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Al aqsa the ultimate red line

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By Khalid Amayreh

(source: The Palestine Information Center)

The unprovoked intrusion by Jewish fanatics into the Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem on Sunday 27 September, should alarm every Muslim under the sun.

That was not, as the Israeli machine of lies would make you believe, a mere innocent visit by Jewish tourists to Islam’s third holiest sanctuary. It was rather a planned and calculated act of provocation against Muslims all over the world.

Jewish fanatics, we all know, don’t come to the Aqsa esplanade to visit; they come for the purpose of arrogating a foot-hold or perhaps hatching a conspiracy against Islamic edifices. In short, their ultimate goal is to carry out acts of terror and vandalism against Islamic holy places.

In the past, distant and near, Jewish terrorists, who often disguise themselves as tourists, carried out acts of murder against Muslim worshipers.

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The most dangerous nuclear facility in the middle east

By Juan Cole
 
(source:Informed Comment)

There is no good evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. It has
offered to allow regular International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of
the newly announced facility near Qom, which would effectively prevent it
from being used for weapons production.

There is a secret nuclear facility in the Middle East, however, producing
plutonium and not just enriched uranium, which has the capacity to make 10
nuclear warheads a year.

It is Israel’s ongoing nuclear weapon production that drives the nuclear
arms race in the Middle East. Saddam wanted a bomb because Israel had one.
The Iranians were then worried both about an Iraqi and an Israeli bomb.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and others are annoyed at their geostrategic
helplessness in the face of Israeli nukes.

Israel’s nuclear arsenal is the region’s Original Sin.

Juan Cole is a professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history
at the University of Michigan and the author of Napoleon’s Egypt and, most
recently, Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March 2009).

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Another war in the works

America Is Led And Informed By Liars

By Paul Craig Roberts

(source:Information Clearing House)

Does anyone remember all the lies that they were told by President Bush and the “mainstream media” about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV media despite the reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to Iraq, that no such weapons existed.

The weapons inspectors did an honest job in Iraq and told the truth, but the mainstream media did not emphasize their findings. Instead, the media served as a Ministry of Propaganda, beating the war drums for the US government.

Now the whole process is repeating itself. This time the target is Iran.

As there is no real case against Iran, Obama took a script from Bush’s playbook and fabricated one.

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