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We will honor all the agreements and all the undertakings of previous governments and act exactly according to the Road Map. Good afternoon, honorable outgoing Foreign Minister, honorable outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister, incoming Deputy Foreign Minister, Director-General Ministry employees, honored guests, When my fellow students and I studied international relations, and learned what an international system is, we learned that there is a State and there are international organizations and all kinds of global economic corporations. Things have changed since then and, unfortunately, in the modern system, there are countries that are semi-states. It is hard to call a country...

 On September 9, 2007, a pre-9/11 celebration of sorts will be taking place in New York City, as Islamists from across the Tri-State area will congregate there for the 22nd Annual Muslim Day Parade. If past parades are any indication, law enforcement will need to be on high alert, as the participants have been amongst the most radical in the nation. Will the city allow this denigration of a very somber day to take place, or will it remember its many victims of terrorism and shut it down? The parade is being run by the Muslim Foundation of America (MFA),...

Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com , show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders. One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support...

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom will leave early Thursday morning for Washington, for his first trip abroad as Israel's foreign minister. Shalom is slated to address the annual AIPAC convention in Washington, in place of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon was originally slated to address the conference, but cancelled because of the war in Iraq. During his visit, Shalom is scheduled to meet US Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Congressional leaders, and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Shlomo Argov was born in Jerusalem in 1929, the descendant of family which has lived in Jerusalem for seven generations. As a young man and a member of the Palmach, he was wounded in the 1948 War of Independence. Shlomo Argov studied in Washington and London and joined the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1959. A senior and distinguished diplomat, he held a number of positions in the Ministry, serving among others as Ambassador to Mexico (1971-1974) and the Netherlands (1977-1979) before assuming his post as Ambassador to Britain in 1979. On the night of June 3, 1982, Ambassador...