via Xinhua/Zhang Yan While the editorials from the New York Times and Washington Post focused on Bill Clinton’s global work, the world was more interested in what Hillary Clinton’s statements meant in contrast to Bush-Cheney policies. The world welcomed the change, because the bigger picture has nothing to do with Bill. That Clinton’s respect from [...]
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The Thugocracy of Hamas in Gaza
Jeffrey Goldberg has written a sobering op-ed today. Out of the latest war begun by Israel on the alter of stopping the rockets from Hamas thugs in Gaza, a righteous goal founded on an impossible premise that it can be done via military aims alone, we are getting more writing outlining how hopeless it all [...]
Condoleezza Rice Bedeviled by Bush Again
Banning Arab parties in the upcoming election? Stunning. …and incredibly stupid. The good news is that it actually makes Olmert’s move on Bush against Condoleezza Rice almost recede from view. Almost. But it sure reminds you of the serial failures Rice has suffered under a president that never seems willing to let her do her [...]
Israel Losing PR Battle Under Bush’s ‘War on Terror’ Flag
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geBpwu-jRjw&eurl The Israel Air Force on Saturday dropped leaflets into the Gaza Strip warning residents that it plans to escalate its two-week-old offensive. The army says it has dropped the fliers throughout Gaza. It says the notices are meant as a “general warning.” The notice says Israel is about to begin a “new phase in [...]
The Carter Syndrome and Joe the Plumber
When you look at the photo of the five presidents, then read former President Carter’s op-ed “An Unnecessary War” today, it becomes immediately clear why the body language has Carter standing out there on the edge, alone. The leader of rhetoric that all sins are Israel’s when it comes to the Palestinians is the leading [...]
14 Days and Counting Down…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pxdwr1vPUI&eurl It’s almost over. The administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, that is. Almost. Even as everyone focuses on Bush, around here we will not, because to say Bush’s presidency is a failure is to also bring the same indictment against Dick Cheney’s vice presidency. They have earned equal condemnation, especially when it [...]
It Was Bound To Happen
Kaboom. …and there goes Israel’s PR battle up in smoke. Two tank shells exploded outside the Gaza school, spraying shrapnel on people inside and outside the building, where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge from fighting between Israeli soldiers and Hamas militants. In addition to the dead, several dozen people were wounded, the officials said.Medical [...]
Meanwhile… in Gaza
Bush is reason number one why Obama shouldn’t and won’t weigh in, despite insistence from some that he should. In Washington, President Bush again defended Israel’s actions. “I understand Israel’s desire to protect itself,” Bush said. “The situation now taking place in Gaza was caused by Hamas.” [...] Leave it to Code Pink to give [...]
Netanyahu’s Focus is Regime Change in Gaza
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFetOsLOQVk The Israeli government wants to remove the threat of Hamas shooting rockets into Israel. Simple goal, however difficult it might be to achieve. Mr. Netanyahu on the other hand made his position clear today with Wolf Blitzer. Call it an election year dividing line, at the very least. The current Israeli government has one [...]
Israeli Ground Assault in Gaza
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSuEOBLsa9I Via Haaretz: Goal of Israel, according to Amir Oren of Haaretz (interviewed on MSNBC), is to “break the will” of Hamas to launch missiles at Israel. …At one tank base along the border, the roar of tank engines and the rumble of their movements toward the border could be heard after dark, though none [...]
Israel, Cease Fire
–updated– Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy An article by David Grossman in Haaretz asks the big question: Is Israel too imprisoned in the familiar ceremony of war? I’ve got another one: When is Israel going to act like the country she has become? Someone I know and respect [...]
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Ehud Barak: It’s ‘All Out War’
–updated– For President-elect Obama, the mantra remains “one president at a time.” Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has weighed in to urge everyone to fight against Israel. Juan Cole asks a good question. Top Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has called for decisive action by Arab and Muslim states for an end to Israeli attacks [...]
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Israel Strikes Hamas in Gaza
–updated– Hamas press conference on the event. It really could have only ended this way after the Egypt brokered peace exploded recently. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was in Egypt on Christmas Day, warning President Hosni Mubarak that Israel wasn’t going to allow Hamas’ continuous attacks inside Israel without a response. Livni told Egyptian President [...]
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In Our World
Taj and Trident Tower reopen, but not the Oberoi which will take another seven months or so. An unsmiling policeman stood behind sandbags, rifle poised. If the metal detector beeped, a polite staffer requested guests to have their bags checked. Besides the security, on Saturday, a day before the Trident reopened, it felt like the [...]
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Welcome to Our World
As if we need a report to be reminded what a colossal mess Bush-Cheney made of Iraq. An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 [...]
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