Condi: No Jews Allowed -Michael FreundCondoleezza Rice has got some nerve. [T]he Secretary of State had the hutzpa to compare Israel's treatment of Palestinians to that meted out to US blacks during the bad old days of the segregationist South.
[T]he fact that American blacks were victims of violence and hate, while Palestinians are its proficient practitioners, seems to have escaped the secretary of state's attention. [W]ould Hamas terrorist-in-chief Ismail Haniyeh qualify as a Palestinian Rosa Parks?
[Jerusalem Post]
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There's no way around it. From top to bottom, this administration is full of the dumbest people ever to grace Washington D.C.---which is saying a whole helluva lot! Everything they do isn't stupid of course, some of it is just corrupt and immoral. So many supporters of Israel that thought Bush wasn't half bad when he went after Iraq...are paying for that support now.
Bush made inroads with the mainstream pro-Israel Jewish community back when he snubbed Arafat, reversing the favored status that said thug had with Clinton & Co.
The foolish tendency to believe that Arab-Israeli progress is a matter of finding the right formula, has been a bipartisan disease.
The MidEast has a way of confounding the finest of formulas, whether those formulas have a Democrat or Republican pen.
I certainly agree that mistakes are a bipartisan affliction. Nevertheless, bringing up past mistakes for this comment is like a colleague, when confronted for lateness by the boss says, "Suzy comes and goes as she pleases!" and the boss supporting this/ It has no bearing here. What the administration has been doing lately, allowing Israel to be equated with racists, segregationists and indeed is almost tantamount to supporting the vile thesis Jimmy carter put forward last year equating it to apartheid, is unconscionable. No American (sitting) administration has ever done what Bush and Rice et. al. have seemed to be working for lately: to vilify Israel at the same time it "acts" like it is supporting it. I will say again, while the Clinton's support of Arafat at the time may have been overboard, their policies were basically accepted and supported by Israel at the time as a likely road to peace. The fact that everyone at the time was mistaken only highlights George W's inability to learn from past mistakes---his or anyone else's.
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