Featured Articles — January 6, 2009

January 6, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Head:

Could Have Seen This War Coming By Richard Cohen
Nearly a year ago, I was in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, where, on almost any day, you could see the current war coming. “The next Middle East war may start over Sderot,” I wrote back then. I came by my prescience the hard way — in a bomb shelter. That day, three Qassam rockets had hit the city. It took no genius to see the imminence of war. It takes real stupidity to blame it on Israel.

Israel’s self-defeating Gaza offensive By Gideon Rachman
By sending ground troops into the Gaza Strip, Israel has crossed a line that brings it perilously close to strategic failure.

Mideast Peace Rests With Arabs, Not U.S., Europe By Bernard Lewis
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — The current fighting in the Gaza Strip raises again, in an acute but familiar form, the agonizing question: What kind of accommodation is possible, if ever, between Israel and the Arabs?

MIDDLE EAST MESS: O’S ‘CHANGE’ DEFICIT By Kirsten Powers
WHAT kind of “change” will Barack Obama offer on the Palestinian-Israeli mess? Since the conflict erupted back onto the front pages, his response has been disheartening to anti-war liberals, who overall have high hopes for the new president.

With 111th, the age of Pelosi dawns By Glenn Thrush
Nancy Pelosi, whose steel-and-satin political style was shaped by a childhood in the Democratic clubhouses of Baltimore and the chardonnay fundraising circuit in 1980s San Francisco, is living the paradox of a politician whose dreams are about to come true.

The law is on Blagojevich’s side By Erwin Chemerinsky
No matter what you think of him, the Illinois governor’s appointment of Roland Burris to the Senate meets the constitutional test.

Turning Off the Gas by Reuben F. Johnson
Kiev – AT 1000 HOURS ON New Year’s Day, the Russian state-controlled natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, shut down natural gas deliveries to Ukraine — the second supply cut in three years. Russia’s justification for trying to freeze its neighbor in the middle of winter is that Kiev is over $2 billion in arrears and has refused a 2009 price hike that more than doubles the 2008 rate.

How far should Obama go for GOP support? By Joan Walsh
I’m going to give Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt on his decision to include long-promised middle-class tax cuts in the upcoming stimulus package.

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