Bush Screws Israel
There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967. The agreement must establish Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people, just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people. These negotiations must ensure that Israel has secure, recognized, and defensible borders. And they must ensure that the state of Palestine is viable, contiguous, sovereign, and independent.
Thus spoke President George W Bush.
The occupied territories, have been occupied by Israel since Israel whipped the combined forces of seven Arab nations. This is important, because, historically, conquest is how nations acquire land.
The US, with the Louisiana Purchase from France and the purchase of Alaska from Russia, is one of the very few, if not the only nation to have expanded it’s borders by purchasing, rather than conquering lands. That Israel has been, for the past sixty years, the only democracy in the region, should be enough of a reason to side with the Israelis on this question. That they are hated for the race and religion of their populace should bring liberals screaming out of the woodwork to defend them. That Arab nations have funded the “palestinian” campaign of terrorism against Israel is another reason the US should stand with Israel.
Not too long ago, President Bush stated that other nations are either with us or are with the terrorists and that the United States would fight terrorism and those who support it anywhere and everywhere it is found. Well, damn, George, what happened to that? The Israelis have tried, time and again to negotiate a peace with those Arabs who call themselves palestinian. The palestinians and their supporters, the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah have bombed, murdered and fired rockets into Israel in direct violation of treaties they begged and pleaded for.LV Sun/AP story
Category: Politics, Terror War
I don’t think American support for Israeli
occupation of these territories should be official
US foreign policy. Israel has the right to defend
itself sure, but to continue to occupy and
colonize land that was meant to be an eventual
Palestinian state (by Camp David Accords)will not
lead to security. Not when you have to build a
wall to separate the societies.
We can agree or disagree on whether Israel is
really a democracy or not, not when Arab citizens
are denied certain rights in that country. As long
as Israel is seen as the occupying force in the
Middle East, and US will be viewed as complicit
in their support by not speaking in disapproval
(at least West Bank) for settlement/colonization.
I, like many other American citizens, don’t
agree with it. And I agree with Jimmy Carter and
that is that the Israeli’s will never have peace
as long as they occupy the West Bank. Consequently
the US will be continued to be distrusted
worldwide. Hence the continued rise of anti
Americanism and anti-Semitism worldwide, and the
continued frenetic determination to continue this
fight against global terrorism.
There were attacks on Israel before they held the occupied territories, weren’t there?
The Camp David Accords were a waste of time, money and political capital. They accomplished exactly nothing. Why? Because terrorists, being scum, do not live up to their end of the deal, they never have and they never will.