Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The Middle East Fallout

1.The Fatah movement organized a rally in Ramallah to support the Palestinian anti-settlement push and slam the US. The demonstration features racist elements, as protestors carried signs referring to Obama by his skin color, reading "Washington – the black hands support occupation and colonial thinking."

COMMENT: Apparently they have one or two racists amongst the Palestinian arabs....You think?

2.Newsweek - Clueless president -- "The result has been a foreign policy debacle. The president has alienated everybody, not only Mubarak's cronies in the military, but also the youthful crowds in the streets of Cairo. Who ever ultimately wins, Obama loses. Alienation doesn't end there. America's two closest friends in the region, Israel and Saudi Arabia -- are both disgusted. The Saudis, who dread all manifestations of revolution, are appalled at Washington's failure to resolutely prop up Mubarak. The Israelis, meanwhile, are dismayed by the administration's apparent cluelessness."

3.An Israeli Muslim filed a NIS 1.2 billion class action suit against The Central Bottling Company Group Ltd. (the Israel franchisee for Coca Cola) in the Jerusalem District Court today for compensation for mental anguish and infringing the independent choices of the individual. The plaintiff, an Israeli Muslim, filed the suit following publication on the web last week of what is apparently the secret recipe of Coca Cola, and which allegedly contains alcohol. The class action suit was filed by Advs. Hani Tannus, Ofir Cohen, and Mahmud Machjana.

COMMENT: This must be a printing error. According to DBS Israel is an Apartheid State!
Maybe separate courthouses....

4.Palestinian and other Arab leaders were outraged on Friday when the US effectively vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that condemned the Jewish presence in the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria as illegal. Israeli Arab lawmaker Ibrahim Sarsour wrote a letter of condolence to Abbas in which he insisted, “We must say frankly to Obama: You no longer scare us and you can go to hell. We knew his promises were lies. The time has come to spit in the face of the Americans.”

COMMENT: The diplomatic language used must be a dialect of arabic. And now a day of rage. What, somebody stole their candy?...so they throw a childish tantrum. This is getting to be B - O - R - I - N - G......Oh!  And another Israeli Arab lawmaker....for crying out aloud... how many of them are there in this Apartheid State?

5.In the past two years, Turkish construction companies launched $7.6 billion worth of construction contracts in Libya, according to Turkey's Foreign Economic Relations Board, or DEIK. In Egypt, Turkish investment is longer term, with $3 billion of assets on the ground. Trade with Syria tripled to about $2.4 billion, between 2006 and 2010, as Turkish textile, pasta and other companies moved operations to Aleppo.

COMMENT: Great timing Erdogan. Good thing you have those bank accounts in Switzerland.
 
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him - Roosevelt

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