The paranoia runs rampant in a heavily militarized society like Israel. Being a military officer at some point is almost a requirement for running for office. That’s a superb way to create “groupthink” in the political class.

The recommended way of writing an email address without a hot link (making it a live link) is like this (just FYI):

thisisjustforyoursillyregistrationrequirements[at]hotmail[dot]com or,
thisisjustforyoursillyregistrationrequirements [at] hotmail [dot] com

Spaces are optional. some like them, some don’t. 😉

@ Bryan: Yeah. Exhausting. I saw lot’s of it in Cambodia. I don’t see any difference between Israel and Pol Pot’s Cambodia.

Yes, Hipparchia, the PhP for comments is always being helpful. I’ll take care of it.

various of these accounts think that i’m a little old lady in iowa, a 13-year-old boy in chicago, and a middle-aged sports-fan d00d in boston.

Yeah Bryan… Israel has been *talking* about cease-fire for awhile now. We’ll see. Israel are usually full of talk, low on ‘doing’.

I see no reason to waste the money appointing a US ambassador to Israel, the Israeli government doesn’t believe in diplomacy. The country was created by a resolution in the UN general assembly – it may be time to revisit that resolution.

hipparchia´s last blog post..That’s fucked up!

Ehhhhh… You’ve heard it before. Change channels… 😉

I like Krugman! 😀 Have you read his latest (and I believe, very accurate) assessment? 😉

You need an account to read his column at NYT, but C&L have posted it here:

Krugman: Not Ready to Make Nice

Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration. “I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,” he responded, but “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.”

I’m sorry, but if we don’t have an inquest into what happened during the Bush years — and nearly everyone has taken Mr. Obama’s remarks to mean that we won’t — this means that those who hold power are indeed above the law because they don’t face any consequences if they abuse their power.

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Alternatively, we’re told that we don’t have to dwell on past abuses, because we won’t repeat them. But no important figure in the Bush administration, or among that administration’s political allies, has expressed remorse for breaking the law. What makes anyone think that they or their political heirs won’t do it all over again, given the chance?

In fact, we’ve already seen this movie. During the Reagan years, the Iran-contra conspirators violated the Constitution in the name of national security. But the first President Bush pardoned the major malefactors, and when the White House finally changed hands the political and media establishment gave Bill Clinton the same advice it’s giving Mr. Obama: let sleeping scandals lie. Sure enough, the second Bush administration picked up right where the Iran-contra conspirators left off — which isn’t too surprising when you bear in mind that Mr. Bush actually hired some of those conspirators.

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Now, it’s true that a serious investigation of Bush-era abuses would make Washington an uncomfortable place, both for those who abused power and those who acted as their enablers or apologists. And these people have a lot of friends. But the price of protecting their comfort would be high: If we whitewash the abuses of the past eight years, we’ll guarantee that they will happen again.

Meanwhile, about Mr. Obama: while it’s probably in his short-term political interests to forgive and forget, next week he’s going to swear to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” That’s not a conditional oath to be honored only when it’s convenient.

And to protect and defend the Constitution, a president must do more than obey the Constitution himself; he must hold those who violate the Constitution accountable. So Mr. Obama should reconsider his apparent decision to let the previous administration get away with crime. Consequences aside, that’s not a decision he has the right to make.

How true that is. 🙂 All those who agree, say “AYE”!! Better yet… make damned sure your local greedy ass-kissing coward of a Politician KNOWS how you feel about letting the Bushmorons totally off the hook. Does anyone think any of them would give you a free pass even on a misdemeanor? Hah! Not even if hell did freeze over!

You want things Fixed? Get off your asses and fix them. I’m sorry to say, the tooth faery, the leprechauns, Captain J.L. Pickard and G-d 😉 are otherwise engaged on important matters, like… watching the grass grow, while it still can. LOL

WTF? So let me get this straight. The IDF is armed with advanced weaponry. Yet they need women and children to do their work for them?

Kryten is right. The correct word is “cowardly”. Anybody who want women and children to do their dirty work of dying for them is nothing but a coward.

– Badtux the Observant Penguin

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