Sometimes you come across one that makes you say "why didn't I write that?" I'm finding quite a lot of them lately over at Laura's place. This one should be required reading.
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt, June 3 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush, speaking at a summit Tuesday with Arab leaders, renewed his commitment to work for peace between Arabs and Israelis. "I'm the kind of person who, when I say something, I mean it," Bush said. "I mean that the world needs to have a Palestinian state that is free and at peace. And, therefore, my government will work with all parties concerned to achieve that vision." He returned to that commitment when he said later in his statement that the summit was a historic meeting.
So what about his campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem? And what about his call for the "Palestinian people" (rather than the Arafat-controlled Palestinian Legislative Council) to elect new leaders? Laura spells out the many things Dubya has said over the past three years that he apparently didn't mean. Check it out.
When they have free elections. When they have new leadership - leadership which was not chosen from the ranks of Arafat's cronies, a co-founder of FATAH, and a holocaust denier, one might dare to hope. When they make some effort to cease the ongoing support for and incitement toward terrorism, from nursery school up to actual arming and transport of genocide bombers. Reform must be more than cosmetic.
He means what he says?
Then what on earth is he doing there?
I'd add just one more thing. When they agree to accept the state that's being offered to them as their homeland and drop their demand for the right to destroy Israel demographically, a/k/a the "right of return." If their aspiration truly is to live in peace and dignity in a land of their own, one has to ask why 84% of them say they hope to "return" to Israel, even if it means living under Jewish sovereignty.
Which brings me to another recent post that shouldn't be missed. Oceanguy, also on a roll, asks this sobering question:
What if the Arabs are lying? What if they don’t want peace with Israel? What if their actions of the past 55 years really do mean that the destruction of Israel is their goal?
Let’s see that possibility debated, examined, studied, and analyzed.
Been there, done that, you say? No, I don't think so. Read the whole thing.
