by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) An estimated 25,000 people took part in a mass prayer service at the Western Wall against the Israeli government's positions at the Annapolis summit.
The prayer service was followed by a massive protest, co-sponsored by the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), near the Prime Minister's residence.  The protest is entitled, "It Will Blow Up in Our Face." At the time of the Western Wall prayer vigil, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was meeting in Washington with U.S. President George Bush in preparation for the Annapolis summit on Tuesday.
We sometimes think that if we act, protest, settle the Land, teach, and do all sorts of things, that everything will be OK. But today, we are coming to the Western Wall with humility, awe, and serene faith.
The front line of religious-Zionist rabbis, led by Former Chief Rabbi of Israel Mordechai Eliyahu, called for the public to attend the Western Wall prayers.  MK Uri Ariel (National Union party), among those who initiated the prayer service, said, "It is critical for us to offer prayer to our Father in Heaven when the Prime Minister wants to sell our national homeland.  We are here [at the ...   more »

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday confirmed his readiness to open substantive peace talks with Syria, and pointedly recalled that three previous prime ministers had shown a readiness to leave the entire Golan or the overwhelming proportion of it.
In a briefing ahead of Tuesday's summit in Annapolis, Olmert noted approvingly that the Syrians would be participating, albeit at the level of deputy foreign minister.
"We always said Syria's presence was acceptable," he said. "It's right that they're here."
Amid reports that Syria would use the Annapolis platform to demand the Golan Heights and the Shaba Farms from Israel, he said that, like the other speakers at the conference, "they'll say what they want to say."
Olmert added that his government had always made plain it would talk seriously with the Syrians if and when the circumstances were ripe, and that the Syrians knew this.
Asked flatly whether he would trade the Golan for peace, Olmert said that was "an interesting question" and one that he would deal with "when the time comes."
He added that three past prime ministers had shown a readiness for dramatic concession on the Golan, and named them as Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak and Binyamin ...   more »

By Bill Wilson,
WASH—Nov 26—KIN-- The Middle East Peace Summit in Annapolis, Maryland has two sides to it—a physical side where leaders from around the world gather to make the public believe they are interested in peace; and a spiritual side that most involved have no idea the pending destruction that has been created by meetings such as these. Some 49 countries have been invited to attend the summit, most of them hostile to Israel. President George W. Bush, like most every American president since Jimmy Carter (except for Ronald Reagan), is attempting to broker peace in the Middle East by having a well-publicized summit.
Ahead of the summit, oil prices have been climbing toward that magic number of $100 per barrel. The dollar has been declining to record lows against many major currencies. Political disruption has increased in Pakistan, seemingly in the process of shifting the war on terror’s front from Iraq. Iran continues its quest to become a member of the nuclear club. Russia has made public that its nuclear arsenal is armed and ready. China is aggressively pursuing cyber warfare and space warfare development, while it is selling off its reserve of American dollars. There have been ...   more »