Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Certe cose non si dibattono.  Anzi, non se ne parla

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6761_in_the_debates.html
(Ogniuno dei dibattiti citati e' linkato sul sito)
This Fall, Human Rights Watch declared Israel's limitation of fuel
supplies to Gaza collective punishment of a civilian population and
thus a violation of international law. As the area's humanitarian
crisis worsens, grim headlines about the misery of Gazans have become
all too familiar. I was moved to search the transcripts of the past 11
presidential debates to see if our presidential hopefuls were
addressing the situation in Gaza or the larger issue of the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict. What I found is troubling, though not entirely
surprising given the bipartisan consensus to support Israel, right or
wrong.
In nine of the 11 debates, the terms Israel, Palestinians, and Gaza
were either never uttered or were mentioned once or twice
peripherally. For instance, Joe Biden said at the October 30 NBC
debate that Pakistan has missiles that can reach Israel. The two
exceptions were the November 15 Democratic debate in Las Vegas, where
Bill Richardson, unprompted, briefly outlined his ideas for a two-
state solution, and the December 4 Democratic radio debate on NPR, in
which moderator Robert Siegel posed the single question about Israel
of the past 11 debates. Unfortunately, the query was effectively
avoided. Excerpt of Edwards and Obama dodging, after the jump.
    "When we do things that policymakers in Washington may think are
rational, like very strong support of Israel, that also upsets a lot
of those 1 billion Muslims you've described. How would you, Senator
Edwards ... answer the complaint that the U.S., in its support of
Israel, is so pro-Israeli, it can't be an evenhanded, honest broker of
matters and is anti-Muslim?"
Edwards proceeds to ignore the question, makes a point about
Ahmadinejad and says to improve relations with Muslims we must "help
make education available to fight global poverty." He makes no mention
of Israel/Palestine. Siegel then turns to Obama. The senator says we
need to close Guantanamo and talk not just to our friends but to our
enemies. He, like Edwards, doesn't touch the Israel issue. To their
credit, Dodd and Kucinich do a much better job at engaging.
So in the past 11 debates the grand total of references to the Gaza
Strip is zero. Considering that Israel is our biggest ally in the
Middle East and the biggest recipient of U.S. aid in the world, isn't
it about time the candidates were asked what they think of our ally's
destructive policies in Gaza? Will any moderator have the courage to
pose the question?

 (Ogniuno dei dibattiti
ROTFL
Tb
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Libertą per i comunisti siriani in carcere: Fateh Jamus, 'Isam Dimashqi,
Basel Hurani, 'Abd al-Halim Rumieh, Ratib Sha'bu, and Doha 'Ashur
al-'Askari 
http://snipurl.com/1oqtm

 pose the question?
Quello che si definisce "un silenzio assordante".
Oggettivamente è un silenzio che inquieta, che non fa bene.

 Oggettivamente è un silenzio che inquieta, che non fa bene.
Eppure mi sembra che urli parecchio, pirla.
Tb
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Libertà per i comunisti siriani in carcere: Fateh Jamus, 'Isam Dimashqi,
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* Tonibaruch wrote, Il 13/01/2008 1.26:
Puzza di bagarozzo... deve esserci un nido nello scarico.  Bleach!