Post by Paddy by Grace on May 29, 2009 4:02:23 GMT -7
Leo Rennert
American Thinker, April 24, 2009
...1. If you log on to the White House website, the transcript of the Obama and Abdullah remarks is preceded by a statement that the two leaders spent the bulk of their time on questions regarding Israel and "Palestine". Obama`s support of a two-state solution is well known. But to have the White House declare that there already exists a "Palestine" is, to say the least, jumping the gun. Beyond that, it points up the basic flaw in Obama`s peacemaking strategy -- to start with Palestinian statehood instead of preceding it with confidence-building measures, including Palestinian renunciation of terrorism and cessation of anti-Israel incitement, as required by Bush`s "road map," which the Obama administration itself seems to have embraced.
2. In stressing the need for an end to the conflict, Obama said "generations of Palestinian and Israeli children are growing up insecure, in an atmosphere of hate." This is what you get when you persist in playing the equivalence game, regardless of how lopsided some realities may be. Is there really as much of an "atmosphere of hate" in Israeli homes and schools as there is in Palestinian homes and schools? Does Israeli children`s TV promote the killing of Palestinians as Palestinian TV does in grooming Palestinian kids to become terrorist "martyrs"?
3. And with such an equivalence paradigm, Obama then goes on to declare that there will need to be "some hard choices of all the actors involved." What about "hard choices" already made? On the Israeli side, there has been a total withdrawal from Gaza and a ceding of administrative and political autonomy to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Plus, recent Israeli leaders already have shown ample evidence of readiness for "hard choices" by volunteering to withdraw from 95 percent of the West Bank and even to give up Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem....
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American Thinker, April 24, 2009
...1. If you log on to the White House website, the transcript of the Obama and Abdullah remarks is preceded by a statement that the two leaders spent the bulk of their time on questions regarding Israel and "Palestine". Obama`s support of a two-state solution is well known. But to have the White House declare that there already exists a "Palestine" is, to say the least, jumping the gun. Beyond that, it points up the basic flaw in Obama`s peacemaking strategy -- to start with Palestinian statehood instead of preceding it with confidence-building measures, including Palestinian renunciation of terrorism and cessation of anti-Israel incitement, as required by Bush`s "road map," which the Obama administration itself seems to have embraced.
2. In stressing the need for an end to the conflict, Obama said "generations of Palestinian and Israeli children are growing up insecure, in an atmosphere of hate." This is what you get when you persist in playing the equivalence game, regardless of how lopsided some realities may be. Is there really as much of an "atmosphere of hate" in Israeli homes and schools as there is in Palestinian homes and schools? Does Israeli children`s TV promote the killing of Palestinians as Palestinian TV does in grooming Palestinian kids to become terrorist "martyrs"?
3. And with such an equivalence paradigm, Obama then goes on to declare that there will need to be "some hard choices of all the actors involved." What about "hard choices" already made? On the Israeli side, there has been a total withdrawal from Gaza and a ceding of administrative and political autonomy to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Plus, recent Israeli leaders already have shown ample evidence of readiness for "hard choices" by volunteering to withdraw from 95 percent of the West Bank and even to give up Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem....
Click here for the complete article, or copy and paste this link into your web browser:
www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=4071