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Tell us again about the enormous power of the Jewish lobby in the US:

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said during his visit to Israel that Washington has decided to sell Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) bombs to Saudi Arabia, Haaretz has learned.

A recent discussion in Washington raised the possibility that Jerusalem would ask the U.S. not to sell the satellite-guided smart bombs to the Saudis, but it was decided to reject this request…

Defense Minister Amir Peretz expressed Israel’s opposition to the sale of the weapons to Saudi or other Persian Gulf states during his visit to the U.S. a few weeks ago. Peretz said Israel was concerned the weapons might fall into terrorist hands. Israel also argues that the presence of such weapons in the Arab countries undermines Washington’s pledge that Israel will enjoy a qualitative edge in the region – attained mainly by the possession of advanced weaponry…

Washington has rejected such requests from Israel before: surrounding the sale of AWACs and advanced F-16s to Saudi Arabia, and Harpoon missiles to Egypt. — Ze’ev Schiff in Ha’aretz

Technorati Tags: Israel, JDAM, Saudi Arabia

There’s been a lot of discussion of Heinsohn’s so-called “youth bulge” theory — the view that “an excess in especially young adult male population predictably leads to social unrest, war and terrorism, as the “third and fourth sons” that find no prestigious positions in their existing societies rationalize their impetus to compete by religion or political ideology”.

Here’s how they get their start:

KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan (AP) – The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive’s head to cries of “God is great!” and hoists it in triumph by the hair.

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Technorati Tags: terrorism, Pakistan, beheading, heinsohn, youth bulge

By Vic Rosenthal

Another Friday in Bil’in:

Two border policemen were lightly wounded on Friday after left-wing protesters pelted them with stones in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah.

Some 200 Palestinians, Israelis and foreigners were gathered in the village for the weekly protest against the building of the security fence, despite the area being a closed military zone. — Jerusalem Post

Several demonstrators were injured including Mairead Corrigan, who received the Nobel Peace prize in 1976 for her activities in Northern Ireland. Tito Kayak, Puerto Rican activist involved in the Vieques protests against the US Navy, was arrested for climbing a tower where the army had placed security cameras and attaching a Palestinian flag. Bil’in is the place to be this year for everyone who is or aspires to be a human rights activist.

These protests have been ongoing since January 2005. The organizers claim that they are nonviolent, but obviously they are not. Some of the groups that have participated along with Palestinians are Gush Shalom, Anarchists Against the Wall and of course the International Solidarity Movement (the folks who were responsible for the death of Rachel Corrie).

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