Bush Promotes Palestinian "Right of Return" -Daniel Pipes[The] "right of return" emerged as a motif before and during George W. Bush's recent trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, when he mentioned it three times publicly...
This is only one of several problematic statements from the Bush administration, such as the president's morally equivalent reference to "terrorism and incitement, whether committed by Palestinians or Israelis" or Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's calling the Arab-Israeli conflict the central issue of the Middle East and seeing Palestinians as analogous to Southern blacks.
[H]e is the only U.S. president to promote a "Palestine" and now a Palestinian "right of return."
I see a possible crisis in U.S.-Israel relations of unprecedented proportions. I am not predicting this will happen but noting that the pieces are all in place for such a development.
Although Bush is "seen by many Israelis as the best friend the Jewish state has had in the White House," I have long doubted that characterization, and now more so than ever.
[FrontPageMagazine.com]
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I have always doubted that Bush was a friend of Israel. I think anyone who thought he was, was misguided because some of his "enemies" were theirs as well. I put that in quotes because I question whether they were real enemies, or perceived that way for other goals. Osama Bin laden is certainly an enemy of the American people, but from the intelligence reports before 9/11 through the present time, George W. has never seemed as preoccupied, or hard at work to apprehend him as he was to get Saddam Hussein (and possibly manipulate the oil markets in the bargain). George W. Bush is friend to a few billionaires, and all his policies have done them well. For the rest of Americans to the people of Israel, I would say they have all fared much worse under his policies. That Israel is just waking up to this now, especially after Condi Rice's comments in the recent past, shows they were temporarily (almost 8 years) blinded by misplaced hope and faith. Who can blame them? We would like to expect more from the leader of the greatest nation on Earth, and sometimes it is hard to swallow the bitter reality of what we really got.
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