David Frum: The Gaza flotilla’s real message
Reuters
A Palestinian youth works in a date palm orchard in the Jordan valley near the West Bank city of Jericho
June 12, 2010 – 9:30 am
Told ya.
Last week in this space, I offered some predictions of winners and losers from the Gaza flotilla. Among the winners, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas; among the losers: Hamas.
On Wednesday, Abbas met in the Oval Office with Barack Obama. Abbas returns from that meeting with a pledge of an additional $400-million in U.S. aid. The pledge came with a price: public acceptance of a continuing Israeli embargo against Hamas.
In the words of President Obama: “We agree that Israelis have the right to prevent arms from entering into Gaza that can be used to launch attacks into Israeli territory.” Read More
Last week in this space, I offered some predictions of winners and losers from the Gaza flotilla. Among the winners, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas; among the losers: Hamas.
On Wednesday, Abbas met in the Oval Office with Barack Obama. Abbas returns from that meeting with a pledge of an additional $400-million in U.S. aid. The pledge came with a price: public acceptance of a continuing Israeli embargo against Hamas.
In the words of President Obama: “We agree that Israelis have the right to prevent arms from entering into Gaza that can be used to launch attacks into Israeli territory.” Read More
Posted in: Full Comment, U.S. Politics, World Politics Tags: Israel, Gaza, Hamas, flotilla, Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah
Conrad Black: Israel’s friends in Canada
June 12, 2010 – 9:21 am
Stephen Harper has shown foresight and political courage by turning Canada into Israel’s greatest friend in the world.
Let us remember a few facts: This dreadful mess in the Middle East arose because the British sold the same real estate twice, simultaneously, to the Arabs and the Jews. They compounded this sleazy practice by denying access to Palestine to many helpless Jewish fugitives from the Nazis before, during and just after the Second World War.
Israel was set up as a Jewish state in 1948 by unanimous vote of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, on the motion of the Soviet and American ambassadors. This was the ultimate legitimacy: Israel was created by the UN; other countries merely were admitted. Read More
Let us remember a few facts: This dreadful mess in the Middle East arose because the British sold the same real estate twice, simultaneously, to the Arabs and the Jews. They compounded this sleazy practice by denying access to Palestine to many helpless Jewish fugitives from the Nazis before, during and just after the Second World War.
Israel was set up as a Jewish state in 1948 by unanimous vote of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, on the motion of the Soviet and American ambassadors. This was the ultimate legitimacy: Israel was created by the UN; other countries merely were admitted. Read More
Posted in: Canada, Full Comment, U.S. Politics, World Politics Tags: Stephen Harper, Canadian politics, Israel, Gaza, Conrad Black, King Hussein
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