While admitting that she has not finished reviewing Judge Goldstone’s findings, Ambassador Rice nonetheless rushed to echo Israeli sentiments that the jurist’s report is “unbalanced, one-sided and basically unacceptable”:
- U.S. Rejects U.N. Proposal to Compel War Crimes Probes of Gaza Conflict (Washington Post)
Prison abuse of West Bank Palestinians stands as a huge obstacle to reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah:
- A Deadly Palestinian Divide (Washington Post)
Will militias prove to be the solution against Taliban intimidation?
- Pakistan Tests Civilian Militias to Keep Taliban Out of Swat Valley (Christian Science Monitor)
Obama suffers a major setback in policy with a runoff election unlikely to produce a winner until spring 2010:
As the opposition refuses to concede the presidential election …
- Iranians Rally on ‘Al-Quds Day’ (Al Jazeera)
… the AP “reveals” that Iran has engaged in “probable testing” of explosives arranged in a hemisphere, had worked on developing a chamber to carry a warhead on top of one of its missiles, and, along with any competent physics graduate student, has sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device:
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