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| 2006-08-15 |
| Livni Flies to New York for Meeting at UN (IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Tzipy Livni is set to fly to New York Tuesday evening for a meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. Livni is also expected to meet with diplomatic officials and Jewish community leaders. The foreign minister originally intended to fly to New York to attend the ceasefire talks over the weekend but was not allowed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to do so. Posturing by Iran (IsraelNN.com) Iranian officials are threatening to fire long-range missiles at Tel Aviv if Israel attacks Iran. An Iranian religious leader said in a state-run television interview on Tuesday that the Islamic country would launch 2,000 kilometer missiles at Israel’s “White City” if the Jewish state “makes one iota of aggression against Iran.” Cleric Ahmad Khatami, a member of the Islamic council that appoints and dismisses the country’s top leader, said the 70-kilometer range missiles fired by Hizbullah during the war against northern communities “turned Israel into a country of ghosts.” IDF Corners al-Aksa Terrorists in Shechem (IsraelNN.com) IDF troops surrounded a “safe house” in which an operative from the al-Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades terror group was hiding on Tuesday. Ahmad Nadi was warned by IDF soldiers to turn himself in, as his house was in the process of being bulldozed. Other wanted terrorists were cornered in a second building, both in the Askhar neighborhood of Shechem. Exchanges of fire were reported by local sources, who said that two people were injured during the firefight. Al-Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades is the military division of the Fatah faction run by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. FM Livni: Syria Has Choices to Make (IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Tzipy Livni said Tuesday that Syria will have to make a choice whether to continue its support of Hizbullah attacks or allow Lebanon to build a strong future. “Syria will need to decide where they stand,” she said. “Lebanon is supposed to take off in a different direction without them. They can continue influencing and leading an open front with Hizbullah.” Syrian President Bashar Assad said “The true path to peace is negotiation, but if that is not possible, then resistance is the only way.” Assad added that the resistance he referred to was not limited to armed struggle, but could be cultural and political. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 Concerning the way the strange leaders of Israel view Syria, Peretz just said that "Negotiations with Syria may be possible". No, you are not dreaming. Here is more: Peretz: Negotiations with Syria may be possible By AP AND JPOST.COM STAFF Aug. 15, 2006 12:43 | Updated Aug. 15, 2006 19:31 The conflict with Hizbullah may have created a new opportunity for renewed dialogue with the Palestinians, and potentially also with Syria, Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Tuesday afternoon. Speaking at a bar mitzva party, Peretz said that he believes every war generates the possibility to further the greater diplomatic process, and that in this case that could mean conducting negotiations with Lebanon and creating the conditions for negotiations with Syria. In response to this statement, Israel Beiteinu head Avigdor Lieberman said that Peretz was suffering from a failure to acknowledge reality. "It is just this kind of obliviousness to reality that brought the country to the present conflict," Lieberman said. "After Assad announced that the Golan Heights would be liberated by Syrian soldiers and that Hizbullah won the conflict, Peretz's call for negotiations with Syria will be received as a weakness and an invitation for another attack," he said. "It is preferable that the defense minister focus on preparing the army for the next unavoidable conflict rather than unrealistic wishful thinking." Lieberman was referring to statements made earlier Tuesday by Syrian President Bashar Assad. Assad said in a speech that America's plan for a "new Middle East" had collapsed after Hizbullah's successes in fighting against Israel. |
| Posted by: leroidavid 2006-08-15 17:59 |
| #5 Click for Current Countdown Clock |
| Posted by: BigEd 2006-08-15 11:06 |
| #4 Livni should tell Kofi to F**k himself and the camel he rode in on. We should directly tell Ihmanutjob that any offensive attack on Israel is regarded as a direct attack on US and we would respond with unrestricted might and completely extinguish all life in the area formerly known as Iran. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-08-15 11:05 |
| #3 Is that Tzipy the Pinhead? |
| Posted by: Spot 2006-08-15 10:26 |
| #2 Syria will need to decide where they stand,” she said Tzipy, the Syrians have long made that decision. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-08-15 10:12 |
| #1 And the countdown to the 22nd begins. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-08-15 09:43 |