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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu clarified that when he spoke in last week’s policy speech of international guarantees to ensure a demilitarized palestinian state, he meant international acceptance of the idea and not international forces.
Because we all know how well international forces has worked out for us in southern Lebanon.
Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)
9:05PM: Here is Pat Buchanan speaking out against Bibi Netanyahu and his “Neocon” agenda.
In case you had doubts that the word “Neocon” is a politically correct way to say “Jewish”.
8:25PM: Meanwhile, with this Thursday marking the third year of Gilad Shalit’s captivity, there is an initiative to bring his plight to a wider audience via Twitter. You simply need to use #Gilad in your tweets in order to help make it a trending topic.
8:18PM: Gilad Shalit’s father Noam has attended a Likud faction meeting and asked for the party’s help in securing his son’s release.
Meanwhile, allow this to be a reminder of the kind of people we are up against.
In Gaza, a spokesman of the Popular Resistance Committees that is holding Shalit said he has chosen get married on the anniversary of the kidnapping.
6:36PM: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has told German daily Bild that there is no conflict between the Iranian and Israeli people, and under a different regime, peaceful relations could be restored.
2:48PM: Either the JPost have committed yet another picture-caption blunder, or they mistook themselves for the BBC (hat tip: abunafha).
5:58AM: David Saranga, Consul for Media and Public Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York On June 17th, addressing the 140 Character Conference about the use of Twitter in Public Diplomacy.
