A 72 percent majority of Americans believe Bush is a good person, including an overwhelming majority of Republicans (93 percent) as well as majorities of Democrats (56 percent) and independents (74 percent).
Just over half (53 percent) think history will be cruel to Bush and 30 percent think history will be kind. Republicans (47 percent) are [...]
January 15, 2009
Americans believe Bush is a good person
January 15, 2009
Timothy F. Geithner vs Obama
Timothy F. Geithner, Obama’s tarnished selection for Treasury Secretary, is connected to Obama through their parents.
Geithner’s father, Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York. During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation’s microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by Ann Dunham-Soetoro, mother of [...]
January 15, 2009
Ban Ki-moon called for immediate ceasefire
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called on for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and for the opening of crossings to the Gaza Strip.
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January 15, 2009
Head of Hamas security apparatuses killed
Hamas’s interior minister, Said Siam, was killed along with his brother Iad and his son, as well as another senior Hamas man in an IAF strike on a house in the Jabaliya neighborhood in Gaza City, Israeli defense officials told
Siam was the most senior Hamas man to be killed in almost three weeks of [...]
January 15, 2009
Gaza Civilian deaths less than 25% of total
Jerusalem Post:
A maximum of 25 percent of the Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead are innocent civilians, the head of the IDF’s Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), Col. Moshe Levi, said Wednesday
According to Palestinian medical officials, Israel has killed some 1,000 Palestinians since the fighting began in [...]
