[holdonnow]

Well, if Bush is laying out a case for Israel to defend itself, it was a pointless speech. The case has been made. It has been made with the Palestinian violation of every accord and agreement it has ever signed. The case was made last week, the week before that, and months earlier, when babies were targeted and shot to death in their beds by terrorists. You insist, like others, that Bush was laying down the law. Just leave the Israelis alone and they'll defend themselves. Stop the Secretary of State from recognizing Arafat as the legitimate leader of the Palestinians. Stop the US representative at the UN from sponsoring resolutions condemning Israel's acts of self-defense.

[Miss Marple]

What part of the President's speech in which he says that the current leadership is contaminated by dealing with terrorists, and that they need NEW leadership, do you not see?

Or is it that you require that he chastise Powell personally in public? (By the way, that is a guaranteed disaster.)

[Amelia]

The case was made last week, the week before that, and months earlier, when babies were targeted and shot to death in their beds by terrorists. You insist, like others, that Bush was laying down the law. Just leave the Israelis alone and they'll defend themselves. Stop the Secretary of State from recognizing Arafat as the legitimate leader of the Palestinians. Stop the US representative at the UN from sponsoring resolutions condemning Israel's acts of self-defense.

So what is REALLY stopping Israel? Do they think we'd bomb them to Kingdom Come if they defended themselves? What's really making them stop, if it's what they think they ought to do? (Last I heard, I thought there was some disagreement in the Knesset about what the proper response should be?)

[pyx]

Just leave the Israelis alone and they'll defend themselves. Stop the Secretary of State from recognizing Arafat as the legitimate leader of the Palestinians. Stop the US representative at the UN from sponsoring resolutions condemning Israel's acts of self-defense.

Sir or Madam,
I agree with most of the above with the exception, I believe its in America's best interests to be fully supportive of Israel.

[denydenydeny]

Stop the Secretary of State from recognizing Arafat as the legitimate leader of the Palestinians. Stop the US representative at the UN from sponsoring resolutions condemning Israel's acts of self-defense.

I think that was the point of the speech that we're discussing.

[majordivit]

Latest suicide bombing in Israel butchers dozens of schoolchildren, commuters

The bus driver on the Jerusalem road was among the many murdered instantly (June 18, 2002)

The Israeli authorities knew the suicide bomber's name and face beforehand but still did not stop him from carrying out his atrocious butchery. Bodies and parts of them were blown through the windows of the bus by the force of the blast. In an unprecedented move, the fat Bolshevik traitor Ariel Sharon waddled to the scene of the carnage and, in the words of one wit, "promised to take Yasser Arafat out -- for a night of dining and dancing."

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