Thank you so much for that article --a showpiece of official horseshit....
Besides, I totally agree with your anti-Europe rave comment, however, I'm disappointed to see that you've still tried to bamboozle me into lumping together America and Israel, America's pledge to freedom and democracy and Israel's petty, self-indulgent manoeuvering to spoil the Palestinians' lives.... However hard your attempts to the contrary, America and Israel are not twin girls --or else, tell us why lifer J. Pollard is still rotting in jail.
Now, as regards the Guardian article, first let's notice its title: "EU challenges the US over Israel". Although it intimates an anti-Israel position by the EU, the following turn would have put it even more forcefully: "EU challenges Israel over the PLO". But then again, as I said repeatedly, the EU doesn't fundamentally disagree with Israel's policy. Of course, the EU can't afford to blurt it publicly.
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The Americans, by contrast, seemed to be backing the argument of the hawkish Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon....
Indeed, the key word here is "seemed"... The US SEEMED to support Sharon's wanton crackdown on the Palestinians but the truth is that the Bush administration endeavored to bring about a Palestinian state...
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Anna Lindh, Pique's feisty Swedish colleague, called it "just madness" for Washington to suggest it would sever relations with Arafat, scorned as behaving in a "mafia-like" way by Anthony Zinni, the US envoy to the region. No diplomatic niceties there.
LOL! Such a piece of gossip... Mrs Lindh should read more carefully the Israeli press: the whole incident was denied by Israeli officials and Gen. Zinni himself, as reported in the Jerusalem Post. Again, what really unnerved the Europeans and their Judeofascist side-kicks was Gen Zinni's allegedly pro-Arab leanings --remember how the guy was branded by the Zionists: Gen Zinni spoke Arabic... he's got a lot of Saudi friends... he refused to allow Israel to join in the Communication Center of Desert Storm in 1991, etc, etc.
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Bush did pay lip service to the idea of Palestinian self-determination, but quickly disappointed those who hoped he would go further.
That's what Israel's anthrax blackmail was all about --it successfully sabotaged the US's drive for a Palestinian State....
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It is all a depressing reminder that the EU of 2002 may be an economic giant with its own currency and ambitious plans to enlarge; but that its search for an effective global role will be a long and difficult one. And that it still plays second fiddle to a truly indispensable America.
Well, I'm afraid that the routine lament about Europe being an economic giant and a geopolitical dwarf will be easily solved.... the other way around: I expect the EU's economic clout to progressively scale down to match its geopolitical smallness.... |
