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• August 26, 2008
• 7:58

  Israel Frees 198 Palestinians Before Rice Arrives for Talks

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  The release of 198 prisoners was aimed at bolstering the Palestinian president, hours before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived to nudge peace efforts forward.
  
  
• 7:52

  World Briefing | Middle East: Iran: Submarine Factory Reported

   » ‎ NYT > Middle East
  Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najar said that Iran had begun a submarine production line to equip its army for protecting an important oil shipping route.
  
  

• 7:00

  Zombie Update: Escaped Riot

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  The latest: Zombie has escaped the riot at Denver Civic Center and is safely working on the next report, which will show up later tonight.

  

  

• 6:14

  NYT: Georgians and Russians open new front ...

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  NYT: Georgians and Russians open new front in Denver....
• 5:55

  Politico: "Sen. Barack Obama has launched an ...

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  Politico: "Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads. Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a...
• 5:46

  NYT: Zalmay Khalilzad, the American ambassador to ...

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  NYT: Zalmay Khalilzad, the American ambassador to the United Nations, is facing angry questions from other senior Bush administration officials over what they describe as unauthorized contacts with Asif Ali Zardari, a contender to succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of...

• 5:25

  Conventional Discussion Thread 3

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  They’re setting up Michelle Obama’s entrance now...

  

  

• 4:39

  Jimmy the Dhimmi off the program?

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  Last week, I reported that former President Jimmy Carter was going to be a featured speaker at the Democratic National Convention. Late Monday afternoon, The Hill reported that there has been a change in plans (Hat Tip: Hot Air). Officials at the Democratic convention initially declined to say whether Carter would speak or not, deferring to the published podium schedule, but a spokeswoman said

• 4:28

  Zombie Update: Riot in Denver City Center

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  Just received via text from Zombie:

  Riot in civic center still happening. Moved south. I got pepper sprayed. Currently trapped with anarchists...

  UPDATE at 8/25/08 6:54:17 pm:

  Received at 6:50 pm PST:

  Trapped with several hundred rioters ... no way out ... 100s of police have us encircled. Possible arrest looming.

  UPDATE at 8/25/08 7:01:15 pm:

  A web camera at the Civic Center: Livecam - The Denver Post.

  UPDATE at 8/25/08 7:21:33 pm:

  The latest from Zombie:

  Tried to talk my way through police lines. No dice. Likely will be here all night or be arrested. Healthy except for a little pepper spray in eye.

  UPDATE at 8/25/08 7:36:38 pm:

  Good news:

  I escaped...

  

  
• 4:18

  Conventional Discussion Thread 2

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  Tonight’s going to be a Kennedyfest, you’d better just get used to it, culminating in a Ted Kennedy extravaganza you may not be able to believe. Here’s another discussion thread as Caroline takes the podium.

  

  

• 3:24

  The JBlogosphere Community?

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  Wikipedia's Defintion of Community: A number of ways to categorize types of community have been proposed; one such breakdown is:
  
  

  Geographic communities: range from the local neighbourhood, suburb, village, town or city, region, nation or even the planet as a whole. These refer to communities of location.
  
  Communities of culture: range from the local clique, sub-culture, ethnic
  group, religious, multicultural or pluralistic civilisation, or the global community cultures of today. They may be included as communities of need or identity, such as disabled persons, or frail aged people.
  
  Community organizations: range from informal family or kinship networks, to more formal incorporated associations, political decision making structures, economic enterprises, or professional associations at a small, national or international scale.

  Dov "he wants you to buy his book" Bear paraphrased R' Gil Student from Hirhurim as follows:
  

  When Gil said that he didn't think the Jewish blogosphere is a true community the angels cried (Disagree) (I think he's dead right. Lots of different communities may exist within the J-blogopshere, but the J-blogosphere is not a community itself: We don't have common interests, and no one views the blogosphere as a distinct segment of society. We speak of aliya-nics, or skeptics, or TorahTrue-niks, not of "Jewish bloggers")

  What does it mean, "the J-Blogosphere is not a community itself?"
  
  Is Judaism today a community itself? Is Israel a community itself? When R' Gil said he wouldn't want to expose his readership to the "Haveil Havalim" blog carnival, does that mean he is anti-community? Of course not.
  
  The lowest common denominators of Judaism and Israel today have eroded down to close to zero. What do Neturai Karta and Humanist Judaism have in common? The Chadash political party and Tekuma? The Treppenwitz blog and Lisa Goldman? DovBear and the Muqata? Jewlicious and Netanyahu (well, we know one is much funnier than the other one) I'm honestly shocked that the "Who is a Jew" controversy didn't materialize over the past JBlogger conference, since the exact same controversy is applicable to "Who is a JBlogger", or more precisely, "What is the JBlogosphere 'community'?" It's rather silly for DovBear to say "the J-blogosphere is not a community itself: We don't have common interests, and no one views the blogosphere as a distinct segment of society." One could say the exact same thing about Jews. What common interest does a Neturay Karta Jew from Kiryas Joel have with a skeptic orthoprax Jew, a totally athiest Jew, and an aliya-minded minded Jew? Perhaps nothing, but they are part of the "Jewish Community" (even if some of them would hate the defintion, and would scream and rant that they have nothing to do with each other) -- and yet there was far more criticism of calling last week's event, a "JBlogger convention" than say, a UJA appeal. No organization, company, or event has a monopoly on the "JBlogosphere." No one owns it, runs it, manipulates it, or controls it -- JBloggers write what they wish. whenever they want, and however they want. It's open to pretty much anyone. To all those harping against the community aspect of it -- give it a rest. I found lots of new friends through it -- even though others think its insane to find friends through any sort of virtual "sphere." I found many new ideas through it, learned alot, and contribute my point of view. And I had a blast meeting so many of you in the US and at the convention Contribute to the KCC or Haveil Havalim, lurk around it, or ignore it -- it doesnt really change the "community" apsect of it. The JBlogosphere exists, just as the "Jewish Community" exists. Yet don't overdo it -- as CK from Jewlicious said at the convention, "maybe you should get out more often...get a bike or something."
  
  Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד

• 3:13

  Pelosi Bloviates

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  Blinky’s up next with her opening day speech to Democratic convention, and here’s a thread for persiflage.

  

  

• 2:05

  رايح ومش راجع: اشتقنالك كريم…..وناطرينك

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  اشتقنالك كريم…. و ناطرينك

  لا أدري لماذا شدتني هذه العبارة؟؟

  هي آخر عبارة أدرجت في الموقع الإلكتروني الذي أطلقه أصدقاء المدون السوري المعتقل كريم عربجي في ذكرى ميلاده داعين زوار الموقع وأصدقاء كريم لزيارة الموقع وتسجيل تضامنهم.

  جمع أصدقاء عربجي كلماته ومداخلاته في منتدى أخوية الإلكتروني حيث عمل عربجي كمشرف على المنبر الحر وقاموا بنشرها على الموقع المذكور.

  أكثر من عام مضى علا اعتقال كريم عربجي. أمضاها كريم في فرع فلسطين (مخابرات عسكرية) ثم نقل لاحقاً إلى سجن صيدنايا العسكري.

  الزيارات ممنوعة قبل صدور الحكم، وكريم قيد المحاكمة، طبعاً فهو مجرم أوهن نفسية الأمة وأضعف الشعور القومي .

  آه كم احتقر هذا الشعور.

  زوروا الموقع وتضامنوا مع المدون كريم عربجي.

  http://www.karimarbaji.com/

  
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• 2:05

  Arabdemocracy: Peaceful Palestinian Walks disturbed by Zionism

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  By Bachir Habib
  
  
  On the second of August 2008, the title of an opinion article in the Jerusalem Post caught my interest. Titled “The ‘Economist’ Rewrites History” by Zalman Shoval, former Israeli ambassador to the United States it accuses The Economist of revisionism only because it positively reviewed, under the Arts section, a book called Palestinian Walks, Notes on a Vanishing Landscape, written by Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian Lawyer and founder of Al Haq* organization in 1979.
  In his book, winner of the Orwell Prize 2008, Shehadeh describes the change in the landscape of the hills surrounding Ramallah through seven walks he took in the area. His lyrical description of the “Biblical Hills” comes as a perfect justification of the prize awarded to the author and his book. The seven walks counted were not made within a year or two; they are spread at least over two decades. That’s exactly why the reader, while turning the pages of this book, is taken through the geographical changes to the hills and their surroundings over a troubled time, where political and military events had the strongest impact on transforming the peaceful nature of what Shehadeh calls the “Highland Hills of Palestine”.
  Shehadeh’s perspective is also interesting in the way he shows how the function of the hills surrounding Ramallah changed over the generations. From a place where Palestinian men used to escape the hot summers, working the land and building Qasr (round stones structures built without concrete dotting the land where farmers kept their produce and slept on the open roof), the hills now fulfill a security function, but this time for the Israeli settlers building outposts to better control Palestinian areas. Shehade’s journey and description of this change of function intersects with the Israeli architect Eyal Weizeman’s thesis called "The Politics of Verticality", where the latter develops the idea that the Israeli architecture has played an important role in the conflict for the past six decades. Weizeman’s more recent work has focused on the way the Israeli outposts are built in a South African “apartheid” style.
  Shehade’s book is Art, contrary to what his Excellency the ambassador pretends. How can art not relate to politics in that part of the world where the historical artistic patrimony is transformed daily by political conditions? In that specific sense the book is politically potent. Even if its formal relation to the political sphere is subtle, using hints and questions that push the reader to seek political answers elsewhere.
  This last argument is probably one of the reasons why Shehade was awarded the Orwell prize. He doesn’t impose political conclusions nor affirms ideological positions. A fact he comes across as a very harsh critic of all Palestinian factions and militias, simply by counting the number of times he came close to being shot dead by armed Palestinian militants on his walks, or the abuse he suffered, he who founded an organization to protect Palestinian rights, at the hands of those who pretended to protect him.
  In its review to Shehade’s work, The New York Times Book Review found that: “Few Palestinians have opened their minds with such frankness”. Such acclaim disqualifies totally Shoval who showed nothing but hatred and racism in his judgmental article published in the Jerusalem Post. Nowhere was that more obvious than in the disdain he showed “a certain Raja Shehade, portrayed as a lawyer and a writer…” As if he, a government official, did not know that Shehade is well known to Israeli tribunals as a lawyer who defended the Palestinians against land expropriation practiced by Israel. Shoval’s position is in fact against anyone who dares looking at the Israeli – Palestinian conflict from an angle that questions long-established Zionist myths. That is why he accused The Economist of re-writing History.
  His Excellency knows well enough that if this book achieved fame, it is because Shehade does not play political games. Instead, as an experienced professional lawyer, sticks to the hard facts. A concept that the seasoned diplomat obviously struggles with.
  
  

  *Al-Haq is the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists - Geneva, and is a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), and the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO).

  
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• 2:05

  Gottfried Stutz!: Anything missing in this picture?

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  Oh yes, that country. What was its name? Eye-rack? And the other place... er... Af-gaanis-tan, right?
  
  The two main US military engagements (both failed already, if you ask me - or even if you don't) are nowhere to be mentioned today (August 25, 2008) among the top stories on the most mainstream site of the most mainstream US TV channel - "mainstream" at least for viewers outside the US.
  
  Oh yes, there's a little title hidden somewhere about Jill Carroll, but she is one of "us", and the whole affair is really old news.
  
  Apart from lip service to "our boys out there", the benefits of "liberation" and the "insufficient armour", do you want to bet that Iraqis and Afghans will not be among the themes of the US presidential campaign?
  
  Something else missing? What about other parties and candidates?
  

  • Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente ( [mckinney2008.com] ) and the Greens?
  • Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root ( [www.bobbarr2008.com] ) and the Libertarian Party?
  • Chuck Baldwon/Darrell Castle ( [www.baldwin08.com] ) and the Constitution Party?
  • Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez ( [www.votenader.org] ) and... well... Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez?

  
  Since the race is tight, according to CNN's own polls (I'm not linking to CNN. I'll do it only when I want to blast or praise one of its items), shouldn't those parties be included in the "math", let alone including them for the mere sake of democracy?
  
  Copyright Gottfried Stutz 2005
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• 2:05

  بقليلٍ مِن ... تستطيع ...: إنسان

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  … ما سترونه هنا هو فقط للاستمتاع … وممنوع أي غرض آخر أو استخدام غير مرخص تحت طائلة المسئولية والحرمان من المتعة الكاملة … ما يتوجب عليك فعله هو: أحضر فنجان قهوتك الساخنة (بسكّر , بلا سكّر … لا فارق , فهي قهوة في النهاية وهي ما سيشرب ) … اخرج واستظل بياسمينتك إن وجدت … حاول أن تمدّ بصرك [...]
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• 2:05

  أحمد نذير بكداش: مسابقة: أذكر أسم الدولة

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  كل ما عليك هو ذكر أسم الدولة: 1. دولة ذات تاريخ مشرف, وحضارة قديمة رائعة لم تكن عربية إلا أنها صارت عربية وفي فترة سابقة كانت من أهم الدول العربية وكان صوتها مسموع وسط العرب.. إلا أنها الآن تعيش في حالة تأخر مستمر وسياسة حكوماتها سياسة صديقة لدول العدوان, هناك جزء من شعبها يفتخر بالماضي المشرف [...]
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• 2:05

  ابن الشــــــمال: إفلق

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  دخول الكلية الجامعية المناسبة هم يؤرق أكثر الناجحين في البكالوريا ,عفوًا ربما قلت أكثر لأنه ليس الجميع يستطيع أن يحتار في الفرع الذي يدخله لأن الذي لم يحصل معدل عالي في الثانوية أو الذي لا يملك الإمكانيات المادية لن يستطيع أن يحتار لأنه لن يجد الكثير من الخيارات أمامه , على كل حال هذه مجموعة [...]
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• 2:05

  Syria Comment: Lebanese Sovereignty: Where Does Syria Stand?

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  [Landis analysis]

  The Following news story by Sam Ghattas (copied below) on the changing ideological and strategic policy of Syria toward Lebanon is spot on.

  I add an anecdote that convinced me that Syria's elite has accepted the notion of Lebanese sovereignty and jettisoned the rigid Arabism of their fathers.

  A year ago, I spent a classic summer day in the Ghouta - the farming and orchard region extending beyond Damascus. My hosts were the Azme family - one of Syria's Sunni elite. Their forefathers include Yusif al-Azme and Bashir al-Azme. The first led the small Syrian army under King Feisal when it sought in vain to defend Syrian independence from French invaders. He was killed. Bashir al-Azme served as Prime Minister in the early 1960s.

  Ambassador Imad Moustapha and his wife Rafif included me in their invitation to while away a Friday in the Ghouta as guests of the Azmes. Around a simple wooden table, spread with home made confections and shaded by a grape arbor, about 12 of us debated the issues of the day.

  The issue that predominated was Lebanon-Syria relations. The Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon was only two years in the past and the UN investigation into the Hariri assassination was ongoing. Several of the older generation around the table explained that Lebanon would come back to Syria with its tail between its legs. Lebanon needed Syria and was an indivisible part of it both culturally and economically. The matriarch of the family explained how she and her mother would travel to Lebanon for a meal with friends and relatives every week, how the "families" married back and forth, and how socially the two peoples could not be separated. I short, there was a lot of nostalgia and patriotism.

  Imad Moustapha, however, led the counter argument. He kept insisting that national identity is plastic and ever changing. Perhaps in the past, "Lebanese saw themselves as one people with Syrians," he said, but today that reality is no longer. He pointed out that not longer does one segment or sect among Lebanese want anything but independence. He reminded everyone that even Hizbullah had not asked for Syrian troops to remain in Lebanon in 2005. The Shiite organization thanked Syria for its help stabilizing Lebanon during the Civil War even as it waved goodbye to Syrian soldiers. "The old days are over," he kept on insisting, "we must embrace the new reality, which is that Lebanon is a separate and sovereign country. They don't want us."

  In fact, Ambassador Moustapha kept insisting on this point and drawing out the debate at such length that Rafif, his charming wife, had to take him by the hand and gently remind him of other worthy topics of conversation for fear that he would bore his hosts!

  Conclusion: What this story told me is that in Syria's halls of regime power Lebanese sovereignty was a hot issue. Ambassador Moustapha was belaboring his point because he was rehearsing debates and arguments that were preoccupying Syria's leadership. many of Syria's policy makers were arguing that Damascus had to find a new and different modus vivendi with Beirut that accommodates the Lebanese desire for autonomy and independence.

  The notion that Syria has one choice — to accept Lebanese sovereignty — prevails today. This does not mean that Syria does not insist on security requirements from Lebanon. It does. Syria belives Lebanon lies within its sphere of influence. This is quite different from insisting that the two are one country or even one people. Most countries adopt a "sphere-of-influence" argument about their neighbors. The US did not accept Cuba hosting Soviet bases, for example.

  [News Summary]

  Syria shift on Lebanon suggests hard-liner softens
  By SAM F. GHATTAS – AP

  BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Syria's diplomatic recognition of Lebanon marks a symbolic turning point in the two neighbors' often turbulent history, and may have bigger significance for the Middle East and the chances of an overall peace deal with Israel.

  By doing something Damascus has resisted for decades, Syrian President Bashar Assad is seen as being ready to make concessions and boost stability in the region, provided he remains a force in Lebanese politics.

  At the same time, Syria and Israel are in indirect peace negotiations — another apparent sign that Syria is rethinking its approach to the big Middle East issues.

  Lebanese have lived for much of the past 30 years under Syrian military and political domination. Just three years ago, the country was in turmoil over the assassination of a prominent former prime minister and the suspicion Syria was behind it. So Lebanese tend to be skeptical about the motivations behind Assad's newfound willingness to exchange ambassadors and demarcate the ill-defined border between the two countries.

  But Edmond Saab, executive editor of An-Nahar, a leading daily which is seen as anti-Syrian, reads a positive message in Assad's move — "that he desires peace and that Syria is a factor of stability and not a threat … It is a country that knows what it wants and goes for it."

  What Syria wanted was assurance that it will still have influence in Lebanon through its allies and that its back will remain relatively secure — the Lebanon border is only a 20-minute drive from Damascus.

  It got all that with the creation last month of a new government in Beirut that gives Syrian-and Iranian-backed Hezbollah significant power. The new president, Michel Suleiman, is also considered relatively friendly to Syria, having been army chief for 10 years when Damascus controlled Lebanon.

  Once those changes were in place, Damascus was open to a historic turnaround.

  Ever since Lebanon was created by the region's French rulers in 1920, Syria had refused to acknowledge its sovereignty, leaving the Lebanese with a permanent feeling of living on borrowed time. Now Syria has agreed to recognize that sovereignty…..

  Biden in 2007 interview: I am a Zionist
  Barack Obama's new running mate praises Israel In 2007 interview with 'Shalom TV'
  Yitzhak Benhorin, 08.23.08, 18:15 / Israel News

  WASHINGTON – Calling Israel "the single greatest strength America has in the Middle East," Senator Joe Biden also revealed a Jewish connection in an interview last year.

  – Senator Joe Biden, who was chosen by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to be his running mate in the upcoming US elections, has previously declared himself to be a Zionist. Calling Israel "the single greatest strength America has in the Middle East," he also revealed a Jewish connection in an interview last year.

  During the interview conducted by the Jewish 'Shalom TV' Biden said, "I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist." He also revealed that his son is married to a Jewish woman, of the Berger family from Delaware, and that he had participated in a Passover Seder at their house. He added that "probably my most poignant Seder memory is not with the Bergers, but what happened right after I came back from meeting Golda Meir (in 1973). I had predicted that something was going on in Egypt. And I remember people talking about what it meant to them if Israel were actually defeated."

  Biden presented himself as a friend to Israel, which he referred to as the US' greatest Middle East ally.

  "Imagine our circumstance in the world were there no Israel. How many battleships would there be? How many troops would be stationed?" he asked.

  He also called comments about Israel's connection to the war in Iraq "insulting", explaining that "if tomorrow, peace broke out between Israelis and Palestinians, does anybody think there wouldn't be a full-blown war in Iraq?"

  Regarding the terror attacks in Israel, Biden said the Sept. 11 attacks made American parents feel what Israeli parents have been feeling. "The difference between now and before 9/11," he said, "is that many Americans can taste what it must feel like for every Israeli mother and father when they send their kid out to school with their lunch to put them on a bus, on a bicycle or to walk; and they pray to God that cell phone doesn't ring." ….

  Dangerous talks with Syria
  Aug. 24, 2008
  By UZI DAYAN and JONATHAN SPYER , THE JERUSALEM POST

  The current indirect talks between Israel and Syria are highly unlikely to result in a peace agreement. The talks, far from playing any positive role for Israel, are mistaken both in terms of our values and in terms of our practical interest. They are being conducted by an irresponsible government with no public mandate, and are already causing real harm. We should be working to isolate the Syrian regime, not rehabilitating it.

  From the point of view of values, the government’s approach is fundamentally mistaken. The Golan Heights were taken in a just war in 1967, a war which was provoked by an extremist and reckless Ba’athist regime in Damascus. Our presence is both legal and essential. The Golan Heights must be retained under Israeli sovereignty. …..

  Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan, a former head of the National Security Council, is a Likud Knesset candidate. Jonathan Spyer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center, IDC, Herzliya.

  POMED includes the following notices in its Weekly News Wire: http://pomed.org/blog/ 

  Diplomacy between Lebanon and Syria? Violence continued in Lebanon last week after a two-day visit between Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad.  With regard to a renewed diplomatic effort, some questioned whether Syria willrecognize Lebanon's independence and sovereignty, pointing to its promise to officially exchange ambassadors and to investigate the disappearances of hundreds of Lebanese who went missing during Lebanon's civil war, while others look to Syria's refusal to demarcate the border at Shebaa Farms. Also last week, Hizbullah and representatives of Lebanese Salafist groups signed an agreement to ease sectarian divisions. Meanwhile, some connected the recent violence with Lebanon's weak state and a population that has turned to religion because the state cannot provide for their basic needs.

  Terrorism: Take a look at a new publication from the Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy magazine entitled "The Terrorism Index."  The Index surveys foriegn policy experts for their broad assessment of U.S. efforts in the War on Terror.  More than 100 experts give their insight into U.S. policy toward Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, and the survey's results are also compared with policy statements from the 2008 Presidential candidates.

  
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  Black Ice: جودت سعيد‎ [Jawdat Said] I salute you.

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  There are some people that really make an imprint on your life. You just wish you could show your admiration and appreciation to their presence and presentations. Jawdat Said is one of the very few of such people to me. I am beyond impressed with his ideas and thoughts.
  
  He is an Islamic scholar, a philosopher, an advocate, a teacher, and a leader who was born in Golan Heights, Syria. His main interests surround Islam, history, nonviolence, knowledge and science.
  
  I salute him personally for being an idol as a Circassian who is so enriched in his culture yet is so in depth with his religion. The balance he makes within his life deserves a noble prize by itself. Let alone the great achievements in thought and freedom of speech he had given himself to preach his knowledge. Even though hes been imprisoned quite a few times for his writings and works, he continues...
  
  From his > writings
• كن كابن آدم [Be as Adam's son]
  
• اقرأ وربك الأكرم [Read, and your Lord is Most generous]
  
• حتى يغيروا ما بأنفسهم [Until they change what is in themselves]
  
• مذهب ابن آدم الأول‏ [The Doctrine of the First Son of Adam]
  
• العمل قدرة وإرادة [Work Is Ability and will]
  
and the list goes on...

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