This is abhorrent — and Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh, if he wants to be taken seriously in the modern world, needs to get modern. This kind of statement puts him right up there with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson blaming 9/11 on gays, liberals, and feminists.
Many thanks to Israel Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon for responding to my post and tweet @SCClemons. He has amended his piece with the following Tweet: @Danny Ayalon: Too many countries, too little space. “Immediate neighbors” includes Egypt, Jordan and the PA.
Israel Deputy Foreign Minister penned a heartfelt oped in the Jerusalem Post expressing thanks to various international players for their offered and provided relief in the terrible Carmel fire disaster in Israel.
For those interested in the work and contributions of Chalmers Johnson, I’ll be chatting this morning with National Public Radio’s Worldview Host Jerome McDonnell of WBEZ Chicago. Best to check the schedule at McDonnell’s website.
My powder is dry on the interesting subject that Zbigniew Brzezinski raised on PBS NewsHour. He suggested that in this enormous Wikileaks data dump of largely trivial cables, there are selections of highly pointed and embarrassing material. Brzezinski asks if someone with designs has planted this or selectively leaked to the operation.
Foreign Policy just released its roster of the Top 100 Global Thinkers (and Doers): Warren Buffett and Bill Gates * Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Robert Zoellick * Barack Obama * Zhou Xiaochuan * Ben Bernanke * Celso Amorim * Ahmet Davutoglu * David Petraeus * Robert Gates * Angela Merkel * Michael Bloomberg and Feisal Abdul…
The pups send their best for the weekend. No more cats for a while. Promise.
One friend of mine told me that this was the best film he had seen all year.
This morning I received this Department of Defense announcement about a young man, William J. Donnelly IV, killed on active duty on Thanksgiving Day in Helmand Province. Politics and views on this war aside, condolences to his family and friends.
On a more serious front, read Dana Milbank’s logic knock on the heads of a few leading allegedly fiscally conservative Republicans who have been pining for the level of security that Israel applies at its airports.
