Veröffentlicht am 20.04.2016
Liberal Zionists are no Arab lovers!
with Isaac Herzog, Zionist Union.

(20.4.2016) The leader of Israel’s center-left Zionist Union opposition party said Tuesday that to win over more of the Israeli public it had to stop giving the impression that it is a party of “Arab-lovers,” a derogatory term often used by the extreme right to insult those who they perceive as obsessively defending and championing Israeli Arabs or Palestinians, whether in the political or social spheres.

(17.4.2016) Protecting allies and partners like Israel is one of the most solemn duties of any Commander-in-Chief. Yet others in this race suggest we must remain “neutral” in order to negotiate. But Israel’s safety is simply non-negotiable. And it would be a grave mistake for the United States to cede the mantle of leadership in the peace process to anyone else.

“It is deeply anti-democratic — and much as I admire the United States, and much as I respect the President, I believe he must admit that his country would not dream of embroiling itself in anything of the kind,” the mayor stated. “The US guards its democracy with more hysterical jealousy than any other country on earth.”

President Obama’s call for British voters not to pull out of the European Union is an act of hypocrisy so blatant, it’s breathtaking.

Anglophiles on both sides of the Atlantic were not amused.

“You shouldn’t be afraid to hear an argument being made,” he said. “It’s not a threat.”

He said it so calmly, so casually – indeed, so charmingly – that you could easily have believed it. And he was speaking just as calmly, casually and charmingly less than a minute later, when he said that if the UK thought it would get a free trade deal with the US after Brexit, it was frankly dreaming.

Besides, it is reassuring to know that he is a friend of this country. One of his first acts as president was to remove the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, so some of us formed the view that he thought the Anglo-American relationship was no longer all that special. Seven years later, we are being proved wrong.

It turns out Mr Obama now thinks it is so special that it authorises him to take part in our electoral process.

Cameron ist beileibe kein schlechter Redner, aber nun, am späten Nachmittag eines Freitags, der sich in schönstem Londoner Niesel präsentiert hatte, stand er neben einem Mann, der ihm, dem guten Rhetoriker, als Redner weit überlegen ist. Der verliebte Blick war vielleicht in erster Linie der Dankbarkeit geschuldet.

Back in February, we noted that the TPP has been officially signed, and that the focus now moves on to ratification by each of the 12 participating countries. On this score, there‘s been plenty of sound and fury in the US, including bizarre demands to re-negotiate TPP, but less coverage of what is happening elsewhere. As we noted, Canada‘s ratification has ground to a halt as the new government there launches „widespread consultations.“ Japan, too, won‘t be ratifying TPP for a while, for reasons explained by The Mainichi site:

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