This piece on Bush's speech from Jonathan Freedland
says it all in my view. That the Worlds first hyperpower could come up with this is very sad. I notice as well that there was no mention of the International Peace Conference at all in the speech so I imagine that one is dead.

I've often wondered why Shimon Peres thinks he's doing running the Labour branch of the Likud government. Now I wonder why Colin Powell is in the Bush government.

Either way it won't matter. There will be a major U turn by the USA sometime this year. Both the Republicans and the Likud have one thing in common. They're running their respective economies into the ground.

I was deep in gloom last night until I came across an old newspaper dating from the last elections in Israel when Barak lost to Sharon. There was a poll asking some 1500 Israelis of all political hues, Jew, Arabs, Druze, Orthodox and secular. Given the terrorist activity going on one would have thought the answer was predictable. However, the number on topic that concerned all Israel was Education.

There's hope yet.