Well here you have it in black and white, yet again. The zionist leadership gunning for “greater israel” , as it has been since the creation of this entity.
"…To the historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict, outrageous behavior by Israel’s leaders, and American complicity in such behavior, are nothing new. British resentment toward the United States still smolders in the files of the Public Record Office. In a memorandum to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin dated June 2, 1948, Sir John Troutbeck held the Americans responsible for the creation of a gangster state headed by “an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders.”
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Arafat is not a paragon of virtue. He has made serious mistakes and, like Sharon, he has the blood of countless innocent civilians on his hands. …
In 1993, a decade ago, Arafat signed the Oslo accords and clinched the agreement with the historic handshake with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the lawn of the White House. …
The unraveling of the Oslo accords began with the assassination of Rabin and the rise to power in May 1996 of a Likud Party government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. Likud regarded the Oslo accords as incompatible with Israel’s security and with the historic right of the Jewish people to the whole of the land of Israel. Netanyahu spent his three years in power in a largely successful attempt to derail the Oslo process and to demonize its principal Palestinian architect.
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Israel has a remarkable record of accepting peace plans in theory and subverting them in practice. The latest victim of this dual strategy is the “road map” to peace initiated by the quartet - the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia - on May 1. The Palestinian Authority embraced the road map and started implementing it even before it was issued. Sharon obtained from Bush three delays in issuing the road map and then submitted 14 amendments designed to wreck it.
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The road that Sharon is pursuing is not the one charted in the road map. He is driving down another road on which the main signposts are expanded settlements, a security wall that bites deep into Palestinian territory on the West Bank, and targeted assassinations of Palestinian leaders. It is these actions, and in particular the attacks on Hamas leaders, that fuel the cycle of violence and make it impossible to pursue the road map to peace.
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The real obstacle to peace between Israel and the Palestinians is Ariel Sharon, not Yasser Arafat. Killing Arafat would not bring peace but ring the death knell of Palestinian moderation. It would also be a serious blot on the reputation of a country that prides itself on being the only democracy in the Middle East.
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In 1948 Yitzhak Shamir, who later became leader of Likud and prime minister, conspired with his colleagues in the Stern Gang to assassinate Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN mediator, in Jerusalem. Likud thus has the dubious distinction of counting among its leaders a man who assassinated a UN peace envoy. It can now build on this reputation by assassinating the only democratically elected leader in the Arab world.
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The writer is a professor of international relations at the University of Oxford and author of “The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.” Israel and Palestine
“Everything else is tactics "
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“Sharon certainly does
have a plan: to protect Eretz
Yisrael, avoid returning any territories and
make sure the settlements stay where they are.
Everything else is tactics.”
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The unraveling of the Oslo accords began with the assassination of Rabin and the rise to power in May 1996 of a Likud Party government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. Likud regarded the Oslo accords as incompatible with Israel's security and with the historic right of the Jewish people to the whole of the land of Israel. Netanyahu spent his three years in power in a largely successful attempt to derail the Oslo process and to demonize its principal Palestinian architect.
Avi Shlaim has hit the nail on the head.
There will never be peace between the Israeli's and Palestinians as long as the terrorists and Jewish settler supporting Likud party is in power.
There will never be peace between the Israeli's and Palestinians as long as the terrorists and Jewish settler supporting Likud party is in power.
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Was it suicide bombers that got another extremist and leading member of terrorist Stern Gang i.e. the one that went around killing British soldiers and UN diplomats - Yitzhak Shamir elected?
Israeli people have always had a tendancy to elect butchering war criminals to power, and then you people defend these same people.
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I asked you about why the Israeli people elected another war crminal and terrorist, even before they elected Sharon i.e. Yitzhak Rabin, the man who was a wanted terrorist by the British authorities, renowned for taking part in the murder of British soldiers and UN diplomats.
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Look people. Americans will defend Israelis by any means necessary.
Israel in reality is just another extended State of the US.
It's called being 'patriotic'.
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Sorry Sholay, but your vision of being patriotic and mine must differ!
I prefer to base my opionins on a little more substantial evidence!
Based on the dismal failure of Arafat's policies, his historic support of terrorists, and continued homicide bombings, he may be a figurehead, but, he's a failed leader. Wasn't it over $900,000,000.00 recently found in his personal accounts? What would that have done to eliviate the suffering of his people and the creation of an infrastructure?
Because of Arafat's greed and inablity to govern, Israel must be reactionary when faced with "Palestinian" actions. Sharon appears to be honestly acting in the interest of Israelis - Arafat always seems to be acting only in the interest of Arafat.
“This is unprecedented, such broad, direct criticism of this government and the army,” says Yaron Ezrahi, a political scientist at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. He sees it as an expression of public frustration with the government “for following only the strategy of force and more force, while immobilizing the diplomatic arm of Israel.”
Israelis question Gaza presence in a week when six soldiers died.
JERUSALEM – Ordinary Israelis, media commentators, and military officers unleashed unusually strident criticism Sunday of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s strategy in the Palestinian territories, a wave of anger that some analysts say may signal the first cracks in previously broad public support for his policies. The condemnation followed a Palestinian attack on a remote Gaza Strip settlement that killed three soldiers on Friday, including two 19-year-old female soldiers shot while sleeping. Their deaths, in a week that began with the death of three other troops in an ambush, triggered questions about Israel’s presence in Gaza, the lack of a political process with the Palestinians, and Mr.
Sharon’s failure to deliver on election promises of greater security. The criticism, along with stirrings on the long dormant political left, suggest a shift in Israeli opinion may be afoot. The week “ended with mounting questions about the nature of the [Israeli army’s] presence in the territories [and] the character of its activity,” wrote analyst Yael Gwurtz in the Yediot Ahronot newspaper. “All of the above have helped define a new crossroads in public opinion … the convergence of the argument about the cost of the war on terror and the argument about the cost of the occupation.”
“This is unprecedented, such broad, direct criticism of this government and the army,” says Yaron Ezrahi, a political scientist at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. He sees it as an expression of public frustration with the government “for following only the strategy of force and more force, while immobilizing the diplomatic arm of Israel.” Israeli soldiers demolished three empty apartment buildings in the northern Gaza Strip early Sunday to retaliate for Friday’s attack, evacuating Palestinians within a 400-yard radius beforehand. …