* The Daily Telegraph reports that several retired world leaders are forming a group called “The Elders” to fight global problems. The brain trust includes critics of Israel like Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela. With a name like that, we’d be remiss not to note Elder of Ziyon‘s reaction.
* Canada’s CTV investigates Hamas’ human rights violations.
* The Congressional Human Rights Caucus will hold a special hearing on the hundreds of thousands of Jews who fled Arab countries. With a hat tip to Daled Amos, American Thinker writes:
Under the proposed legislation, the US president would be required to instruct all official representatives of the United States that “explicit reference to Palestinian refugees be matched by a similar explicit reference to Jewish and other refugees, as a matter of law and equity.”
* Business Week‘s Jon Fine predicts the SF Chronicle will be the first major daily to stop the presses forever and only publish online.
