Laura goes to Palestine

Juan Cole blogs about events in Israel/Palestine, linking the harsh greeting Laura Bush received over the weekend when she visited several historic and holy sites to the Pollard case, the AIPAC investigation, and the animosity fomented by Bush's "New Gulag" policies. He even drops in a reference to the Salah Shehade assassination, which seems like ancient history even though it happened less than three years ago.

Cole's post is worth a read, especially since news coming out of the region has been relatively slow of late.