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Israeli expert on Hezbollah offers his opinion of war

IL Rancher

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Interesting articles R2... That part of the world, and the Balkans for some reason just facinates the heck out of me.. Maybe it is just the old Ottoman Empire that I find so interesting... Thanks for posting them.
 

IL Rancher

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He is in the news... Has been outed as far as I can tell. The board of regents for the school met and actually considered terminating his employment (Madison is perhaps the most liberal town I can think of in the upper midwest) but decided instead just to tell hi he is not to teach that BS at UW which strikes me as odd. Either let the guy teach what he wants to teach or terminate his contract before he gets tenure.
 

IL Rancher

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I don't know his tenure position I just know that there are tons of guys around at the Universities who are tenured and are basically nutcases, it is truly amazing sometimes what universities allow. This not only goes with sfaculty behaviour but also with student behavior.

When I was at Northwestern in the early-mid '90s there were two newspapers. One, was the official school newspaper which was typical of most university newspapers (especially at journalism schools) in that it had a liberal/mega pc bias to it. Than there was a conservative newspaper that had a lot of private funding and some school funding but was actually a pretty poor piece of fishwrap in that the editing was horrendous and was pretty sporadic in its delievery. People followed around the guys who dropped the stuff off at places and picked up the papers to throw them away calling it litterly while leaving the Daily paper alone.. The university did nothing about it and didn't really care.

They also did nothing to the prtestors who would shout down guest speakers at events sponsered by certain clubs. Lets just say it was not the conservative groups doing the shouting. I found it sad because universities should be a place where all view points are heard and given thought to (Especially at these speakers at 7pm on a thursay that are not a requirement to attend) but when it appeared to be encourgaed by some profs to go to these events and not even let the person be heard... Just stupid and narrow minded.. At the university at least the moe closed minded people I knew where the more liberal proffessors and their followers. Found the same to be true at my High School in which my Senior year English teacher was so close minded you could see it in her grading of papers. Didn't matter to me, I still got an A but I saw some god awful papers get good grades. Brad S would be happy to know she was former KU teacher, tutored Danny Manning and lived next door to the "In Cold Blood" murder scene that Capote wrote about. When he mentioned about KU being that liberal it brought back memories of good old MIZZZZ Merriel.
 

Liberty Belle

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Why is this nut allowed to live?

Iran, Syria Praise Hezbollah, Mock U.S.
August 15, 2006
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Hezbollah has "hoisted the banner of victory" over Israel and toppled U.S.-led plans for the Middle East. Hezbollah's main backers - Iran and Syria - struck nearly identical tones a day after a cease-fire took effect in Lebanon: heaping praise on the guerrillas as perceived victors for the Islamic world and claiming that Western influence in the region was dealt a serious blow.

"God's promises have come true," Ahmadinejad told a huge crowd in Arbadil in northwestern Iran. "On one side, it's corrupt powers of the criminal U.S. and Britain and the Zionists ... with modern bombs and planes. And on the other side is a group of pious youth relying on God."

In Damascus, Syrian President Syrian President Bashar Assad said Washington's plans for the Middle East were turned into "an illusion" by Hezbollah's resistance to the Israeli military during the 34-day conflict.

Israel "was defeated" and Hezbollah "hoisted the banner of victory," Ahmadinejad told the crowd, including many people waving yellow Hezbollah banners and Iranian flags.

Ahmadinejad drew cheers when he said Hezbollah foiled what he called the plans of Washington and its allies "to create the so-called new Middle East."

"The people of the region are also after the new Middle East, but a Middle East that is free from U.S. and British domination," he said.

After the war broke out July 12, Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders repeatedly denounced the U.N. Security Council for moving slowly toward a cease-fire. They also sharply criticized other Muslim nations for what Iran considered a failure to rally around Hezbollah and Lebanese civilians.

Ahmadinejad said the United Nations should force war reparations from Israel and its allies, led by the United States.

"Those who were involved in inflicting damage to the Lebanese nation are responsible," he said.

Ahmadinejad has drawn worldwide condemnation for calling for Israel's destruction and describing the Holocaust as a myth.

Earlier Tuesday, a hard-line Iranian cleric warned Israel that Iran's new long-range missiles will land in Tel Aviv if the Jewish state should attack Iran, state-run television said.

Ahmad Khatami, a mid-ranking cleric, declared that Israel would face dire consequences if it "makes an iota of aggression against Iran."

"They must fear the day 2,000-kilometer (1,250-mile)range missiles land in the heart of Tel Aviv," he said.

Khatami is a Friday prayer leader in Tehran and a member of the Assembly of Experts, a clerical panel that has the power to choose or dismiss Iran's top leader, but he is not considered a government official.

In his address, Ahmadinejad also said his government would stick by its plans to reply on Aug. 22 to a package of Western economic and technology incentives offered in exchange for a suspension of Iranian uranium enrichment.

The U.N. Security Council has told Iran it must halt enrichment by Aug. 31 or face possible sanctions.

Western nations, led by the United States, claim Iran is using its nuclear program as a cover for developing atomic weapons in violation of its commitments under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Iran denies the allegations, saying its program has the peaceful goal of generating electricity with nuclear reactors.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/15/D8JGVFKO0.html
 
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