Kadima's #2 calls for negotiations with Hamas... Hamas rejected an alternate peace plan presented by Kadima No. 2 Shaul Mofaz on Sunday, saying the group would not negotiate with Israel, Army Radio reported. "Hamas will not negotiate with Israel," said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum. "We do not believe in engaging with the occupation, or in talks that would beautify its face in the eyes...
Thomas Freidman, today relives one of his greatest hits on Israel. In an op-ed entitled "Call White House, Ask for Barack," Friedman writes: Today, the Arabs, Israel and the Palestinians are clearly not feeling enough pain to do anything hard for peace with each other -- a mood best summed up by a phrase making the rounds at the State Department: The Palestinian leadership "wants a deal...
Look at what Schnider of the Washington Post says here: "The security situation there stands in sharp contrast with that of the Gaza Strip, where the ruling Islamist Hamas movement and other militant organizations have launched thousands of rockets in recent years at southern Israeli towns, helping trigger an intense three-week war with Israel in the winter." By weird logic, Schnider defines...
Elliot Abrams: Can anything else possibly go wrong for the Obama administration's Middle East policy? In the past ten days, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has twice reversed herself publicly on her attitude toward the Israeli settlements. Palestinians have refused her direct request to rejoin peace talks with Israel, and Palestinian Authority president Abbas has said he will not run for reelection....
Mercenaries are increasingly being used to seize land from local communities so that it can be exploited by elites for oil and mineral wealth. Sandlines who were being used in Papua New Guinea are one example. The Mark Thatcher coup in Equatorial Guinea which was to be carried out by Simon Mann is another example. The use of right wing para militaries in Colombia to free up land from indigenous people...
Tom Friedman writes in The New York Times : The fact is, the only time America has been able to advance peace — post-Yom Kippur War, Camp David, post-Lebanon war, Madrid and Oslo — has been when the parties felt enough pain for different reasons that they invited our diplomacy, and we had statesmen — Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, George Shultz, James Baker and Bill Clinton —...
No more Palestine-Israel peace talks. Enough already. “These two guys are watching a cowboy and Indian movie. And in the opening scene, an Indian is hiding behind a rock about to ambush the handsome cowboy,” he explained. “ ‘I bet...
From Jerusalem Post: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is considering dissolving the PA and declaring the failure of the peace process with Israel, PA officials in Ramallah said over the weekend. Abbas was now waiting to see if the US and other parties would exert enough pressure on Israel to stop settlement construction and recognize the two-state solution before he makes any decision,...
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The General Assembly "requests the secretary general to transmit the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza conflict to the Security Council," the resolution said. The new resolution urged Israel and Palestine to launch investigations that "are independent, credible and in conformity with international standards" within three months. According to Israeli sources,...
Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to step down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a public commemoration for the assassinated Israeli premier.
A report Saturday showed that 32 Palestinian children have been killed while working in smuggling tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt in past three years. The report, conducted by the Palestinian National Society for Democracy and Law, said 32 children were killed since Israel imposed a blockade on the coastal enclave in mid-2006 and restricted entry of goods to little more than...
Thomas Friedman, feeling all tingly with a sense of his own naughtiness, suggests the US tell Israel and Palestine that it is getting out of the peace process business until they “get serious” about it. Oddly, he fails to say whether we should also stop subsidizing one side with billions of dollars of aid each year. Funny, that. In today’s 100-years-ago news a NYT feature I just discovered...
Tom Friedman today has some very harsh words for both the Israelis and Palestinians, both of whom -- he claims -- are not serious about reaching a peace agreement. As a result, these are the principles which Friedman -- rather surprisingly -- advocates the U.S. should follow: Let’s just get out of the picture. Let all these leaders stand in front of their own people and tell them the truth:...
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Seven United States senators have sponsored a bill that would abolish the “security” waiver that American presidents have used to prevent implementing a 1995 law declaring that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback, a long-time supporter of Israel, introduced the bill and said, "It is long overdue for America to recognize the sovereign right of...
This looks worth tracking down... Author: Vladimir Brnardic Illustrator: Darko Pavlovic About this book This history of the Catholic armies of the Hapsburg Empire that fought in the Thirty Years War explores the role of infantry and artillery during the last major religious war in mainland Europe. As the states of the Holy Roman Empire fractured along religious lines, all of Europe was plunged into...
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