In pledging to trim ineffective spending, President Obama declared that "there
will be no sacred cows and no pet projects. All across America, families are
making hard choices, and it's time their government did the same."
Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon spoke to Channel 2 on Saturday about the meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama, held earlier this week, saying that Israel's government will not allow the U.S. to dictate its policy, and that "settlement construction will not be halted."
In the days leading up to Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington,
Yisrael Beiteinu, the far-right party led by Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman, announced that it would seek a bill in the Knesset banning
Palestinian citizens of Israel--now 20 percent of the population--from
commemorating the anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), their way of
marking the founding of Israel, which involved the expulsion or flight
of some 750,000 Palestinians.
An FBI informant and an
undercover Minnesota sheriff's deputy spied on political activists in
Iowa City last year before the Republican National Convention in St.
Paul, Minn.
Confidential FBI documents obtained by The Des
Moines Register show an FBI informant was planted among a group
described as an "anarchist collective" that met regularly last year in
Iowa City. One of the group's goals was to organize street blockades to
disrupt the Republican convention, held Sept. 1-4, 2008, where U.S.
Sen. John McCain was nominated for president.
Successive Israeli governments since 1993 certainly must have known what they were doing, being in no hurry to make peace with the Palestinians. As representatives of Israeli society, these governments understood that peace would involve serious damage to national interests.
Economic damage:
Women know that war is SO over. We know it in our hearts, in our
guts, in our wombs. We know that the madness in Iraq and Afghanistan
has to end, that we cannot keep sending our children to kill the
children of mothers across the globe. Last month at an appearance in Turkey, President Obama himself said “…sometimes I think that if you just put the mothers in charge for a while, that things would get resolved.”
More than 15,000 admirers celebrated Pete Seeger's 90th birthday
with him at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, which included a greeting
from President Barack Obama.
On Holy Thursday, at 3 p.m.
in the afternoon, fourteen of us walked on to the Creech Air Force Base
near Indian Springs, Nevada (about an hour northwest of Las Vegas) to
pray and speak out against the U.S. unmanned drones which take off every
two minutes in practice runs for bombing raids in Central Asia. After
three hours, we were arrested, put in handcuffs and chains, then jailed
for the night in Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has spoken out forcefully - including this week, in
Ankara, Turkey - in favour of building an independent Palestinian state
alongside a still robust Israel. However, many Palestinians have noted that
President George W. Bush also, in recent years, expressed a commitment to
Palestinian statehood. But, they note, Bush never took the actions necessary to
achieve such a state - and neither, until now, has Obama.
In a remarkable speech for any American leader, President Obama,
speaking in Prague on April 5, 2009, provided new hope for a world free
of nuclear weapons. "I state clearly and with conviction," he said,
"America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without
nuclear weapons." He told his audience that America, as the only
country to have used nuclear weapons, "has a moral responsibility to
act."
