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| H1 New York Times Risks Escalate as Israel Fights a Ground War The plan to destroy Hezbollah from the air has proved wanting, and now, nervously, Israel is pushing a major ground offensive
Ha’aretz Iran Admits Supplying Missiles to Hezbollah
Independent Robert Fisk: A terrible thought occurs to me - that there will be another 9/11
First, Pry Syria Away From Iran - David Kimche, Jerusalem Post
Yedioth Ahronoth Ze’ev Maoz - War of deception and stupidity
Policy Review sustaining our resolve Eyes on the arrows as well as the olive branch George P. Shultz - August & September 2006
breaking the oil habit Setting a direction for energy independence Steve Stein
Los Angeles Times Syria to Bush: Stop Ignoring Us! Syria Wants to Talk, But Bush Won't Answer the Phone By Imad Moustapha
Financial Times Chance for Syria to end isolation Lebanon war offers Damascus opportunity
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Israel's unlikely warriorThrust into the role of wartime leader, Ariel Sharon’s protégé has yet to prove himself, says Harvey Morris.
The intellectuals have taken over the asylum It is not clear to me that Kristol, living in his salon bubble and TV studios, has ever seen the world other than as he thinks it should be, writes Jurek Martin.
NYT To Help Israel, Help Syria By ANDREW TABLER American support for reform in Syria would erode Syria’s reasons for backing Iran and Hezbollah.
The Administration: US Treads Softly Over Iran’s Role in Crisis
Blood on his hands New Statesman Blair has made this country an accomplice, destroying what remained of our influence abroad while putting us all at greater risk of attack. By John Kampfner
Daily Telegraph No matter what Blair calls it, Iraq is falling bloodily apart I don't think Iraq will break into three federalised statelets, observes Vicki Woods. That it will certainly break I have no doubt about - and soon; but only into two pieces.
The Times Leader Arc of extremism The shifting alliances and rivalries within fanatical Islam
IHT Israel's error, then and now Lebanon is the victim of the cruel geopolitics of the Middle East, with the massacre of innocent civilians a recurrent feature of Israeli military intervention in this fragile, democratic, multiethnic republic.
The Economist Middle East policy To Israel with love
WP In Israel, Questions About the Conflict Public Support, Once Nearly Unanimous, Begins to Fray as Toll Rises
Asia Times It's about annexation, stupid!Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon is supposed to be an act of self-defense. But the gullible Western media miss its real purpose, namely a de facto annexation of the country up to the Litani River, thus assuring Israel of water and fulfilling the dreams of Israel's founders. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Daily Star One day in the life of Bush-Blair democratization By Rami G. Khouri
Al Hayat Israel and the U.S. are losing the Three-Front War Patrick Seale
The Fate of Hezbollah between Syrian Interests and Iranian Bargaining Raghida Dergham
America and Israel's Three Wars Maher Othman
Washington Institute Why a Multinational Force is Essential in Lebanon
| H2 Los Angeles Times Editorial Turkey's Balancing Act Despite some worrying recent developments in NATO's only Muslim country, the Lebanon tragedy may provide an opportunity.
Lübnan'a yollanacak gücün en ideal adayı Türkiye
Washington Post The Center Cannot Hold David Ignatius on Peter W. Galbraith
VOA No Haven For PKK an editorial reflecting the views of the United States Government.
Morgan Stanley Turkey: Aftershocks
Erdoğan Seçim barajını indirebiliriz Başbakan, Seçim Kanunu'nda baraj dahil bazı değişiklikler yapabileceklerinin sinyalini Verdi Fehmi Koru Ak Parti zirvede Son ANAR anketinde AK Parti açık ara birinci, CHP ikinci, diğerleri baraja takılıyor. Erdoğan siyasi reform da öneriyor: Türkiye milletvekilliği ve seçilme yaşı 25 olsun. Grup kurma sayısı artsın ve partisinden istifa edenin vekilliği düşsün. Enis Berberoğlu Erdoğan’ın mektubu çok iyi oldu, keşke devam etse
Turkish media craze on north Iraq helping PKK Ilnur Cevik
Gül'e ABD'den yanıt geldi ...deva
Talabani: Türk hükümetiyle görüştük...devamı
Köy korucusu işlevi M.Ali Kışlalı
Elci denies claims of closing PKK offices in Iraq
Le débat Turquie- Union Européenne et la question kurde
YNK ve İran PDK ortak bir toplantı yaptılar
Cemil Bayık: Sınırlandırma faaliyetini YNK ve KDP’yle yapacaklar
Ömer Fettah: 'PKK’ye Yönelik Bir Saldırıyı Uygun Görmüyoruz'
BBC Flooded history Turkey bomb explosions hurt 13
Abdullah ÖZDOĞAN Dış İşleri'nde 30 milyon Dolarlık çeviri faciası
Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati
Türkiye, Irak’ta barış gücü olsun
Türkiye’de Yahudi karşıtlığı yükseliyor
Sabah Kelepçelenen subay konuştu
İncirlik Üssü'nde kelepçeli vukuat ... Haberin Devamı>>>
Akşam İncirlik Üssü'nde rövanş şüphesi FT Lebanese oil slick threatens neighbouring countries
Guardian Oil slick threat to wildlife of Mediterranean
The Transatlantic Dimension to the Conflict in Lebanon: Whatever Happened to the Responsibility to Protect? British American Security Information Council | H3 Vatan Ruşen Çakır AKP, Büyükanıt için sürpriz yapar mı? Genelkurmay'da 'kaleyi tahkim' Murat Yetkin Yeni komutanlar Büyükanıt'ın kurmayları terörle mücadele ve uluslararası deneyime sahip isimlerden oluştu
Şahin Alpay Hür Kürtler Grubu ne istiyor?
MUSTAFA AKYOL İsrail militarizmi ve CHP'li vekil...
Yeni Çağ İhanet planı ortada kaldı.. Genelkurmay, af oyunuyla PKK’nın Meclis’e sokulma harekâtına şiddetle karşı çıkınca AKP geri adım attı.
Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU İHANET KUMPANYASI MI, TESADÜF MÜ?
Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Türk askerini tanımak
Murat Çelik YAŞ kararlarından üç önemli detay
Türkiye yıllardır Kürtlerle savaşıyor
Cemil Bayık:Çözüme karşı imha dayatıldı
Akşam Şahin tepesi
YAŞ'ın sürprizi ihraçlar ve tek bekâr orgeneral ...devamı
TSK'nın yeni komuta kademesi | Özgeçmişler
Mehmet OCAKTAN Erdoğan, 'kutsal muhalefet'in canını sıktı
Ext links- İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası - Dış Basında Türkiye - Google News Turkey - Turquie- Türkei - Kurdish Media - FPR Archive - Quickread - Google News - Iraq -Iran - Syria – Kurdish - Greece - Cyprus – Azerbaijan - Israel - BBC Turkish 0700 -TurcoPundit - Mideastwire.com
More war in Lebanon and no role for Turkey at the moment Cengiz Candar
Yasin AKTAY Amerika'yla masaya oturma meraklılarına
Rauf DENKTAŞ Bir iletişim sorunu
Emin Çölaşan Bir telekulak skandalı daha
İlter Türkmen Ortadoğu’nun beş buhranı
Semih İDİZ ABD'yi batağa saplayan kibir
İsrail'e karşı ne yapmalı?
Beş saatlik sohbet Erkan Mumcu, Mesut Yılmaz’ı ziyarete gitti. İki lider 5 saat baş başa görüştü.
Mumcu ile anlaşan Mesut Yılmaz siyasete dönüyor
İrticai ihraç Yüksek Askeri Şûra, 17 subay ve astsubayı ordudan ihraç etti. İlk kez "İrticai faaliyet vurgusu" açıklamaya girdi.
Ege Cansen Bunlar olmaz İKTİSAT, maksatlı davranmak demektir.
Mehmet y Yılmaz Merkez Bankası nereye taşınsın?
Erdal Sağlam Bu tavırla Merkez Bankası bağımsız kalamaz
Gazi Erçel Merkez'in İstanbul'a taşınması doğru
Vatan Deterjan murakıbı Devlet Bakanı Tüzmen'i "aklayan" BDDK murakıbı Ahmet Beyaz, Erol Evcil'in kirli para trafiğini yönettiği için tutuklandı
El Kadı 2004'teki imzayı nerede attı?
Yusuf KANLI Turkey-EU 'destined crisis' can be avoided
Ders gibi başvuru Anayasaya göre basının özgür olması gerektiğinin altını çizen Cumhurbaşkanı Sezer, Terörle Mücadele Yasası'nı kısmi iptal istemiyle Anayasa Mahkemesi'ne taşıdı .. Haberin Devamı>>>
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| H4 New York Times Risks Escalate as Israel Fights a Ground War The plan to destroy Hezbollah from the air has proved wanting, and now, nervously, Israel is pushing a major ground offensive
To Help Israel, Help SyriaBy ANDREW TABLER American support for reform in Syria would erode Syria’s reasons for backing Iran and Hezbollah.
Clashes: Israeli Air Raids Destroy Bridges North of Beirut
Britain: Blair Delays Vacation for Mideast Diplomacy, but His Specific Goal Remains Unclear
The Administration: US Treads Softly Over Iran’s Role in Crisis
Baghdad: Shiite Rally in Baghdad Supports Hezbollah
G.I. Crime Photos May Be Evidence The case against U.S. soldiers accused of raping and killing a 14 year-old Iraqi girl offers a glimpse of an Army unit numbed by combat stress.
Editorial Listening to the Lawyers There is a real chance to create a system that is fair, legal and internationally respectable to try the inmates at Guantánamo Bay.
A Shrine to Japan’s Tainted Past By GARY J. BASS It would be diplomatically shrewd and morally wise for Japan's Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, to stop visiting a war shrine in Tokyo that honors war criminals.
| H5 Washington Post In South Lebanon, a Fierce Fight for Every Yard By Anthony Shadid
In Israel, Questions About the Conflict Public Support, Once Nearly Unanimous, Begins to Fray as Toll Rises
Israeli Warplanes Hit Lebanon's Christian Areas 30 Farmworkers Also Die; Rockets Kill Three Israelis
Negroponte Orders an Update On Terrorism's Influence in Iraq
In Baghdad, Shiites Rally for Hezbollah
William Arkin Hezbollah's Strategy, and Ours
Living in Jordan, Longing for Iraq Amman Becomes Primary Destination for Those Escaping War
Loser in Ukraine's Orange Revolution Returns as Premier
Pakistani Reactor Not as Significant As Was Reported, Administration Says | H6 Guardian Aid crisis as Israelis hit highway Bombs kill 33 farm workers in one of war's deadliest strikes.
The limits of force Norman Lamont Instead of relying on military might in the Middle East, the US should try talking to Iran and Syria. Who's the extremist? Soumaya Ghannoushi
Living with the genie Julie Flint Israeli propaganda shows southern Lebanese lashed to Hizbullah's shield; in reality, they are leaping on to it.
Oh God (redux) With two more years of Bush to go, Emma Brockes asks have our worst fears come to pass?
Russia reignites feud with Japan over disputed islands Russia: Snub from Moscow stirs 500-year-old conflict |
| H7 The Economist Middle East policy To Israel with love
UPI Policy Watch: Bush at 'High Noon'
Tony Karon Israel Disappoints the Neo-cons: More on Lebanon as a US Proxy War
On Talking With Terrorists
MSNBC Interview With Condoleezza Rice on Iraq, Lebanon and Cuba
Hezbollah's Psych-Ops - Clifford May, National Review Online
The Establishment vs. the Neocons
Washington Realist Predictions for Lebanon
FACT CHECK: Data Bolsters Notion Of Iraqi Civil War
Ehsan Ahrari A Doomsday Prognostication For Iraq
Asia Times 'The US is the kiss of death' in the Arab world The United States' hopes of playing midwife to a "new Middle East" are dying fast. Every day the four-week-old Lebanon conflict continues makes Washington more unpopular in the Muslim world. Even moderate Arab allies are balking. - Jim Lobe
| H8 BBC Israel maintains Lebanon assault Israeli planes are in action again over Lebanon with raids on the capital, Beirut, and other targets. UN locked in resolution wrangle Hezbollah defiant amid the rubble
KR U.S. troops: Iraq civil war already started
Israeli air strikes cut off Beirut and divide Lebanon
UPI Eye on Iraq: Facing Iraqi realities
Commentary: Iraq's illuions shattered
Politics & Policies: Both sides must 'win'
BBC Deadly attacks hit northern Iraq At least 14 people are reported dead in separate attacks in Mosul and Hadhar in northern Iraq.
Daily Star One day in the life of Bush-Blair democratization By Rami G. Khouri
For Iran, a most welcome proxy war
Fools rush in to another quagmire
Much anxiety in Iraq, but also some tangible progress
Any multinational force in Lebanon will wade into a regional viper's nest
| H9 Ha’aretz - Print Edition
ANALYSIS: Whatever happens, Iran wins
ANALYSIS: IAF chiefs admit air power can't subdue rocket fire
Intelligence for the uninitiated
Inquiry finds Qana bombing based on bad intelligence
BBC Coping... for now
Fighting on J PostIran admits supplying missiles to Hezbollah Report: Iran to Supply Hezbollah With Surface-To-Air Missiles
First, Pry Syria Away From Iran - David Kimche, Jerusalem Post
Yedioth Ahronoth Speaking the language of the Middle East Aug 04 SD# 1232 - Iranian and Syrian Reactions to the Latest Developments in the Middle East Crisis |
| H10 Christian Science Monitor Top military lawyers oppose Bush plan White House proposal would dramatically expand military court powers.
Morgan Stanley Global: Doha Doesn't Matter
Dependent on the
| H11 IHT Israel's error, then and now Lebanon is the victim of the cruel geopolitics of the Middle East, with the massacre of innocent civilians a recurrent feature of Israeli military intervention in this fragile, democratic, multiethnic republic.
From the Saddam trial, vital lessons As the world awaits a verdict in the Saddam Hussein trial, the Iraqi High Court is itself under scrutiny for lessons learned in the conduct of a high-profile war-crimes trial.
Nuclear shutdowns leave Swedes debating
The Economist Old and new information tricks Disinformation
| H12 RFE/RL Contact Group Warns Of Tensions In Kosovo
UPI Outside View: The Kodori conflict
EurasiaNet Washington Wants to Help Georgia Break its Energy Dependence on Russia
EDM RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES PUT VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS ON TERROR LIST BUT IGNORE HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH
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| H13 The Times Leader Arc of extremism The shifting alliances and rivalries within fanatical Islam
Don't be fooled by the fanatics: Islam's liberals are on the march
The underground voice of Hezbollah that Israel is still unable to silence
'Hezbollah aren't suckers, they know how to fight. You're scared all the time'
FT COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Leadership deals that demean democracy Sue Cameron on the shady backroom deals during political leadership succession under the Westminster system.
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: After Castro, Viva CastroThe optimism of 10 years ago – that the death or incapacity of Fidel would return Cuba to the fold of freedom – has been tempered, writes Christopher Caldwell.
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: A simple escape route from the gridlock of Basel II
| H14 Financial Times Chance for Syria to end isolation Lebanon war offers Damascus opportunity
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Israel's unlikely warriorThrust into the role of wartime leader, Ariel Sharon’s protégé has yet to prove himself, says Harvey Morris.
The intellectuals have taken over the asylum It is not clear to me that Kristol, living in his salon bubble and TV studios, has ever seen the world other than as he thinks it should be, writes Jurek Martin.
Role reversal as Palestinians give shelter to Shia refugees
Editorial The Fed should act No matter what the Federal Reserve does to US interest rates on Tuesday, it will confound the expectations of some economists.
US punishes Russian companies over Iran
Yanukovich to head new government
FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - LUNCH WITH THE FT: Soros - The billion-dollar memory lapse | H15 Los Angeles Times Syria to Bush: Stop Ignoring Us! Syria Wants to Talk, But Bush Won't Answer the Phone By Imad Moustapha
No Tears for Fidel, Please By George Weigel The murderous dictator put revolution ahead of country, so shed them for the people and way of life he repressed. Israel Expands Lebanon Bombing, Hezbollah Reciprocates
Generals Give Grim Report on Iraqi Strife
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| H16 KR War may trump all other concerns in Congressional election season
WSJ Strategies for Political Giving As election season approaches, it is increasingly important to understand how best to deploy your money if you do choose to contribute. Here are some tips on how to think about it.
WP GOP Candidates Run From President
NYT Clinton Dodges Political Peril for War Vote
MAUREEN DOWD Henny Penny Harridan When Hillary Clinton and Donald Rusmfeld square off, it is a gladiatorial contest of two masters at self-righteousness, scriptedness, infighting and belief in their own manifest destiny.
Editorial Observer: A Letter to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. By TERESA TRITCH If the Bush years have shown us anything, it’s that broad prosperity does not flow automatically from economic growth.
realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec - Blogometer | H17 Daily Telegraph No matter what Blair calls it, Iraq is falling bloodily apart I don't think Iraq will break into three federalised statelets, observes Vicki Woods. That it will certainly break I have no doubt about - and soon; but only into two pieces.
Using children to sell the EU message The worst mistake that Euro-integrationists ever made was to start explaining themselves, says Daniel Hannan.
Beirut's last road lifeline destroyed
New Republic Defending Joe Lieberman His iconoclasm strengthened liberalism in the 1990s, and it may soon become necessary again
WP Awaiting the Other Apologies By Tom Grubisich, Mel Gibson has apologized for his reported anti-Semitic remarks. Will Christian leaders, including some prominent Catholic bishops, apologize for applauding and recommending his earlier, more-far-reaching expression of anti-Semitism, the movie "The Passion of the Christ"?
| H18 Independent Robert Fisk: A terrible thought occurs to me - that there will be another 9/11
Who Cares What the Lebanese Want? by Robert Fisk Thousands to march in support of immediate ceasefire The largest peace march since before the Iraq invasion is expected to descend upon Downing Street today demanding that Tony Blair calls for an unconditional ceasefire in the Middle East.
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| H19 updated: Titles of Master's Theses From the Joint Military Intelligence College, 1973-2002
The Proliferation Security Initiative: Three Years On
Israel, Lebanon: Llamas, Power Stations and Big Moves
Analysis: U.S. military facing readiness crisis
Der Spiegel BOMBS ON GERMAN TRAINS A Middle Eastern Connection? A leak from the investigation into a pair of unexploded bombs found on trains in Germany this week has produced a strange detail -- a bag printed in Arabic. German officials won't confirm anything, but the case has ignited a national debate about rail security
A SECURITY FORCE FOR LEBANON | · H20 Slate Regime Change:
Are economic sanctions counterproductive?
Policy Review war-torn democrats Peter Berkowitz on With All Our Might: A Progessive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty edited by Will Marshall and The Good Fight: Why Liberals — and Only Liberals — Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again by Peter Beinart
FT Do fish feel pain?Animal rights groups looking for a ban on fishing say yes; anglers, unsurprisingly, insist not. But, says Richard Donkin, both sides may find there is a more pressing debate to be had.
| H21 The Economist Differences between the sexes The mismeasure of woman
A country’s wealth and its growth rate are not icing on the cake of a happy, virtuous society. They are the factors that make it possible... more»
New Yorker Brothers in Arms Turkish food at Turks & Frogs Tribeca. by Lauren Collins
Thinking out of the box John Gray - Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen
WSJ Oliver Stone's Vision of 9/11 Three months after "United 93," Paramount Pictures releases the more hopeful "World Trade Center." Will a happy ending make it more attractive to a broad audience?
Mel Gibson's Bodyguard an Israeli Avi Korein, 45, a former nightclub bouncer rumored to once have been in Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. |
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