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By Robert Kellner
My grandfather, August Friedrich Kellner, was a local court official in Germany during WWII. He was the chief justice inspector in the district court in Laubach, a small town in the Vogelsberg mountains north of Frankfurt. He spoke out against the Nazis and in March 1940 was called to account for [...]

Egypt’s intelligence minister Omar Suleiman canceled his visit to Israel because of expectations of increased of cross-border violence between Israel and Gaza.

This warning could also be due to impending attacks on Israel by Hizbullah, following increased Arab agression against Israel from Gaza, the Shomron and Judah, and the Grad missile attack on Ashkelon on Friday. Israel counter attacked heavily, killing many terrorists, but so far not enough, considering that the Arabs are still attacking Israel.
(IsraelNN.com) Kuwaiti [...]

By Frederick W. Kagan, Danielle Pletka, Kimberly Kagan
AEI Online
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Introduction
The conflict between Iran and the United States began in 1979 with the Iranian Revolution and the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran. Born partly of ideological differences and partly of real and perceived differing national interests, it has [...]

Caroline Glick’s Column One from the Jerusalem Post, 2-14-08
It is quite possible that terror master Imad Mughniyeh was not killed Tuesday night in Damascus for his past crimes, but to prevent him from carrying out additional attacks in the future.
On January 30, French security services raided a Paris apartment and arrested six Arab men. Three [...]

David Bedein from the Bulletin
Bethlehem - On a crisp sunny day, Jerusalem’s Latin Patriarch Michel Sabah was preparing for the Christmas Eve midnight mass that has been held every year for centuries in the holiest Christian site on earth - the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, identified by Christians around the world as the site [...]

Debka — The Saudi Sheik Safar al Hawali is an eminent al Qaeda ideological authority and a close personal friend of Osama bin Laden. During US President George W. Bush’s visit to Riyadh earlier this month, the Saudi security authorities placed him under house arrest and forbade him to issue a proclamation condemning the visit. [...]

By David Bedein, published in the Philadelphia Bulletin
Jerusalem - It is hard to think of a precedent in the history of warfare when an army used hordes of civilians as a cover for the conquest of a seaport.
Indeed, what most observers of the Middle East have missed is that the Hamas army has conquered and [...]

This is to be expected…we all wait with bated breath to see if Bush caves or stands on Israeli Independence Day this year.
Will George observe the Independence day celebrations in Jerusalem, or go to an Arab nakba riot in the Arab occupied territories of Israel?
Another interesting thing will be to see how much damage Olmert, [...]

Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli, Memri Economic Blog
Iran and Turkey are two large Middle Eastern neighboring countries with populations of around 65.4 million and 71 million, and GDP in purchasing power parity of over $599 billion and $640 billion, respectively.[1] (See Annex) While both countries are Muslim, Turkey has had a long tradition of a secular and [...]

Jerusalem Post
Our neighbor Cyprus, together with Malta, adopted the euro on Tuesday, bringing to 15 out of the 27 EU countries and a population of 320 million out of the EU’s total of 495 million that share the same currency. 2008 will mark the second enlargement of the euro area since 2002 - Slovenia having [...]