(UNSPOKEN REASON) Bolton in Zuckerman's rag on giving up the notion of peace in the ME
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Subject: (UNSPOKEN REASON) Bolton in Zuckerman's rag on giving up the
notion of peace in the ME
Date: Jan 21, 2008 8:31 AM
There is some other reason besides the nonsense that "Palestinians and
all
Arabs don't want peace and their own state." All of Arabia has
offered
to Israel to go back to the 1967 borders for business/economic/social/
techno-sci
assimilation, and this is a UN resolution, too. EVERYONE sees this as
fair.
So, for the Neocons to not want Palestine to have their own state or
for Israel
to start acting sane, there has to be some unspoken reason. It's not
about
the Palestinians, but perhaps if Israel stopped acting like a rogue
state, admitted
it has illegal nuclear weapons, and was subject to all the
international rules and
oversight of the UN, we might 1) discover some crimes going on there,
for which
Israel will be sanctioned, and 2) Israel is clearly a US forward
base.
Israel probably have a bioweapons arsenal that they should not, also,
since they
work with New York bioweaponeers.
No one - not anywhere in the world - believes a syllable of this
nonsense.
HELLO-OO? Niger letter? Mobile bioweapons trucks? Aluminum tubes?
USS Liberty?
9/11? WTC7? Fake Muslim-sent Anthrax letters, unsolved? Lyme is "an
imaginary
disease cured by the placebo effect of antibiotics?" Hariri killed by
Syrians?
The border skirmish between Israel and Lebanon resulting in the
destruction of Lebanon
was not about provoking Iran and Syria?
What's next?
Probably if the world got what we want- Palestinian State and Israel
accepts international
inspection - we would find that Israel harbors illegal US weapons.
Maybe they should start getting rid of them now, like Saddam and Iran
did.
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Abandon Mideast peace push
By JOHN BOLTON
Monday, January 21st 2008, 4:00 AM
Be Our Guest
President Bush's just-concluded Middle East trip has sparked hope in
several
key areas, particularly confronting Iran's bad behavior and making
progress
in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
But here's the essential fix the President is in: He is far more
likely to be
successful in countering Iran's expanding influence and dealing with
other major
regional problems than in resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute - yet his
pursuit of
the former goal is impeded by his policies concerning the latter.
This view is contrary to the conventional wisdom of most Europeans and
many Americans,
namely that peace between Israelis and Arabs will facilitate solutions
to other
Middle East disturbances.
Under this theory, once desires for a Palestinian state become a
reality, the terrorist
threat to Israel will decrease, Lebanon will become more stable, Iraq
will grow
calmer and the combined IranianSyrian threat will recede. Perhaps even
the price
of oil will come down.
Pursuing this Holy Grail, however, is manifestly wrong. If Israel's
most implacable
opponents got their fondest wish, and Israel simply disappeared, all
of the region's
other fault lines would remain. Diplomatic efforts alone cannot change
the objective
reality on the ground, which is not at all conducive to yet another
"peace
process."
If we hope to make real progress, we must face unpleasant facts.
The Israeli government is an unsteady coalition whose political
prospects are grim
at best. Indeed, it is a commonplace that it is only the government's
weakness
that keeps it in power, as each of the constituent parties fear that
their respective
Knesset memberships would diminish after an election. This analysis is
not a criticism
of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government but simply a statement of
the political
reality in Israel. This is not a recipe for dramatic and risky
diplomacy over Israel's
very future.
Things are far worse on the Palestinian side. The election of Hamas
has broken the
Palestinian Authority into two possibly irreconcilable pieces, with
Hamas in Gaza
and Fatah on the West Bank. Neither can exercise assured power over
their respective
territories, and the lives of average Palestinians daily grow more
difficult. There
is no Palestinian leader who can implement whatever commitments might
be made in
negotiations with the Olmert government.
It defies common sense, therefore, to believe that even vigorous U.S.
diplomatic
efforts through the Annapolis Process can result in true progress.
Hope, goodwill,
shuttle diplomacy and even presidential prestige will not suffice. The
present circumstances
instead argue for benign neglect and the possibility that an Israeli
government
will emerge that can take risks for peace - and that somehow the
Palestinians can
glue themselves back together. No outside party can do it for them.
Continuing to pursue Annapolis, as the President seems bent on doing,
risks an even
greater loss to American leverage and prestige. Failure of a major
presidential
effort would also set us back in pursuing our vital objectives in Iraq
and against
Iran and Syria.
Saying, as the State Department undoubtedly will, that we must
continue the peace
process now that it has started represents what economists call "the
fallacy
of sunken costs." Noneconomists know this phenomenon as throwing good
money
after bad.
President Bush urgently needs to pursue Iraq to a successful
conclusion. He needs
to resuscitate a tough policy against Iran's nuclear program and its
ceaseless
support of international terrorism. He needs to buttress the fragile
democratic
government of Lebanon and squelch Syrian efforts to aid Iran's
hegemonic aspirations.
All of these critical goals will consume enormous amounts of
presidential time and
prestige, assets that President Bush can ill afford to squander on
Annapolis. We
can only hope that he has returned from his trip with this conclusion.
Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is
author of the book
"Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations
and Abroad."
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Yeshua Jan 21, 2008 5:36:20 AM Report Offensive Post
According to Bolton's theory, just do nothing with the Arab-Israeli
conflict
and the problem will just go away, or heal itself? Would he feel
better if we nuked
Iran? Resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict may not guarantee Israels'
security
100%, but we have to try. ***** will return to defend Jerusalem soon,
but in the
meantime, we have to 'hold the fort down'.
isaac Jan 21, 2008 5:37:55 AM Report Offensive Post
The Palestinian state solidifying peaceful co existence in the Middle
East is a
plan in theory only. The Main problem their is can the Palestinians
and the rest
of the Arab nations of the region honor the this resolution and live
in co existence
with Israel. This means to recognize Israel as a nation to control and
reduce the
violence to near zero occurrences and start teaching their young that
murder is
not the solution for their issues and being hateful is wrong.That
Jerusalem is a
place for a all people. At present the Arabs nations of the Middle
East have not
made efforts thru tangible concessions and being honest trustworthy
fair in resolving
the issues of the region that has been put wholly on Israel.
poopschmere Jan 21, 2008 6:45:13 AM Report Offensive Post
I dont know if Mr Bolton would feel better if we nuked Iran,but I
would.
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