Archive for June, 2011
by James M. Wall We need look no further than the politics of the state of Israel to see what extremist religion can do with power. The Tea Party in the US, which will determine the winner of the presidential Republican nominating process, is ready to show the world that God wants a final say […]
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by James M. Wall A once largely unknown politician has been discarded as a liability by his fellow Democrats. I refer, of course, to former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, not Glenn Beck (pictured here), about whom much more later. Weiner resigned his seat in Congress because he used Twitter to depict and describe matters […]
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By James M. Wall Five years before the 2011 Arab Spring, Hamas won a decisive victory in the January 25, 2006, Palestinian parliamentary elections. The United States and Israel had both endorsed the participation of Hamas in the 2006 elections, putting aside their usual “terrorism” rejection of Hamas. They had assumed the first election in which Hamas had […]
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by James M. Wall This picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laying down the law to the US Congress is not just a portent of things to come. It is, in fact, a portrait of who really runs US foreign policy. While many Americans were watching Oprah or worrying about steroids ruining baseball, Israel […]
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