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Re: The Coming War In The Middle East

#139
From: telestar
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:31
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Why should we continue to pander to the interest of Yasser Airaffat? His 
supporters hold America in contempt just as the Muslims in the rest of 
Arabia. These people are lost! They have been taught nothing but hate 
for Christians, Jews and Americans, in the guise of Islamic 
Fundamentalism, since infantcy. You may change the minds of one or two 
but not the masses of these infidels. Therefore, do not try to get along 
with them, do not try to empathize with them. They teach that if they 
can not convert us to Islam then it is their duty to butcher us. Our 
only hope and Israel's is to try and containe them. There will come a 
point when we will be so weary of trying to cope with them, that we will 
have to eliminate them. I'm tired of hearing their incessant whinning 
anddemands already.
Rolf Boland wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 04:46:50 GMT, "Harold Covington"
> <haroldcovington@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Approaching War in the Middle East
>>[I apologize but I forgot where I got this]
>>
>>January 24, 2002
>>
>>The Middle East is on the edge of an explosion the likes of which we
>>haven't seen in a quarter century.
>>
>>The explosion, the cause of which will be Israel's refusal to offer the
>>Palestinians the slightest sign of hope, poses more risks for the United
>>States than any of the previous conflicts.
>>
>>Coming in the midst of the war against terrorism, a war we are winning,
>>Israel's annihilation of the Palestinian Authority could reverse all we have
>>accomplished since Sept. 11.
>>
>>The war against terrorism has succeeded so far because it has produced  the
>>opposite of what the terrorists sought. The purpose of Sept. 11 was to
>>provoke America into a spasm of violence against Muslim states that  would
>>undermine relations between those states and America.
>>
>>Instead, the opposite occurred. The Muslim world turned against its
>>extremists and consolidated relations with the West. Forced to choose,
>>states such as Pakistan rejected the Islamists, broke ties with the Taliban
>>and locked up the radicals. The fundamentalists expected a street reaction
>>that would rise up and sweep secularists like Pervez Musharraf from power,
>>and it didn't happen. The street supported Musharraf.
>>
>>Not one Middle East regime has been weakened by the war against terrorism,
>>and several of them, like Pakistan, have been strengthened.
>>
>>All this is at risk if Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon proceeds with
>>his program to annihilate Palestinians.
>>
>>Sharon turned the war on terrorism to his own purposes. Given cover by
>>Israel's badly schizophrenic Labor Party, Sharon determined that if America
>>could declare all-out war on al-Qaeda, he could declare all-out war on the
>>Palestinians. He moved against Hamas, whose specialty is suicide bombings,
>>and when Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority could not stop Hamas, he
>>moved against it, destroying the PA even as he asked it to destroy Hamas.
>>
>>The result has been daily carnage. Each side's action is met by a bloody
>>reaction. Sharon thinks Israel can win this because it has the stronger
>>forces, but he is sowing the seeds of such deep hatred among the
>>Palestinians that Israel's "win" can only come at the cost of isolation and
>>self-loathing.
>>
>>Zeev Schiff, the military analyst for the daily Haaretz,  has called the
>>demolition of Palestinian neighborhoods acts "of undisguised ruthlessness,
>>devoid of humanitarianism and diplomatic logic." In an editorial, the same
>>newspaper urged the government to pull all Israeli settlers out of Gaza.
>>"Israel's presence in the Gaza Strip," it said, "one of the world's most
>>crowded regions, graphically illustrates the injustice and folly of Israel's
>>occupation of the territories."
>>
>>Sharon has always opposed a deal with the Palestinians. His original idea,
>>two decades ago, was to kill them all, have them killed by Israeli allies
>>such as the Lebanese militias or to expel them to Jordan.
>>
>>Removed as defense minister over the Lebanese massacres, Sharon resurfaced
>>a decade ago with the so-called "Sharon plan," which he used to oppose the
>>Oslo peace negotiations.
>>
>>Under Oslo, the Palestinians would have received back most of their
>>occupied West Bank land, with minimum border adjustments, in return for a
>>peace agreement. A Palestinian state would be created - a real state,
>>viable, contiguous, with real land, water and political rights.
>>
>>The Sharon plan would have given only half the occupied land back, and it
>>would be separated by large swaths of Israeli "defense corridors." It would
>>not have been a state at all, but a series of "Indian" reservations
>>patrolled by the Israeli cavalry.
>>
>>Washed up a decade ago, Sharon sprang back to life on Sept. 28, 2000, with
>>his visit to the Temple Mount, the event that set off what is known as
>>Intifada II. Escorted by hundreds of armed policemen, the event sparked
>>riots in which two dozen Palestinians were killed. It was a mistake for
>>then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak to have allowed the visit, but Barak thought
>>it would backfire on Sharon.
>>
>>It backfired instead on Barak. The peace process, which had made such
>>progress at Camp David and later at Taba, collapsed, Sharon beat a
>>discouraged Barak in elections a year ago and since then all hell has broken
>>loose.
>>
>>Two things must happen to avoid catastrophe.
>>
>>Israel's Labor Party must quit the government. It has stayed tied to Sharon
>>for one reason only: It believed it could influence policy and mitigate
>>Sharon's worst impulses.
>>
>>It can no longer harbor such illusions.
>>
>>The Bush administration must act. This means above all Secretary of State
>>Colin Powell, for no one else in the administration seems able to see the
>>difference between America's legitimate war against a foreign aggressor and
>>Sharon's war against the people of a land that Israel is illegitimately
>>occupying.
>>
>>The Bush administration doesn't need to act out of altruism. There are
>>about as many altruists left in Middle East affairs as there are
>>Zoroastrians. Bush needs to act in America's self-interest. The wrath of God
>>that Sharon hopes to deliver against the Palestinians will strike all of us.
>>
>>
> 
> Perhaps our President will ask Americans to purchase little plastic
> Israeli flags to go along with those chinese import USA numbers that
> dotted the landscape after 9/11. Betcha he would include Mexican flags
> to join the company!!
> 
> Rolf
> 
>>
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