I think in the end democratic Israel will have to fight their fight all alone since our government is too busy not trying to offend dictatorial Islamic regimes....ahem, while we are spreading democracy by the way!!!
But the US State Department had no trouble accepting publicly a $500 million "gift" from Kuwait despite this statement from a Kuwaiti Government Official:
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"Kuwaiti Official: Katrina is a Wind of Torment and Evil from Allah Sent to This American Empire"
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"When the satellite channels reported on the scope of the terrifying destruction in America [caused by] this wind, I was reminded of the words of [Prophet Muhammad]: 'The wind sends torment to one group of people, and sends mercy to others.' I do not think – and only Allah [really] knows – that this wind, which completely wiped out American cities in these days, is a wind of mercy and blessing. It is almost certain that this is a wind of torment and evil that Allah has sent to this American empire. Out of my absolute belief in the truth of the words of the Prophet Muhammad, this wind is the fruit of the planning [of Allah], as is stated in the text of the Hadith of the Prophet.
"But I began to ask myself: Doesn't this country [the U.S.] claim to aspire to establish justice, freedom, and equality amongst the people? Isn't this country claiming that everything it did in Afghanistan and Iraq was for truth and justice? How can it be that these American claims are untrue, when we see how good prevails in the streets of Afghanistan, and how it became an oasis of security with America's entrance there? How can these American claims in the matter of Iraq be untrue, when we see that Iraq has become the most tranquil and secure country in the world?
"But how strange it is that after all the tremendous American achievements for the sake of humanity, these mighty winds come and evilly rip [America's] cities to shreds? Have the storms have joined the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475236/posts
Beware of Arabs bearing gifts.
We noticed that omission immediately. How disgusting that our government would snub a friend in favor of those who would like to see us dead?
How many people still think Condi Rice is Hal Lindsay with breasts and a tan?
Typical State depatment attitude. Rice has changed nothing there.
A senseless approach ultimately doomed to fail, perhaps in an explosive way.
The general populace is never diplomatic and the overwhelming attitude toward muslim states is the world is better off without them.
"Taking arms against a sea of troubles", with or without the federal government involved, is only a matter of time...
And always; always, the enemy of our enemy is our friend.
Even the movie "Independence Day" wasn't afraid to show the Israeli military helping out.
on today 9/11--i am just sick of the world cow-towing to this scum (muslims,islam,whatever they want to be called)the west is killing themselves off with this attitude
Hurricane Katrina's damage was done in two stages. Two seperate stages. First was the storm, it's rains and sea surge and the great winds of its eye hitting and running right up the border between conservative, Republican Mississippi and liberal, democratic Louisiana. This stage was bad -- it completely wiped out the coastal communities in Mississippi and Louisiana.
New Orleans was left damaged but whole by the first stage. Spared.
The second stage was the levee breaks and the flooding, followed by confusion, lawlessness, looting, violence and fear. New Orleans was destroyed by this stage.
Now the parallels. There are two. Parallel One. The US's great might is like a storm that runs up the border between Arab and Jew. Unpredictable. But impossible for Jew or Arab to ignore or to hide from -- all Jews and Arabs are subject to powerful overwhelming impacts from Hurricane US.
Where Katrina hit the Gulf Coast hardest in its first stage, Hurricane US has hit Gush Katif in its first stage. The Gaza Strip has been obliterated of Jews and nearly all once-Jewish structures.
So now, to come after some brief pause -- will there be some massive flooding as some sort of levees break? Will that effect the Arabs in ways of like a flooding: inter-necine violence, looting and self-ruination?
Not by Katrina's direct hit was New Orlean's ruined, but by circumstance still unknown cause of the levee break that exploited New Orleans own moral weaknesses -- those weaknesses that prevented the people of NO from dealing with their problems, from preparing the levees to an appropirate strength, from developing official response, that trembled their police and authority and made them run, cower, hide.
So too, are the Arabs who seek Isreal's demise morally weak, with potent self-destroying forces already prepared, internalized within them. It is not unlikely -- and by hypothetic parallel likely -- that some chance event and a flood-like circumstance brought on by that event will unlock those self-destroying forces already within them, and that by riot, general violence, cowering and fears that they bring upon themselves -- Palestine will wipe itself out. Gaza and Arab-held areas of the West Bank will be abbondoned, a ruin, a desolation. That the self-destructive forces unleashed within the Arab community itself will be like those in New Orleans, so awful theat most will never wish to return, but those that remain will happily take up live in other Arab lands -- refugees.
Parallel Two: For the Bush Administration. The Hurricane hit and did some immediate damage to the poll numbers. The Bush Administration's response was good and timely too -- I have no complaint for the one day of pause, it pales before New Orleans and Louisiana's YEARS of unpreparedness.
The Bush Administrations response to Katrina is GREAT. It has saved many lives.
Yet they have taken some damage. That damage will pale before a flood of damage that may yet be done, if the Bush Administration continues to diminish or mock Israel, and to support Israel's enemies. The smallest of events -- equivalent to a a few yards break in miles of levees will bring it down. No power, no nation -- no matter how mighty can stand before such a powerful flood.
A disgraceful waste of her ample talents. They might as well rename her "Secretary of Appeasement". Frank Gaffney was on WABC talking about how Hughes is meeting now with "Islamic" groups who have links to "charities" which fund terror. Have they learned nothing?
It is exactly the opposite which makes sense. Only if they still offer assistance after Israel does should we consider such an offer genuine. And btw, I thought things were supposed to be different after Israel withdrew from Gaza. I guess this gesture is meaningless to Condi Reich, who called for "more Israeli sacrifices". The only people who never have to sacrifice anything is her Arab buddies.
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Experienced trauma teams offered the Tuesday after the breach, which could have been on the ground within 24 hours, were it not for Arab sensibilities. A disgusting state of affairs. I'd like to think the "official" is wrong. As I noted on a couple other threads, some personnel have been "reflagged" and sent here by Israeli charities. "At one point, the administration signaled that it would accept Israeli help, but preferred that it be as part of a mission organized by the American Jewish community, "an official said. "There appeared to a problem with having the Israeli flag in a foreign rescue mission in the United States."
Officials said the Bush administration delayed accepting Israel's immediate offer to help the hurricane victims. They said the administration was concerned that such a move would deter Arab and Islamic countries from offering assistance.
"At one point, the administration signaled that it would accept Israeli help, but preferred that it be as part of a mission organized by the American Jewish community," an official said. "There appeared to a problem with having the Israeli flag in a foreign rescue mission in the United States."
Dhimmi dummies mesmerised by the "Religion of Peace" idiocy.
Rice was my golden girl. Now she is in the same category as McCain, Giuliani and those other RINOS.
This is despicable and indefensible and these people had better stop siding with the enemies of Christ's People and of Western Civlization.
I wonder if they got calls from Qatar, Kuwait, and other big dollar Arab donors saying the deal's off if Israel is in there too.
,/i. Thank The LORD Israel isn't and won't be alone. The LORD is with Israel and the LORD is all that she will need.
Thank The LORD Israel isn't and won't be alone. The LORD is with Israel and the LORD is all that she will need.
This makes me want to puke. Now I really think George Bush and Condolezza Rice are the worst appeasers that have ever topped our government. Absolutely disgraceful!
While we are being threatened in our homes by those same Muslim and Arabs--Bush and Rice appease! They are worse than Neville Chamberlain who was fooled by an apparently civilized, Western thug. Our President and his PhD chief diplomate don't want to offend declared barbarians!? A PhD! What did she learn in her high-classed education??? Certainly not principles.
Quite different from the official Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Website.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2005/Israeli+aid+to+Hurricane+Katrina+victims+5-Sep-2005.htm