Middle East Roundup

Found a few interesting news items and editorials coming out of the Middle East today.

World's Help Is Needed to Rebuild Iraq - Iraq's charge d'affaires in Moscow has a great article in today's Moscow Times imploring some of the hesitant nations of the world to join in the rebuilding of Iraq, today. The arguments he uses are the same ones that many bloggers have been using for quite a while, most importantly that Iraq is rebuilding more than its infrastructure - it's rebuilding its social fabric.

Time for an International Pro-Democracy Tribune for Iran - A well argued call for more peaceful action designed towards pressing the Iranian regime to the breaking point.

The Iranian pro-democracy movement is carrying a double burden of freeing Iran from a Medieval state and at the same time freeing the world from a major sponsor of terrorism. It makes all sense for the Western democracies to support the Iranian pro-democracy movement and it makes perfect sense for Iranian movement to seek that support and cooperate with the international forces that are willing to help our struggle for secularism, democracy, and human rights, as long as there are no strings attached, and it is all in the open and not in secret deals.

IAF Film Shows Critics of Bombing Misinformed - It's a case where I would like to snicker at the peaceniks claiming that Israel is the big bad evil empire killing those poor Palestinians without warning. But at the same time, it looks like many of these politicians were probably ambushed, with having their prerecorded sound bites airing right after the expose of the video. I'll reserve my snickers until they have a fair opportunity to retract their tripe. In other words, until tomorrow.

Political correctness makes Gitmo a sieve - The problems at Gitmo are really ridiculous and of our making. But we should still be able to put some faith in the guys down there.

Jew-boy's Site Goes Dooooooown!!!!!!! - Found via A Small Victory. I hate to say it, but this sounds like a case of Haganah getting hit with a less sophisticated, more demonstrative, version of his own medicine. He gets hosting companies to refuse to host Jihad sites, the Jihadis take down the hosting company to shut him down. Tit for tat. I think most of its importance comes from the fact that it shows that we are in a multi-front war with technology being just one of the battlefields.