Rice going soft in the head?

Here's part of an article from the Jerusalem Post, about Condi Rice:
Rice Goes Soft

Either Rice is a complete idiot or horribly ignorant, or she is a great actress and playing "The Game" of selling Israel down the river for the sake of 'realpolitik', or in this case, oil and friendship with our best friends, the House of Saud. My editorialization is included:

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's weekend visit to the region, intended to facilitate Israel's disengagement plan, was profoundly disappointing (nauseating/disgusting/heinous...pick one of the above MS)

The hastily planned trip was intended to calm a deteriorating situation caused by the Islamic Jihad suicide bombing outside a Netanya shopping mall on July 12, which killed five Israelis, and relentless bombardments of Gaza and western Negev communities by Hamas which killed 22-year-old Dana Galkovitch in Netiv Ha'asara...

Though PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's foreign minister has candidly reneged on the PA's road map commitments to confiscate weapons and explosives in the hands of Hamas, Islamic Jihad... (nice way of putting it: I liked the "candidly reneged", which is a fancy way of saying he has done NOTHING but either shake in fear at Hamas or tacitly approve of the actions of his fellow terrorists. MS) Rice nevertheless complimented the Palestinian leadership for taking "important steps" against terrorism. Such praise strikes the wrong tone. (Wrong tone? I almost vomited listening to her. I was horrified that she and apparently the Bush administration would play this game of rewarding terrorism in Israel while trying to fight it EVERYWHERE ELSE, i.e. Condi, presumably the mouthpiece for Mr. Bush, was as full of hypocrisy as anyone in Europe. MS)

Whatever the "steps" and with just 21 days to disengagement remaining, Abbas's aversion to taking on the rejectionists helped make Saturday night's murder of husband and wife Dov and Rachel Kol, who had gone to Gush Katif to visit family in Ganei Tal, possible... (In MY anger, I will say this is a less measured tone than the author of this piece did: Abbas is complicit in the murder of the Kols. He has continued to show his true stripes, as have the Palestinians, once again showing their basic aim is to KILL JEWS for killings' sake. And has already been pointed out, and was in this article, Abbas only condemned the murders, not because human beings were senselessly mowed down, not because lives were taken that could anger Israelis who might WANT to make peace, but these horrific murders would hurt the Palestinian "entity" (wasn't there a monster of space that destroyed worlds, in "Star Trek: The Next Generation"? I seem to remember. Sometimes, listening to the Palestinians' lies and drivel is akin to listening to something from an absurdist TV show, only that in real life, real human beings lives' are taken to feed the blood hunger of this particular "entity". MS)

Further catastrophe was averted – no thanks to the Palestinian Authority – on Friday night, when the IDF caught a would-be suicide bomber from Abbas's own Fatah movement on his way to blow up a crowded Tel Aviv nightspot....

All told, 92 infiltration attempts into Israel from Gaza have been thwarted by security forces since the beginning of 2005. <em>(Thank goodness for the hudna! No telling how many mortars, Qassams, infiltrations and suicide belts would be going off were there no truce! The level of absurdity of the situation rises by the day...but we expect this of the Palestinians. What is more severely grating is to see Mr. Bush, Ms. Rice et al both praise the leadership of this pack of murderers and further reward them with enormous amounts of cash to buy more weaponry to help them MURDER MORE JEWS. How obvious can this all be? MS)
In this context, Rice's admiration for the "steps" Abbas has taken to curb Palestinian terrorism rings hollow. (Rings hollow? How about seems to be completely disconnected from reality? Pie in the sky. Hopeful wishing. Or just another way to show that the U.S. can screw Israel over so, even while we lose people in Iraq, a country I am glad we freed so they can have a democracy and a constitution that will specifically exclude ONLY Israelis from citizenship. MS) And yet Rice went on to compound her stance with an even more incongruous avowal: "When the Israelis withdraw from Gaza, it cannot be sealed or isolated, with the Palestinian people holed in ... We are committed to the connectivity of Gaza and the West Bank."

This sort of statement is grating (again, pick a word: Horrifying/putrid/asinine/hateful. MS) for two reasons. First, because it implies that Israel is, presumably out of spite or indifference, arbitrarily impeding Palestinian movements when all such movements have immediate security implications. Second, because at just the moment when Israel is simultaneously under terrorist attack and tearing itself apart over dismantling settlements, Washington still seems to feel a need to search for some Palestinian demand it can endorse while publicly berating Israel...

(I can't access the 2nd page of this article for some reason. Some computer snafu. But it remains that Condi Rice, acting on behalf of the Bush administration, made remarks that were plainly asinine and loathsome. I pray that, just as I pray Sharon is playing some complex game that really is GOOD for Israel, as some have suggested, but is not apparent to the rest of us simpler souls, I also pray that Condi and George W. are also just playing a game, and are really not going to sell out Israel and help aid and abett the killing of more Israelis and Jews, by apparently winking at the TOTAL lack of anything positive from the Palestinian sides (unless one wants to count the warm feelings of having Hamas shoot at the PA, and shield themselves by fighting from AMIDST large crowds of women and children, who had come to see the "fight".)

Some days, I read these events, and the editorials, and watch the news from Israel, from the MSM, the terrible TV channels...and I admit, I am stymied to understand the complete and utter lack of morality shown by the so-called leaders, the news organizations and reporters, our own politicians, much less the heinous stupidity of the Protestant churches that are turning on Israel.

I am also somewhat a student of the American Revolution. I so often think of the tune the British soldiers played when they surrendered at Yorktown, a beautiful spot we were lucky enough to see a couple of summers ago: The song was "the World Turned Upside Down" It was of course, a response to the disbelief that the British could lose.

I listened to Condi Rice speak, shamefully, stupidly, rewarding in the most hypocritically sickening way, when she spoke, and I just thought, too, that the world was upside down, when the terrorists are awarded, when the one real democracy is treated like dirt and potentially sold out for "black gold" (because it's even more utterly and disastrously DUMB if the U.S. et al are trying to appease Al-Queda and their ilk by trying to "solve" the Israeli-Pali conflict, as we unfortunately also tend to hear), when there is no mention of how the Iraqis are making progress by excluding Israelis to be citizens of the nascent supposed democracy, when George W. promises we will fight terror wherever it exists (presumably, meaning, terror anywhere outside of Israel)...I just feel like the world is upside down or I have gone down the rabbit hole with Alice. It seems our politicians fritter away and do nothing but make the situations worse, and it makes me cringe when I hear they are going to make an announcement about ANYTHING regarding Israel and/or the Palis.

Does anyone else feel this way? I suspect most who read Israpundit already do, but I had my fill, over this weekend. I hardly touched on Mr. Sharon, but the absurdities of ALL of it, the disengagement idiocy, Condi's ludicrous statments, the promises to pay off the terrorists for more terror, the events of the many months...it gets to me after a bit. I'm just plain angered.

I pray now that the disengagement fails, that the U.S. returns to a sensible idea of dealing with the Palestinians...i.e. nothing, no promises, no appeasements, no talking to them, until or unless they take 100% of the steps to stop the murders of Israelis, anywhere, anytime for any reason (as if they need a reason). ENOUGH, Ms. Rice, you are not soft, you have gone soft in the head. Please, please, get it together and do not sell Israel out.)

Posted by Maurice Sonnenwirth at July 24, 2005 11:47 PM