Sorry, no pictures of the Sea Hag from me today.
Posted on 03/10/2006 8:09:17 AM PST by presidio9
Even amid growing chaos in the Middle East, President George W. Bush loves to boast that his policies are bringing democracy to the region.
True, certified elections have taken place in occupied Iraq and occupied Palestine. But the U.S. has become a laughingstock because it rejects the results of the democratic election in Palestine, where Hamas won.
The joke is, "Be careful what you wish for."
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice again was surprised at the Hamas victory, saying, "Nobody saw it coming." Well, that's because the Bush administration has long ignored the plight of the Palestinians, who have endured a suffocating occupation.
The U.S. had designated Hamas a terrorist organization because of its widely condemned suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.
In fact, the Israelis and the U.S. may find themselves longing for the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, who signed peace treaties with them and made many concessions in the pursuit of peace.
The leaders of Hamas now have legitimacy, but they need acceptance. They also need to show good faith. For starters, they should continue their year-long truce in their militancy against Israel
The Hamas victory sent Israelis and Americans back to the drawing board, mainly to figure out how they can block aid to the Palestinians but still pretend that they uphold free elections in a region dominated by monarchies and dictatorships.
Israel has stopped the flow of funds to the Palestinian Authority, even though that money was collected from Palestinian taxes and other fees.
The U.S. is continuing some humanitarian aid distributed through non-governmental organizations and the United Nations, lest it be accused of starving the Palestinians financially.
Over the years, Palestinians have seen their land systematically taken for Israeli settlements. Americans who observe the U.S. tacit endorsement of such usurpation can only despair.
But the last straw for the Palestinians is the two-year-old, 114-mile wall that Israel built. This barrier cuts the Palestinians off from the main roads to Jerusalem, severing their neighborhoods and blocking 60,000 to 80,000 people from commuting to their jobs.
The International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled two years ago that the Israelis should tear down the wall and compensate those Palestinians who were harmed during construction.
The court -- which voted 14 to 1, with the U.S. as the sole dissenter -- urged that negotiations begin "as soon as possible" for a separate Palestinian state.
The international court ruling is not binding, and Israel could ignore it, just as it has scores of previous U.N. resolutions condemning its actions.
Meanwhile, with the acquiescence of the U.S., Israel has bolstered its large settlements on the West Bank.
The unresolved Arab-Israeli clash has been a festering sore for decades. It is the root cause of the hostility of much of the Middle East toward the U.S.
The obvious solution is two states -- Israel and Palestine -- living side by side in peace.
Israel's military power can sustain it for a time, but at some point it has to get along in the neighborhood.
Hamas has to renounce its belligerence while seeking negotiations with Israel. Muhammad Nazzal, a senior Hamas leader, conceded to Agence France-Presse that "Hamas must change its manners. We know that every well. But what we are saying is that we want a response from the Israelis. If you want Hamas to change its policies, you must also request that the Israelis change their policies."
Bush can start a new round of peacemaking by emulating his hero, Ronald Reagan, and telling the Israelis to tear down that wall, just as Reagan taunted the Soviets to tear down the Berlin Wall in 1987.
Sorry, no pictures of the Sea Hag from me today.
Do, do you think Isreal should tear down the wall, even though it has dramatically decreased terror attacks?
Helens off her meds again...or back on them..I cant ever tell..
No, then that will enable opponents of the wall between us a Mexico.
We will tear down the wall if you promise to go live over there next to the pali's.
i'd say let the ole hag live in israel and THEN say if she want's the wall torn down.
"In fact, the Israelis and the U.S. may find themselves longing for the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat,"
Delusion \De*lu"sion\n. [L. delusio, fr. deludere. See Delude.]
1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. --Pope.
2. The state of being deluded or misled.
3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone. --Prior.
Syn: Delusion, Illusion.
Usage: These words both imply some deception practiced upon the mind. Delusion is deception from want of knowledge; illusion is deception from morbid imagination. An illusion is a false show, a mere cheat on the fancy or senses. It is, in other words, some idea or image presented to the bodily or mental vision which does not exist in reality. A delusion is a false judgment, usually affecting the real concerns of life. Or, in other words, it is an erroneous view of something which exists indeed, but has by no means the qualities or attributes ascribed to it. Thus we speak of the illusions of fancy, the illusions of hope, illusive prospects, illusive appearances, etc. In like manner, we speak of the delusions of stockjobbing, the delusions of honorable men, delusive appearances in trade, of being deluded by a seeming excellence. ``A fanatic, either religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions; while the term illusion is applied solely to the visions of an uncontrolled imagination, the chimerical ideas of one blinded by hope, passion, or credulity, or lastly, to spectral and other ocular deceptions, to which the word delusion is never applied.'' --Whately.
THANK YOU!!!
I'm sick of the media pandering to this crone. She's obviously over the edge. Will no one have the courage to tell her it's time to hang it up? Will no one speak truth to senility?
Posting pictures of Helen Thomas should be a bannable offense.
Helen Thomas says Bush must tell Israel "tear down the wall".
Helen Thomas has been smoking too much of that funny stuff again - ping!
Its always so sad when those who've become brain-addled and senile keep embarrassing themselves in public!
War is the answer.
Ah, Grace Kelly, an angel from the past! Helen Thomas, is the moldering cadaver of the present. If Helen says that Israel must live with an aggressive terrorist regime without complaint, and anything that might go wrong is their fault. The "Wall", and Israel's policy of targeting terrorist leaders, has worked, and she wants to bring back the past. Well, if Hamas doesnt' change its charter and its vicious terrorist ideology and hatred, Israel shouldn't alter the only effective strategy against it. Helen, die already, won't you?
We are not rejecting their choice of leaders. We are just refusing to deal with them.
Better get started on that wall. it's going to take a few centuries to build it, and an unguarded wall or fence is worthless anyways.
As I said before, lay down billions of landmines. It eliminates all three problems, cost of building, manpower of patroling, illegal immigants crossing. And they never need painting.
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