You may not be hearing James “F… the Jews” Baker’s name much these days, but you can see his hand and unrealistic Realpolitik hard at work:
Rice believes deal possible before May
By GIL HOFFMAN
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice believes that a framework for an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians could be reached by the planned May 14 visit to Israel of US President George W. Bush, Channel 1 diplomatic correspondent Ayala Hasson reported Su... Read Full Story
You may not be hearing James “F… the Jews” Baker’s name much these days, but you can see his hand and unrealistic Realpolitik hard at work:
Rice believes deal possible before May
By GIL HOFFMAN
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice believes that a framework for an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians could be reached by the planned May 14 visit to Israel of US President George W. Bush, Channel 1 diplomatic correspondent Ayala Hasson reported Su... Read Full Story
You may not be hearing James “F… the Jews” Baker’s name much these days, but you can see his hand and unrealistic Realpolitik hard at work:
Rice believes deal possible before May
By GIL HOFFMAN
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice believes that a framework for an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians could be reached by the planned May 14 visit to Israel of US President George W. Bush, Channel 1 diplomatic correspondent Ayala Hasson reported Su... Read Full Story
Hafiz Al-Assad’s western schooled, physician son - Bashar - was once looked upon as the hope of Syria. Both his country and the West saw upon him as the one who would bring out Syria from its pariah status and into the 20th and 21st centuries. Instead the plight of Syrians has worsened far beyond what it was under Papa Assad. Junior has shown himself utterly incapable as a leader and little more than a tool in the hands of his powerful but utterly corrupt family and the putrid little ... Read Full Story
Hafiz Al-Assad’s western schooled, physician son - Bashar - was once looked upon as the hope of Syria. Both his country and the West saw upon him as the one who would bring out Syria from its pariah status and into the 20th and 21st centuries. Instead the plight of Syrians has worsened far beyond what it was under Papa Assad. Junior has shown himself utterly incapable as a leader and little more than a tool in the hands of his powerful but utterly corrupt family and the putrid little ... Read Full Story
Hafiz Al-Assad’s western schooled, physician son - Bashar - was once looked upon as the hope of Syria. Both his country and the West saw upon him as the one who would bring out Syria from its pariah status and into the 20th and 21st centuries. Instead the plight of Syrians has worsened far beyond what it was under Papa Assad. Junior has shown himself utterly incapable as a leader and little more than a tool in the hands of his powerful but utterly corrupt family and the putrid little ... Read Full Story
Mona Eltahawy, one of my favorite - must read - Muslim bloggers (even when I do not always agree with her views) has written a very personal, brutally honest assessment of what passes for Islam today:
Our Own Worst Enemy
by Mona Eltahawy
NEW YORK — If I weren’t a Muslim and didn’t know better, I’d think Muslims really do come with a grenade at the end of their turbans — as portrayed in the infamous 2005 Danish cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.
Danish police arrested three Muslims earlier this... Read Full Story
Yes, gentle reader, this may be the 21st century but the anti-Jewish blood libel is alive and well:
Russian blood libel: Jews use children’s blood for matzot
Hundreds of anti-Semitic pamphlets distributed in Novosibirsk, Russia, warning residents of supposed Jewish practice of kidnapping children to use their blood for Passover matza
Yael Branovsky
Published: Read Full Story
The Arab Times from Kuwait had the following opinion:
We need to think democratically to believe in its values
It has taken democratic societies in the West centuries of struggle to accept, and perhaps to “internalize,” to some extent, certain democratic values. For example, since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215, when a group of Barons forced King John of England to agree to a charter of liberties, Britain went through other historical events to reach its current conception of the de... Read Full Story
