by Suleiman Nimr and Wissam Keyrouz
AFP Sat Dec 9, 2006 |
Phil on December 8, 2006 12:29 PM
The paddling Jimmy Carter is receiving for making criticisms of Israel that are common in Israel demonstrates a law of the Israel conversation: It is one thing for Jews to criticize Israel, but it's not O.K. for non-Jews to do so. This law is demonstrated by the Hillel chapters I wrote about the other day: it's OK for Jewish groups to host the Israel veterans Breaking the Silence, but those same groups will criticize Palestinian organizations when they sponsor the very same program—as if the Arab groups are doing so as the first step toward a pogrom. |
by Joshua Holland
December 9, 2006 Just as a child -- say, an emotionally-fragile, mentally-challenged child -- might embrace a comforting blanky for protection against monsters lurking under the bed, so conservatives cling, desperately, to the idea that the media is exaggerating the extraordinary suckiness in Iraq in order to avoid facing the smoldering, blood-stained consequences of the invasion they championed with such zeal.
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www.chinaview.cn 2006-12-11 19:51:18
TEHRAN, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Monday opened a two-day international conference to discuss the Holocaust, a move that has sparked widespread controversy.
But Iran has insisted that the conference was aimed at providing a venue for free discussions on "a historical issue" and discussing the scale of the Holocaust and whether the Nazis really used gas chambers to kill Jews. |
By Angus McDowall in Tehran
10 December 2006 Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has come under attack for his views on the Holocaust from an unexpected quarter - a Palestinian activist recently freed after 18 years in an Israeli jail.
Mr Ahmadinejad was widely reviled in the West last year for saying the Holocaust was "a myth" and that Israel should be "wiped off the map". Later he said he did not know if the slaughter of six million Jews really happened, condemned laws in some European countries against Holocaust denial, and said that if Europe felt guilt about the Jews, it should create a homeland for them on European soil. |
By Mohammed Abbas
Reuters 9 Dec 06 MANAMA - Iran will only hold direct talks with the United States on Iraq if Washington announces plans to pull its troops out, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.
Mottaki was responding to this week's U.S. Iraq Study Group report, which recommended Washington should directly engage with Iran and Syria to try to stabilize Iraq. President Bush has said he will not talk to Iran unless it suspends its nuclear program. |
By David Usborne in New York
11 December 2006 The President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, has broadly condemned the findings of President George Bush's Iraq Study Group as an "insult to the people of Iraq".
Mr Talabani, who is Kurdish, said he would write to Mr Bush explaining his objections to the findings of the panel, headed by former US secretary of state James Baker and retired congressman Lee Hamilton. Aides to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said that he had yet to reach an opinion. President Bush has stopped short of rejecting the report issued last week, which includes recommendations that the US withdraw its combat brigades from Iraq by early 2008 and engage in direct talks with Syria and Iran. |
Last Updated: Sunday, December 10, 2006 | 8:41 PM ET
The Associated Press The Iraqi president on Sunday sharply criticized the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war, saying it contained dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country's sovereignty and it was "an insult to the people of Iraq."
President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd and one of the staunchest U.S. supporters within the Iraqi leadership, also said U.S. training of Iraq's army and police had gone "from failure to failure." |
Reuters
10/12/2006 Angry Iraqi villagers fired into the air on Saturday as they buried more than a dozen victims of a U.S. airstrike that Sunni leaders condemned as a massacre.
Hundreds of chanting residents of Jalameda marched through Ishaqi on Saturday firing shots and carrying banners that read: "The people of Ishaqi condemn the mass killing by the occupation forces." The bodies, wrapped in white cloth, were laid out in rows on the ground before being buried. "We ask the Americans to be merciful. They kill civilians alleging they are terrorists. Ishaqi is a catastrophe," said Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the biggest Sunni political bloc in parliament. |
Uri Avnery
9.12.06 NO ONE likes to admit a mistake. Me neither. But honesty leaves me no choice.
A few days after the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, I happened to go on a lecture tour in the US. My message was optimistic. I expected some good to come out of the tragedy. I reasoned that the atrocity had exposed the intensity of the hatred for the US that is spreading throughout the world, and especially the Muslim world. It would be logical not only to fight against the mosquitoes, but to drain the swamp. Since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was one of the breeding grounds of the hatred - if not the main one - the US would make a major effort to achieve peace between the two peoples. Comment from Jeff Blankfort: For more than 20 years, Israeli journalist Uri Avnery has been observing and commenting on the ability of the Jewish lobby to determine US policy regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict. Here he spells it out again in commenting on the Baker-Hamilton Report. Note: Baker was backed in the actions Avnery describes by Pres. George Bush St., who also refused to knuckle under to the lobby and paid a political price for it. JB
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Saturday December 9, 2006
The Guardian Fury in Afghan city after targeted British convoy kills civilians
British military authorities are investigating allegations that Royal Marines shot indiscriminately on Afghan bystanders following a suicide bombing last weekend. At least two people died and five were wounded by shots fired from a supply convoy that raced through Kandahar after coming under attack. The incident has sparked widespread public anger in the southern city, where recent suicide bombs have frayed nerves and shortened tempers among Nato forces. |
Reuters
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