Outgoing Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, recently quoted as saying:
(I am saying) what no previous Israeli leader has ever said: we should withdraw from almost all of the territories, including in East Jerusalem and in the Golan Heights.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, in response:
We wish we had heard this personal opinion … (before) he resigned.
A unitary state is inevitable. Establishing an exclusive state defined along ethnic-religious lines and excluding its previous inhabitants was unjust and ultimately unsustainable. No political acrobatics will alter this. The sooner the UN, which unwisely created Israel in the first place, takes charge of the consequences, the better it will be for Palestinians, for Israelis and for the region as a whole.
BASILONE: So this neoliberal economic model, then, is this proof that it doesn’t work? Or are we going to still see more of this?
HUDSON: To its proponents it’s not proof, they’ll never admit it. It’s a demonstration of the impossibility of the magic of compound interest doubling and redoubling the volume of debt, and trying to pay retirement savings and pension funds, and making people rich by continually doubling the amount of debt in the economy. This is a crazy way. No other economy in history has ever got rich off debt, and this economy can’t either.
Why of course the people don’t want war … But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. — Hermann Goering
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