The world's most wanted Nazi criminal, Aribert Ferdinand Heim, died in 1992 in Cairo, Egypt, according to reports from both the New York Times and Germany's ZDF television.

Today at the Davos World Economic Forum the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed out of Davos after not given an opportunity to respond to the loud-voice critique of President of Israel Shimon Peres. Then Erdogan and Schwab hold a presser in which Erdoghan said "I have respect for Mr. Peres therefore I did not raise my voice. Otherwise I would have raised my voice. He doesn't speak truth. History and political science deny him.

On Saturday Israel said it will declare a cease-fire starting Sunday, after a 22-day offensive against Hamas in Gaza.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is often described by Westerners as a moderate Islamists (which is in many ways similar to calling someone a moderate nazi), stepped up his criticism of Israel this week by calling on UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon to bar the Jewish nation-state from the UN.

Foreign Minister of Israel Tzipi Livni met in Tel Aviv with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon early Thursday afternoon. Ban arrived after talks Wednesday in Egypt and Jordan where he repeated his call for an immediate ceasefire. After his talks with Livni, Ban said the death toll in Gaza has reached an "unbearable point." He also expressed outrage at the reported IDF shelling and resultant fire at Gaza's United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) on Thursday morning.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will seek clarifications from Egyptian officials Wednesday about progress on an initiative proposed by Cairo to end the violence in the Gaza Strip.

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert boasted about his connected to outgoing U.S. President George W. Bush, saying that the reason Rice abstained during a vote on a cease-fire resolution was all due to him.

Israel has been pounding targets in Gaza for nearly two weeks, aiming to destroy the militant Islamic group Hamas' ability to launch rockets at its territory. As both sides study a ceasefire proposal, Israel has committed to stopping its attacks for a few hours each day and allow humanitarian shipments of food and fuel into the Gaza Strip.

Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known to most as "Joe the Plumber," is heading for a war zone. He is, according to the conservative website PJTV.com, going to Gaza to cover the ongoing conflict there.

The defense Minister of Israel Ehud Barak on Wednesday morning ordered the opening of border crossings into the Gaza Strip to allow for the transfer of humanitarian aid.

The government of Jordan appear to have heard the millions of voices asking and pleading to kick the Israeli Ambassador out of Jordan and to annul the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty in an amazing turn of events.

It is hard to imagine how much worse the situation could get, but the confrontation in Gaza could see a dangerous escalation in the coming days as Iran threatens to break the Israeli blockade and deliver urgently needed medical supplies and other aid to the coastal strip.