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A Second Look at kucinich.us – We will create a New America and a New World

via kucinich.us – We will create a New America and a New World.

The hope that exists in the energy of the new year is in our ability to create new conditions.

We can draw forth peace from war and wealth from poverty. Listen to this important New Year message from

Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

I got this is my email this morning and I snickered at the thought of Dennis and how nobody listened to him and how they should, versus the Republican Neo-nut jobs like Bush Sr who’s going around beating the pulpit for his other son, Jeb and how no one should listen, but they do.

Anyway, Dennis says in the coming year we can either look at more war and  ignore the cancer of poverty in the U.S., or we can look at the possibility of peace and prosperity for all. Heady stuff.

At the end Dennis asks for contributions. It sort of throws a wet blanket on an otherwise uplifting talk.

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Is Negotiation Really out of the Question?

There are several articles out today about the Israeli/Gaza War, one of them is posted in The Huffington Post entitled “Where is Israel Going?” by MU Rosenberg.

That is a good question. Mr. Rosenberg wonders how the Arab world is dealing with the massive retaliation from Israel. News media are posting pictures of Palestinian families wounded and killed. This couldn’t set well with the rest of the Sunni world.

Wounded Palestinians

Wounded Palestinians

All I am saying is that there have been many instances in recent memory of situations where it was abundantly clear that necessity demanded negotiation with terrorists. We knew that in Ireland as recent as 1998 when a group of diplomats along with the Irish Republican Army negotiated the Good Friday Agreement.

From the article:

So the questions have to be asked. Does the Gaza war improve Israel’s long-term (or even short-term) situation? Might it not have been better to induce Hamas to stop the shelling by ending the blockade Israel imposed back when Hamas won the Palestinian election?

Ahem! Isn’t this a diplomatic solution?

I can’t condone raining rockets down on civilians, but sooner or later there has to be a realization that organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas are here (and sometimes gain enough popularity to be the majority party among Palestinians) and must be recognized if progress and peace is to be made.

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