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...instead driven by agendas hostile to the Jewish State. But suggestions of bias and hostility toward Israel are a more difficult response when similar claims are made by Israeli soldiers involved in the operation. In March, a group of soldiers who had fought in Gaza told a forum at an Israeli military college of a number of instances in which Palestinian civilians had been killed as a result of overly permissive rules of engagement for the operation that made such mistakes far more likely. Those claims prompted the IDF's internal inquiry, which contradicted the soldiers' allegations. (Read a story...
Johnson noted that at the education conference he attended, people were typing and reading tweets. This means that they were not engaged in the discussion at the table and that this tool was actually distracting from rather than enhancing the discussions at the forum. Aside from being a new venue to reinforce our sadly shortened attention spans, Twitter is a narcissist's dream of one-way communication. I, for one, will never care what Shaq is doing or thinking about anything. I don't care what anyone had for breakfast. I don't care what I had for breakfast...
...Rudd's next initiative is equally expansive. A year ago, he proposed the formation, by 2020, of a new Asia-Pacific Community that would bind the U.S. and Asia together in a regional security forum that would encourage stability in what Rudd says is still a "brittle part of the world." The bloc would build on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) birthed and nurtured by his Labor predecessors Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. In 2008, Rudd's proposal sounded like a pipe dream. Today, he argues, the need for such a grouping is all the more important because...
...Steven Johnson noted that at the education conference he attended, people were typing and reading tweets. This means that they were not engaged in the discussion at the table and that this new communication tool was actually distracting from, rather than enhancing, the discussions at the forum. It can easily be argued that the ideas lost from the discussion at hand far outweighed the brief ones gained via Twitter. Aside from being a new venue to reinforce our sadly shortened attention spans, Twitter is a narcissist's dream of one-way communication. I, for one, will never care what Shaq...
...June 24, ABC debuted a controversial new medical drama: Barack Obama, M.D. Actually titled Questions for the President: Prescription for America, the town-hall forum sat the POTUS down to field questions about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Before it aired, Republicans criticized it as an infomercial that would allow Obama to sell his platform to a vast prime-time audience...