It's interesting to read the different articles popping up in reporting the event. Personally, the clown reference was amusing.

Walkout at UN conference after Iran president calls Israel 'racist' -Times Online (Countries Listed)

Iran's president slams Israel, sparks Western walkout, clown protest at UN conference
Dozens of diplomats storm out of UN ( Read more... )

Israel's image in China
By VICKY WU

"While Israel's image took a beating in the Western media during and since Operation Cast Lead, the Gaza operation elicited a very different, more positive reaction in China.

For starters, the state-sponsored China Central TV news provided context, describing the latest conflagration as a response to ( Read more... )

Israel expels Venezuela envoy

Israel says it has ordered Venezuela's diplomats to leave the country, following the decision by Venezuela to sever diplomatic relations.

Venezuela expelled the Israeli ambassador and his staff from Caracas on 6 January in protest at Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.

A week later, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ( Read more... )

Boycotting US products won’t work

DOES former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad seriously think that boycotting US products will work?

I say his suggestion, though noble, will never work because Malaysians, especially the young, love the US too much for the boycott to work.

There is also a call to boycott Israeli products. Unless I have been ( Read more... )

US envoy urges stronger Gaza truce amid airstrikes
By LEE KEATH Associated Press Writer © 2009 The Associated Press
Jan. 28, 2009, 5:32PM

JERUSALEM - As Israeli-Hamas violence flared, President Barack Obama's new Mideast envoy promised on Wednesday a vigorous push for peace, saying Gaza militants must end their weapons smuggling and the ( Read more... )

US peace envoy George Mitchell flies in as Middle East teeters

"The new US peace envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, flew into Israel today after a dangerous escalation in Gaza threatened to renew the three-week war that killed some 1,300 Palestinians.

The veteran mediator, 75, who helped to steer the factions in Northern Ireland to the Good ( Read more... )

Iran warns Hamas not to accept Egyptian truce proposal
Iran is exerting heavy pressure on Hamas not to accept the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel, an Egyptian government official said on Sunday.

The official told The Jerusalem Post by phone that two senior Iranian officials who visited Damascus recently warned Hamas leaders ( Read more... )

Egypt rethinks Philadelphi Corridor moat
"Egypt is considering a range of proposals on how to stop weapons smuggling through tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor into Gaza, including the construction of a moat along the border that separates the Sinai desert from the Gaza Strip, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Israel has destroyed close ( Read more... )

Posted From The Times

December 30, 2008That's enough pointless outrage about Gaza
The trouble is that we have no idea what the arguments inside Hamas are or how they are affected by Israeli actions

David Aaronovitch

Let's have a pointless discussion about Gaza and begin it by talking about whether Israel's bombing is “disproportionate”.

To ( Read more... )

The Saudi plan: 100 years of dhimmitude?
-The Jerusalem Post, article by Elihu D. Richter

"The republished Saudi peace plan - or ultimatum - offers 100 years of dhimmitude, the term for the protected but inferior and vulnerable status of non-Moslem religious and ethnic groupings in Islamic society. It purports to offer normal diplomatic and political ( Read more... )