Of ocurse I am going to take the opportunity to talk about the Hamas attack on Israel. First, I'd like to talk about my background, or baggage, regarding the country. I have lived in Israel, some years ago. This was not for religious reasons; I spent several months there working on a movie. During pre-production, weeks of location scouting and shooting the movie, I was all over the country, and spent a fair amount of time in the West Bank, where we also shot. This included a lot of places that normal tourists would not see, including predominantly Arab areas such as East Jerusalem, the Arab quarter of the old city, Ramla and the southern part of Jaffa, which is predominantly Arab. It also included heavily Orthodox areas like Mea Shearim. I dealt with Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and Bedouins. Here are a few things I believe I learned there: First of all, the Palestinians I knew were perfectly normal people with the same interest in living a safe, secure
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“Senator Mitch McConnell has begun an aggressive campaign to block President Obama’s climate agenda in statehouses and courtrooms, arenas far beyond his official authority.”
Which actually very loosely answers your question re Obama, for Coal vs Clean Power is another aspect of the fact that American politics is, to an arguable extent, mainly the competition between different corporate interests for hegemony, and all other priorities, including petty things like human rights and national honor, are secondary.