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- Has Jimmy Carter Finally Gone Too Far In Sudan?
- UNIFIL: "The Worlds Most Expensive Summer Camp"
- Jesse jackson's "terrorism for the innocent" moment
- The nyt's one-sided debate
- Ain't Understanding Mellow: MPAC-UK and Yousef al-Khattab make up
- Nyt mideast op-eds apr 2010
- Nyt mideast op-eds mar 2010
- Nyt mideast op-eds feb 2010
| Has Jimmy Carter Finally Gone Too Far In Sudan? Posted: 29 Apr 2010 12:53 PM PDT Jimmy Carter may know which side to pick when it comes to Palestinian Arabs vs Israel, but in a recent election he oversaw, he may have just committed a whopper. Dr. Walid Phares and Khairi Abaza write thatCarter gave his blessing (with perfunctory caveats) to a rigged election that has handed victory to a genocidal war criminal who granted safe haven to Osama bin Laden in the 1990s.On the Carter Center's website, he raised several concerns about the vote, but on the ground, the former president told reporters that he saw "no reasons for any concern" about the elections, except for "a... |
| UNIFIL: "The Worlds Most Expensive Summer Camp" Posted: 29 Apr 2010 10:17 AM PDT Michael Rubin writes about the utter failure of UNIFIL to do what it was supposed to:The rearming of Hezbollah -- to the point that, as Secretary Gates points out, they now have more missiles than most countries -- highlights the utter failure of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. What was a force of slightly less than 2,000 men, before the 2006 war, ballooned in the aftermath of the end of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 ending that war into more than 11,000 troops -- the budget for which, this year, is more than $500 million. Rather than maintain peace... |
| Jesse jackson's "terrorism for the innocent" moment Posted: 29 Apr 2010 04:09 AM PDT The other day, Jesse Jackson referred to Arizona's new anti illegal immigration bill as "terrorism for the innocent" Jesse Jackon appeared on MSNBC today and told Contessa Brewer that the new law, allowing police to require proof of citizenship from anyone they "suspect" of being an illegal immigrant, is the equivalent of 'terrorism for the innocent...you look suspicious because you are Mexican." Jackson also seemed to suggest that even Gov. Bill Richardson was at risk of being pulled over under this law because of his appearance. Rev. Jackson is one to talk. Back in 1996 he said: ''There is nothing... |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:56 PM PDT I did a quick roundup of op-eds appearing at the New York Times website duirng the year 2010. I suppose it may be somewhat arbitrary, but I did a search on the words "Israel" and "Hamas" between January 1, 2010 and April 29, 2010 and limited the resutls to the Opinion section. I know that doesn't include unsigned editorials. Nor does it include an op-ed by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. But it also doesn't include a vicious article by Robert Wright. My samplng leaves us with 6 articles from February, and 5 each from March and April. Follow the links... |
| Ain't Understanding Mellow: MPAC-UK and Yousef al-Khattab make up Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:14 PM PDT You may have heard of the group Revolution Muslim, on whose website the now-famous threat to the producers of South Park appeared. MPAC-UK tore the lid off this group recently with a post entitled "Exposed: Israeli was behind Muslim 'extremist group.'" The "Israeli" turned out to be the "Jews-for-Allah" guy: Joseph Cohen/Yousef al-Khattab. It seems now that he has written to MPAC-UK to declare his true Muslim sympathies and credentials and his disassociation from Revolution Muslim. MPAC has responded with an apology: We hope brother Yousef can understand that the author was simply doing their job in ensuring that... |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:12 PM PDT Opinion pieces about the Middle East in the New York Times during April, 2010. 1) Tim Sebastian Of course, they're not the only ones who need to move on. The Middle Eastern stage is clogged with bad actors playing lousy parts. Like the well-meaning Irish foreign minister Micheál Martin, who wrote a few days ago in these pages about how unacceptable the Gaza siege was, but omitted to mention how it got there. The word "Israel" was almost completely absent from the article, leaving the uninitiated to conclude that the siege had probably happened by itself. Too many global players... |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 10:29 PM PDT Opinion pieces about the Middle East in the New York Times during March, 2010. Zion Evrony: For Israel, the vital interest is its recognition by Palestinians as the nation-state of the Jewish people, existing with adequate security arrangements alongside a demilitarized Palestinian state. For Palestinians, the vital interest is independence and freedom within their own state. 2) Thomas Friedman: I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable defender of U.S. interests abroad. So it pains me to say that on his recent trip to Israel, when Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's government rubbed his nose in... |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 10:22 PM PDT Opinion pieces about the Middle East in the New York Times during February, 2010. 1) Yossi Alpher: A second revised priority should address Hamas itself. It's time to recognize that all the strategies mustered against the Hamas "emirate" in Gaza since the takeover of June 2007 have failed. The economic warfare policy invoked by Israel, the Quartet powers -- the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations -- and Egypt has punished 1.4 million Gazans, impoverished the moderate middle class and empowered and enriched Islamist smugglers, yet has failed to dislodge the Hamas regime. It is plainly... |
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