[dep]

maybe somebody should tall colin bin powell that this is not exactly the time and place to be campaigning for a nobel peace prize, or at least there is no short cut to one.

dep

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

My opinion (FWIW) is that this is not the time for the US to get into a p*ssing match with Israel.

[1Old Pro]

It should be Bibi Netanayu, a real American partner. But thanks to Clintoon/Carville, Israel took some steps backwards.

[veronica]

Sharon's words may be "unacceptable" but THEY WORKED.

Powell warns Arafat: U.S. may change policy if steps aren't taken...

"Americans officials said Friday that Secretary of State Colin Powell warned Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat in a phone conversation Thursday that if he does not take action to fulfill his obligations, Washington would not continue its current policy in regard to the Palestinians, Israel Radio reported. The call came after Powell discussed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres recent incidents of Palestinian violence in the territories"

Public posturing aside, the message was heard, thank God!

[rebdov]

I think the US position vis a vis Israel is unacceptable.

[rebdov]

I think the US position vis a vis Israel is unacceptable.

[Milosevic2]

Did I hear unacceptable ?

NO OFFICIAL EXPLANATIONS FOR TU-154 PLANE CRASH ABOVE BLACK SEA DISCOVERED, SO FAR

SOCHI, OCTOBER 5, 2001. /FROM RIA NOVOSTI'S OLGA SEMENOVA/ -- No official explanations of what caused the catastrophe of the Russian Tu-154M airliner above the Black sea have so far been produced. This was said by chief of the Russian commission of inquiry Vladimir Rushailo, secretary of the Russian Security Council, at the first press conference since the start of work of the state commission.

"Every, even the most impossible, version is being considered," he said. But he refused to cite even working hypotheses. For example, only experts in ballistics can pass a decision on what produced holes discovered in recovered fragments of the door of the pilot cabin, said Rushailo.

The radius of fall of the plane's fragments is 10 kilometers, he continued. The ten vessels, one aircraft, two helicopters and 120 rescuers doing work on the site of crash are trying to find "the maximum of what can be found on the surface", Rushailo stressed.
If you know how Russia has been handling the US (just think about the Kursk ) then you know that the word "officially" means that Russia now knows.
The US is announcing troops moving to Uzbekistan (1,000 troops from the U.S. 10th Mountain Division were on their way to Uzbekistan).
if Uzebkistan's president betrayed Russia then keep in mind keep playing Russia can't accept this.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Sorry Ari, but Sharon is right on the money. If we are going to screw our real friends to pacify our questionable fair weather friends, it will be to our everlasting sorrow.

[Rodney King]

Shron said that he will not allow Israel to be sold down the riner in the name of appeasment, as Czechoslovakia was at the beginning of World War II.

If I were Israel, I would feel the same way. From the point of history, however, Czechoslovakia fell on its own accord. First, it, too tried to appease the Germans, and gave up the Sudetenland. Regardless of the legitimacy of the Germans claim to the land, the Sudetenland was the natural line of defense for the Czechs. By giving it up, they yielded the high ground to the Germans.

Afterword, the Germans invaded, and the Czech were still not fully prepared, despite the large number of Skoda tanks they had, which were superior to the Mark I, and Mark II tanks that the Germans were fielding at the time.

The lesson of course to Israel is to be prepared to go it alone(which they are), and never, ever, to yield the high ground, which is what Syria of course has been asking them to do.

[Lent]

Gee, where have all those condemnations been of Arafat's and the PA's diatribes against Israel and the U.S. I guess that's just water which passed quickly under the bridge.

[B Knotts]

I think appeasing Muslim states that wish to eradicate Israel is unacceptable.

[B Knotts]

I think appeasing Arab states that wish to eradicate Israel is unacceptable.

[mmmmmmmm....... donuts]

what does it mean to not 'accept' a statement? does it mean... he's going to assassinate sharon? cut off all aid? have the u.s. ambassador stop by sharon's office tosay 'that's not nice to say we're trying to f*** you over?' it's fine what fleischer says some BS statement, that's what PR guys do, but why are the press people napping? if fleischer says something like that, make him elaborate!

[arkfreepdom]

Nothing Bush said is different than the long range goal of Israel.....Mainly, the Palestinians must first accept the right of Israel to exist. Sharon was stupid to criticize a pissed off US at this point in time....at least publicly.

[Egg]

Talk of creation of a plalestinian state when the bodies of murdered fellow Americans have yet to be recovered from beneath the rubble of the WTC is not only UNACCEPTABLE, but outright ignorant.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Sharon's comparison of his state to the republic formerly known as "Czechoslovakia" might be right on the money. After a world conflagration costing a hundred million casualties the republic formerly known as Czechoslovakia was able to eject that pesky 50% of the population of the Czech lands who weren't Czech. Carpe diem Ariel.

[tberry]

"issued a statement calling Israeli Prime Minister Sharon's remarks of yesterday "unacceptable."

I think supporting a new terrorist country of Palestine, becoming chummy with Iran and Syria and trying to distance yourself from the only country (Israel) that has the "balls" to aggressively fight terrorism, is unacceptable.

Powell and Bush better listen to Rumsfeld and the Pentagon and get their sh*t together.

[cdw19390]

Bush is WRONG to try to appease the camel quackers. Fire COLIN POWELL NOW!! he is not fit for the job, he screwed BUSH #1, does #3 be to be the second one term Bush? Isreal is one of the two allies we have, now, and they are right. You dont appease someone trying to kill you. They will kill us now, or tommorow. No matter to them, Maybe after we wake up and and our kids smell the anthrax we will finally understand. This is real PEOPLE, this is no drill, It is time to be AMERICANS. NUKE THEM!

[MeekOneGOP]

Ariel Sharon: Keep 'em Guessing!

[Marysecretary]

BRING BACK NETANYAHU!

[gohabsgo]

Why don't we all just admit it, the US Capitol should be in Tel Aviv. The Tel Aviv Times (LA Times) covers middle east issues predominantly. Anyone want to deny the following fact (look it up on NEXIS for those reading who knee-jerk into a Sharptonian response about my anti-Semitism):

Bill Clinton received the MAJORITY of his campaign funding from:

1. The American Israel Political Action Committee

2. The Trial Lawyers Association

Do the math, look in mirror, as yourself if you are honest and humble enough to accept the facts, then read Sharon's "we're on our own statement".

Perhaps (and I don't want to believe it), but perphaps there is more than a grain of truth to the theory that Israel is an arrogant, selfish, ungrateful partner who when push comes to shove, will sell the US down the river to achieve their goals. Disagree? If so, move on to Jonathan Pollard and ask him!