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I have returned to the USA from Bangladesh after staying there for nearly three months. During my visit there I lost three close relatives;...

America, in the year 2016, you are suffering with the 'Campaign from Hell." The bottom line is that you can thank mostly Barbara Walters, who zealously merged news with entertainment and politics, for this unholy mess.

"On this Eid, if they can, Palestinians should visit Jerusalem and go to the beach. Every Palestinian has a right to smell the Mediterranean from the beautiful shores of Jaffa or to walk the alleyways of the Old City. But remember, Israel does not offer permits or ease restrictions at checkpoints because they love us. It is to ease them into accepting isolation of Jerusalem as a given and have us thank them for allowing us into their malls and their beach-side restaurants."

"Our current unpopular but unending wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia, and our smaller military operations in over 100 other countries are part of what President Eisenhower warned of 50 years ago in speaking of the military industrial complex.  No nation has tried anything like this before, and it's not clear we can survive it.  We're shortchanging everything else to fund wars and overseas bases that make us less safe.  There's a crisis in our towns, but in the midst of a phony budget crisis in Washington, the House this summer passed the largest military budget ever seen on the planet."

"...the coverage of Ms Hammerman and her supporters in the Israeli media has been largely hostile. During a television interview last week, she was accused of endangering Israelis with her trips. The show’s host, Yaron London, asked whether she had inspected the Palestinian women’s underclothes for explosives before allowing them into her car."