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Egyp and Iran, new twin pillars 2

Germany calls for new EU treaty 5

September is the cruelest month 7

Most idiotic attack on men ever 9

Feds radical QE policy 10

Putting the SolomonicEra on the MapBY STEPHEN FLURRY

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S H W. Armstrong College studentsand rumpetstaff members recently joined my amily inJerusalem to volunteer on an archaeological excavation at theOphel, under the direction o Dr. Eilat Mazar. Te excavation,located at the oot o the southern wall o the emple Mount,is the site o a monumen-tal royal complex that hasbeen dated to the time oKing Solomon.

Dr. Benjamin Ma-zar, Eilats grandather,pioneered the excavations

at this location begin-ning in . For yearsthereafer, our predeces-sor Herbert W. Arm-strong supplied financialsupport and AmbassadorCollege student volun-teers to help with Benja-min Mazars excavations.

Following historybackwards, Proessor Ma-zar and his crew dug ev-ery summer or years

beore they reached a walldating to the first templeperiod. Te ruins were sowell preserved that someparts o the wall stood to meters high.

Picking up where hergrandather lef off, EilatMazar began a smallexcavation in thatconcentrated primarilyon the first temple area o

the dig. Her excavation ully revealed a large stone gatewaycomplex, by eet, constructed sometime beore theBabylonians sacked Jerusalem in the sixth century B.C. Alsoattached to the gate was a short section o the city wall oJerusalem, built by Solomon.

Announcing the newsat a press conerencein , Mazar said thegateway complex wasprobably one o gatesmentioned in the biblicalrecord. Te Associated

Press quoted BenjaminMazar, who attended thebriefing with his grand-daughter: Now we havemore or less the eelingthat this is really a gateo Jerusalem rom theperiod o the kings oJudah (April , ).

In , Eilat Mazarreopened the Ophel Ex-cavation and ArmstrongCollege quickly agreed to

send student volunteers.During that season,more ascinating detailsemerged about the firsttemple period. Inside theroyal structure, Mazardiscovered two floors,one layered on top o theother. Using pottery andother finds, she was ableto determine the upper

Dr. Eilat Mazar stands before awall that was constructed during

the reign of King Solomon.

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suspected clean-upat Irans Parchinmilitary complex would hamper itsinvestigation o possible past nuclearweapons development there, i inspec-

tors are ever granted access.Te number o enrichment centri-

uges at Fordow, a site buried deepinside a mountain to better protect itagainst any enemy strike, more thandoubled to , rom , in May,according to the s quarterly re-port. However, the new machines werenot yet operating, it said. Te reportshowed that Iran had produced nearly kilograms ( pounds) o higher-grade enriched uranium since ,

up rom kilograms in May. Te report is likely to add to West-

ern alarm about Irans nuclear ambi-tions and may urther uel speculation

that Israel might launch air strikesagainst Iranian nuclear sites.

Radical Islam Revivesan Ancient HatredTELEGRAPH | August 24

I new and shocking wave o anti-Semitism engulfing the Middle Eastand the developing world? Consider

Iran DoublesUndergroundNuclear CapacityREUTERS | August 30

I doubled the number ouranium enrichment machines it hasin an underground bunker, the UNnuclear watchdog said on Tursday,showing ehrans defiance towardsWestern pressure to stop its atomicwork and the threat o Israeli attack.

Te UN International Atomic En-ergy Agency also said in a report that

extensive activitiesa reerence to a

E Iran this week took a giant step toward over-

coming their diplomatic estrangement, brought togetherby the exigencies o a global movement and, even more so,a complex regional calculus that has a long history o beingshaped by oreign powers.

In a sign o changing times, the Egyptian President Mo-hammed Morsi used the opportunity o his participationin the Non-Aligned Movement () summit in ehran toput on ull display o the delicate yet significant nuances oa new Egypt that has unshackled itsel rom oreign domi-nation and moves according to itsown incandescent atmosphere.

At the landmark summitsopening day, the speeches by

Morsi and his Iranian hosts suchas by Supreme Leader AyatollahKhamenei and Irans PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad, reflect-ed a symbiosis that explains whythe torch was passed romMorsis hands to Ahmadinejad,in light o the common themes o decrying unjust globalstructures, support or Palestinians, a Middle East nuclearweapons-ree zone, etc.

Judging by their warm brotherly hugs at the summit andtheir bilateral talks on the summits sideline, Morsi and

Ahmadinejad clearly have a good chemistry between themand it would only make sense to see Ahmadinejad in Cairobeore his presidencys termination next June.

Although some top Cairo officials have denied that a ullrestoration o diplomatic relations with ehran is immi-nent, afer this summit they will be hard pressed to justiytheir oppositionafer all, Iran and Saudi Arabia have

their own air share o issues and yet have managed to keep

the diplomatic ship afloat, so why not Egypt?By all indications, we are now witnessing a subtle turn

to the east by Egypt that is reflected in Morsis China tripprior to his Iran visit, despite an invitation by the WhiteHouse. Rebuffing Washingtons and el Avivs pressure notto attend the summit, Morsi like UN secretary general BanKi-moon showed independent judgment .

Beyond regional issues, however, a good many interna-tional matters pertaining to UN reorm, global economic

injustice and hierarchy, andSouth-South cooperation, alsobind Egypt and Iran today, suffi-cient reason to anticipate their ull

cooperation in the internationalorganizations in the coming years.Morsi clearly shares Irans view oIsraels nuclear arsenal as a threatto itsel and the rest o the Arabworld and, henceorth, we shouldwitness a common effort with Iran

to bring international pressures on Israel to join the Non-Pro-lieration reaty and to open its nuclear sites to inspections.

Assuming that Cairo under Morsi manages to continuecharting a new oreign policy orientation that dictates co-operation with a like-minded ehran, we may legitimately

speak o a new twin pillars o stability in the MiddleEast, akin to the Iran and Saudi twin pillars prior to theIslamic Revolution.

Indeed, by pulling their resources together, as the twobiggest Middle Eastern states can achieve much in the di-rection o reshaping the political landscape to paraphrasea recent commentary by the China News Agency.

Egypt and Iran, New Twin PillarsASIA TIMES, Kaveh L. Afrasiabi | August 30

ASTHEMB GROWSMOREPOPULAR, ITWILLSTRENGTHEN

ITSTIESWITHISLAMICPOWERSTHROUGHOUTTHEREGION

ESPECIALLYIRAN. As Mubaraks health weakensand the MB grows stronger, watch for Cairo to

distance itself from America. Should the MB

ever take control, there is no doubt that a strong

alliance between Iran and Egypt will be built.

GERALD FLURRY, JANUARY 2006

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E , MohammedMorsi, landed in Beijing on uesday,and was warmly welcomed by ChinesePresident Hu Jintao. For two days, thepresident and his -person entourage

of Egyptian business leaders and politi-ciansdiscussed investment projectswith some Chinese counterparts.(On Wednesday, the Wall Street Jour-nal reported that the China Development Bank had extendeda million line o credit to the National Bank o Egypt.)

Its important to note that this was Morsis first statevisit outside the Middle East and Arica since he becamepresident. Despite the way it appears, this was nota routinestate visit. C A!

Perhaps this is over-simpliying it a little, but the su-preme goal o Chinas oreign policy, at least or now, is to

oppose and undermine U.S. global power and influence.Be it Chinas ongoing naval and military expansion, itsregional spats over territorial acquisitions, its behavior ininternational organizations likethe World rade Organization,or its support o anti-Americanstates like Venezuela andNorth Korea, Beijing exploitsevery opportunity to counterAmerica. More than any otherreason, C - I.

Tat Morsi chose to visit Chinaindicates that Egypt may be look-ing to join this Iran-China axis!

Last Friday, David Schenker and Christina Lin wrote anop-ed in the Los Angeles imesin which they warned that

i Morsi gets his way, improved bilateral ties to Beijing willembolden, i not enable, C E W.

For more than years, Egypt has relied chiefly onAmerica or financial, political and military support. Tishas given America great leverage. For more than threedecades, as long as Washington held the purse strings, itwas virtually impossible or Cairo to engage in any actionsovertly hostile to U.S. oreign policy. Tat will change iEgypt develops a significant partnership with China. IMorsi can decouple Egypt rom Washington, there willbe nothing to hold him back rom making decisions thatharm American oreign policy.

Heres something else to consider. Te act that Morsiis cultivating a riendship with China might indicate thathes about to make some pretty radical changes to Egypts

oreign policy. Tese could include severing or rewrit-ing Egypts peace treaty with Israel, orming some sort oormal political or trade agreement with Iran, or perhaps

exploiting the Suez Canal asleverage over the U.S. or Europe.Tese moves will be controver-sial and unpopular, and couldeasily provoke some heatedresponses rom the internationalcommunity.

With Chinas support, Egyptis ar likelier to withstand an

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the ollowing: More than hal the Jewsin Iraq have been driven out o thecountry; those that remain are orcedto pay a fine or leave their homes.Some are orced to marry Muslims.

In Syria, towns and villages whereJews have lived or centuries are nowalmost entirely Muslim; these com-

munities have fled to saer parts o thecountry, where they hope to escape ananti-Semitic massacre. In Egypt, thenew regime is surreptitiously encour-aging attacks on synagogues; the Jews,despised or their supposed wealth,ear that the Arab spring is aboutto release centuries o pent-up anti-Semitic hatred.

In Nigeria, Jews have been attackedand killed while studying Scripture. InBangladesh, Jewish children are being

orced into madrassas. In Pakistan,the body o an -year-old Jewish boywas discovered this week; hed beentortured to death and his lips sliced off.

You wont have heard about thisatrocious persecution. Tats becauseorgive meIve played one o the old-est tricks in the journalists book. For

Jews, read Christians. For anti-Semitic,read anti-Christian. For synagoguesread churches.

I hope Jewish readers wont takeoffence: Im not denying that actualanti-Semitism is spreading like a virusthroughout Arab societies. Its justthat, i these attacks against Chris-tians were being directed against Jews,the precedent o the Holocaust wouldshock the world into action.

Tis new persecution is the result

o the simultaneous revival o militantIslam in many countries. We can saythat with confidence. What we cantsay, however, is that there is a co-ordinated Islamic plot to exterminateChristianity as a stepping stone to auniversal caliphate.

We have to conront the awkward

act that, or decades, some o theworlds most despicable dictators haveprotected indigenous Christians romIslamic mobs. When the West with-draws its support rom these rulers,Christian minorities are exposed asnever beore.

Te removal o Saddam has eviscer-ated Iraqi Christian churches . Teall o Mubarak means that its openseason on Copts. A key statistic: years ago, the Levant was percent

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi meets withChinese Premier Wen Jiabao on August 29 in Beijing.
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S A has gone on the offensive against Iran toprotect its interests. Teir involvement in Syria is thefirst battle in what is going to be a long bloody conflict thatwill know no rontiers or limits.

Ongoing disorders in the island kingdom o Bahrain

since February o have set off alarm bells in Riyadh.Te Saudis are convinced that Iran is directing the protestsand ear that the problems will spill over the kilometer-long causeway into oil-rich Al-Qati, where the bulk o thetwo million Shia in the kingdom are concentrated. Pro-tecting the oil is the first concern o the government. Oil isthe sole source o the national wealth .

[Saudi King Abdullah] takes seriously the warning byKing Abdullah o Jordan back in o the danger o aShia Crescent that would extend rom the coast o Lebanonto Aghanistan. Hezbollah in Lebanon, Assad in Syria, andthe Shia controlled government o Iraq orm the links inthe chain.

When the Arab Spring reached Syria, the leaders inRiyadh were given the weapon to break the chain. Appealsrom tribal leaders under attack in Syria to kinsmen in theGul States or assistance could not be ignored.

It is no wonder that Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saudal-Faisal said in February that arming the Syrian rebelswas an excellent idea. He was supported by Qatari PrimeMinister Hamad bin Jassim al-Tani who said, We shoulddo whatever necessary to help [the Syrian opposition],including giving them weapons to deend themselves. Teintervention has the nature o a amily and tribal issue that

the prominent Saudi cleric Aidh al-Qarni has turned into aSunni-Shia War by promoting Assads death.

Te Saudis and their Qatar and United Arab Emirateallies have pledged million to pay wages to the fight-ers. Many o the officers o the Free Syrian Army are rom

tribes connected to the Gul. Worried by the possibility o Iranian sponsored insur-

rections among Shia in the Gul States, the Saudis areasserting their power in the region while they have theadvantage. For years, they have been engaged in aproxy war with the Islamic Republic o Iran. Syria is to bethe next battlefield, but here, there is a critical differencerom what were minor skirmishes in Lebanon, Yemen,and elsewhere. Te Saudis with the aid o Qatar, and the are striking at the core interests o ehran; and theyhave through their tribal networks the advantage over anisolated Islamic Republic.

With the hand o Iran reaching into restless commu-

nities that number as many as million people in whatis the heart o the Middle East, the Saudis see a desperateneed to crush the oe beore it has the means to pull downthe privileged position o the Saud Family and the amilieso the other Gul State rulers.

Te war begins in Syria where we can expect that a suc-cessor government to Assad will be declared soon in theSaudi-controlled tribal areas even beore Assad is deeated.

It promises to be a bloody protracted war that willrecognize no rontier and will know no limits by all o theparticipants.

Saudi Arabia Goes on the Offensive Against IranWORLD PRESS REVIEW | August 29

Christian; now the figure is percent.Te British government, despite

prodding by the heroic Lord Alton, isdoing a good imitation o not giving astuff about any o this. Keep an eyeon Syria afer Assad goes. First theyllcome or the Alawites, then the Chris-tians. Teres a real chance that alltraces o Christianity will disappear.

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n World leaders gather in TehranTis week in ehran, representatives

rom nearly nations gathered orthe th Non-Aligned Movement sum-mit. Its a summit that would ordinar-ily fly under the radar, but its locationgarnered ar more attention on theinternational scene than the movementitsel. Over heads o state were inIran or the conerence, including presidents, seven prime ministers, andtwo kings. Te summits high turnout

marks a victory or Iran, a nation thatis actually prospering on the interna-tional scene despite Western efforts toisolate the Islamic state. Iranian De-ense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said theconerence demonstrates the thrivingpower o Iran. Surely, holding thesummit in Iran can give more powerto the Islamic Republic ruling systemand create abundant opportunitiesin the international arena, he said.Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar

Salehi opened the conerence with anappeal or solidarity against Westernsanctions. In the same speech, accord-ing to Fars news agency, he lambastedIsrael, saying the tragedy o Palestinewas the root cause o conflicts in theregion. Within this atmosphere oanti-Semitism, the United Nations wasright there participating. In yet another

victory or Iran, UN Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon attended the summit,despite strong protests rom Israel.

n Iran shuns HamasHamas Prime Minister Ismail Hani-yeh had said he would attend thisweeks Non-Aligned Movementconerence () in ehran, but hebacked out at the last minute. Accord-ing to a report by HaaretzAugust ,Haniyehs original plans to attend theconerence elicited an angry reactionrom Palestinian Authority PresidentMahmoud Abbas. Tat Abbas wouldthreaten to boycott the conerence is

not a huge surprise, given the ongoingeud between Hamas and Fatah. Butwhat is especially noteworthy aboutthis dust-up is how ehran respondedto Haniyehs pullout. According toMehr, Irans semi-official news agency,Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesmanRamin Mehmanparast said, [O]nlyMahmoud Abbas, the president o thePalestinian Authority, has been invit-ed to ehran or participation in thissummit, and an official invitation has

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not been sent to any other individual(emphasis added). Tat is Irans way ogiving its terrorist proxy in Gaza thecold shoulder. Tis is significant be-cause o a prophecy in Psalm , whichspecifically identifies two MiddleEastern power blocs in this end time.According to the prophecy, Hamas

and Syria will be on the opposite sideo the Iranian power bloc. It appearswe are in the early stages o a divorcebetween Iran and Hamas.

n How did Syria acquiremassive stockpiles of WMD?Reuters recently posted an article say-ing that it may take tens o thousandso troops to secure Syrias stockpiles ochemical weapons. It quoted one U.S.official who said there were possiblydozens o chemical and biological

weapons sites scattered around Syria.Everyone knows, it seems, that Syriahas a deadly arsenal o chemical weap-ons, but almost no one is curious abouthowSyria managed to obtain theseweapons. Back in , you mightrecall that afer American troops ailed

to locate Saddams weapons o massdestruction in Iraq, the mainstreammedia had a field day. Yet not long aferthat, we read about a massive chemicalweapons attack was narrowly avertedin, o all places, Jordan. At that sametime, therumpet.com took it a stepurther. Editor in chie Gerald Flurry

asked in an article in , Have someo Saddam Husseins weapons o massdestruction been ound in Jordan?oday, with Syria enguled in civil warand Bashar al-Assads regime teeteringin the balance, there is an understand-able degree o panic about what mighthappen to Syrias chemical weapons inthe event o a regime change. Hardlyanyone, though, has bothered to askabout how Syria managed to acquiresuch a massive stockpile o chemicalweapons in the first place.

n Egyptians protestMorsis power grabOpponents and supporters oEgyptian President MohammedMorsi clashed in Cairo on August, throwing projectiles and setting

off fireworks. Hundreds o protesterswalked the streets in several Egyptiancities to denounce the countrys Is-lamist president and his organization,the Muslim Brotherhood. Some o the or so protesters in Cairos ahrirSquare said the Brotherhood was mo-nopolizing power. Tey also accused

Morsi o exceeding his authority byassuming executive and legislativepowers in the absence o parliament.Te protesters denounced Morsi ororcing several o the militarys topcommanders to retire two weeks ago,a move that effectively neutralizedwhat had been a moderating influenceon the government. Te rallies weretiny in comparison to the protests thattoppled ormer Egyptian PresidentHosni Mubarak. Yet they marked thefirst attempt by Morsis opponents to

make a major statement against him.Te new, radically Islamist Egypt maynot tolerate dissent rom within muchlonger. Over the last ew weeks, Morsihas made bold moves to consolidatehis power and to make Egypts newgovernment completely Islamist.

G the European Union to hold a conven-tion to create a new treaty to tie Europe closer togetherby the end o the year, Spiegel Online reported August .German Chancellor Angela Merkels EU policy adviserNikolaus Meyer-Landrut has discussed the idea withhigh-level EU officials, Spiegelwrote.

Merkel would like the treaty to change the EU into apolitical union, with the power to intervene in the taxation

and spending policies o individual nations. For example,Germany wants the European Court o Justice to be able topunish nations who borrow too much money.

Te German desire or a new treaty is not new, but otherEU nations have consistently rejected it. Even the majorityo the so-cal led Berlin Group, the oreign ministerswho meet to plan closer integration, dont want it.

But Germany does, so it will probably happen.Chancellor Merkels unwavering view is that i other

nations are going to share Germany credit, then they mustshare responsibility. Almost all proposed solutions to theeurozone crisis involve Germany becoming responsible or

paying back the debts o other nations, i those nations getinto financial difficulty. Tat is a big commitment. Merkelwont accept that commitment without a set o rules thatgives Germany the power to intervene in a nations taxationand spending to prevent it abusing the German credit card.

O course this isnt popular outside Germany. But itis the price Germany demands or fixing the euro crisis.Some nations may decide theyd rather quit the euro than

submit. Spiegelsays that Poland believes its not possible toget all EU nations to agree to Germanys new treaty. Itsright. Britain, or example, reused to go along with the lat-est push toward integration last December. Teres no wayit will agree to this.

Te rumpethas long orecast that the EU would lead tothe creation o a smaller group o tightly knit countriesa-nation superstate. A small group o states with a com-mon or closely coordinated taxation and spending policyis also the only solution to the eurozone crisis. Europe isbeing pushed along the path that the rumpetorecastyears ago.

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Germanys MinimalEffort for Munich 11ISRAEL HAYOM | August 29

G orces did notmake even a minimal effort tosave the lives o the Israeli athletes andcoaches murdered at the Munichefforts, according to the then head oIsraels intelligence agency, the Mossad.

According to official documents

released Wednesday ahead o theth anniversary o the massacre,Mossad chie Zvi Zamir returnedto Israel rom Munich on the eve-ning o September and reported tothen-Prime Minister Golda Meir andMinisters Yigal Allon, Abba Eban andYisrael Galili. Zamir described to thehorrified officials how Germany hadrejected his attempts to assist in theoperation, as well as the total chaos,lack o proessionalism and apathy

displayed by the German orces. Teydidnt make even a minimal effort tosave lives, didnt take even a minimalrisk to save people, neither theirsnor ours, he said. He said that in hisopinion, the Germans only wanted toend the operation, at any cost, in orderto get on with the Olympics. Zamirconcluded that the operation was car-ried out poorly and ineptly, which ledto the tragic outcome.

Zamir acknowledges in his report

that the decision to draw the terror-ists out o the Olympic village wasa correct one, but he also included anumber o criticisms. He points tobasic operational ailures, such as theact that the German authorities didnot know how many terrorists wereinvolved, even though they could havecounted them as they lef the Olympic

village. He also remarks that therewere no snipers stationed at the air-field to pick off the terrorists, nor did

he see any rifles or even binocularswhich would have been better suitedor precise shooting at the rangesinvolved in the operation.

Zamir testified to the Knesset For-eign Affairs and Deense Committeea ew weeks later and said that thoughthe Germans had a plan and ullyintended to rescue the hostages, theywere unable to improvise and devisesolutions as the events unolded. Tispartially accounted or the ailure o

the operation.

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n Spiegel: Neo-Nazis winning inparts of GermanyAuthorities in Germany have ailed tosquelch neo-Nazism in eastern partso the nation and the public remainsindifferent, Spiegel Online reportedAugust . In eastern Germany, theneo-Nazis are winning, they wrote.

G C Angela Merkel traveled to Chinaon August with the largest group o German busi-ness representatives to ever visit the nation. Nine ministerstraveled with her, as the German and Chinese cabinets heldone o their regular joint cabinet meetings.

During the visit, Merkels second this year, she metwith her counterpart, Chinese President Hu Jintao, andhis likely successor, Vice President Xi Jinping. Te headso German conglomerates such as Siemens, Volkswagen,TyssenKrupp, bas and others were amoung the corpo-rate executives on the trip.

German officials praised the special relationshipbetween China and Germany ahead o the visit. Te WallStreet Journalnotes that such a term is usually reserved orclose allies such as the U.S. or France. China also appearsto consider the relationship specialthey hold regularcabinet meetings with no other nation.

Merkel is trying to boost trade between Europe and

China as global economic growth has slowed. China isGermanys ast growing export marketwith Germanexports to China having doubled between and .Over the same period German exports to the rest o the EUgrew by only percent.

China is battling with the or the position as themost important market or Germany outside the EU,President o the Association o German Chambers o Com-merce and Industry Hans Heinrich Drifmann said. One othe several contracts signed during the visit was or Chinas Leasing to by Airbus aircraf or . billion.

Merkel seems to have succeeded in another key goal othe trip: allaying Beijings anxiety about Europes weightygovernment debts. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said thattalking with Merkel lef him more confident that thecrisis would be solved, though he also said that indebted

countries must have the determination or reorm.China is putting its money where its mouth is. Tey

recently promised to loan billion extra to the Interna-tional Monetary Fund (). Spiegel Onlinedescribes theulterior motive behind Chinas support: China also has aninterest in the survival o the euro. In the long term, Beijingwants to establish its own currency, the renminbi, as theglobal reserve currency, next to the U.S. dollar. It needsthe euro to break the dominant position o the Americancurrency in the long run. Tus, or as long as the Germanssupport the euro, the Chinese will also do so.

Tis gets to the roots o the special relationship betweenChina and Germany. Both have strong economic incentives

or cooperation. But both also have a political interest in cre-ating a strong axis that opposes the United States. At its heart,this relationship is about Americas two biggest potentialrivals, building each other up in order to challenge the U.S.

China and Germany are two nations united by a com-mon rival.

Te Bible prophesied o this alliance hundreds o yearsago. It is also orecast that this rivalry would be a greatthreat to America. Te Bible talks specifically about a

mart o nationsor an economic alliance between Eu-rope and some Asian powers.

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Media pundits say authorities have

been unsuccessul in the greaterbattle against the nations right-wingextremism, which has intensifiedparticularly in depopulated ruralregions o the east where neo-Nazisorganize local youth activities andsports events, and even sit on citycouncils. Germanys center-lef Sd-deutsche Zeitungexplained the severityo the problem, saying, In easternGermany non-white minorities makeup just percent o the population.

Tey write that: Among immigrants,

eastern Germany is seen as a no-goarea. Te state and the police haventmanaged to change the climate in twodecades. Germanys domestic intel-ligence agency released a report in Julysaying that while the overall member-ship o neo-Nazi groups in Germanydropped rom , in to ,last year, the number o ar-rightextremists ready to use violencein-creased rom , to ,. But, armore significant, are the millions o

Germans who remain silent over the

neo-Nazi violence. German societysreticence over right-wing extremismequates to its tacit approval. Ger-manys general lack o will to eradicateneo-Nazi groups is the massive coreo the problem. By remaining silent,they are relinquishing their own hard-ought reedom. o understand thesignificance o the deaening silenceo most Germans regarding ar-right

violence, read Germany and the HolyRoman Empire.

W summer holiday, Europeans! Get readyor days that will determine the ate o your con-tinent. [In] the coming month, anxiety-ridden policy-makers struggling to maintain the euro will ace a serieso threats that are anything but symbolic. September will

witness a political big bang that ushers in another existen-tial crisis, and ailure on any single issue could wreck theEuropean currency. Over the next month, our potentialcrisis points constitute a political cliff or Europe that willbe key to determining i the eurozone has a uture.

First, on September , Germanys constitutional courtis set to rule on the constitutionality o participating in theEuropean Stability Mechanism (), an institution thatwas envisioned as the permanent acility or pooled sover-eign lending to debt-strapped European countries. Te ,which passed the Bundestag comortably ( votes to )in June, would have autonomous control over German pub-lic undsand therein lies the legal problem. Te German

constitutional court sees itsel as the guardian o a certainidea o Germanysmall, stability-minded, and inwardlyorientedand court watchers expect a yes, but rulingthat stipulates that the red lines o German democracy havebeen reached. Any urther moves to integrate crisis man-agement at the eurozone leveland there will inevitably bemorewill necessitate a reerendum, the first in Germanyspost-war history. Already the debate around a possible con-stitution-altering plebiscite is driving the political narrative.

Te second crisis point is the upcoming assessment oGreeces progress in ulfilling the terms o its loan condi-tions by the troika o the , the European Commission,

and the International Monetary Fund (), expected in lateSeptember or early October. Greek Prime Minister AntonisSamaras is already trundling between Berlin and Paris inan attempt to prepare eurozone leaders or a disappointingreport. Athens hope or extending its repayment schedulehas sparked heated debate in Germany, where exasperatedrhetoric on the political right about the inability o Greece tomeet its commitments has become more vocierous.

For ultra-cautious German Chancellor Angela Merkel,the unintended, potentially devastating second and third

order consequences o the Grexit are anathema. AGrexit would eliminate all credibility that the eurozonehas lef as an insoluble currency union. Tis could lead tomassive speculation and capital flight on an unprecedentedscale rom countries seen as next in line to go. Te e-

ects would tear through the German economy. Which brings us to the third element in the eurozone

crisis sagathe Dutch elections, also scheduled or Sep-tember . Te Netherlands is one o the small economicpowerhouses that has aligned itsel with Germanytough-minded but traditionally somewhat pro-European. [Both Holland and Finland] are seen as losing their resolveto contribute to the financial l ielines or more bailoutsbeyond current commitments and the Dutch elections areexpected to serve as a release valve or voters rustrationwith regarding the eurozone crisis management.

Te Netherlands atomized politics reflects a widerungovernability sweeping Europe. Here, as in Finland,

the Euroskeptic ringe is squeezing out the pro-Europeancenter. Te Dutch elections could add a new actor to the al-ready unwieldy pantheon o potential spoiler governments.

Amidst all this chaos, the ourth and final crisis may besparked by attempts to draw EU countries closer together.On September , the European Commission is expected topresent a blueprint a or banking uniona logical exten-sion o EUs single market. Such a union should create de-positor guarantees across the eurozone, guarantee muscularpre-emptive supervision across borders, and establish re-capitalization and wind-down plans or troubled banks thatensure consistency in case o a systemically important bank

ailure. It would also sever the link between banking andsovereign debt woes. In short, such a scheme is intended toree Europeans rom a vicious cycle in which a collapse o amajor national bank in a country such as Spain will inevita-bility lead to the total collapse o Spains public finances.

Tese are just the latest sagas in the ongoing eurozonecrisis. In the absence o strong institutions, clearly defineddecision-making processes, and a pan-European politicalculture, the EU has created a snowballing political andeconomic crisis.

September Is the Cruelest MonthFOREIGN POLICY, TYSONBARKER | August 30

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n Germany cements specialrelationship with ChinaGerman Chancellor Angela Merkeltraveled to China with the largest evergroup o German business representa-tives to ever visit the nation, August .Nine ministers traveled with her, asthe German and Chinese cabinets

held one o their regular joint cabinetmeetings. German officials praised the

special relationship between Chinaand Germany ahead o the visit. Te

Wall Street Journal notes that such aterm is usually reserved or close al-lies such as the U.S. or France. Chinaalso appears to consider the relation-ship specialthey hold regular cabinetmeetings with no other nation. Chinais Germanys ast growing export mar-ketwith German exports to China

doubling between and . Overthe same period German exports tothe rest o the EU grew by only percent. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao

said that talking with Merkel lefhim more confident that the crisiswould be solved, though he also saidthat indebted countries must havethe determination or reorm. BothGermany and China strong economicincentives or cooperation. But bothalso have a political interest in creating

a strong axis that opposes the UnitedStates. At its heart, this relationship isabout Americas two biggest potentialrivals, building each other up.

ASIA

C entering the danger zonewhere a financial crisis may become

more likely, warned Bank o Japan Dep-uty Governor Kiyohiko Nishimuralast week. Chinas massive real-estateboom has now eclipsed that o Japanduring the s. Construction spending in China hit awhopping percent o gross domestic product last year.In Japan it peaked out at percent. Everyone knows whathappened in Japan next. Stocks and real estate ell by percent and stil l havent recovered.

Sometimes these booms can go on or a long time, noted

Nishimura. Debt and housing bubbles can remain benignas long as there is a growing demographic o workers. Butthey turn malignant when the numbers o working-agepeople shrink in comparisonto the number o retirees.

According to Nishimura,China is acing the unprece-dented challenge o an agingworkorce (due to its one-child policy), a real-estatebubble and a debt bubblewhich makes a financialcrisis seem more likely.

China is also still danger-ously dependent on exportsor the lions share o itswealth. Over hal o its

comes rom selling products abroad. And herein is the pinthat may bust Chinas bubble.

Te money that underpins Chinas massive debt bubblethe bubble ueling Chinas construction and property boomthat provides jobs to untold tens o millionsis almostsolely ueled by exports. Exports provide the money that isleveraged up by the banks and injected into the economy tomeet the various government growth mandates.

And what is happening to exports?Te New York imessays that unsold goods are piling up

all across China. Factories are stuffed to the gills with unsoldinventory. Exports are crawling to a halt. Automobile acto-ries are running at percent capacity and still stuck witha glut. But this should not come as a surprise. Te global

economy is contracting. In the near term, Chinas economyis destined to slowby virtue o the act that there is simplyno one to buy more o its stuff. Te question is whether

China will suffer a sof land-ing, or crash and burn.

I China crashes, theimplications are hard tooverstate. Tere couldquickly be tens o millionso unemployed Chinese withew options but to join themilitary. We like to thinkthat these kinds o problems

ended with World War ,but have they?

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Empty apartmentdevelopments stand in Ordos,

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n China ratchets up defensivepotentialChina successully tested Dongeng-missiles, capable o striking targetsanywhere in the United States, Pravda

reported on Wednesday. Among theinescapable evidences o Chinasrising military power are dieselsubmarines, warships, trans-port ships and missile-equippedpatrol boats. It also has bombers,

hundreds o reconnaissance aircraf, transport aircraf, and over ,fighters. Beijing is also has two third-generation nuclear-powered subma-rines, and five more under construc-tion. A Pentagon report released in
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May said Chinas military budget or is between and bil-lion dollars. Germanys Welt Onlinereported that, since , Chinasmilitary budget has increased -old. Te budget increases mean that

the Chinese army is now able to carryout military operations abroad, andexperts believe that by , Chinasmilitary spending will grow to billion per year. Te Pravdareportsaid that, even though some Chinese

authorities deny the reports, it is nowinescapably obvious to Asian na-tions that China is becoming not justan economic juggernaut, but also apotent military orce whose interestsmust be considered.

ANGLO-AMERICA

B June ,American Psy-chologistprinted Deconstructiono the Essential Father, asserting thatkids dont need a dad. Te implicationwas that children stand just as gooda chance o growing up healthy and

well-adjusted i raised by one parent,or unmarried parents, or homosexu-als, as i raised by their own biological dad and mom in ahappy marriage.

Now, the New York imeshas taken the argument a stepurther. It says men are totally unnecessary.

Men, Who Needs Tem? asks Greg Hampikian, a pro-essor o biology at Boise State University.

Men are becoming less relevant to both reproductionand parenting, he asserts. From a biological perspective,

women are both necessary and sufficient or reproduction,and men are neither.

Did you know that men are not even necessary orreproduction?One would think that even artificial insemi-nation requires a man at some stage, but the proessor saysno: A recent genetic experiment apparently proved that

the emale component o sexual reproduction, the egg cell,cannot be manuactured, but the male can.

Te imesarticle states that even those who reproduceby more archaic methods need to understand just howinsignificant the male contribution really is. When youdeveloped in your mothers womb, you received literallyeverything rom Mom. Te only thing contributed by theman who impregnated her was DNA, which is infinitesi-mally small less than one millionth o your mass.

Proessor Hampikian reduces the role o men not merelyto our raw biological contribution to human reproduction,

but even less:the weighto that contributionin trillionthso grams. [Y]our athers . picograms o DNAcomes outto less than one pound o male contribution since the be-ginning o Homo sapiens billion babies ago.

Males combined contribution to humankind through-out history hasnt even amounted one whole pound!Who

needs them?Okay, well, maybe dads work to provide or their kids,

read to them, help with homework, play catch, go camping,teach responsibility, give them a sense o values, protectthem rom dangers in society, help them toughen up andace adulthoodnot to mention helping moms shoulder theburdens o parenthood through the years. But what does allthat amount to, when you consider that, biologically speak-ing, they each contributed a measly three picograms o DNA?

Only an intellectual could find cosmic wisdom in suchniggling numbers.

I all the men on Earth died tonight, the species could

continue on rozen sperm. I the women disappear, itsextinction, Proessor Hampikian pontificates. Ultimatelythe question is, does mankind really need men? Withhuman cloning technology just around the corner andenough rozen sperm in the world to already populatemany generations, perhaps we should perorm a cost-bene-fit analysis.

Intellectuals, having rejected revealed knowledge, arelef adrif in their own inexhaustible reasoning. Te harderthey think, the more they work themselves into ridiculousintellectual knots, trampling common sense, ignoringplain and beautiul realities. Even to the point o trying toerase hal o humanity and pretending the other hal could

carry on just fine. Unbelievable.Follow Joel Hilliker: Twitter

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W: have beenbanned rom threatening tosmack their daughter who has been

diagnosed with the latest anti-authori-tarian behavior disorder.

Te parents, who have been fight-ing or custody o the -year-old,have been ordered by the FederalMagistrates Court not to use or eventhreaten to use a wooden spoon orslipper or any other instrument to

punish the girl.She has been diagnosed with

and Oppositional DefiantDisorder, which is characterized bypersistent anti-authoritarian behav-ior. Te bans ollow allegations in arecently published judgment that themother smacked her daughter with
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P or the U.S. Presidency, and theirsurrogates, are ond o saying that this election is themost important o our lietime. Tey invoke this clich soreflexively and so ofen that it no longer has any meaning.

Each side wants to tinker with regulations, spending,and taxes to influence the economy; and pay rewards totheir constituents.

oday, only hal o U.S. households are paying taxes, andthe other hal is receiving entitlements. Te U.S. economyis at the tipping point o collapse, similar to bankruptedstates such as Greece and Spain.

Te Federal Reserve has stepped into the breach, tryingto bridge the divide between a deeply polarized U.S. gov-ernment thats paralyzed on fiscal policy and a ragile U.S.economy, thats teetering on the brink o a double-diprecession. In doing so, the Fed has essentially become theourth branch o the U.S. government, and its interering

with the natural workings o the financial markets. []he Fed has adopted the most intrusive and

interventionist stance in the U.S. capital markets in itshistory.

Nowadays, the Fed has been stacked with hard core,addicted money printers, whose first knee jerk reaction to

any sign o a rough patch in the economy, or a - percentpullback in the stock market, is to issue threats that an-other round o nuclear QE could soon be on its way. Whilethe Republicans want to strip the Fed o its dual mandate,and simply have it ocus on fighting inflation, the BernankeFed and the Obama White House have quietly adopted athird mandateto artificially inflate the value o the stockmarket, through the power o the printing press, and therigging o long-term bond yields.

Te launching QE- could backfire i it ignites urtherbig price increases in the grains and energy sectors. Ninetypercent o Americans own very little or no shares o stocksat all, and wouldnt benefit rom QE-, but would get stuck

paying or the negative side-effectssharply higher costsor the basic staples o lieenergy and ood prices.

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a wooden spoon afer the girl wentout without telling her where she wasgoing.

Under the orders, both parents arerestrained rom physically punish-ing the girl by any physical means

including but not limited to smacking,slapping, pushing, grabbing, holding,using a slipper, or spoon or any otherinstrument.

Magistrate Coakes said the ordersalso included the threatened use o

any such instrument. (Each) par-ent is urther restrained rom causingor permitting any other person toadminister such orm o punishmentor threatening to use such orm opunishment, he said.

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OTHER NEWS AND NOTES

T fish are dying in the Midwest as the hot,dry summer dries up rivers and causes water tempera-tures to climb in some spots to nearly degrees.

About , shovelnose sturgeon were killed in Iowalast week as water temperatures reached degrees. Ne-braska fishery officials said theyve seen thousands o deadsturgeon, catfish, carp, and other species in the LowerPlatte River, including the endangered pallid sturgeon. Andbiologists in Illinois said the hot weather has killed tens

o thousands o large- and smallmouth bass and channelcatfish and is threatening the population o the greaterredhorse fish, a state-endangered species.

So many fish died in one Illinois lake that the carcassesclogged an intake screen near a power plant, lowering waterlevels to the point that the station had to shut down one oits generators. Its something Ive never seen in my career,and Ive been here or more than years, said Mark Flam-mang, a fisheries biologist with the Iowa Department oNatural Resources. I think what were mainly dealing withhere are the extremely low flows and this unparal leled heat.

Te fish are victims o one o the driest and warmest

summers in history. More than , heat records werebroken over the last month. Iowa officials said thesturgeon ound dead in the Des Moines River were worthnearly million, a high value based in part on theirhighly sought eggs, which are used or caviar. Te fish are

valued at more than a pound.Gavin Gibbons, a spokesman or the National Fisheries

Institute, said Tose fish have been in these rivers orthousands o thousands o years, and theyre accustomed to

all sorts o weather conditions . But sometimes, you haveconditions occur that are outside their realm o tolerance.

In Illinois, heat and lack o rain has dried up a large swatho Aux Sable Creek, the states largest habitat or the endan-gered greater redhorse, a large bottom-eeding fish, saidDan Stephenson, a biologist with the Illinois Department oNatural Resources. Were talking hundreds o thousands(killed), maybe millions by now, Stephenson said. I youreonly talking about game fish, its probably in the thousands.But or all fish, its probably in the millions i you look state-wide. Tis year has been really, really bad dispropor-tionately bad, compared to our other years, he said.

A Gallup poll released today indicates that Ameri-cans rate public schools the worst place to educatechildren.

In the national survey conducted August -, privateindependent schools, parochial and church-related schools,charter schools and home-schooling all rated higher thanpublic schools.

Gallup interviewers asked respondents: Im going toread a list o ways in which children are educated in theU.S. today. As I read each one, please indicatebased onwhat you know or have read and heardhow good an edu-cation each provides childrenexcellent, good, only air, orpoor. How about: public schools, parochial or church-relat-ed schools, independent private schools, charter schools, orhome-schooling?

Only percent said they believe public schools give chil-dren an excellent education.

Another percent said they believe public schools givechildren a good education. But this combined percent

who said public schools give children an excellent or goodeducation was the lowest among the different types o

schools Gallup included in its survey.Americans ranked independent private schools highest,

with percent saying they provide an excellent educationand percent saying they provide a good educationora combined percent who say they provide an excellentor good education. Parochial and church-related schoolsranked second, with percent saying they provide anexcellent education and percent saying they provide agood educationor a combined percent who say theyprovide an excellent or good education.

Nineteen percent o Americans said they believe publicschools give students a poor education. Only percentsaid that about independent private schools, and only

percent said that about parochial and church-relatedschools and charter schools. Fourteen percent said theythought home-schooling provided students with a pooreducation.

Thousands of Fish DieASSOCIATED PRESS | August 27

Gallup: Americans Rate Public Schoolsthe Worst Place to Educate Children

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SOLOMONIC from page 1

COVER COURTESY OF DR EILAT MAZAR

STEPHEN FLURRY

God made an eternal promise to King David, but it also includes

every person who has ever lived! This eternal promise is the

greatest single mystery about the Bible.

This weekon television

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surace was a renovated floor that hadbeen installed during the eighth century.Te bottom floor and the walls o thestructure had been constructed duringthe tenth century B.C.

Solomonic time, Dr. Mazar wasquoted as saying, is very much on the

map now.Standing next to Solomons wall, you cant help but

think about the massive size o the ancient Israelite king-dom that constructed these edifices. Biblical minimalistslike to relegate David and Solomon to puny chiefains o anobscure tribe, but these are obviously not the buildings owandering nomads.

Tis wall and other archeo-logical finds rom the first templeperiod provide tangible evidenceo an impressive and sophisti-cated kingdom, just as the Bibledescribes.

Early on in Davids reign asking, somewhere around the lateth century b.c., David capturedthe city o Jerusalem and estab-lished it as the nations capital( Samuel :-). Afer this, Davidwent on, and grew great, andthe Lord God o hosts was withhim (verse ).

When David died, the throneo Israel was passed to his sonSolomon. Under Solomon, the

kingdom o Israel emerged as the most dominant kingdomin the region. We are given a glimpse o Israel under KingSolomon in Kings . Notice verse : Judah and Israelwere many, like the sand which is by the sea in multitude,eating and drinking, and making merry.

Te Bible says Solomons reach extended all the way tothe Euphrates in the northeast, to the Mediterranean Sea inthe west and to the border o Egypt in the south (verse ).Israel in the th century was a ar-reaching, abulouslywealthy kingdom.

Te Bible also says that Solomon was world-amous,known throughout the inhabited worldnot or his powerand wealth alone, but or his God-given wisdom and un-

derstanding (verse ).Here again, this was not some petty king or a simpleton

ruling over an obscure tribe. He was a powerul, wealthy,world-amous king ruling over a large, affluent and stablekingdom. And the stones Dr. Mazar is uncovering at theOphel and City o David excavations are beginning to con-firm what the Bible recorded thousands o years ago.

Like David, Solomon expanded, ortified and beautifiedJerusalem. He spent years constructing his own mag-nificent palace in Jerusalem. In addition to his palace, hebuilt the outstanding house o the orest o Lebanon, aacility laden with gold, silver and other precious materials.

In addition to these two gigantic structures, we read in Kings : that Solomon ortified the city by strengtheningthe Millo, and building a wall around Jerusalem.

Te city wall that has been uncovered testifies to a rul-ing presence,Dr. Mazar told therumpet.com last year. Shewent on to explain that we now have SCIENTIFICEVIDENCEoa ortification line that is described in the Bible.

People believe, in their ways, that which is written in

the Bible, Mazar said afer the first phase o the Ophel Ex-cavation was completed. But they have no idea that some-times, lots o it, can really be seen. And can be touched.

Te second phase o the Ophel Excavation started thisweek and continues rom where the last season lef off. Itwill encompass an area that is approximately twice as large

as the first phase.Given this expansion, Dr.

Mazar is very happy to havemuch better acilities on sitethistime aroundincluding spaciousoffices inside a Byzantine mon-astery and a wet sifing station

adjacent to the excavation.Tis season, Dr. Mazar has

also granted our television crewunprecedented access to herexcavation as it unolds. Everyweek, Armstrong College stu-dents, alumni and aculty will beproducing a video update aboutthe excavation and posting iton the new website The Key toDavids City.

All o these upgrades will

dramatically improve the turnaround time or processingand publicizing her finds. And how significant will thesefindings be?

We are in the very core o the Ophelthe most impor-tant part, Dr. Mazar said during a staff meeting on August. Te potential, she said, is fantasticand we shouldexpect to find ROYALconstruction.

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