July 2007 Saudi Arabia made $20 billion arms deal with Bush administration, and today we learn that there is a new $15 - $20 billion arms deal with the U.S. Navy. Few weeks ago, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa reported [on this blog also] that the U.S. seeks financial aid from the Saudis. Can somebody inform us if the last arms deal is ...
Under the title "Sorry Mr. Brown", Saudi newspaper Al-Watan wrote: The Saudi Kingdom received the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is touring the Gulf to raise funds to increasing the capacity of the International Monetary Fund plan to help the global financial system. The West follows its interests without much care about the interests of the Gulf States. Any funds provided ...
This is what the team wrote, back in February and this is what they are saying about the U.S. summer 2009. This prophecy will be back as #1 in the Top 20.
Gulf diplomatic sources in New York, told Al-Akhbar that they are concerned about the U.S. pressures on the Gulf-countries to absorb the currency liquidity available in their banks. The United States sent harsh messages to its Gulf allies demanding serious contribution in Bush's financial rescue plan to prevent the complete collapse of financial markets. Especially after Qatar Investment Authority rejected the investment ...
Few minutes after Bhutto's assassination, the media told us that oil-prices rose at least $1, although Pakistan is not oil-producer country, but the media didn't explain why this rise, the nearest "convincing" explanation was "Shockwave" [from the CNN], but a small report appeared on the front page Elaph for about 15 minutes and then removed [I was just in time ...
Check this out: Is it not a strange coincidence that Bush signs Sudan divestment bill and one US diplomat killed today in Sudan only after four days from Sudan Central Bank issued a statement to stop dealing with the US Dollar [alkhaleej Arabic link 26-12-2007]: Alternatives would be: European Euro, UAE Dirham, Saudi Riyal. [Business Week English link 28-12-2007] Governor of the Central ...
There were many confusing reports about the GCC decision to keep their currencies related to the dollar and final announcement doesn't explain it all. Before the summit, UAE newspaper emaratalyoum reported [same report on Reuters..Arabic] that Arab Monetary Fund called on the Gulf Arab States to abandon the dollar-linked currencies, saying that the raising he value of the currency will ...
Before we start this, this is a very popular post for today "7 Countries Considering Abandoning the US Dollar", but for some reason [mistakenly or intentionally] the writer dropped and didn’t include Syria into his/her list "Syria dumps dollar". Jordanian writer Muafaq Mahadeen argues that high oil price means good news for the resistance. What is the relationship between the resistance and ...
Image from "MEOS 2007" floor plan, Halliburton in the biggest hall As expected most of the ordinary US citizen are selfish thinking about their wallets, criticizing Halliburton move as an insult against the US taxpayers, without seeing the bigger picture behind Halliburton action. One of the critics I read today, from somebody who is mourning his luck that he is unable ...
Why a poor country as Zambia must pay $40,000,000 for the “Vulture Fund? Greg Palast investigate the vultures behind making poor countries poorest. I uploaded a high quality resolution video: Greg Palast hunting the vultures in USA At the end of the video he asks: Can Zambia stand any chance? Hell not: Zambia loses 'vulture fund' case It means 30,000 children who would have benefited from going ...
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Hamas snipers take down two Israeli soldier as reported on Aljazeera today [quality clips].
I don’t know if the points of the Egyptian initiative are reported somewhere in English or not, but here is the Al-Watan's Arabic version.
Arab law experts on Aljazeera rejected this initiative saying: It is full of “mines” and Israeli biased. Former ambassador and international law expert Abdullah Al-Asha'l comment on the first point saying:
What does “cease-fire for limited time” means? Does this mean that Israel can resume the genocide once again after this “limited time”? And for sure this period will be decided by Israel.
Egyptian writer Fahmi Howeidi says:
High rank officials gave instructions to all government controlled “media kitchen” to attack Hamas, Damascus, Hezbollah, Iran and Qatar.
Atwan wrote on Al-Quds Al-Arabi:
The [Egyptian] ruling party wants to prevent the pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which shows the Egyptian public responding to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who called out the Egyptians to pressure the government and force it to open Rafah-Crossing.
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods announced tomorrow - Friday as a demonstration day and for the first time Kefaya Movement will join also. Can they achieve the dream number of Million demonstrators tomorrow?
As expected the Palestinian resistance groups reject the Egyptian – French initiative, which is also rejected by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods saying:
The U.S. directly accepted this initiative is very suspicious.
But according to Al-Manar, even Israel has its own reservation, saying that Israel wants to amend seven points in this initiative.
Egyptian opposition writer Ibrahim Issa in his article “A new Egyptian initiative contains everything old” says:
The only thing new in the Egyptian initiative is that it successfully managed to reduce the international anger against Israel after the bombed the UN school in Gaza.
Turkish newspaper quoted sources close to Recep Tayyip Erdogan saying that the Turkish Prime Minister refused to respond to a telephone call from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Erdogan stressed that he would not respond before the end of the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
The newspaper added that the Israeli ambassador "Gaby Levy" in Ankara requested an urgent meeting with Erdogan, but the latter refused to meet him, telling him through his aides that Israel must ends the offensive in Gaza first.
This is also confirmed by the Turkish daily Hurriyat:
No contact with Israel is under consideration unless this condition is fulfilled.
Very funny, as if there are not enough militias in Lebanon.
Saudi funded Shiite militia man and cleric declares that his organization has 3000 fighters, he also have a missile called "Arabsim".
Video clip of Turkish public attack the Israeli basketball team, chanting Gaza support slogans.
One day before Nasrallah speech saying "The Scheme is to Give West-Bank to Jordan, Gaza to Egypt" [speech in English, Arabic], Al-manar also reported the same agenda.
Even Abdullah the King of Jordan warned of such conspiracy. Jordanian analyst Mohammed Abu Rooman accepts the King's argument saying that Israel wants to impose a new "de facto" in the region connecting Gaza with Egypt and the West-Bank with Jordan.
A very good read on Islam today, asking “Jordan..Will Gaza change its relation with Israel?” saying:
Jordan wants to shift its position away from the Egypt – Saudi Arabia alliance…This started by removing the Head of the Jordanian Intelligence which is probably related to Gaza…Jordan is sure that the current battle will never topple Hamas.
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