By Gary P Jackson
From UPI:
WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- U.S. citizens are advised against traveling to the Darfur region of Sudan and to avoid the border between the northern and southern regions, Washington said.
The U.S. State Department warned that clashes between forces loyal to the government in Khartoum and those supporting the south's Sudan People's Liberation Army have resulted in heightened security concerns.
Fighting in May and June along the north-south border prompted the U.N. Mission in Sudan to evacuate non-essential staff from the region. Frequent clashes continue in Southern Kordofan state, which is situated along the regional border.
Thousands have fled the border region of Abyei after northern forces occupied the region.
In Darfur, Westerners are at risk of kidnapping and other violent crimes, the State Department warning adds. That holds for Juba, the southern capital, as well.
"If you are affiliated with humanitarian relief or development efforts in southern Sudan or Darfur, you should take prudent measures to reduce your exposure to violent crime and should adhere closely at all times to the security policies and procedures of your organization," the warning read.
Read more here.
Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey reports from New York:
http://www.jcpa.org - Israel, in any future agreement with the Palestinians, has a critical need for defensible borders. This video outlines the threats to Israel from terrorist rockets, ballistic missiles, and conventional ground and air threats from the east.
See more - http://www.defensibleborders.org/security
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has released this short, powerful video that explains why Obama's insane insistence that Israel return to it's pre-1967 borders is a death sentence for the nation and her people.
Even as our president turns his back on our friends and coddles our enemies, the American people have, and always will stand firm with Israel.
I saw a comment today, talking about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that truly expresses the Israeli and American spirit. That love of Freedom and Liberty all men have in their very soul, and what they will do obtain it, and keep it. It bears repeating:
A country has a gun to its head, missiles pointed at her children, and its back to the sea while being surrounded by enemies for decades, yet manages to produce men of such courage and character as this. There is something to be said of hardship. For hardship breeds hard men of character. Ease breeds men who lack courage and conviction to stand for anything. If there is any good that will come out of these Obama-years, it will be a winnowing of the talentless and useless individuals of low morals that merely occupy space.
~ Amen.
