Posted on 02/28/2008 3:48:07 PM PST by kronos77
The fledgling failed-state of Kosovo -- an entity that is as lacking in economic viability and political stability as the Palestinian territories -- is also a great boon for the global jihad. It is true that Kosovar Muslims by and large do not subscribe to radical Islam. But it is also true that they have allowed their territory to be used as bases for Al Qaeda operations; that members of the ruling Kosovo Liberation Army have direct links to Al Qaeda; and that the Islamic world as a whole perceived Kosovo's fight for independence from Serbia as a jihad for Islamic domination of the disputed province.
For Israel, Kosovo's U.S.-backed declaration of independence should be a source of alarm great enough to require a rethinking of foreign policy. Unfortunately, rather than understand and implement the lessons of Kosovo, the Olmert government is working to ensure that they are re-enacted in the international community's treatment of Israel and the Palestinians. Today, Israel is enabling the Palestinians to set the political and legal conditions for the establishment of an internationally recognized state that will be at war with Israel.
By accepting the road-map plan to a two-state solution in 2004, Israel empowered the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, who comprise the international Quartet, to serve as judges of Palestinian and Israeli actions toward one another. That these moves have made Israel dependent on the kindness of strangers was made clear this week when Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni instructed Israel's ambassadors to launch a campaign to convince the international community that Israel and the Palestinians are making great strides in their negotiations toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishexponent.com ...
Bush Goal: Palestinian State by 2009
By Mike Allen and Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, November 13, 2004; Page A01
President Bush set a goal yesterday of ensuring the creation of a peaceful, democratic Palestinian state alongside Israel before he leaves office in 2009. With British Prime Minister Tony Blair at his side, Bush pledged to put the resources of the United States and the prestige of his presidency behind the quest.
Ping!
Should Taiwan be returned to mainland China?
I’m not sure it’s troubling for the “Palestinians” - it virtually guarantees them immediate recognition as a “state” solely on religious bases (Islam) as soon as they demand it - but it should sure be troubling for the rest of us. I like Bush, but he was a fool to recognize Kosovo. Of course, since he’s sponsoring a program to improve the American image among Muslims, I guess I shouldn’t have expected anything else.
Who would have thought less than 7 years after 9/11, all the Western world leaders would be handing over their countries to Islam. I feel like I’m living in a bad dream and I hope I wake up.
Caroline Glick.
i.e., another humorless, exaggeration-filled, hysterical article.
The world is about to end unless we act immediately!!!
"The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure and independent Kosovo.We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early '90s and we continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider the message of encouragement this sends to other terrorist-supported independence movements around the world. Funny how we just keep digging the hole deeper!"—Maj-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie
canuck_conservative, an Albanian.
And it's not like they are doing with their tail tucked between their legs, or these states just "happen to be Muslim". Our State Department and Congress are PROUD to be creating new Muslim states - -they are flaunting it:
At a special press briefing Burns happily claimed that a “vastly majority Muslim state” has been carved out of Serbia , a European Christian country. Then he said: “We think it is very positive step that this Muslim state, Muslim majority state, has been created today.”
And the late Tom Lantos last year:
“Just a reminder to the predominantly Muslim-led government[s] in this world that here is yet another example that the United States leads the way for the creation of a predominantly Muslim country in the very heart of Europe. This should be noted by both responsible leaders of Islamic governments, such as Indonesia, and also for jihadists of all color and hue. The United States’ principles are universal, and in this instance, the United States stands foursquare for the creation of an overwhelmingly Muslim country in the very heart of Europe.”
Beam me up, Scotty!
Is he/she a Muhammedan as well?
Before you get completely obsessed over Lewis MacKenzie’s comment, know this:
“Investigative reporter Roy Gutman of ‘Newsday’ revealed Mackenzie had been quietly paid US $15,000 by Serbnet, a US Serb propaganda group, to deliver a series of speeches spreading this disinformation - which delayed American intervention and, I believe, prolonged the slaughter in Bosnia. With charming naivete, Mackenzie claimed he didn’t know who was paying him to travel and give speeches.
The UN report on Bosnia sharply criticizes those who urged inaction in the face of ‘the attempted genocide in Bosnia,’ and negotiations instead of employing force early in the war. It condemns the UN’s bias in remaining neutral in the face of evil - just what this column long maintained during the Bosnian conflict. Canada was so enraptured by the process of peacekeeping, it refused to distinguish between mass murderers and their victims. MacKenzie’s by now notorious ‘serial murderers’ line became the slogan for this morally twisted policy.
It was Lewis MacKenzie, not the US and NATO, that mislead - and continues to mislead - the public over Bosnia or Kosovo. Had NATO not intervened in Kosovo, it would have become a second Bosnia.”
- Eric Margolis
http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/1999/11/index.php
No.
“By Allah, Im Christian!”
:)
Margolis was born in New York City in the 1940s to Henry M. Margolis, a New York businessman, restaurant owner, theatrical producer and investor, and Nexhmie Zaimi, his Albanian born mother who was a journalist and author.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Margolis
From Margolis' Bio:
REGULAR COLUMNIST: Dawn - Pakistan
AFFILIATIONS: Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan
Margolis was born in New York City in the 1940s to Henry M. Margolis, a New York businessman, restaurant owner, theatrical producer and investor, and Nexhmie Zaimi, his Albanian-born mother who was a journalist and author.
Margolis like "Stephen Schwartz", who anyone reading would assume is a disinterested Jew, but is really a Muslim.
What about Roy Gutman? The guy that found that MacKenzie had been bought off by a Serbian propaganda group?
You got a smear for him, too?
He gets speaker’s fees for telling the truth and it ticks off the Soros-funded Dhimmi stooges.
God bless Lewis MacKenzie!
No, he got “speaker’s fees” to peddle the Serbian distortions, while pretending to be objective.
And the fact that we now know this bothers you Serbian apologists.
Just look at how frantically you try to smear anybody who exposes the numerous Serbian lies.
Lewis MacKenzie sold his soul to the Serbian Nazis.
CONFIRMED: Gutman is on Soros’ payroll!
http://www.soros.org/resources/events/ten_20050707
Caught you in your lie, Muhammedan! So much for your falsehoods proving ANYTHING about Lewis MacKenzie! LOL!
Wrong, Gutman sold his soul to Soros’ propaganda and slanders an honorable Canadian soldier.
And you’ve been caught, Muhammedan!
BTW, MacKenzie has never denied the payments.
Just (unconvincingly) claimed he didn’t know where they were coming from.
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