Editors note: This came to us from our friends at ICZC, and contains an article on the recent UN security council resolution.

SHAME ON BUSH AND CONDI

This article, by Anne Bayefsky, originally appeared in Forbes.

Betrayal. No other word describes the reversal of American foreign policy that took place on the night of Jan. 8 when the U.S. refused to veto the Security Council resolution on Gaza.

A president whose friendship and alliance with Israel once appeared honest, perceptive and unshakable, decided two weeks before leaving office to throw Israel to the wolves. The resolution calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and does not even mention the word “Hamas.”

There will no longer be a need for an Obama transition team on foreign policy. The outgoing president and secretary of State have done it all. Yesterday’s resolution, along with another Condoleezza Rice-inspired resolution from mid-December, draws Israel into a Security Council spider web that U.N. enthusiasts have been weaving for decades.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton can simply step into George W. Bush and Condi Rice’s shoes, label themselves new-age multilateralists and let the chips–in this case, remnants of Israel–fall where they may.

The Security Council resolution makes a mockery of Israel’s right of self-defense. In fact, it makes no mention of a right of self-defense at all. Eight thousand mortars have rained down on Israel from the Gaza Strip over a period of eight years.

F-16s, solidarity and popcorn on the Gaza-Israel ‘border’
Jerusalem Watchman

I’m writing this (or at least starting to write it) on Israel’s “border” with the Gaza Strip.

Everybody calls it a border as if, like Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, Gaza is one of the sovereign states adjacent to Israel. Probably it’s because people know the power of words – how you can make fiction into reality simply by repeating a non-truth over and over again.

Like Sky News Sunrise host Eamonn Holmes, who in a television interview with Israeli President Shimon Peres last Wednesday spoke repeatedly and quite matter-of-factly about Israel’s military operation in “this country of Palestine”

I would have thought a news anchor for an award-winning organization with a global reach like Sky would have a handle on something as basic as the names of the recognized nations of the world.

Of course, Holmes is not ignorant of the truth. He is a wishful thinker who also knows full well the power of propaganda. He wants to see a country of Palestine created in the historic homeland of the Jewish people, and intends to speak out its existence until it comes into being.

By the Watchman Dana G Smith
Keywords: Obama, supernatural, force, power, convince,

I have not seen in recent memory the love affair the media big shot’s have shown for a President Elect as they have done for Obama. Today early in the morning the news shows, were all lined up in a row on the vast television displays at our club and they had the President Elect on. I have seen him daily and more so. Everyone of them from ABC, CBS, NBC, and the one that literally swoons over the man we call the next President the most is CNN.

Now Barack has brought with him a diatribe of catchy phrases. The one that caught the most with Americans is “Change You can Believe in”. We can see this happening even now. The trouble with love affairs is that there is usually a disjointed lover somewhere. Either a former lover, or the present one, which may feel slighted. But in the swooning period of love making, both lovers embrace, arm in arm walking with eyes staring into each others down this lovers lane. The love affair for even the most ardent married couples never truly lasts in the arm in arm stage forever. For them, time and getting used to each other coupled with a love and a appreciation that goes deep down finds them joined in marital bliss. However political love affair’s can go south quickly.