Posted on 03/27/2002 9:26:41 AM PST by Roger_W_Isom
AT LEAST 10 people have been killed in a hotel lobby in NETANYA ISRAEL 51 injured for sue... PARK HOTEL was the target........ And people wonderred WHY the ISRAELIS REFUSED TO LET ARAFART GO TO THIS " SUMMITT"?????
So call me a Palestinian laster if you want. But I am 100% American and 100% for America before anything else. Unfortunately your writings reveal you are an Israel laster. That is your choice to suffer.
Ewwwwww... from where???
Extremely, thank you. BLOATed to the gills. Huntin'.
"Rumors"??? Are you smoking something unhealthy at the moment?
monday: Hmmmmm.... examples please? I really don't see Israel as being in a position to pressure America. Lobby yes, but if Israel told America to go take a hike, that could not be termed pressure, as if the reverse were true that would be lots of pressure.
Remember when Bush Senior tried to tie $10 billion in loan guarantees to a building ban in the occupied territories. AIPAC put 1000 lobbyists on the street the next day to pressure congress. Bush caved but it was too late. The Israel lobby came down hard for Clinton, who won going away. That's a lesson that no one in the Bush family will ever forget, including our boy dubya.
As for American pressure on Israel, it largely consists mere words, announcing at a press conference that one thing or another "isn't helpful." Real pressure isn't mere words. It's the ability to throw someone out of office.
As far as the U.S. abandoning Israel, it's never going to happen and that's true even though it's not clear at this point that Israel needs our help anyway, given that it has neutron bombs, missiles, F-16s and the world's fourth largest army. The Arabs have diddlysquat and they turn and run when anyone says boo.
Appeasing terrorists make them bolder. Everytime Bush or Powell or the EU condemn Israel for defending itself, the Palistinians step up the killing in hopes of provoking an even more violent reaction from Israel, and stronger condemnation from the west.
The terrorists see this a propaganda victory, never mind if Palistinian civilians are inadvertantly killed, in fact they see this as a plus in their propaganda campaign.
If the US and the EU would back Israel in its self defense, then the Palistinians would lose much of the propaganda value of their terror. Why continue to do something, (kill) when there is not discernable value? A simple concept, but one that seems lost on the leaders of the moment.
From the guy who called Bush 'the First Chimp' and questions our war on terrorism.
Why don't YOU forget about Israel?
Oh yeah...you'd have nothing to 'write' (rant) about if you did....
There is a big difference between supporting and doing. Usually only young men do, but that doesn't mean everyone else in the family is not 100% behind him.
BTW, I am not suggesting we over react, but we do need to be aware, and stop pretending that if we ignore these people they will leave us alone. They won't.
I think the sucide bombings are directed at Israeli morale, not world opinion. If Arafat really wanted to court world opinion, he'd adopt a Ghandi-like posture of non-violent resistance. Of course it would never happen, Arafat being too much of a bloody corrupt fool to demonstrate such vision.
Both, I think. It doesn't hurt that so many Israelis have joined the peace movement. The Palistinians sence victory and are stepping up the violence because they think it is working. Suicide for the nation of Israel to capitulate, but that is what many Israelis want. Oh well, it is their country.
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