The military option is now on the table
by Herb Keinon

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sat in a green-gilded room in the Kremlin on October 18 and told Russian President Vladimir Putin the Iranians needed to fear that if they continued with their nuclear march, "something will happen to them that they don't want."

The following is the link to an animated film that was shown on Al-Aqsa TV on October 12, 2007. 

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1579.htm

Does Olmert really want to sign a deal with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas? You must be joking! Olmert has lost his brain!

When we draw cartoons of them, they kill us. Well, they have drawn cartoons of them killing us, so what is the appropriate response, eh?  From Israel National News:

Abbas' Newspaper: 'Allah, Kill Americans' by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Al-Hayat al-Jadida, the largest Palestinian Authority (PA) daily newspaper controlled by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, featured a cartoon this week that illustrated a prayer for the killing of Americans. A Muslim is shown kneeling in prayer facing a U.S. B-2 stealth bomber, silhouetted in the sky.

All this talk about the troop surge is a bit odd.  It seems to be perfectly obvious that an increase in the size of combat forces in a hostile region would automatically bring down violence and help stabilize the area. 

Caroline Glick from JPost
As expected, after bending the Pakistani constitution like a pretzel, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf won his bid for reelection on Saturday. But Musharraf has not been strengthened by the race, to the contrary. In order to secure his reelection, he was forced to agree to stand down from his command over the Pakistani military. He was further forced to accept a role for other political forces - particularly the Pakistani People's Party led by exiled former prime minister Benazir Bhutto - in the governing of the country.

Security experts gathered for a two-day meeting in Sicily organized by the Italian Atlantic Committee and the Atlantic Treaty Association, umbrella organizations working on security issues in NATO countries. The discussions are focusing on the need to increase stability in the Mediterranean region. These include terrorism in Iraq, the Middle East and N. Africa.