Friday News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-08-12/friday-news-roundup-hour-2
A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories: England was rocked by the worst riots in decades; fears of a French debt downgrade plagued world markets; Syrian president Assad vowed to press ahead with his crackdown on protestors despite new U.S. sanctions; and a NATO airstrike killed Taliban militants who downed a US helicopter last weekend.
Guests
Nadia Bilbassy
senior U.S. correspondent, MBC TV -- Middle East Broadcast Centre.
Yochi Dreazen
senior national security correspondent, National Journal magazine.
Courtney Kube
national security producer for NBC News.
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How does Tzipi and her party feel about the demonstrations in Israel?
Heaven Is What I Can Never Teach
Heaven is all that some won't see.
People treated like disease.
Providing naught but broken wings.
Then heaven is not meant for me.
If yellow becomes one color is the sun?
When, butterflies with out wings can fly.
And popes can sing a different song.
Heaven is a dream within our reach.
is it poetry
This question applies to international issues also.
Can your guest please discuss the 84 congress people who are taking paid for trips to Israel during the recess. Based on H.R. 2316: Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 I thought this legislation made these trips illegal? And why are they spending time in Israel and not more time in their districts?
Also are people aware that Iran named a street after human rights activist Rachel Corrie?
Iran names street after Rachel Corrie
Tehran pays tribute to US activist crushed to death by bulldozer while trying stop the demolition of Palestinian homes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/11/iran-street-rachel-corrie
If folks really want to know what is going on in Iran go to former Bush administration official as well as being a former CIA middle east analyst Flynt Leverett's website. If you listen to the MSM Rachel Maddow, Terri Gross not only allow guest to repeat unsubstantiated claims about Iran they both repeat those unproven claims themselves. Now on the Diane Rehm show, Talk of the Nation, Fact the Nation, Christiane Amanpour, George Stephanapolous, etc just allow guest to repeat those unsubstantiated claims about Iran.
I have heard Diane allow, Reuel Marc Gerecht and others to repeat these claims about Irans nuclear weapons etc with absolutely no challenges. This has been taking place in our MSM since the invasion of Iraq.
Come to Race for Iran for accurate info and well informed discussions about Iran
http://www.raceforiran.com/listening-to-what-iranians-say-about-their-nu...
You folks just brought up Egypts Mubarak in a cage. How soon do you think Americans will follow the Egyptian peoples lead and demand that the Bush adminstration warmongers be held accountable for their crimes against humanity?
It has been months since the Diane Rehm show has done any shows on what is happening in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Why is that?
This week Israel approves 1000s more homes in E Jerusalem as UN envoy is shocked and US says nothing.
Why is it you folks are not discussing this? Not even whispering about it.
Has your funding been threatened?
Diane and team can you please have Israeli journalist Uri Avnery about his book "The Other Side of the Coin"
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/08/in-1950-avnery-offered-first-israeli-corro...
"Despite the enormous success of In the Fields of the Philistines and his new-found celebrity, Avnery had great difficulty finding a publisher for his second memoir. The book eventually had two small printings in the 50s. It was attacked by critics as deceitful and “full of lies.”
The Other Side of the Coin contains a surprisingly stark and shocking view of what happened when the Samson’s Foxes (the author’s unit) invaded a series of Arab villages in what is currently southern Israel. In this book, Avnery portrays the Jewish army’s looting, raping, and killing of prisoners and civilians as commonplace and widely accepted occurrences among the Jewish fighters.
The following segment is Avnery’s depiction of the execution of an 80-year-old woman who had remained in the village of Daba after everyone else had fled. This memoir may be the first published Israeli corroboration of what many euphemistically call the Palestinian narrative.
Suddenly we saw someone. We were astonished to see a living creature here. It was an old woman. At least eighty years old. Wrapped in rags she sat in front of her house. When they run away the Fellaheen often leave the old and the blind behind.
We in the first jeep stopped immediately. Looked at each other.
“Not worth it,” Sancho answered the unspoken question. We drove on.
At the next crossroads we noticed that the second jeep, with Nachshe, Tarzan and Jamus, was no longer following us. With difficulty we turned back. The second jeep was standing by the old woman’s house. Nachshe stood in front of her waving his pistol."
Please have Uri Avnery on your program?
Seals' deaths is a major blunder and responsible officers should be punished.
Afghanistan war is looking like a quagmire. There is no light at the end of that tunnel.
There was an experiment at "civilizing" Afghanistan in 50s and 60s. We spent millions of dollars and this ended in the failure.
there was article about this in Washington Post called "Little America"
Somalia, Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, UK...nothing nothing about what is going on in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Zero.
A few weeks ago when I called the screener (not the wonderful and fair Dorie Anderson) said "the Israeli Palestinian conflict is not on my list" Not on the international list she said.
So producers, etc on the Rehm team hand the screener a list now on who or what kind of questions can make it through. So take it for folks to get through on the program asking questions about the critically important Israeli Palestinian conflict folks are going to have to ask the screener exactly what is on that list...get through the screener and ask critically important questions and state critical facts (illegal housing and illegal settlements expanding) once you get on air....otherwise not going to get beyond the I lobby filter system now set on the Diane Rehm show. Pathetic
On the London riots and youth culture as one of entitlement (or as the caller said, rap videos instilling a lack of work ethic in youth)... Entitlement is endemic to the larger society. Elites and elders steal and wreak havoc, too. They just have more discrete means. White collar crime, anyone? Bernie Madoff? AAA-rated junk mortgage bonds? Let's not condemn one segment of society for inclinations that are much more pervasive than that.
Diane,
Thank you for your show. I appreciate that you shine light on so many issues. To that end, I was surprised that no one mentioned the Afghanistan troop draw-down as reason #1 for why so many Delta Force/Seals/Special Ops guys are now taking part in "routine" missions. The size of the territory the military is being asked to secure has not shrunk, the tenacity of the enemy has not withered, the military is simply being asked to continue the same mission with less men. Their response has been to lean on the elite forces in hitherto unheard of ways, the consequence of which was exposed in the disaster last week.
Please look into this if you can. I feel we owe it to the men and women in uniform to inform the public about what is actually taking place.
Thank you,
Daniel
Diane,
Thank you for your show. I appreciate that you shine light on so many issues. To that end, I was surprised that no one mentioned the Afghanistan troop draw-down as reason #1 for why so many Delta Force/Seals/Special Ops guys are now taking part in "routine" missions. The size of the territory the military is being asked to secure has not shrunk, the tenacity of the enemy has not withered, the military is simply being asked to continue the same mission with less men. Their response has been to lean on the elite forces in hitherto unheard of ways, the consequence of which was exposed in the disaster last week.
Please look into this if you can. I feel we owe it to the men and women in uniform to inform the public about what is actually taking place.
Thank you,
Daniel
kathleen wrote:
It has been months since the Diane Rehm show has done any shows on what is happening in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Why is that?
This week Israel approves 1000s more homes in E Jerusalem as UN envoy is shocked and US says nothing.
Why is it you folks are not discussing this? Not even whispering about it.
Has your funding been threatened?
Good Kathleen I hope they Israel move thousands more. Israel is a great country not like those backward Arab states around them that treat women as chattel.
I was very struck by Yochi Dreazen's remark that the UK is a police state. British filmmakers for a few years now have portrayed the rise of CCTV and the plight of working class/dole class families, and his comment shocked me with its sudden clarity.
I would love to hear a show on this topic.