Israel’s dark arts of ensnaring collaborators
Electronic Intifada - 13 Sep 2008
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rIsrael’s enduring use of Palestinian collaborators to entrench the occupation and destroy Palestinian resistance was once the great unmentionable of the Middle East conflict. When the subject was dealt with by the international and local media, it was solely in the context of the failings of the Palestinian legal system, which allowed the summary execution of collaborators by lynch mobs and kangaroo courts. Jonathan Cook comments.

Medvedev:armed action on Iran unacceptable
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) - 13 Sep 2008
Summary: ‘We should not take any unilateral steps. It is not acceptable to opt for a military scenario. It would be dangerous,’ Medvedev told the Valdai Club, a panel of journalists and academics who specialise in Russia. ‘The key is that negotiations be pursued… They have been quite positive,’ Medvedev said. ‘We should not adopt any additional sanctions now.’ Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was in Moscow on Monday for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, the two countries’ first high-level contact since Russia angered the West last month by sending troops and tanks into Georgia. source: Forbesread more