You're hallucinating.
But just for giggles, do please quote any statement of Bush's from the past several weeks that you believe tells Israel to "roll over and take it". This ought to be amusing.
Are they supposed to stop and go back to square one at the daily whim of the President of the United States?
The President told Israel to stop and retreat and he told Arafat to renounce violence. Do they go together? Must both be done simultaneously? Is Israel supposed to retreat even if Arafat does nothing?
Is there a coherent policy coming from Bush? Will the policy be different tomorrow? The next day?
Does this help?
State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher explains
why blowing up Israelis different than blowing up
Americans
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
Richard Boucher, Spokesman
Washington, DC; September 27, 2001
...
QUESTION: To what extent does this campaign -- as you constantly review your Middle East
policy, what -- how much influence does this campaign against terrorism have in that? What's the
input? How does it weigh in here? See what I mean?
MR. BOUCHER: No, I don't.
QUESTION: It's obviously a factor --
MR. BOUCHER: We have talked about this on and off over the last few days. We recognize that
there is an influence. Some have said it affects the atmosphere, the Palestinian/Israeli issues
affect the atmosphere of cooperation. But, essentially, there are, on some planes, two different
things. One is that there are violent people trying to destroy societies, ours, many others in the
world. The world recognizes that and we are going to stop those people.
On the other hand, there are issues and violence and political issues that need to be resolved in
the Middle East, Israelis and Palestinians. But we all recognize that the path to solve those is
through negotiation and that we have devoted enormous efforts to getting back to that path of
negotiation.
And we have called on the parties to do everything they can, particularly in the present
circumstance, to make that possible.
I guess that's about as close as I can come to the kind of sophisticated analysis I'm sure you will
want to do on your own. But they are clearly issues that are different, not only in geography but
also, to some extent, in their nature.
The following is from Reuters.
He [Bush] added, "And we agree that Israel should halt incursions into Palestinian-controlled areas and begin to withdraw without delay from those cities it has recently occupied."
Bush on Thursday urged Israel withdraw from the Palestinian areas and ordering Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) to depart for the region on Sunday to revive cease-fire talks. But Israel on Friday and Saturday pressed ahead with military operations in the West Bank.
Bush said at the news conference, "I don't expect them to ignore" the call made on Thursday for a halt to military incursions in the Palestinian-controlled areas. Blair said he believed Israel would "heed the words of President Bush."
Sounds an awful lot like "roll over and take it to me."
The only thing that has stopped the terrorist attacks on Israel has been their military action. Bush is telling them to stop that action "without delay" and to withdraw their forces from the area. While he does not say that Israel should do this so that the terrorists can use the area to stage more attacks, everyone (including Bush) knows that this is exactly what will happen if the Israelis pull out.
Now if that's not telling the Israelis to roll over and take it, I don't know what is.