spectator.co.uk - 2/25/2009
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As Iran sprints towards the nuclear finishing line, the lethal and wicked isolation of Israel in the west is accelerating. Yesterday, Amnesty called for an arms embargo against Israel based on a travesty of a report which accused Israel falsely of crimes it did not commit in Gaza – ...
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 2/26/2009
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When the great David Rothkopf comes to Chas
Freeman's defense, I pay attention. Writing on his Foreign...
Policy blog , Rothkopf argues that Freeman , whose organization, the Middle East Policy Council, has taken Saudi money , and who has sometimes been ...
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On the Analytical Abilities of Chas Freeman
commentarymagazine.com - 2/27/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
Had the public (and specifically Jewish voters, who
voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama) known that Obama would...
appoint the Saudi-funded, Israel-bashing, analytically-disabled Chas Freeman to a key national security position, I wonder if he would ...
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Had They Known
yourish.com - 2/27/2009
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yourish.com —
First it was about Durban II : The
main reason I do this is that I gave...
the benefit of the doubt to the administration’s motives in sending a delegation to the preparatory sessions in Geneva where some interventions proved just how weak we ...
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Puncturing Peretz’s ballong x 3
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Israel’s choice
Israpundit —
Melanie Phillips, The Spectator
As Iran sprints towards the nuclear finishing line, the lethal and wicked isolation of Israel in the west is accelerating.
Yesterday, Amnesty called for an arms embargo against Israel based on a travesty of a report which accused Israel falsely of crimes it did not commit in Gaza – deliberately targeting civilians – while omitting the crimes Hamas did commit – using civilians as human shields. An arms embargo (of the type apparently favoured by Obama’s foreign policy guru Samantha Power) – would ...
News.....
Theo Spark —
Conmen who prey on the elderly to escape jail. Another out of touch moron of a judge. What about conmen who prey on the taxpayers aka bankers? Royal Navy veterans moved to rehouse travellers. An effing disgrace. Travellers have not rights. Soldier dumped by girlfriend after streaking as Cupid at football match. No-one has a sense of humour anymore. Israel's choice. Will Obama aid Israel or Hamas. Clint Eastwood goes gunning for PC killjoys by saying we should laugh at race-based jokes. ...
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Everyone who has followed the Gaza war should read M.J.'s brave and necessary post, just below this one. I'm less hopeful than he that American news media are focusing on the suffering in Gaza, which requires (and delivers) little more political ...
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U.S. envoy to Middle East to visit Turkey —
Reuters: Politics 2/24/2009
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