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

To: sea_urchin who wrote (10019)	2/9/2006 1:06:45 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 22250

> What's funny is that the bones of the victims of Nazism have been shamelessly recycled into a Zionist fuel to justify the colonial occupation of another people (Palestinians).... Now the bones of the Palestinians are being recycled to create a "museum of tolerance". Even George Orwell would be shocked by the chutzpah. news.independent.co.uk >>Skeletons are being removed from the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem to make way for a $150m (£86m) "museum of tolerance" being built for the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre. Palestinians have launched a legal battle to stop the work at what was the city's main Muslim cemetery. The work is to prepare for the construction of a museum which seeks the promotion of "unity and respect among Jews and between people of all faiths". Israeli archaeologists and developers have continued excavating the remains of people buried at the site - which was a cemetery for at least 1,000 years - despite a temporary ban on work granted by the Islamic Court, a division of Israel's justice system. Police have been taking legal advice on whether the order is legally binding. The Israeli High Court is to hear a separate case brought by the Al Aqsa Association of the Islamic Movement in Israel next week. The project, which a spokesman said had been conceived in partnership with the Jerusalem municipality and the Israeli government, was launched at a ceremony in 2004 by a cast of dignitaries ranging from Ehud Olmert, who is currently the acting Prime Minister, to the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre declined to comment yesterday and has had no role in the project.<<

To: sea_urchin who wrote (10019)	2/10/2006 5:14:12 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

Re: Ahmadinejad will be cursed and demonized. Few will say, "Come to think about it, he has a point." "Few"?!??! As far as Europe and North America are concerned, you are right... yet, the world --and world opinion-- is not restricted to the West. Ahmadinejad's target audience is the Muslim world first, and the Third World at large next. And that makes up a lot of people --people who, historically at least, have still some scores to settle with their former colonial oppressors.... Gus

To: sea_urchin who wrote (10019)	2/10/2006 6:15:32 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: In fact, when the nukes fall on Teheran Westerners will say that the Iranians got what they deserved. At the nuclear "game", the US has much more to lose than Iran... This isn't 1945 anymore --when the US, as the sole nuclear power, could just nuke Japan twice and get away with it. I'm afraid that, should the US cross the nuclear threshold with Iran, it'll only be a matter of time before a US city gets nuked in turn. And since the easiest way to mess with the US is to tap its growing "anti-wetback" feelings, US authorities will soon find themselves dragged into a quasi-civil war against its Hispanic minority (40 million people!). As I once said long ago, Americans will eventually figure out that it's unwise --and ultimately suicidal-- for the US to replicate Israel's behavior on a world scale.... Israel, as a tiny, micro-garrison-state, itself depending upon a much more powerful patron (the US), can play the bully in the Middle East and enforce and apartheid regime at home/domestically. After all, Israel never pretended to be an egalitarian, color-blind model for the world --from the outset, Israel has defined itself as a homeland for Jews first and foremost. So, why does the US, a multiracial polity of 300 million, seek to emulate Israel's supremacist hubris? The US social fabric itself can't, and won't be able to, sustain it. Ever more suicide bombings, ever more terrorist attacks and rocket firing by Hezbullah, ever more intifadas, didn't weaken Israel's self-righteousness. Palestinian/Arab violence/resistance didn't sap the resilience of the Israeli stratocracy nor did it break Israelis' hatred of Arabs. Quite the contrary: it swelled Israel's lust for ever more bloodshed, ever more retribution, ever more warfare, and ever more internal cohesion (around Sharon yesterday and around Netanyahu tomorrow). However, the same sociopolitical dynamics won't pan out for the US, I'm afraid, and the more the latter apes its Israeli Svengali, the more it hastens its own demise.... Gus