The web site of Ramzy Baroud, PalestineChronicle.com, was hacked into earlier today. A message on the screen read: "Hacked by ISRAELI Hackers." The site is under maintenance and will return soon. Baroud, the author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle, joins us on GRITtv today. And by phone, Uri Avnery, a founding member of Gush Shalom and the author of 1948: A Soldier's Tale--The Bloody Road to Jerusalem. Avnery wrote earlier this week that, “This war is a writing on the wall: Israel is missing the historic chance of making peace with secular Arab nationalism. Tomorrow, It may be faced with a uniformly fundamentalist Arab world, Hamas multiplied by a thousand.”
Will the international community negotiate with Hamas? And if not, what way forward in Israel/Palestine? Will Israel agree to a negotiated ceasefire or will they escalate the ground invasion?
You can see a screen shot of Baroud’s hacked web site here:
http://www.manholefires.com/im…..hacked.jpg
By GRITtv on January 7th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Wash Post on the one president at a time doctrine:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..03104.html
Aides say the president-elect’s silence on foreign policy follows a long-held principle that reserves such issues to the president. Offering a competing voice could have immediate consequences for U.S. policy.
“President-elect Obama believes it is important to adhere to the constitutional principle that there is only one president at a time, and it is extremely important in the arena of foreign policy that it is clear who is speaking on behalf of the United States,” incoming press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
By GRITtv on January 7th, 2009 at 12:01 pm