A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the folly of Israel’s cooperation with the US in arming the Palestinian Fatah faction. Now, unsurprisingly, we read about what they will do with these weapons. Here is one point of view:
Archive for January, 2007
Arming terrorists, and empowering them
Monday, January 15th, 2007What to do about Iraq?
Sunday, January 14th, 2007By Vic Rosenthal
First of all, forget whether the Bush administration was dishonest about its reasons for invading Iraq. Forget about disbanding the Iraqi army, failing to stop looting, sending inexperienced personnel to the Coalition Provisional Authority, backing off from Falujah, allowing contractors to rip us off. Forget if you admire George W. Bush or hate his guts.
Forget “shoulda, coulda, wouldaâ€.
What do we do now, today?
European parliament gets antisemitic caucus
Saturday, January 13th, 2007New York, NY, January 10, 2007 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called the formation of a new far-right grouping of European Parliament members who share avowedly racist and anti-Semitic views, “a disturbing show of unity among bigots.”
The “Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty” group, whose leader, Bruno Gollnisch of the National Front in France, is currently on trial for questioning the existence of the gas chambers in the Holocaust, was cobbled together by some of Europe’s most notorious bigots to promote a racist and xenophobic agenda and outlook.
Read the full ADL statement here.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Zionist
Saturday, January 13th, 2007Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March 25, 1968
A hotel in Sderot
Saturday, January 13th, 2007Although we are presently faced with a period of calm, it is the same period during which extreme forces are working in the Middle East — Condoleeza Rice, after a meeting with her Israeli counterpart, Tzipi Livni.
Israel needs to set up a hotel in Sderot, to put up foreign dignitaries like Ms. Rice. In the meantime, here’s another Jerusalem Post item that describes the ‘calm’ she refers to:
Four Kassams landed in the western Negev on Friday afternoon. No one was wounded and no damage resulted from any of the hits.
Near the Gaza-Israel border fence, IDF soldiers discovered a 12-kilogram bomb. Sappers detonated the device in a controlled explosion, and no one was wounded.
Another bomb was discovered In the West Bank. Sappers destroyed the 35-kg. bomb without incident. No damage was caused by either of the two devices.
In another development Friday, the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced that they had arrested on Tuesday a Palestinian suspected of perpetrating a shooting attack on an Israeli neighborhood.
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