"As for our Israeli and Sri Lankan friends – ever thought that maybe the military solutions ain’t really workin’ and that root causes might be worth addressing…anyone for serious, concerted political dialogue?
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It merits a serious dialog indeed!Just checking the headlines and thought of writing a a quick note.Will get back to the core later.

Just to start off ...Sri Lankan PM is an old gas bag .Current Sri Lankan president has been the chairman of the Palestine friendship association from early '70s when he was a young member of parliament.The Iranian president will be visiting Sri Lanka shortly .Iranian and Sri Lankan trade has been growing .Sri Lanka never recognized Isreal then opened an Isreally interest office in early '80s to specifically to get help to fight LTTE .Then Isrealies trained both LTTE and Sri Lankan government soldiers in the same camp according to an ex-Mossad agent.Sri Lanka has close to 0.5 million(out of 20 million population) expatriate workers in arab countries .
As for the "Sri Lankan occupation" of "Ealam" the issue is multi-dimensional ,too.
What I'm really worried about is the certain sense in Sri Lankan - American(and Sri Lankan diplomatic) community that Hillary and Barack would be bad for Sri Lanka (and pro-LTTE!) .

Posted at March 27, 2008 9:38 AM in response to Israel, Sri Lanka and the War on Terror