Fear, beer and hummus

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Another fellow with some interesting comments.

How can the defense minister's judgment on the
budget be trusted when Shaul Mofaz was so
delusional and dangerous with his recommendation
to kill Arafat? What kind of trust can be given to
the man above him, a prime minister who has not
kept a single promise, except to invest more money
in the settlements (and to bring in more foreign
workers for farmers), when the cost of every new
road to a picayune settlement is that of half a
dozen children's day-care centers and tens of
thousands of doses of medicine for the medical
basket that was cut yesterday?

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And instead of the Nixon-Kissinger
administration of the time, which knew what it
should do to free Israel of the trouble, today
there is the broken reed of the
Bush-Cheney-Powell court. America is helping
this Israeli march with its stuttering and with
the same deceptively blinking lights, the likes
of which brought Sharon in 1982 to his previous
great misadventure.

At the beginning of 1993, after he prevented
Peres from continuing with the Oslo contacts,
Rabin turned into what we also don't have
today: According to documents now coming to
light, he began speaking of "the march of
folly, like in Barbara Tuchman's book" and made
the change now termed a disaster by the huge
spin in Israel. But a state control mechanism
somehow manages nowadays to blur the fact that
the country is losing its mind.

We should have headed for the shelters when
Sharon said this week that "everything" must be
done to bring back the kidnapped Israelis in
Colombia. After all, he's the man who once
bragged the IDF could reach all the way to
Odessa, and he's a politician who needs every
trick in the book to make sure the headlines
every day erase the familial and national shame
that this man of the year has wrought.
Nowadays, one can hear fear of Sharon much more
than in the past. But nothing will come of such
talk until it isn't just more Israeli steam
being let off in corridors and living rooms,
swallowed back too quickly along with the beer
and hummus.

Haaretz

[newyorican]

1. Exactly the path...

Bush is taking the US.

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. FARC says they don't have 'em - Who smells a sparkle?

sniff sniff

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3. Uribe is another one who is working hard to keep

the illusion of governance going ...

Look, over there, Drug Lords! Terrorists!, Communists!
(We just need a little more money.)