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POPS French 'Humanitarianism' Following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday, President Shimon Peres spoke to the press. “Nobody in this world understands what are Hamas’s goals and why it continues to fire missiles,” Peres said. “This shooting has no point, no logic and no chance.” I hesitate to say that I understand something about the Middle East that Peres doesn’t, but Hamas’s goals seem clear to me. The first is the destruction of the Jewish state. The second is to make it seem right. Here’s Alan Dershowitz at the Christian Science Monitor: There have been three types of international response to the Israeli military actions against the Hamas rockets. Not surprisingly, Iran, Hamas, and other knee-jerk Israeli-bashers have argued that the Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilians are entirely legitimate and that the Israeli counterattacks are war crimes.
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POPSHamas confiscates humanitarian aid trucks...from Jordan And what will Jordan do about this? "...delivered to Palestinians in need in the Gaza Strip." Or used to pay off Hamas officials, as bribes to hire more suicide bombers, or with held to plead the plight of suffering Gazans. Israel...give Gaza back to Egypt!
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POPSGoogle on the Cutting Edge of Hypocrisy The internet,is after all, not free. Who are we kidding! Idealistically, we would love it to be ... but realistically, it isn't! Google and Yahoo (and all the others) are in it for the money, and not for humanitarianism.
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POPSThe ‘Good Germans’ Among Us Instead of taxing us for Iraq, the White House bought us off with tax cuts. Instead of mobilizing the needed troops, it kept a draft off the table by quietly purchasing its auxiliary army of contractors to finesse the overstretched military’s holes. With the war’s entire weight falling on a small voluntary force, amounting to less than 1 percent of the population, the rest of us were free to look the other way at whatever went down in Iraq. “We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an M.I.T. physicist whose interrogation of Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, took place over a chessboard. George Frenkel, 87, recalled that he “never laid hands on anyone” in his many interrogations, adding, “I’m proud to say I never compromised my humanity.”
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