Middle East Travels - UPDATED

[ProSense]

Middle East Travels - UPDATED

UPDATE: Tomorrow, Senator Kerry will be LIVE on the TODAY Show at 7:05 am EST from Damascus, Syria to discuss his trip to Iraq and the Middle East. We hope you all can tune in.

Cool! More at link.


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[Island Blue]

1. Thanks so much for posting PS!

This will be the perfect was to start the day!

[ProSense]

2. Musical links!

Sorry!

[wisteria]

3. Well, you know I will drag myself out of bed for that. And best yet,

Couric won't be there to do the interview. Her last interview with him was "catty".

[blm]

5. Now that she's been on the receiving end I wonder how she likes it?

Funny, how they only see how media abuses THEM.

[LittleClarkie]

4. 6:05 in the blessed am, my time

Oh, the horror.

[Island Blue]

6. Bump. Just in case someone missed this last night. n/t

[TayTay]

7. How Syrian News sees this

Syrian foreign minister urges USA to be "honest sponsor" in Mideast

Source: BBC MONITORING INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
Date: December 20, 2006

Text of report in English by Syrian News Agency SANA website

Damascus, 20 December: Foreign Minister Walid al-Mu'allim called on Wednesday
<20 December> upon the United States to assume her role as an honest sponsor of
the Middle East peace process.

"The United States should take over her role as an honest sponsor of the peace
process, to contribute to achieving peace and stability in the Middle East
region," the minister told two visiting US Senators John Kerry and Chris Dodd.

Mu'allim emphasized on the other hand, Syria's keenness on security and
stability in the region and the need that the international community hold
responsibility to achieve just and comprehensive peace in the region based on
the UN Security Council resolutions and Madrid reference as well as the land
for peace formula that liberate the occupied Arab territories, including the
occupied Syrian Golan.

Talks during the meeting included view exchange on latest international and
regional developments, mainly developments in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq.

Source: SANA news agency website, Damascus in English 20 Dec 06

[wisteria]

8. Thanks. Thank goodness for other news outlets other than the American ones.

We have a silly news media relaying gossipy silly news.

[rox63]

9. JK in Israel today

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=117876

[karynnj]

10. Thanks for posting this

This is so Jewish press. Half the article is Kerry having Jewish roots and reletives who died in the Holocaust. Of all the things that made Kerry Kerry, these rank very very low.

(My local Jewish paper covered Wellstone vs Coleman as a no lose situation.