AIPAC rules, Washington bows humbly.
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http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2333 is better known to old journalistic hands as simply Arnaud, the last of the great postwar foreign correspondents. No one has covered more wars or met more heads of state than Arnaud, for Newsweek, the Washington Times and for U.P.I. He is now in his 81st year, healthy, thin, and as ambitious as an 18 year old for the odd scoop. Back in 1967, he was the man who convinced me that the reporting and writing life was what it was all about. (He’s had a lot to apologize for ever since).
But this is not about my old mentor and great friend. It is about his latest column on the Middle East, an area he knows more about than Bill Clinton knows about lying. If Olmert is indicted and forced to step down, fresh elections are sure to bring back superhawk Benjamin [http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3280. End any thought, says Arnaud, of making a Palestinian state possible. So far so bad.
After eight years of a Bush presidency, Israel has continued its illegal expansion of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3700 is about to give up–well–pizzas. Just look at some of Arnaud’s stats: “Out of 10 million Palestinians in the Diaspora, 70 percent are refugees or their descendants; 2.5 million live in the West Bank under Israeli control; 1.5 million are in gaza, now a vast slum with no access to the outside world wher they are ruled by Hamas, a freely elected rejectionist party…”
Israel insists that unless Hamas and the Palestinians renounce violence, there will be no peace talks. Terrified of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4101, American politicians repeat this mantra like monkeys reacting to their organ grinder.
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