a blatant warning about the Military-Industrial Complex - 4 of 4

Iran Women Soldiers prepare to defend th country against threatened U.S. and Israeli attack
'Curveball' fed the U.S. the deceptive 'intelligence' it sought to invade Iraq


Israel's long-time 'Statesman' Shimon Peres
Fierce Critic Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Liberature in 2005
Saddam Hussein was put on trial in U.S.-occupied Iraq in 2005 for what happened in Dujail in 1980
American Amb Zalmay Khalilzad Declaring the U.S. in bringing Freedom to the World via occupied Iraq
Iraq - December 2005
President Bush and the Israeli-Jewish Lobby in Washington - a political and strategic alliance to control the Middle East as wel as Washington
Political Warfare in Washington in Dec 2005
Secretary of State Albright in 1998 about Iraq
The Iraq Liberation Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998 when Bill Clinton was President.

Harold Pinter Delivered His Scathing Nobel Prize Lecture in December 2005





A torrent of criticism and charges erupted when secret domestic spying became known in December 2005.
19 Dec 2005




Masked and black-gloved secret agents of the US have snatched people in Europe and 'rendered' them to secret prisons and foreign countries for tortuous 'integration'
Masked and black-gloved secret agents of the US have snatched people in Europe and the Middle East and 'rendered' them to secret prisons and foreign countries for tortuous 'integration'


The American President Has Declared Christ to be His Savior - But What A Comparison
Village Voice - 23 Dec 2005



Egyptian Opposition Leader Ayman Nour Shows His Views From Prison

Sharon, Bibi, and Peretz -- Israel's Current Big Three with Sharon Loomer Bigger Than All









NBC's online Impeacement Vote as of 28 Dec 2005





A Palestinian boy takes part in a celebration in Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's sudden health collapse January 5, 2006. The Arabic characters on the banner read, "Sharon go to hell".
President Bush with present and former secretaries of state and defense. From left: Harold Brown, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, James A. Baker III, Colin L. Powell, James R. Schlesinger, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Mr. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, George P. Shultz, Melvin R. Laird, Robert S. McNamara, Madeleine K. Albright, Alexander M. Haig Jr., Frank C. Carlucci, William J. Perry and William S. Cohen.
Ariel Sharon's Life Embodies the Struggle to defeat and vanquish the Palestinians
Miss Universe 2005 contestant Helene Traasavik of Norway models during the swimwear competition in Bangkok May 26, 2005. The Church of Norway forced a priest to resign on Friday from a panel set to judge bikini-clad women competing to be the country's Miss Universe contestant.
REUTERS/Adrees Latif
A Palestinian boy stands in front of a Hamas graffiti during a Hamas movement campaign rally for a Palestinian legislative election, in Gaza January 16, 2006. U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority would be reviewed and possibly reduced if it gave Hamas a role in government after this month's Palestinian election, U.S. diplomatic sources have said.
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh addresses his supporters during a Hamas movement campaign rally for the Palestinian legislative elections in Gaza January 16, 2006. U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority would be reviewed and possibly reduced if it gave Hamas a role in government after this month's Palestinian election, U.S. diplomatic sources have said.
A Palestinian boy wearing a Hamas banner on his head attends a Hamas movement campaign rally for the Palestinian legislative elections in Gaza January 16, 2006.
Palestinian Hamas supporters shout anti-Israel slogans during a Hamas movement campaign rally for the Palestinian legislative elections in Gaza January 16, 2006. U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority would be reviewed and possibly reduced if it gave Hamas a role in government after this month's Palestinian election, U.S. diplomatic sources have said.
Palestinian Hamas' candidates for the Legislative Council shout anti-Israel slogans during a Hamas movement campaign rally for the Palestinian legislative elections in Gaza January 16, 2006
Aymen al-Zawahiri
Aymen al-Zawahiri




The American Israel Public Affairs Committee - AIPAC - The Israeli/Jewish Lobby in Washington
In May 2005 the Soviet-made Varyag emerged from a dry dock with a fresh coat of gray, Chinese navy paint.
www.varyagworld.com
Lead Article in Sunday Washington Post Exposes U.S. Duplicity in Supporting 'Democracy' in the Middle East

A new Pentagon-sponsored report says the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency.
MSNBC - 24 Jan 06
The Islamic Party Hamas captured a large majority of seats in Palestinian election on 25 January 2006
Fatah supporters protesting its leadership - caption in Jerusalem Post after Hamas Wins Big in January 2006 Election
Jerusalem Post - 1-30-06

Princeton Conference With Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter, Cornell West, and Mark Bruzonsky
Hamas poster boys. Portraits of Yassin with Bin Laden and the leaders of the Chechen mujahideen together on a placard distributed in Jenin and Hebron.
Jerusalem Post - 3 Feb 06
Hamas Wins In Sweeping Historic Victory
Hamas Wins In Sweeping Historic Victory

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson with Colin Powell whom he served as Chief of Staff at the State Department through January 2005
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson with Colin Powell whom he served as Chief of Staff at the State Department through January 2005



Diana's Death An 'Assassination' After All?
Daily Express, UK, 6 Feb 2006
Princeton University Forum featured Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter, Prof Cornell West, and Journalist Mark Bruzonsky
Conservatives Groups in the US have begun selling T-Shirts with the controversial 'Mohamed' Cartoons
The U.S. along with Israel and other countries is preparing a military assault if Iran does not yield
Telegraph, UK, 12 Feb 06
The Controversy over defaming cartoons of Mohamed has uncovered further the 'Clash of Civilizations'
Mohamed Cartoons Page Published in U.S. by Neocon WEEKLY STANDARD
A Muslim World Boycott of Danish Goods Erupted Because of Mohammed Cartoons
Conservative Groups in the U.S. are using the Mohamed Cartoons to fan the flames of the 'Clash of Civilizations'
Norway's Ms. Universe 2005

VIP 'Palestinian Authority' US-Connected Nabil Shaath

The Neocon WEEKLY STANDARD in the U.S. with close ties to the Israeli-Jewish Lobby first published the 'Clash of Civilizations' Mohamed Cartoons in the U.S.
Vice-President Cheney's Gun Mistake came at a time when many were already gunning for his departure.
This is a thumbnail version of page three of Jyllands-Posten's culture section from September 30, 2005 which sparked the Muhammad drawings controversy.
Protestors Around the World With Signs about Amercan Terrorism
Sibel Edmonds, one of Washington major Whistle Blowers after 9/11
Secretary of State Rice Spoke at Princeton on 1 Oct 2006 gushingly introduced by Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter
More Damning Photos of Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq were finally published in Australia in February 2006
More Damning Photos of Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq were finally published in Australia in February 2006
Israeli, U.S., and European Policies Brought on the Victory by Hamas in January 2006
MiddleEast.Org and MEReport.com
MiddleEast.Org and MEReport.com
Hamas lawmakers attending a meeting to prepare the first session of the new Palestinian parliament in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on 17 Feb 2006.
Published Far Away in Australia, More Damning Pictures of U.S. treatment of Iraqis were published in February 2006.
Published Far Away in Australia, More Damning Pictures of U.S. treatment of Iraqis were published in February 2006.
Published Far Away in Australia, More Damning Pictures of U.S. treatment of Iraqis were published in February 2006.
Published Far Away in Australia, More Damning Pictures of U.S. treatment of Iraqis were published in February 2006.
Published Far Away in Australia, More Damning Pictures of U.S. treatment of Iraqis were published in February 2006.
Published Far Away in Australia, More Damning Pictures of U.S. treatment of Iraqis were published in February 2006.
Published Far Away in Australia, More Damning Pictures of U.S. treatment of Iraqis were published in February 2006.
Were Israelis Involved at Abu Ghraib?
The Project for the New American Century - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle
Palestinian relatives of prisoners jailed in Israel demonstrate outside the Palestinian Authority headquarters during the swearing-in session of the new Palestinian Parliament in the West Bank town of Ramallah Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006. A Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament was sworn for the first time.
(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a news conference in Gaza February 19, 2006. Israel settled on Sunday for watered-down restrictions on the Palestinian Authority in an apparent nod to U.S. calls to avoid adding to Palestinian hardship after Hamas's election victory.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas' Ismail Haniya salutes following his press conference in Gaza City. Hamas has chosen the leader of their triumphant election campaign to become their first ever prime minister of a Palestinian government which Israel has branded a terrorist regime.
(AFP/Mohammed Abed)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and new Hamas parliament members Mohammed Abu Teirr and Abdul Aziz Duaik of the Islamic group Hamas in a meeting in Ramallah on Feb. 19, 2006.
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
From L-R: Newly-elected deputies of the Islamist movement Hamas Said Syam, Ismail Haniyeh, Abdel Fatah Doukhan, and Mahmud al-Zahar meet to prepare for the first session of the new Palestinian Legislative Council at the home of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the al-Shatti refugee camp in Gaza City. The Hamas-dominated parliament was sworn in Saturday, 18 Feb 2006.
(AFP/Mahmud Hams)
A Palestinian boy holds an Islamic flag during a rally in support of the Islamic group Hamas in Gaza City, Friday, Feb. 17, 2006.
A Palestinian woman wearing an Islamic headband attends a rally in support of the Islamic group Hamas in Gaza City, Friday, Feb. 17, 2006.
Palestinian Hamas supporters pray before a Hamas rally against cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad, published in several European newspapers, in Gaza February 17, 2006
Elected Hamas lawmakers Mahmoud al-Zahar (R) and Abdel Fatah Dukhan attend a meeting to prepare for the first session of the new Palestinian parliament in Gaza February 17, 2006.
Newly elected Palestinian parliament member from Hamas Abu Tir (L) from Jerusalem talks on mobile phone with colleague Yasser Mansour from Nablus in Ramallah, February 17, 2006.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (L) attends Friday prayers in Gaza February 17, 2006.
Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, attends a public talk at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel, February 16, 2006. The exiled Tibetan leader said on Wednesday he would be happy to meet members of the militant group Hamas but acknowledged it may be too soon for Israel to talk to the Palestinian election winner.
REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
A Sudanese youth distrbutes Palestinian flags and Hamas moto's to people in Khartoum, Sudan TFeb. 14, 2006. A Sudanese students association organized a youth rally as a Hamas delegation visited Khartoum where the Hamas Movement was lauded for its victory in the Palestinian elections.
(AP Photo/Abd Raouf).
German Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C) is accompanied by unidentified officials at the start of his his tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Israel has won support from Germany in its campaign to persuade the international community to maintain its isolation of the radical Islamist group Hamas after its Palestinian election victory
(AFP/Pool/Uriel Sinai)
Palestinian supporters of the Islamic movement Hamas take part in a rally at the Islamic University of Gaza City, 06 February, to celebrate the group's victory in the parliamentary elections.
sraeli security personnel prevent a Palestinian man from entering the Al-Aqsa mosque compound for Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City February 10, 2006.
British-based Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was accused by U.S. authorities of iciting terrorism and was found guilty by a London court in February 2006.
(Matt Dunham/Reuters)






By Joel Pett, Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate, for USA TODAY
The Golden Dome Mosque in Samarra was bombed on 22 February 2006 further escalating the Iraqi Civil War already underway.
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad is the current American power-broker in Iraq and the region.
The golden dome dominated the Samarra skyline
BBC - 23 Feb 2006
Kadima party candidates for March 2006 general elections stand beneath a portrait of ailing Israeli premier Ariel Sharon at a conference in Jerusalem.
(AFP/File/Yoav Lemmer)
A right-wing Israeli supporter holds the star of David with the word 'Jewish' written on it during a protest in Jerusalem February 5, 2006. Thousands of Israelis gathered in central Jerusalem to protest against acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and police's conduct during the evacuation of a Jewish settlement of Amona last week.
REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
A right-wing Israeli supporter holds the star of David with the word 'Jewish' written on it during a protest in Jerusalem February 5, 2006. Thousands of Israelis gathered in central Jerusalem to protest against acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and police's conduct during the evacuation of a Jewish settlement of Amona last week.
REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
Palestinian supporters of Islamic Jihad hold banners with pictures of President Bush (L-R), Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Israeli interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the Gaza Strip, January 31, 2006.
(Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
Israeli acting premier Ehud Olmert speaks at a Kadima party conference in Jerusalem.
(AFP/Yoav Lemmer)
Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (L) and veteran Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, who recently abandoned the Labour Party for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new party Kadima, attend the opening of the elections campaign for Kadima Party in Jerusalem January 31, 2006.
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and veteran Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, who recently abandoned the Labour Party for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new party Kadima, attend the opening of the elections campaign for the Kadima Party in Jerusalem January 31, 2006.
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sits next to the empty chair of ailing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem January 29, 2006.
(Baz Ratner/Pool/Reuters)

George Bush and Dick Cheney Walk Together Toward the East Room in the White House
Some in powerful positions in the West have taken to comparing today's 'radical Islam' with Nazi Facism
Israel, the Occupied Territories, and Surrounding Countries
George Bush - The Great Strategic Thinker (parady of course on The Daily Show)
Walter Cronkite - Known as one of the most credible and respected men in America.
George Bush's Poll Numbers were the lowest in history in February 2006
The 'Conditions' Pushed on Hamas
Robert Satloff - Long-time official of the Israeli-Jewish Lobby in Washington
Amjad Atallah - Long-time adviser for the PLO working with U.S. government and Israeli and Jewish organizations
Mahmoud Abbas Represents the past corruption and thievery of VIP Palestinians approved by the U.S. and Israel
Mahmoud Abbas Continues to head the Palestinian National Authority even with Hamas voted to power overwhelmingly
America's 'War on Terror' is a Successful Linguistic Device just as is the 'Peace Process in the Middle East'
American Soldiers Coming Home from the Iraq War and in bad shape psychologically.
Headlines aAs the Dubai Port Deal

Muslim protesters stamp on a photograph of U.S. President George W. Bush during a demonstration in Hyderabad, India on 1 March 2006. Bush headed for India after a 'surprise' visit to Afghanistan for talks on a landmark U.S.-Indian nuclear pact and as large numbers of Indians rallied in New Delhi to protest his visit.
(AP Photo/A. Mahesh Kumar)
Muslims shout anti-America slogans as they burn an effigy of the American President George W Bush in New Delhi, India on 24 Feb 2006 protesting the American President's visit next week.
(AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
National Intelligence Director John Negroponte testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill on Feb. 28, 2006, on national security threats.
(AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
Warnings Are Spreading Conflict Could Engulf the Whole Middle East Region

Downtown Area, Washington, DC





The IAEA Immediately Enthusiastically Endorsed the U.S.-India Nuclear Arrangements Announced by President Bush on 2 March 2006 by President Bush in India



George Bush Visited An Enragged Pakistan in early March 2006
George Bush Visited An Enragged Pakistan in early March 2006
Steven Hadley, National Security Adviser in the Bush/Cheney Second Term, was Condi Rice's Assistant in the first term.
Steven Hadley, National Security Adviser in the Bush/Cheney Second Term, was Condi Rice's Assistant in the first term.
A Jewish Analysis known for his rabid anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian views is a frequent paid commentator on NBC News
Huge Protests Greeted President Bush on his visit to Pakistan on 3 March 2006

Major Protests Greeted President Bush when he visited Pakistan on 3 March 2006
Mousa Abu Marzook - #2 Official in Hamas
Mousa Abu Marzook - #2 Official in Hamas


Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook - Top Officials - in Moscow with Hamas Delegation on 3 March 2006
Mousa Abu Marzook - #2 Official in Hamas in Moscow on 3 March 2006
Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook

Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
Hamas Delegation in Moscow on 3 March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
A Large Hamas Delegation visited Moscow in March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
A Large Hamas Delegation visited Moscow in March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook
A Large Hamas Delegation visited Moscow in March 2006 including the top officials Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook

U.S. security personnel sit on a helicopter as it flies over the Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad March 4, 2006. Promoting democracy in Pakistan was part of the U.S. policy towards its ally in the war on terrorism and was raised in discussion with President Pervez Musharraf, Bush said on Saturday.
REUTERS/Mian Khursheed
British PM Invokes the Christian God as his Inspiration and Judge for the Iraq War
Top Officials Accompanied President Bush on his visit to India an Pakistan in late February 2006
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.
Major Protests Erupted in Pakistan When George Bush came to visit on 3 March 2006.

Marine General Peter Pace,
Marine General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Americans on Meet The Press on 5 March 2006 that things are going "very well in Iraq in every way."

Lowest Ever Public Support for the Bush/Cheney Administration was reported in March 2006
Support forthe Iraq War Has Plummeted - 5 March 2006



The New Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, holding pictures of Palestinian martyrs - 6 March 2006







Ismail Haniyeh - the new Palestinian Prime Minster from the Hamas Party
A member of the children's Palestinian parliament holds up a placard showing a picture of Rachel Corrie during a demonstration in 2005. A New York theatre's decision to postpone a play about Corrie, an American activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, has prompted trans-Atlantic charges of censorship from its British creators
(AFP/File/Said Khatib)
Palestinian prime minister designate Ismail Haniya holds photographs of prisoners as he speaks to protestors and relatives of loved ones being held in Israeli jails as they rally outside the International Red Cross offices in Gaza City. Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz warned that Haniya would not be immune from assassination if the radical Islamists carried out attacks.
(AFP/Said Khatib)
Incoming Hamas Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh kisses a girl, as he arrives for the first session of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City on March 6, 2006, as a demonstration demanding the release of prisoners from Israeli jails is held outside.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

The Washington Neocons - Considerable of Jewish Background and Zionist Outlook - dominate the foreign policy decision-making in the Bush/Cheney Years.
"Israel should be wiped out of the face of the world" reads a banner at a rally in Iran.

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