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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!

"Whoever heard of a hundred thousand animals rushing together to butcher each other, as men do everywhere [during war]?"-- Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist, 1466-1536

 

MIDDLE EAST

Mar 10 00:54

US, UK, NATO and Israeli Weapons Cause Genocide

We currently have the War Crimes Tribunals established in Kuala Lumpur and the Russell Tribunal in the United Kingdom and the Iraq Inquiry also in the UK. No one is bringing forward the case of the Genocide that is being caused by current weapons used or having been used in the Balkans – Kuwait – Iraq – Afghanistan – Pakistan – Lebanon – Gaza and now possible Somalia and Yemen.

Mar 05 23:28

Dubai Police Chief Challenges Israel: I’ll Resign if DNA Doesn’t Match Suspects

“I challenge Israel to bring the suspects there in order to undergo a DNA test and compare them with the samples we have,” he said in an interview to the UAE-based al-Khaleej newspaper. “If it turns out that the results do not match, I will resign. You can lie about anything, but not about DNA,” he added.

Mar 05 23:27

For First Time in Three Decades,Israel’s Existence Is Threatened

Believe it or not:
For the first time in three decades, the Zionist entity feels threatened in its mere existence…

For the first time since the Israeli enemy ended its hugest wars with the Arabs in 1973, the “existential threat” appeared again in the Israeli discussion battlegrounds at all levels…

Mar 03 01:13

the video the US Army doesn't want you to see.

May be a difficult viewing.

Very important that everyone is familiar with what is really happening in our names.

Please repost. Host group showings. Leave copies on public transit. Be creative. Your future thanks you.

Imagine peace. In our time.

Mar 02 22:34

Dubai Bans Israeli’s From Entering Country

A Channel 2 News broadcast Monday night showed Tamim pointing at his own face and saying, “We know how to recognize them.” The United Arab Emirates will “deny entry to anyone suspected of having Israeli citizenship,” he said, adding that Israelis with dual nationality would be denied entry.

Mar 02 15:28

Muslims are their own worst enemy

Paul Craig Roberts describes how disunity and bickering among Muslims have made it possible for Israel to dispossess the Palestinians, for the US to invade Iraq and for the US to rule much of the region and beyond through puppets

Mar 01 16:19

Dubai: “All Suspects In Mabhouh Murder Hiding Out In Israel

Dubai’s police chief said on Monday he is sure that all the suspects in the killing of a Hamas chief in a hotel room of the emirate are now hiding out in Israel to avoid arrest.

Feb 28 14:05

America and world economic meltdown: the mystery of the Afghanistan war

Christopher King argues that “a situation exists in which it may be in the interests of the United States to seek a ‘cold war’ situation with Russia and China as a pretext for defaulting on its external debt, attacking Iran, taking direct control of all Middle Eastern oilfields and effective control of Europe”.

Feb 28 12:08

Israel’s Increasingly Dangerous Neighborhood

Talk about cognitive dissonance. This article borders on psychopathy/madness.

Thanks to SamLowrey.

Feb 27 15:34

Dubai Police Chief to Israeli Mossad Head: Be A Man!

Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim urged Meir Dagan, the director of Israel's Mossad, to "be a man" and admit that Israel stands behind last month's assassination of Hamas chief Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, according to a report Saturday in Emirati newspaper Al-Khaleej.

Feb 26 07:22

Blackwater on Trial: Murders, drugs & alcohol

Blackwater on Trial: Murders, drugs & alcohol

American security guards charged with killing two civilians in Afghanistan had criminal records, a Senate committee has heard. They were guilty of assault, battery and drug-taking in the past. The men were in Afghanistan with a subsidiary of the private security firm Blackwater, previously accused of murdering civilians in Iraq.

Feb 25 06:07

Israel; Taking Whatever Whenever

Not sure if you keep track of memorial dates but we have one approaching fast. If you are not an Israeli, Palestinian, Jew, Muslim, or someone who likes to keep track of what Israeli Jews do to Palestinian Muslims, you might not have this one marked on your calendar. But I do!...

Feb 23 09:37

THE US HAS TO REPAIR A LONG HISTORY OF MISTRUST

In occupied Palestine, America has been enabling and empowering Israel — a state that has much in common with Nazi Germany — to kill us, destroy our homes, steal our land, and banish us from our ancestral land. Moreover, whenever we sought to redress that bad situation at the UN Security Council, America would just veto any resolution that would have given us a modicum of justice.

Feb 22 16:45

Mossad’s murderous reach: the larger political issues

James Petras argues that Mossad’s murder of a Palestinian official in Dubai using stolen European passports presages an era of chaos in international relations and makes every European travelling in the Middle East suspected of links with Israeli death squads.

Feb 22 09:54

Petraeus singles out Al-Qaeda threat in Yemen

"Saudi Arabia and the other peninsula countries have continued to make gains with the obvious exception of Yemen," Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, told NBC television's "Meet the Press" program.

Yemen is home to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, an offshoot branch of Osama bin Laden's terror network that claimed responsibility for the botched Christmas Day suicide bombing of a Detroit-bound passenger plane.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Memo to General Petraeus:

1. the crotch bomber was a complete setup, courtesy of some US government agency intervention to get him on that plane with no passport.

2. The word "Al-Qaeda", in Arabic, means "the base." in colloquial Arabic, it means "the toilet". What self-respecting insurgency would ever name itself "the toilet"?!?

3. There is no actual proof that such an organization as "Al-Quaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" actually exists.

4. The real problem in Yemen is a despotic, dysfunctional government with absolutely no concern about the lives of its people. Poverty and corruption here are at some of the highest levels in the Middle East, and that is saying something.

5. Yet, the US continues to support Yemen's tinpot dictator , "President for Life" Saleh (just as we did with the Shah of Iran and Batista in Cuba).

6. Despotic regimes make insurgency look attractive to some, and the only possible option to others. When peaceful revolution is impossible, violent revolution is inevitable.

7. Not every geopolitical problem can be resolved at the point of a gun barrel or a drone attack. These are social, political, educational, and economic problems.

Feb 20 14:20

Hezbollah warns of terrorist tourists after Dubai hit

After the assassination of a senior Hamas official in Dubai, Hezbollah issues an alert against disguised entry of terrorists into Lebanon...

Feb 19 17:23

Campus claws: beating Israel lobbyists through debate

Paul J. Balles cautions pro-Palestinian activists against simply shouting down speakers who represent their enemy, arguing that, to win hearts and minds, they should instead “learn to express themselves well enough to challenge their adversaries” and they should prepare for and encourage debates.

Feb 19 04:58

The Long Arm of Israel Better be Amputated

We have learned in the last few days that the Dubai assassins were Mossad agents who stole identities of six UK citizens and faked at least five other European passports. Dubai Police yesterday presented footage of some of the 11 ‘Europeans’ suspected of killing Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

Feb 18 15:46

11 Hamas slaying suspects now on Interpol wanted list

The international police agency says it has issued red notices, its highest-level alert, to its member countries worldwide for "11 internationally wanted individuals who have been charged by UAE-Dubai authorities with coordinating and committing the murder."

Feb 17 15:53

The long arm of Israel must be amputated

Gilad Atzmon argues that, given the close relationship between the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and the Mossad intelligence agency, Premier Binyamin Netanyahu must be held to account personally for the murder of a Hamas official in Dubai by Israeli Mossad agents travelling on cloned European passports.

Feb 16 08:52

Saudi FM al-Faisal doubts Iran sanctions plans

The Saudi foreign minister added that efforts to rid the Middle East of nuclear weapons must also apply to Israel.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

And you won't hear THAT part on ABCNNBBCBS!

Feb 15 16:04

Perspectives on Zionism

Paul J. Balles views some of the latest works exposing the activities of Zionists in the Middle East where Israeli barbarism manifests itself in indiscriminate "killing for the sake of killing", to the United States where the pro-Israel lobby "has long held the US Congress in thrall, strangling what little is left of American democracy".

Feb 15 15:55

Chutzpah, thy name is Zionism

Maidhc Ó Cathail looks at how Israel and its Zionist propagandists are cynically using the memory of the Nazi Holocaust to promote aggression against Iran, just as they did to whip up opinion in favour of aggression against Iraq.

Feb 15 10:18

America’s Shadowy Base World

Once is an anomaly; twice is the beginning of a pattern. Right now, we’re seeing the same sequence of events for the second time in less than a decade, and it looks like the signature American way of war in our time is coming into focus.

Feb 14 16:00

Zionism unmasked

Jeff Gates analyses Zionism as “a strategy for targeting thought and emotion as a means to influence behaviour” and “a mental state that manifests as a dispersed form of internalized nationalism—a diaspora—that binds to an extremist enclave those who may never set foot there”. He argues that Zionism "relies for its success on deception and self-deceit".

”Law is irrelevant to those who consider themselves above the law. Morality and conscience are of no concern to those who consider themselves The Chosen—by a god of their own choosing. Such a nationalist ideology has no place in a system of nation states dedicated to the rule of law.”

Feb 12 13:07

Shiite Rebels Rupture Yemen Truce

Webmaster's Commentary: 

That didn't take long, unfortunately.

And one has to wonder: who really started the shooting?!?

Feb 12 07:34

North Yemen calm after truce with Shiite rebels: army

The Yemeni army said fighting halted on all fronts on Friday as a truce with Shiite rebels came into force six months after the government ordered a major offensive to try to end a six-year uprising.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced the ceasefire late on Thursday and rebel leader Abdul Malak al-Huthi ordered his fighters to respect it.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Let's hope this truce holds.

Feb 11 06:21

Biden Says Iran Creating Regional Arms Race

Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Iran is working to develop nuclear weapons and to destabilize the Middle East by fueling an arms race in the region...

Feb 10 09:05

Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Israel, a smoking gun?

Dr. Hilal Khashan, a Palestinian-American scholar chairing of Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut, said that "the war is looming."

Feb 10 07:10

Is Another Israeli War Looming?

That's what Lebanon's Prime Minister, Saad al-Harir, claimed may be in the works today in an interview with the BBC in which he accused Israeli aircraft of repeatedly violating Lebanese air space on a daily basis.

Feb 09 09:06

Saudi Gov't Urges International Response to Israeli Threats

The Saudi government on Monday urged the international community "for taking a firm stance on the issue of Israeli threats against Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinians."

Feb 08 13:32

Australian woman detained by Israeli police

The lawyer for an Australian woman who was arrested in
the West Bank says her detention is part of a campaign by the Israeli Government to silence pro-Palestinian foreigners.

Israeli soldiers arrested 22-year-old Bridgette Chappell in a pre-dawn raid and she is now being held in an immigration jail in Israel. The Government says she overstayed her visa.

Feb 08 13:31

The NY Times' coverage of Israel-Palestine was Biased Before Bureau Chief's Son Joined the IDF

This week the editors of The New York Times's sprang to the defense of Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner following weeks of controversy over his son's service in the Israeli Defense Forces. Public editor Clark Hoyt praised Bronner's track-record at the Times, in his February 6th column but nonetheless concluded that "covering Israel's conflict with a son in uniform might be cause to reassign even a superb reporter." The Times' Executive Editor Bill Keller said in a response that "the editors discussed the situation and sees no reason to change Bronner's status as bureau chief."

Feb 08 12:29

Mashaal in Russia: Israel wants only war

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said Monday that Israeli leaders bring "war and occupation" thus blocking peace talks on the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.

Mashaal spoke after a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Msocow.

His statement leaves in doubt Russia's desire to host a Mideast peace conference and to involve Hamas, despite strong opposition from Israel and the US.

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued no information about Monday's meeting between Mashaal and Lavrov. Moscow hopes to host a Middle East peace conference but has not yet set a date.

Feb 07 20:19

UN likely to refer Goldstone findings to The Hague

Arab states set to force debate that would bring Gaza war crimes claims before international court.

The United Nations is likely to refer the findings of the Goldstone report to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, diplomatic sources in New York said on Saturday.

A decision to bring the report on last year's Gaza war before the court would follow a debate in the UN General Assembly over Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's response to the document last week.

Feb 07 11:31

Yemen and The Militarization of Strategic Waterways

Socotra is at the crossroads of the strategic naval waterways of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden (See map below). It is of crucial importance to the US military.

From a military standpoint, the Socotra archipelago is at a strategic location. Socotra is some 3000 km from the US naval base of Diego Garcia, which is among America's largest overseas military facilities.

On January 2nd, 2010, President Saleh and General David Petraeus, Commander of the US Central Command met for high level discussions behind closed doors.

Feb 07 11:24

Obama, The New NeoCon - Military Confrontation Rising

As for timing, the US will not give Israel the green light to attack Iran until another carrier task for joins the two already in the Gulf (USS Enterprise and USS Stennis). The Pentagon has indicated they are prepared to send the USS Nimitz to the Gulf to arrive in April. This indicates that the most likely timing of the attack will be between April and July of this year. The transfer of the Nimitz is being contested by CENTCOM commander Admiral Fallon. He may even be replaced for making statements inferring that an attack on Iran will not occur on his watch.

Feb 05 09:57

What's behind renewed war jitters in Israel, Lebanon?

Despite the jitters and the rhetoric from both sides of the border, neither Hezbollah nor Israel appear anxious to embark upon a new round of fighting. Analysts suggest that the spark for a new conflict could come from an incident along the border that flares out of control, such as a rocket attack into Israel. There have been seven isolated firings of short-range rockets into Israel since 2006, all of them suspected of being the work of either Al-Qaeda-affiliated factions or rogue Palestinian groups.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Current events markedly contradict the statement here that "...neither Hezbollah nor Israel appear anxious to embark upon a new round of fighting."

Israel has just done a series of military exercises very close to the Lebanese border recently, and continues illegal flights into Lebanese airspace; these are both very provocative moves.

If Israel attacks Lebanon, this time, they will go all the way to the Litani River, as they are desperate for the water.

Feb 04 15:49

Analysis Finds Little Evidence Iranian Public Sees Government as Illegitimate

Indications of fraud in the June 12 Iranian presidential election, together with large-scale street demonstrations, have led to claims that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not actually win the election, and that the majority of Iranians perceive their government as illegitimate and favor regime change.

An analysis of multiple polls of the Iranian public from three different sources finds little evidence to support such conclusions.

Feb 04 09:47

Book explores Palestinian odyssey for freedom, longing to return home

Ramzy Baroud’s “My Father Was A Freedom Fighter” is more than a book, it is actually a masterpiece. In an overwhelmingly evoking personal style Baroud manages to bring to light the history of the Palestinian people and their battle with Israel and Zionism. Through the story of the Baroud’s family the book outlines every event in the history of the conflict and reflects on the way it transformed the Palestinian reality.

Feb 04 08:12

Fake "War on Terrorism": The US is Fighting Democracy in Yemen

A pair of trousers catches fire in an aeroplane close to Detroit and missiles rain down on Yemen. Is this is what is called the butterfly effect? For Mohammed Hassan, the terrorist threat is only an excuse. In this latest chapter in our series "Understanding the Muslim world", our specialist explains what is really at stake in Yemen: i.e. undermining democracy in the Gulf in order to keep control over its oil

Feb 03 15:32

A Brief History of US Interventions in the Middle East 1949-2002

Feb 03 14:18

Hamas: EU must stop letting Israeli spies use its passports

Palestinian militant group Hamas has demanded the European Union work to prevent Israeli security services from using EU passports to carry out "targeted assassination" attempts after the killing of one of its leading members in Dubai.

Feb 03 04:06

White Phosphorus? Perhaps, Pehaps Not!

Have we discussed the Goldstone Report lately? Well yesterday the highly anticipated Israeli internal investigation into the findings of the Goldstone Report were delivered. This of course was the result of the U.N. mandated investigation into Operation Cast Lead...

WEBMASTER COMMENT: If you use the WOT security plugin you will get a notice that "readers" (meaning the Megaphone people) have given this site the worst possible security rating possible. I ignored the WOT warning and checked the page out, and other than stating things Israel does not want you to hear I did not encounter any problems with the linked story. Israel is apparently hijacking WOT to use as a censorship tool, and so I can no longer recommend WOT for Firefox.

Feb 02 14:18

GEORGE GALLOWAY ~~ (DESPITE HIS DEPORTATION SAID) “WE LOVE THE ARAB PEOPLE OF EGYPT FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS”

Speaking in Brooklyn, George Galloway presented a report on his recent experiences in Gaza and Egypt. Despite his deportation from Egypt, he had only praise for the citizens of that nation.

Feb 02 13:03

To Shoot an Elephant

"To shoot an elephant" is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. 21 days shooting elephants. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians.

Feb 02 12:05

Saudis Raid Yemen Despite Houthi Pledge For Peace

Saudi airstrikes continue to target northern Yemen despite Houthis pledging to meet the key condition of not attacking Saudi Arabia set by the Yemeni government.

Houthi fighters said Tuesday that Saudi warplanes had been bombarding the country’s north, including the Al-Saqin district.

According to the fighters, Saudi forces poured rockets and artillery shells on border areas.

Jan 31 09:32

Yemen clashes continue, ceasefire offer rejected

Yemen rejected a ceasefire offer from Shi'ite rebels on Sunday and said fighting was continuing, as neighbouring Saudi Arabia accused the insurgents of mounting sniper attacks inside its territory. The conflict with the northern rebels, who complain of social, religious and economic discrimination in the southern Arabian state, has rumbled on since 2004, but intensified last year and drew in oil-rich Saudi Arabia.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

This was a catastrophically bad decision on the part of the Yemeni government, and will only lead to increased fighting and, probably ultimately, a massive civil war.

Jan 31 09:23

CIA chief holds secret talks with Egypt, Israel

The Director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, has held secret talks with Egyptian and Israeli officials over expanded US intervention in Yemen.

Panetta met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and intelligence minister, Gen. Omar Suleiman to ask them to dispatch forces to Yemen to help the US troops.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

If true, one has to wonder just how much of the conversation was actually centered on US military involvement with Yemen, and how much was centered on an impending US attack against Iran.

Jan 31 09:04

Robert Fisk: The tree-lined bunkers that could change the face of the Middle East

The newly resurfaced Lebanese roads near the border – courtesy of Hizbollah money – suggest that someone might want to move men at high speed towards the frontier. Perhaps even to cross the border.

Israeli army commanders are talking about this in the Israeli press. A fast, dramatic spring across the frontier to the west – in the direction of Naharia, perhaps, or a grab at the settlement of Kiryat Shmona – and Hizbollah would announce it had "liberated" part of historic "Palestine". Israel would have to bomb its own territory to get them out.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

To the "adults in the room" in the halls of power in Tel Aviv and Beirut; this is absolutely the last thing the people of Israel or Lebanon need.

Jan 30 19:17

The Palestine You Don't Know:Pre-Occupation

You hear it often said that once the Zionists invaded Palestine they “made the desert bloom” – history,on the other hand, documents a fairly different picture when it comes the region, pre-occupation.

These men,women and children had their own lives and their own stories which shall not be forgotten, regardless of how hard Zionist occupiers try and pretend that they did not exist.

Jan 30 11:03

Pentagon to Send More Special Forces Troops to Yemen

The Pentagon is assigning more special forces personnel to Yemen as part of a broad push to speed the training of the country's counterterror forces in the wake of the failed Christmas Day attack on a crowded U.S. airliner.

Military officials familiar with the matter said the U.S. will begin rotating the same groups of special forces personnel through Yemen and keeping some of the elite troops there for longer tours, changes designed to help the American trainers develop closer relationships with their Yemeni counterparts.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Great timing; just when the Shiite rebels in north Yemen have signaled that they would accept the government's conditions to end the war, what is the US doing?

Sending in more troops, of course!

Jan 30 10:17

Yemen rebels 'would accept conditional end to war'

The leader of the Shiite rebels in north Yemen said on Saturday in a message released on the Internet that he will accept the government's conditions to end the war if attacks against them cease.

I announce our acceptance of the (government's) five points, after the aggression stops," Abdel Malak al-Huthi said in an audio message released on the Internet. "The ball is now in the other party's court."

Webmaster's Commentary: 

I hope to heck that Yemen's President Saleh and the US are listening, very carefully, to this offer.

Jan 30 09:38

Anti-Semitic Zionism

If you make a point of highlighting and discussing all of the things we should all know about Israel, the Goldstone Report is the gift that keeps on giving. Seems like there is always something new to report...

Jan 30 09:28

Testimonies of Israeli Female Soldiers Regarding Violations Against Palestinian Civilians

Part of the testimonies is regarding “extra efforts” that female soldiers should conduct in order to be recognized and accepted by the fellow male soldiers.
Another soldier said that she saw a fellow female soldier humiliating Palestinian residents “in a way that cannot be described by words”, and added that “you have to see it to realize how she behaves, how she humiliates the Palestinians without caring about anything”.

“Everybody is doing that”, the soldier added, “Soldiers and senior officers, nobody objects”.

Jan 29 07:57

Israeli soldier breaks nose of Palestinian Villager

At least eighteen Jewish settlers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, attacked Tuesday Palestinians in the West Bank village of At-Tuwani in the southern hills of Hebron.

Jan 28 20:04

The bogus "land swap" deal

Should the Palestinians agree to a land swap they would be undermining not only their rights but also any chance for peace.This is because Israel is likely to use the land swap to:

- Deny that the 4 June 1967 lines are the basis for drawing the borders of a future Palestinian state. Israel will use these lines only as a basis for determining the "size" of the land that the Palestinians should receive in compensation.

- Annex areas in the West Bank and carve off lands within or close to Jerusalem, along with land rich in ground water.

- Annex the so-called "large settlement areas", which were created originally as a means of dissecting the West Bank and deterring the creation of a viable Palestinian state.

Jan 28 18:56

Palestine Replaces Israel on Globes Sold at Target

A rally of Jewish leaders took aim at Target stores Thursday for selling a globe that omits the name Israel but instead labels the region Palestine.

Jan 28 17:28

Yemen near crisis that will pose global threat, foreign ministers warn

Yemen faces a crisis that would threaten global security, foreign ministers from across the world warned yesterday as they met in London to pledge support for the country’s battle with al-Qaeda.

Mrs Clinton warned that in a digital age, radicalisation could take place anywhere. “The question ‘Where?’ in the 21st century may be somewhat beside the point,” she said. “Increasingly, we are having to face whether it’s the UK, the US or Yemen, threats coming from beyond our borders that cannot be pinned on any place.”

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Hilary Clinton has a magnificent job of asking the absolutely wrong questions.

The question about radicalization is infinitely less about "where", than why.

Unless and until Western powers grab the members of Selah's government collectively by a very sensitive portion of the human anatomy, and demand that corruption stop, strong> there can and will be no end to the radicalization going on here.

When people feel that they can get an education, work, earn decent wages, be comfortable, take care of their families, and that there is hope for their kids' futures, radicalization won't look attractive.

Unfortunately, every since Selah took power, the Yemeni government has presented just the opposite of the above-describe scenario to their people.

Very much as in Afghanistan, the answers here are not military; they are social, political, and economic.

The US, unfortunately, has not yet learned that there are some geopolitical problems which cannot be resolved with bombs and bullets.

Jan 27 19:05

Al-Jazeera, Osama, and Obama

I think anytime Osama bin Laden speaks it is newsworthy and he just released an audio tape. The recording was released in Arabic and directly to the Al-Jazeera news channel, a Middle Eastern news network...

Jan 26 05:58

Government plans land giveaway to combat troops

Troops serving in Israel Defense Forces combat units will be allocated land upon discharge from military service, a new government initiative revealed on Monday stated.
Land will be allocated in the Galilee, the Negev desert, the Jordan valley and the Golan Heights - with the result that the move is likely to be seen as a continuation of the government's controversial policy of encouraging Israeli Jews to reside in rural regions with large Arab populations.

Jan 25 15:23

Plan to split Golan village angers Israel

''How can you divide one small village between two countries? This would be a very bad situation for us to be in.''

In 2000, Israel withdrew all its troops from southern Lebanon to the UN-determined ''Blue Line'', which put half of Ghajar in Lebanon.

EDITED: Where the hell is Syria in all this??