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CNN
a day ago
- Politics
- CNN
A history of the White House Rose Garden
President Bill Clinton, along with King Hussein of Jordan, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, leave the Rose Garden in July 1994. Shortly after, the leaders signed a declaration establishing peace between the two countries. Wilfredo Lee/AP President George W. Bush, joined by Vice President Dick Cheney, right, and his economic advisers, outlines measures to boost the economy in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. J. Scott Applewhite/AP President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Judge Merrick B. Garland, left, after nominating him to the US Supreme Court in March left, and James Blair, White House deputy chief of staff for legislative, political and public affairs, view renovations to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 15. Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Sydney Morning Herald
a day ago
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
Recognising Palestine now only rewards Hamas, the side with clear genocidal intent
Amid the furore of the public debate about the war in Gaza, and whether Australia should now recognise Palestine, it is too often forgotten that recognition of a Palestinian state is the outcome preferred by both sides of politics. Since the first Oslo Accord, which created the Palestinian Authority and set in train the long-since interrupted peace process, the ultimate goal has been to achieve a 'two-state solution'. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since that sunny day in the White House Rose Garden in September 1993 when then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands with PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, under the benign gaze of President Bill Clinton. Today, peace between Israelis and Palestinians is much further away than it seemed then. Nevertheless, the two-state solution remains the objective; the question is not whether Palestinian statehood should be recognised, but when and on what conditions. As with most other democracies, Australia has long taken the view that that should not happen until Israel's right to exist is acknowledged – as it was by the Oslo Accords – and its security credibly assured by the Palestinians. Since Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007, the Palestinian Authority has been unable to give that assurance. The consequences for Israel of Hamas' control of Gaza – against which Israeli leaders long before Benjamin Netanyahu warned – were made horrifyingly clear on October 7, 2023. However critical one might be of Israel's response in the nearly two years of warfare since, nothing can alter what happened that day, and the intent those events revealed: the elimination of the people of Israel. That had always has been the explicit objective of Hamas, declared in its foundational documents. The Nova Music Festival massacre merely made it manifest. Notwithstanding the destruction of Hamas' senior leadership and killing of many of its fighters, its objective remains unchanged. The chilling irony of the debate about the Gaza War – in Australia, as elsewhere – is that those who most volubly condemn Israel for genocide are acting, wittingly or unwittingly, as apologists for Hamas, whose very raison d'etre is genocide. Loading Like 'fascist' before it, 'genocide' has become the go-to word of abuse for the left, a denunciation invoked with such indiscriminate carelessness that it has become unmoored from its true meaning. International law defines 'genocide' in the 1948 Genocide Convention as 'acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical [sic], racial or religious group'. The forcible occupation of territory may be a violation of international law, but it is not genocide. Israel's announcement last week that it intends to deploy armed personnel to secure Gaza City is not a threat of genocide.
The Age
a day ago
- Politics
- The Age
Recognising Palestine now only rewards Hamas, the side with clear genocidal intent
Amid the furore of the public debate about the war in Gaza, and whether Australia should now recognise Palestine, it is too often forgotten that recognition of a Palestinian state is the outcome preferred by both sides of politics. Since the first Oslo Accord, which created the Palestinian Authority and set in train the long-since interrupted peace process, the ultimate goal has been to achieve a 'two-state solution'. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since that sunny day in the White House Rose Garden in September 1993 when then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands with PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, under the benign gaze of President Bill Clinton. Today, peace between Israelis and Palestinians is much further away than it seemed then. Nevertheless, the two-state solution remains the objective; the question is not whether Palestinian statehood should be recognised, but when and on what conditions. As with most other democracies, Australia has long taken the view that that should not happen until Israel's right to exist is acknowledged – as it was by the Oslo Accords – and its security credibly assured by the Palestinians. Since Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007, the Palestinian Authority has been unable to give that assurance. The consequences for Israel of Hamas' control of Gaza – against which Israeli leaders long before Benjamin Netanyahu warned – were made horrifyingly clear on October 7, 2023. However critical one might be of Israel's response in the nearly two years of warfare since, nothing can alter what happened that day, and the intent those events revealed: the elimination of the people of Israel. That had always has been the explicit objective of Hamas, declared in its foundational documents. The Nova Music Festival massacre merely made it manifest. Notwithstanding the destruction of Hamas' senior leadership and killing of many of its fighters, its objective remains unchanged. The chilling irony of the debate about the Gaza War – in Australia, as elsewhere – is that those who most volubly condemn Israel for genocide are acting, wittingly or unwittingly, as apologists for Hamas, whose very raison d'etre is genocide. Loading Like 'fascist' before it, 'genocide' has become the go-to word of abuse for the left, a denunciation invoked with such indiscriminate carelessness that it has become unmoored from its true meaning. International law defines 'genocide' in the 1948 Genocide Convention as 'acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical [sic], racial or religious group'. The forcible occupation of territory may be a violation of international law, but it is not genocide. Israel's announcement last week that it intends to deploy armed personnel to secure Gaza City is not a threat of genocide.
Boston Globe
25-07-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Today in History: Tuskegee Syphilis Study exposed
In 1946, the United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device. In 1956, the Italian liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and began sinking; 51 people — 46 from the Andrea Doria, five from the Stockholm — were killed. In 1960, a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina, that had been the scene of nearly six months of sit-in protests against its whites-only lunch counter dropped its segregation policy. In 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the US Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing more than 100 of them to die, as a way of studying the disease. Advertisement In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first 'test tube baby,' was born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through the technique of in vitro fertilization. In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war. Advertisement In 2000, a New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first-ever crash of the supersonic jet. In 2010, the online whistleblower Wikileaks posted some 90,000 leaked US military records that amounted to a blow-by-blow account of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures. In 2019, President Trump had a second phone call with the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which he solicited Zelenskyy's help in gathering potentially damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden; that night, a staff member at the White House Office of Management and Budget signed a document that officially put military aid for Ukraine on hold. In 2022, on a visit to Canada, Pope Francis issued a historic apology for the Catholic Church's cooperation with the country's 'catastrophic' policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families, and marginalized generations. Today's Birthdays: Folk-pop singer-musician Bruce Woodley is 83. Rock musician Jim McCarty is 82. Reggae singer Rita Marley is 79. Musician Verdine White is 74. Model-actor Iman is 70. Rock musician Thurston Moore is 67. Celebrity chef/TV personality Geoffrey Zakarian is 66. Actor Matt LeBlanc is 58. Actor Wendy Raquel Robinson is 58. Actor David Denman is 52. Actor Jay R. Ferguson is 51. Actor James Lafferty is 40. Actor Meg Donnelly is 25.
Daily Mail
23-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
70-year-old Israeli woman is arrested over plot to blow up Netanyahu with an RPG
A woman in her 70s has been arrested after allegedly plotting to assassinate prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a rocket-propelled grenade. The pensioner, described by cops as an anti-government protester from Tel Aviv, was detained by the Shin Bet internal security agency around six weeks ago before she was under house arrest. Investigators say she expressed a desire to kill the prime minister and even sought help from other activists to get weapons and gather intelligence on his security. Israeli police said: 'The suspect is accused of having expressed her intent to kill Netanyahu. She is also said to have sought assistance from other activists to obtain weapons and gather information about the prime minister's security arrangements.' The investigation has now concluded, and the woman is set to be charged with conspiracy to commit a crime and conspiracy to carry out an act of terrorism. A gag order on the details of the case was lifted at the request of investigators, but the suspect's name and address have remained sealed. According to local media, sources indicated that the woman had fallen ill and was planning to 'take Netanyahu with her'. Those who heard the comments contacted police, leading to her arrest. The woman's words echoed events in 1995 when then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was killed by a far-right extremist.
