Date: 2009-01-17 09:25 pm (UTC)
Just a correction about Gaza. It's not merely shelling.

You also have an 18-month blockade, warplanes hitting U.N. schools (three) and a hospital and much of the local infrastructure of civilian life, rocket fire, and a ground force invasion. Oh, and the U.S. gov't attempting to send armaments to the Israeli side by boat (with European countries refusing passage through their ports) and various attempts to get supplies to Gaza halted by the Israeli navy. There are accusations of massacre and hundred of affected civilians (who are not becoming refugees because they're walled in; see blockade, above).

All in all, that's pretty big news, and there have been some new developments in the course of it which justify a great deal of reporting.

I don't understand the fascination with every last detail of the inauguration. Other than the fact of having him sworn in, the rest seems quite dull. What he'll do and how he'll do it - THAT will be interesting.
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