Iranian Propaganda Film Claims Jerusalem Is About to Be Conquered

« Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supports a new Iranian film showing the conquering of Jerusalem, which he has advocated throughout his political career.
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March 29, 2011 | From theTrumpet.com

 

A feature-length documentary film produced by a top adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims that the current unrest in the Middle East is a signal that the Mahdi—or Islamic messiah—is about to appear. Former Revolutionary Guards officer Reza Kahlili, who defected to the West after spying on behalf of the cia inside Iran for more than a decade, obtained a bootleg copy of this new film and turned it over to Western media sources.

Iran Provokes—Germany Reacts

Anders Fogh Rasmussen called an emergency meeting of nato on Friday to consider mounting a military mission in the Mediterranean. Discussions have also been held with all EU defense chiefs. In the meantime, Germany has already reacted on its own initiative.

The European Union—especially its lead nation Germany—regards Africa as its own backyard, and the Mediterranean islands as stepping stones to that resource-rich continent.

The Spark That Lit Egypt

It is an explosive concoction that may ignite combustible conditions around the world.

Two hundred and nineteen thousand: That is how many more people need to be fed today. Tomorrow, the world will need to find food for another 219,000. Population growth, unsustainable farming methods and natural disasters are all taking their toll. But is there another, more sinister reason food prices are soaring?

When food prices rise in America, many people gripe and complain, but for the most part they make budget adjustments, go on food stamps, or otherwise cope. In much of the rest of the world, people don’t have such pleasant options.

In countries like Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Eritrea, Sudan and Iraq, the masses are already eating as inexpensively as they can.

Islamist Future Looms in the Mideast

By Robert Maginnis

The Mideast presents a chaotic quagmire of unforgiving choices for Obama.  The turmoil in Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, and Tunisia is piled atop wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the civil war with Islamists in Pakistan.  Add to these woes the concerns over Islamist Iran’s emerging atomic threat, the re-emergent neo-Ottoman Turkey, the mischievous Syria, the ever-present Israeli-Palestinian standoff, and the global Islamic terror campaign. 

These what you might have missed while I was away

Youth ‘Booze Culture’ Overwhelms British Hospitals

The alcoholism that’s spreading like a disease through the nation’s youth is a powerful sign of societal breakdown in Britain. Where is it all leading?

Chinese Companies Set to Ramp Up Investment in the U.S.

Another troubling symptom of America’s debt-fueled disease.

» The Egyptian revolt and imperial Islamism American Thinker, Jan. 31, 2011

UPDATE: Russia Boosts Military Cooperation With Ukraine

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UPDATE: Guess Who Is Smiling on the Protests in Egypt?

Demonstrations against the Mubarak regime benefit this nation more than anyone else. 

More than 200,000 in Cairo demand Mubarak quit
Pakistan court blocks handing over of U.S. "diplomat"
South Korea's conciliatory Lee hints at summit with North
Australia evacuates coastal cities in path of cyclone
In Myanmar's gleaming new capital, uncertain promise
Haiti opens door for return of ex-president Aristide
U.N. says 147 killed in Tunisian uprising
Iraq war casualties rise in January
Irish PM to dissolve parliament, pave way for opposition
U.S. praises Kazakh leader for skipping referendum
 

Hezbollah Chooses Lebanon’s Prime Minister

« Lebanon’s prime minister designate, Najib Mikati, is interviewed at his residence in Beirut, January 25.
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Iran shows its power in Lebanon.

 

Hezbollah-backed leader Najib Mikati was designated the new prime minister of Lebanon on January 25. On the same day, Sunnis protested during a “day of rage” against what they called Hezbollah’s “soft coup.”

Hezbollah’s success confirms that the group is “the country’s most powerful military and political force,” writes Farnaz Fassihi in the Wall Street Journal.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Thirsty for Change

« Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood member Saad al-Katatni calls for an end to Egyptian election fraud.
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In the wake of Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution, Egypt’s largest opposition movement is demanding reform. Will revolution come to Egypt?

 

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition movement, demanded on Wednesday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak dissolve the nation’s freshly formed parliament and hold a new election. The move is widely viewed as an attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood to capitalize on the thirst for change kindled by Tunisia’s recent Jasmine Revolution.

Tunisia’s Revolt Could Set the Region on Fire

One man’s self-immolation helped torch a government. If the winds blow wrong, the blaze could spread.

People in the Arab world are lighting themselves on fire—literally. 

These grotesque suicides represent a threat to the existing order in at least a dozen Middle Eastern and African countries.

Just this week, revolutionary, explosive events have rocked that region, and no one quite knows how things will end up on the other side.

Jerusalem Watch

« A bulldozer begins demolishing the Hotel Shepherd in East Jerusalem on January 9.
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Israeli demolition ignites international condemnation as Europe reinforces its pro-Palestinian stance.

Jerusalem Watch

 

Israel loses international support while its enemies gear up for war.

Iran: Main Supplier of Weapons to Hamas

Hamas stockpiles weapons in Gaza with help from the head of the terrorist snake.

Coptics protesting bombing clash with Egypt police

(Reuters) - Angry Coptic Christians clashed with police on Sunday as they demanded more protection for Egypt's Christians following a New Year's Day church bombing that killed 21 of their brethren.
Hundreds of members of Egypt's large Christian minority protested in Cairo and Alexandria, the northern city where the presumed suicide bomber detonated a device outside a church during a midnight service.

Suspected suicide bomber kills 21 at Egypt church

A devastating news in the beginning of 2011. 
(Reuters) - A bomb killed at least 21 people outside a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early on New Year's Day and the Interior Ministry said a foreign-backed suicide bomber may have been responsible.

Repression in the Palestinian Territories Escalates

What the politically correct liberal media don’t talk about

Iran Spreading ‘Like a Cancer’

   

Iran is trying to “dominate the Middle East” from Kabul to Casablanca.

Israel Passes Law to Protect Its Capital

 

Israel’s Knesset passed a law to prevent an Israeli government giving up East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights without a significant number of people supporting it, on November 22.

The national referendum law means that this territory can only be given away if approved by two thirds of the Knesset. If 80 out of the 120 Knesset members refuse to approve such a land giveaway, the deal must be approved by a majority of voters in a national referendum.

“The new law makes it extremely unlikely that any government can surrender any of the land covered by the law, barring a drastic shift in political leanings against the growing nationalist mood,” writes IsraelNationalNews.com.

The bill passed with 65 members of the Knesset supporting it, and 33 opposing.

The law does not cover the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria (often erroneously referred to as occupied territories in the media).

Many in Israel, including Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat, view Jerusalem as “the united, undivided capital of Israel.” The Golan is of great strategic importance to Israel’s defense, and vital for the nation’s water supply.

Christians Leave the Middle East

« A cross is decorated with lights as Orthodox Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil commemorate the Elevation of the Holy Cross on September 13.
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Christianity is on the retreat across the Middle East, according to a recent report in Britain’s Independent. And it is not just war-torn Iraq that they are leaving—the numbers of Christians throughout the region are rapidly decreasing. 

“Across the Middle East, it is the same story of despairing—sometimes frightened—Christian minorities, and of an exodus that reaches almost biblical proportions,” writes the Independent’s Robert Fisk. “Almost half of Iraq’s Christians have fled their country since the first Gulf War in 1991, most of them after the 2004 invasion … and stand now at 550,000, scarcely 3 percent of the population. More than half of Lebanon’s Christians now live outside their country. Once a majority, the nation’s 1.5 million Christians, most of them Maronite Catholics, comprise perhaps 35 percent of the Lebanese. Egypt’s Coptic Christians—there are at most around 8 million—now represent less than 10 percent of the population.” 

Israel to Retreat From Lebanon Border Village

In an effort to get the United Nations to declare it free of Lebanon border violations, Israel has agreed to withdraw Israeli forces from the northern part of a village that straddles the Israeli-Lebanese border. Israeli Security Cabinet officials voted on Wednesday to transfer the northern section of Ghajar, an Arab village, to UN control.

Controversial Madrasah Builds Iran's Influence In Kabul

 

It is easy to spot the nearly three-acre campus of Khatam-al Nabyeen Islamic University in western Kabul.

The madrasah, or religious school, which opened four years ago, still appears brand new. Its complex of mosque, classrooms, and dormitories is built in a classic Central Asian architectural style, giving it a timeless feel.

But the school is noteworthy for other reasons. Built at a cost of some $17 million by one of Afghanistan's most Iran-leaning clerics, it is one of Tehran's lesser noticed, but most effective efforts to build influence in Afghanistan.