The Palestinian Envoy to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva tells Palestinian Authority TV that the PA needs to be prudent about appeals to the Human Rights Council because every Hamas rocket – fired indiscriminately and without warning into civilian areas – constitutes a “crime against humanity.” He also notes reports from Gaza about how the IDF is sending advance evacuation warnings before bombing attacks. This candor will and is being seized on by supporters of Israel. But it’s just as much as rebuke to the rejectionist right in Israel who claim there’s no partner for peace among the Palestinians.
There’s a path to end all of this. Not just this flare-up but the whole conflict. It’s there. It just needs to be taken.
Todd Akin says Politico didn’t let him say all the stuff he wanted to say about rape.
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Rick Santelli, famously in 2009, by one measure launched the “Tea Party” with an epic rant about how big government was crushing capitalism while it was actually in the midst of saving it. Since then he’s been wrong about every economic question worth being asked. One of the CNBCers got tired of his nonsense today and this happened. Watch.
Rebecca Odes opines on Tom Junod and the lust (for 42 year old women) that shall not speak its name.
Remember back in May when there was a minor uproar when eighth graders were given a ‘critical thinking skills’ test in which they were asked to decide and explain why the Holocaust was or was not a hoax. They were given two anodyne descriptions from the Internet and then a third from a notorious Holocaust denial site.
Well, it turns out it was a bit worse than first reported.
TPM Reader JC writes in with a request …
Josh, I was really taken with your pair of tweets this morning about how, as David Ben-Gurion said Jews should “Fight the White Paper as if there was no War, and fight the War as if there was no White Paper,” so should we fight Israel-haters as if there was no Israeli Right with zero interest in peace, and fight the anti-peace Right as if there were no Israel-haters.
Two former Republican Utah attorneys general have reportedly just been arrested in a major corruption investigation. We’re adding the very rich details as we get them, including apparently the tangential involvement of “Law & Order” star Vincent D’Onofrio.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy and Malcolm X, talking before a press conference. March 1964.