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Thirty-nine years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, the third major war between the Arabs and Israel broke out. The war lasted only 20 days. The two sides were engaged in two other major wars, in 1948 and 1967.  The 1967 War lasted only six days. But, these three wars were not the only Arab-Israel confrontations. From the period of 1948 …

With the blessing of the US and its other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partners, as well as its own national legislature if not the entire Turkish population, some of whom have been holding mass rallies in opposition to Ankara's war policy vis-a-vis Syria, the Turkish government has resorted to a double hypocrisy. On the one hand, it has exploited …

  A barely-recognizable Obama lavishes praise on Rev. Wright … says feds 'don't care' about black New Orleans … claims gov't spends too much on suburbs, not 'our neighborhoods' In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the general debate of the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly. Credit: UN Photo/J Carrier UNITED NATIONS, Oct 1 2012 (IPS) – When world leaders packed their bags and headed home last week, there was one lingering memory of the General Assembly’s high-level debate: Benjamin Netanyahu’s dramatic presentation of a cartoonish nuclear red line, which …

Jail sentence for Holocaust deniers Is there a hidden force which is putting the Christian West against Muslims worldwide? This is the question now being asked in many knowledgeable circles in the West, the Middle East and the East as well. Worldwide angry demonstrations against the American film ”The Innocence of Islam” , produced by an Israeli Jew, which insulted …