tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post7743400842196625503..comments2023-10-05T08:44:09.303-07:00Comments on JG, Caesarea: Assad Meets Ahmadinejad: A Summit for Tyranny and RepressionJeffrey Grossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847518948270295312noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post-25489493278124649722010-10-07T11:37:35.979-07:002010-10-07T11:37:35.979-07:00Thanks, K2K.
I am primarily concerned that Hezbol...Thanks, K2K.<br /><br />I am primarily concerned that Hezbollah will seek to diminish the impact of the Hariri murder investigation findings by heightening tension on the Israeli border.Jeffrey Grossmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01847518948270295312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post-9390396519245310952010-10-07T03:22:03.676-07:002010-10-07T03:22:03.676-07:00http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/israel...http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/israel-braces-for-ahmadinejad-stone-throwing/<br /><br />enjoy comment #20 by Judith Bell Toronto: <br />"Have to comment that so many of the Lede stories are about Israel.<br /><br />The explanation of this blog is it is an examination of the day's top stories.<br /><br />How is this story important on a day when another 40 Nato trucks were torched?<br />Are the attacks on Nato trucks day after day not important compared to this?<br /><br />Why was there a Lede about the dancing Israeli soldier and the Palestinian prisoner but none about the Americans who shot Afghani civilians? Both were in the paper the same day.<br /><br />Just curious, Lede that it seems this is such a focus for you when so many other significant stories, both domestic and foreign, never make it to this column.<br /><br />What gives, Lede?"<br /><br />A very polite way of also saying how demeaning this Mackey post was to one aspect (stone-throwing) of a potentially very serious issue -what if Iran pushes Hezbollah to actually seize power in Lebanon through military force?<br /><br />K2KAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post-80637461490866233092010-10-04T14:45:32.691-07:002010-10-04T14:45:32.691-07:00http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/10/03/t...http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2010/10/03/the-tower-of-the-sun/<br /><br />Michael Totten visits the Druse of the Golan Heights, and offers insight into why Assad the Alawite has to embrace Ahmadinejad the Shi'ite.<br /><br /><br />Beyond naive for the Obami to continue to think all Israel has to do is return the Golan Heights to Syria, and kumbaya peace will peel Assad off from Iran. <br /><br />One would think a truly progresssive President would at minimum stand for the rights of minority populations under dictatorships. Instead, the Kurds, the Druse outside Israel, Lebanon's Maronite Catholics, Egypt's Coptic Christians, the Christian refugees of Iraq, et al, are left to the wolves.<br /><br />Perhaps a foreign policy that does not define the Muslim world solely into Sunni versus Shi'a would be helpful.<br /><br />How one high-profile Obama supporter, and close friend of John Kerry, views this story without being able to actually say "naivete and abject failure of Obama's foreign policy.": <br /><br />http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/78125/obama-courted-iran-obama-courted-syria-obama-achieved-nothing<br /><br /> Totten is far more enlightening...<br />K2KAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com