Posted on 01/19/2008 12:26:22 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
During his recent trip to Israel, President Bush visited several places that re-affirmed his faith, including Bethlehem and the Sea of Galilee. Then exhibiting far greater faith than believing Jesus could walk on water, he asserted that "peace" could be had between Israel, the Palestinians and her Arab neighbors. One exhibition of faith has some historic roots and witnesses; the other is rooted in fantasy.
As the president's visit neared, one might have expected the Palestinians, were they interested in peace, to at least tone down anti-Israel_rants. According to Palestinian Media Watch, the government-controlled_television station instead "intensified its rhetoric calling for the destruction of Israel by advocating the "liberation" of Haifa, Tiberias, Acre and Tel Aviv," cities that do not figure in the debate over Israeli "occupation" of Palestinian land.
Since 1937, there have been 18 formal attempts by commissions, conferences, resolutions, summits and other gatherings to persuade the Jewish lamb to lie down with the Arab lion. All have failed. This latest attempt by President Bush, like_those of presidents before him, will also fail, no matter the level of rhetoric or pressure on Israel to "do more." As Hillel Halkin writes in the January issue of Commentary magazine, "When time after time a problem cannot be resolved, it is reasonable to suspect that it may be unresolvable, at least in the manner in which it is conceived."
That manner of false conception is that the Palestinian side, in conjunction with Arab and Muslim states, will stop trying to destroy Israel if a new state is created in the region. From such_a_state, enhanced by a "right_of_return" that would flood Israel with enemies of Zionism and encourage those committed to Israel's destruction that the end of the Jewish state is at hand would come the final days of Israel's modern existence.
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Absolutely. Thomas is right on the money here.
I find Bush’s efforts at a peace in our time moment, to be very very troubling.
He doesn’t seem to be getting very good advice, and some of what he is advocating seems very sophmoric.
He deserves better advice, and Israel deserves a better understanding of what it is up against.
Plus Bush is at the end of his Presidency, so he would naturally want to make a positive mark and impression before he leaves. That way if peace (granted, a Big IF) is establish then he can rightfully claim it was he that paved the way.
Pollyanna no, but optimistic yes.
There will be peace in the Middle East, after we defeat Iran with military action and denazify the Middle East.
Looking back on GW’s Presidency is saddening, he could have done so much more...but he still was better then the other choices...we have been fortunate to not have major terror attacks on the ConUSA, have some improvement in SC and the economy did recover quickly after 9/11.
He should be sending a strong message to the Pali's that, yes they do suck. They are terrorists and pandering to them just proves terrorism works. They deserve NOTHING, they are sub-human, a hateful cancer. God forgive me but, I could care less if they all just dropped dead tomorrow. I honestly don't understand what the obsession is with dealing with these murderous thugs. Build a wall around them and let them either blow each other up or starve. As an American citizen they do not deserve on penny of my money or one ounce of my respect. Rant over.
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It kinda makes you wonder what's going on with Condi Rice. She didn't seem so out to lunch just a few years ago.
Either she was stuffing her true thoughts until now, or Bush just wasn’t ordering her to implement his policy on this subject until now.
I suspect it’s a combo of the two. If she didn’t agree with Bush at least enough to support what he is now doing, she would step down.
Either way she gets very low marks from me on this issue.
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