International Political Will

Part of the reason I like political comedians, like Jon Stewart or Bill Maher, is because they often use humor to expose truths.
Bill Maher’s documentary Religulous looks at extremism and its literal interpretations of scripture. He clearly is attempting to get viewers to reevaluate their beliefs and abandon religious extremism. Maher bemoans religion as unfounded [...]

I wonder how that appeasement tastes to Obama right about now.
First he boldly proclaims the US demands a freeze of Israeli settlements. Netanyahu and the Israeli right-wing tell the U.S. president to go f**k himself.

In only a matter of weeks, Obama bends over on the Israeli settlement issue and lets Netanyahu have his way with [...]

The embarrassing praise and adoration that the media is pouring on Obama after his “speech to the Muslim world” in Cairo is proof that liberals no longer have a voice in public policy.
Instead, we are left with a pseudo-debate between the right and the center, with spin doctors trying to convince Americans (and even the [...]

Last week, the New York Times published an article headlined “Why the Arabs Splinter Over Gaza” that was anything but a description of “why.” The story was actually just another example of observations disconnected from context that masquerade as news.
Three Arab countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan) refused to attend an Arab League summit on [...]

Another year, another Israeli-Arab war.
And another pile of horseshit to convince us that it is only the Muslims’ fault.
The six-month ceasefire in Gaza ended in late December, and – according to American mainstream media, pundits, politicians, and so-called journalists – it ended because Hamas started firing rockets.
Okay, but such an illogical conclusion requires several conditions:
Let’s [...]