Abbas Accepts Invitation to Visit Iran -Palestinians
Reuters via Yahoo! News Wed, 02 Feb 2005 1:41 AM PST
New Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Iran, a senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday.

Israel Won't Hand Over Cities Unless Attacks Stop
Miami Herald Wed, 02 Feb 2005 0:21 AM PST
Israel said it would suspend its plan to transfer control of five West Bank cities to the Palestinians unless violence ends in the Gaza Strip.

Helms Pleads To Keep Clinton Out of U.N...
CHARLOTTE, N.C -- Bill Clinton in charge of the United Nations?

That's the image former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms is dangling in front of his ardent supporters in a letter aimed at raising money for his senatorial library.

In the letter, the 83-year-old Republican, who left office in 2003 after five terms, worries that the former president has aspirations to lead the U.N. after Kofi Annan retires next year.

Comments
Middle East peace talks will start in Egypt and both look willing to restart the Roadmap.  But Israel has made it clear that no land will be turned over with an end to the violence.  I think that will happen, especially since Abbas is globetrotting around the world trying to bring support to this plan.  He just left Russia and is now in Turkey.  He has also accepted an offer to visit Iran,. Counting Egypt, that makes five countries he will visit that are said to participate in a future Russian-Arab attack on Israel (Ezekiel 38).  

Jesse Helms is leading a fight to kept former President Clinton out of the U.N.  It is believed that he maybe slated to lead the U.N. after Kofi Annan retires next year. 

This doesn't surprise me.  I wrote an article a number of years back (1995-97) about Bill Clinton's desire to head the U.N.  Of course, at that time he was still a U.S. president.  In the future I would keep my eye on Mr. Clinton to see where he lands.

Pastor Malone