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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she believes the Middle East is a better place for the policies of President George Bush.
Speaking to the BBC, Ms Rice insisted that a US-inspired 'freedom agenda' had taken hold in the Middle East.
She told her interviewer she was especially proud of the situation in the Palestinian territories, and said: 'I don't think that you have had an administration that has more actively been seeking a Palestinian state. The Palestinians now have a peace process that is the most serious one in many, many years.'
Condoleezza Rice Says Bush Made The Middle-East A Better Place
I do not think that the mentioned improvements — if any — are due to the efforts of DumbyaDuck but DESPITE him and his team of liars. There always were better solutions than to go to war but war was needed for the appropriation of oil. The battle-lines have been clear from many years: Control of energy sources by whatever means is paramount for maintaining power...Meanwhile many people have died, many people have been displaced and Allah hates Yamerica...
- By Gus Leonisky at 23 Oct 2008 - 9:21pm
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A skier was left dangling from a chairlift at an American resort after he became stuck upside-down with his ski trousers round his ankles.
Meanwhile:
But the problem from Israel's point of view is that Hamas would then be able to say that Palestinian resistance had forced Israel to lift the siege of Gaza, our correspondent adds, which is precisely what Israel - which seeks a severely weakened Hamas - does not want.
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Israel's military said the three-hour pause in operations to create "humanitarian corridors" for supplies and fuel would happen every day.
A Hamas spokesman said that the group would not launch any missiles at Israeli targets during the lull.
Israel has been criticised by aid agencies who have warned of a mounting humanitarian crisis for the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, who are unable to escape from the conflict because of Israel's blockade.
soon after:
January 8, 2009Israel Resumes Gaza Attack After a Pause to Allow Aid Delivery
By TAGHREED EL-KHODARY and ISABEL KERSHNERGAZA — Israel pressed on with its 12-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday , but it allowed a brief suspension to permit humanitarian aid to reach the beleaguered population and agreed to future brief halts, while the Israeli security cabinet postponed a vote authorizing a further stage of the ground operation.
The day after Israeli mortar shells killed as many as 40 Palestinians, among them women and children, outside a United Nations school in Gaza, diplomatic efforts to bring the fighting to a halt intensified. France, Egypt and Turkey were working on a plan that would work to halt rocket fire from Gaza into Israel, open up crossings into Gaza from both Israel and Egypt, and end weapons smuggling from Egypt. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said the cease-fire plan had been agreed on, but Israel and Hamas both said that there were many details to be worked out. Israel was due to send officials to Cairo for further discussions.
The death toll in Gaza reached around 660 on Wednesday, according to Palestinian health officials. The United Nations has estimated that about one-fourth of those dying in Gaza are civilians, but there is little certainty about the current figures.
Israel has said repeatedly that it will not end the operation in Gaza until it is assured that Hamas will stop firing rockets into Israel and that arms smuggling will halt. The Israeli military reported on Wednesday that a rocket fired from Gaza landed in a yard in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon and nine people were treated for shock. Three other rockets landed elsewhere.
The Israeli military contended that it fired on the United Nations school on Tuesday because Hamas fighters had fired mortars from the school compound. United Nations officials have called for an independent inquiry into the episode.
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Obviously La Gazza Ladra was playing the piano while someone was losing their dax (trousers). See toon at top.
it's time to be confused...