So now Sudan will not accept the presence of a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur. I think it's pretty clear by now that the Sudanese government simply wants to finish the job of getting those black people out of there.
I do not use the expression "War on Terror." It is a harmful euphemism. It is a euphemism because it relieves us of the task of naming our adversaries, for fear of offending those who feel kinship with those adversaries but are not engaged in violence. And it is harmful because it allows us not to think about and discuss the broad lines of this conflict.
The nation of Israel has been under siege since its founding in 1948. As such, the promise of that event for the Jews has yet to be fulfilled. One cannot say that a nation truly exists when it has been under a death sentence since its birth.
