Pakistan supply routes row hits Nato summit
A row between the US and Pakistan over supply routes to Afghanistan is threatening to overshadow the summit of Nato leaders in Chicago. The two sides have been unable to reach agreement on Pakistan’s...
Category: Wars and Rumors of Wars
Israel: Iran attack decision nears
(Reuters) – A private door opens from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in central Jerusalem directly into a long, modestly furnished, half-paneled room decorated with modern paintings by Israeli artists and a copy...
Israel becomes a target in Egypt’s presidential vote
(Reuters) – Israel has become a punchbag for politicians vying for votes in Egypt’s presidential race, playing on popular antipathy in Egypt towards its neighbor, but the realities of office are likely to ensure...
US Leads Major War Drill in Jordan – Israel Not Invited
The United States is leading what it described as the “largest militaryexercises in the Middle East in 10 years” in Jordan on Tuesday. Eager Lion 2012 “is the largest exercise held in the region in...
Leading Egypt candidate calls ‘racist’ Israel a threat
A leading Islamist candidate in Egypt’s presidential election has branded Israel a “racist state” and said a shared 1979 peace treaty was “a national security threat” that should be revised. Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh...
ISRAEL VS. IRAN: ‘ANY GIVEN MOMENT’
Israel’s channel 10 is reporting that U.S. officials are working frantically to prevent a pre-emptive Israeli attack on Iran, which the new unity government could carry out at “any given moment,” according to Israel...
China bangs the war drum over South China Sea
(CCTV produced the video below) War talk, it seems, is all the rage in China at the minute. Yes, there are serious people in serious publications seriously advocating war. You might have missed it...
Israel NOT invited to NATO summit in Chicago
(AP) BRUSSELS – Israel will not be invited to NATO’s May 20-21 summit in Chicago, the alliance’s top official said Friday. But he denied that alliance member Turkey had blocked Israel’s participation. Instead, NATO...
Military class suspended for view on Islam
WASHINGTON – A course for U.S. military officers has been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam in general, not just terrorists, and suggesting that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy...
Israel facing major West Bank uprising over Palestinian hunger strike
Israel has been warned that it faces a major uprising in the West Bank after six Palestinian prisoners taking part in one of the largest and most protracted hunger strikes ever staged in its...
