Jimmy Carter Shuns Middle East Debate

The Associated Press is reporting that, “Carter Nixes Debate With Outspoken Prof Dec:”

Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor “knows nothing about the

 In the Washington Post, Anne Plummer Flaherty reports that Senator Bill Nelson(D-FL), pictured seating on the right, “Senator Defies Bush:”

Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, met with

The Guardian- The outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, is backing a call for the president of Iran to be charged with inciting genocide because of his speeches advocating the destruction of the state of Israel.

Barely

From the Whiite House:

The United States supports the Syrian people’s desire for democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. Syrians deserve a government whose legitimacy is grounded in the consent of the people, not brute force.

The Syrian

(Fox) Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to offer a blistering criticism of the Bush administration’s foreign policy in a farewell speech Monday to a crowd in Independence, Mo.

A copy of the speech originally obtained by USA Today and

In a perverse illlustration of Jimmy Carter’s moral sense, or lack of same, the Associated Press reports,  “Gaza gunmen target children:”

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian gunmen killed three young children of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer

Hume:

A longtime adviser to Jimmy Carter has resigned his position as a Carter Center fellow over the former president’s new book. Emory University professor Kenneth Stein wrote in a letter to Mr. Carter that the title of the book

Hamas is claiming to have meet with US democratic party delegation:

(IsraelNN.com) Unnamed sources in the Islamist Hamas terror organization, currently holding power in the Palestinian Authority, said today that a Hamas delegation met with senior members of

You’ll recall when I left the last evening my wife was still having problems with a loss of her mother’s canary. She had been saying for years that when those birds went she didn’t want any more.  But, LO and

Power Line notes this morning:

Even with all of the recent talk about foreign policy “realism,” one of the major tenets of leading realists (George F. Kennan and Hans Morgenthau come to mind) has gone largely ignored. Most realists subscribe

So, now we see the results of the Iraq study commission:

WASHINGTON —AP– A leader of a bipartisan commission on U.S. options in Iraq said the group has agreed on a set of recommendations due next week, and published reports

Just yesterday, I commented on this brand new Israeli initiative for peace.

First of all this is a game we’ve played so many times, it’s taking on the status of Charlie Brown and the football. The game always ends

JERUSALEM Nov 25, 2006 (AP)— Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire Saturday to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state a major

David Ignatius at the Wapo looks at the recent assassination of Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, and says:

A disease is eating away at the Middle East. It afflicts the Syrians, the Iraqis, the Lebanese, even the Israelis. It is

Look, I don’t know anyone who would be taking Maureen Dowd very seriously anymore.  That point aside, her writing of the other day, shows is clearly that the left really didn’t have anything in terms of a plan for Iraq.