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Politics & OpinionsBy Dajjal
3 days ago
While I was composing a new post about the proposed boycott, a message came in announcing the Restoration of the Ban Islam Facebook Groups. Facebook has sent the group's creators a message stating that the closure resulted from a technical glitch.
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy Dajjal
3 days ago
I regret to inform you that due to circumstances beyond my control, my blogging will be interrupted, perhaps permanently. I obtained my telephone and internet access through my employment Due to economic conditions beyond our control, my employer is closing the business.
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy IsraelMatzav
4 days ago
 And now we have the background for why Biden went berserk on Tuesday. On January 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit Haiti, a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central Command (responsible for overseeing American security interests in the Middle East), arrived at the Pentagon to brief JCS Chairman Michael Mullen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The team had been dispatched by CENTCOM commander David Petraeus to underline his growing worries at the lack of progress in resolving the issue. The 33-slide 45-minute PowerPoint briefing stunned Mullen. The briefers reported that there was a growing perception among Arab leaders that the U.S. was incapable of standing up to Israel, that CENTCOM's mostly Arab constituency was losing faith in American promises, that Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in the region, and that Mitchell himself was (as a senior Pentagon officer later bluntly described it) "too old, too slow...and too late."
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy Eddie
4 days ago
March 14, 2010
In the economic dream world of President Barack Obama and his advisors and congressional allies, increasing spending in the trillions of dollars and debt into the stratosphere seem to be simply amusing sidelights to a (they hope) unstoppable program to establish a fascist-socialist political and social structure in the United States. Obama and his spokesmen make it sound like everything is perfectly reasonable and under control. The economy, they assure us, has been pulled back successfully from the brink of the abyss.
Many trillions of dollars in present and future spending (over the next decade), they tell us, will alleviate a lot of suffering and make health insurance and health care readily available at lower cost and without such annoying restrictions as lifetime dollar limits and refusal to cover pre-existing conditions.
I’ve written quite often on the “health care reform” proposals, and also some on cap and trade. These are major parts of Obama’s grand program.
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy IsraelMatzav
5 days ago
 Here's an interesting comment from Aaron David Miller reported by Laura Rozen at Politico. On the administration debate after Biden's trip over how to get past continued upsets to U.S. efforts to reviving an Israeli-Palestinian peace process, veteran U.S. Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller writes that there's got to be a "reset" of the U.S.-Israeli relationship:
"This crisis is way above Mitchell's pay-grade," Miller said in an email. "The U.S.-Israeli relationship can now only be reset by the president who's very very busy now."
"Wait a month, let Mitchell tend the garden," Miller continued. "Come April/May, there has got be a Bibi-Obama meeting and effort to see if you can hit the reset button."
The key, Miller says, is an agreement on borders where the gaps between the Israelis and Palestinians are the narrowest, and to get that agreement via U.S.-brokered talks. Miller's got it wrong for two reasons. First, this President isn't capable of pressing a re-set button with Israel because his 'moral code |
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy Dabar
5 days ago
There is no place for superstition, but there is a place for Providence. Why should the "chosen people" regularly break glass, even in a moment of joy? And why in a joint press conference with the Vice President of America Joe Biden, did the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu say this, when he found the glass on gift certificate had broken,
Perhaps the Power of the Universe knew Biden had forgotten something, as he was reminded of it again.At a later tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial museum, Yad Vashem, the lights in the "Hall of Remembrance" unexpectedly went out as a prayer for those killed was chanted, catching Biden's security detail by surprise. One Biden aide described the moment as "off-putting" but others said it worked well given the mournful context. In the darkness, the only light in the cavernous room came eerily from the eternal flame reflecting off the ceiling.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp
It was the second case of remembering a time of broken glass. The third happened immediately after when Biden heard that approval new housing at Ramat Shlomo |
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