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19 Days of Fighting To Stop The Hamas

From sending rockets into Israeli Masses,

Including some of schoolchildren’s Classes,

Is IDF goal to end rockets shot by Jackasses,

Plus ending along the fence future PA Clashes,

So IDF The Hamas Infrastructure Now Smashes,

To hasten a prophesied period of Peace & Safety,

But it Will End When the Antichrist Becomes Hasty,

Then 1260 Days Thereafter Christ’ s Victory i

s Tasty!

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Begin Excerpt 1 from Haaretz

ANALYSIS / Egypt’s Gaza truce plan is mostly bad for Hamas

By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents

January 15, 2009

After 19 days of fighting and more than 1,000 Palestinian fatalities, the first significant signs that Hamas is breaking could be seen Wednesday night.

Hamas representatives to talks with Egypt announced an agreement in principle on Wednesday to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal. They also demanded several clarifications, primarily from Israel.

The war in Gaza isn’t over yet. The final days of the Second Lebanon War show that it’s best to be wary of agreements that come too early. But the way things looked on Wednesday, Hamas seems to be willing to accept the Egyptian initiative, which is almost a kind of surrender agreement for it.

The Egyptian proposal is mostly bad for Hamas. It doesn’t let the organization bring the Palestinian public any political achievement that would justify the blood that has been spilled, and even forces on it the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza, in the form of its renewed presence at the Rafah crossing (as a condition for its reopening).

Once the cease-fire is reached, the IDF will withdraw from the positions it captured in Gaza, and only then will the two sides begin to discuss the opening of border crossings and removal of the blockade, which was the reason Hamas gave for waging war. The most that Cairo is offering is a timetable for the opening of the crossing points, and even that depends on negotiations due to begin after the cease-fire is reached, and it’s tough to know how or when they will end.

Hamas representatives did say on Wednesday night they had not yet accepted the Egyptian proposal, but in the same breath they said it was the only proposal on the table. In other words, they have to accept it if they want to maintain their rule in Gaza. It was no coincidence that two representatives of the Hamas leadership in Gaza who traveled to the Cairo talks are the ones who held the official press conference, while the Hamas political leadership was already on their way home to Damascus.

When concessions are necessary, Hamas prefers to show the public the face of their true representatives rather than the ones living elsewhere, who are not living in Gaza during the Israeli offensive.

The tremendous destruction Israel caused in Gaza significantly increases the level of hatred directed at Israel, but Gazans are also angry at Hamas leaders for dragging the Strip into an unnecessary and poorly considered war. Hamas is already working on its narrative. There’s no doubt that when the war does end, it will claim victory. But the destruction in Gaza, which looks like the victim of a massive earthquake, will tell a different story. Perhaps that is why Hamas wanted to make it clear yesterday that it wants to make certain Gaza will be rebuilt and its residents will be compensated for suffering and property damage.

The Hamas statement came as Israeli defense officials were gradually reaching similar conclusions regarding the need for a quick cease-fire.

Defense Ministry and top generals have expressed reservations about expanding the ground incursion in Gaza and support bringing the war to a quick end. Some say Israel has already done all it could with all possible goals of the Gaza operation and has proven that it is no longer deterred by a serious conflict with Hamas or by sending in ground forces and reservists.

Several said it would be best to end the operation now, when Israeli deterrence has improved – and before U.S. President George W. Bush makes way for his successor, Barack Obama, on January 20. And some of the participants in Israeli discussions about the issue have expressed support for a quick withdrawal under a cease-fire declaration, even before an agreement is reached on weapons-smuggling.

The Israel Defense Force’s Southern Command is in the minority, interested as it is in deepening the operation – but conditioning this on putting a cap of several months on the time limit for soldiers in the field and Shin Bet security service agents.

Some in the IDF think the army succeeded in reaching its military goal, and that now the rest depends on the diplomats. This morning Defense Ministry official Amos Gilad goes to Cairo, and he is eagerly expected back this evening to report on where things stand.

Alongside the degree of optimism, one must remember that having thousands of soldiers in hostile territory is a recipe for continued friction, and maybe some mishaps.

The IDF has always had a problem with maintaining operational discipline over a long period, especially when reserve forces are involved. On Wednesday, with the active assistance of bloggers, false rumors were spread saying that Gilad Shalit had been rescued from captivity. That didn’t happen, but if noth ing goes wrong with the plans

in the next few days, Israel has a decent chance of ending this conflict while maintaining the upper hand.

Begin Excerpt 2 from YNet News

Israeli official: Keeping all options open

Senior diplomatic official tells Ynet that if Egyptian truce proposal fails to meet Israeli objectives, other options remain open, hinting military op could expand.

Decision of whether to accept ceasefire plan or deepen offensive to be made by Friday, he adds

Roni Sofer

Israel will give the Egyptian-brokered negotiations on a Gaza ceasefire a chance, but is keeping other options open as well, a senior Jerusalem official told Ynet Wednesday night, hinting that the military operation in the Strip could still expand further.

“The military move in Gaza continues in full strength with strikes from the air, sea and ground, in a bid to further wear out Hamas,” he explained. “The decision on whether to declare a truce or expand the operation in Gaza will likely be made by Friday,” he added.

Defense Ministry representative Amos Gilad will depart for Cairo Thursday o discuss the Egyptian ceasefire proposal and Hamas’ stance as it was conveyed to the Egyptians.

Gilad will seek to establish whether the initiative meets Israel’s demands, namely a halt to the rocket fire and terror emanating from Gaza and a stop to Hamas’ military buildup. Gilad will also try to find out whether Egypt is willing to incorporate technologies that will be provided by the US and Germany to curb the smuggling of weapons into Gaza.

Shalit’s release a possible bonus

Meanwhile, Israel is also operating in another channel and has sent Foreign Ministry Director-general Aharon Abramovitch to Washington to determine what guarantees can be provided by the US, NATO, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey and other elements against the transfer of arms from Iran and Hizbullah to Hamas.

The issue of Gilad Shalit’s release has not been defined by the cabinet as one of the objectives of the Gaza operation, and is considered a possible “bonus” in any truce agreement.

Following Gilad and Abramovitch’s return, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister

Ehud Barak will meet with the heads of the defense establishment to decide on whether to advance towards a ceasefire or carry on

with the offensive.

A senior diplomatic official stressed Wednesday that the government would continue to operate on both the diplomatic and military channels, until either one can realize the goals of the operation.

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OBAMA’S INAUGURAL BALL WILL SOON BE OVER

After the ball

is over, after the election of Shame,

After the dancers’ leaving, after the stars are gone,

MANY a Heart is ACHING, IF You Could READ them All,

Many the Hopes that Shall Be Vanished AFTER the Ball.

AFTER The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party IS PICTURED As Over

Things Will Never Again be stated to be QUITE the Same

After The Trillions Of Dollars DO TEMPORARILY PROP UP All

But hopes will end forever as ONCE AGAIN Wall Street Falls

In 2010 – We WILL THINK recovery worries are ALMOST Over

In 2010 – We’ll THINK PEACE AND SAFETY IS NAME of the Game

But twixt 2010 and 2015 the FINAL WAR starts and hope is Gone

Until the true Messiah’s Inaugural ball begins and true peace is On!

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The 1890s w itn

essed the emergence of a commercial popular music industry in the United States. Sales of sheet music, enabling consumers to play and sing songs in their own parlors, skyrocketed during the “Gay Nineties,” led by Tin Pan Alley, the narrow street in midtown Manhattan that housed the country’s major music publishers and producers. Although Tin Pan Alley was established in the 1880s, it only achieved national prominence with the first “platinum” song hit in American music history—Charles K. Harris’s “After the Ball”—that sold two million pieces of sheet music in 1892 alone. “After the Ball’s” sentimentality ultimately helped sell over five million copies of sheet music, making it the biggest hit in Tin Pan Alley’s long history. Typical of most popular 1890s tunes, the song was a tearjerker, a melodramatic evocation of lost love.

AFTER THE BALL IS OVER

Number 1 of Obama’s Top 10 Official Inaugural Balls

The long-awaited list of official presidential inaugural balls — the only ones where President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden are guaranteed to make an appearance — has been released. And if you’ve already bought a gown or rented a tux, bear in mind that almost all of these Jan. 20 bashes are by invitation only.

Youth Inaugural Ball: Aimed at the 18- to 35-year-old crowd (nice to think 35 can still be considered youthful). Ticket cost: $75. Venue: Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave.

N.W.

Obama Home States Inaugural Ball: You have to be from Illinois or Hawaii and you have to be invited to get into this ball. Ticket cost: $150. Venue: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place N.W.

Biden Home States Inaugural Ball: Yup, you have to be from Delaware or Pennsylvania to be invited to this bash. Same price and venue as Obama’s home states bash.

And don’t forget there will also be the biggest Inaugural Parade in History

Tickets for the inaugural parade are on sale right now (Jan. 9) but bear in mind that you don’t need a ticket to see about 80% of the route that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will take after their swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol on Jan.

20.

These tickets guarantee you a seat along the parade route — but you’ll need to be in your seat no later than 1 p.m.

Begin Series of Excerpts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

Excerpt Number 1 from Washington Institute for Near East Policy

When the Gaza Dust Settles

Robert Satloff

Once the immediate crisis comes to an end, the Obama-Clinton team will face a choice in how to fulfill the new president’s commitment to invest heavily and early in the Arab-Israeli peace process. On the Israeli-Palestinian track, there are two principal schools of thought, reflected in two sets of studies produced by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a joint effort by the Council on Foreign Relations/Brookings Institution. The Washington Institute studies call for a combined top-down/bottom-up approach toward strengthening the Palestinian Authority and enhancing prospects for Israeli-PA negotiations; the relevant chapter in the CFR/Brookings study calls for findings ways the U.S. can engage Hamas.

It is important to recognize that these are “either/or” options. It is not possible to engage Hamas

and build up the PA at the same time.

Engaging Hamas would undermine whatever popular support remains for the Mahmoud Abbas-Salam Fayad government, bring an abrupt end to the Dayton (U.S. security coordinator, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton) effort to “train and equip” PA security forces, compel Egypt and Jordan to change course in terms of their own approach toward the PA, and buoy radical actors from Gaza to Beirut to Tehran. Given both personnel choices and strategic imperatives, it is unlikely that the Obama-Clinton team will choose to engage Hamas.

The writer is executive director of The Washington Institute. (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Excerpt 2 from Haaretz

To Deter or to Defeat Hamas

Moshe Arens

It does not seem likely that a terrorist organization could be deterred

from pursuing its aims. Terrorist organizations do not generally own substantial assets that are vulnerable to attack, and striking them seems to increase their support from their fanatical fans. Their leaders, if killed, are quickly replaced by others. Al-Qaeda cannot be deterred; it has to be defeated.

Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel, cannot be deterred. It attaches no value to life, whether Muslim or Jewish. Israel is concerned over the loss of life in Gaza during the current round of fighting, but Hamas is not. If a cease-fire is established before Hamas’ rocket capability has been eliminated, the group will be seen as the victor.

If rockets cease falling, it will be clear who won this conflict. The writer served as Israel’s Minister of Defense three times. (Ha’aretz)

Excerpt 3 from New York Times

Why Israel Can’t Make Peace with Hamas

Jeffrey Goldberg

In the summer of 2006, Nizar Rayyan, a member of the Hamas ruling elite and an unblushing executioner, who was killed two weeks ago, told this journalist, “First we must deal with the Muslims who speak of a peace process and then we will deal with you.” As the Gaza war moves to a cease-fire, a crucial question will inevitably arise: Should Israel (and by extension, the U.S.) try to engage Hamas? But the question is unmoored from certain political and theological realities.

Advocates of negotiation suggest that the hostility toward Jews expressed by Hamas is somehow mutable. But in years of listening, I haven’t heard much to suggest that its anti-Semitism is insincere. Like Hizbullah, Hamas believes that God is opposed to a Jewish state in Palestine.

I asked Rayyan: Could you agree to anything more than a tactical cease-fire with Israel? I felt slightly ridiculous asking: A man who believes that God every now and again transforms Jews into pigs and apes might not be the most obvious candidate for peace talks at Camp David.

Rayyan answered that a long-term cease-fire would be unnecessary, because it will not take long for the forces of Islam to eradicate Israel. (New York Times)

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IDF TURNING OUT LIGHTS!

THE PARTY IS AL MO

ST OVER!

IDF TURNING UP HEAT IN GAZA,

So quieter days can be Expected!

Hamas forces want time to Recover,

Israelis NOW Successful IN Endeavor!

Islam will finally begin to be very Clever,

Using “peace and safety” trap door Lever,

Time of calm will lull Israel into false Security,

At which time Islamic nations will spring a Trap,

And Israel will be abruptly awakened from A Nap,

At attack time twixt 2010 & 2015 TO STAY ON Map!

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IAF strikes some 60 Hamas targets in Gaza overnight raids

January 13, 2009

Yaakov Katz, JPost.com staff and AP , THE JERUSALEM POST

The IAF attacked some sixty targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Tuesday, Israel Radio reported. The targets included 30 terrorists smuggling tunnels, weapons storage facilities and rocket launch squads.

Israel Radio reported that the IDF was turning up

the heat on Hamas Wednesday morning, with ground forces progressing slowly to prevent civilian casualties.

According to Palestinian reports, one of the targets hit over night was the old Gaza city hall, which has been used as a court building in recent years

The 1910 structure was destroyed and many stores in the market around it were badly damaged, they said.

The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the report.

On Tuesday, the IDF pushed deeper into Gaza City and launched pinpoint raids in the southern Strip as Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced that his top aide would head to Cairo to try to secure a cease-fire that could end Operation Cast Lead.

Defense officials told The Jerusalem Post that Egypt had made progress in its talks with Hamas and that the head of the Defense Ministry’s Diplomatic-Security Bureau, Amos Gilad, would head to Cairo on Thursday to evaluate the cease-fire proposal and present Israel’s conditions.

The officials said Jerusalem was hoping to secure a guarantee from the Egyptians that

they would invest resources and efforts in stopping the weapons smuggling from Sinai into the Gaza Strip under the Philadelphi Corridor.

One Israeli proposal, supported by the IDF, calls for the erection of a barrier surrounding the Egyptian side of Rafah, to be manned by Egyptian soldiers who will not allow weapons smugglers into the town. Israel has proposed a barrier consisting of two fences surrounding the Philadelphi Corridor and encompassing Egyptian Rafah, which would be accessible by a single road controlled by the military.

The idea was suggested several years ago by then-National Security Council head Giora Eiland.

“If the Egyptians provide us with guarantees that the smuggling will stop, the operation could be over by the end of the week,” a top defense official told the Post. “It is all up to the Egyptians right now.”

Gilad will hold talks on Thursday with Egyptian Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman, and one of the issues will be an Egyptian request to increase the number of soldiers it has deployed along the border from 750 to several thousand. Gilad has expressed fierce opposition to the request, but other defense officials in Israel said Tuesday that the request to relax the troop limits set by the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty needed to be considered.

“It is unclear why Amos Gilad is so adamantly against allowing Egypt to increase its force along Philadelphi,” one official said. “If this is what the Egyptians want, then why not just give it to them?”

While diplomatic activity picked up speed on Tuesday, the IDF continued to push deeper into Gaza City as reservist units took over responsibility for several areas in the Strip. At least 50 Hamas gunmen were killed since Monday evening.

Rocket fire also dwindled, with some 15 rockets and mortar shells striking Israel – the lowest since Operation Cast Lead was launched on December 27 – by Tuesday evening.

“The operation is continuing on its 18th day with the aim of restoring quiet for southerners and curbing weapons smuggling,” Barak said Tuesday. “We are working on both these goals, with an eye on diplomatic initiatives.”

Lt. Aharon Karov from the Battalion 890 of the Paratroopers Brigade was critically wounded by an explosion inside a booby-trapped home in northern Gaza during a early-morning operation. Two other soldiers sustained light wounds, and by evening, the officer’s condition had slightly improved following an intensive and complicated operation.

Karov, a resident of Karnei Shomron, was called up to join the fighting in Gaza a day after his wedding, less than two weeks ago.

Meanwhile, the IDF commenced heavy shelling of targets on Gaza City’s outskirts early Tuesday, as soldiers continued to push deeper into the urban center.

Ground troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a densely populated Gaza City neighborhood.

Military sources said the objective of Operation Cast Lead – weakening Hamas and restoring Israel’s deterrence – had not yet been accomplished, and that the army would continue its push into Gaza City to hunt down Hamas operatives and infrastructure.

The purpose of deepening the operation, officials said, was to increase the pressure on Hamas and to buy time to see if the Egyptian proposal materialized into a cease-fire.

Overnight in northern Gaza, Hamas gunmen fired at troops from a mosque. The soldiers returned fire, and the IAF then bombed the mosque’s courtyard after spotting the armed men.

The air force bombed some 60 targets overnight, including seven weapons storehouses, 15 Kassam launch pads and 10 Hamas outposts.

On Tuesday, an additional 50 targets were hit, including 30 tunnels.

Begin Excerpt 2 from Houston Chronicle via Associated Press and World News

Egypt pushes Hamas to accept truce

By SALAH NASRAWI Associated Press Writer

The Associated Press

January 13, 2009, 3:51PM

CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian mediators pushed the militant Palestinian group Hamas to accept a truce proposal for the embattled Gaza Strip in talks Tuesday, while the U.N. secretary-general headed to the region to join diplomatic efforts for a cease-fire.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has backed the Egyptian truce proposal to halt the fighting, now in its third week. Before leaving New York for the Egyptian capital on Tuesday, he urged Israel and Hamas to accept a U.N. cease-fire resolution and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.

“To both sides, I say: Just stop, now,” Ban told a news conference Monday. “Too many people have died.” He said Hamas militants who have been firing rockets into southern Israel “must stop, they must look to the future of the Palestinian people.”

The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday unanimously supported Ban’s efforts after he briefed the council behind closed doors.

Tuesday’s talks between Hamas and Egyptian officials in Cairo were the latest in intensive diplomatic efforts. In Damascus, the Turkish prime minister’s top foreign policy adviser, Ahmet Davutoglu, met for the third time in two days with Hamas’ exiled political leader, Khaled Mashaal.

But so far, the push has yielded little public progress.

Hamas’ deputy leader Moussa Abu Marzouk told Al-Jazeera TV that the Egyptian proposal is not acceptable as it stands. Hamas has “amendments” for it and if “taken into consideration, it will be a framework for moving toward a solution,” he said.

A Palestinian official close to Hamas said the previous round of Egypt-Hamas talks on Sunday were “stormy.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing closed-door talks.

Israel’s point man to the cease-fire talks, Defense Ministry official Amos Gilad, is slated to come to Cairo Thursday, Israeli Defense Ministry officials said Tuesday. Gilad had put off the trip for days, saying the time was not yet ripe.

Defense officials say that depending on what happens in Cairo, Israel will decide whether to move closer to a cease-fire or launch a new, even tougher stage of its offensive. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing sensitive policy matters.

The U.N. Secretary-General won’t meet Hamas officials or go to Gaza during his trip, which also includes Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian-controlled West Bank, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Kuwait.

During the Sunday negotiating session, Egypt’s top mediator, intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, told Hamas to accept Egypt’s truce proposal without amendments or Hamas will be considered responsible for Israel’s continuing offensive in Gaza, the Palestinian official said.

On Tuesday, the Hamas delegation held a new round of talks with Suleiman and Egyptian officials. Later, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak left on a previously unannounced trip to Riyadh to meet with his ally, Saudi King Abdullah, to discuss the cease-fire efforts, Egyptian officials said.

The talks come as Israeli ground troops pushed deeper into Gaza City in their 18-day offensive, in which more than 900 Palestinians have been killed, half of them civilians. Israel says its assault aims to stop Hamas rocket attacks, saying it will stop only when there are guarantees the rocket fire and smuggling of weapons into Gaza will stop.

Hamas demands an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, a halt to the offensive and the opening of border crossings into the tiny Mediterranean coastal territory, which Israel and Egypt have mostly kept sealed since Hamas took power in Gaza in 2007.

How those crossings are to be opened, however, is a major sticking point. Egypt has called for international monitors at the borders to prevent smuggling, although not on the Egyptian side of the border, and there is also talk of such monitors being tasked with ensuring the cease-fire. Hamas has so far rejected any international monitors and demands a role in controlling the border crossings, which Egypt and Israel refuse.

Qatar has called for an emergency summit of Arab League heads of state on Friday in Doha to discuss the Gaza crisis.

Arab League head Amr Moussa said 13 members have agreed to attend. However, at least 14 members must agree for a summit to be called.

Egypt and Saudi Arabia have rejected the idea, suggesting Arab leaders hold talks in Kuwait on Sunday ahead of a previously planned economic summit.

Associated Press writer Edith M.

Lederer contributed to this report from the United Nations.

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from which we extracted it.

New Socialist Global Warming Czar Scoop

Will Fill The Pockets of Environmental Groups

With Billions they will profit as organized Troops.

Also Al Gore’s supporters are all greatly Romanced,

But Our Environment Will not be Materially Enhanced,

So it will give socialism its great chance to be Advanced!

GOODBY Democracy! YOU Missed Your Gentile Age Chance!

So you float across Obama’s ballroom floor at the final Dance!

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I was born 10 years after the Uni on

of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) became a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

I have been able to watch the monster of socialism spread its tentacles worldwide during my 76 years on this planet, but I never considered in my youth it would one day replace the U.S. form of democracy. It was not until the fifties I even considered a possibility of such a thing.

On Monday, November 26, 1956, as I sat in an IHL with two Islamic Officers, Nikita Khrushchev was making a speech at the final reception for Poland’s visiting Gomulka, stubby Nikita Khrushchev planted himself firmly with the Kremlin’s whole hierarchy at his back, and faced the diplomats of the West, and the satellites, with an intemperate speech that betrayed as much as it threatened.

“We are Bolsheviks!” he declared pugnaciously. “We stick firmly to the Lenin precept—don’t be stubborn if you see you are wrong, but don’t give in if you are right.” “When are you right?” interjected First Deputy Premier Mikoyan—and the crowd laughed.

Nikita plunged on, turning to the Western diplomats.

“About the capitalist states, it doesn’t depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don’ t like us.

don’t accept our invitations, and don’t invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!”

Khrushchev was not referring to burying us with weapons of mass destruction of the armies of the Socialist Republic of what is now Russia. He was stating that their system of Socialism would eventually take over the Western World, including the United States. Unfortunately, it appears he may have a good chance of being right.

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Updated 05:45 a.m. January 12, 2009

Obama climate czar has socialist ties

Stephen Dinan (Contact)

Until last week, Carol M.

Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for “global governance” and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

By Thursday, Mrs.

Browner’s name and biography had been removed from Socialist International’s Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group’s congress in Greece was still available.

Socialist International, an umbrella group for many of the world’s social democratic political parties such as Britain’s Labor Party, says it supports socialism and is harshly critical of U.S. policies.

The group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, the organization’s action arm on climate change, says the developed world must reduce consumption and commit to binding and punitive limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr. Obama, who has said action on climate change would be a priority in his administration, tapped Mrs.

Browner last month to fill a new position as White House coordinator of climate and energy policies. The appointment does not need Senate confirmation.

Mr. Obama’s transition team said Mrs. Browner’s membership in the organization is not a problem and that it brings experience in U.S. policymaking to her new role.

“The Commission for a Sustainable World Society includes world leaders from a variety of political parties, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who succeeded Tony Blair, in serving as vice president of the convening organization,” Obama transition spokesman Nick Shapiro said.

“Carol Browner was chosen to help the president-elect coordinate energy and climate policy because she understands that our efforts to create jobs, achieve energy security and combat climate change demand integration among different agencies; cooperation between federal, state and local governments; and partnership with the private sector,” Mr. Shapiro said in an e-mail.

Mrs. Browner ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President Clinton. Until she was tapped for the Obama administration, she was on the board of directors for the National Audubon Society, the League of Conservation Voters, the Center for American Progress and former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection.

Her name has been removed from the Gore organization’s Web site list of directors, and the Audubon Society issued a press release about her departure from that organization.

Republicans said Mrs. Browner’s work with Socialist International raises questions.

“Does she agree with the group’s positions on global governance – that the United States should abdicate its international leadership to international organizations? Does she support its position that the international community should be the ultimate arbiter of climate change policy?” said Antonia Ferrier, a spokeswoman for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican.

“These are questions that merit answers – especially when you consider this group’s deep skepticism about America’s ability to be a force for positive change in the world,” she said.

An aide on the Obama team said its information shows that Mrs. Browner resigned from the organization in June 2008. The aide, who asked not to be named because he was discussing internal matters, said the transition team was aware she had been a member of the group when she was vetted.

The Socialist International Web site didn’t have a copy of her June 30 speech, but the agenda for the meeting had her scheduled to speak as part of a panel on “How do we strengthen the multilateral architecture for a sustainable future?”

Other panel participants were Sergey Mironov, speaker of the Russian legislature’s upper chamber and a close ally of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin; Zhang Zhijun, vice minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee; and Jesus Caldera, a former Minister of Employment and Social Affairs of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party.

A woman answering the phone at Socialist International’s headquarters in London said all officers were traveling.

Nobody from the organization returned a message left Friday.

Socialist International bills itself as the world body of democratic socialist movements.

It includes members ranging from Israel’s Labor Party and France’s Socialist Party to Angola’s MPLA, which won the 1970s Angolan civil war with the aid of Soviet arms and Cuban troops.

The organization distinguishes itself from violent or revolutionary communist parties.

However, some such groups, including the Chinese Communist Party, have been invited to its events as guest organizations.

The Democratic Socialists of America, not the Democratic Party, is listed as the group’s U.S. representative. But Mrs. Browner was listed as an individual member of Socialist International, but not a member of the DSA.

While agreeing with Mr. Obama on the need for action to address climate change, the organization wants more draconian policies than the president-elect’s preferred solution.

During the presidential campaign, Mr. Obama called for a cap-and-trade system to control carbon emissions. He argued that such a system is efficient and lets the free market determine where it’s easiest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Socialist International says such “flexible mechanisms” do not clamp down hard enough on polluters.

The organization often takes a decidedly critical view of the U.S.

At this summer’s meeting, the group issued a statement on economics that blasted the “neo-liberal market ideology and the unilateralist, U.S.-dominated approach in the global economic system,” and attacked the U.S. for dominating international financial institutions.

At its meeting earlier in 2008 in Santiago, Chile, Socialist International endorsed “global governance” as the solution to the world’s problems of peace and climate change.

At a July meeting in St. Petersburg, the commission said developed countries “should think of decreasing current consumption levels” – which would mean shrinking their economies – in order to help the environment.

Socialist International regularly blasts the construction of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. The fence was approved by both houses of Congress, including with Mr. Obama’s vote in the Senate.

Socialist International was congratulatory when Mr. Obama won the election, issuing a statement noting that “the sky may seem a bit brighter today” but warning still that “there are enormous global challenges that must be addressed effectively and without delay.”

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Gaza Offensive herded up the wild Jackasses!

Wild Hamas Jackasses Now Braying From Gaza,

Are the Sons of their Wild Jackass Father Ishmael,

The Son of Abraham by the Egyptian Woman Hagar!

Haniyeh Brays: “Our victory Over The Zionists Is Near”

Hamas cabinet: “All Invading forces soon to be Repelled”

Hamas leaders in Strip tell public, “Victory Closer Than Ever”

Having watched and enjoyed movie “The Silence of the Lambs”

I Wonder if Iran and Syria Might Make “The Braying Of The Asses”

During a mating season of Wild Asses when Males War for Females,

Some always lose but they don’t bray to each other claiming they Won,

This Does Tend to Show They’re more Truthful than the Hamas Bad Asses!

A truce conflict now rages between Damascus and Gaza two head Jackasses!

January 13, 2009

http://www.tribulationperiod.com

The fast moving situation in Gaza has now seen a lot of fur flying between Syria, Iran, the Damascus based head of Hamas in Syria, and the hiding head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, while the Egyptian President and Israel are trying to decide what to do next in ceasefire manipulations. The four excerpts which follow from Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, DEBKAfile, and the Australian describe the events of the last 24 hours.

Begin Excerpt 1 from Haaretz

Haniyeh: Hamas is willing to negotiate on Gaza cease-fire

By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters

January 12, 2009

For the second time since Israel launched its offensive in the Gaza Strip, Hamas television aired a taped message delivered by group leader Ismail Haniyeh on Monday. In the message, Haniyeh declared that Hamas was determined to continue fighting despite Israel’s military offensive in the Strip, but added that the group would be willing to cooperate in efforts to negotiate a cease-fire agreement with Israel.

“Gaza will not break – our victory over the Zionists is near,” Haniyeh said in a fiery speech.

“Our fate is in the hands of Allah, so what power could the sons of Zion against him? Allah will take his revenge on them.”

“When we watch over you, residents of Gaza, we draw patience and will power from you,” Haniyeh went on to say, adding however that Hamas does not have the physical might to withstand Israel’s “war machine.”

The Hamas leader ended his address with a prayer.

Haniyeh first appeared on Hamas television some two weeks ago, saying that Israel’s operation in Gaza was paramount to genocide of the Palestinian people. Haniyeh and other senior Hamas officials have gone into hiding since Israel launched its operation on December 27.

Meanwhile Monday, other Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip declared victory to be “closer than ever.”

In a statement distributed to news organizations, the Hamas cabinet said it continued to function as a government and condemned Israel for its “reoccupation” of Gaza, saying the invading forces would soon be repelled.

“We confirm to our people that victory is closer than ever,” the statement read.

“We confirm our intention to continue to work to stop the terrorists’ war against our people, end the siege completely and bring about a reopening of the crossings.”

Israel launched its offensive on Dec.

27 saying it intended to put a stop to Hamas’ firing of rockets across the border into southern Israeli towns and cities.

Following several days of aerial bombardment, Israeli troops and tanks launched a ground offensive, moving in on the major population centres, including the city of Gaza.

Some 900 Palestinians, including some top Hamas commanders, have been killed in the assault, according to Palestinian medics and the Islamist movement.

Hamas, which came to power in Gaza after elections in 2006 and subsequently seized control of the territory of 1.5 million people, said it would remain steadfast.

Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post

Haniyeh: We’ll deal positively with any cease-fire initiative

January 12, 2009

Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST

For the first time since the beginning of the IDF military operation in the Gaza Strip, Hamas on Monday openly signaled its willingness to accept a cease-fire with Israel.

The message from Hamas was issued by its prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, who has been in hiding since the beginning of the offensive.

Haniyeh’s remarks contradict fiery statements made by Hamas leaders in Syria and Lebanon.

Haniyeh said in a televised speech that Hamas would cooperate with any initiative to stop the offensive and reopen the border crossings into the Gaza Strip.

“We will deal positively with any initiative aimed at ending the offensive,” he said.

However, Haniyeh said that Hamas would also continue to fight against the “occupation forces” of Israel.

“We are confident that eventually we would achieve victory and crush the aggression,” he said. “The intifada must continue because the occupation is continuing to kill.”

Haniyeh claimed that at least half of the Palestinians killed in the IDF operation were women and children. “Victory comes to those who believe in Allah and carry out his commandments,” he added, citing several versus from the Koran.

“We have confidence in Allah because He’s on our side. We are nearing victory over the Zionist war machine. After 17 days of fighting, I can say that the Gaza Strip and faith will prevail. With Allah’s help, the Palestinian people will prevail over the infidels.”

Haniyeh’s speech, which ended with a prayer, was seen by some Palestinians as an admission of defeat. A Fatah official in Ramallah said the speech reflected Hamas’s growing predicament.

“This speech shows that Hamas has been defeated,” he said. “Haniyeh has actually raised the white flag.”

The official pointed out that the speech was also an indication

of the growing rift between the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip and the one in Damascus and Beirut.

“The Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip are desperate for a cease-fire,” he said. “After more than two weeks of fighting, they are tired and frustrated.”

Begin Excerpt 3 from DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

Egypt summons Arab summit to appoint Inter-Arab monitors for Philadelphi

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

January 12, 2009, 11:07 PM (GMT+02:00)

When Hamas-Damascus clamped a veto on his Gaza ceasefire ultimatum Monday, Jan. 12, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak acted fast: He summoned an Arab summit for setting in motion a plan

for an inter-Arab force to monitor the Philadelphi Corridor. Arab foreign ministers meet in Kuwait Friday, Jan. 16, to prepare the summit for next week.

This step shrinks to a few days the time left for Israel’s military progress to set the pace of events in the Gaza conflict. At the moment, Israel can still present the Arab rulers with a military fait accompli in the Gaza Strip, after flattening hundreds of Palestinian buildings separating the town of Rafah from the Philadelphi corridor. Those buildings, though tenanted, were false fronts for the openings to the Hamas arms smuggling tunnels running under the Gazan-Egyptian border.

Cairo quietly tipped Jerusalem that it was not against broadening its military operations in the Gaza Strip. Razing the populated area dividing Rafah from the Philadelphi border assures Israeli tanks of firing control of this key segment of the smuggling labyrinth and smoothes the way for it capture. No inter-Arab or other international monitoring force could have controlled the sector had the buildings remained in place.

Egypt plans to match the Israeli project by flattening the buildings and tunnel openings on its side of the border. The two projects will enable Mubarak to put before the Arab summit a draft resolution for appointing a workable multi-Arab or international body to monitor cross-border traffic in this sector. Both Hamas and Israel will find it hard to oppose this plan, particularly if the US and Germany pitch in with high-tech monitoring equipment.

Mubarak’s pan-Arab initiative presents Israel with two difficulties: For one, it faces losing the prospect of a clear-cut victory over a terrorist organization.

Furthermore, Egypt will be required to make concessions at Jerusalem’s expense to buy the support of Syria, Libya, Yemen and Qatar for its plan.

Hamas’ rejection of the Egyptian proposal was there a cold blast that dispelled the early hopes in Jerusalem and Cairo that Hamas had been punished enough to drop its conditions for a ceasefire.

The ball reverts now to Jerusalem, which must determine whether the army goes forward into Gaza City and Philadelphi or stands still on present battle lines.

As the Palestinian death toll rose past 900, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya delivered a taped speech from his hiding-place Monday pledging support for any effort to end the bloodshed, ousting the enemy and opening the crossings, while on the other hand declaring that the fight must go on.

Haniya kept the door open to the Egyptian initiative without defying Khaled Meshaal, his hardline boss in Damascus.

DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that Mubarak feels the ground is burning under his feet too, but he would rather not grasp the nettle of a Gaza solution on his own. He is therefore seeking broad Arab backing for a resolution, starting with a trip to Riyadh Tuesday, Jan. 13, to ask for Saudi cooperation and a pledge of funding for the Arab force he is promoting.

Excerpt 4 in “The Australian” from AFP via World News

Israel threatens Hamas with iron fist

January 13, 2009

Article from: Agence France-Presse

THE defiant leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip has vowed the Islamists will emerge victorious from the war in the Palestinian territory.

After 17 days of conflict which have so far killed more than 900 Palestinians, Ismail Haniya made a rare televised address only hours after his Israeli counterpart threatened to hit Hamas with an “iron fist” if it did not end the rocket attacks which the war itself is designed to halt.

But while Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted Operation Cast Lead was achieving its objectives, more rockets rained down on Israel, albeit without causing casualties.

Palestinian medics, meanwhile, said that at least another 26 people had been killed during the latest clashes, bringing the overall toll to 918, including 277 children. Another 4,100 have been wounded.

Ten Israeli soldiers and three civilians have been killed in combat or by rocket attacks since the operation began on December 27.

“We are approaching victory,” Haniya, the prime minister of

the Hamas government in Gaza, said in his broadcast from an undisclosed location. “The blood which has flowed will not have flowed in vain as it will bring us victory, thanks be to God.

“I tell you that after 17 days of this foolish war, Gaza has not been broken and Gaza will not fall.”

Haniya also said the “blood of children” who have been killed in the conflict would serve as a “curse which will come back to haunt” US President George W Bush.

Bush has consistently blamed Hamas for the conflict, telling reporters yesterday that while he wanted to see a “sustainable ceasefire”, it was up to Hamas to choose to end its rocket fire on Israel.

“I am for a sustainable ceasefire.

And a definition of a sustainable ceasefire is that Hamas stops firing rockets into Israel,” he said.

After Israel and Hamas both ignored a UN resolution last week calling for a truce, the focus of peace efforts turned to an Egyptian plan which calls for an immediate ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, talks on opening Gaza’s border crossings and taking steps to prevent arms smuggling.

Olmert said he was grateful for Cairo’s efforts but said Israel’s key demands were non-negotiable.
“We want to end the operation when the two conditions we have demanded are met: ending the rocket fire and stopping Hamas’s rearmament. If these two conditions are met, we will end our operation in Gaza,” he said in the southern town of Ashkelon which has been the target of dozens of Hamas missiles.

“Anything else will meet the iron fist of the Israeli people, who are no longer ready to tolerate the Qassams (rockets).”

An army spokesman said that close to 30 missiles had been launched from Gaza, although there were no reports of casualties.

Residents said Israeli tanks managed to punch their way to the southern rim of Gaza City, advancing several hundred metres in the neighbourhoods of Eijline, Tuffah and Zeitun where the crump of gunfire echoed constantly.

A military spokesman said warplanes had hit more than 25 targets, including four rocket launch sites and two cars carrying Hamas fighters.

Troops also seized anti-aircraft missiles, mortar rounds and machine guns, the spokesman added.

Israeli officials on Sunday suggested that what is now Israel’s deadliest onslaught against Gaza could be approaching its end.

Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, whose remit is limited to the West Bank, said the Egyptian initiative offered the best hope of peace, putting pressure on both Israel and Hamas to respond positively.

“He who refuses, voices reservations or moves slowly on this initiative bears the responsibility of explaining themselves, especially to the people of Gaza,” he said.

Amr Mussa, head of the Arab League, said a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers would be held in Kuwait later this week to discuss the conflict.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who is to head to the Middle East later this week, called on Israel and Hamas to immediately stop the fighting, saying “too many people have died”.

“We have a Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and enduring ceasefire. This resolution must be observed.”

Meanwhile Israel suffered another humiliating reverse at the hands of the UN, when the world body’s Human Rights Council adopted a resolution accusing it of “grave” human rights violations against Palestinians.

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