Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5774240.ece

Binyamin Netanyahu described Iran as the greatest threat that Israel has ever faced and failed to mention stalled talks with the Palestinians after he was asked to be the country's new Prime Minister today. In a speech made outside the residence of President Shimon Peres, the Likud leader said that protecting Israel would be his greatest responsibility as leader, and condemned "formidable" challenges posed by the Islamic Republic.

Link: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065790.html

Right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu will be asked to form the next government, the office of President Shimon Peres said in a statement on Friday, 10 days after the parliamentary election. The right-wing Likud party chief was due to meet the head of state at about 2:15 P.M. (1215 GMT) to receive a formal invitation to head the next administration, the statement said. Times Online: Binyamin Netanyahu to be Israel's next Prime Minister. The People's Voice: FASCIST RULE IN ISRAEL. Palestine Chronicle / The People's Voice: The Roots of Hatred in the Zionist Ideology. SOUTH LEBANON / The People's Voice: Israel’s Naked Zionfascism. Desert Peace / The People's Voice: GERMANY-1933 vs ISRAEL- 2009.

Link: http://news.antiwar.com/2009/02/19/lieberman-demands-enormous-concessions-to-join-likud-govt/

While the endorsement of Yisrael Beiteinu chief Avigdor Lieberman has likely secured the Likud Party the first opportunity to form a coalition government, but getting the controversial right-winger to actually join that coalition is going to cost would-be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu far more than anyone could have imagined. AntiWar: Livni Would Consider Joining Likud Coalition, [even] if Lieberman Is Involved.

Link: http://alternativeconservative.com/2009/01/26/obama-israel-myth/

The media has perpetuated a myth that Obama will not support Israel. This has been by the Radical Right who didn’t want their members to support Obama, and the Radical Left who didn’t want their supporters illusion broken over who Obama really is. I can assure you Barack Obama will not do anything to help Palestinians because that would cross AIPAC, and I’m sure he doesn’t want to deal with that sort of a vendetta. In Obama’s below speech to AIPAC he promises $30,000,000,000.00 ($30 billion) to Israel over the next 30 years. Obama’s promises AIPAC unconditional support, funding, and weapons. Strangely many media pundits have claimed Israel stopped bombing Gaza prior to Obama’s inauguration because Obama does not support Israel. This is misinformation at its finest.

Link: http://www.traveltowork.net/2009/02/20/50-things-you-are-not-supposed-to-know/

I stumbled upon a very strange book called 50 things you are not supposed to know. It’s written by an unknown author Russ Kick. It was so interesting that I spent all evening reading it. Only 68 pages and each page had it’s own set of surprises. I don’t know about if it is true or not as I don’t have any means to verify if it is true or not. Sharing this with you is probably the best way to know the reality behind this book.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/world/middleeast/20nuke.html?_r=1&hp

In their first appraisal of Iran’s nuclear program since President Obama took office, atomic inspectors have found that Iran recently understated by a third how much uranium it has enriched, United Nations officials said Thursday.

Link: http://factsnotfairies.blogspot.com/2009/02/professor-michael-keefer-canadas-war-on.html

Michael Keefer, Professor of English at the University of Guelph, former president of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, presented Canada's "War on Terror" at the University of Toronto on Nov 14, 2008. Keefer breaks down the foundations of the "War on Terror" by critically analyzing investigative journalism, election fraud, Canada's role in Afghanistan, the Toronto 18 frameup, and the loss of civil liberties. Along with Prof. Paul Zarembka, Keefer's moving speech led to the formation of a new chapter at the University of Toronto [Parts 1-6]. MICHAEL H. KEEFER. Professor. College of Arts, University of Guelph. Department or School:. School of English and Theatre Studies. University of Guelph (Resumé)(.pdf).

Link: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/02/iraq-court-postpones-trial-of-shoe.php

Judge Abdul-Amir al-Rubaie of the Central Criminal Court of Iraq on Thursday postponed the trial of Muntadar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush. The new trial date is set for March 12.

Link: http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4392.shtml

In a Haaretz article, Is Israel assassinating Iran nuclear scientists?, Yossi Melman reports, “Israel is assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists as part of a covert war against the Islamic Republic’s illicit weapons program, the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday quoted Western intelligence analysts as saying.” He continues, “The British daily said Israel’s Mossad espionage agency was rumored to be behind the death of Ardeshire Hassanpour, a top nuclear scientist at Iran’s Isfahan uranium plant, who died in mysterious circumstances from reported “gas poisoning” in 2007. “Other recent deaths of important figures in the procurement and enrichment process in Iran and Europe have been the result of Israeli ‘hits,’ intended to deprive Tehran of key technical skills at the head of the program, according to the analysts.”

Link: http://www.pchrgaza.org/images/2008/w7-09.jpg

[A Palestinian boy carries a door through the a rubble of a destroyed workshop in Jabalya refugee camp on 14 February 2009] Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Siege on the Gaza Strip. ►Three Palestinians, including two children, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. ►Fifteen Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 6 children and one woman, were injured by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. ►IOF warplanes bombarded targets in the Gaza Strip. ►A workshop was destroyed in the northern Gaza Strip. ►A police station in Khan Yunis was repeatedly bombarded. ►Intensive air strikes continued on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, resulting in local civilians being forced to evacuate the area. ►IOF conducted 43 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. ►IOF arrested 82 Palestinian civilians, including seventeen children and one woman. ►IOF raided and damaged the contents of a radio station in Hebron. ►IOF closed a charity in Tulkarm. ►IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world. ►IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. ►IOF confiscated 1,700 donumms[1] of Palestinian land in Bethlehem in order to construct 2,500 new housing units for Israeli settlers. ►IOF uprooted at least 20 olive trees in Ne'lin village, west of Ramallah. ►IOF and Israeli settlers began construction of a new road for Israeli settlers south of Hebron. Mondoweiss: Reps Baird and Ellison from Gaza: 'If this had happened in our own country, there would be national outrage'.

Link: http://www.imemc.org/article/58929

Palestinian researcher, specializing in detainees’ affairs, Awni Farawna, stated that the Israeli Army has kidnapped a total of 7,600 Palestinian children, males and females, since the year 2000; 246 children are still behind bars. At least 200 of the kidnapped children were detained under administrative detention, without charges or trial. Some of the children were as young as 12 years old. One detainee is now 13 months old as he was born behind bars. His mother, Fatima Al Zoq, was kidnapped while pregnant, and gave birth in prison while she was handcuffed and her legs were tied to the hospital bed. And more recently in Gaza: Voz de Aztlan: Israel has now massacred over 300 Palestinian children in Gaza (PHOTOS).

Link: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/econ-f20.shtml

The Labor Department reported Thursday that the number of US workers receiving unemployment benefits hit 4.99 million in the week ending February 7, the highest number in 27 years. First time claims for state unemployment benefits were a higher-than- expected 627,000 for the week ending February 14, as corporations continued to cut back on production and slash their staffs by thousands of workers.

Link: http://factsnotfairies.blogspot.com/2009/02/cousin-of-911-hijacker-arrested-by.html

For 25 years, Ali al-Jarrah managed to live on both sides of the bitterest divide running through this region. To friends and neighbors, he was an earnest supporter of the Palestinian cause, an affable, white-haired family man who worked as an administrator at a nearby school.

Link: http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2009/02/20/europe/OUKWD-UK-ARGENTINA-BISHOP.php

Argentina has given a Roman Catholic bishop 10 days to leave the country or be expelled after he caused an international uproar by denying the extent of the Holocaust, the government said on Thursday. Bishop Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist who headed a seminary near Buenos Aires until earlier this month, has said he believes there were no gas chambers and that no more than 300,000 Jews died in Germany's Nazi concentration camps, rather than the 6 million figure that is widely accepted. This obviously is the only number permitted to believe in. Any other number would land you in trouble. Deep trouble. Times Online: Bishop Richard Williamson ordered to leave Argentina. The Guardian: Argentina expels Catholic bishop who questions Holocaust. That's right, he questions the authorized version. To question authority will no longer be permitted. Chipping away at our freedom, the Zionist Jews will stop at nothing until freedom has become slavery. ―RESIST!

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/20/endangered-languages-unesco

Unesco unveils its first comprehensive database of endangered tongues.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1147106/Loneliness-bad-health-smoking-obesity-experts-warn.html

Being cut off from friends and family can raise blood pressure and weaken the immune system, the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual conference heard. It can also make it harder to sleep and even speed the progression of dementia, according to psychologist John Cacioppo. He found loneliness raises levels of the hormone cortisol and can push blood pressure up into the danger zone for heart attacks and strokes.