Tzipi Livni, head of Kadima, Israel’s main opposition party speaking at the Herzliya conference on why a two state solution is critical for Israel: “Not because it’s some thing the Americans want, or as a favor to the Palestinians, but as our decision to secure our existence as a Jewish, democratic state … How long can we keep telling the world Israel is the only democracy when we continue to live in the territories, where there is a place where the government rules and where the Army rules? We can’t live on in this limbo.”
Bill Kristol says Glenn Beck is “marginalizing himself” with “hysteria” over Egypt.
Okay, it’s incredibly stupid and right out of a Bill & Ted’s movie. But you must hear the recording of the 911 call of guy who called 911 to ask “how much trouble” he could get into for growing a single marijuana plant in his home.
The US Chamber of Commerce has apparently sent a letter to Iran declaring its opposition to new sanctions aimed at slowing Iran’s nuclear program.
Palin cancels Colorado appearance due to onslaught of “negative rhetoric.”
Countering Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) hearings on radicalism among American Muslims, Muslim group hosts forum on cooperating with the Feds.
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AOL is buying Huffington Post for $315 million.
This passage from the Times write-up caught my eye: “AOL’s own news Web sites like Politics Daily and Daily Finance are likely to disappear when the deal is completed, and many of the writers who work for those sites will become Huffington Post writers, according to people with knowledge of the deal, who asked not to be identified discussing plans that are still being worked out.”
Interesting article in the Times about contemporary Turkey as a possible model for a post-Mubarak Egypt: more imbued with Islam, but democratic and far more economically vibrant. I think the piece somewhat discounts the pre-1980 Kemalist tradition as the (perhaps now slightly paradoxical) underpinning of modern Turkey. But interesting nonetheless and makes very good points.