THE FLASHLIGHT, March 1-7, 2008
THE FLASHLIGHT
March 2-7, 2008
No Peace without Justice, no Justice without the Facts
Mary Matossian, Editor
The United States
Economy
NYT 3-7 Krugman. Economic anxiety is eclipsing the Iraq War as the greatest concern of US voters. A shift of white working class voters who voted for Bush in 2004 may be the key to Democratic victory. Economic confidence is collapsing.
CNN 3-6. There are now 900,000 homes in foreclosure. There has been a drop in homeowners’ equity and a continued fall in home prices. On Thursday the oil price peaked at $106. a barrel. Bloomberg 3-7. The US lost 63,000 jobs in February.
NYT 3-6. OPEC refused the US request to increase its oil production. It said there is enough oil available; the high price is the result of US mismanagement of its economy and financial policy. [Most members of OPEC are Arab states.]
Presidential Primaries
CNN, NY Times 3-4. John McCain won the Republican nomination for President. Mike Huckabee withdrew.
Hilary Clinton won the Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island primaries. Her win in Ohio, which has a distressed economy, was decisive. Her win in Texas was very narrow, and Obama may end up with more delegates there than Clinton. Obama won Vermont. Overall, he still leads in delegates.
When Clinton went negative, Obama was said to have failed to hit back hard enough.
Iraq
NYT 3-1. After eight days in Iraqi northern territory, Turkey withdrew its troops.
NYT 3-7. Two bombs in Baghdad killed 54 dead and 123 wounded. Al-Qaida was blamed.
AIPAC Trial
NYTimes 3-3. A trial of two American Jewish officials will be in late April in Alexandria, Virginia in federal court. The case is concerned with how the supporters of Israel try to influence the US government. It is also concerned with the dual loyalty of US Jews (to the US and Israel).
AIPAC, the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee, maintains close contact with US senior policy makers, lawmakers, diplomats, and journalists. Two former senior AIPAC analysts, Steven J. Rose and Keith Weissman, are charged with espionage. They are charged with giving their AIPAC colleagues, journalists and Israeli Embassy officials information about Iran and Iraq which they learned from talking to high level US policy makers.
A number of high level Bush administration officials are required to testify: Condoleeza Rice, Stephen Hadley, Richard Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, et al.
The trial is occurring less than a year after the publication of a
heavily documented book, The Israel Lobby, by Prof. John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Prof. Stephen M. Walt of Harvard. The authors argue that Israel suppresses legitimate criticism of Israel in the US.
Israel/Palestine Conflict
Haaretz (Israel) 3-2. The European Union, United Nations, and Pope Benedict condemned the “disproportionate use” of force by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza, who killed at least 60 Palestinians in one day. They also condemned Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel.
WPost 3-2. In the last five days the Israelis killed 117 Palestinians. The Palestinians killed four Israeli soldiers.
BBC 3-6. Humanitarian aid officials in Gaza say that the situation there is the worst it has been in 40 years on account of the lack of food, medicine, and jobs. Israel is still blockading all entry points on account of continuing Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza.
[The rocket attacks are in response to continuing Israeli building of illegal settlements on the West Bank et al.]
NYT 3-7. On 3-6 an Israeli Army jeep patrolling the border with Gaza was blown up by an IED.
CNN, NYT 3--6-7. An East Jerusalem Arab driver, dressed is a Jewish religious student, entered the library of a West Jerusalem Yeshiva carrying a hidden Kalashnikov rifle. He killed eight persons, wounding nine others of which three were seriously wounded. The gunman was able to change ammunition clips at least once.
This Yeshiva, like others in Israel, had championed the illegal settlement movement, claiming that redemption could be had by “reclaiming” land [occupied by Palestinians].
BBC 3-6. Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza celebrated the event by demonstrating in public, calling the above attack a “heroic act.” The BBC reported that 410 Palestinians had been killed in the latest fighting.
President Abbas and President Bush condemned the Yeshiva attack. Abbas broke off peace talks with Israel indefinitely, but under pressure from Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice, said he would resume talks – without setting any date.
March 2-7, 2008
No Peace without Justice, no Justice without the Facts
Mary Matossian, Editor
The United States
Economy
NYT 3-7 Krugman. Economic anxiety is eclipsing the Iraq War as the greatest concern of US voters. A shift of white working class voters who voted for Bush in 2004 may be the key to Democratic victory. Economic confidence is collapsing.
CNN 3-6. There are now 900,000 homes in foreclosure. There has been a drop in homeowners’ equity and a continued fall in home prices. On Thursday the oil price peaked at $106. a barrel. Bloomberg 3-7. The US lost 63,000 jobs in February.
NYT 3-6. OPEC refused the US request to increase its oil production. It said there is enough oil available; the high price is the result of US mismanagement of its economy and financial policy. [Most members of OPEC are Arab states.]
Presidential Primaries
CNN, NY Times 3-4. John McCain won the Republican nomination for President. Mike Huckabee withdrew.
Hilary Clinton won the Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island primaries. Her win in Ohio, which has a distressed economy, was decisive. Her win in Texas was very narrow, and Obama may end up with more delegates there than Clinton. Obama won Vermont. Overall, he still leads in delegates.
When Clinton went negative, Obama was said to have failed to hit back hard enough.
Iraq
NYT 3-1. After eight days in Iraqi northern territory, Turkey withdrew its troops.
NYT 3-7. Two bombs in Baghdad killed 54 dead and 123 wounded. Al-Qaida was blamed.
AIPAC Trial
NYTimes 3-3. A trial of two American Jewish officials will be in late April in Alexandria, Virginia in federal court. The case is concerned with how the supporters of Israel try to influence the US government. It is also concerned with the dual loyalty of US Jews (to the US and Israel).
AIPAC, the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee, maintains close contact with US senior policy makers, lawmakers, diplomats, and journalists. Two former senior AIPAC analysts, Steven J. Rose and Keith Weissman, are charged with espionage. They are charged with giving their AIPAC colleagues, journalists and Israeli Embassy officials information about Iran and Iraq which they learned from talking to high level US policy makers.
A number of high level Bush administration officials are required to testify: Condoleeza Rice, Stephen Hadley, Richard Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, et al.
The trial is occurring less than a year after the publication of a
heavily documented book, The Israel Lobby, by Prof. John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Prof. Stephen M. Walt of Harvard. The authors argue that Israel suppresses legitimate criticism of Israel in the US.
Israel/Palestine Conflict
Haaretz (Israel) 3-2. The European Union, United Nations, and Pope Benedict condemned the “disproportionate use” of force by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza, who killed at least 60 Palestinians in one day. They also condemned Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel.
WPost 3-2. In the last five days the Israelis killed 117 Palestinians. The Palestinians killed four Israeli soldiers.
BBC 3-6. Humanitarian aid officials in Gaza say that the situation there is the worst it has been in 40 years on account of the lack of food, medicine, and jobs. Israel is still blockading all entry points on account of continuing Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza.
[The rocket attacks are in response to continuing Israeli building of illegal settlements on the West Bank et al.]
NYT 3-7. On 3-6 an Israeli Army jeep patrolling the border with Gaza was blown up by an IED.
CNN, NYT 3--6-7. An East Jerusalem Arab driver, dressed is a Jewish religious student, entered the library of a West Jerusalem Yeshiva carrying a hidden Kalashnikov rifle. He killed eight persons, wounding nine others of which three were seriously wounded. The gunman was able to change ammunition clips at least once.
This Yeshiva, like others in Israel, had championed the illegal settlement movement, claiming that redemption could be had by “reclaiming” land [occupied by Palestinians].
BBC 3-6. Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza celebrated the event by demonstrating in public, calling the above attack a “heroic act.” The BBC reported that 410 Palestinians had been killed in the latest fighting.
President Abbas and President Bush condemned the Yeshiva attack. Abbas broke off peace talks with Israel indefinitely, but under pressure from Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice, said he would resume talks – without setting any date.
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