Against the Insidious Wiles: Headlines for 09-24-07

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Headlines for 09-24-07

Israeli army kidnaps 22 Palestinians The Israeli army kidnapped 22 Palestinians in the early hours of Monday morning from different parts of the West Bank.

Hamas urges Abbas not to meet Bush

Hamas welcomes Fatah leaders' return to Gaza Ayman Taha, Hamas spokesman in Gaza, told reporters that "Hamas movement doesn't oppose their return to Gaza. It is their right as long as they would act according to the law and they won't act in a way that would bring tension to Gaza again."

Israeli bulldozers raze arable lands in Rafah

Ahmadinejad: No attack on Israel Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would not launch an attack on Israel or any other country.

Cheney mulled luring Iran into war with Israel: report ** the weekly said the steady departure of neoconservatives from the administration over the past two years had helped tilt the balance away from war.

Olmert: Israel to withdraw from "considerable" part of West Bank Suurre.

MIDEAST: Border Impasse Arises Again A new security arrangement between Cairo, Tel Aviv and the Palestinian Authority (PA) has effectively sealed the last sovereign transit point in or out of the troubled territory, which has been governed by Palestinian resistance faction Hamas since mid-June.

Palestinian interim gov't says no word over if old prisoners among those to-be-released The Palestinian caretaker government, based in this West Bank city, said Monday it had no information if Israel was going to include old prisoners among the group who it would release as a goodwill gesture.

Preparations on track for donors conference for Palestinians An upcoming international donors conference meant to revive the Palestinian economy will also represent a major boost to the peace process, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.

Resident dies of wounds sustained after being attacked by gunmen Palestinian medical sources in the West Bank reported on Monday that resident Ali Sa?id Matar, died on Sunday of wounds sustained on Thursday after being attacked by unknown gunmen.

Bush vows to work for Palestinian statehood

Bush meets with Palestinian leader Abbas

Blair: Palestinians need institutions for a state Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said a Middle East political pact will work only if Palestinians first build proper institutions and living conditions are improved in the West Bank and Gaza.

Israel wants joint statement at US peace meet

Syria set to reject peace talks offer Syria is expected to rebuff an invitation from the US to attend a grand Middle East peace conference later this year because it does not believe that either the Bush administration or Israel wants to reach a comprehensive regional settlement.

In a recent report: Israel uses 180 investigation methods to interrogate jailed Palestinians Lawyer Ahmad Shawahneh, a Palestinian activist in Prisoners' rights reported that investigations conducted by the Center on Palestinian political detainees imprisoned by Israel, affirmed that the Israeli security apparatuses are using 180 methods while interrogating the Palestinian detainees in the Israeli jails.

Former Syrian official: Report on IDF commandos is psychological warfare

IAF dispatches jets as Syrian plane disappears from radar The Israel Air Force dispatched several fighter jets toward Syria Saturday, after a Syrian airplane disappeared from the Israeli radar screens, army sources said.

Nonviolent Protest Gains in West Bank Ten shouting Palestinians were pushing against one boulder, but the primitive Israeli roadblock cutting off the tiny Palestinian village from Bethlehem was not budging. Then, with the help of two giant crowbars, an Israel protester, and a Japanese backpacker, the group heaved the stone aside, opening the road for the first time in three years.

Israel faces corruption 'epidemic' The latest scandals to hit the Israeli political establishment are just two examples in a long line that have recently rocked Israeli political and public life.

Bethlehem beholds very rare species ? tourists

Just How Powerful is the Israel Lobby?

Israeli PM faces corruption probe

'Secret clause lets Shin Bet get data from cell phone firms' The licenses that the state gives to cell phone companies contain a secret codicil requiring them to give the Shin Bet security service information about conversations and messages that its customers transmit on their cell phones, according to the Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel (FOIM).

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George Washington's warnings on the evils of a passionate attachment

So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favourite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and Wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification: It leads also to concessions to the favourite Nation of priviledges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom eql. priviledges are withheld: And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favourite Nation) facility to betray, or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition corruption or infatuation.

As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public Councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful Nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real Patriots, who may resist the intriegues of the favourite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

Washington's Farewell Address