By Vic Rosenthal
As everyone knows by now, Ariana Huffington talked to sometime presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark recently.
Archive for January, 2007
Wesley Clark’s strange remarks
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007Two peace plans, both missing a piece
Monday, January 8th, 2007By Vic Rosenthal
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz have both come up with peace plans. By now, every imaginable permutation of Israeli withdrawals and Arab promises has been presented by somebody.
NPR distorts the facts yet again
Monday, January 8th, 2007This morning I was awakened to NPR’s Linda Gradstein reporting as follows:
“…while Olmert was meeting President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in trying to push through a prisoner exchange…Israeli troops in an arrest raid killed four Palestinian civilians in the Center of Ramala, wounded about 20 others, embarrassing Olmert.” — NPR
Olmert was embarrassed, but in fact the four ‘civilians’ were armed guerrilla fighters, probably from the ‘moderate’ Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction.
Israel plans to nuke Iran? Not exactly.
Monday, January 8th, 2007By Vic Rosenthal
Yesterday I spoke about the recent war in Lebanon at a local men’s club. The first question I was asked is, “There are reports all over the news that Israel is planning to nuke Iran. Is it true?”
My Peace for Land proposal
Sunday, January 7th, 2007By Vic Rosenthal
One of the few Arab-initiated peace proposals for Israel and the Palestinians is the so-called Saudi initiative of 2002. Supposedly the idea was suggested by a journalist, Thomas Friedman. I too am a journalist, so I will make my proposal in the hope that an Arab monarch will adopt it.
