The Post-Partisan Emporium

  No, the Palestinians Did Not Vote for More Terrorism in the 2006 Elections MIKE WHITNEY https://twitter.com/TvTecpro/status/1754107896118305157 Is this statement true or false: Israel is justified in flattening Gaza because the Palestinians elected Hamas in 2006 which proves they support terrorism. True False The answer is “2”. The 2006 elections do not prove that the Palestinians support terrorism. Quite the contrary. What the polling data shows is that the majority of people voted on issues completely unrelated to terrorism. Here’s what they voted for: Safety and Security (37%) Decreased Corruption (25%) What a surprise, eh? So, the Palestinians want the same thing that people want everywhere; More security and less corruption. No one—and I mean no one—voted for Hamas because they thought the group would instigate more bloody confrontations with Israel. The fact that “safety and security” were the Number 1 issue, shows that there’s no appetite for more conflict at all. Palestinians

  All Species Are thriving But Man The real threat is environmentalists, bureaucrats and politicians ELIZABETH NICKSON When I moved to the country at the age of 48 I was exhausted and sick. I spent most afternoons in bed, reading and resting and watching bad TV. I’d grown up in the country, but at 17, moved to the cities for education, and lived in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, New York and London, about 6 years in each, adding Paris because I worked there so often, I almost rented an apartment. More like a closet with a bed in Le Marais. “Some of us are bound to the earth,” a friend writes from her five acres in Ireland, which she is trying to rewild. I never felt completely well in the cities, I was trading youth and strength for enough knowledge to get out and make a living, a life, before I got cancer or heart disease, which is essentially how I thought of it. Another year, I’d say to myself, stick it out for one more year. I live now embedded in nature. My first house had a specta