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2008-07-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Historic handshake: Barak meets Iraq's president in Athens

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Posted by Fred 2008-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 old antiwar meme: The "new" Iraqi "government" is maintaining the boycott of Israel - Bush overthrew Saddam for the benefit of Iran, and the neocon dreams of an Iraq friendly to the US and Israel were foolishness, the ideas of idiots who didnt understand the reason, and they actually harmed Israel

new (but even older) antiwar meme - This shows that 4000 Americans died for the security of Israel, the Jewish Neocons (thanks Joe Klein) put Israels interests ahead of America's, the Bush admin has submitted to the "Lobby"

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-07-03 09:24|| 2008-07-03 09:24|| Front Page Top

#2 In other news, both Barak and Talabani were present at a meeting of the Socialist International. That's pretty depressing. Does Labor still consider itself a socialist party? I had gotten the impression that they had slipped onto the neoliberal side of the fence.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-07-03 10:05|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-03 10:05|| Front Page Top

#3 i forgot the consie meme, "OMG! Theyre SOCIALISTS!"

Labour is divided. Many of the guys who moved over to Kadima were among the more firmly neoliberal ones. Peretz, the Labour leader before Barak, was seen as more "left". But that didnt mean renationalizing privatized companies, it meant more funding for social services which were cut under the old Likud govt when Bibi was finance minister. Barak is more concerned about security issues, IIUC, than about economics. I dont see that the Israeli Labour Party is really out of place in a Socialist International that includes the UK Labour party, or the German SPD, none of which are eager to abolish the marketplace.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-07-03 13:14|| 2008-07-03 13:14|| Front Page Top

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