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The exclusive interview with the Afghanistan’s Minister of Interior that dealt with combating claims of corruption from a Karzai rival and former presidential candidate proved popular among Amanpour’s audience. Most commentary included a variety of mixed reactions combined with concern and “hope for the best” by the majority of viewers.
What are your thoughts on the program and what other viewers are saying? Please leave your comments:
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- I think the solution to Israel's continued snub to the new American president is to use the "money card". No more foreign aid until these settlements are completed halted. I am sure the general public is not aware of how much foreign aid goes to Israel every year – that we know of – 3.5 billion dollars for a country of less than 8,000 people. My calculator does not compute that high, but sounds like a sweet deal for the Israelis. I am sure we can use this money in USA for health care.
– Patricia Shamseldin
- The Israeli -palestinan conflict is 75% of our problem with the entire moslem population. It is not politically correct to voice this opinion but they have violated one UN mandate after another and been cited by the UN on numerous occasions for violations of human rights but yet we here in this country do nothing but continue to0 funnel billions of dollars into that country. There is absol/utely nothing legal about their illegal settlements being built in the west bank and Gaza strip. Theyu thumb their nose at the entire world. I find it ironic that we have embargoed this country and even the little island of Cuba for years but do nothing about them. We want restrictions on what counties can have nuclear weapons but Israel has hundreds of them. We could instantly have better rerlations with the entire arab population if we were a little more even handed on our treatment of Israel. I personally find them a very war like people..
– Marlin Morris Salem
- When it comes to success in places like Afghanistan or any other place where the enemy are really Islamic extremists, in order to achieve a real, lasting peace it is needed to rid ourselves of the sources of extremism. These include things like the Israeli conflict and our greed for Middle Eastern oil. If we could just do these things, our chances for success in Afghanistan would go up exponentially
– Henry Garner
It is an approach from the Jewish American lobby that is not feeling comfortable with the policies of the United States towards Israel. This may change according to the incipient work of Baraq Obama with the two wars prevailing in the Middle East; Israel appears to be less important as usual than Afghanistan and Iraq to say.
The emergence of groups like J Street is promising, but AIPAC has been very effective in continuing the harmful status quo. President Obama would have to be in a second term to be tougher on Israel without worrying about reelection. Here is the U.S. the history of the Levant is whitewashed making the Israelis appear innocent and the Palestinians like savages. It's hard to debate such an important issue here without being labeled anti-Semitic.
I'm all for us taking a harder stance with Israel, and a diplomatic resolution to the Palestinian question. But I think it's a bit unfair to blame our Israeli policy solely on AIPAC. They are big players, for sure, but not the only players.
Dawn Young
I think the constitution that says America will not form a government based on a religion, should be enough, and I think we should collectively stop recognizing them as a government.
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