In today's news round up, voices in both the Western press and Israel are questioning Netanyahu's strategy of intentionally blowing of the Obama Administration with the alleged goal of keeping his coalition intact (and continuing his goal of ethnically cleansing Palestinians from any future Palestinian state). The Wall Street Journal publishes an idiotic opinion piece by a simplistic tool, who alleges that Arabs "hate" the United States because of Lady Gaga, not because of our failure to stop Israeli settlements. The international community continues to find alleged evidence of Iranian attempts to develop nuclear weapons.
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FT.com / Comment / Opinion - A deaf and defiant Israel is gambling with its future
"Yet Israel’s claim upon East Jerusalem is rooted in a sense of moral entitlement, which the rest of the world increasingly rejects. Some day Americans will awaken to the heavy strategic price their own nation pays for indulging Israeli excesses. Israel may be successful in securing all of Jerusalem within its own borders. But it runs the historic risk of making itself, by a ghastly irony, a pariah state."
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Destruction of Gazan cheese factory continues pattern Goldstone found illegal
"The targeting of the means of sustenance for the civilian population in Gaza is an area that Judge Richard Goldstone focused on in his United Nations report on the Israeli assault on Gaza. I assume the crude logic behind the targeting of a cheese and dairy factory in the heart of Gaza is part of putting “Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” as Dov Weisglass, an adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said, in explaining the suffocating blockade that has been imposed on the Gaza Strip."
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Lady Gaga vs. the Occupation - By Thomas Hegghammer | Foreign Policy
"In recent weeks, U.S. Gen. David Petraeus and others have made headlines by suggesting that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict increases anti-Americanism in the Muslim world. The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens takes issue with this claim, arguing that cultural Westernization -- in the form of Lady Gaga and other imports that scandalize Muslim conservatives -- is a more important cause of anti-Americanism in the Muslim world than the Palestinian conflict. Stephens notes that Islamists resented American culture well before the Palestinian issue became prominent. As key evidence, he cites Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb's rants on American culture following the latter's stay in the United States in the late 1940s. "
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Wine Makers in California's Anderson Valley Battle Smoke Taste - WSJ.com
"PHILO, Calif.—In wine vernacular, "smoky bacon" is a prized flavor for pinot noir. Not so is "wet ashtray," which is where the powdered sturgeon bladders come in. The 2008 pinot noirs from here in California's Anderson Valley are starting to show up in stores. But severe forest fires during the growing season hit the grape crop that year. The fires left much of the resulting wine with "smoke taint," according to many local winemakers, a condition similar to that in a "corked" bottle in which one unwanted taste overwhelms everything else."
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Iran Nuclear Ring Probed - WSJ.com
"An Iranian firm closely linked to Tehran's nuclear program acquired special hardware for enriching uranium, despite sanctions intended to keep such equipment out of Iran, according to officials with knowledge of the matter. In recent weeks, the officials said, an Iranian procurement firm obtained critical valves and vacuum gauges made by a French company that until December was owned by U.S. industrial conglomerate Tyco International. The French and U.S. firms said they knew nothing of the case."
- Report: Iranian nuclear scientist defects to U.S. - Haaretz - Israel News
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Protests mushroom countrywide | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt
"Scores of people demonstrating before Egypt's parliament building in downtown Cairo on Tuesday--for a host of different reasons--threatened to step up protests if their parliamentary representatives failed to address their demands. In recent days, the sidewalk opposite the parliament building has become the site of six independent demonstrations."
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