Epstein Secrets

. Insider (5/25, Pickrell, 2.74M) reports Israel's Iron Dome accidentally "shot down an Israeli military drone during recent fighting with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces told local media." An IDF spokesperson told Haartez, "As part of the round of fighting in Gaza and as part of the defens

Do More To Save Burma. The Washington Post (5/25, 10.52M) editorializes that the "unmitigated brutality" of the military junta that seized power in Burma through a coup in February "has provoked a relatively strong international response. ... But Western governments are still holding back from measur

t Hamas In Southern Syria, Gaza. The Washington Free Beacon (8/4, Kredo, 78K) reports Israel "waged counterstrikes on Tuesday in southern Syria and the Gaza Strip following aggression from Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syrian military forces, the Wall Street Journal reported." Israel deployed "a contingent of helicopt

an Pratt to be U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti; Barbera Hale Thornhill to be U.S. Ambassador to Singapore; Thomas Laszlo Vajda to be U.S. Ambassador to Burma; and Kenneth Weinstein to be U.S. Ambassador to Japan; /1:15 AM • Senate Banking Committee nominations hearing - Business meeting to consider the

eekend NewsVi (5/16, lead story, 3:00, 1.24M) that Netanyahu "says there is no clear end in sight to the violence between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu also defended his nation's military strikes." CBS' Imtiaz Tyab: "The horror in Gaza is only getting worse, after Israeli airstrikes flat

"a new history." Burmese Anti-Junta Militia Retreats From Town. Reuters (5/16) reports that the Chinland Defense Force, a militia group opposed to Burma's Tatmadaw junta, has retreated from the town of Mindat in northwestern Burma after an assault from government forces. The US and Britain called on

. Insider (5/25, Pickrell, 2.74M) reports Israel's Iron Dome accidentally "shot down an Israeli military drone during recent fighting with Mamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces told local media." An IDF spokesperson told Haartez, "As part of the round of fighting in Gaza and as part of the defense

Do More To Save Burma. The Washington Post (5/25, 10.52M) editorializes that the "unmitigated brutality" of the military junta that seized power in Burma through a coup in February "has provoked a relatively strong international response. ... But Western governments are still holding back from measur

was signed as EFTA_R1_00441 003 EFTA01964327 the Palestinians refused anything less than a return to the 1967 borders, while Israel only offered the Gaza Strip, much of the West Bank and parts of the Negev Desert. The failure of the meetings ushered in a new Palestinian uprising, known as the Second Intif

ation to choose words, and policies, according to their consequences, not according to some abstract moral scale. If praising dictators in Sudan or Burma, as the administration did at times, encouraged them to reconcile with their rivals, then they should be praised. Cutting ties to demonstrate the p

more self-reliant". Indeed, for a regime to be sanctioned 1s to receive an elixir: witness Castro, Gaddafi, the ayatollahs and the ruling cliques of Burma, Afghanistan and North Korea. That sanctioned regimes sometimes come to an end is not proof that sanctions work, rather that they take a long time an

uble-digits in the incoming parliament. The overall message is depressingly familiar to Palestinians: creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem is simply not on the list of priorities for Israel at the current time. And the Palestinian Authority is proving itself to be an

more self-reliant". Indeed, for a regime to be sanctioned is to receive an elixir: witness Castro, Gaddafi, the ayatollahs and the ruling cliques of Burma, Afghanistan and North Korea. That sanctioned regimes sometimes come to an end is not proof that sanctions work, rather that they take a long time an

ouble-digits in the incoming parliament. The overall message is depressingly familiar to Palestinians: creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem is simply not on the list of priorities for Israel at the current time. And the Palestinian Authority is proving itself to be an