- Adults in Israel are divided on whether their country should pursue military action against Iran, according to a poll by Teleseker published in Maariv. 49 per cent of respondents would support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities if all international diplomatic efforts fail, while 46 per cent disagree.
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Though the Bush administration continues to insist that it is not, a growing number of U.S. and Iraqi scholars, leaders and policy analysts say the fighting in Iraq in every way meets the standard definition of civil war.
The common scholarly definition has two main criteria. The first says that the warring groups must be from [...]

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Victory over Israel emboldens Iran-backed terrorist group
WASHINGTON – Hezbollah’s self-proclaimed military victory over Israel last summer has emboldened it to press for a political showdown that could lead to civil war in Lebanon.
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As Lebanon’s government tries to maintain its shaky grip on power, sources tell TIME that Tehran and Damascus are shipping weapons to the militant Shi’ite group
Iran is smuggling weapons through Syria to rearm Lebanese allies Hizballah, despite renewed efforts by United Nations peacekeepers and the Lebanese army to seal off the mountain borders with Syria [...]

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CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) — A Hamas political leader warned Saturday of a new uprising if no progress is made to establish a Palestinian state based on borders before the 1967 war with Israel.
“We give the international community six months for real political horizons. … There is a historic opportunity for a Palestinian state within the [...]

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The message one must take home from this event is the brilliant tactics Prophet Muhammad had applied by signing the Treaty of Hudaibiyya. It would have been a disaster for Muhammad to engage in a head-on battle at the time when he only 1500 men under his charge, while the Koreish of Mecca could assemble [...]

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Several days ago, CNN broadcast in the United States a Glenn Beck special entitled: “Exposed: The Extremist Agenda.” The show featured several shocking video clips of sheikhs being cheered as they vow to “cut off the Jew’s head,” Iranian President Ahmedinejad preaching hatred and threatening war against the West, and little children expressing the abhorrence [...]

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Israel’s failings are approaching critical mass. Its failures of political leadership and of the military in Lebanon are obvious. But more profound and troubling is the loss of an idealistic national vision.
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LONDON — Polonium-210 — the radioactive substance that killed a former Russian spy in London — is one of the world’s rarest elements, first discovered in the 19th century by scientists Marie and Pierre Curie.
It is highly lethal when ingested and extremely hard to detect, experts said Friday.
For days doctors struggled to identify the poison [...]

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After three years and a quarter billion dollars in research, defense scientists and engineers have figured out how to replace the oldest U.S. nuclear warheads with safer, more modern ones atop the nation’s last silo-based missiles.
Starting last month, Air Force technicians in the frozen prairie of Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska began installing the more modern [...]

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MI6 believe the Polonium 210, which killed former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, could have come from China. It is one of the few countries - the United States is another - with the specialist laboratory to produce Polonium 210 as a deadly weapon. It is normally used in the Chinese space programme.
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Iran’s news agency reported that Russia is providing Tehran with TOR-M1 ground-to-air missiles. The move is seen as preparing Iran for a strike by Israel or the U.S. against its nuclear program.
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In fact, Muslims are hardly welcome to pick up the trash on Europe’s playgrounds.
Don’t let Europe’s current round of playing pacifist dress-up fool you: This is the continent that perfected genocide and ethnic cleansing, the happy-go-lucky slice of humanity that brought us such recent hits as the Holocaust and Srebrenica.
THE historical patterns are clear: [...]

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