Anybody who believes that the US invaded Iraq to "kill brown people" (or in general to kill people) is an idiot. Anybody who believes that Obama's healthcare plan is about killing people is also an idiot. Idiocy has nothing to do with left-wing or right-wing and both sides have their idiots. For years we had the honour of observing left-wing idiots misunderstanding (and trying to propagate such misunderstanding) the concept of invading a country to end a dictatorship ("It's all about oi...

1. How much of the middle east and north-Africa has to be under Arab rule before Arab dictators rule over so much land and over so many peoples that their rule becomes "imperialism" which has to be opposed by "anti-imperialists"? 2. How many people does a dictator have to murder before he becomes a symbol for freedom and opposition to capitalist tyranny? 3. Apart from the "Palestinian cause", has there ever been another cause that was allied with German Nazis, called for the extermination ...

An Israeli Bedouin places a note in the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City August 12, 2009 during a mass prayer calling for the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Mideast-Conflict/ss/events/wl/080601mideast/im:/090812/ids_photos_wl/r1257036139.jpg/ (Note that Yahoo have removed the incriminating picture of the patriotic Bedouin with a few pictures of Israeli "atrocities" and anti-Israel protests.)  

This is very interesting. The former chief of the human rights council in Kurdistan has started a magazine that advocates a return of Iraqi Jews to Iraq. Iraqi Jews left Iraq in the 1930s and 1950s because Iraq allied with Nazi Germany at the time and then declared war on Israel. A majority of Jews from Arab countries in Israel are from Iraq. (And Jews from Arab countries form the majority of Jews in Israel.) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090812/wl_mideast_afp/iraqkurdsisraelmediajudaism ...

Text of the letter sent by fax to former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by President of the Republic of Somaliland Mohamed Ibrahim Egal. Republic of Somaliland The Presidency Our Ref: SLR/PO/ISPMI/7/95 Your Ref: ....................... 3 July 1995 Hargeisa His Excellency The Prime Minister of Israel Mr Yitshak Rabin Hakirya, Fax No. 972 2 513 950 Jerusalem, Israel. Your Excellency Establishing Strategic Partnership with the State of Israel In my capacity as t...

I don't know if it is a good idea first to call Ahmadinejad the "elected leader of Iran" and then "correcting" that statement.   White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Wednesday said he had misspoken in calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran 's elected leader and that Washington will let the Iranian people decide whether Iran's election was fair. "Let me correct a little bit of what I said yesterday. I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader of Iran. I would say tha...

I favour a one state solution. But it would be different and not very much like the "Isratine" solutions that float around. And I think that such one state solutions would solve many problems in the middle east and North Africa. Basically, the one state solution I envision, not just for Israel but for other countries in the region too, would be a nation state for a local people that simply has a large minority (or even a majority) of Arab nationals. In the case of Israel, the country wo...

Nigeria's Christians and Animinists are fighting against a recent (last few years) surge in violence due to attacks by "Muslims" who have little tolerance for western (or African) values. Now Nigeria's army strikes back: Troops killed about 100 militants by an AP reporter's count, half of them inside the sect's mosque. Soldiers then launched a manhunt, and Yusuf was reportedly found in a goat's pen at the home of his in-laws. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8207924...

Fantasy: The Zionists planned a war against several Arab countries when Jews were a minority in "Palestine" in order to invade "Palestine" and expel "Palestinians" to replace them with Jews.   Truth: The Zionists didn't want war, didn't want to risk war, and while the invading Arab armies ordered Israeli Arabs to leave the country Jewish officials, like the mayor of Haifa, begged Israeli Arabs to stay and help defend the country against the Arab invaders.   http:...

http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/iranian-street-scene.html I keep wondering why Israel never gets away with that sort of thing. One reason is, of course, that Israel is not shooting at or imprisoning protesters, only terrorists.   It is also interesting to note that the western left have been left behind by history happening. Obama is trying to find a crompromise between America and an Iranian regime that Iranians reject. And the left who enthuastically supported Hizbu...

Hamas has lowered its profile in the West Bank out of fear its men will be captured by the Palestinian Authority and the IDF, and is operating a number of terrorist cells in every major city that are completely compartmentalized to ensure survivability, according to the latest military assessments. The Islamist group has been severely weakened in the West Bank in recent years, with the IDF conducting almost daily operations in Palestinian cities that began after Operation Defensive Shield i...

German. Translation follows below the link: Obama nach sechs Monaten unbeliebter als Bush Ein halbes Jahr nach seinem von großen Hoffnungen begleiteten Amtsantritt als US-Präsident wird Barack Obama vom Alltag eingeholt. Eine Mehrheit der Amerikaner empfindet seinen Kurs als falsch. Obamas persönliche Umfragewerte sind sogar schlechter als die von George W. Bush zur gleichen Zeit. Obama bleibt gelassen. http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article4166364/Obama-nach-se...

An Islamic court in Shiraz, Iran has just convicted two men of being infidels. Their crime? Converting to Christianity. The possible sentence? Death. Not too far away in Saudi Arabia, an outraged father recently hacked his own daughter to death for the same “abomination.” In the daily drumbeat of Mideast news, there is one story of historic proportion that goes nearly unreported: the persecution and systematic destruction in the Islamic world of some of the world’s oldest...

Over the next few days I am planning to write about the Assyrians, the Christians of Iraq, descendants of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, and other Christians in the middle east. The Assyrians are Iraq's indigenous population, having lived there before the Arabs and before even the Kurds. Their major population centres are now in Arbil and Mosul. They speak the Assyrian dialect of Aramaic (not to be confused with the extinct Assyrian language). Let's look at their relationship with ...