Now that policy has gone by the boards, replaced by one less focused on achieving peace than on maintaining a "peace process." No doubt it is difficult, as Rice says, to "move forward on the peace process" when the Palestinian Authority glorifies suicide bombers ( http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/94312) and encourages a murderous yearning (http://www.pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_Muayad.asx ) to eliminate the Jewish state. If the Bush Doctrine -- "with us or with the terrorists" -- were still in force, the peace process would have been shelved once the Palestinians made clear that they had no intention of rejecting violence ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012600372.html ) or accepting Israel`s existence. The administration would be treating the Palestinians as pariahs, allowing them no assistance of any kind, much less movement toward statehood, so long as their encouragement of terrorism persisted.
But it is the Bush Doctrine that has been shelved. In its hunger for Arab support against Iran -- and perhaps in a quest for a historic "legacy" -- the administration has dropped "with us or with the terrorists." It is hellbent instead on bestowing statehood upon a regime that stands unequivocally with the terrorists. "Frankly, it`s time for the establishment of a Palestinian state," Rice says.
When George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton, he was determined not to replicate his predecessor`s blunders in the Middle East, a determination that intensified after 9/11. Yet, he too has succumbed to the messianism that leads US presidents to imagine they can resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clinton`s legacy in this arena was the second intifada, which drenched the region in blood. To what fresh hell will Bush`s diplomacy lead ?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7710
(They legitimise arab terror and when IDF conduct counter terrorism operations , arabs whine and fake Int`l fabricated humanitrian crisis) |
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