The newly “democratic” Palestinian leadership is trying to foster a peace plan, cease fire, road map with Israel. As has always been the case, the onus for any peace is entirely incumbent on Palestine.
That it is the victim in the sorry affair that has consumed the middle-east for sixty years charged with solving the problem is simply par for the course. But, there is some hope that with Yasser Arafat out of the picture, his successor, President Mahmoud Abbas can move Israel towards a just peace; though, to date, there has been little offered.
Jon Elmer is a Halifax-based journalist who’s lived among the people of occupied Palestine. He produces the blog, ‘From Occupied Palestine.org’ Jon Elmer and the mustard seed of hope in Palestine.
And; America has changed radically in the last four years; true, every president since Woodrow Wilson has pursued a nefarious foreign policy, but none until George W. Bush have dared assail the constitution wholesale as he and his colleagues have.
In the newest attack on citizen rights and freedoms, the Bush Administration, aided by the usual chorus of right wing radio and television loudmouth pundits has launched a campaign to purge America’s institutions of higher learning.
Kurt Nimmo is a New Mexico-based photographer, multimedia developer, blogger, and author. He’s frequently published by CounterPunch.org, and is a contributor to their political anthology, ‘The Politics of Anti-Semitism.’ His own compilation book, ‘Another Day in the Empire’ is now available from Dandelion Books. Kurt Nimmo and the great witch hunt in the second half.
And; Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with all that’s good to do in and around Victoria this week.
But first, Jon Elmer, watching the weary occupation of Palestine.
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