Wednesday, 10th March 2010
No wonder he's smiling...
5:14pm
Israel is in the doghouse with America because it revealed during the visit by US Vice-President Joe Biden that it was building more houses for Israelis in east Jerusalem. According to Biden and outraged western received opinion, this ‘undermines peace efforts’.
Why? To be more precise, why does this initiative – or indeed any of the ‘settlements’ -- undermine peace efforts while the actual reason for the absence of peace, the fact that the Abbas administration has said it will never accept a Jewish state of Israel and refuses to renounce the Arab aim of ending Israel's existence, the sole reason for eight decades of aggression, terrorism and war in the Middle East, is not even mentioned?
Biden also said:
the Palestinians deserve a ‘viable’ independent state with contiguous territory
Why? What have they done to deserve...
Tuesday, 9th March 2010
Just when did the EU sign up to this?
10:22pm
The drug legalisation lobby group Transform purrs on its website:
As Steve Rolles heads off for California, I am at the UN's annual Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting in Vienna for which Transform has ECOSOC special consultative status. We are here as more than just spectators. In addition to attending a range of meetings that I will report on over the next few days, we have co-organised our own event, as part of the rapidly growing campaign for an Impact Assessment of drug policy, with our colleagues at theInternational Drug Policy Consortium. We are particularly pleased Carel Edwards the Head of the EC's Anti-Drugs Policy Unit has agreed to speak, as well as the Chair of IDPC Mike Trace, and myself (details below).
What is the EU’s top drug policy official doing sharing a platform with drug legalisers?
The president who made his country a global mockery
9:57pm
As predicted here, Obama’s foreign policy has collapsed in total ignominy. We are now all very much less safe than we were before this man was elected to the White House. A new poll -- for the Democrats, forsooth -- suggests that a majority of Americans think the USA is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security.
You don't say.
As this piece in American Thinker observes:
...Barack Obama, in his first press conference after his election, called Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons ‘unacceptable.’ He repetitively offered Iran ‘engagement.’ He set a deadline of year-end 2009 for Iranian compliance, now unilaterally extended another three months.
Iran contemptuously and repetitively responded that it had no intention of
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