Syria Reactor Story a Diversion; But From What?

The US and Israel accused Syria on Thursday of building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korean help. There was a lot of innuendo in the press that the reactor was intended for nuclear weapons production. But AFP notes:

’ They said US intelligence had “high confidence” that the structure bombed by the Israelis was a nuclear reactor, “medium confidence” that the North Koreans were involved in building it, and “low confidence” that plutonium from it was for nuclear weapons.  Read more 

Is it time to part company with Israel? Do we really want a war with Iran?  Read more 

“To the east there is the Resistance in Iraq, to the west there is the Resistance in Lebanon and to the south there is the Resistance of the Palestinian people. We, in Syria, are at the heart of all these events!” -Basher Al-Assad, 10th President of Syria (April 30, 2007) Full

I won’t write much just thought I’d get everyone ready for the Syrian conflict.  Read more 

No! They would never do that!

Ryan R. Jones Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - Senior Syrian government official have accused the US of being behind Tuesday’s assault on its own embassy in downtown Damascus.
A Baath party official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told WorldNetDaily, “We in the government are 100 percent sure America was behind this attack, which is not the same as other attacks by Islamic groups.”  Read more 

Can Israel Survive?
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Russert sets the context - Crises in the Middle East, what should the US do about the Axis of Evil, (gee, I thought we were doing the Axis of Evil since 9/11, that would make it about five years of doing, Tim)…

Before Biden and Gingrich, (author of yet another new book, “Winning the Future”), are allowed to go at it and each other, we are informed via Richard Engel, from Beirut, and Martin Fletcher, from Haifa, of what happened overnight; suffice to say it’s all bad news, except if you are William Kristol, or, as it turns out, Newt Gingrich.  Read more