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Me thinks it may be time to reassess our dependence on Arab support! We are being held hostage by them, and now it is time to tell them what to do and not visa-versa!

So what's the surprise? Sharon said months ago that he would not allow Bush to play Neville Chamberlain and surrender Israel to the latter Hitler, Arafat. At moments like this, when Israel's future is in the balance, the last thing the free world needs is a president who doesn't know his true friends.

When the time comes to attack Saddam, Israel and the U.S. can move together toward Baghdad on a road paved with the rubble of Ramallah. Who needs Arab "allies"?

This article is a little presumptious to assume it knows Bush's plans, and to assume Bush is even ready for an attack on Iraq. Actually, Sharon is giving Bush a blessing by taking the press off the Afghan war until it's finished. If Sharon makes the right move, then we can join Isreal in a realistic defeat of the Arabs.

Europeans do not think they are at war,
they are simply reliving their memories from the 1930s.

I think the entire thrust of this artcle is to rile anti-israeli support within the US. At first they (the eurotrash) tell us they ( the palis) are not terrorists, but freedom fighters, then they try the ol' war crimes bit on us, and now they are attempting to tell us that Israel is the US's master.....pretty darn transparent, and completely dishonest of the author to make a play for american public opinion this way. But, what the heck, the majority of americans (sheeple) are pretty dumb, just look at the crap they bought about clinton...."it all about sex", "the 1000 fbi files were misplaced into the white house"...etc...so I guess we get what we deserve, when we allow ourselves to be led like sheep.....

It would figure that a guy named Quentin would write a piece like this.

The only good thing that can be said of Mr Sharon's use of tanks to terrorise the Palestinian people is that it will eventually discreditthe use of military force as a tool against terrorism.

So you guys are going to release all your IRA terrorists in jail? Well it seems as if they've grown accustomed to capitulating to terror in the UK and think it's a good policy worldwide. Or maybe just for the Jews...who knows - it's impossible to understand anyone's moral reasoning nowadays.

04.02.02 - Quentin Peel comments on Bush' speach

Quentin Peel comments in FT on the first State of the Union speech of George Bush. As somebody already said: a great speech, but lousy politics.

Mr Bush bracketed Iran and Iraq, two implacable foes in the Middle East, in the same conspiracy. By then throwing in Hamas, Hizbollah and the Islamic Jihad, all anti-Israeli organisations, as three of his four named members of a "terrorist underworld", the president caused alarm bells to ring in all the Arab states of the region. His speech reads like a blueprint for US policy designed by Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister.

Airstrikes will not bring lasting peace. Only concerted diplomatic effort can resolve the conflict that breeds fanaticism, says Quentin Peel

Published: October 14 2001 19:50

World peace is in terrible danger. As US missiles rain down on Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network issues new calls for a holy war, seldom have Kofi Annan and his United Nations peacemakers seemed so isolated.

Quentin Peel

The international coalition brought together in horror and sympathy over the atrocities of September 11 is very fragile. Moderate Muslim opinion is torn between fear of fundamentalism and revulsion at civilian casualties. Vital US allies such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia could face revolutions if the bombing lasts too long. There is a rising sense of panic in the US over anthrax.

And yet precisely because the present moment looks so bleak, it could and should become an extraordinary opportunity for peacemaking. It is time to attempt once more to resolve the conflicts labelled "too difficult" - the festering sores that have bred despair and given the fanatics the excuse and the environment from which to plan murder and mayhem.

If it does not sound too callous, Afghanistan is a side-show in the real campaign against global terrorism. This is just Phase I of a long conflict. Victory or defeat will only be determined by how and where Phase II is fought.

There is a powerful lobby in Washington to carry on in a military vein. Conservatives within the administration want to finish the job started at the end of the Gulf war and forcibly remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. They would like to turn America's fearsome military machine on other countries accused of "harbouring" terrorists.

There is more but I refuse to copy it.

This would be far moire believable if the FT did not take an editorial stance against invading Iraq.

Quentin Peel, like the British upper class in general, thinks "military force" is a discredited option when it comes to Jews defending themselves. I wager however, he has no problems with it if the target is Al Qaeda or the IRA. Some use of of military force is apparently more justified than others. And why can't President Bush and Tony Blair just go ahead and remove Saddam Hussein from power? If they are waiting for the Israeli Arab conflict to be resolved, their plans will never achieve fruition. Its not Ariel Sharon that's dealt a blow to President Bush's plans, its the pro-Saddam and pro PLO sympathies of the Eurotrash represented by Peel and his confederates in the U.S State Department headed by one Colin Powell. Sharon doesn't answer to President Bush, he answers to the people of Israel. Its just too darned bad that according to Peel, those cussed and stiff necked Jews are valiantly resisting their own annihilation. If only they would go away the whole world would breathe easier.