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Senate Approves Plan to Transfer Gitmo Detainees to U.S. for Trial – Fox

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 05:04 PM PDT

NASA Unveils New Rocket for Historic Test Flight – Fox

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 05:04 PM PDT

Netanyahu to Abbas: The time has come for peace

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:51 PM PDT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called on Palestinian President to renew peace negotiations with Israel and bring an end to the years of [...]


Could an Israel-Palestinian soccer match bring peace?

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:49 PM PDT

A soccer match between Israelis and Palestinians could be one way to help end the long-running conflict in the Middle East, a United Nations adviser on sport and peace said [...]


Lieberman to Solana: Goldstone report puts peace talks at risk

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:45 PM PDT

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday told his European Union counterpart Javier Solana that the Goldstone Commission's report on the Gaza war endangered the Middle East peace process and to the change of renewing negotiations with the Palestinian [...]


Israel refuses to let French FM visit Gaza

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:32 PM PDT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not grant French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner permission to visit the Gaza Strip, an Israeli official said on Tuesday. [...]


Israel ranks low for freedom of press, after Gaza war media ban

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:49 PM PDT

Israel placed No. 93 out of 175 countries on a 2009 international index of press freedom, released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on [...]


Israel prepares to fight war crimes trials after Goldstone Gaza report

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:45 PM PDT

The prospect that Israeli officials could face war crimes trials abroad led the political-security cabinet on Tuesday to form a committee to deal with the international legal consequences of the Goldstone Commission's report on the Gaza [...]


Israel refuses French FM’s request to visit Gaza

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:45 PM PDT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not grant French Foreign Minter Bernard Kouchner permission to visit the Gaza Strip, an Israeli official said on Tuesday. [...]


Israel envoy Michael Oren rejects J Street invite

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:29 PM PDT

The Embassy of Israel in the United States on Tuesday announced that it would send an "observer" to the left-leaning lobby group J Street's first national conference next week, in place of Ambassador Michael [...]


U.S. extends remand of would-be spy for Israel

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:17 PM PDT

Stewart David Nozette, the former NASA scientist who was arrested for offering to pass along classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer, appeared in court on Tuesday for the first time since [...]


Israeli GOP Leader: Obama Encouraged Radical Arab Demands

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:15 PM PDT

President Obama's stand against Judea and Samaria encouraged Arabs and anti-nationalists to radicalize demands, the GOP leader in Israel [...]


Civil lawsuit over Columbia, Ill., murders names Joyce Meyer Ministries

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:00 PM PDT

Christopher Coleman The Joyce Meyer Ministries did too little to prevent its security manager, Christopher Coleman, from allegedly murdering his wife and two sons, according to an addition filed Monday to a wrongful-death lawsuit.

Coleman, who traveled throughout the world by Meyer's side, was fired about a week after the killings, when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch disclosed the affair.

US Editor at Conference: American Anti-Semitism is Marginal

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 02:47 PM PDT

Anti-Semitism in the United States is "limited to the private domain" and is marginal, claimed US News & World Report editor Morton [...]


Lebanon school cuts pages from book critical of Hezbollah

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 02:16 PM PDT

A leading school in Lebanon was forced to remove pages from a history book said to describe Hezbollah as a terrorist organization after a cabinet minister from the militant group complained, a state news agency reported [...]


U.S. extends remand of would-be Israel spy

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 02:08 PM PDT

Stewart David Nozette, the former NASA scientist who was arrested for offering to pass along classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer, appeared in court on Tuesday for the first time since [...]


Gates: U.S. Cannot Wait for Afghan Election to Make Troop Decision – Fox

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT

Catholic-Anglican Healing Reaction to Gay, Female Clergy – NewsMax

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT

Chu “nervous” about high oil prices – Reuters

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT

New Nationalst Sticker: IDF Cleans Up After the ‘Dove of Peace’

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 01:59 PM PDT

The nationalist Cities of Israel (Mattot Arim) group will begin distributing a new sticker in the coming days: 'IDF Cleans up after Dove of [...]


U.S. court refuses appeal of Israeli terror victim

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 01:57 PM PDT

The Supreme Court will not let parents of an American teenager killed in a terrorist attack in Israel collect damages from a man accused of funding [...]


Netanyahu: End Dependence on Oil

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 12:34 PM PDT

Prime Minister Netanyahu told "Facing Tomorrow" that the world must end its dependence on oil "that strengthens terror and damages planet Earth." [...]


Top Blagojevich Aide Strikes Deal With Feds

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 12:24 PM PDT

In major blow to Illinois' ousted crooked governor, a top aide has reached a deal with federal prosecutors by pleading guilty to wire fraud in exchange for cooperation against his former boss whose upcoming corruption trial promises to be compelling.  

Rod Blagojevich's former chief-of-staff and law school buddy (Alonzo Monk) has opted to save his own tail rather than go down with his longtime friend for operating a massive bribery scheme that sold the influence of the governor's office, lucrative state jobs and contracts to the highest bidder. Blagojevich even tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated when Barack Obama got elected president and has been charged with a sleuth of crimes in a massive federal indictment.

Monk, a key player in the various illegal operations, has offered federal prosecutors crucial information, testimony and evidence that could ultimately put Blagojevich behind bars for decades. In his deal, Monk admitted that he schemed to shake down a racetrack owner for a $100,000 in exchange for the Blagojevich's approval of a bill to help subsidize tracks. He also admitted using the influence of the governor's office to extort state businesses for cash. 

The one-time gubernatorial aide and esteemed Illinois lobbyist will only serve 24 months in prison. Blagojevich, on the other hand, won't get off so easy and faces a barrage of felonies that culminate a three-year investigation into his shady administration. Court-authorized wiretaps actually captured the disgraced governor trying to sell or trade Obama's Senate seat for financial and other personal benefits for himself and his wife. 

In the recordings, Blagojevich is heard trying to; obtain a substantial salary for himself at either a non-profit or an organization affiliated with labor unions; place his wife on paid corporate boards where she could make $150,000 a year; obtain campaign donations as well as cash up front and a cabinet post or ambassadorship for himself. Calling the breadth of corruption staggering, prosecutors said the governor put a "for sale" sign on the naming of a United States [...]


Live Video: Netanyahu, Peres Speak to Jewish Leaders

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:00 AM PDT

Live coverage: Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Peres soon will speak to guests from around the world at the Facing Tomorrow [...]


Goldstone to U.S. rabbis: Lieberman doesn’t want Mideast peace talks

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:55 AM PDT

The author of a damning report on Israel's winter offensive against Hamas in Gaza, Richard Goldstone, has said that Foreign Minster Avigdor Lieberman does not want there to be an Israeli-Palestinian peace [...]


Defense Minister refuses to discuss inquiry panel on Goldstone report

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:49 AM PDT

The political-security cabinet met on Tuesday to discuss Israel's diplomatic and legal response to the Goldstone report and its endorsement by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. [...]


Christian Leaders Strategize to Use Media Worldwide

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:45 AM PDT

Contact: Clyde Taber, Visual Story Network, 949-310-8733, clyde@visualstory.org LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Visual Story Network (www.visualstorynetwork.com) recently hosted its second Leadership Summit. The Summit assembled 76 executive leaders and 16 young filmmakers representing 71 organizations. The key objective of the Summit was to "expand a movement of visual media so every person on earth can experience life-change through Jesus." The Summit featured st Source: Visual Story [...]


Palestinian calls Blair ‘terrorist’ during visit to Hebron mosque

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:24 AM PDT

Bodyguards subdued a Palestinian man on Tuesday as he approached Middle East envoy Tony Blair, shouting "You are a [...]


‘Human Rights Watch’ Founder Denounces His Group as Anti-Israel

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:12 AM PDT

The founder of Human Rights Watch has castigated his own group for ignoring Israel's freedoms as well as "brutal and autocratic" Arab [...]


Senate OKs Transfer of Gitmo Prisoners for Trials

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:05 AM PDT

President Barack Obama won a modest victory Tuesday in his continuing effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, allowing the government to continue to transfer detainees at the facility to the U.S. to be [...]


State of Israel Tries to ‘Place’ International Youth

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:53 AM PDT

What is the State of Israel's role in the lives of Jewish youths around the world? A gathering at the Menachem Begin Center tried to find [...]


Immigration Advocates Want Stores to Stop Selling ‘Illegal Alien’ Costume

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:31 AM PDT

Immigrant advocates are urging retailers to pull a Halloween costume depicting a space creature in orange prison garb emblazoned with the words "illegal alien," while a group that supports strict immigration laws says such a move impinges on freedom of speech.

Deli History Served on Wry

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:31 AM PDT

Nearly 80 years after their heyday - when they numbered roughly 2,000 in New York City alone - delis have found an unlikely young advocate in David Sax, the 30-year-old author of the newly published "Save the [...]


DOJ Forces Partisanship In N.C. Town

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:28 AM PDT

The Justice Department has overruled a North Carolina city's law to hold nonpartisan local elections claiming that black voters are denied equal rights without the Democratic Party even though many of the state's municipalities have successfully implemented the system for years.

Citizens in Kinston, where two-thirds of the population and the majority of registered voters are black, overwhelmingly passed a measure last year to eliminate the party affiliation of candidates for mayor and city council as have most local governments throughout North Carolina.  

A Kinston newspaper editorial notes that most of the state's cities have abandoned partisan elections because it makes it easier for unaffiliated candidates to get on the ballot, includes all voters in primaries and produces better government by breaking down the party lines that divide Democrats and Republicans at the state and federal levels. Besides, local issues such as public safety, streets and sanitation aren't partisan concerns. 

That certainly indicates that the Obama Administration's interference in this case is politically motivated. After all, 65% of the registered voters in Kinston are black and the measure to eliminate partisan elections passed by a margin of 2-to-1 and was widely supported among both white and black voters in the town of about 23,000 residents.

Yet, in a letter to Kinston officials, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice claims that "removing the partisan cue in municipal elections will, in all likelihood, eliminate the single factor that allows black candidates to be elected to office." It goes on to point out that "without party loyalty available to counter-balance the consistent trend of racial bloc voting, blacks will face greater difficulty winning general elections." 

Ridiculing the feds' assertion that nonpartisan elections are prejudicial against black voters, a local newspaper columnist asks why in the world does a group that accounts for nearly two-thirds of the electorate deserve this extraordinary federal protection. 

Of interesting note is that the Justice Department official who authored the Kinston letter (Loretta King) is the same person who killed the infamous New Black Panther Party case. Federal prosecutors had filed a civil complaint in Philadelphia because thug-like members of the radical black revolutionary group—clad in military attire—intimidated voters with racial insults, profanity and weapons in front of precincts during the presidential election. 

A judge actually ordered default judgments against the offenders, who ignored the government's charges and refused to appear in court, yet King, who at the time was Obama's acting assistant Attorney General for the civil rights division, reversed course and dismissed the case without explaining why. [...]


Rabbi Medan: Moral Weakness Allows Islam to Take Over the World

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:54 AM PDT

Weakness of Israel's elite is behind the world's attack on Israel while it allows Muslims to threaten to dominate the world, a leading rabbi [...]


Clarion Fund Calling on Concerned Citizens to Demand Cancellation of CAIR’s 15th Annual Banquet

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:53 AM PDT

Contact: Alex Traiman, 646-308-1230 ext 214 NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Clarion Fund is calling on all concerned Americans to demand that the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel cancel CAIR's 15th Annual Banquet this Saturday, October 24, 2009 in Arlington VA. Concerned individuals can send a letter to the Marriott Hotel Crystal Gateway, by visiting www.radicalislam.org/content/dont-give-cair-platform. The Banquet's keynote speaker, Siraj Wahhaj, is an unindicted co-cons Source: Clarion [...]


Obama Stands by Iraqi Troop Pullout

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:46 AM PDT

President Barack Obama renewed his vow Tuesday to have all U.S. combat troops out of Iraq by next August, while nudging Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to see that his parliament quickly passes a critical election law essential to a nationwide vote in [...]


Goldstone: Lieberman doesn’t want Mideast peace process

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:36 AM PDT

The author of a damning report on Israel's winter offensive against Hamas in Gaza, Richard Goldstone, has said that Foreign Minster Avigdor Lieberman does not want there to be an Israeli-Palestinian peace [...]


Wisconsin Right to Life Presents Sarah Palin at Wisconsin Exposition Center, November 6

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:34 AM PDT

Contact: Susan Armacost, Legislative Director, 877-855-5007, sarmacost@wrtl.org; Barbara L. Lyons, Executive Director, 877-855-5007, admin@wrtl.org; both with Wisconsin Right To Life MILWAUKEE, Oct. 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- On Friday, November 6, 2009, Wisconsin Right to Life presents Sarah Palin at the Wisconsin Exposition Center, Hall B, State Fair Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Purchase main event tickets online only at www.SarahPalinEvent.com NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR; Chil Source: Wisconsin Right to Life, [...]


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‘Syria will only accept Turkey as mediator in Israel talks’

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:24 AM PDT

Advisers to Turkey's prime minister have said that Syria would only accept their country as a mediator in peace talks with Israel, after Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu recently voiced doubts that Ankara could continue in the [...]


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