Posted on 11/15/2005 12:16:20 AM PST by goldstategop
It's not bad enough that the Israelis evacuated peaceful civilians from the Gaza Strip because the proposed new government there cannot stomach the idea of any Jews living in their country.
Now Bill Clinton says Jews should send financial aid and technology to their anti-Semitic terrorist enemies there.
That's what the former U.S. president told a group in Jerusalem gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last weekend.
Clinton also referred to the Oslo peace process – by any standard a total and abject failure – "our best chance for a lasting and comprehensive peace."
I'm surprised he wasn't booed off the stage.
"If you work for peace and fail, fewer people will die than if you do not work at all," he said.
Tell it to Neville Chamberlain.
Clinton offered up a three-point peace plan:
1. He suggested Palestinians "use their opportunity in Gaza to do a better job of fighting terror." A better job? How about any job?
2. He suggested Israelis must find a way "to organize their politics" so that "their search for peace can continue." Isn't it time for world leaders to acknowledge that Israelis have done all they can – that they have gone above and beyond the call of duty in working for peace? Am I the only one who finds such remarks rather insulting? How do Israelis view it?
3. And he suggested that the "most important" step is that Jews around the world and friends of Israel "have a special responsibility to give financial, moral and technical support to the Palestinian people to help the Gaza gamble succeed and to the Israelis to give them time to sort through their political situation."
This is what passes for deep thinking among world leaders.
Jews have a special responsibility to come to the aid of their embattled, bleeding, battered brothers and sisters in Israel. Suggesting Jews should divert their support to aiding the budding anti-Semitic, terrorist state of Palestine is immoral and unconscionable.
It is like suggesting that the best hedge against the rise of Adolph Hitler in the 1930s would have been diverting financial and technical aid to Germany.
Hear me – an Arab-American who has covered this part of the world for many years – on this point: No people have done more for the Arab refugees than the Jews. Nowhere in the Middle East do Arabs live freer, more productive lives than in Israel. Their thanks has been in the form unrelenting, unending terrorism and death.
I find these comments by Bill Clinton condescending and dangerous.
Why do we keep raising the bar of civil conduct higher and higher for Jews?
Why are expectations continually lowered for the Arab world?
Why do we believe that we can change the moral character of the Arab people in Gaza by throwing money at them?
Why do we think that rewarding terrorism is the right thing to do in the Middle East, even though acknowledging it is the wrong approach elsewhere?
Why is it that the Jews are expected to pay for the needs of the people in Gaza – even though the Arab states of the Middle East are wealthy and claim to support their struggle?
This is insanity.
Why is analysis like this even taken seriously?
How many times do we have to witness the same policies of appeasement and one-sided sacrifice fail before we recognize it's time for a re-evaluation of those policies?
Bill Clinton did his level best to destroy Israel during his eight years as president. He twisted Ehud Barak's arm to the point that the former prime minister had virtually given his country away to Yasser Arafat. Only a strange twist of fate, in which Arafat rejected the giveaway, halted the process and saved Israel from the unimaginable horror of being sliced and diced.
When people like Bill Clinton talk about a "peace plan" for Israel, what they really mean is a "piece plan" – in which Israel would be left with only an indefensible piece of its historic land.
That's not peace ... it's ethnic, religious and cultural suicide.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Applause!!!!
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:
No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Who ever said that clinton was the sharpest knife in the drawer?
I doubt that even Bill Clinton believes what Bill Clinton said. He's doing this for Hitlery's 2008 run.
ROLFMAO! That's rich!
A round of applause to Joe Farah for this one!
Go back and read the questions in this piece again. But before you do, think USA and the black issues we have....
I think you will realize where Clinton gets his ideas...
It really frosts me to see people such as Slick Willie, Bill Richardson and other Democrats stick their noses into foreign relations as they have. I cannot recall any party that is out of power doing anything like this. Unbelievable.
Wen Ho Lee is charged with removing classified material from a secure area. Despite Lee's guilty plea to a widely public and much touted case, a former Clinton appointee connected to Al Gore has admitted to far worse and walked -- without being charged or even questioned.
In 1996, the former Commerce employee walked into a secure area, put classified files in a box, and then walked out the door. That former employee was Ira Sockowitz, then special general counsel at Commerce. Without authorization, he took 136 files, over 2,000 pages of highly classified materials, and simply walked away.
Sandy Berger - de rigeur for Democrats, rules and laws simply do not apply to them.
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What amazes me are the attitudes of American Jews. They - or the overwhelming majority - continue to support Bill Clinton and will support Hillary Clinton, should she run for president.
How foolish can you be!
And people wonder why I call that low-down scalawag Clinton "King Ahab!" His dominatrix is Queen Jezebel.
Thanks for looking- if the press would grill Clinton's cronies the way they do the President's, more people would be aware of this.
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