Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defended jailed killer "Carlos the Jackal" and several world leaders he says are wrongly considered "bad guys". In a speech to international socialist politicians, Mr Chavez said "Carlos", a Venezuelan, was not a terrorist but a key "revolutionary fighter". He is serving a life sentence in France for murders committed in 1975....
by Michael J. Totten Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport, and the Dimona nuclear-power plant. I dismissed his claim as...
As South America continues to head South, David Bor writes me with this deeply disturbing update from Brazil. David writes: Yesterday,Friday (11-20) while receiving Mahmoud Abbas in Bahia one of the Brazilian States (the governor is a Jew),leftist president Lula da Silva said that Israel has to stop building in the "palestinian capital" meaning of course Jerusalem, and that Israel is the...
Is Bruce Vilanch writing for Hugo Chavez now? 'Cause the Venezuelan leader's comedy material is pretty good lately: now he's a cannibalism apologist. In a recent speech, Chavez praised Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the late Ugandan dictator Idi "Butcher of Uganda" Amin. Said Chavez: "We thought he was a cannibal... I don't know, maybe he was a great nationalist,...
Tehran rejects threats as part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare against it and calls for more talks on the nuclear issue, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.
What's on Hugo Chavez's mind? CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was an important ''revolutionary fighter'' who supported the cause of the Palestinians...In his speech, Chavez also sought to defend other leaders he said are wrongly labeled ''bad boys'' internationally, including Zimbabwe's...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday called for the expansion of trade ties between Iran and Turkey, the official IRNA news agency reported. "Iran and Turkey can be each other's major trade partners," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying at his meeting with visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz. The Iranian president also said...
“Brazil is seeking a broader role in the Middle East after hosting Israeli President Shimon Peres last week and Abbas today. Lula is scheduled to welcome Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Nov. 23 in Brasilia for talks built around trade with the wider objective of engaging the Persian country in political discussions.”
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee Friday passed a resolution criticizing Iran for human rights violations, especially in the aftermath of the controversial reelection earlier this year of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The committee flagged detentions, arrests and the disappearance of individuals for exercising their freedoms of assembly and expression as areas of particular concern. The committee...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited by Lula to visit Brazil last May. Following protests in all major cities in the country by Christian, Jewish, candomblé, gay rights, women’s, and human rights groups, Brazil’s Foreign Office announced that the trip had been canceled. The Foreign Office claimed that Ahmadinejad had requested that the visit be postponed [...]
Oh, how the international community loves Barack Obama - loves to stiff him, play him along, and manipulate him. He's the world's celebrity ingenue, the slender naïf perpetually undone by the recalcitrance of foreign leaders. Earlier this year, in a touching exercise in diplomatic and civilizational outreach, he sent two letters to Iran's mullahs and a new year's message to the Iranian people....
Israel - Hezbollah War 2006. Photo from The L.A. Times From Commentary Magazine: Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport,...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact: kfsreprint@hearstsc.com , or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246. O h, how the international community loves Barack Obama -- loves to stiff him, play him along, and manipulate him. He’s the world’s celebrity ingenue, the slender...
From the Wall Street Journal : Here is a small selection of events that have taken place in Britain since the end of Israel's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza earlier this year. The government has imposed a partial arms embargo on Israel and failed to vote against the Goldstone report in the U.N . The charities War on Want and Amnesty International U.K. have both promoted a book by the anti-Israeli firebrand...
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/2009/11/19/Commentary-Piece-of-cake/UPI-32171258647169/ Commentary: Piece of cake? By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE UPI Editor at Large WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- "It will be just like Syria," said the strategic scholar just back from Israel and speculating about the much-debated question of whether Israel will eventually bomb Iran's nuclear installations. It...
Victory of President Ahmadinejad: Unnecessary Alarm in West -I -Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal (Part-1) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won with a clear majority, but the anti-Islamic nations led by USA and Israel are deeply worried because they will have to revise their terror strategies now. US-led western powers seem to have roped in as many anti-Ahmadinejad leaders as possible in a poll coup in Iran,...