Arabs doubt Annapolis conference will bring peace

Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:34am EST

By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent

BEIRUT, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Arab commentators on Wednesday dismissed the relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian talks as a U.S.-staged media event unlikely to lead to Middle East peace

http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSL28234092

Zero Degree Turn: The World War II-era 30-episode story has drawn millions of Iranian viewers each week. It breaks taboos by showing Iranian diplomats helping European Jews flee the Holocaust at a time when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned the Holocaust and spoken out against Israel.
Courtesy of Amir Abedi

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In hit Iranian TV drama, Holocaust no 'myth'

An Iranian student helps save his love – a French Jew – from the Nazis in World War II.

By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

from the November 27, 2007 edition

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1127/p01s06-wome.html?page=1

U.S. push on Palestinians has Iran motive

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States hopes one byproduct of its Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking will be a moderate Arab alliance to counter Iran's influence in the region, but analysts are skeptical the strategy will work

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2317416720071123?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

Iran gave constructive cooperation, says IAEA chief

With regard to Iran's current nuclear activities, the IAEA chief said, "We have been able to verify the non-diversion of all declared nuclear material. We also have in place a safeguards approach for the Natanz facility that enables us to credibly verify all enrichment activities there."

http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/nov/23/iran_gave_constructive_cooperation_says_iaea_chief.html

Chances of attacking Iran between slim and none

ALBERT R. HUNT
GUEST COLUMNIST

President Bush raises the specter of World War III if Iran goes nuclear. Vice President Dick Cheney threatens military action. Neoconservative Norman Podhoretz urges the U.S. to bomb the country. And the Senate passes a resolution that critics say is a blank check for war
Moreover, unlike 2002 when the neoconservative war hawks, led by the Pentagon and the vice president's office, were dominant, other leading figures in the administration -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Admiral William Fallon, the head of Central Command for the Middle East, and probably Condoleezza Rice all think military engagement with Iran is a recipe for disaster

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/339833_iranwaronline18.html

Israel's fight against sex trafficking

Israel's fight against sex trafficking
By Raffi Berg BBC News, Jerusalem

Thousands of foreign women have been trafficked for sex in Israel

Marina rarely leaves her two-room home in northern Israel these days.
She is in hiding - wanted by the Israeli authorities for being an illegal immigrant, and by the criminal gangs who brought her here to sell her into prostitution

"I was taken to an apartment in Ashkelon, and other women there told me I was now in prostitution. I became hysterical, but a guy starting hitting me and then others there raped me
"I was then taken to a place where they sold me - just sold me!" she said, recalling how she was locked in a windowless basement for a month, drank water from a toilet and was deprived of food

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7070929.stm

Seven Bad Assumptions We Make About Iran

Seven Bad Assumptions We Make About Iran

7. Stability in the Middle East can be achieved only through Iran's isolation.

Quite the contrary. History teaches us that an Iran that isn't part of the region's security architecture will be more destabilizing than an Iran that has been incorporated into the region's political order

http://www.alternet.org/audits/66847/?page=entire

Without pressure from AIPAC, American support would crumble and Israel's occupation would end.

Condoleezza Rice Is Subpoenaed in Israel Lobby Case

This post, written by Manila Ryce, originally appeared on

The Largest Minority
A federal judge has ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, and other senior officials to testify in the trial of two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists

AIPAC is the most powerful foreign lobby in Washington, and is responsible for America's one-sided stance on the Israel-Palestinian issue. In fact, the entire "issue" is only an issue because of America's support for Israel's Zionist regime. Without pressure from AIPAC, American support would crumble and Israel's occupation would end

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/66867/