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Why does not America use its big muscles to find a reasonable resolution between Israel and Palestine in the logic of two sovereign states whose territories could be defined by international law recognising the legitimacy of Israel with the borders drawn up before 1967 and not as envisaged by the Zionist Israeli politicians and American Jewish Lobby: unilateral demarcation of Israel borders? The grabbing Zionists believe that they would be doing a big favour in giving what was left over after the breakfast to the Palestinians their sovereignty. President Elect Barack Obama has to retrain himself in the future by making impetus silly statements that Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Zionist Israel but should offer negotiations to resolve this thorny issue.
It is about time that the USA finds a new direction leading to peace and harmony in the world, and an end to blood shedding, blood letting, death and destruction and killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in the Muslim world. 1.87 billion Muslims are peace loving people and wish to live in peace and dignity in their homes and countries without the fear of being annihilated by cluster bombs, cruise missiles, F16s???, B52 bombers and by land invasion by the mighty tanks of Israel and USA. President Elect Barack Obama must stop behaving in future as the judge, jury and law of the universe and show humility, humbleness and wisdom when dealing with global sensitive political and diplomatic problems and issues. Mr Obama is a father and a parent, and should remember that it is the most painful and hurtful thing to see one???s children and loved ones perish in senseless wars, act of stomach atrocities of violence and ugly terrorism.
Do we need to recall that before the creation of state of Israel, the same land was inhabited by another people, which it knew was their home? It was the realization of the Zionist dream that created the Palestinian nightmare. This is the truth that will have to make its destined way into Israel???s consciousness. Israel should realize the fact that their country was created when Islam suffered the most unfavourable balance of power in its history. Why does not America use its influence to make Israel realize its moral wrongs, the dangers and harm done to the Palestinians? Barack Obama must address these issues with fair and impartial mind, throw away the opaque glasses made in Israel for the Zionist Israelis, prescribed by American Jewish Lobby and worn by every US administration from the time immemorial.
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WORLD VIEW
Fareed Zakaria
The Case for Barack Obama
Obama is pushing to change the parameters of the country's comfort zone. That's leadership.
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It has become fashionable to lament the state of presidential politics and decry the tenor of campaigns. But in fact, this election has been a pleasant surprise. In the last debate, as the candidates discussed their respective health-care plans in some detail, the danger was that the American people would be turned off not by negativity but by boredom.
Compare this election to the one in 1988—when the Pledge of Allegiance, Willie Horton, flag factories and Belgian endives dominated the campaign. Or contrast the relatively brief appearance of William Ayers with the barrage of Swift-Boat attacks on John Kerry. Some of this is because the American people have clearly tired of slash-and-burn campaigns. But much of it is because the two candidates are men of decency and honor.
John McCain is brave, and this courage has manifested itself not simply in the prisons of Vietnam. Over the past two decades he has broken with his party and president on global warming, campaign finance, government spending and the use of torture. He has chosen, for the most part, to forgo the racial coding that the Republican Party had used for decades in its campaigns. But despite these tremendous strengths, as a candidate for president in 2008, he is the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time.
To watch McCain address the current economic crisis is to see a man out of step with his time. His responses have been a recitation of old slogans—cut taxes, limit the government, cut spending—that are largely irrelevant to today's problems. Does anyone really believe that tackling earmarks will get credit markets functioning? In some ways, McCain's intellectual fatigue reflects the exhaustion of the ideological revolution begun by Reagan and Thatcher. The country needs fresh thinking that is ready to accept new facts and new ideas. It's a new world out there.
On foreign policy, John McCain is a fighter. In fact, his bellicosity has increased over the past few years as he has discovered his inner neoconservative. He wants to keep the battle going in Iraq, speaks casually of bombing Iran and is skeptical of the Bush administration's diplomacy with North Korea. He wants to kick Russia out of the G8 and humiliate China by excluding it from that body as well. He sees a "league of democracies" locked in conflict with an alliance of autocracies. This is cold-war nostalgia, not a strategy for the 21st century.
McCain's problem is not only one of substance but perhaps more crucially of temperament. Throughout the campaign, he has been volatile and impulsive. He moves suddenly and unpredictably—one day suspending his campaign, the next urging that the chairman of the SEC be fired, the third blaming Democrats for the economic crisis. He apparently wanted to name as his vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, a pro-choice semi-Democrat with decades of experience, but then instead picked someone close to the opposite—Sarah Palin, a rabble-rousing ultraconservative with limited experience and knowledge of the issues.
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