{"id":2955,"date":"2009-03-17T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:00:19","slug":"2009-3-17-links-for-march-17th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2955","title":{"rendered":"Links for March 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for March 17th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/kamiya\/2009\/03\/17\/middle_east_obama\/print.html\">Salon.com | Obama&#8217;s Middle East moment of truth<\/a> &#8211; &quot;Obama&#39;s refusal to stand up for Freeman indicates that he is unwilling to challenge Washington&#39;s quasi-official, bipartisan policy of unswerving support for Israel, and raises serious questions about whether he will be prepared to confront the incoming right-wing Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu. But if he fails to do so, all his diplomatic overtures in the region will only be so much hot air.&quot; Kudos to Salon!<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20090317\/wl_mideast_afp\/egyptuspalestinianpolitics\">Egypt envoy in US to seek softer stand on Hamas<\/a> &#8211; Suleiman in Washington, after Gamal, Suzanne, Mohieldin, Boutros-Ghali and Rachid. But they clear the agenda for Baba Hosni himself to make his comeback after five years?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/article\/2009\/mar\/23\/00006\/\">The American Conservative &#8212; Freeman&rsquo;s Fight<\/a> &#8211; Philip Weiss on Chas Freeman (note the irony of Weiss, a Jewish leftist, finding the American Conservative one of the only publication willing to carry his excellent critiques of American Zionism.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reliefweb.int\/rw\/rwb.nsf\/db900SID\/RMOI-7Q6KGS?OpenDocument\">ReliefWeb &raquo; Document &raquo; OPT\/Gaza: World&#8217;s leading investigators call for war crimes inquiry &#8211; open letter<\/a> &#8211; &quot;Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson and Justice Richard Goldstone among signatories &quot;shocked to core&quot; by recent events.&quot; They call for a UN commission of inquiry.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/walt.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/03\/16\/the_quagmire_in_southwest_asia_how_did_we_get_there\">Time to rethink our strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan | Stephen M. Walt<\/a> &#8211; Stephen Walt is a Talking Heads fan! Here he tracks down the broad steps that led to the fall of the American imperium in Southwest Asia \/ Gulf region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for March 17th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/kamiya\/2009\/03\/17\/middle_east_obama\/print.html\">Salon.com | Obama&#8217;s Middle East moment of truth<\/a> &#8211; &quot;Obama&#39;s refusal to stand up for Freeman indicates that he is unwilling to challenge Washington&#39;s quasi-official, bipartisan policy of unswerving support for Israel, and raises serious questions about whether he will be prepared to confront the incoming right-wing Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu. But if he fails to do so, all his diplomatic overtures in the region will only be so much hot air.&quot; Kudos to Salon!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20090317\/wl_mideast_afp\/egyptuspalestinianpolitics\">Egypt envoy in US to seek softer stand on Hamas<\/a> &#8211; Suleiman in Washington, after Gamal, Suzanne, Mohieldin, Boutros-Ghali and Rachid. But they clear the agenda for Baba Hosni himself to make his comeback after five years?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/article\/2009\/mar\/23\/00006\/\">The American Conservative &#8212; Freeman&rsquo;s Fight<\/a> &#8211; Philip Weiss on Chas Freeman (note the irony of Weiss, a Jewish leftist, finding the American Conservative one of the only publication willing to carry his excellent critiques of American Zionism.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reliefweb.int\/rw\/rwb.nsf\/db900SID\/RMOI-7Q6KGS?OpenDocument\">ReliefWeb &raquo; Document &raquo; OPT\/Gaza: World&#8217;s leading investigators call for war crimes inquiry &#8211; open letter<\/a> &#8211; &quot;Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson and Justice Richard Goldstone among signatories &quot;shocked to core&quot; by recent events.&quot; They call for a UN commission of inquiry.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/walt.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/03\/16\/the_quagmire_in_southwest_asia_how_did_we_get_there\">Time to rethink our strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan | Stephen M. Walt<\/a> &#8211; Stephen Walt is a Talking Heads fan! Here he tracks down the broad steps that led to the fall of the American imperium in Southwest Asia \/ Gulf region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}