Why private and not public?

Here is a comment from Hillary Clinton during the Saban Forum on Nov. 30, 2012. It says it all:

"I think Israelis have good grounds to be suspicious. And I would never be one who tries to rewrite or dismiss history. The Palestinians could have had a state as old as I am if they had made the right decision in 1947. They could have had a state if they had worked with my husband and then-Prime Minister Barak at Camp David. They could have had a state if they’d worked with Prime Minister Olmert and Foreign Minister Livni."

My only question is this: why is it that such a comment is made in a private forum and not publicly?

Wipe them out....

From the Arab Higher Committee Delegation, in February 1948. Now, pay close attention to the last paragraph of their statement. Sixty five years later, nothing has changed:

“a. The Arabs of Palestine will never recognize the validity of the extorted partition recommendations or the authority of the United Nations to make them.

b. The Arabs of Palestine consider that any attempt by the Jews or any power or group of powers to establish a Jewish State in Arab territory is an act of aggression which will be resisted in self-defense by force.

c. It is very unwise and fruitless to ask any commission to proceed to Palestine because not a single Arab will cooperate with the said commission.

d. The United Nations or its commission should not be misled to believe that its efforts in the partition plan will meet wit any success. It will be far better for the eclipsed prestige of this organization not to start on this adventure.

e. The United Nations prestige will be better served by abandoning, not enforcing such an injustice.

f. The determination of every Arab in Palestine is to oppose in every way the partition of that country.

g. The Arabs of Palestine made a solemn declaration before the United Nations, before God and history, that they will never submit or yield to any power going to Palestine to enforce partition.

“The only way to establish partition is first to wipe them out – man women and child."

Today there are officially 49 Muslim countries and 16 Christian countries. But the Arabs and Iran still believe in wiping out the only Jewish country....

From Tripoli to Damascus

Good analysis from Gustavo Chacra, a Brazilian journalist from the newspaper "O Estado de Sao Paulo" (translation from Google, with some intervention....):


The rebels took Benghasi in a few days. The first UN resolution against Libya imposing sanctions, was approved in early March. At that time, the opposition controlled the whole eastern part of Libya, called Cyrenaica. Two weeks later, on March 17, when Gaddafi forces were near Benghasi, the main bastion of opposition, to crush once and for all the protests, the Security Council established the no-fly zone and opened the door to the NATO bombing - which were illegal in many cases for failing to respect the text of the UN. By the, a series of army and government officials had already abandoned Gaddafi. Still, it took another five month until his rule ended.
In Syria, Bashar al Assad's regime controls the entire territory, including Hama. There hasn't been one single crack in senior government or army. The opposition, although well armed, is unable to fight against a well trained and loyal army without NATO's help. So far, the UN has not approved even one resolution with sanctions and in the Security Council, the United States hasn't brought up thepossibility of military intervention.
Taking these factors into consideration, I wonder how long it fwill take for Assad to fall, considering that Gaddafi, who was in a much more adverse situation, lasted five months? Now pay attention, I wrote Assad, not the Baath regime ... Tomorrow, I delve more on this distinction.