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Chairman Shteinitz: According To Our Schedule, Not Theirs Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Yuval Shteinitz, a resident of Haifa, told Arutz-7 today that he agrees with the decision made last night not to do anything and to essentially wait until after the Iraqi war: "I don't like this pattern of 'they attack, we attack.' What, when we thwart 40 attacks in the period of a few weeks, we do nothing, and then when one attack finally succeeds, suddenly we retaliate? There is a Palestinian Authority, and its people, that is waging a war against us,...

If American troops invade Iraq and come under chemical or biological attack they will not be helped by German troops stationed in Kuwait, who are armed with special equipment for detecting contamination from such weapons, according to Defense Minister Peter Struck. “Our soldiers will remain in Kuwait because the defense agreement applies to the citizens and American troops stationed in that country,“ Struck said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. “The protection of American soldiers advancing in Iraqi territory must be taken on by the Americans themselves.“ Further burdening relations with the United States, already strained by Germany's...

Nation defenceless against nuke 14feb03 AUSTRALIA has no capacity to deal with a nuclear missile threat from North Korea, Defence Force Chief Peter Cosgrove has admitted. "Any missile threat that might emanate from Korea is going to be something that is going to be something which is well beyond the ordinary and present capacity of the Australian Defence Force, or any other agency in Australia, to do anything about," he told Channel 9. "It's a fact of life and we live in that environment. "It's quite clear that what we want to do with Korea, what the international community...

I know why the Demoncrat's latest idea (when do they stop coming?) is to reinstate the draft. They say it's to make military service something for the rich as well as the poor. But the real reason is this: During the Vietnam War, when did the violent protests stop? When Nixon pulled out? No, when he got rid of the draft. I've read many places that Nixon's announcement of the end of the draft is what did it for most people. What a wartime draft does is affect large segments of the population. Almost everybody knew somebody who's friend's cousin...

900 Iranian prisoners of war (PoWs) are still in Iraq 14 years after the end of the conflict between the two neighbours, the head of Iran's PoW committee said in remarks published on Sunday. "Based on our information, there are still 900 Iranian PoWs in Iraq, whose situation has not yet been clarified," Brigadier General Abdullah Najafi said, cited in Iranian newspapers. Najafi added that so far the fate of 98 per cent of all Iranian and Iraqi PoWs had been resolved in talks between the two countries. Up until late 2002, Iran accused Iraq of still holding more than...