The Roadmap Ahead II - Which does Israel Want - Settlements or US Support?

01/19/2003

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by Ami Isseroff @ 04:08 PM CST [Link]

Replies: 10 comments

This article is right. As a US citizen, let me say a few things:

- The US wants a stable middle east so we can have a stable source of oil, since our economy is totally dependent on it and our leaders have ties to the oil industry.
- The US sees the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as undermining the stability it needs.
- The US will do what is in its interest first, just like any country.
- Israel should act proactively for peace instead of waiting for a US solution to be forced on it, take the advantage or be placed at a disadvantage.

Posted by Karen @ 01/20/2003 12:27 AM CST

There will never be any real peace in Israel until all the Arabs are expelled from the Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

Since Jews living in Arab lands were expelled in the 1940's, it would be reciprocal and poetic justice to expel the Arabs from biblical and archeological Israel.

There is no shortage of Arab land in the Middle-East. Perhaps the Palestinians can make a life for themselves in undisputed land and become productive people vice spending all their time in the liberated terrotories sulking and planning terrorist attacks upon Israeli citizens and ruining their economy. Respectfully, George Haas, Past Commander, Jewish War Veteran Post 580, New Orleans, LA

Posted by George Haas @ 01/24/2003 09:23 PM CST

Man, I just stumbled in here looking for something to eat.

Posted by Dr. Dre @ 01/30/2003 08:25 PM CST

I'm just finshing what my dad started. Afterall, I have to protect my retirement fund, all 40 million barrels of it.

Posted by GW Bush @ 01/30/2003 08:28 PM CST

Ami,
Your propagandizing against Israel becomes more slanderous as the months go by. Last month you wrote:
"The vague and absurd dreams that some may have, of spiriting away vast numbers of Palestinians to Iraq or Jordan or some other destination under the cover of war, will evaporate."

This month, you have moved on to present these absurd dreams as the government's official policy. You succeed in making the anti-semitism of the Arab world seem quite innocent by comparison.

Posted by Jon Kagan @ 02/03/2003 03:18 PM CST

Mr. Isseroff, do you seriously believe that the US *cares* about such a petty matter like Israeli settlements?

Posted by Miranda @ 02/07/2003 05:26 PM CST

If we can believe the "Wolfowitz Promise" and Palestinians get sovereignty over Gaza/WestBank, what happens to the 85% of West Bank Land now owned by Jewish Interests? Would USA allow 85% Iraqii-ownership USA land? Will the Israeli Agency which rents all israeli land allow Palestinians to buy Israeli Land?

Posted by derPoodle @ 02/15/2003 04:08 AM CST

A terrorist is one who supports terrorism. Terrorism is (1) the act of terrorizing (2)A system of government that seeks to rule by intimidation and (3)Unlawful acts of violence committed in an organized attempt to overthrow a government. Funk and Wagnalls dictionary has just defined the actions of Israel between 1967 and yesterday, much closer than the actions of the Palestinians including Hamas. The Israli armed forces have killed about three times as many innocent Palestinian civilians as all the suicide bombers combind. Until the United States publically admits the Palestinian life is just as valuable as a Jewish life and says to Israel, "No more.", there will be no peace in the Middles East

Posted by Stephen Law @ 02/22/2003 03:15 PM CST

Israel is America's real enemy in the World. Sharon said in Oct. 2001 that "we the Jewish people control America and the Americans know it". Israel spies on America moreso than any other country ie. Jonathan Pollard. It was Israel that launched a sneak attack on the USS LIBERTY in June 1967 murdering in cold blood 35 American sailors and wounding 171 more. This was a government ordered attack, not some Arab "terrorists". This shameful crime still cries for justice.
Israel takes more hard earned American taxpayer dollars than any other country and uses the money to take land from the Palestinians. Israel is the ONLY country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons and the most powerful military establishment. Why does it need nukes? Perhaps to intimidate and blackmail the Arabs for their oil.
ISRAEL IS OUR REAL ENEMY BECAUSE IT PRETENDS TO BE OUR FRIEND. IT IS A DEMOCRACY THE WAY THE CONFEDERACY WAS A DEMOCRACY.

Posted by James Richardson @ 03/08/2003 05:48 AM CST

The settlements must go. Not that this will appease members of such groups as Hamas and Jihad, and all those who believe that the only solution is the complete destruction of Israel, but it will help give Israel more international legitimacy, and once the settlements are gone and the Palestinians have their own state, I think they'll give less and less support to the aforementioned groups. However, with the way things are going now, and with Yasser Arafat, who, regarding the future of the Palestinian state, over the last, say, 15 years or so, has only ever said 'one day soon a Palestinian flag will fly over Jerusalem' I am afraid there will be no end to this conflict. If Arafat and those in control of the future of Palestine aren't willing to compromise (as they were offered 97% of the Gaza Strip and West Bank in July 2000), and if the Palestinians are becomming more and more radicalized by the israeli occupation, then there will be no end. Another important note: there is no word in the Arabic language that equals the english word 'compromise'. None at all. That should be somewhat relevant. Any solution will have to be forces upon both sides.

Kyle Menken

Posted by Kyle Menken @ 03/12/2003 06:23 PM CST

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