Anyone following the Mideast conflict will notice one strange fact. If you explore public opinion within Israeli and Palestinian societies, there is mutual consensus on what the final settlement will look like. Writing for Common Ground News Service, Daoud Kuttab, Palestinian journalist and the director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al [...]
Read full post...For anyone familiar with the American Jewish community, that post title above looks odd, very odd. A Jewish group lobbies an American secretary of state to pressure Israel to compromise with the Palestinians? What’s wrong with this picture you might ask.
But it appears that the Israel Policy Forum did just that in advising [...]
Ariel Sharon and Amir Peretz have finally met and agreed to new elections in late February or early March. Ynet says that Sharon supports a Feburary 28th date, but none has been set yet.
Peretz on a high wire? (credit: Rita Castelnuovo/NY Times)
Both men are performing side-by-side high-wire acts. There may be nets [...]
After reading some of Yossi Beilin’s less than enthusiastic comments about Amir Peretz, I thought my rousing recent posts about his victory in the Labor Party leadership contest might’ve been a tad too much. I thought I’d better write a more cautionary post since not only does Peretz have some political baggage himself as [...]
Read full post...As if we needed any more proof, an October 23rd AP article (U.S. makes inroads vs. Iraq insurgents) and the latest news of the deadly massacre of 50 Iraqi recruits (Inquiry Into Ambush Opens; Iraqi Forces Feared Infiltrated) prove the utter folly and hubris of current American policy in Iraq.
The first story appears [...]
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