Posted on 02/25/2005 9:31:30 AM PST by Marguerite
Edited on 02/25/2005 9:36:36 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON -- On Sunday, Feb. 20, Israel crossed two Rubicons. The Cabinet decided once and for all to withdraw from Gaza and dismantle 25 settlements -- 21 in Gaza and 4 in the upper West Bank. Yet, had Israel done only this, it would be seen, correctly, as a victory for terror, a unilateral retreat and surrender to the four-year intifada. That is why the second Israeli decision was so important. The Cabinet also voted to finish the security fence on the West Bank, which will separate Israeli and Palestinian populations, and create the initial border between Israel and a nascent Palestine.
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When Brit has him on his panel I think he makes the rest of them look like second string, not that they aren't good but his observations and thoughts are usually the best on the show.
dittoes to that
He is brilliant.
Related article:
SHARON'S GIANT STEP, By John Podhoretz
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/40951.htm
I think most of us are in agreement --- When Krauthammer speaks, we take the time to listen.
He is, indeed.
I try not to miss any of his papers.
Yes, who said it better?
"Take away the terror weapon and everything else follows: safety, stability and the conditions for a final peace. A peace based not on the good will of a Sharon or a Mahmoud Abbas but on the new reality on the ground: separate nations delineated by a temporary barrier to produce a temporary peace -- and the possibility of a final one."
good fences make good neighbors
And he doesn't suffer fools (hello Juan Williams) gracefully.
Good fences keep away bad neighbors ;-)
I totally agree with you. I always enjoy what he has to say. I do wonder something about him that you or some other FRer may know: Is he in a wheelchair?
That is a good question, I don't know. I have always seen him sitting down, have you heard that he is in a wheelchair?
No. It's just an idea I had. When I see him on the set with the others he looks, to me, like he doesn't move his upper body as naturally or easily as the others. He always looks alittle awkward, like he can't move around very well. I just thought he may have a disability that affects his movement. Maybe I should get glasses!
Charles is amazing. I get the impression of the psychiatriast analyzing political patients. It's an analogous feeling to that I get from George Will the PhD historian. Put them together with Brit Hume's street-smart commentary and I will listen entranced for hours.
He's been in a wheelchair for a long time Chick. Don't remember when I first heard it. Best I can tell it was a spinal cord injury suffered when he was in his early 20s. Psychiatry is a reasonable specialty for one with decreased mobility.
I stopped listening when he denounced Mel Gibson, The Passion - and by strong implication, Christianity.
An amazing bigot. I stopped reading him when he joined the posse of anti-Christian bigots who denounced Mel Gibson and The Passion in the most vile terms.
In a Washington Post column titled “Gibson’s Blood Libel,” Charles Krauthammer links the crucifixion story to “a history of centuries of relentless, and at times savage, persecution of Jews in Christian lands.” For 2000 years, he says, the Catholic Church taught that “the Jews were Christ killers.” Only at Vatican II did Rome take responsibility for the “baleful history” that came out of the “central story” of the Gospels. The blood libel that this story [of the crucifixion] affixed upon the Jewish people had led to countless Christian massacres of Jews and prepared Europe for the ultimate massacre—6 million Jews systematically murdered in six years—in the heart, alas, of a Christian continent. It is no accident Vatican II occurred just two decades after the Holocaust, indeed in its shadow. But Krauthammer stands truth on its head. Not until the ideas of Rousseau, Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud had poisoned the soul of Europe and Christianity had lost the continent did Hitler and Stalin come to power to work their evil will upon Christians and Jews. Hitler learned his hatreds in Viennese gutters, not Catholic schools. Speaking of blood libels, has there been one greater than Krauthammer’s accusation that the Gospel of Jesus Christ paved the way to Auschwitz? Krauthammer echoes Richard Cohen who says the movie is “anti-Semitic ... in the way portions of the New Testament are—an assignment of blame that culminated in the Holocaust.” Both columns are of a piece with the slanders of Pius XII. Credited by one Jewish historian with saving 800,000 Jews, praised by the Rabbi of Rome, publicly mourned on his death by Golda Meir, Pius XII, too, has fallen victim to the blood libel that he was “Hitler’s Pope.”
Krauthammer's column called The Passion, "Gibson's Blood Libel." After Charles revealed his anti-Christian bigotry so brazenly, I have no time for him -- except to remind others of his hateful writing against Gibson, and against my religion.
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