Ten Amazing Predictions for 2006 (Juan Cole)

[laststeamtrain]

Karnak he ain't. Informed and clear eyed? Seems so...


http://www.juancole.com/2006/01/ten-amazing-predictions-for-2006-1.html

[0007]

1. Some of these prediction are inevitable.

I think that he's been read Richard Clarke's new book.

[Tom Joad]

2. His view of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is certainly insightful

even if the "prediction" is for more of the same.

6. The Israeli-Palestinian struggle will continue in staccatto fashion, because the Israeli government remains expansionist and land-hungry. Because the Sharon government refused to negotiate with real live Palestinians over the Gaza withdrawal no framework for peace was erected. Israeli troops will go back into Gaza from time to time. Israel will settle thousands of colonists on Palestinian land in the west and will blame Palestinians as irrational and bigotted for objecting. The subtle forms of ethnic cleansing of Arabs from Jerusalem will continue or accelerate. Fifteen percent of Palestinian children will continue to suffer from malnutrition, a result of the poverty that derives from having been put since 1967 in a large Israeli jail.

[AntiFascist]

3. Interesting how the windfall profits from oil...

greatly benefit the efforts of Islamic fundamentalists. What could be the connection there?

[acmavm]

4. Don't you just hate it when this happens?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1233

[laststeamtrain]

6. Yeah. n/t

[ellenfl]

5. for all his imperialism,

all dubya and his cabal are doing is making us weaker on the world stage. i predict that the eu and china will soon overshadow us in international influence . . . the eu because of organizing and china because they own us.

ellen fl

[applegrove]

7. Very perceptive. Thanks for posting. n/t