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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve kammerer who wrote (4633)	4/16/2004 3:16:23 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 22250

<<I would think you would be able to empathize.>> THIS IS IRONIC! How come you do not empathizewith the Jews who are getting slaughted by the terrorist who send their children so they can collect blood money? Why do you hate Jews?

To: steve kammerer who wrote (4633)	4/16/2004 3:30:27 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

More great news! finally get the ball rolling in the right direction! Blair came out in strong support of Bush's backing for an Israeli plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip but keep parts of the West Bank. The two allies urged Palestinian leaders to seize what they described as a historic opportunity to revive the U.S.-engineered "road map" to an Israeli-Palestinian settlement and move toward establishing a viable Palestinian state.

To: steve kammerer who wrote (4633)	4/16/2004 3:35:41 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 22250

stevie babie Do the Palestians want peace? here is another historic opportunity.. lets see if they want to stop killing their own children.

To: steve kammerer who wrote (4633)	4/16/2004 4:03:29 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 22250

To:chuckj who wrote (2763) From: Addi Wednesday, Mar 31, 2004 4:25 PM Respond to of 2776 They say Allah-ol-Akbar (God is great) while doing the most horrific acts... we are no longer surprised after 9/11.. but still I wonder exactly what type of God are they referring to? But of course it is the Mulim god!! :( ...kicking the head of one incinerated body and stamping on its head, while others in the crowd dragged a charred and blackened body by its feet. As one corpse lay burning on the ground, an Iraqi came and doused it with gasoline, sending flames soaring into the air. At least two bodies, their skin burned away, were tied to cars and pulled through the streets, witnesses said. As the victims lay burning, a crowd of about 150 men chanted: "Long live Islam" and "Allahu Akbar" ("God is Greatest").... story.news.yahoo.com.

To: steve kammerer who wrote (4633)	4/17/2004 10:01:14 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 22250

By Juan Cole April 16, 2004 \| One year after Baghdad fell to victorious U.S. troops, the Americans had to conquer the country all over again. The great rebellion of April 2004 expelled the U.S. from much of the capital, humiliated coalition allies, cut supply and communications lines to the south, and revealed a reservoir of popular hatred for the U.S. among both some Sunni Arabs in Fallujah and some Shiites in their cities. But perhaps the most ominous development for the U.S. was that the events tied together two occupations and two intifadas, or popular uprisings -- Iraq and Palestine. In his press conference of April 13, President Bush gave several reasons for cracking down on Iraqi insurgents. He said their motivation was the same as those who set off bombs in Jerusalem; he tied them to the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, executed by al-Qaida in part for being Jewish. He also cited Shiite radical Muqtada al-Sadr's support for the Palestinian Hamas organization and the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah party. He gave as one reason for having gone to war against Saddam Hussein the former dictator's support for Palestinian terrorists. In this speech, he presented the Iraq war and its violent aftermath as an extension of the Israeli struggle to subjugate the Palestinians and Hezbollah. Before the war, Bush connected nonexistent dots between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. Now he and his neoconservative brain trust are mapping the Iraq conflict onto the Likud Party agenda in Palestine. This time, however, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy -- and one that will have devastating repercussions for U.S. interests in both Iraq and the entire Arab world. The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is so central to U.S. diplomacy in the region that it cannot help affecting every other policy imperative, including Iraq. Many Arabs, including Iraqis, initially looked upon the U.S. as an honest broker, but its reputation has gradually been sullied. The U.S., for instance, had long opposed the aggressive Israeli colonization of the West Bank and Gaza as an obstacle to a full and fair settlement with the Palestinians. On April 14, however, Bush met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Washington and, breaking with longstanding U.S. policy, acquiesced in the permanent annexation by Israel of large swathes of the West Bank. In other words, as of this week, the Bush administration has endorsed the seizure of the land of one party by another in an international dispute. truncated full at antiwar.com