A good article indeed....
Re: Yet the Bush team, backed up by certain conservative Jewish and Christian activist groups, believes that the correct policy is to do nothing. Well, that is my definition of insane.
Well, I don't exactly agree with that... As I said, Bush was keen on turning things around in the Israel-Palestine quagmire... I suspect his father (G.H. Bush) advised him to rely on backstage diplomacy rather than grandiose and hyped-up announcements. For, as recent Israeli reports (*) show, the current Israeli leadership is far from endorsing the very idea of a "Palestinian state" --and that's where any sane US policy will ultimately lead, will it not? Then we ought to remember Secr. of State Powell's hapless shuttle diplomacy in the Mideast, not to mention his pal-turned-pointman Gen A. Zinni...
Benign neglect is not, and never was, Bush's official agenda towards the Mideast --quite the contrary. That's why the Zionist lobby desperately tried to wreck his presidency through the so-called Florida Recount, turning him into a lame duck from his very first days in office.... Thereafter came 911 --a Judeofascist plot to galvanize US opinion against the Muslim world as a whole. Well, as I said on other SI threads, 911 itself was a Russian-Israeli (-possibly French) scheme to bring the US into Afghanistan and prevent a second bloody Russian invasion of that country... which could itself have led to a confrontation with Pakistan.
Now, suppose you're the US President: you want to make History by delivering a Palestinian state one way or the other... well, problem is, that just doesn't fit in with the Judeofascist gang both in the US and Israel. So, on September 11th, 2001, you get the most terrible, devastating blackmail ever: what was supposed to be a US-controlled, low-key hijack scam to gather support for sending US troops off to Afghanistan turns into the worst terrorist massacre ever carried out on US soil!!
From now on, your PRIORITY #1 as President of the United States is to protect your people, cut your losses, avoid civil war.... So you roll back your "foolhardy" Mideast policy yet you stick to the longterm goal of setting up a genuine, "contiguous" Palestinian state... Oh boy, you shouldn't be so stubborn --you get a SECOND terrorist warning, much nastier this time: ANTHRAX.
At that point, you're faced with two options: either you keep on pressing the (far-right) Israeli leadership into conceding a Palestinian state or you cave in to the Judeofascists' blackmail... There's a flip side to the first option, of course: CIVIL WAR in your beloved country. What's your choice, President chuck? Tip: you can use the French-Algerian war as a historical parallel:
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Gus
(*) Background / PM, bulldozer diplomacy, and fear of transfer
By Bradley Burston, Haaretz Correspondent
Ariel Sharon is the acknowledged inventor of what may be called bulldozer diplomacy, the use of gargantuan earthmovers to create facts literally on the ground.
But his sprawling current masterwork, the security fence, may now be taking him in directions in which he may have little desire to go.
One direction, in fact, may be toward his political past. Years ago, Sharon was the progenitor and chief proponent of the argument - since adopted by his opponents on the far-right - that the only independent Palestinian state acceptable to Israel would be one occupying the present-day Kingdom of Jordan.
Sharon has long since renounced the "Jordan is Palestine" argument, both for the sake of relations with the neighboring kingdom, and in recognition that a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip may be a political inevitability.
But officials in Jordan, which signed a full peace treaty with Israel in the mid-1990s, now fear that Israel's budding Great Wall may indirectly realize the far-right's fever dream of mass, ostensibly "voluntary" transfer of thousands of West Bank Palestinians across the River Jordan.
Already under threat of international censure at The Hague and in the UN for the route of the fence, which causes serious hardships for Palestinian farmers and merchants and cuts into territory Palestinians had assumed would be theirs under a future peace, the transfer concept is a nightmare for moderate rightists, with its connotations of ethnic cleansing.
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