There are so many fantasies involved in the fantasy-based policymaking that Bush and Rice are pursuing relentlessly against Israel, it is hard to keep track of them all. Abbas is supposed to be the moderate, who wants peaceful coexistence with Israel. He is supposed to be adamantly opposed to Hamas, and indeed, determined ultimately to eradicate Hamas's influence from Gaza and elsewhere and bring the whole of the new Palestinian state under the moderate, benign rule of Fatah, whereupon Palestinians and Israelis will live side by side, together in peace, happily ever after.
To get to this Valhalla, of course, Abbas is going to have to pursue armed warfare against Hamas -- which is why the Americans and the Israelis have been supplying Fatah with weapons. So when Israel moves against Hamas jihadists, the Israelis are doing Abbas's work for him. He should thank them.
Instead, he talks about a "crime" against his people. This in itself should be enough to collapse the whole charade, and end this "peace process." But of course, that "process" will just keep sailing on. Too many legacies at stake.
"Israeli forces kill 18 Palestinians in Gaza," by Nidal al-Mughrabi for Reuters (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed at least 18 Palestinians, most of them Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in violence the Palestinian Authority said was a "slap in the face" to U.S. President George W. Bush's peace efforts.A volunteer from Ecuador, working on an Israeli kibbutz, or farming community, bordering the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, was killed by a Palestinian sniper near the frontier fence. Hamas claimed responsibility for shooting the man.
The violence, four days after Bush ended a visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank, resulted in the highest number of Palestinians killed in a single day since late 2006. Israel said it mounted the operation to curb rocket attacks from Gaza.
In a statement, the West Bank-based Palestinian government said Israel's "ugly crimes were a slap in the face" to efforts by Bush and the international community to resume peacemaking that would lead to the creation of a Palestinian state.
"There was a massacre today against our people, and we say to the world that our people will not remain silent against such crimes," said Abbas.
Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel on Tuesday for the first time since the Islamist group routed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah forces to take control of the Gaza Strip in June....
"...Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel ..."
...as if no one really knew...
...no more jizzah to Gaza....not one more dime...
...and Israel is justified to reduce electricity and water to this bunch of bloodthristy Islamic buffoons...
The Slow Jihadists of Fatah, Abbas' fellow warlords and undrelings, have already received that commitment of those Infidel billions -- of even more than the fantastic sums they had the gall to ask for.
So, while poor non-"Palestinians" in sub-Saharan Africa, or Latin America, or India, who are not able to command the world's attention, must continue to watch, and wonder what the secret is -- could it be terrorism? -- that gives those local Arabs, the so-called "Palestinians," continuous infusiions of Western billions in aid, makes them, per capita, the leading recipients of such aid in the world (and if billions are siphoned off by Arafat, and by Abbas and now the cronies of Abbas rather than of Arafat, and to pay for those two-dozen "security services" that are the permanent jobs program, the WPA and CCC, of the "Palestinian" "authority", none of the donor governments -- their long-suffering taxpayers are another matter -- seems inclined very much to care).
Abd most amazing, almost all of that aid for those local Arabs, those "Palestinian" shock troops in the Lesser Jihad against Israel, comes not from the fabulously rich Arabs and Muslims of OPEC, who since 1973 alone have taken in ten trillion dollars, but from not-very-well-off Western taxpayers, soaked and soaked again, to help pay for a Jihad, a Jihad that is disguised as a "nationalist struggle" (for "legitimate rights" bien entendu), ever less and less convincingly, as the mask comes off, as even the formerly useful "Palestinian" islamochristians are harried and killed and others steadily driven out.
Eventually even the idiotic current rulers of Israel, stupid, arrogant, and often corrupt, will be forced to recognize the nature of the Arab and Muslim hostility to Israel, that cannot be assuaged, nor the blood-lust sated, by any further Israeli concessions. The only question is: will that future Israeli government figure this out, and make sense of its own besieged but manageable situation, in time, and will it do so before, or after, those suicidal concessions are made?
Robert Spencer wrote: 'But of course, (the) "process" will just keep sailing on. Too many legacies at stake.'
Is this about legacy or is it about faith?
I've been listening to and reading this president's understanding of what we face for several years now;
Mr. Bush's view that arch-terrorist, Mahmoud Abbas is a man dedicated to peace, that the jihadists are traitors to their own faith, that Palestinian mothers want the same things for their children as Jewish mothers want for their children; that the terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics, that Israel is oppressing the Palestinian people and occupying Arab land, that the terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. Bush says the enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends.
I do not know what to conclude other than George W. Bush is a true believer.
Monk -
I gave up on President Bush a long time ago. Attempting to understand him is akin to understanding madness. His words and actions are simply incomprehensible to a rational mind.
Attempted peace accords B/T Israel, and Palestine is the never ending, and running joke that continues to make all the players who pretend to be adhrents to it look naieve, and foolish at every turn.
It is all window dressing and nothing else,except that the whole house is made of glass.
... and we say to the world that our people will not remain silent against such crimes.
Never, in all of my life, have I known the Moslems to shut up. They're always whining about something or another, pointing their gnarly fingers and laying blame, impetuous, spoiled children all. So much so that it's hard to regard male Moslems as men. Too needy, and dangerously so.
Greetings:
I don't know about the rest of you all, but I'm glad Ehud Barak is back on the job.
Havoc,
George W. Bush is a living example of the brain damage that can come from being "young and irresponsible".
11B40:
It's hard to take him seriously after he tried to give up Jerusalem and the "occupied" territories to the PLO. And he did evacuate from southern Lebanon.
But, yes, it is nice to see someone with experience heading Defense, and I'm glad he's continuing to hammer Hamas.
Just hope the Supreme Court doesn't slap him with an injunction against action on "humanitarian" grounds.
President Bush has betrayed our only friend, the only freedom loving people in the region, Israel. Prime Minister Barak, however, has betrayed his country.
Because of the U.S. Constitution, America is stuck with President Bush for another year. Because they have a parliamentary system, I am absolutely baffled as to why the Israeli people haven’t dumped this dupe. Israel needs a new leader, one who will tell President Bush to go to . . .
Please change Barak to Olmert. How embarrassing.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's have some fun.
Let's take this little propaganda piece produced for Reuters by Nidal al-Mughrabi (North African Arab Muslim?), and rewrite it so that it reflects, perhaps, something of the truth. I *think* the Ecuadorian volunteer was a Jew - if he wasn't, someone please correct what I've written. Accuracy, accuracy.
"Israeli forces kill 18 ‘Palestinian’ Arab Muslims in Gaza"...GAZA (Reuters) -
Israel may have killed at least 18 ‘Palestinian’ Arab Muslims, most of them Hamas Jihad raiders, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in violence the ‘Palestinian’ Authority alleged was a "slap in the face" to U.S. President George W. Bush's peace efforts.
An unarmed Jewish civilian volunteer from Ecuador, was driving a tractor on an Israeli kibbutz, or farming community bordering the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, when he was shot by a ‘Palestinian’ Arab Muslim sniper from across the frontier fence.
Hamas claimed responsibility for shooting the civilian.
The violence, four days after Bush ended a visit to Israel and to Judea and Samaria (aka "the 'occupied' 'west bank'") resulted in the highest number of ‘Palestinian’ Arab Muslim jihadists killed in war with Israel in a single day since late 2006. Israel said it mounted the operation in response to 'Palestinian' jihad rocket attacks from Gaza.
In a statement, the ‘Palestinian’ Arab authorities occupying Judea and Samaria (aka the ‘west bank’) claimed that Israel's so-called "ugly crimes were a slap in the face" to efforts by Bush and the international community to resume peacemaking that would lead to the creation of a Muslim-dominated ‘Palestinian’ Arab state.
"There was a massacre today against our people, and we say to the world that our people will not remain silent against such crimes," claimed Abbas.
Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel on Tuesday for the first time since the aggressive Islamist group routed 'Palestinian' Arab President Mahmoud Abbas's seemingly less aggressive Fatah forces to take control of the Gaza Strip in June....
There. How does that read? Would anyone else like to have a go? This is fun. And what's more - it's telling the truth; or at least, coming a little closer to it, to saying the thing which *is*, rather than the thing which is not.
Fatah and Hamas, the good-cop, bad-cop are playing dubya and Condi for fools, not that it takes a lot to make the corrupt and the timid to dance...