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Just as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah admitted publicly that Israel's offensive against his terrorist army was taking its toll, some Muslims poured into their streets to stomp on Israeli and U.S. flags. U.N. diplomats and Western appeasers are busily trying to back Israel into an indefensible corner. But how would Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi stand on the current conflict? Gandhi called terrorists "murderers." MLK recognized the Jewish "religious and cultural commitment to justice." Just yesterday, Hezbollah leader Nasrallah: ...for the first time since fighting began 22 days ago, offered Thursday to stop rocket attacks on northern Israel in...

China parades 'the guilty' to placate Japan By Richard Spencer in Beijing (Filed: 27/04/2005) Chinese police have paraded 42 anti-Japanese protesters on television, in the clearest sign that the communist leadership is determined to halt violent demonstrations and set a friendlier tone towards Tokyo. Some of the detainees, caught on camera hurling bottles and vandalising Japanese restaurants and cars in Shanghai 11 days ago, made public confessions. "I let down my university, my teachers as well as my students," said Yin Xiufeng, a university physical education instructor. "I hope others can learn a lesson from me." The public display of...

200 held in Yemen 'to placate US' Brian Whitaker Wednesday September 24, 2003 The Guardian (UK) The US-led "war on terror" has caused a worsening of human rights in Yemen, with the authorities there holding almost 200 people without trial in an effort to placate the Americans, says a report published today. In the months following the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, Yemen embarked upon mass arrests, detentions, and the secret deportation of foreign nationals, Amnesty International reports. In the 1990s, Yemen, a poor, mountainous country with porous borders, became a popular refuge for Islamists, many with...