um who sabotaged our economy? Who has 99 percent of mideast and population
and all the oil? Whic countries exported hate to 23 different countries/
Which people are getting more money then any country in our history? Can you
say Arabs? I don't see Bush fighting for Israel, he coopted five jews and so
he can dig for more graves and oil. It also made his Love affair with Saudis
looks mute.

"cui bono" <whose@war.com> wrote in message
news:624u51pqqne0qvahq1hh0i5207ci5cisgd@4ax.com...

Herbert Walker Bush actually cut off Grants and Loans to
Israel over settlements and some neocons campaigned for
Clinton in order to retaliate.

Reagan had run-ins with Begin over Israel's '82 invasion
of Lebanon and Israel sent one diplomat to his funeral in
order to retaliate. (We packed Washington DC up, lock
stock and barrel and sent it to the promised land for Rabin's
funeral.)

Looks like Dubya not only volunteers American Armed Forces
for Israel's defense but falls short in the political guts department
in his dealings with our "Banana Republic" on the dole.

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04/12/2005

Unsettling Talk: Bush's message to Sharon on settlements was right on

The Salt Lake Tribune

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_2655530

President Bush got two things very right in his meeting with Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel. He praised Sharon's courageous bid
to evacuate Jewish settlers from Gaza this summer, and he condemned
Sharon's insistence on adding to large Jewish settlements in the West
Bank.

Unfortunately, Sharon indicated quite firmly that he will ignore his
indispensable ally's advice about expanding Jewish housing in the
corridor between East Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, an existing Israeli
town in the West Bank. Sharon's intransigence will justifiably
inflame Palestinian and international hostility to Israel, but it
will win the prime minister points with Jewish zealots who are furious
with him for his plan to abandon the Gaza Strip and four small
settlements in the northern West Bank.

Sharon is not the only leader doing an intricate political dance
here, however. Bush is risking fire from his neo-con base, whose first
commandment is that the United States should give Israel anything it
wants, no questions asked. By standing up to Sharon on the question
of expanding settlements, the president is not only continuing a long
line of U.S. foreign policy, which has opposed Jewish expansion in
the West Bank since 1967. He also is signaling to Palestinians and
the world that the United States is not an unquestioning lapdog of
Israel.

He also is preserving what little remains of U.S. credibility as an
honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Our only quibble
with the president is that he undercut his position by repeating a
statement he made in a letter to Sharon last year, that the situation
on the ground (Israeli settlements) makes it unrealistic to expect
that a final, comprehensive peace between Israel and the Palestinians
would include all of the West Bank, based on the 1967 borders, in a
new Palestinian state. Palestinians, who claim all of the West Bank,
rightly argue that that is a matter for negotiation.

Which is why Sharon's insistence on expanding settlements, which
is a violation of the Road Map, as President Bush pointed out, so
infuriates the Palestinians. More Jewish building in the corridor to
Maale Adumim would cut Palestinians off from East Jerusalem, which
they claim as their capital. That's a deal-breaker.


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