Nothing brings people together like a disaster, right?
Wrong.
America has turned down help from around 30 countries and international organizations. Obama has dismissed miracle cures from Croatia, barges from Sweden, and containment boom from various obscure allies, according to the State Department. Belgium? Denied! Israel? Denied! Qatar? Denied!
Al-Qaida's American-born spokesman has repeated the terror group's conditions for peace with America, calling on President Barack Obama to withdraw his troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, end support for Israel, stop intervening in the affairs of Muslims and free Muslim prisoners.
Obama's reaction is still unknown. But hmm, might not sound bad to him
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100620/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_al_qaida_spokesman
Obama's strategy against Teheran (or is it FOR Teheran) has not worked.
The outstretched hand drew laughs, the failure to support democracy was a failure of US principles. Now Turkey has turned against us and Israel. Obama is ruining the US image of strengthh in the world and making it a much more dangerous place
Turkey's attempts to mediate Iran's nuclear standoff with the West have evolved into an aggressive effort to forestall new U.N. sanctions.
The assertive campaign is placing Turkey in opposition to longtime allies Israel and the United States.
It also raises the question of whether NATO's only Muslim member is becoming less of a bridge between East
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hmIfrQuYXHTDQ5ni_t3dGYgr9NXQD9FU3KGO0
The Arab governments are deathly afraid of a nuclear bomb in the hands of Iran, even if their populations are too focused on the so-called evils of the U.S. and Israel to see it.
They may be unsure if Iran will actually use the bomb, but they surely know that the possession of it will enable Iran to take advantage of their fragility in ways thus fa
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http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-israeli-arab-alliance-against-iran/
The New York Review: In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel.
In response, he unwittingly produced the most damning indictment of the organized American Jewish community that I have ever seen.
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/failure-american-jewish-establishment/
N.Y.
Senator Chuck Schumer, who hopes to be Majority Leader next year, went on a fanatic religious radio show hosted by Nachum Segal and blasted Obama for not being deferential enough to Israeli rightist Prime Minister Netanyahu. Well, at least Schumer isn't spying for any foreign powers and stepping over the treason line, the way Jane Harman did.
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http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/04/israel-is-not-america-america-is-not.html
The State of Israel was born out of the ruins and the ashes, and today it impresses the entire world with the force of its creativity and innovation, with its advanced research and knowledge, with the momentum of its economy and with its free and democratic society.
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http://www.haolam.de/index.php?site=artikeldetail&id=1560
The son of one of Hamass founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping prevent dozens of Islamist suicide bombers from finding their targets, it emerged today.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7039011.ece
In the military establishments of more than 30 countries, including U.S. allies such as Israel, Canada and the United Kingdom, gays and lesbians are allowed to openly serve in their countrys military.
Its just not a big issue out there in much of the Western world.
Source:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/worldview/100202/dont-ask-dont-tell
