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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (259591)	8/31/2014 11:38:38 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542233

Better nobody dead. He's part of the problem. It's time for us to force the issue with our aid as the lever. Pretty much every president since Johnson has said something like this... The Johnson Administration “Although we have expressed our views to the Foreign Ministry and are confident there can be little doubt among GOI leaders as to our continuing opposition to any Israeli settlements in the occupied areas, we believe it would be timely and useful for the Embassy to restate in strongest terms the US position on this question. You should refer to Prime Minister Eshkol's Knesset statement and our awareness of internal Israeli pressures for settling civilians in occupied areas. The GOI is aware of our continuing concern that nothing be done in the occupied areas which might prejudice the search for a peace settlement. By setting up civilian or quasi-civilian outposts in the occupied areas the GOI adds serious complications to the eventual task of drawing up a peace settlement. Further, the transfer of civilians to occupied areas, whether or not in settlements which are under military control, is contrary to Article 49 of the Geneva Convention, which states "The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.’” "Airgram from the Department of State to the Embassy in Israel." *Smith, Louis J. (Ed.). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V. 20, Arab-Israeli Dispute 1967-1968. DC: GPO, 2001* cmep.org We've been the most permissive of parents. It's time to stop saying "no", and start saying "we'll cut off your allowance".