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U.S. Jews Pushed Rice Into ŽUnprecedentedŽ Intervention
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t
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Id like to know what that,"small modest achievement is?"
Posted by: t on November 20, 2005 02:47 PM
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georg von mecklenburg
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Now you all know just how the Holocaust happened. One Jew betraying another... and for what? A better place on the transport heading for the extermination center.
Jews do not need Christians for enemies. They just have to rely upon their own kind to fulfill their end dream... that is the total destruction of their own kind.
If you saw all this in a TV movie, you wouldn't believe your eyes.
Posted by: georg von mecklenburg on November 21, 2005 12:56 AM
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scott sullivan
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The heart if the problem is the Us's partnership with Israel, to the dusadvantage of Israel and the Sunnis, who have yet to unite against this new threat.
Posted by: scott sullivan on November 21, 2005 04:35 AM
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scott sullivan
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the heart of the problem is the US's new partnership with Iran, which threatens Israel and the Sunnis, who have yet to cooperate against this new danger.
Posted by: scott sullivan on November 21, 2005 04:53 AM
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scott sullivan
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To put it another way, th Reagan administration traded a small number of TOW missiles to Iran. The bush administration handed over two states, Iraq and Israel.
Posted by: scott sullivan on November 21, 2005 05:14 AM
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Fathi Abdallah
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I feel frustrated to go through your comments and writings especially of racists like Ted belman.The Palestinians are human being entitled for a state and self-rule. Their suffering at the hands of the Israeli's surpassed that of the Jews at the hands of the Nazis and their psychotic war criminal Hitler. The Jews should be the last people on earth to endorse or keep silent about another holocaust, especially at their own hands.
Racism breeds racism. Hatred breeds hatred. Those who live by the sword by sword shall die. The Masaada Complex and the Holocaust Tragedy should not continue to dominate Jewish thought and practices. We are all humans and we should learn how to live and work together for the good of all of us. The resources wasted in the Arab-Israeli conflicts were enough to turn the whole Middle East into a Paradise for all of us. This still can be achieved if extremists on all sides are not allowed to proliferate. Their breed would be terror, distrust, hatred and more waste of lives and resourses. Rafah Agreement is but a very small step toward the good of both sides. We have to build mutual trust and bridger gaps between us for a better future for our children.
FOR GOD'S SAKE, GENTLEMEN, LET US TALK SENSE AND LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES AND PREJEDICE.
Posted by: Fathi Abdallah on November 21, 2005 07:34 AM
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Leonard
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Fathi - If only you talked sense and learned from your mistakes and prejudices.
The first paragraph of your posting amounts to holocaust denial and trivialization by trying to compare the Israeli-Arab conflict to the nazi genocide of the Jews. In doing so you should be able to recognize yourself to be one of those racist extremists that you refer to in your second paragraph. May I suggest that you consult some authentic historical accounts both of the Nazi Genocide and the ME conflict and come back better informed.
Posted by: Leonard on November 21, 2005 12:05 PM
U.S. Jews Pushed Rice Into ŽUnprecedentedŽ Intervention
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, INN
Jewish Americans leaders urged Rice to change tactics and directly impose on Israel an agreement to re-open the Rafiah border, but even liberal leaders worry Israel's security has been breached.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week broke her previously stated policy of "guiding, but not directing" negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Rice used "unusual personal involvement" to pressure Israel and the PA, according to the liberal New York Jewish daily The Forward.
Under the agreement, Israel agreed to drop its demand for direct surveillance at the Rafiah border and to rely on video cameras without having authority to intervene on matters of security.
The left-wing Israel Policy Forum, Reform movement members and Americans for Peace Now met with Rice to express their backing before her recent trip to the Middle East. The Forum also sent a letter to Rice stating the "strong support" that the Bush administration has "from Jewish Americans on both sides of the aisle."
A letter-writing campaign is underway to U.S. President Bush and Secretary Rice. its gist is that they are gravely endangering Israel by allowing the PA to control the Gaza border.
The Rafah agreement is in direct contradiction to the Disengagement law, according to left-wing activist Meron Benvenisti. He wrote in the Hebrew daily Haaretz, "One should not dismiss the importance of the Rafah agreement, [which] contradicts the Disengagement plan as approved by the Knesset. [The law] stated that Israel will oversee and guard the external land envelope."
Abe Foxman, director of the liberal Anti-Defamation league (ADL), told The Forward, "I am nervous about this" because Israel's security may have been compromised. "I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about status and sovereignty, which could always be adjusted, while for Israel it is about security and trust. If you make a mistake..., there is no going back."
CBS news reported that Rice staged "a virtual all-nighter before getting both the Israelis and Palestinians to agree to the deal."
A State Department spokesman dodged a question by a reporter who began to ask, "It's the first time that this administration is directly implicated in the negotiations..." Spokesman Adam Erelie interrupted the reporter and replied, "Not really. No, we've been involved very directly and very intensively for a long time."
Rice said that she still is a" big believer" in letting Israel and the PA conduct their own negotiations, but added that direct intervention sometimes is needed.
Her direct intervention was questioned also by David Twersky, director of international affairs for the American Jewish Congress. He said Rice's shuttle diplomacy for "a very small, modest achievement just shows how bad things are. What's going to happen when there is something really important to discuss?"
Posted by Ted Belman at November 20, 2005 10:21 AM