Posted on 07/25/2006 5:45:51 PM PDT by Jean S
Ten years ago, on April 18, 1996, Israel attacked Hezbollah in Lebanon for 16 days in an operation called Grapes of Wrath. The global condemnation of Israel was fierce, especially when it bombed a U.N. refugee camp, killing 107 people, an attack that Tel Aviv said was a mistake.
At the time, the United States did nothing to stop the tide from turning against Israel and President Clinton said, “I think it is important that we do everything we can to bring an end to the violence.”
In private, Clinton seethed at the Israeli attack, saying he had discussed with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres the possibility of concluding a military defense treaty with his nation, pledging U.S. aid in the event of an attack.
“They really want this guarantee from us,” Clinton told me. “I would have given them the commitment, too, but now I can’t because of the uproar over the refugee camp bombing.”
No such treaty was ever signed.
Clinton’s willingness to use American power to force a cease-fire on Israel before it had fully eradicated Hezbollah stands in stark and sharp contrast to George Bush’s insistence on letting Israel proceed with its attacks until the terrorist group is neutralized.
In a nutshell, this illustrates the difference between the Democratic and Republican approaches to Israeli security.
Bush and his administration clearly see the Israeli attack as an opportunity to clean out terrorist cells that have come to be pivotal in Lebanon. With Hezbollah’s power extending into the cabinet in Beirut, it is clear that Israeli military action is necessary to forestall the creation of a terrorist state on its northern border.
While Clinton said he embraced the need for Israeli security, when the going got rough, he bowed to world opinion and called for a cease-fire. When the United States asks Israel to stop fighting, it is like a boxer’s manager throwing in the towel. The bottom line is that true friends of Israel cannot afford to let the Democrats take power in Washington.
But American Jews have voted Democrat in the past and will continue to do so in the future. It is really the Christian evangelical right that stands up for Israel.
The reason Israel has to fight in Lebanon today is that the United States did not permit it to finish the job of destroying Hezbollah in the ’90s. Now, fortunately for Israel’s true friends, the White House is letting Tel Aviv win without reining her in.
Nothing so illustrates the generic anti-Semitism of the global community than its current obsession with proportionality in judging Israel’s response to the kidnapping of its soldiers and the rocket bombing of its cities. The Vatican, the European Union and Russia have said nothing about the almost daily bombardment of Israel’s northern border by Hezbollah or the constant attacks from Gaza after Israel magnanimously vacated the strip. But now that the Jewish state is defending itself, the global community is outraged at the “disproportionate” Israeli response. Only Jewish lives have to be dealt with proportionately.
Israel’s defensive barrier has succeeded in sharply curtailing the once daily suicide/homicide bombing of civilian Israeli targets. Now the Israeli invasion will push back the frontiers from which the terrorists can work their mayhem through missiles.
Bush and the Republican administration realize that Israel is only acting in self-defense. It is obvious that she would not be attacking Lebanon if the terrorists had not made a habit of using it as a base for attacks on Jewish cities.
The global condemnation of Israel is simply illustrative of the low esteem attached to Jewish blood in this world where anti-Semitism comes disguised as morality and a commitment to peace.
Morris and McGann, husband and wife, have written several books together, including Rewriting History, a rebuttal to Living History by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
Looks Jerish to me.
they only care how things look.
AND how much they can line their pockets with.
Four-forty-two Cutlass .... nice car. But how does that tie into Dick Morris???
I wonder what Bush would be telling Israel now if we'd not been attacked by terrorists on 9/11?
I'd sure hope he be backing Israel the same way he is now.
I can't get over CNN airing that fraud Robertson being led around by the nose by Hezballah... No, no terrorists here! He would have been a good visitor to Theriesenstadt too! And they aired it!
His commentary on elections is also interesting because he has helped to push elections for the democrats. In all of his columns that I've read, I never thought he understood conservatives, only statistics on which groups are affect by what actions.
Dick Morris is not a party member. He is a player. He can play for both sides .. no problem. Morris handled campaigns for the very conservative Strom Thurman and also for Trent Lott. He has worked for both Democrats and Republicans.
He is what professional politicans call a player. He is like a ball player. If a ball players contract is picked up by the New York Yankees he plays for them with all his abilty. But if the next year he goes to Cleveland he will do all he can to defeat the Yankess and win the world series for Cleveland.
That is Dick Morris. He is a player not a partisan. Such men can be quite valuable. They are not guided by ideology. They are guided by what it takes to win.
I think it quite possible that Morris hosestly things electing a Democrat to the presidency would be a disaster for both the US and Israel. Since every professional politician knows Morris is a player, it does not hurt him to come down on either side of an issue.
As far as candidates for whom he has worked, Morris just wants to win. If you are a winner, he can be hired.
OR.....they love the little "g" government and hate the BIG "G" God.
Support for Israel bump!
Hunk of junk.
But what is your point?
Remember that liberal Jew woman I met at Ojai that really pissed me off??? Well I sent this article to EVERYONE ON HER MAIL LIST!!!! ROFLMAO!!!
I'll accept that explanation too, by God.
Heh...
Genesis 12:1-3 1 The Lord had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. 2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
Romans 11:24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree! 25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. 27 And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
Notions like this shouldn't be in the public forum if discussions of halting the future immigration of Muslims to the US for security reasons isn't also on the public agenda.
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