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2010年6月2日星期三
After Israel Raids Flotilla
After Israel Raids Flotilla, U.S. Is Torn Between Allies President Obama telephoned Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to express his “deep condolences” for the deaths of what may be as many as nine Turkish citizens in clashes with Israeli soldiers on the ship, the White House said. He told Mr. Erdogan that the United States was pushing Israel to return their bodies, as well as 300 Turks who were taken from the ship and being held in Israel. Mr. Obama called for a “credible, impartial and transparent investigation of the facts surrounding this tragedy,” the White House said. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said such an investigation could include international participation, something the Israelis said they opposed. It is far from clear that these efforts will mollify Turkey, which accused Israel of game happy state-sponsored terrorism and likened the psychological impact of the raid to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. “No one should think we will keep quiet in the face of this,” Mr. Erdogan declared during a visit to Chile. The deep rift cheapest wow gold between Israel andTurkey, which had cultivated close ties, puts the Obama administration in a tough spot on two of its most pressing foreign-policy issues: the Middle East and pet pigsIran. The United States does not want to abandon Israel, which has been subjected to Aion Gold international opprobrium since Blizzard Diablo the raid. The administration is desperate to keep alive indirect peace negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians brokered by its special envoy, George J. Mitchell. But it also does not want to alienate Turkey, which is playing an increasingly vocal role on the world _stage. Relations were already tender after the United States threw cold water on a Turkish and Brazilian effort to resolve the impasse over Iran’s nuclear program. Turkish officials complain that they negotiated the deal with the encouragement and agreement of the administration. “Turkey and Israel are both good friends of the United States, and we are working with both to deal with the aftermath of the tragic incident,” Mrs. Clinton said to reporters at the State Department after meeting with Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. She conferred with Mr. Davutoglu for more than two hours, rearranging her schedule. Mr. Obama’s national security adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, went to see him at his hotel before Mr. Obama called Mr. Erdogan. Earlier in the day, Mr. Davutoglu harshly criticized the cautious American response to the raid, saying: “We expect full solidarity with us. It should not seem like a choice between Turkey and Israel. It should be a choice between right and wrong, between legal and illegal.” He complained that the United States had delayed and watered down the United Nations Security Council statement on Israel, which condemned the actions on the ship rather than Israel itself. Mr. Davutoglu demanded that Israel apologize for the attack, release the detained passengers, return the bodies of the dead, agree to an independent investigation and lift its blockade of Gaza. He said Turkey was prepared to go back to the United Nations for further action against Israel. Israel, which defended the actions of its soldiers as a legitimate response to armed attacks by those on the ship, said it could not release the 300 passengers more quickly because they were illegal aliens and had to be held for at least 42 hours under Israeli law. Israel was also questioning 20 to 30 people who it says were directly involved in clashes with the soldiers. “We’re going to do our best to heal the wounds with the Turks,” said Michael B. Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, who alsowow warlock guide met with General Jones and other White House officials. But Mr. Oren said Israeli authorities had asked Turkey to divert the flotilla to the Israeli port of Ashdod to avoid a confrontation with Israeli forces. He said Israel would have unloaded the cargo of construction cheapest wow gold material and humanitarian aid and arranged for it to be shipped to Gaza. Mr. Oren said the Israelis would undertake their own investigation, but he resisted calls for international involvement. Israel has been leery of international investigations since the Goldstone report, which faulted Israel 1000 Aion Gold for excessive force cruel thing in its military strike on Gaza in 2008. More recently, the South Korean government has won praise for an investigation into the torpedoing of one of its warships, which was aided by the United States, Australia, Sweden and other countries. The report found that _a North Korea submarine fired the torpedo. “The Israelis have traditional and well-founded concerns about international investigations,” said a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “But everyone recognizes that for an investigation to be credible, others have to be able to vouch for the results.” The flotilla case seems likely to harden Turkey’s skepticism about a United Nations resolution on Iran. Imposing more sanctions now, Mr. Davutoglu said, would only precipitate a confrontation with Iran in a few months, one that would be even riskier because of the broader tensions. Asked what the best policy toward Iran is, he said, “Diplomacy, diplomacy, diplomacy and more diplomacy.”
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2010年6月2日星期三
Isra?l va libérer tous
Isra?l va libérer tous les étrangers de la flottille Tous les ressortissants étrangers arrêtés pendant l'arraisonnement de la flottille humanitaire internationale qui faisait route vers Gaza seront expulsés, a annoncé mardi 1er juin au soir un communiqué du bureau du premier ministre israélien, Benyamin Nétanyahou. Cette décision a été prise par le cabinet de sécurité (restreint à sept ministres) présidé par M. Nétanyahou, a ajouté le communiqué. Selon la radio militaire israélienne, les dernières expulsions auront lieu jeudi. NOUVEAU : Les articles du journal Le Monde dès 15h dans un grand information technology infrastructure confort de lecture Abonnez-vous au Monde.fr : 6� par mois + 1 mois offert Sur le même sujet TéLéZAPPING "La guerre des images" LES FAITS Un des membres de la flottille parle d'une "agression" israélienne ZOOM Glaciation des relations turco-israéliennes ECLAIRAGE Les conséquences du _blocus de la bande de Gaza LES FAITS Des militants de la flottille livrent leur version des faits BLOG "Blocus", "humanitaire", "violence"...un lexique à conna?tre Einat Wilf google chinese news : "Des soldats ne peuvent pas gagner une bataille des idées" Abonnez-vous au Monde.fr : 6� / wow gold 1000g mois + 1 mois offert Après l'assaut de la flottille internationale qui faisait route vers Gaza, les six bateaux avaient été escortés par la marine wow gold store israélienne vers le port d'Ashdod, à mi-chemin entre Tel-Aviv et Gaza. Une fois débarqués, les blessés wow gold avaient été transférés vers des h?pitaux et la plupart des passagers, placés en détention. Parmi les passagers de la flottille, figurent 380 Turcs, 38 Grecs, 31 Britanniques, 30 Jordaniens, 28 Algériens, 9 Fran?ais, 6 Italiens et 7 Irlandais. Sur les 682 personnes qui se trouvaient à bord des bateaux, 45 ont accepté d'être expulsées et ont pris l'avion lundi et mardi, selon la porte-parole de la police d'immigration israélienne. Les autres militants ont été emmenés à la prison de Beer-Sheva dans le sud d'Isra?l. "Il y a plus de 500 détenus et entre cinq et huit avocats, donc cela va prendre du temps pour les voir tous", a indiqué Gaby Rubin de l'organisation de défense des droits de l'homme Adalah. Les militants pro-palestiniens livrent leur version de faits De retour dans leur pays d'origine, mardi 1er juin, plusieurs militants allemands et grecs présents au moment de l'assaut ont donné des conférences de presse pour témoigner de ce qui s'était passé sur les bateaux (Lire : Des militants de la flottille livrent leur version des faits). Selon Michalis Grigoropoulos, membre de l'équipage de l'Elefthéri Mesogeio, les soldats israéliens "ont tiré des gaz lacrymogènes et des balles en caoutchouc, et deux militants ont été blessés aux jambes. Les commandos ont ensuite fait subir des électrochocs à certains des militants". AFP/BERTRAND LANGLOIS Le Fran?ais Youssef Benderbal après son retour à Paris, le 1er juin. "Nous avions des instructions précises : aucune provocation, quand bien même les Israéliens viendraient à bord", a raconté Youssef Benderbal, un Fran?ais expulsé mardi (Lire : Un des membres de la flottille parle game love d'une "agression" israélienne). "Nous n'avons jamais vu de couteau utilisé comme arme. C'est avec des batons qu'on s'est défendus", a affirmé de son c?té Billiards snooker Norman Paech, 72 ans, ancien député du parti allemand Die Linke, qui était à bord aion story du ferry turc Mavi Marmara. L'ONU demande une enquête "impartiale" Réuni lundi soir en urgence, le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a demandé une enquête sur l'intervention militaire israélienne ainsi que la libération immédiate des navires et des civils détenus. Le _Conseil a appelé "à lancer sans retard une enquête impartiale, crédible et transparente conforme aux critères internationaux", dans une déclaration lue en son nom mardi matin. Selon des diplomates, les Etats-Unis, traditionnels protecteurs d'Isra?l à l'ONU, ont bataillé ferme avec la Turquie, rédactrice du texte, pendant des discussions qui ont duré plus de douze heures, pour éviter une déclaration plus dure à l'égard de l'Etat hébreu (lire : L'ONU demande une enquête sur l'assaut israélien). Les Etats-Unis soutiennent la décision de l'ONU De son des po wow c?té, la chef de la diplomatie américaine, Hillary Clinton, s'est prononcée pour une enquête israélienne sur le raid israélien contre la flottille humanitaire pour Gaza, insistant sur la nécessaire crédibilité d'une telle démarche. "Nous soutenons dans les termes les plus clairs l'appel du Conseil de sécurité" de l'ONU "à une enquête rapide, impartiale, crédible et transparente", a-t-elle déclaré. "Nous demandons instamment à Isra?l d'autoriser un plein accès consulaire aux personnes impliquées, et de permettre aux pays concernés de récupérer immédiatement leurs morts et leurs blessés", a également déclaré Mme Clinton. Washington "continuera de discuter ces idées" avec Isra?l et ses autres "partenaires internationaux" dans les prochains jours, a-t-elle indiqué. Mme Clinton s'est notamment entretenue pendant plus de deux heures mardi matin avec son homologue turc, Ahmet Davutoglu.
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2010年6月2日星期三
Hero to Conservatives Often Fo
Hero to Conservatives Often Follows Centrist Path The Brown team uniform was a T-shirt proclaiming “Great Scott” on the front. On his back, the team captain wore No. 41 — a continuing badge of pride for the improbable victory in January that made him the 41st Republican in the Senate, and stripped _Democrats of the 60th vote they needed to surmount filibusters and advance their agenda unchecked. Four months after being elected to fill the seat of the liberal lion Edward M. Kennedy and becoming a national hero to conservative Americans, Mr. Brown still has an air of celebrity about him. But a pinup boy for the Tea Party he is not. In his first vote after taking office, Mr. Brown joined with Democrats, and their majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, in support of a $15 billion jobs bill. He was the first of just five Republicans to break with the party’s leadership on that bill. And though he kept his campaign promise to oppose the big health care legislation, and has voted with the Republican leadership in the overwhelming majority of cases, he has also sided with Democrats on some important issues. Most notably, he voted in favor of the financial regulatory bill even though the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and the rest of the conference leadership, voted no and denounced the measure as overly expanding the government. “Listen, I have always said I don’t work for Mitch McConnell and I don’t work for Harry Reid, I work for the people of Massachusetts,” Mr. Brown said in an interview. “I am not quite sure what all the surprise is, and people wondering kind of like, ‘wow, he’s independent.’ I have always been this way. I am going to look at each and every bill and look at the merits of it.” But his willingness to team up with Democrats is already raising eyebrows and ire among some voters in Massachusetts who backed his candidacy. They say he is betraying some of the conservative ideals that he espoused during the campaign — especially in his vote on wow pvp the financial regulation bill. “People are disappointed in this vote, because we see it as contrary to limited government and supporting free markets,” said Christen Varley, the leader of the Greater Boston Tea Party. “I think people are realizing that in some situations Senator Brown will be an ally and in some he will not. WoW Gold visa Some people are angry. Some people are disappointed but willing to wait and see what happens with the next votes.” Ms. Varley said she was urging Tea Party members to contact the senator’s office and express love quotes their disappointment but also counseling them to develop a healthy sense of pragmatism, especially in a state as wow gold traditionally liberal as Massachusetts. In consumer electronics market the pattern of his votes, it is already clear that Mr. Brown has joined the small club of centrist Northeast Republicans that by the start of this year had shrunk to just life quotestwo members: Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine. And while incumbents in traditionally Republican states in the South _and the West are facing serious pressure from the right, Mr. Brown could soon be joined in the Senate by like-minded Republicans from other regions, including Representative Michael N. Castle, who is running for Senate in Delaware, and Representative Mark S. Kirk, who is running in Illinois. “I tease my colleagues from the South, that it is the Northeastern Republicans that are the resurgence of the Republican Party and leading our party back out of the wilderness,” Ms. Collins said in an interview. “And because they are more centrist,” she added, “they have an excellent chance of prevailing.” Already, Mr. Brown is discovering that working across both sides of the aisle can be perilous or, as Ms. Collins put it, “an uncomfortable role.” After Mr. Brown opposed an initial effort by Democrats to close debate on the financial regulatory bill, Mr. Reid, the majority leader, was incensed. And though he did not mention Mr. Brown by name, it was abundantly clear that Mr. Reid was talking about the Massachusetts Republican when he said after the vote, “a senator broke his word.” Mr. Brown accepted responsibility for what he described as a misunderstanding that led Mr. Reid to believe Mr. Brown would vote to end debate when he was still working to address issues of concern to Massachusetts. Mr. Brown chalked it up to a communication breakdown that could have been avoided with a face-to-face chat. “It was a good lesson to me,” he said. “Just knock on his door.” Republican leaders accept that Mr. Brown will not always hew to the party line. “A Massachusetts Republican and a Mississippi Republican and a Florida Republican and a Colorado Republican aren’t going to think the same on all things,” Mr. Alexander, the No. 3 Senate Republican, said in an interview on C-Span’s “Newsmakers.” But Mr. Alexander said that in a broader sense, there is cohesion. “On one issue I think Republicans are unified,” he said. “That is, too much debt, too much spending, too many taxes and a need for a check and a balance on what we see is an overreaching government in Washington. I think Scott Brown was elected partly for that reason.” Colleagues describe Mr. Brown as genial and easy to work with. Republicans say he speaks up in conference meetings a bit more than most freshman senators but not in away that oversteps. Democrats say he has been willing to be collaborative. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said he wow matrix and his staff were recently invited to a Friday afternoon “happy hour” on the terrace of Mr. Brown’s office. “If you had to pick from a handful of Republicans who you can work with and who will be predisposed to do something together,” Mr. Schumer said. “He is one of them.” Political reality suggests that Mr. Wow Po pas cher Brown must now position himself in the center if he hopes to be re-elected. On Thursday, in the Armed Services Committee, he voted against repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law that bars gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the military — a stance certain to anger some voters in Massachusetts, 500 Wow Gold where gay marriage is legal.
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2010年6月2日星期三
Assumptions Go Asunder as Gore
Assumptions Go Asunder as Gores Split Yet the Clinton marriage, it turns out, has outlived that of the Gores. Al and Tipper Gore’s announcement Tuesday that they would be separating after 40 years together underscores, yet again, a basic truism about any marriage, particularly political ones: You just never know. The point is made as vividly by the fraught political partnerships that remain intact — the Spitzers, the Clintons — as those that do not. Still, when the Gores circulated a joint e-mail message to friends announcing that “after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate,” the news landed with some shock. “We obviously have learned that the public is not always private and the private is not always public,” said Gil Troy, who teaches American history at McGill University in Montreal and has written about political marriages. “But you want to believe that there are certain marriages that will last. And the Gore marriage seemed to have become part of the national furniture in the best of ways.” The Gores were a political couple whose trademark moment — a big sloppy kiss on the stage of the 2000 Democratic convention — spurred debate about the degree to which public displays of affection become excessive (“the Kiss” also became the inevitable video backdrop to the perpetual cable loop on Tuesday). They were college sweethearts whose public struggles — her battles with depression, his searing loss to George W. Bush in 2000 — chinese game info did nothing to suggest anything besides a stable and mutually supportive team. The Gores — he is 62, she is 61 — were never trailed by rumors or whispers, and people close to the family Wow Gold Europe said Tuesday that they expected no second shoe to drop. This decision, they said, was simply about a couple that had grown apart after Paladin Wow four decades. “I know people are feeling surprised, but there’s just not Best Space To Buy Wow Gold a lot of drama behind this,” said a close friend and adviser to the family who declined to be identified in deference to the Fast Wow Gold Gores’ wish for privacy. “They remain very close friends.” In their e-mail message to _friends — confirmed by a Gore spokeswoman, Kalee Kreider — the couple cited a “mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have Wow Gold made together following a process of long and careful consideration.” Mr. Gore, who has traveled extensively in recent years in support of his business ventures and climate change activism, had settled into a full post-political life. The Gores recently purchased a home in Montecito, Calif., although friends of the former vice president said he still considered Nashville to be his permanent residence. “I was shocked, and I was around them an awful lot,” said Tony Coelho, a former Democratic congressman who was chairman of Mr. Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000. Mr. Coelho, who has not been in contact with the family since the campaign, noted that transitions from public to private life can be difficult. “To some extent, you can say that Al moved onto a global stage while Tipper seemed to move in a more personal direction,” Mr. Coelho said. “That might have been what happened here.” In political circles, reaction to the Gore news struck often on the Clinton connection, and the inherent irony of it. “There was always a perception that the Clintons would split up the day they left the White House,” said Don Fowler, a former Democratic National Committee chairman. “And there was never any hint or suggestion that the Gores would have.” He said he was both surprised by the news and not so surprised, given Mr. Gore’s reserve compared with his wife’s more “extroverted personality.” As with many pet pigs stories that involve baby boomers, there is a tendency to view the Gore separation apples ipod through that generational lens. Mr. Troy sees the Clinton and Gore marriages in terms of a “psychic competition” between Mr. Clinton and Wow Money Mr. Gore over who was the more representative member of the demographic. “It is _ironic that the Gores would outdo the Clintons in getting divorced,” he said. “In a sense, getting divorced is the iconic baby boomer act.”
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2010年6月2日星期三
Mere Silence Doesn’t Invoke
Mere Silence Doesn’t Wow Gold USA Invoke Miranda, Justices Say Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority in a 5-to-4 decision that split along familiar ideological lines, did not disturb Miranda’s requirement that suspects be told they have the right to remain silent. But he said courts need not suppress statements made by defendants who received such warnings, did not expressly waive their rights and spoke only after remaining silent through hours of interrogation. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her first major dissent, said the decision “turns Miranda upside down” and “bodes poorly for the fundamental principles that Miranda protects.” Monday’s decision followed two in February that also narrowed and clarified the scope of the Miranda decision. One allowed police officers to vary the wording of the warning; the other allowed a second round of questioning of suspects who had invoked their rights so long as two weeks had passed since their release from custody. The latest case concerned Van Chester Thompkins, a Michigan man accused of shooting another man to death in 2000 outside a mall. Arrested a year later, Mr. Thompkins was read his Miranda rights but refused to sign a form acknowledging that he understood them. Mr. Thompkins then remained almost entirely silent in the face of three hours of interrogation, though he did say that his chair was hard and that he did not want a peppermint. After two hours and 45 minutes of questioning, Mr. Thompkins said yes in response to each of three questions: “Do you believe in God?” “Do you pray to God?” And, crucially, “Do you pray to God to forgive you for shooting that boy down?” His affirmative response to the last question was used against him at trial, and he was convicted of first-degree murder. The federal appeals court in Cincinnati ruled in 2008 that his statement should have been excluded because prosecutors could not prove that Mr. Thompkins had knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to remain silent. Justice Kennedy acknowledged that “some language in Miranda could be read to Michael Jackson news indicate that waivers are difficult to establish absent an explicit written waiver or a formal, express oral statement.” Indeed, the Miranda decision said that “a valid waiver will not be presumed simplywow mage builds from the silence of the accused after warnings are given or simply from the fact that a confession was Wow Gold gratuit in fact eventually obtained.” It added that the government faced “a heavy burden” in trying to prove that a suspect’s waiver was knowing and intelligent. Justice Kennedy said that decisions since Miranda had undercut its language and that a more sensible rule put the burden on suspects to invoke their rights. “A suspect Wow Gold who has received and understood the Miranda warnings, and has not invoked his Miranda rights, waives the right to remain silent by making an uncoerced statement to the police,” Justice Kennedy wrote. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. joined Justice Kennedy’s opinion. In her dissent, Justice Sotomayor said the majority had created a kind of paradox. “A suspect who wishes to guard his right to remain silent,” she wrote, “must, counterintuitively, speak.” Justice Kennedy said that people who knew their rights and acted “in a manner inconsistent with their exercise” might be presumed to have waived their rights, meaning that responding to police questioning is itself an implied waiver of the right to remain silent. Justice Sotomayor, in her dissent, said “these principles flatly contradict” earlier decisions from the court. “At best, the court today creates an unworkable and conflicting set of presumptions,” she wrote. “At worst, it overrules sub silentio an essential aspect of the protections Miranda has long provided.” The better practice in the face of ambiguous responses from a suspect, Justice Sotomayor wrote, would be for the police to ask follow-up questions like, “Do you want to talk to us?” Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer joined Justice Sotomayor’s dissent. Kent Scheidegger, the legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a victims’ rights group, said Monday’s decision, Berghuis v. Thompkins, No. 08-1470, was a sensible accommodation. “The Supreme Court recognized the practical realities that the police face in dealing with suspects,” Mr. Scheidegger said. “They don’t always answer the waiver question clearly. When they do not, the bright-line rule of Miranda should not apply, and the statement should be admissible as long as it is not compelled.” The court also issued decisions in cases involving torture victims and people convicted of sex crimes. In Samantar v. Yousuf, No. 08-1555, the court unanimously removed one possible legal roadblock to a suit against Mohamed Ali Samantar, who served as video games timeline Somalia’s minister of defense and prime minister and now lives in Virginia. The plaintiffs in the case said Mr. Samantar had directed a campaign of torture and killings against them and their families. Mr. Samantar, who has called those accusations baseless, argued that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 provided wow warlock guide him with immunity from suit. The court, in an opinion by Justice Stevens, said that law applied to foreign states and the entities they controlled. It does not, Justice Stevens wrote, “include foreign officials.” But Justice Stevens went on to say that Mr. Samantar may nonetheless be immune from suit under _other legal principles, emphasizing that the court had decided a narrow question. “Whether petitioner may be entitled to immunity under the common law, and whether he may have other valid defenses to the grave charges against Wow Warlocks him,” Justice Stevens wrote, “are matters to be addressed in the first instance” by the trial court. In Carr v. United Wow Gold paypal States, No. 08-1301, the court considered a 2006 federal law that made it a crime for sex offenders to fail to register with the authorities after traveling to another _state. The question in the case was whether that travel could take place before the law became effective.
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