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geofgray

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I'm in the online medical informatics healthcare business--whatever that is.

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  • Breaking report: US/Israel military drill cancelled, after US tells Israel to back off
    • geofgray January 15, 2012 at 7:20 pm with 2 replies

      Perhaps Obama is heeding this warning made yesterday by Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s deputy prime minister and former envoy to NATO: ­“Iran is our close neighbor, just south of the Caucasus. Should anything happen to Iran, should Iran get drawn into any political or military hardships, this will be a direct threat to our national security.” Perhaps Obama doesn't want WW III on his watch, might tarnish the Nobel bona fides.

  • The New Yorientalist Times
    • geofgray March 26, 2010 at 10:36 am

      Note also Bronner writes that the 1600 housing units are for "an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood." What reasonable person would disagree with that? Of course, no mention of the 20 new units in the Palestinian neighborhood.

      Bronner is really a master of obfuscation. His use of the passive voice is one thing but also his canny use of details and focus. Here is the angry arab on bronner: "If an Israeli is killed by a Palestinian, the NYT leaves no doubt that the Israeli was killed by a Palestinian. But when Palestinians are killed by Israeli terrorists, the story is buried under such layers of details and various accounts and Israeli propaganda claims, that you are left confused not knowing what happened even when it is clear what happened."

  • Ban says settlements are 'illegal'
    • geofgray March 21, 2010 at 1:36 pm

      The NY Times in their effort to sequester Americans from the truth avoid using the word illegal, although Isabel Kershner this morning seemed to express mock horror by putting quotes around "illegal." Also, this morning Bronner called the new settlements in Jerusalem "problematic." Thomas Friedman usually calls the settlements "disputed" and Ms.Clinton has called them "unhelpful."
      However, as anyone who reads the European press knows: Every settler in every settlement in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights is illegal under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

      By all international standards—the U.N. Charter, the Fourth Geneva Convention, the rulings of the International Court of Justice—East Jerusalem has been indisputably recognized as occupied territory since the 1967 Six-Day War.

      U.N. Resolution 252 “considers that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, including expropriation of land and properties thereon, which tend to change the legal status of Jerusalem are invalid and cannot change that status.” It also reaffirms “... that acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible.”

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