Traveling; connections hard


Posted by Helena Cobban
June 11, 2006 5:57 PM EST | Link
Filed in JWN updates , Palestine 2006

I'm in NYC for a couple of days. High-speed connections are hard to come by. Plus I'm extremely busy: family stuff; setting up my Uganda trip for July; checking page-proofs on the Atrocities book...

I'm not sure whether I'll be able to post anything new before Tuesday or so. But if people want to discuss the many importabnt and interesting developments in the Israeli-Palestinian sphere, why don't you do so here?

(Plus if you put in links to helpful articles on the topic that wd be v. helpful for me!)



Comments
Comment from... Salah, at June 12, 2006 01:36 AM:

Call me naive, conspiracy theory believer whatever you like, but here we go Israeli Mosad with the recent killing and car explosion in Lebanon, new evidences here.

What about Al Hariri killing then?

و النساء والمال قادت جهاز المخابرات إلى محمود رافع
: اعتقال أبرز شبكة إسرائيلية في لبنان
http://www.assafir.com/iso/today/front/summary.html

Comment from... Dave, at June 12, 2006 05:07 AM:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/the_interview.shtml

For the love of whatever you hold dear, please listen to this nonsense on Karen Hughes' BBC interview. It is well worth the 20 minutes it takes. She is so bankrupt, and is so volcanically overflowing with palaver that it's tragically amusing. What has become of us?

Comment from... Dave, at June 12, 2006 05:08 AM:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/the_interview.shtml

For the love of whatever you hold dear, please listen to this nonsense on Karen Hughes' BBC interview. It is well worth the 20 minutes it takes. She is so bankrupt, and is so volcanically overflowing with palaver that it's tragically amusing. What has become of us?

Comment from... Salah, at June 12, 2006 01:59 PM:

Karen Hughes is a trusted advisor of President Bush.

Why should believe in this administration?

They lie and lie again, and again, so why make people believe in them

She believes the liars and promote them, she is very good cook for lies.

Comment from... steve, at June 12, 2006 06:15 PM:

Concerning the recent massacre of a family on the beach in Gaza, I am not sure how familiar people are with the suffering of this extended family, but last year young teenage cousins were in a nearby field working and were hit by a shell. All three boys lost legs above the knees and all are now in wheelchairs. And so it goes.....

Comment from... steve, at June 12, 2006 06:16 PM:

Concerning the recent massacre of a family on the beach in Gaza, I am not sure how familiar people are with the suffering of this extended family, but last year young teenage cousins were in a nearby field working and were hit by a shell. All three boys lost legs above the knees and all are now in wheelchairs. Now you have this 10-year-old girl without parents or siblings. I work in Gaza and know this family. What do we tell them about justice and terrorism? What do you tell anyone in Gaza? It just keeps getting worse and no one cares.

Comment from... Davis, at June 12, 2006 07:28 PM:

Tell Gazans to stop launching Kassams themselves and there will be no missiles flying back at them. Is it that freaking hard to understand that if you lob something over to your neighbor they will lob something at you?

Comment from... Henry James, at June 12, 2006 10:59 PM:

Blair is as delusional as ever.

Ind. Anne Penketh. Blair urges the Palestinians to hold talks with Israel

Comment from... Salah, at June 12, 2006 11:43 PM:

"freaking hard to understand"
The speaker should know those "people without land" should free the stolen people land before making flaring words here...

Comment from... frank al irlandi, at June 12, 2006 11:52 PM:

Helena

Al Jazeera says the troops arent going home.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8A534AAD-4893-41FE-8B4D-011BFF2495AC.htm

Oh Dear.

Comment from... Shirin, at June 13, 2006 01:19 AM:

"the troops arent going home."

For those who are not surprised to hear this, I do have a lovely ocean front villa in Baghdad for you.

Comment from... Art D., at June 13, 2006 08:10 AM:

As for events in Israel, there was a brief moment when it appeared that peace might break out, through the efforts of President Abbas to hold a referendum of Paestinian voters on the two-state plan contained in the so-called prisoners' agreement. However, those on both sides -- Israeli and Palestinian -- whose political futures depend on a continuing state of warfare quickly swung into action to start up the spiral of violence once more, in the hope of preventing any real moves toward a settlement.

There is a long history here. For years, whenever negotiations or some other breakthrough appeared to be near, an Israeli official would announce that the government would be glad to meet with the Palestinians, provided there are no security incidents. Someone from a Palestinian militant group would obligingly respond with a rocket attack or a commando raid, at which point the Israelis would indignantly insist that they cannot meet with the Palestinians if such things are going to happen. Or the roles could be reversed.

The point is that this struggle would not have continued for so many years if there were not people on both sides who benefit from keeping it going. If Abbas is willing to press ahead with the referendum despite the return of fighting between Israel and Hamas, it may mark him as a different sort of leader.

Comment from... Susan - NC, at June 13, 2006 11:55 AM:

"the troops arent going home."

For those who are not surprised to hear this, I do have a lovely ocean front villa in Baghdad for you. - shirin


Didn't you mean to say that "those who are surprised"?

Comment from... Shirin, at June 13, 2006 09:26 PM:

Susan,

Ummmmm - yeah. Thanks for catching that.

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