Israel’s army has completed plans for a large offensive in the Gaza Strip and is only waiting for government approval, the military chief said Wednesday, shortly after two Palestinian militants were killed by Israeli tank fire in the coastal area

An Iranian university has invited U.S. President George W. Bush to speak about such issues as the Holocaust, terrorism and human rights.

Iran’s Fars news agency reports Ferdowsi University in the northeastern city of Mashhad asked Mr. Bush to attend a question and answer session with students and professors.

I’m usually sarcastic, but honestly here, could this be a sign of human progress and development?
Its much better that Ahmadenijad speaks at Columbia University than him sending thugs to kill Iraqis and Americans in Iraq everyday.
Its much better that George W. Bush goes to Iran and speaks at a University rather than him invading countries off the bat.

Could we being seeing a move of human intellect to the policy-makers?

Bush should go. If he truly believes in his position as the ‘leader of the free world’ then let him go to Iran and defend it himself.

Sharon told police his visits to Lebanon were for tourism and that he was a homosexual who had relationships with Lebanese men, according to the report.

Oh. Okay. An Israel-German came to Lebanon for ‘gay sex’. Sure…

Israel is using cash incentives to encourage Jewish immigration from Iran.

An expatriate group of Iranian Jewish donors is behind a $1 million fund offering $10,000 to each Jew willing to leave the Islamic Republic for the Jewish state, according to media reports.

The fund was offering $5,000 per immigrant several months ago, but sparse interest prompted the sponsors to up the ante. For an entire Jewish family the cash incentive is $60,000, in addition to the standard aliyah benefits given to Jewish immigrants to Israel.
Few of Iran’s 20,000 Jews have taken advantage of the offer.

… and may the Jews return to the Land of Zion… AMEN. Have I alread mentioned my lime green potato that can sing, dance, and do the Finnish version of the Makerna?

Bush said that for the United States to be credible in standing up for human rights, “the UN must reform its own human rights council.”

RIGHT! because the United States is sooooo into human rights….
Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, secret CIA operations in eastern Europe, its all good! Woo-hoo!

But Arab diplomats, already sceptical about US efforts this year to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace after six years of what critics regard as relative neglect, said they saw no use for the new conference unless it had clear goals and a realistic chance of meeting them.

THERE HAS BEEN A LEGITMATE PEACE DEAL ON THE TABEL SINCE 2001. IT GIVES ISRAEL EVERYTHING THEY WANT. ITS CALLED THE ARAB INITIATIVE. I DON’T SEE AN ISRAELI INITIATIVE.

just accept it. you know you’re going to accept the same thing at the end of the day…
this is going to be one pointless conference.

whats even cooler is Haaretz’s editorial on it:

There is no reason to discriminate against Israeli Arabs, in airport terminals or anywhere else. A community of one million people, the vast majority of whom have never participated in terrorist activities against the country, does not deserve to be automatically considered suspect. An organized boycott by Arab travelers, a step they have avoided to date, may be their weapon of last resort in their struggle to restore their dignity.

I honestly have a very favorable opinion of Haaretz.
One thing the Israelis have been able to construct out of justice.

The fact that US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman — who rarely appears in public — made the trip all the way down from the isolated embassy compound in the hills outside Beirut wasn’t enough one young woman following alongside the coffin of a bodyguard slain in Wednesday’s attack. “Where is George Bush?” she yelled.

EXCUSE ME? (thats all I’m gonna say, in hopes that my reaction is understood.)

US food aid is ‘wrecking’ Africa, claims charity

The US arm of the charity says America is causing rather than reducing hunger with a decree that US food aid must be sold rather than directly distributed to those facing starvation. In America, the subsidies for corn in particular, help underpin the junk food industry, which uses corn extracts as a sweetener, creating a home-grown a health crisis.
The farm lobby meanwhile has a stranglehold on Congress, which has balked at making any changes that would interfere with a system that promotes overproduction of commodities.

Doesn’t that remind you of a little something that Karl Marx came up with?

I’ve tried telling the world, Marxism all the way…