by INGRID B. MORK
I like Al-Jazeera on the whole, as being pretty fair-minded and unbiased. Occasionally little things annoy me, such as the various presenters habit of interrupting people I find interesting, or scathing remarks by certain presenters regarding regime members in Iran. Al-Jazeera seems to have become more Americanised lately, which can be a positive thing as well as negative.
Regarding Iran. There is one person who speaks occasionally as an expert on the situation there. I just can`t remember his name offhand. He speaks calmly and knowledgeably without getting angry or flustered. He is a proffessor at Tehran University. (I think his name is Mirandi.)
What I wish to talk about now is Clinton.
I would have watched Inside Story yesterday were it not for being subjected to the sound of the Clinton woman, pontificating at the AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee) conference on the rights of both Palestinian and Israeli children to live in peace and security. Noble sentiments indeed. I just wonder, where was her condemnation of the slaughter of hundreds of Palestinian children a year past January?
I’m afraid that I find the present trio in the White House, President Barack Obama, vice President Joseph Biden, and the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, almost as obnoxious as the previous trio of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.
Not only are these people directly responsible for the deaths and displacement of thousands, if not millions of innocent civilians in various parts of the world but they are indirectly responsible for the attrocities inflicted on the indigenous people of Palestine.