Comments on: New Year message 2009 http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/12/31/new-year-message-2009/ Incisive and topical campaigns and commentary on today's issues and tomorrow's problems Thu, 24 May 2012 13:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alan Wheatley http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/12/31/new-year-message-2009/#comment-9303 Alan Wheatley Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:15:12 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=2497#comment-9303 Happy New Year, John, and everyone else. I recommend 2009 happiness is not dependent on what happens in the Middle East, at least as far as Israel/Palestine is concerned. The "problem" goes back 3,000 years, and there are plenty of Israelis who cite from that long history in justification of contemporary activities, and plenty of Jews around the world who give sympathetic support. I can not see how a two-state solution will ever work as the more viable and credible a Palestinian state the less appeal it will have to the Israelis. So I think the best we can hope for is another year of containment and the hope that some genius will come up with an answer that will work. Happy New Year, John, and everyone else.

I recommend 2009 happiness is not dependent on what happens in the Middle East, at least as far as Israel/Palestine is concerned. The “problem” goes back 3,000 years, and there are plenty of Israelis who cite from that long history in justification of contemporary activities, and plenty of Jews around the world who give sympathetic support.

I can not see how a two-state solution will ever work as the more viable and credible a Palestinian state the less appeal it will have to the Israelis.

So I think the best we can hope for is another year of containment and the hope that some genius will come up with an answer that will work.

]]> By: mikestallard http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/12/31/new-year-message-2009/#comment-9302 mikestallard Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:35:02 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=2497#comment-9302 I want to thank our host for telling the truth, for actually bothering to read the rubbish that we all seem to write and, finally, to be so easy to understand. I am personally convinced that this will be the last few months of that monstrous fraud Mr Brown and that, behind the good manners of the Tory front bench, there lurks some true talent which, in this vital year, will steer our battered ship of state through the icebergs. Happy New Year! I want to thank our host for telling the truth, for actually bothering to read the rubbish that we all seem to write and, finally, to be so easy to understand.
I am personally convinced that this will be the last few months of that monstrous fraud Mr Brown and that, behind the good manners of the Tory front bench, there lurks some true talent which, in this vital year, will steer our battered ship of state through the icebergs.
Happy New Year!

]]> By: Stuart Fairney http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/12/31/new-year-message-2009/#comment-9301 Stuart Fairney Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:35:05 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=2497#comment-9301 From one 'Gaz-ox' to another, happy new year. If there is one tiny bright spot in the middle east, if I know the Israelis, they will be through before Mr Obama takes the oath of office. At least that round will be over. You were pretty much spot-on with your economic prognosis and set of recommendations all year. May I finish with a quote from a man, I almost never quote, Mr Anthony Blair "It is true that we had ten years of record growth when I was prime minister. I have, unfortunately, come to the conclusion that it was luck" (in a lecture to Yale University: source the ASI blog) Tony, the rest of us worked that out years ago.... From one ‘Gaz-ox’ to another, happy new year.

If there is one tiny bright spot in the middle east, if I know the Israelis, they will be through before Mr Obama takes the oath of office. At least that round will be over.

You were pretty much spot-on with your economic prognosis and set of recommendations all year.

May I finish with a quote from a man, I almost never quote, Mr Anthony Blair

“It is true that we had ten years of record growth when I was prime minister. I have, unfortunately, come to the conclusion that it was luck” (in a lecture to Yale University: source the ASI blog)

Tony, the rest of us worked that out years ago….

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