Netanyahu evokes US non-bombing of Auschwitz in 1944!

Messages do not get much stronger than that given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a speech in Washington DC last evening, one report of which from Israel may be read here.

A report from the Jerusalem Post is linked here with its video herewith:

Two Grave Postings on Orphans of Liberty

I have already re-tweeted these items but they are of such crucial interest that must not be left like that.

Prodicus writing under the heading "Ancestral voices" is followed on OoL by James Higham with a much linked posting " "Has it started" best read it in that order by clicking on the postings' titles.

There is nothing I feel necessary to add at this stage, except perhaps in passing, probably co-incidentally, that the deadline for nominations for the post of head of the World Bank is chosen as the 23rd March. Also perhaps of significance is the fact that the announcement that the IMF will only cough up 10% towards the next Greek bailout, given last evening in Berlin, is everywhere ignored by the media, other than in the sources I provided when tweeting and blogging on the implications of such a move last evening!

Iran warns against buying US$ for hoarding, hikes own rates to 21%.

Reuters has the full report, linked here, on the growing tensions in the Gulf, this time concentrating on the financial implications.