Palestine, as people knew it, died at Israel’s birth. And Mr. Bush, is now in the Middle East in an attempt, supposely , to bring two waring enemies together. Neocons don’t have high marks in diplomacy – it’s wars that neocons believes solves problems – completely and finally.
Under the Bush team, the neocons have let it be known how deeply biased they are toward Israel. General consensus might say, that is the wrong environment from which to pick “diplomats”. And Arab leaders don’t seem to think much of the Bush team’s “diplomacy”.
Below are some of the comments of the Arab leadership:
Bush is seen in the Arab world as tilting much too far toward Israel. Comments Friday from Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal about Bush’s speech suggested that had not changed.
“We are all aware of the special U.S.-Israeli relation and its political dimensions,” he said. “It is, however, important also to affirm the legitimate and political rights of the Palestinian people.”
He also sharply criticized Israel for the “humanistic suffering weighed upon the West Bank and Gaza Strip population” of Palestinians. He said Israel’s “continued policy of expanding settlements on Palestinian territories” undermines the peace process.
Israelis and Palestinians have been negotiating since December, but nothing visible has emerged from the secretive process.
Both the Israeli and Palestinian leaders are weak among their own constituencies and fresh violence from the Gaza Strip and settlement activity by Israelis are diminishing an already precious supply of trust. The president did no negotiating while in Israel and left the Holy Land with no new progress on an accord
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90478970
The definition of diplomacy may have been redefined by the Bush team. Warmongering neocons may see diplomacy as appeasement. The Bush team can do that if it wants to. The Bush team also decides who is a terrorist and who is not a terrorist. If the Bush team decides that somebody is a terrorist, then the only relationship that is acceptable is WAR. If diplomacy is attempted as problem solving with Bush team defined terrorists that is tantamount to trying to appease a Bush team defined terrorist.
Now take Hamas. The Bush team has declared Hamas is a terrorist group. Prior to 1948, Hamas was not a terrorist organizations.
What happened?
Jewish terrorists, the United Nations and land theft!
Backed by the United Nations, Jewish terrorist helped the Palestinians to decide to pick up and find a home somewhere else. Were there Jewish terrorists who later shed the terrorist role and became leaders of Israel? If so, that was OK. But when Hamas WON their DEMOCRATIC election, that was not ok. Mr. Bush works in strange ways.
And the Bush team, its “diplomatic” STATE Department and others apparently schemed to scuttle that election.
Prior to 1948, the Palestinians were not terrorists. Prior to 1948, there were Jewish terrorists persuading Palestinians to leave their homes or risk death. Terrorists, no matter their nationality, would rather “square off” with civilians than with soldiers but Palestine had no formidable army to defy the land thieves. The “Taking of Palestine 1-2-3″ was easy.
But HAMAS never forgot the 1948 theft of its land. And HAMAS has fought to take its land back. That makes HAMAS a terrorist organization. RIGHT?
Jews NEVER gave up the fight to find and prosecute EVERY Nazi who caused them pain. But that’s ok. RIGHT? HAMAS is not allowed to have the same feelings toward theft of their land as the Jews had about theft of their freedom and their lives. RIGHT?
The two hardest problems for man to solve are land theft and genocide. And a non-diplomat is not likely to have the talent or skill necessary to solve either problem.
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