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israel has nuclear weapons.
israel is in no danger from it's neighbors.
as for whether obama's administration is able to make headway in stopping the settlements, taking down those that exist, ending the system of checkpoints that impede the movement of palestinians, ending the ban on circulation into and out of jerusalem---it's possible, but it would require playing hardball with the israelis, who are in a weak position after the gaza atrocity. this despite the likud/extreme right coalition that is for the moment in power. but i do think progress is possible, so long as the administration is willing to break with the rubber-stamp relationship that the united states has had to anything and everything israel does, particularly over the past 8 years.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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