Middle East Update

Olmert tells UN Sec. Gen he’s open to pan-Arab talks
The Arab-backed Saudi peace plan could be Israel’s last chance to live in a “sea of peace” from West Africa to Indonesia, and should not be squandered, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday March 27, on the eve of a two-day Arab League summit in [...]

Rice persuades Olmert and Abbas to meet biweekly
Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told European lawmakers on Tuesday March 27, that Israel had agreed “to conduct a dialogue on the conditions for establishing a Palestinian state,” following three days of intense shuttle diplomacy by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Up to 11 missing as cesspool wall collapses on Beduin village
At least six people were killed Tuesday March 27, when the earth wall of a large cesspool collapsed, submerging at least 25 houses in the northern Gaza Beduin village of Umm Naser with mud and some 56,000 cubic meters of raw sewage. The collapse of [...]

Senate Democrats scored a surprise victory yesterday, March 27, in their bid to force President Bush to end the Iraq war, turning back a Republican amendment that would have struck a troop withdrawal plan from emergency military funding legislation.

Bible Views on the News - Issue 13
When Bible believers read the prophecies about Israel’s future they realise that, although Israel’s prospects are bright with a Kingdom role to play, conditions are to get worse before they get better. To the present time Israel has always had assistance to help her cause. Initially it was [...]

The Current Battle for the Holy Land
Armageddon…Which Battle?

By Robin Wright, The Washington PostMore than 40 major international banks and financial institutions have either cut off or cut back business with the Iranian government or private sector as a result of a quiet campaign launched by the Treasury and State departments last September, according to Treasury and State officials.

Polling stations began to open in Egypt on Monday March 26, for a referendum on constitutional amendments which would help the government exclude opposition Islamists from the political system.

Two roadside bomb attacks have killed five U.S. soldiers in Iraq , according to the U.S. military.

A sharply divided House voted yesterday, March 23, to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq by next summer, attaching a timetable for withdrawal to the billions of dollars in war funding President Bush has demanded to prosecute an increasingly unpopular war.