The Israeli - Palestinian Problem Explained
Released Israeli Prisoner: He was told that Israel still had thousands of prisoners and was asked if he would like them released. “I will be happy for them to be released if they don’t return to fight us,” he said. “I very much hope that this deal will advance peace.” (NYT, 10/18/2011)
Released Palestinian Prisoner: Wafa al-Bass, in prison since 2005 when she used the chance for treatment at an Israeli hospital as a pretext to bring a suicide belt through the Erez crossing — trying to explode it when caught — said upon arrival in Gaza that Palestinians should “take another Shalit” every year until all the remaining 5,000 Palestinians prisoners in Israeli jails went free. (NYT, 10/18/2011)
Far From It
But it (Solyndra) is far from the only blemish on the administration’s much-touted green agenda. In addition to weatherization problems, an internal Labor Department report disclosed this month that a multibillion-dollar program to retrain workers for green-energy jobs met only 10 percent of its goal of creating 80,000 jobs. A federal renewable-energy lab in Colorado that got nearly $300 million from another green-energy program began laying off 10 percent of its workforce last month. (Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast, 10/17/2011)
Even Liberal columnists are disgusted by the breadth of Greengate.
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