Rela Mazali, one of the leader’s of New Profile, has this to say in the Guardian:
According to Ha’aretz, the criminal investigation of New Profile is motivated by “growing concern at the defence establishment of a growing trend of draft evasion”. It is not New Profile that is worrying them, we are just an easy scapegoat [...]
I know this is way off-topic but I just had to share these gems from an article in today’s WSJ. Funniest thing I’ve read all week. Apparently, the apple DOESN’T fall far from the tree:
Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who had a baby last year, embarked on a media tour [...]
With the NY Times. Meshal is the head of the Hamas’ political bureau:
On the two-state solution sought by the Americans, he said: “We are with a state on the 1967 borders, based on a long-term truce. This includes East Jerusalem, the dismantling of settlements and the right of return of the Palestinian refugees.” Asked what [...]
Philip Gourevitch puts in writing his ideas re: Abu Ghraib and Obama’s release of the torture memos (I had mentioned some of these in an earlier post):
The natural first reaction on seeing the photographs of American soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners in Saddam Hussein’s old dungeons was to ask: Why are we doing such things to [...]