Israeli officials said the reopening of the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt — Gazans' only gateway to the outside world that does not pass through Israel — was conditioned on a deal to free a captured Israeli soldier.

Meshaal said Gilad Shalit, who was seized two years ago by Gaza gunmen, would not be released unless Israel freed Palestinian prisoners on a list compiled by Hamas.

Cease fire with Hamas.
Earnest negotiations with Syria.
Prospect of negotiations with Lebanon.
Hezbollah prisoner swap imminent."

Big deal. Same old settlements and wall under construction. Same old pushing America into a disasterous was with Iran. Same old greedy hands dug deep into American taxpayer pockets.

murdering young palestinians is what jews do.

Gotta love

"Prospect of negotiations with Lebanon"

So ridiculous that it belongs right up there with:

"Prospect of peaceful, democratic, zio-friendly state in Iraq",

…which Witty seems to have omitted, or is that not really the current mideast news cycle?

The US should just erase its doctrine of zionist interventionist imperialism today and let the world concentrate on trying to figure out overpopulation and sustainability.

Imagine the trillions burned at our five-sided pyramid of Empire going to I dunno, research on how to reverse the ecological degradation threatening the entire planet.

Imagine the Kingdom of Wall St taking its foot off the capitalist accelerator for a second and driving us somewhere we actually wanna go, instead of paving the way to Mesopotamia in worthless paper.

Of course these thoughts make me a crazy fucking nutcase.

Zionist interventionist imperialism, aka the American way of life, is "non-negotiable", so said our supreme leader Cheney on Tim Russert's journalism show, and so says Barack Obama paying his dues to AIPAC.

Besides, there's no one to negotiate with, or there won't be, once the American middle class is history.

your link takes me to some lecture on peak oil being a ruse rather than a reality..

shurely shome mishtake?