David Bedein

Rice's initiative will circumvent the first step of the Middle East Road map that she herself pioneered in May 2003. That first step required that the leaders of the Palestinian Authority must first disband and disarm all Palestinian terrorist groups - some of which remain under the command of and loyalty to Mahmoud Abbas.

--Iran Funding More Terror Groups--Study: Ideological Differences Between Fatah And Hamas Diminish

--Michael Ledeen, a former Pentagon official, said the Quds Force documents have left U.S. intelligence officials flabbergasted. Ledeen said the documents included charts that contain the links between Shiite and Sunni groups with Iran. "It seems that our misnamed Intelligence community had grossly underestimated the sophistication and the enormity of the Iranian war campaign," Ledeen said--Russian Anti-Aircraft Missiles For Iran

The Al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, together with Islamic Jihad, has taken responsibility for every suicide bombing in Israel over the past two years, including an attack in Tel Aviv in April that killed American teenager Daniel Wultz and nine Israelis. The Brigades also has carried out scores of deadly shooting and rocket attacks against Israeli civilians in recent months.

--In 2006, the threats to security and stability in the Middle East grew more severe because of the stalemate on the Palestinian matter and Iran's progress toward obtaining a nuclear military option--Israel Reaches $4.4 Billion In Defense Exports--The Lab That Will Identify An Iranian Bomb Detonation--Russia Supplies 'Sam Missile' Deliveries

As President Gerald Ford is laid to rest, veteran diplomats, pundits and politicians in Israel recalled a vitally important letter from the late US leader to the state of Israel. The letter, written on Sept. 1, 1975, followed six months of American pressure on Israel to sign an interim peace agreement with Egypt, with whom Israel was still in a state of war. Here is the full text of the letter from President Gerald Ford to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Hundreds of residents of el-Khader, south of Bethlehem, declared three days of mourning. The villagers gathered near the entrance to the village, hung pictures of Saddam, raised placards condemning the American occupation in Iraq, and sang the Iraqi national anthem.