NO POINT denying it: in the first round of the match between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama was beaten.
Obama had demanded a freeze of all settlement activity, including East Jerusalem, as a condition for convening a tripartite summit meeting, in the wake of which accelerated peace negotiations were to start, leading to peace between two states – Israel and Palestine.
Goldstone’s report, incriminating Israel for war crimes, has been optimistically received by many as a sign of dismantling Israel’s impunity from legal actions for her war crimes and violations of international laws. Yet, at the same time, it is full of political booby-traps that Israel could use to indemnify herself and turn the blame onto Palestinians. Besides equating the Palestinian victims with the genocidal Israeli criminals, and denying them of their moral humanitarian right of self-defense, the report also grossly ignores historical events, distorts reality, and legalizes Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Obama Needs to Expand on His Good Instincts in Foreign Policy
Political Views
By MWC NEWS
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Although the tentacles of Baracktopus have slithered into as many parts of American life as those of his “big government Republican” predecessor, Obama does seem to have much better instincts in foreign policy than George W. Bush. But lest that be seen as damning by faint praise, let’s just say that Obama, like the Washington Redskins football team, is moving the ball down the field but needs to get it over the goal line more often.
Iran's president has denied his government violated International Atomic Energy Agency rules after disclosing the existence of a new nuclear-enrichment facility to the UN watchdog.
Five people have been injured after shots were fired at a funeral in Gaza City for two of three Palestinians killed in an Israeli air raid, Palestinian medical sources have said.
The UN Security Council has "condemned" the siege of the Brazilian embassy in Honduras by the military-backed interim government since Manuel Zelaya, the country's ousted president, took shelter there.
The Group of 20 will become the major forum for management of the world economy, granting more of a say to emerging powers such as China and India, a communique issued from a G20 summit has said.
The White House has acknowledged that it might not be able to meet the January deadline for closing the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, officials have said.
Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, has purportedly issued a new audio message online, calling on European countries to end their alliance with the US and withdraw forces from Afghanistan.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, has called on Israel to freeze all settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem so that stalled peace talks between the two sides can resume.
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