Iran’s Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressing the UN said things that betray his ignorance of protocol, truthfulness and history. In one breath he said “I respect the Jews” but made no effort to explain his previous cry to wipe them off the map. In a typically uninformed world view he asked why the Palestinians were not allowed to determine their own fate as it pertains to their own ancient homeland. Prior to 1948 Palestinians never used the phrase “homeland” and were not looking for one even in the remotest sense of the word.

Europe's Prince Albert is preparing to mark the first year of his succession to the Principality of Monaco, and a local destination guide http://www.yourmonaco.com suggests that the second smallest country in the world is in safe hands and can look forward to years of progressive economic and social policies that extend well beyond the borders of Monaco.

"We have yet to begin to Imagine the power and potential of the Internet"-Charlie Rose, 2005.

The moment I heard Rose say that on his PBS show, I did begin to imagine the power and potential of the Internet to unite we the people of the world to challenge the "powers and principalities of this world" via the world wide web nonviolently by using words of truth sharper than a two-edged sword. For, there are no borders on the Internet and "we have it in our power to begin the world again."-Tom Paine

On October 31, 2006 I will return to Israel and Palestine for my fourth visit since June 2005. I will be a member of Sabeel's 6th International Conference and Reality Tour through the West Bank to meet, learn from and then be an advocate for the Forgotten Faithful: Palestinian Christians.

Mordechai Vanunu grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home but abandoned the faith by his mid teens. He became interested in the existentialist writers and was an atheist for nearly two decades before he converted to Christianity. He was baptized just weeks before he was kidnapped by the Mossad, endured a closed door trial and then spent the next 18 years in jail-most of it in solitary for telling the world the truth: that Israel had gone nuclear.

The morning of March 18, 2006, day eight of my third journey to Israel and Palestine began with a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem.

A sacred hush filled the cypress canopied stone streets of The Noble Sanctuary that lead us to the Dome of The Rock, the site where Abraham offered to sacrifice his first born son Ishmael and where it is reported Mohammed ascended to heaven. We all remove our shoes and all the women cover their hair with scarves, then we silently tread the crimson carpet inside the Mosque. I am awed by the domed mosaic ceiling, geometric designed stained glass and massive crystal chandeliers above my head and silence is the only sound I hear although the mosque is filled with people.