Outsource the Cabinet? : THOMAS FRIEDMAN - Israel's Criminal Leadership

Outsource the Cabinet? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published: February 28, 2007

Israel’s leadership seems to have blinded itself lately with all sorts of bizarre and criminal behavior.

Yes, it’s true, a picture is worth a thousand words — but some are worth a whole dictionary. I came across one the other day on BBC.com. The story was headlined “Israeli Minister in Vision Gaffe.”

Next to it is a picture showing Israel’s defense minister, Amir Peretz, inspecting troops on the Golan Heights alongside Israel’s military chief of staff, Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi. Both men are peering into the distance through binoculars, but with one big difference: Mr. Peretz was watching the maneuvers through binoculars with the lens caps still on. ...

“According to the photographer,” the BBC reported, “Mr. Peretz looked through the capped binoculars three times, nodding as Gen. Ashkenazi explained what was in view.”

Oh my, I’d rather misspell “potato” on national TV than be remembered for that.

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“Tom, I never saw in the streets of Israel such a total contempt for the government by almost everybody — the poor and the rich, the Jews and the Arabs, the left, the right and the collapsing center. This is the essence of our situation — a contrast between the ‘you never had it so good’ economy and the ‘you never had it so bad’ government. This is the spring of our discontent."

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Sorry, mparent

When I tried to promote it, something screwy happened, so I had to ditch the formatting.

Something about the formatting makes the right columns fold under the left one.

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"Money" has no value - people do.

qrswave | Wed, 2007-02-28 18:54

Israel is guilty of occupation, apartheid and colonialism: UN

Israel is guilty of occupation, apartheid and colonialism, top UN lawyer reports

Israel is guilty of occupation, apartheid and colonialism,
top UN lawyer reports

Date: 26 / 02 / 2007 Time: 21:33

Bethlehem - Ma'an - The UN's Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, John Dugard, has issued a harshly critical report on Israel's human rights record in regards to its treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

mparent7777 | Wed, 2007-02-28 23:35

Pro-Israeli lobby is silencing dissent

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Pro-Israeli lobby is silencing dissent

By George Bisharat

Excerpt

Last summer our government ran diplomatic cover for Israel's invasion of Lebanon, prolonging the attack for weeks. Israel killed more than a thousand Lebanese, mostly civilians, heavily damaged the country's civilian infrastructure and displaced a quarter of the population. The consequence: National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, delivering the annual U.S. threat estimate recently, said the Lebanese group Hezbollah, which has not targeted Americans for decades, poses a significant threat. Meanwhile, UPI editor Arnaud de Borchgrave reports that former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other prominent Israelis are urging a public relations blitz to instigate a U.S. strike on Iran.

It is one thing to match ideas with ideas, information with information, perspective with perspective. It is entirely different to threaten, bully, discredit and harass opponents of one's views

mparent7777 | Thu, 2007-03-01 00:12

Thomas Friedman's Pure Racist Oped: The NY Times should fire him