Bush pledges American blood to keep Israel a "Jewish" State
Same old, same old – Israel wins again
Israel is where it has liked to be over the past several decades, allowing itself to be perceived as the victim of terror while at the same time occupying and terrorizing the citizens of Palestine. While negotiations drag on, while more land is settled, while the brutality of the occupation continues, notes Jim Miles.
As I sit and read the announcements from today’s first discussions from Annapolis, all I can see is another dismal failure for peace and another year long “negotiation” process that like Oslo, Camp David, the ‘road map’ all lead to the same place. That place, as so clearly denoted by the late Tanya Rinehart, is nowhere.
Today the leaders – Omert and Abbas – “have agreed to re-start negotiations to reach a comprehensive peace deal by the end of 2008.” Bush it was noted in the article “did not stay for the rest of the conference, leaving Annapolis as soon as the speeches were over.” He too is obviously quite happy with the status quo in Israel’s favour.
In the past, the Israelis have quite willingly agreed to negotiations, going even further at times as with the Gaza “withdrawal” as another smokescreen to continue with their settlement policy of both expanding existing settlements, allowing more illegal outposts, declaring more and more of Palestinian lands as military areas, and continuing with their house demolitions, roadblocks and detention of the Palestinian people. Nothing has changed, still going nowhere.
As for the ethnic comment, Bush also said, “"the United States will keep its commitment to the security of Israel as a Jewish state and homeland for the Jewish people." So why is it that a theocratic non-democratic state is encouraged for Israel, but a similar theocratic non-democratic state in Iran – that does not have nearly the nuclear capacity as Israel – is such a big problem? Perhaps because it is modelled more on what has become of the United States, a near theocratic state where democracy is being eroded in small but rapidly encroaching increments?
Why didn't CNN or FOX run Bush's comments about pledging to use the US to protect Israel as a "Jewish" state?
Oh well, guess they had their hands full running the latest stories about a missing and or kidnapped wife/girlfriend or another blurb about another sports figure.
Or the latest antics of the celebrity bimbo of the moment.
Such is the state of American news: Junk food for the brain.
Don't.
israelis are still the same but the world is changing.
eventually, as quasimodo used to say, 'the worm will turn.'
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Not feeling discouraged, ain't got time for self-pity.
Compared to what the Palestinians experience on a daily basis in that Israeli made hell, my life is a comparative paradise.
Just have to redouble our efforts to get the word out and hope to hell that the upcoming "Homegrown Terrorist" act that will be passed by the cowards in Congress and signed into law by that blood-thirsty, power crazed lunatic Bush doesn't shut down the free flow of thought and ideas on the 'Net.
did Quasimodo go?
I miss that lovely Archer!
I wonder if he is still mad at me cuz I called him a "tater tot" ....I didn't mean anything by it!....and besides, I only meant it lovingly.
I sure do miss him. Hope he's alright.
The Truth Will Set You Free on American assurances to keep Israel as a Jewish state and homeland for the Jewish people:
Kashmiri Nomad