Prophecy News Watch – November 9 , 2008 - The Bridge Calvary ...

altered with Obama's election, she could see no changes in "terms of the pros and consof Israel taking some kind of action.""Iran is advancing its program all the time. Where is the exact window of opportunity? Idon't think the timing can be so fine-tuned as to give an exact date. It all boils down tothe larger question of what you want to gain through military action. And this is thesituation we've been faced with for the past few years," she said.Landau said military action would likely not stop Iran's nuclear program, or even delay itsignificantly. Much of the talk of a strike formed part of an attempt to pressure Iran, andto keep it thinking that "there was a credible threat there. And the purpose of that is toget Iran to finally negotiate seriously," she said."Even if military action was used, it would ultimately have to lead to some kind ofnegotiation to get a deal," Landau said.3. A Revived Roman Empire?Mediterranean Union agrees on Barcelona as headquarters, Arab-Israeli rolehttp://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gzBNI6Di29bPocrAVLXgwufCAVswForeign ministers from the new Mediterranean Union struck a deal Tuesday forBarcelona to host the forum's headquarters and for Israel and the Arab League to takepart side-by-side.The Union's 43 member states held two days of talks in the port of Marseille to end afour-month deadlock on the two contentious issues, which threatened to hamstring thefledgling organisation.French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed AbulGheit, whose countries currently co-chair the forum, announced the breakthrough at ajoint news conference in the southern French city."It wasn't supposed to work, and yet it did," said Kouchner, adding: "The essential pointswere accepted completely and without reservation by all 43 states" in the Union for theMediterranean.Ministers from the Mediterranean's mainly-Arab southern rim agreed to back theSpanish city of Barcelona's candidacy to host the Union in exchange for the post ofsecretary-general going to a southern member.