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Just Checking
And here’s the recommendation: “Talk to Hamas”. Continue reading
Posted in Canada in Afghanistan, Current Affairs
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Seen in The New York Times This Morning
President Obama has been without a pastor or a home church ever since he cut his ties to the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. in the heat of the presidential campaign. But he has quietly cultivated a handful of evangelical pastors for private prayer sessions on the telephone and for discussions on the role of religion in politics. Continue reading
Is The Israel Lobby In Charge of U.S. Intelligence?
If there was any doubt as to who is running American policy in the Middle East, it was dispelled this week…. Continue reading
Posted in Canafanabama, Current Affairs, Middle East
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Time For All Of Them To Start Talking: America Iran Hezbollah Israel Canada Hamas Britain etc etc etc
The best news on the Middle East in the past few days, is Britain ‘s decision to reach out to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
High Time.
Finally the U.K. sees the writing on the wall and Prime Minister Brown has decided to ditch Bush and get real. Here’s how a British spokesman put it-
“Our objective with Hezbollah remains to encourage them to move away from violence and play a constructive, democratic and peaceful role in Lebanese politics, in line with a range of UN Security Council Resolutions.”
What a concept: encourage them to move away from violence and play a constructive, democratic and peaceful role in Lebanese politics.
Now lets see if Obama will follow suit.
In the meantime, Canada could get out in front of the pack by having talks with Hamas.
America has already invited Iran to talk about Afghanistan.
Wow!
Pretty soon the Taliban will be talking with everyone. And who knows? Maybe Peace will break out.
As Thomas Jefferson said: there’s no good war and there’s no bad peace. Continue reading