Soon, Britain will not be a member of the European Union. Many consider that prognosis unfounded, but it’s a reality that has come into sharper focus in the past six months.
The Trumpet has monitored Britain’s relationship with the European Union for more than 15 years, and we have explained why we believe Britain will eventually leave or be banished from the eu. for more click here
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: A Jewish human rights group launched a “last chance” hunt for surviving Nazis in South America on Tuesday, hoping to track down perpetrators of genocide before they die of old age. for more click here
ANNAPOLIS, MD. — The peace talks launched by the Israeli and Palestinian leaders Tuesday face a daunting array of obstacles. They will be overseen by two men who are weakened by extremists at home and speak for peoples whose attitudes toward each other have hardened since the last effort collapsed nearly seven years ago. for more click here
VILLIERS-LE-BEL, FRANCE — They burned the library overnight during a riot in this gritty suburb outside Paris. The blackened shelves and books were thrown around like garbage the next morning, and singed desks were piled on top of one another like old firewood. for more click here
If anyone doubted the Bush administration’s intent to pass the Iraq war on to the next president, or if anyone still believed the rhetoric about the withdrawal of American forces as Iraq “stood up,” then yesterday’s agreement between the United States and Iraq should disabuse them of those notions. for more click here
A new cold war is appearing on the horizon of international relations. Its symptoms and impact are different from the old cold war. Although as we shall see the new cold war is essentially ideological in nature, it is not entirely a consequence of Russia’s drive to regain its superpower status and its deteriorating relations with the United States for more click here
Joel Gilbert has pulled off a remarkable tour de force: in “Farewell Israel” he has produced a technically sophisticated, visually imaginative, scholarly documentary that manages in the space of 145 minutes to investigate the belief system and history of Islam, the development of the Arab-Israel conflict (more accurately the Muslim-Jewish conflict) and the aftermath of 9/11. The documentary’s enormous achievement is in bringing all this together to show incontrovertibly the total misunderstanding of Islam that shapes the policy follies of the West in general and the U.S. and Israel in particular. The potentially deadly results are summed up in the foreboding title – Farewell Israel. for more click here
We are at the threshold of a further frightening scenario in the mortgage and housing arena. (more…)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told reporters in Annapolis Monday that the future status of Jerusalem is an Israeli decision, not “a Jewish issue.” for more click here
GENEVA: The Philippine army has killed left-wing activists as part of its military campaign against communist rebels, a U.N. rights expert said Monday.
“In some parts of the country, the armed forces have followed a deliberate strategy of systematically hunting down the leaders of leftist organizations,” said Philip Alston, an Australian academic charged by the U.N. Human Rights Council with investigating extra-judicial killings in the Southeast Asian country. for more click here