Rothschild comments on Bush's man of peace!
April 19, 2002
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A Man of Peace?
George W. Bush has done it again.
Impossibly, he called Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "a man of peace."
This man of peace is an indicted war criminal for his role in facilitating the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon in 1982, a role that was confirmed by an Israeli government investigation. That massacre killed 1,700 Palestinians.
This man of peace helped set off the second intifada when he insisted on going to the site of the Temple Mount and the Al Aksa mosque in September 2000.
This man of peace has kept building settlements in the West Bank that are among the main stumbling blocks to an accord.
This man of peace has a policy of assassinating Palestinians.
This man of peace, in response to the disgraceful suicide bombing on Passover eve, ordered the invasion of Palestinian lands, the barricading of Yasser Arafat, the detention of some 4,000 Palestinians in oppressive conditions, the ransacking of homes, and the denial of food, water, and electricity to hundreds of thousands of people.
This man of peace had his soldiers shoot many Palestinians and then fire on people who tried to tend to them.
This man of peace had his soldiers fire on ambulances.
This man of peace would not let Palestinians bury their own dead.
And this man of peace then had his soldiers wreak havoc on the Jenin refugee camp, killing an untold number of innocent people, including some who died when Israeli troops allegedly leveled the homes they were living in.
Bush is doing the cause of peace no good when he continues to decorate Sharon and castigate Arafat.
Before Bush anoints another man of peace, he at least ought to check his facts.
-- Matthew Rothschild
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