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Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz - Long-time Far Right Israeli Champion
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Headlines on 15 Sept 2007 from a new book by one of Washington Most Respected personalities, Alan Greenspan.
Capitol Hill in Washington on 15 Sept 2007 - The "Die-In"
A mock flag draped coffin in remembrance of Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, from Randolph, Mass., is positioned across the street from the White House as anti-war protesters gather at Lafayette Park Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Washington.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Demonstrators opposing the war in Iraq march in front of the White House Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Washington.
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Handcuffed anti Iraq war protestors are escorted by the U.S. Capitol Police on the steps of the Capitol building following their arrest after jumping over a security barricade erected on Capitol grounds, Saturday, Sep. 15, 2007, in Washington. At least 150 protesters were arrested Saturday 15 Sept 2007 as many thousands of demonstrators marched to the Capitol demanding an end to the Iraq war.
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
An unidentified member of a counter protest, center, yells at anti-war demonstrators as they march down Pennsylvania Ave., towards the U.S. Capitol grounds, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Washington. At least 150 protesters were arrested Saturday as thousands of demonstrators marched to the Capitol demanding an end to the Iraq war.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Capitol Hill - 15 Sept 2007
Nearly 200 Protestors Were Arrested Protesting the IRAQ War and calling for the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney on 15 Sept 2007
Laura Bush and Channel 4's Barbara Harrison flank Rima al-Sabah at a baby shower, one of four for the Kuwaiti ambassador's wife. WPost 16 Sept 2007




Commander in Chief of the Bahrain's military, Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, meets with Adm. William Fallon, head of the U.S. Central Command at Riffa Palace, Manama, Bahrain - Sept. 16, 2007. The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East is steering the topic away from Iraq and pressing Arab allies to form a more united front against Iran, seen by Washington as the region's longterm threat.
(AP Photo/Bahrain News Agency, HO)
Professors Stephen Walt (Harvard) and John Mearsheimer (Univ Chicago)










A small group of protesters gather outside Columbia University on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007 to protest plans for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus tomorrow.
(AP Photo/John Smock)


Emir Feisal and Chaim Weizmann in 1918 in Damascus






Dr. Haider Abdul Shafi - Head of the Palestinian Delegation at the Madrid Conference in 1991 - Dead in Gaza at 88 on 25 Sept 2007
The Cover of Canada's #1 Magazine, Macleans, in September 2007
The Cover of Canada's #1 Magazine, Macleans, in September 2007
Haidar Abdel-Shafi Represented the Palestinian People at the Madrid 1991 Conference and subsequently in two years of negotiations that followed.



Front Page of THE HILL on 27 Sept 2007

This headlined on 27 Sept 2007 at Huffington Post
27 Sept 2007








Japanese Photographer Kenji Nagai was shot at close range and killed 28 September as troops stormed the anti-government protest in Rangoon




Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to Defence Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. Paul Wolfowitz, and Doug Feith, and Dov Zakheim, et. al, may be out, but there are many other hard-line Neocons who remain.

Israeli Prime Minister Olmert with Palestinian Territories 'President' Abbas


Che Guevara lies dead on a stretcher held by Bolivian soldiers after his CIA-masterminded capture and execution












The Archbishop of Canterbury
Pope Bendict
The Armenian Genocide in which about 1.5 million were killed began in 1915.





Archbishop Desmund Tutu



Iran's double gold olympic champion, Arash Miresmaeili, favourite for the 2004 olympics - he forfeited his gold medal for boycotting Israel. Then he was threatened with sanctions from the International Judo Federation but he stood his ground.
Vatican Officials Claim to see Pope Paul in this Fire from Heaven!
General John Abizaid, Retired Command of U.S. Troops Throughout the Middle East.



In addition to signing the Tehran Declaration, the five presidents also issued a statement and agreed to hold a joint economic conference in Moscow, Russia, next year. 16 Oct 2007




American Task Force on Palestine President Ziad Asali congratulates US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after her speech at the ATFP's inaugural gala, October 2006.
(ATFP)



Screaming 'War Criminal' And Waving Red Hands in her Face a protestor got up close to Rice at Congressional Hearing today, 24 Oct 2007.


Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm., Michael G. Mullen, at a news conference at the Pentagon, on Oct. 18, 2007.
AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari












Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, former top AIPAC officials, accused by FBI in 2003 of Spying for Israel


Nicolas Sarkozy - Now President of France, long-time part-time "spy" for Israel?

THE LOOK SAYS IT ALL: The US might have a hidden agenda as far as Annapolis is concerned, but the November summit is certainly not a ploy to create a Palestinian state
Al Ahram Weekly - late Oct 2007
Gamal Nasser in 1967

A US Air Force F-22 Raptor, an F-117 Nighthawk, an F-4 Phantom and an F-15 Eagle fly over Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.
U.S. Air Force
A centrifuge. According to nuclear experts, 3,000 working centrifuges are enough to successfully enrich uranium.










Secretary of State Rice Meets With Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman at the State Department on 11 Dec 2006.

Palestinians gather during a demonstration against the upcoming United States-sponsored Annapolis meeting in Gaza City on 24 Nov 2007.
Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, left, shakes hands with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin as President Carter looks on at Camp David in September 1978.
On 29 November 1947 the United Nations General Assembly, under considerable U.S. pressure, voted to Partition Palestine.
Hillary and Personal Assistant Huma -- known as 'Bodyman' if you're President'.
Palestinian Prime Minister of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh - 26 Nov 07
When CBS News Broadcast the Story around these documents, knowing the election was at stake the Bush/Cheney forces attacked the messenger and got Dan Rather and crew fired.






ANNAPOLIS - NYTimes Page1: Officials from 49 nations gathered at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., for a one-day conference on Middle East peace on 27 November 2007.
NYTimes, 28 Nov 2007
The Front Gate to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.




Thousands of Hungarian demonstrators form a glowing peace sign in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square to mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
500,000 Hamas supporters gather during a rally in Gaza City on 16 Dec 2007 marking the 20th anniversary of the group's founding. Leaders touted the group's strength and popularity. "Our people are capable of launching a third and a fourth intifada until the dawn of victory rises up," Khaled Meshaal, a leader living in exile, said in a recorded speech.
By Emilio Morenatti -- Associated Press Photo
Democrat Jewish Neocon Joe Lieberman Endorsed Republican Christian Neocon John McCain in a major cross-party switch on 17 Dec 2007
Iranian President Ahmadinejad in Mecca for the Haj in December 2007

By mid-Dec 2007 one of the Iranian Internet Services Showed This Picture of Battered Bush
Uzi Arad - Long-time Mossad Operative and Adviser to Bibi Netanyahu. Arad has long preached destruction of the Palestinian leadership and Attack of Israel's Enemies.
Israel's President, Shimon Peres, Takes to Blogging

The Palestinian "Fateh" Organization Celebrated Anniversary 43 in 2007










A Jerusalem municipal worker hangs a US flag as a bus passes with a poster of George Bush, the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and the Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah - The Guardian 7 Jan 08
Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP



Financial Times - 8 Jan 08
Iranian helicopters and ships taking part in manoeuvres in the Strait of Hormuz in 2000
TimesOnLine - 7 Jan 08

This Simple woodcut map in the form of a cloverleaf recalls the geographical ideas of the Crusaders. Jerusalem is in the Center of the World, the crossroad of three continents. In contrast, the Crusaders map showed the division of the world among the three sons of Noah. The Jewish Mayor of Jerusalem presented this to U.S. President George Bush at the King David Hotel on 9 January 2007, his first day on his first visit as President to Israel.


Jonathan Pollard, Israel's Great Spy in Washington
Scattered clouds are pictured over Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland
Telegraph, UK, 11 Jan 08
This ad on the Drudge Report on 11 Jan 08 as Bush Departs Israel
Bush Surrounded by Christian Figures As He Visits Israel - 11 Jan 08
Haaretz - 11 Jan 08
The Annaoplis 'Peace Summit' Was Held in November 2007 at the U.S. Naval Academy
President George Bush with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
This Map of Israel Is Displayed one one of Israel's most Popular News Services
Ynetnews

Torture Has Become A Major Problem for the Americans


A Project of The GOALS FOR AMERICANS Foundation -- www.GoalsForAmericans.Org



Washington DC, Van Ness & Connecticut Ave - 9 February 2008
Washington DC, Van Ness & Connecticut Ave - 9 February 2008 with the Primary 3 days away
Washington DC, Van Ness & Connecticut Ave - 9 February 2008
Washington DC, Van Ness & Connecticut Ave - 3 days before the 12 February 2008 Primary

Steve Clemons of New America With Israeli Daniel Levy and Israeli-U.S.-approved Palestinian
Steve Clemons of New America With Israeli Daniel Levy and Israeli-U.S.-approved Palestinian
President George W. Bush waves after arriving at Al Asad Airbase, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, Monday, September 3, 2007. The greeting party from left are Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno, Commanding General, Multi-National Corps, General David Petraeus, Commander, Multi-National Force Iraq, Admiral William Fallon, Commander US Central Command, General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary State Condoleezza Rice.
White House photo by Eric Draper
Saudi Prince Bandar Is Behind So Many Financial and Poltical Scandals for the Past 20+ Years.
Salaam Fayad, former World Bank official and U.S./Israeli choice for under-control Prime Minister of the West Bank.




Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during the CNN Debate on 21 Feb 2008.

As Soon as Hamas Won, the U.S., Israel, and the rival Palestinians Began Plotting A Coup to Topple Them.
Vanity Fair - March 2008


VanityFair

Vanity Fair - April 2008

Bernard Lewis, one of the leading Jewish and Zionist Godfathers of the Neocon Movement.


Yousaf Raza Gillani, right, was sworn in as prime minister at a formal ceremony in Islamabad, the day after he released judges jailed by President Pervez Musharraf - 24 March 2008




Economist, 31 March 08



Hamas Spokesman Mushir al-Masri







Haaretz Banner - 4-25-08


Financial Times - 24 April 2008


Financial Times, 3 April 2008
27 April 2008 - Headlined Today at HuffingtonPost.com

HuffingtonPost - 30 April 2008


British Jews Condemn Israel in Guardian published article - 30 July 2008
Palestinian Refugee Camps Began in 1948
Palestinian children hold maps of the PA territories that includes Israel, at a rally marking the Naqba, or "catastrophe" in Nablus.
AP - Jerusalem Post 30 April 2008

American Evangelist John Hagee addresses a crowd of his followers and Israeli supporters at a rally at the Jerusalem convention center in April. Hagee announced donations of $6 million to a number of Israeli causes and declared that Israel must remain in control of all of Jerusalem.
Boston Globe - 6 April 2008
Iran's Main Nuclear Reactor is at Bushehr
The Original Statement Signed by President Truman on 14 May 1948 Recognizing the new 'State of Israel'


1660 Pennsylvania Avenue
This computer generated image posted on terror forums depict what would happen if a nuclear attack took place in Washington D.C

John McCain Got Standing Ovation from AIPAC Crowd After Attacking both IRAN and OBAMA on 2 June 2008
2 June 08
John McCain Got Standing Ovation from AIPAC Crowd After Attacking both IRAN and OBAMA on 2 June 2008
Obama Spoke to AIPAC's Annual Conference on 4 June 2008 to a Standing Ovation.









Actress Jeri Ryan - Some Now Know Her as "the Original Obama Girl" -- but not for the reasons you may be thinking!






"We're Toast" if we don't make major environment changes quickly top NASA Scientist James Hansen Warned in a Congressional Hearing on 24 June 2008
This headline from the Huffington Post online on 25 June 2008

Former Knesset speaker and former head of the Jewish Agency Avraham Burg. In 2007 Burg Renounced Zionism and called upon Israel to cease being a "Jewish State".
Former Knesset speaker and former head of the Jewish Agency Avraham Burg. In 2007 Burg Renounced Zionism and called upon Israel to cease being a "Jewish State".
Former Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is a leading Candidate to get the big job back again.












GulfNews.com

Professor Noam Chomsky
Hussam Duwiyat - The Palestinian living in Jerusalem who 'snapped' and killed on a rampage in June 2008

Haaretz, 4 July 2008



This featured ad in The Jerusalem Post online, 7 July 2008
Former Top Pentagon Official Douglas Feith with his Assistant Larry Franklin, since convicted of spying for Israel and imprisoned.
Palestinians hold out their passports as they wait to cross to Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, 1 July 2008.
(Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)

Abdalla Salem El-Badri, left, the OPEC secretary general, met in April 2008 with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.
(Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)

The Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, foreground, gleams against the city's spectacular skyline. Residents tend to dismiss Beijing as uncultured, despite its current dominance.
(Pr Newswire) - Wash Post 13 July 08

'I'd Blow My Brains Out' If I Watched American TV News!
Cover of prestigious NEW YORKER MAGAZINE - 21 July 2008
Obama on the Cover of Rolling Stone Magazine
Second Cover of Rolling Stone Magazine Feature Barack Obama
Anchors Brian Williams of NBC, left, Katie Couric of CBS and Charles Gibson of ABC.
(Richard Drew/The Associated Press)


Barak Obama Landed in Iraq on 21 July Wit hHis Distinctive Campaign Plane
UNSETTLED: Israeli citizens protest the dismantling of settlements in 2005






Raghida Dergham - Closely, Very Closely, tied to the Arab 'client regimes' from her perch in New York City.


Tzipi Livni: The daughter of leading Right-Wing Zionist Parents Considered 'Terrorists' by the British
Unmanned ‘Reaper’ Carries Potent Weapons on Reconnaissance Missions in IRAQ
Unmanned ‘Reaper’ Carries Potent Weapons on Reconnaissance Missions in IRAQ




The Saga of the Fulbright Students Imprisoned in Gaza has Thriller Twists You Just Won't Believe
An Israeli tank at the Karni crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip in June
AFP







U.S. Secretary of State Rice with Israeli Foregn Minister Livni in Jerusalem in late August 2008
The SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty with activists from 17 countries sailed to 'Break the Blockade' of Gaza in large August 2008
Cartoon published in the Saudi newspapers Al-Watan and Arab News in July 2008
Tom Dine - Israeli, Neocon, and AIPAC operative to be watched out for.

Featured in the LATimes - 31 Aug 2008
Just a few days after Americans first heard about Sarah Palin, this cover greeted them in the grocery stories.
When Alaska HDTV PodShow host Scott Slone interviewed Governor Sarah Palin in February 2008 he captured a telling political detail -- the footage showed that the governor keeps a small Israeli flag by her office window.






From the Financial Times in September 08 as U.S. Decline Began to Further Accelerate









Max Blumenthal - Pastor Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, "Partially Jewish, As Was Adolph Hitler" (Paging Joe Lieberman!)
Max Blumenthal - Pastor Hagee Claims The Antichrist Is Gay and "Partially Jewish, As Was Adolph Hitler"





The Folksy Wink and Tone Have Become the Trademark of McCain VP Choice Governor Sarah Palin.



She's a Neocon (thinly masked), she's Jewish, she's Zionist and Israeli centric, she helped start the Iraq war, she disgraced the NYTimes and the journalism profession, she went to jail (attempting to rehabilitate herself), and now she's where she belongs (LOL), joining FOX NEWS!

Palestinian Protests Mahmoud Abbas Going to Annapolis Conference - Quickly Arrested by Abbas Police

Jewish settler Renana Cohen poses for a picture in the Jewish settlement of Har Bracha, near the West Bank city of Nablus October 7, 2008. Being a Jewish settler in occupied territory is the only life Cohen has known for most of her 25 years, and she couldn't imagine living anywhere else, including within Israel's borders. Some 300,000 Israelis live in the West Bank, alongside some 3 million Palestinians, in settlements which the World Court has branded as illegal.
To match feature ISRAEL-SETTLER/ REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen - 7 Oct 08
Israeli Arabs clean and repair graves at an old Muslim cemetery in downtown Jerusalem, 2006. Muslim authorities expressed outrage after the Israeli High Court gave the go-ahead for the construction of a Museum of Tolerance on the site of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem - Oct 2008
Photo:Gali Tibbon/AFP
A Syrian youth holds an anti-US and Israel placard during a demonstration in Damascus. The US embassy in Syria shut its doors as thousands marched through Damascus to protest at a deadly American raid on a village near the Iraqi border that Syria branded a barbaric act.
Photo:Joseph Barrak/AFP
A Syrian youth holds an anti-US and Israel placard during a demonstration in Damascus. The US embassy in Syria shut its doors as thousands marched through Damascus to protest at a deadly American raid on a village near the Iraqi border that Syria branded a barbaric act.
Photo:Joseph Barrak/AFP
Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (C) attends a session of parliament commemorating Israel's Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, who was assassinated in 2001 by Palestinian militants, in Jerusalem October 29, 2008.
REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM)
Palestinians carry the body of Mohammed Abahereh during his funeral in al-Yamoun village near the West Bank city of Jenin October 29, 2008. Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday killed Abahereh, a 68-year-old Palestinian shepherd, who was carrying a shotgun as protection against rustlers. The Israeli army said Abahereh opened fire at soldiers on routine patrol and they shot back, killing him. This image was taken through the window of an ambulance door.
REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK)
Palestinian women watch the funeral of Mohammed Abahereh in al-Yamoun village near the West Bank city of Jenin October 29, 2008.Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday killed Abahereh, a 68-year-old Palestinian shepherd, who was carrying a shotgun as protection against rustlers. The Israeli army said Abahereh opened fire at soldiers on routine patrol and they shot back, killing him
. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK)
US citizens living in Israel line-up to cast their ballots as they vote early for the US presidential elections at a cultural centre in Jerusalem on October 28. A poll conducted by the Rabin Center for Israel Studies found 46.6% of Israelis would vote for John McCain if given chance, while Barack Obama would receive 34% of votes
. Photo:Menahem Kahana/AFP
A Hamas policeman guards the boat of international activists after they arrived in Gaza October 29, 2008. A boat carrying international activists, including a Nobel Peace laureate, docked in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after sailing from Cyprus despite an Israeli naval blockade on the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)
The son of Mohammed Abahereh mourns over his father's body in a hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin October 29, 2008. Israeli troops shot and killed Abahereh, an armed Palestinian, near Jenin on Wednesday, the Israeli army said. A security source said farmer Abahereh, 68, was carrying a shot gun as he herded cattle in the village of Al-Yamoun before dawn. Abahereh's son, Taher, said troops shot his father and left him for hours to bleed to death
. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK)
Israeli soldiers patrolling in the West Bank. Hundreds of soldiers in Israel have avoided duty by resorting to the services of unscrupulous Arab Israeli doctors, who issued bogus certificates of illness.
. Photo:/AFP
Boxing promoter Don King (R) and Britain's Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson stand together before a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv October 27, 2008 - Oct 27, 2008.
Israel's President Shimon Peres is shown on a screen as he speaks before a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv October 27, 2008 - Oct 27, 2008.
The image of Pope Benedict XVI reading the bible on a live television feed is projected inside the Holy Cross in Jerusalem's Basilica in Rome - Oct 5, 2008.
REUTERS/Alessandro De
FIFA President Sepp Blatter (L) and Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon attend a 10th anniversary event of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv October 27, 2008.
An Afghan man raises his hand in front of a poster of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a demonstration to mark 'Al-Quds' or Jerusalem Day in Kabul September 26, 2008.
A left-wing activist holds a placard as he talks to Palestinian women waiting at the Erez border crossing October 26, 2008. Foreign and Israeli activists demonstrated on Sunday at the Erez border crossing calling for Israel to allow international medical workers to enter the Gaza Strip for a conference. An Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip was tightened after Hamas Islamists seized the coastal strip last year.
REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)
A Palestinian man touches a broken gravestone at a Muslim cemetery in the West Bank city of Hebron October 26, 2008. Jewish settlers vandalised the Muslim cemetery on Sunday after the Israeli army razed a West Bank outpost built by a militant settler leader without government authorisation, Palestinians said. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said an investigation had been launched but could not confirm that the vandals were settlers.
REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun (WEST BANK)
A Palestinian woman gestures as she sits beside a desecrated grave at a Muslim cemetery in the West Bank city of Hebron October 26, 2008. Jewish settlers vandalised a Muslim cemetery on Sunday after the Israeli army razed a West Bank outpost built by a militant settler leader without government authorisation, Palestinians said. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said an investigation had been launched but could not confirm that the vandals were settlers.
. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun (WEST BANK
A Palestinian girl wears an Islamic Jihad headband during a rally organized by the movement in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 24, 2008.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)
Israelis soldiers carry Torah scrolls as they dance during Simhat Torah celebrations at Kibutz Mefalsim near the southern city of Sderot October 21, 2008. They are marking the end of the Sukkot holiday.
REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)
Israelis soldiers dance during Simhat Torah celebrations at Kibutz Mefalsim near the southern city of Sderot October 21, 2008. They are marking the end of the Sukkot holiday.
REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)
Palestinian women hold pictures of their family members during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails in Gaza October 20, 2008.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)
Palestinian women hold pictures of their relatives during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails in the West Bank city of Nablus October 20, 2008.
REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK)
Palestinian women hold pictures of their relatives during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails in the West Bank city of Nablus October 20, 2008.
REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK)
Israelis hold placards at the site of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit's abduction at Kerem Shalom, during a rally calling for his release October 19, 2008. Shalit was abducted by Palestinian militants from an Israeli army base in a cross-border raid in June 2006. The placards read in Hebrew 'Let the sun of Gilad shine.'
REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)
Israelis hold national flags at the site of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit's abduction at Kerem Shalom, during a rally calling for his release October 19, 2008. Shalit was abducted by Palestinian militants from an Israeli army base in a cross-border raid in June 2006.
REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)
Palestinian women hold pictures of Palestinian prisoners during a protest in the West Bank city of Jenin calling for their release from Israeli jails October 19, 2008. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK)
REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK)
An Israeli soldier (L) tries to hold back a Jewish settler (C) from disrupting Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Izmut near Nablus October 19, 2008. The annual olive harvest has become a flash point of tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, as Jewish settlers have disrupted olive picking in parts of the occupied West Bank this month.
REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK
A Palestinian woman (L) holds pictures of Palestinian prisoners during a protest in the West Bank city of Jenin calling for their release from Israeli jails October 19, 2008.
REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK)
A video grab shows wounded news photographer Abdul Hafiz al Hashlamoun after he was attacked by Israeli Jewish settlers during a traditional olive harvesting in the West Bank city of Hebron October 18, 2008. Jewish settlers punched and kicked two news photographers and a British woman helping Palestinians pick olives in a West Bank town on Saturday and Israeli police responded by stopping the harvest
. REUTERS/ via Reuters TV (WEST BANK)
Israeli soldiers guard news photographer Abdul Hafiz al Hashlamoun after he was attacked by Israeli Jewish settlers during a traditional olive harvesting in the West Bank city of Hebron October 18, 2008. Jewish settlers punched and kicked two news photographers and a British woman helping Palestinians pick olives in a West Bank town on Saturday and Israeli police responded by stopping the harvest.
REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun (WEST BANK)
Palestinians eat in a restaurant in the West Bank town of Bethlehem as the menu is displayed on the controversial Israeli barrier in the background October 16, 2008. It might be a while before some future U.S. president prevails on Israel to 'tear down this wall', so Palestinian restaurateur Joseph Hazboon has had his menu printed on it instead, in waterproof colours.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK)
Palestinians look at a restaurant's menu displayed on the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank town of Bethlehem October 16, 2008. It might be a while before some future U.S. president prevails on Israel to 'tear down this wall', so Palestinian restaurateur Joseph Hazboon has had his menu printed on it instead, in waterproof colours.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK)
An Israeli border police officer stands guard as Jewish worshippers gather for a special priestly blessing during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City October 16, 2008. The Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, and to Jews as Temple Mount, is seen in the back. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM) Photo Tools * Email * IM
An Israeli border police officer stands guard as Jewish worshippers gather for a special priestly blessing during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City October 16, 2008. The Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, and to Jews as Temple Mount, is seen in the back.
REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM)
Bolivian Christian pilgrims march during the annual support march for Israel organized by the International Christian Embassy and the Jerusalem municipality. Thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the globe took to the streets of Jerusalem on Wednesday, singing hymns and swaying in the autumn sunlight in a colourful parade of support for Israel.
Photo:Menahem Kahana/AFP
The father (C) of Abdelkader Darzeid, 18, mourns over his son's body in a hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah October 15, 2008. Israeli troops shot dead an 18-year-old Palestinian, Darzeid, near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on October 14, Palestinian medics said. An army spokeswoman said soldiers lying in ambush under cover of darkness opened fire.
REUTERS/Fadi Arouri (WEST BANK)
Palestinians carry the body of Abdelkader Darzeid, 18, during his funeral in Jalazun refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah October 15, 2008. Israeli troops killed him near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on October 14
Fadi Arouri (WEST BANK)
A Samaritan priest raises the Torah scroll during a pilgrimage for the holy day of the Tabernacles, or Sukkot, in Mount Gerizim near the West Bank town of Nablus, October 13, 2008.
REUTERS/Amir Cohen (WEST BANK)
An Israeli woman stands on a step-on scanner during a security check at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv October 12, 2008. Israel has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travellers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden weapons, though the new device cannot yet sniff out explosives.
REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL)
Jordanian farmers and unionists burn an Israeli flag and empty boxes previously containing fruit from Israel during a protest against importing fruits and vegetables from Israel, at the central market in Amman October 11, 2008.
REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
A Lebanese man eats a falafel sandwich at a restaurant in Beirut October 8, 2008. Lebanese food makers aim to prove that dishes including hummus originated in their country in a campaign to stop Israeli manufacturers from using the names to market the same foods. Picture taken October 8, 2008
. REUTERS/Cynthia Karam (LEBANON)
A Lebanese woman eats hummus and tabbouleh at a restaurant in Beirut October 8, 2008. Lebanese food makers aim to prove that dishes including hummus originated in their country in a campaign to stop Israeli manufacturers from using the names to market the same foods. Picture taken October 8, 2008.
REUTERS/Cynthia Karam (LEBANON)
A Lebanese chef pours olive oil on a hummus dish at a restaurant in Beirut October 8, 2008. Lebanese food makers aim to prove that dishes including hummus originated in their country in a campaign to stop Israeli manufacturers from using the names to market the same foods. Picture taken October 8, 2008.
REUTERS/Cynthia Karam (LEBANON)
RAHMBO - Former Fixer, Money-Man, and Israeli, Rahm Emanuel Will Be In Charge in the Obama White house
Immediately Upon Election Obama Appointed to the Top Job in the White House his antithesis in both style and Iraq War policies. Emanuel, an orthodox Jew, is well known for his Zionist and Israeli connections. He is in effect the lead Democratic Party Neocon when it comes to the MIddle East.


He's the antithesis of Obama in Temperament and Style, a strong supporter of the Iraq war, a former Israel with a father who was a Jewish 'terrorist', and the man who Barack Obama annointed his Chief of Staff in the White House


Thanksgiving Time 2008 - Major Terrorist Attack in Mumbai

1 December 2009 - Add Rahm Emanuel, missing from this photo, and you have Obama's Big Players On The World Stage

Big Scare Headline on the Drudge Report - 2 Dec 2008
The Taj in Mumbai - Thanksgiving time 2008

Numerous Reports and Policy Studies about IRAN and the Middle East have been published in the aftermath of the Obama Election. Most have the fingerprints (disguised or wiped clean in various ways) of the Israeli/Jewish Lobby, more powerful than ever with their man Rahm Emanual appointed Chief of Staff in the White House.

Remember this? It was in China when Bush attempted to exit through a lock door and stood there 'bewildered'.
U.S. Electoral Map 2008
“Criminals shouldn’t run countries” - Fatima Bhutto on the new 'Civilian Democratic' Government of Pakistan
Drudge Report Beats NYTimes for Hits, Readership
President Bush speaks at the Brookings Institution's Saban Forum on 5 Dec 2008 at the Newseum in Washington.
AP
Students read Islamic law texts at Jamia Dar-ul-Uloom madrassa in Lahore, Pakistan. Islamic clerics say a small minority has given a bad name to Islam and publicly condemned suicide bombing as "un-Islamic."
(Jason Motlagh/The Washington Times)
tudents read Islamic law texts at Jamia Dar-ul-Uloom madrassa in Lahore, Pakistan.
(Jason Motlagh/The Washington Times)

An anti-US mural, taking the form of the US flag displaying skulls in the place of stars and bearing the message "Down With The U.S.A", in central Tehran.
An Iranian schoolgirl walks past an anti-US mural painted on the wall of the former US embassy in Tehran.

14 Dec 08
Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki tries to block US President George W. Bush after an Iraqi man threw his shoes at Bush during a joint press conference and signing ceremony at Maliki's private office. An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi premier at his Baghdad office on Sunday, 14 Dec 2008.
'You Dog' Reporter Shouts Condemning Bush For Killing so many Iraqis
12-13-08
'You Dog' Reporter Shouts Condemning Bush For Killing so Many and Destroying Iraq.
12-13-08
'You Dog' Reporter Shouts Condemning Bush For Killing so Many and Destroying Iraq. Baghdad, Sunday, 14 Dec 2008
Shoe Thrower Mr al-Zaidi said his actions were for Iraqi widows and orphans
Anti-American protesters in Baghdad a day after Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference.
(Karim Kadim/The Associated Press)
The 'Shoe Insult' Image Will Go Down In History As Part of the Bush Legacy in the Middle East - "Final Kiss You Dog!"
The Shoe Attack on President Bush was launched with the words "this is a farewell kiss, you dog"

Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi hurled his shoes at George W. Bush and sparked a wave of support in the Arab world. Dozens of Palestinians took in a rally in the Gaza Strip in solidarity with the Iraqi journalist.

A Jordanian protestor holds up a picture of U.S. President George W. Bush with a shoe fixed on it, during a demonstration in support of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi in Amman, Jordan - 20 Dec 08
(AP Photo/Nader Daoud)
A Jordanian man waves a pair of shoes with the word Bush written on the soles, during a demonstration in support of Bush shoe-thrower Muntazer al-Zaidi in Amman, Jordan on Dec. 20, 2008.
(AP Photo/Nadeer Daoud)
Battle of the Toned Leaders - First Vladamir of Russia Now Followed by Barack of America. Neither George nor Dick ever entered the contest.


The Pope warned of 'ruin' of the world as he made a Christmas appeal for peace in Holy Land
25 Dec 08
In 2003 Harold Pinter let it be known he considers Prime Minister Blair a "deluded idiot" and thinks that Blair and Bush should be tried as war criminals. He declared that "The United States is a monster out of control.... The country is run by a bunch of criminal lunatics, with Blair as their hired Christian thug", and he called the war against Iraq "a bandit act." In 2005 Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Liberature.
In 2003 Harold Pinter let it be known he considers Prime Minister Blair a "deluded idiot" and thinks that Blair and Bush should be tried as war criminals. He declared that "The United States is a monster out of control.... The country is run by a bunch of criminal lunatics, with Blair as their hired Christian thug", and he called the war against Iraq "a bandit act." In 2005 Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Liberature. In 2008 Pinter and other British Jews publicly declared they would not celebate Israel's 60th Birthday.
The Biggest Demonstration in British History - on 16 February 2003 - was against the upcoming US/UK invasion of IRAQ
Hamas celebrated its 21st anniversary with a mass rally in December 2008
27 December 2008 - The Slaughter, the Massacre, of Palestinians Continues


The last week of 2008 the Israelis Launched a Brutal Assault on Palestinian Gaza - The Worst Since the Conquest in 1967.
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