Some of us in the United States would like to think that the Norwegian Nobel Committee did not confer the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to Barack Hussein Obama, our 44th president, as a prize for a promise yet unfulfilled but, rather, as a reward for a deed in the form of change; change which has already occurred, one brought about by and through Obama’s words.
Thank the gods for Michael Moore! In the words of Eugene O’Neill, "He could sell skunks for good ratters." If he were working his immense powers of persuasion on behalf of O'Reilly or Limbaugh or Beck, I would be gleefully tying a rope for a good old-fashioned lynching right now. Well at least Moore did say one incontrovertibly true thing in his essay of October 10th—“Get Off Obama’s Back—second thoughts from Michael Moore.”
People out there are divided whether it was a right decision to award Obama with a Nobel prize for peace. In fact, almost everyone around me is outraged, what ‘peace’ they ask, what about Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Palestine?
This “table” just had its 50th anniversary. It started by accident in “California”, the Café established at the time by Abie Nathan, who later became famous as the Peace Pilot. Afterwards, we met for many years at the legendary Artists’ Café Cassith. Since that place was closed down – like many other Tel Aviv landmarks – the table wandered to several other places and became known as the “Cassith exiles’ table”. The “House of Lords” one newspaper nicknamed it..
Although the politicians, media, and public believe few things are more important than preventing another al-Qaeda attack on America, defending the founding principles of the republic would seem to be one of them.
Turkey's prime minister has said that the opening of the country's border with Armenia will be linked to progress on the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Three car bombs have exploded in Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's western Anbar province, killing at least 19 people and wounding up to 81 others, in a well-coordinated attack.
The Israeli military says Ankara has prevented an annual air force drill in Turkey from taking place because of its demand that there be no Israeli participation.
Barack Obama, the US president, has told gay-rights supporters that he will end the policy that prohibits openly gay people from serving in the US military.
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