"[n]either side is capable of making peace, or even sitting in the same room to discuss it. The Americans now face a historic choice. For 50 years, they have played the double game of both guaranteeing Israel's security and serving as honest broker in the region. This game can't go on. Either America gave a tacit green light to the Israeli operation, or it tried to restrain Sharon and failed. Either way, now that the Powell peace mission has failed, the American president looks ridiculous or devious, or both. He can't withdraw and he can't stand the embarrassment of continued diplomacy without result. The prestige and leadership of the United States, its vital national interests, are now on the line. Without a settlement in the Middle East, it has no possibility of support from Arab governments in its campaign against Islamist terrorists."
Israel faces rage over 'massacre'
- London and Brussels politicians demand UN investigation of Jenin allegations
- Ian Black in Brussels, Ewen MacAskill and Nicholas Watt
- The Guardian, Wednesday April 17, 2002
"US support for Israel remains strong compared with Europe, where anger against Israel reached levels not seen since the massacre at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in the Lebanon in 1982."
- With the Israeli army still blocking full access to Jenin, it is impossible to establish even a rough body count. However, both Amnesty and the New York-based Human Rights Watch yesterday called for inquiries.
Background: US - Israeli Relationship
Pipes - American Foreign Policy on the Middle East
The first casualty of war - Israelis say Western reports are biased. But the media complain Israel is harassing them.
Peter Beaumont, Brian Whitaker in Jerusalem and Edward Helmore in New York
The Observer, June 17, 2001
'Let's not forget that Israel feels under siege. And it literally is. That is what drives the feeling of ultra-sensitivity. They feel that there is bias and there is a conspiracy against them. There is a perception that Israelis are portrayed as instigating the problems and that the historical context of the threat against Israel is forgotten. There is a feeling too that Israel - which is a tiny island of democracy amid much less democratic neighbours - never gets enough credit for what it has achieved.' ...
'This is a charged political environment,' he says. 'Everyone wants to own you, and if they can't own you they want to destroy you. That applies just as much to the Arab world as it does to Israel. There is no middle ground. There is no time and no place that someone will put their arm around you and say, "Gosh, I really appreciate your fair and balanced reporting".'
Rocky Mountain News - Israeli attack wounds News photographer
Holger Jensen, News International, February 12, 2002
- Israeli F-16's rockets Palestinian Areas in Retaliation for Attacks
AP - As German president visits, survivors recall Nazi massacre in Italy
April 17, 2002
AP - Boston Herald - Dutch government resigns over Srebrenica report
April 16, 2002
This is because the American people know damn well who their enemies are, and who are their friends, and behave accordingly, honestly, using old fashioned American good sense and open eyes. In contrast Europeans have a history of countenancing evil, of seeing "gray areas" as an excuse for appeasement and camoflage for the lack of a moral compass. In addition, the Marxist NWO U.N./E.U. Axis sees Israel simply as a nation which demands NATIONAL SOVREIGNTY, which is the ultimate war crime in their eyes.
The Europeans were dead wrong about Hitler, appeased him at every turn, and either looked the other way or pitched in as millions (not only Jews) were led to the slaughter. Europeans opposed with full vigor Ronald Reagan's forceful attempt to defeat the Soviet Evil Empire, calling instead for unilateral disarmament, the "nuclear freeze".
The U.N. "Human Rights" Commision includes such humanitarian regimes such as Cuba, China, Algeria, and the Sudan, but not--of course--the Untied States. Two-thirds of U.N. resolutions since its inception have been directed at Israel, which has a mere 7 million people and is the size of New Hampshire. There is absolutely no need for such abody, and never has been so. There is a community of nations, some free and democratic--which are a tiny minority, some tyrannical and murderous--a vast majority. Nations are not created equal. The idea that Sierra Lione and Australia have an equal voice in the U.N. General Assembly is ludicrous.
The U.N. is an America-hating, Jew-despising, neo-Fascist enemy entity which our nation should widthdraw from, convert it's NYC HQ to condos, and bar any "U.N."-labelled diplomat, "peace-keeper" or ambassador from U.S. soil or U.S. war zones.
Any articles that "Jurist" or anyone else cites from European or U.N.-sources might as well have come from Geobbels or Stalin themselves, and will rightly be viewed with contempt from most members of this Forum.