Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- August 18, 2011



The Secret Talks That Won Gilad Shalit’s Freedom -- Patrick Martin, Globe And Mail

Three days after his brazen abduction by a small group of Palestinian commandos, Private Gilad Shalit became the subject of secret talks between Hamas and an Israeli activist.

It would take five frustrating years, countless rejections, one war and several false starts, but that secret channel of communications made it possible for Israel and Hamas to agree on a deal for Tuesday’s exchange of Palestinian prisoners for the release of now-Sergeant Shalit.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Barack Obama’s disastrous first 1,000 days -- Niles Gardiner, The Telegraph

Obama: The first thousand days -- Charlie Wolf, Daily Mail

Why Russia Fears US Afghan Plan
-- Joshua Kucera, The Diplomat

Time is running out to avoid civil war in Syria -- Gwynne Dyer, Japan Times

The Rise and Fall of Bolivia's Evo Morales -- Nicholas Fromherz, Foreign Policy

Will the World Ask Why Palestinians Celebrate Murder?
-- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary

Why US won't fully answer skeptics of Iran assassination plot
-- Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor

Why U.S. military in Uganda? Soros fingerprints all over it -- Aaron Kline. WND

The worthy mission to get Joseph Kony -- Michael Gerson, Washington Post

Can the U.S. Finally Defeat the Lord's Resistance Army? -- Max Fisher, The Atlantic

Is Islamic law to blame for the Middle East's economic failures?
-- Michael Schuman, Time

Why Greeks Are Protesting Bailouts Designed To Help Them -- Heather Horn, The Atlantic

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