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Posted on 05/21/2002 7:06:49 PM PDT by RCW2001
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:06:49 PM PDT
by
RCW2001
To: RCW2001
I'm not sure of you should have labeled this as either HUMOR or with a BARF ALERT.
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:10:00 PM PDT
by
Ziva
To: RCW2001
The state dept is out of touch with reality.
To: Ziva
I really do think I'm going to get sick.
Leni
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:11:56 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
To: Ziva
Israel's "destruction of the Palestinian Authority's security infrastructure" was partly responsible for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's failure to control extremists.It also, along with the invasions, severely crippled the
ability of the homicide bombers to wage war. Arafat
has no interest in controlling extremists.
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:12:16 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: MinuteGal
The State Department Openly HATES ISRAEL. If there is violence commited by the Arabs, they blame Israel, if the Arabs do anything wrong they BLAME ISRAEL. Time to get rid of the State Department.
To: Ziva
I will admit I did 'chuckle' when I read the UPI headline...
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:15:29 PM PDT
by
RCW2001
To: RCW2001
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:17:47 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: BrooklynGOP
Let me emphasize at the outset that the attacks of September 11 on the United States have not altered our fundamental policy objectives in the region: achieving a just, lasting and comprehensive peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and indeed with all Arabs; ensuring Israel's security and qualitative military edge; maintaining strong and constructive relations with our Arab partners; and, securing peace and stability in the region. Our efforts to pursue these goals have deep roots in American interests and values, over many years; they began long before September 11, and we must not be deterred or diverted by anyone in pursuing them.
Whose reality,Israel's or the US's?
To: RCW2001
Politics.
To: Aleksandar Vojvoda
Whose reality,Israel's or the US's? There's only on reality. Let's talk about facts. How many attacks were there while IDF was in the west bank? You gonna reply to this post or skip over it?
To: GaryMontana
The head of the State Department could have taken out Saddam and company over a decade ago - but chose not to do so, to appease Arabs. It is not surprising his organization is blaming Israel now.
Powell's policies of appeasement acoomplished nothing more than multiply death and suffering, caused by bloodthirsty Arab dictators who threaten America with nuclear/biochemical Holocaust.
Had Israel not taken out Iraqi nuclear reactor in the mid-eighties, we would have faced Iraq armed with nukes during the Gulf War. More importantly, dozens of terrorist organizations would have been armed with suitcase nukes about a decade ago...
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:24:48 PM PDT
by
radikf
To: RCW2001
Can adults be so deliberately blind to the obvious reality, that Yasser Arafat's PA are one and the same with the "extremists", and always have been? Is there any doubt now at all that Oslo was never more than a sham, a hoax put on to milk as much advantage out of the impulse to appease that is the weakness of both Clinton's and Israeli Labor's policies toward the Palestinians. Arafat's policement were terrorists, there was no difference, and so the State Dept. has no clue as to what to do next.
To: RCW2001
I met a Palestinian man the other day, he said he was born in Egypt. I met another, he said he was "an Arab". All the ones I've met seem to come from somewhere other than this "Palestine" country. And each of them spoke a different language. Weird eh?
To: Ziva
FREEPERS -- What is the chain of command in the US State Dept?
We KNOW they support terrorists and
attack researchers of alternative energy sources.
But who directs this? and why?
To: gcruse
Giving Arafat legitimacy and criticizing Israel is a new tactic to confuse everybody interested in the Middle East. As a matter of fact, I am thoroughly confused, myself. I was under the impression that terrorism was to be denounced by the United States world-wide. Nations and regions were either for us or against us.
Now the suicide bombers that kill babies and their mothers are excused because the Israelis killed some of their organizational structure. I would like the State Department to stop confusing the issue and me. In a personal attempt to confuse the issue even more: Is this the reason Bin was allowed to escape?
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:30:41 PM PDT
by
meenie
To: Ziva
State Department also blames United States armed forces for having interfered with Taliban's ability to control Al-Queda terrorists.
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:31:43 PM PDT
by
radikf
To: BrooklynGOP
There's only on reality. Let's talk about facts. How many attacks were there while IDF was in the west bank? You gonna reply to this post or skip over it?
Are you referring to Jewish attempted attacks on Palestinian schoolgirls with Israeli Army-issued explosives?
If you are referring to Hamas and Al-Aqsa suicide bombers,my recollection would be that as this IDF/West Bank activity escalated the suicide bombings increased,eye for an eye,right?
BTW,what do you think of the story in the RH column titled,'State Dept Report:Weakening of PA Icreased Terror Attacks on Israel'.I guess there you have it in a nutshell,don't you?
To: radikf
Bears repeating.
Had Israel not taken out Iraqi nuclear reactor in the mid-eighties, we would have faced Iraq armed with nukes during the Gulf War. More importantly, dozens of terrorist organizations would have been armed with suitcase
nukes about a decade ago...
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:33:57 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: meenie
But, you don't understand. State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher explains
why blowing up Israelis different than blowing up
Americans
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
Richard Boucher, Spokesman
Washington, DC; September 27, 2001
...
QUESTION: To what extent does this campaign -- as you constantly review your Middle East
policy, what -- how much influence does this campaign against terrorism have in that? What's the
input? How does it weigh in here? See what I mean?
MR. BOUCHER: No, I don't.
QUESTION: It's obviously a factor --
MR. BOUCHER: We have talked about this on and off over the last few days. We recognize that
there is an influence. Some have said it affects the atmosphere, the Palestinian/Israeli issues
affect the atmosphere of cooperation. But, essentially, there are, on some planes, two different
things. One is that there are violent people trying to destroy societies, ours, many others in the
world. The world recognizes that and we are going to stop those people.
On the other hand, there are issues and violence and political issues that need to be resolved in
the Middle East, Israelis and Palestinians. But we all recognize that the path to solve those is
through negotiation and that we have devoted enormous efforts to getting back to that path of
negotiation.
And we have called on the parties to do everything they can, particularly in the present
circumstance, to make that possible.
I guess that's about as close as I can come to the kind of sophisticated analysis I'm sure you will
want to do on your own. But they are clearly issues that are different, not only in geography but
also, to some extent, in their nature.
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posted on
05/21/2002 7:37:47 PM PDT
by
gcruse
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