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  Posted by: zanshin, 2007-05-28 12:28

The Second Six Day War
The Second Six Day War



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2007-05-31 / 2007-06-03 The annual Bilderberg Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey
The main topics of the meeting are Turkey, Iran and energy issue.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis will attend.
2007-05-21 "Our armed forces are not the 30th strongest in the world, but rather the second or third".
"We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets that can launch them at targets in all directions. Most European capitals are targets of our air force ... We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under."
-- Martin van Creveld
2007-05-21 Iran is the real victor in Iraq, and the world must now learn to live with a nuclear Iran, the way we learned to live with a nuclear Soviet Union and a nuclear China. But what about Israel -- and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to wipe out Israel? "We Israelis have what it takes to deter an Iranian attack."
"We are in no danger at all of having an Iranian nuclear weapon dropped on us. We cannot say so too openly, however, because we have a history of using any threat in order to get weapons ... thanks to the Iranian threat, we are getting weapons from the U.S. and Germany."
-- Martin van Creveld, interview in the June 2007 issue of Playboy magazine
2007-05-14 Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is now beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before.
2007-05-13 In the United Arab Emirates, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised "severe" Iranian retaliation if the United States attacked his country.
"They realize that if they make such a mistake the retaliation of Iran would be severe and they will repent."
2007-05 Issues in the relationship between United States - Russia
a. Missile defense shield for Europe

b. Independence to Kosovo

c. Russia suspending compliance with a conventional arms treaty

d. US concerns about what it sees as an erosion of democracy in Russia under Putin

e. Complaints about the Kremlin's treatment of ex-Soviet neighbors who seek closer ties with the West.

f. Nuclear weapons of Iran

g. Nuclear weapons of North Korea

h. WTO agreement U.S. companies have been enjoying sharply growing profits in Russia, as its strong oil- and gas-fuelled growth enters its ninth consecutive year.
2007-04-30 "Iran remains the most significant state sponsor of terrorism and continues to threaten its neighbors and destabilize Iraq by providing weapons, training, advice and funding to select Iraqi Shia militants".
The U.S. State Department's annual "Country Reports on Terrorism" publication.
2007-04-16 "I'm ready to sit with them on the basis of the Saudi plan. And I'm ready to listen very carefully to their proposal on the basis of this plan and to see how we can work together to ultimately find common ground,"
-- Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview
2007-04-02 Yevgeny Velikhov said that it was just a question of time before Iran developed a nuclear weapon and it should be stopped.
2007-04-01 All Arab leaders are invited to hold direct talks with Israel at a summit on the Middle East.
-- Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel, speaking at a press conference alongside visiting Angela Merkel



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