RE: The Post’s View The U.S.-Israeli trust gap on Iran
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-israeli-trust-gap-on-iran/2012/02/14/gIQAJwJWER_story.htmlDear Editor,
On twitter (and face book) this morning, sending out his daily round of highly relevant news and opinion regarding ending the Israel-Palestine conflict
Hussein Ibish (
Senior Research Fellow at The American Task Force on Palestine , a firm advocate of a fair and just negotiated settlement to once and for all end the Israel/Palestine) with his brilliant way of succinctly summing things up pointed out a fascinating and highly relevant article by tweeting "
Bradley Burston perfectly accurately says Iran, & especially Ahmadinejad himself, are the best friends of the settlers http://3a4.v3.sl.pt/"Kudos to your Editorial Board for wisely pointing out that "military action against Iran, by Israel or the United States, is not yet necessary or wise".... However I think the only thing that needs to be spelled out is a call to ignore extremists and hate mongers in all camps who want to pull everyone into a wider war: “Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend”
Margaret ThatcherSincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
American Homemaker & Poet
NOTES "Religious conservatism invariably focuses on social and sexual control. Women are the most immediate targets and primary focus of the authoritarianism of the religious right, wherever they may be. As Islamists seem to be finally getting their chance at gaining a share of power in the Arab world, the greatest and most immediate danger they pose is to women’s rights. That is why it is up to everyone else, including both secularists and religious moderates, to insist on the introduction of inviolable constitutional principles protecting the rights of individuals, women and minorities."
Hussein Ibish: Islamism and misogyny"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."
Eleanor Roosevelt
RE: The Post’s View The U.S.-Israeli trust gap on Iran 
"Nations have often believed that they face a closing window to act, and almost always such thinking has led to disaster."
ReplyDeleteIsrael’s false choice
Fareed Zakaria FEB 15 Washington Post
History shows how to deter Iran... How history lessons could deter Iranian aggression
"“Israel is finally confronting the sort of choices the United States and Great Britain confronted more than six decades ago,” says Gideon Rose, the editor of Foreign Affairs. “Hopefully it, too, will come to recognize that absolute security is impossible to achieve in the nuclear age, and that if its enemies’ nuclear programs cannot be delayed or disrupted, deterrence is less disastrous than preventive war.”"