Condi, George Marshall and Israel -Editorial
It appears that President Bush and Secretary of State Rice have decided to ramp up the pressure on Israel to make life-and-death concessions to Mahmoud Abbas, a man whose serial incompetence got him run out of Gaza by Hamas.
Sixty years ago, Secretary of State George Marshall waged a last-gasp bureaucratic battle in an unsuccessful effort to dissuade President Truman from recognizing the coming State of Israel.
Fast forward to today, and Secretary Rice seems determined to pound the Israeli government into a series of untenable security concessions. It's a State Department tradition that no one should be proud of.
(Washington Times)
It appears that President Bush and Secretary of State Rice have decided to ramp up the pressure on Israel to make life-and-death concessions to Mahmoud Abbas, a man whose serial incompetence got him run out of Gaza by Hamas.
Sixty years ago, Secretary of State George Marshall waged a last-gasp bureaucratic battle in an unsuccessful effort to dissuade President Truman from recognizing the coming State of Israel.
Fast forward to today, and Secretary Rice seems determined to pound the Israeli government into a series of untenable security concessions. It's a State Department tradition that no one should be proud of.
(Washington Times)
2 comments:
No surprised here. I have said from the beginning there was no help for
Israel here. There was only the posturing of a fallen demagogue hoping to salvage some semblance of mediocrity from a failed and disastrous administration, by claiming to broker, while actually bludgeoning, Israel into a peace accord. Rice hitched her star to Bush's tragedy, and she will soon, like her hapless and witless mentor, ride off into the sunset.
I like your frame: "bludgeoning, Israel into a peace accord."
That's a nice "soundbite!"
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