Rice: Israel must take more steps

Jerusalem Post ^ | Aug. 18, 2005 | Herb Keinon

[SJackson]

You clearly missed my point, or misunderstood what I was trying to convey. My post was in response to post #25.

Don't have time to go back now, but it wouldn't be the first time I've misunderstood a post.

[avile]

e-1 now

[mikeIII]

This won't make us any new friends. We will risk one, at this rate.

[patriot_wes]

At one time I thought she was brilliant - what a dumb sh[t I turned out to be! America is going to pay a very heavy price for helping these terrorists subjugate Gods people.

[iThinkBig]

"4. casting the war as one against terrorism rather than against militant Islam.

Terrorism is a means by which our enemy is fighting the war; it is not the enemy. His repeated uterances of "religion of peace" have not been helpful to force us to see the true enemy in this battle of civilizations."

This is the biggest blunder. Too much PC about what the arabs "think". After 911 the response as you mentioned was awsome and justified. Even Iraq to me was a gamble but one that could pay long-term dividends. I told my business partner just after 911 the smartest thing to do would be to invest 1 trillion dollars into nuclear plants and synthetic biodiesels. Then you can dictate whatever policy you want instead of kissing ass to the wrong people.

[Graymatter]

"Everyone empathizes with what the Israelis are facing..."

I'm sure there were quite a few people who thought disengagement was a good idea in Birmingham, AL. They'd have gladly "empathized" with you, Dr. Rice.

[Palladin]

Sharon has proven himself to be a puppet. Do not expect any future courageous acts from him. He is bought and paid for.

[Blennos]

You think big and think accurately.

I have had a similar thought. Since we do not have the political will in this country to fully take advantage of our own oil resources, the best approach for the West (including Israel) would be to invest in technology to produce a cheap alternative source of energy to oil. This would leave the Arabs with useless oceans of gooey black substance that no one wanted.

You are right: PC is killing us.

[Palladin]

I just read the amazing article by Taylor Caldwell on your homepage. I would recommend that everyone read it.

[Palladin]

A great post!

So many horrible images from the past were aroused today.
Jews being torn out of their homes and synagogues. Pogroms perpetrated by jackbooted thugs...but this time, they also are Jews...not Cossacks, not Nazis.

The secularists want to destroy any nation based on Judaism or Christianity. The Israeli ambassadors on TV today spat out the word "Theocracy" as a pejorative against the resisters and their rabbis.

Some of the images today could have been from the "evacuation" of the Warsaw ghetto sixty-some years ago.

[Blogger]

It's more than a disappointment. It causes doubt over the whole agenda.

[Alouette]

Israel has NEVER had a friendlier President than President Bush.

Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan.

[Uri’el-2012]

http://israelreporter.com/2005/08/18/inn-rice-promises-arabs-more-jewish-deportations/

[sheik yerbouty]

The camel could wind up headless..

[sheik yerbouty]

Amen. When told by agitated Arabists at State that the Israelis destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor, RR was said to have replied "Well, boys will be boys!"

[familyop]

"According to the Times, Rice said that while the withdrawal would take several weeks, Israel must take further steps soon afterward, including loosening travel restrictions in the West Bank and withdrawing from more Palestinian cities."

Which demand with coercion will help the terrorists to accumulate even more weapons and to eventually control routes leading into Israel (again, as the Brits did at the end of the Mandate era). ...in with the Caligula-cons (AKA "paleo-cons," Vespasian lobby, and the like) and out with us "neo-cons." IMO, they're daring us to drop the vote and simply go away.

[itsahoot]

Bear in mind that she speaks for the President and that is a terrible disappointment to me

Was it a terrible disappointment to you when the President became the first American President to actually officially call for a Palestinian state?

Were you riotously indignant when Hillary called for the same thing, during the Clinton tenure?

[Nam Vet]

Israel should be taking land not giving it away. One man's opinion.

Two men's opinions.

Nam Vet