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U.S. cites China, Israel, Saudi Arabia for poor human rights

Posted by Sabertooth
On 03/31/2003 6:10 PM PST with 160 comments

CNN ^ | March 31st, 2003 | Elise Labott
U.S. cites China, Israel, Saudi Arabia for poor human rights Palestinians, Colombia, Central Asian nations also criticized From Elise LabottCNN Powell: "Where human rights and freedoms flourish, terrorists and tyrants do not thrive and conflict and chaos do not reign." Story Tools WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Although noting some improvement, the State Department's annual human rights report once again accuses China of numerous, serious human rights abuses. Israel, Iraq and the Central Asian states were also accused of human rights abuses. While citing the release of several well-known Chinese dissidents, the report accused China of numerous "instances of extrajudicial killings, torture...

Rice Says Blueprint for Israel-Palestinian Settlement Is Not Negotiable

Posted by ejdrapes
On 03/31/2003 10:57 AM PST with 51 comments

AP ^ | March 31, 2003 | AP
Rice Says Blueprint for Israel-Palestinian Settlement Is Not Negotiable Washington (AP) - The White House said Monday its road map for setting up a Palestinian state by the end of 2005 is not negotiable and that Israel must "play its part" to pave the way. In a speech to a pro-Israel lobby group, Condoleezza Rice, who is President Bush's national security adviser, also called on all Arab governments to recognize Israel's right to exist and said democratic reforms within the Palestinian Authority were "extremely important." The road map, prepared jointly with the European Union, the United Nations and Russia, is...

No suprise there. The Taliban were/are trying to use the wasteland of Afghanistan as a "base" of operations while avoiding connection to a formal state.

Since we've landed in Iraq they're feeling left out.

There are two groups at stake in the Persian Gulf: The Arab producing regions and the non-arab producing regions. Before '73 they were separated by their hatred or lack of hatred of Israel. After the embargo everyone in OPEC agreed to let the voice of reason eminate from Saudi Arabia.

Look at it this way, how much of what we're dealing with right now came from small voices of Islam compared to the big voices from Egypt. Nasser created Qaddafi and later Pan-Arabism. Sadat started the Yom Kippur War because Egypt was broke.

The unifying foundation for unrest has always been Egypt centered on Israel. It was only after the Brits pulled out in '71 that the US was the target of hatred.

Islam is a vehicle for nationalism not the emination for it. And all of the countries there are currently on notice.

Have you noticed the buses filled with fanatics? Have you noticed Jordan and Saudi Arabia's defiance to Iraq? Have you noticed the cranking up of pressure on Syria?

The message is clear: Send your fanatics down to the valley of death and we'll deal with them. After this is over there will be new rules.

This really is an answer to the embargo and the power vacuum. Islam is a sideshow by petulant sectors of countries that have to continue trade despite their hatred of Israel.

And speaking of Israel. We've spilled plenty of blood to provide them with a model of how to handle fanatics. Let's hope they learn from it.

And speaking of Israel. We've spilled plenty of blood to provide them with a model of how to handle fanatics. Let's hope they learn from it.

We don't intend to let them.

U.S. cites China, Israel, Saudi Arabia for poor human rights

Posted by Sabertooth
On 03/31/2003 6:10 PM PST with 160 comments

CNN ^ | March 31st, 2003 | Elise Labott
U.S. cites China, Israel, Saudi Arabia for poor human rights Palestinians, Colombia, Central Asian nations also criticized From Elise LabottCNN Powell: "Where human rights and freedoms flourish, terrorists and tyrants do not thrive and conflict and chaos do not reign." Story Tools WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Although noting some improvement, the State Department's annual human rights report once again accuses China of numerous, serious human rights abuses. Israel, Iraq and the Central Asian states were also accused of human rights abuses. While citing the release of several well-known Chinese dissidents, the report accused China of numerous "instances of extrajudicial killings, torture...

Rice Says Blueprint for Israel-Palestinian Settlement Is Not Negotiable

Posted by ejdrapes
On 03/31/2003 10:57 AM PST with 51 comments

AP ^ | March 31, 2003 | AP
Rice Says Blueprint for Israel-Palestinian Settlement Is Not Negotiable Washington (AP) - The White House said Monday its road map for setting up a Palestinian state by the end of 2005 is not negotiable and that Israel must "play its part" to pave the way. In a speech to a pro-Israel lobby group, Condoleezza Rice, who is President Bush's national security adviser, also called on all Arab governments to recognize Israel's right to exist and said democratic reforms within the Palestinian Authority were "extremely important." The road map, prepared jointly with the European Union, the United Nations and Russia, is...