Headlines for 01-21-08

World powers to submit new Iran sanctions resolution: diplomat


Gates Again Undermines the Hawks


Iran, Pakistan to be at the heart of Rice's Europe trip


Reading The Pictures: A Judy Miller-ish Fixation On Little Boats


Cheney Impeachment Gains Traction in House Judiciary Committee Articles I and II of H.R. 799 accuse Cheney of purposely manipulating intelligence to deceive Congress and the American people about a fabricated threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, respectively. Article III charges Cheney with openly threatening aggression against Iran absent any real threat to the United States. All three articles say Cheney?s actions have damaged our national security interests.


Netanyahu: Israel should practice mass deterrence Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) warned Monday that Israel might find itself "a country pointing missiles in three directions."


Stock markets plunge worldwide Stocks fell sharply worldwide Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U.S. government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession.


Oil falls below $89 as stock markets drop


Mideast Arabs, Iran's Ahmadinejad worried over worsening Gaza situation In a statement issued by his office, Lebanon's Saniora said the Israeli actions in Gaza were "racist and barbaric" and that the world is not allowed to "remain silent on the Israeli actions."


Bolton: US intelligence has become politicized


Bolton: Final IDF op in Lebanon had no impact on UN truce talks Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who "changed her mind fundamentally" after an Israeli aerial assault killed 28 civilians in Kana on July 30. "Rice exerted enormous
pressure on me to reach an agreement already," he said. "Until Kana, the U.S. wasn't interested in another typical Middle Eastern cease-fire. We thought we would exploit the fighting to fundamentally change the situation, especially in Lebanon and Syria. But under the influence of her shock over Kana, the secretary of state changed her mind and only wanted an immediate end to the fire. That was the policy Rice dictated."


Israel launches new satellite to spy on Iran Last November, a US intelligence report stated that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons programme, a finding that undermined hawks in the US who had been pushing for a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. Israel, however, has publicly disagreed with the US intelligence finding.



Israel may have to take military action against Iran: Bolton ** "One can say with some assurance that in the next year the use of force by the United States is highly unlikely," Bolton told AFP on the sidelines of the Herzliya conference on the balance of Israel's national security.


When Bush Comes to Shove Israeli officials are adamant that neither Israel nor the U.S. has ruled out the use of force against Iran. In a media briefing on the second day of the Bush visit, a senior Israeli official claimed that while both countries preferred diplomatic and economic measures, they did not "remove any option from the table." .......Miller points out that if America does not act, and Israel decides to use force on its own, it will need American approval, because of the heavy U.S. military air traffic in and around Iraq.



Braverman: Globalization greatest danger not Iran "As far as I'm concerned, globalization is the greatest danger to Israel, not Iran. Everyone will solve the problem of Iran, the US, Russia, Europe


World Vision Lebanon warms displaced refugees World Vision is rushing badly needed blankets, heaters and other critical supplies to displaced Palestinian refugee families who are being hit hard by cold winter temperatures that have caused several deaths.



Palestinians stage protests over Gaza in Lebanon camps


Lebanese troops fire on Israeli jets


Abandon Mideast peace push By JOHN BOLTON here's the essential fix the President is in: He is far more likely to be successful in countering Iran's expanding influence and dealing with other major regional problems than in resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute - yet his pursuit of the former goal is impeded by his policies concerning the latter. The NY Daily News gives airtime to neocon John Bolton. Bolton wants Iran attacked yesterday.