That’s not the way it is?Among the many sorry gifts George W. Bush passed on to President Barack Obama, the next prime minister of Israel is among the most dubious. This particular present will be gift-wrapped by Israeli voters on Tuesday when they vote for a successor to the indicted and discredited Ehum Olmert whose tenure as chief of the Zionist state has seen two wars but no clear cut victories. The winner will either be Bibi Netanyahu, the former prime minister who is ahead in the polls, or Olmert’s underwhelming foreign minister Tzipi Livni.[...]
As the Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl notes, Netanyahu is known for treating U.S. officials as if they were junior partners in an alliance with the Israeli superpower.
As the European judges debate whether Israeli actions constitute war crimes, Netanyahu promises more.Livni is reliably vague. [...] She occasionally mouths the rhetoric of the “peace process” even as the Israeli daily Haaretz reports that her government persists in brazen plans to build 3,5000 housing units set aside for Jews (No Arabs need apply) on the soil of the so-far imaginary Palestinian state.
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Livni offers trickery; Netanyahu is more straightfoward.
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As the Obama administration ponders how to restart serious peace negotiations, Israel pursues plans to make those negotiations impossible.
Not that Obama will be interested in making peace if Israel doesn’t want it.
The Obama DOJ will continue to conceal those documents, open government promises be damned. I cannot find what happened on Friday. Checking the ACLU site information regarding the case.This week, the Obama administration will face its second significant courtroom test of the president’s pledges to end unwarranted secrecy about the workings of the federal government. At stake is a set of documents that could expose intentional lawbreaking by senior Bush officials. While concealing them would seem to contradict Obama’s much-heralded promise of a new era of open government, revealing them could make it virtually impossible for the new administration to refuse to investigate potential criminal conduct by the Bush administration, something the new administration has sought to avoid.[...]
On Friday, the Obama Justice Department must file its response to the ACLU’s request for three critical memos written by the Bush administration’s Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC. Those lawyers developed the legal justification for the treatment of the thousands of men and boys that the United States has detained over the last seven years as suspected terrorists.
I don't suggest you hold your breath waiting for Israeli-Palestinian justice or "open government" outcomes.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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