http://www.mereport.com If You Don't Get MER, You Just Don't Get It! News, Views and Analysis that Governments, Lobbies and Associated Interest Groups Don't Want You To Know. en-us Thur, 20 Nov 2008 22:23:31 EST 10 144 75 http://www.mereport.com http://www.middleeast.org/images/rssmereport.gif http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=437 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire said Thursday the United Nations should suspend or revoke Israel`s membership. Maguire said Israel should be punished for ignoring a series of United Nations resolutions over the years. Maguire won the 1976 peace prize for her work with Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Thur, 20 Nov 2008 22:23:31 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=432 Thur, 20 Nov 2008 22:23:31 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=416 The Palestinian Authority has placed a full-page advert in Israel`s Hebrew newspapers to promote an Arab peace plan first proposed in 2002. Thur, 20 Nov 2008 12:57:12 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=401 Everywhere there were Pakistani flags, everywhere the cry, Pakistan se rishta kya? La ilaha illa llah. What is our bond with Pakistan? There is no god but Allah. Azadi ka matlab kya? La ilaha illallah. What does Freedom mean? There is no god but Allah. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:51:21 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=371 First they published it on 16 November with a headline saying OBAMA was Endorsing the 1967 Borders and the Saudi Peace Plan. Then they essentially erased that article and with the same URL `Updated` the story the next day (after the Israeli Lobby (i.e., Dennis Ross and maybe the Israeli government got involved) with the oppositive headline you can read here. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:57:45 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=366 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:33:3 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=353 One of Britain`s most authoritative judicial figures last night delivered a blistering attack on the invasion of Iraq, describing it as a serious violation of international law, and accusing Britain and the US of acting like a "world vigilante".Lord Bingham, in his first major speech since retiring as the senior law lord, rejected the then attorney general`s defence of the 2003 invasion as fundamentally flawed. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 7:40:44 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=344 Afghanistan has been almost continuously at war for thirty years, longer than both World Wars and the American war in Vietnam combined. Each occupation of the country has mimicked its predecessor. A tiny interval between wars saw the imposition of a malignant social order, the Taliban, with the help of the Pakistani military and the late Benazir Bhutto, the prime minister who approved the Taliban takeover in Kabul. Over the last two years, the US/NATO occupation of that country has run into serious military problems. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 6:34:39 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=328 Q: It is 60 years since the Jewish state you dreamed of came into being. Given...Herzl: Excuse me. This is not the Jewish state I dreamed of. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:6:35 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=326 It was quite a Sunday Story in THE TIMES OF LONDON. But within hours the Israeli/Jewish Lobby, through the personnage of Dennis Ross, has shot it down and taking on the role of speaking on behalf of President-election Obama on such critical matters. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:9:34 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=322 Below is the story from THE JERUSALEM POST as originally report on 16 Nov 08. But hours later if people used the link to the original story it took them to an updated version of the story in which the opposite conclusion was reached - the Israeli/Jewish Lobby`s Dennis Ross having stepped in on Sunday to "correct" things and speak for Obama. Obama and others have said nothing, thus letting Ross`s "correction" stand.-----------------------`Obama to endorse Arab Peace Plan`By JPOST.COM STAFFTalkbacks for this article: 43US President-elect Barack Obama is planning to base his peacemaking efforts in the Middle East on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, The Sunday Times reported on Sunday, quoting sources close to Obama. US President-elect Barack Obama Photo: AP Slideshow: Pictures of the weekThe Arab Peace Initiative, based on the Saudi peace plan of February 2002, calls for a full Israeli withdrawal from all territories taken in the Six Day War, including east Jerusalem, in exc... Thur, 20 Nov 2008 22:23:31 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=320 "It is just outrageous that the American people don`t know that Congress doesn`t know how much money he (Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson) has given away to anyone,`` the Oklahoma Republican told the Tulsa World."It could be to his friends. It could be to anybody else. We don`t know. There is no way of knowing.`` Mon, 17 Nov 2008 8:59:16 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=318 The veteran politician, who turned 85 this summer, also told The Times that he expected Israel to achieve peace with its Arab neighbours within his life time, and even predicted that he would one day visit Damascus and Riyadh.His upbeat message will no doubt be dismissed by many in the Middle East as the musings of a lifelong optimist. Certainly no recent Israeli leader has expressed any positive view of Iran, whose nuclear policy and support for militant groups is regarded as the major existential threat to the Jewish state. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:55:43 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=317 An Iraqi government spokesman portrayed the pact as closing the book on the occupation that began with the US-led invasion in 2003.“The total withdrawal will be completed by December 31 2011. This is not governed by circumstances on the ground,” Ali al-Dabbagh told Iraqi reporters, pointedly rejecting the more conditional language that the US government had earlier sought in the accord. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:53:33 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=315 "If I say I want protection for Mullah Omar, the international community has two choices, remove me or leave if they disagree," Karzai said in an hourlong news conference in Kabul."If I am removed in the cause of peace for Afghanistan by force by them, than I will be very happy. If they disagree, they can leave. But we are not in that stage yet," Karzai said.Omar is a leader of the Afghan Taliban and headed the government toppled by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. Since then, he has been in hiding but is believed to be running the insurgency.Previously, Karzai has said that Omar lives in neighboring Pakistan, an allegation dismissed by Pakistani officials. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:12:36 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=311 The meaning and philosophy behind this controversy is what should be talked about; not the pure recitation or symbolism. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:19:13 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=305 Pakistan said Saturday it had agreed to borrow $7.6 billion from the International Monetary Fund in an effort to stabilize the economy of this strategically important U.S. ally on the front lines of the battle against al-Qaida and the Taliban.The government had been reluctant to go to the IMF but had little choice once even close allies the United States, China and Saudi Arabia snubbed its pleas for significant bilateral aid. Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:30:46 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=304 Click on the Russian-language version of the campaign Web site of Benjamin Netanyahu, the conservative Likud leader running for prime minister of Israel, and up pops a picture of the candidate with Barack Obama. On the Hebrew version, Obama is not pictured. But he is, in fact, everywhere.The colors, the fonts, the icons for donating and volunteering, the use of embedded video, and the social networking Facebook-type options — including Twitter, which hardly exists in Israel — all reflect a conscious effort by the Netanyahu campaign to learn from the Obama success."Imitation is the greatest form of flattery," noted Ron Dermer, one of Netanyahu`s top campaign advisers. "We`re all in the same business, so we took a close look at a guy who has been the most successful and tried to learn from him. And while we will not use the word `change` in the same way in our campaign, we believe Netanyahu is the real candidate of change for Israel." Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:27:55 EST http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=291 “We thought that the Americans would make our government more democratic and more transparent,” says Mr Rahim. “The US must choose between two options – they can support Talabani and Barzani, or they can support the Kurdish people.” Sat, 15 Nov 2008 5:44:11 EST