1. Felix Quigley said:

"Twelve hours later, the US consul in Jerusalem Jacob Walles visited Abu Mazen’s office in Ramallah with an oral message from President George W. Bush. According to our sources, it was a presidential guarantee that all the Palestinian parties running for election on Jan 25 would be allowed to campaign openly in East Jerusalem, eligible voters in the city would be permitted to cast their votes through local post offices, and the voter slips of all Palestinian parties without exception would be available in the balloting booths."

And I asked these questions

"But first in looking at the above paragraph and there is much more which I have not taxed readers with, and they can look it up themselves. I would conclude:

1. What exactly is the status of this state of Israel?

2. When a foreign government, ie the US of A can have its representatives walk into government offices and not only lay down policy but ensure that it is carried out

3. Accepting that Israel is a sovereign national state, and not just a reaction to the Holocaust

4 In those conditions where it has lost its sovereignty what is the point of Israel!? "

If we do not solve this problem where a US regime can walk into a state like Israel and take sovereign decisions which according to Debkafile are done without even consulting the government then all is lost anyway.

This reminds me of the interview with the American Ambassador to Yugoslavia with a Croatian newspaper (ie Ambassador Zimmerman) In the interview Zimmermann kept referring to Yugoslavian army as "the enemy forces". Zimmermann I repeat was the US ambassador to Yugoslavia!!!

Need I point out that Yugoslavia did not endure...

2. Felix Quigley said:

Sorry, the url for the Zimmermann interview is
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/nothing.htm

The title is
"Nothing is Forever..."

In 1992 the US ambassador called for dissolving Yugoslavia.

* Jan 21st 1992 interview in Croatian newspaper DANAS with US ambassador to Yugoslavia, Warren Zimmermann. *

Comments by Jared Israel
Editor, Emperor's Clothes

3. Ed D said:

Repetion may, perhaps, get through some thick headed minsters of Israeli Government to understand that they are a sovereign country and that they don't need the US or any other country to dictate to them on just how the Israelis run their country. Even the Pals pay no attention to them. The government has the power to eliminate the Hizbollah, Hamas, Fatah and the rest of the Islamists and live in peace if they ignore the pressure put on by the US. Some may disagree with me on this; however, the US has many other larger problems to deal with, such as with Iran and Iraq. Other than lip service with threats to interfere with Israeli policy, they would do little.

Israel, without further hesitation, need to shut down the portal between Gaza and Egypt.
It must be done now before Israel is put into the position of very deadly confrontation.
The Middle East is full of rhetoric and little action for peace but not for appeasement.