Is Zion the 'National Family of the Jewish People'? - Global Spin .

In a scathing commentary on the indulgence of the Obama Administration relying on Dennis Rossto resuscitate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Israeli journalist Akiva Eldar notes that Ross has been at the essence of only about every failed initiative on that front over the preceding two decades - and that now, as ever, he is running interference for the Israelis, sustaining what he says is an illusion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's willingness to create major concessions while restraining the U.

Elvis Costello: National Ransom PopMatters

If Elvis Costello ever makes good on his threat to cease making albums, we`d be a greedy lot to protest. Costello could`ve quit the stake after Blood & Chocolate and yet found his icon status written in cement. After toying with irrelevance during the 1990s, the man born Declan MacManus has exhausted the final decade brazenly genre hopping at a race that easily embarrasses the majority of his contemporaries.