Recently, President George W. Bush gave a speech before that den of anti-Semites otherwise known as the United Nations. Much of the latter consists of Western and Eastern European countries with age-old, ingrained and bloody histories vis-a-vis Jews. While a short-lived, relative respite occurred in the aftermath of the Holocaust, as soon as the stench of the decomposing and burning flesh of Auschwitz and Bergin-Belsen subsided, anti-Semitism resurfaced both as its same old self and in the new potent form of anti-Zionism, as Israel became "the Jew of the nations"... and was treated accordingly.
While Israel has its imperfections like other nations (and probably much less than most), the hypocritical double standards the rest of the world -- especially those "enlightened" Europeans -- subject it to are nauseating to any objective observer. The billion Arabs and other Muslims, represented by dozens of states, and the influence their oil wealth has on others helps to insure that Israel can be assured of very "special" treatment, indeed, on the world scene.
And so it was truly disappointing to hear Dubya join the chorus of international Jew-haters and baiters by speaking of so-called Israeli "humiliations" of Arabs during his presentation. While individual problems undoubtedly do arise along these lines, any fair assessment of how Israel has dealt with those who reject its very right to exist and deliberately target and disembowel its kids would show that the Jews have bent over backwards in trying to accommodate the rights and feelings of their enemies. Checkpoints, body searches, the security fence and other "humiliating" facts on the ground are a direct result of Arab rejectionist attitudes and terrorism towards Jews. Israel did not deserve such treatment from its "best friend."
Having been offered an opportunity, repeatedly, over the last century to have their 22nd or 23rd state, Arabs have rejected any compromise solution which would allow for a viable Jewish State to still exist on the morrow. Given these circumstances, what would any other nation do with an enemy that delights in targeting the most innocent or playing with the body parts of its soldiers before television cameras? Practically any response to such things would be justified.
On the eve of the presidential election here in America, Dubya didn't have to court international support for his Iraq policies by offering the Jews up as his sacrificial lamb. To many an observer, that is how it appeared.
Back in April, he said the magic words before the cameras when, standing alongside Prime Minister Sharon, he announced that Arab refugees -- real and fudged -- should not expect to flood Israel proper to overwhelm the Jews, and that Israel should not have to return to the 1949, UN-imposed armistice lines, which, among other things, made it a mere nine miles wide. UN Resolution #242 said the same thing in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War. But there Dubya was, complaining before the UN about Israeli settlements that were built on the very territory Israel would need to rectify those earlier territorial injustices he alluded to earlier. The territories in question are in unapportioned areas (with a long Jewish history) of the original Palestinian Mandate, open to settlement by all residents of the Mandate, not just Arabs. And massive numbers of Arabs poured into these disputed lands themselves from all over the Middle East and North Africa. More "native Palestinians"...
Keep in mind that this is the same United Nations that for decades ignored an Arab war of genocide launched against Black Africans in the southern Sudan, involving murdering, enslaving, raping and displacing victims in the millions. Similarly, earlier reports of Black slaves working the oil fields of Arabia had been ignored. The very same UN that remains deaf, dumb and blind as native, non-Arab Egyptian Copts see their churches burned down by Arabs (along with other humiliations) and does likewise as the majority Berber population of "Arab" North Africa has its very culture and language "outlawed" in the ongoing forced Arabization process, never misses a chance to put Israel under the high power lens of scrutiny. By the way, Arabic is the second official language of the State of Israel, and Arabs who side with Hamas belong to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. (Who says Jews are smart?)
While Dubya spoke at the UN, here was the reality for a Kurdish child going to school in Syria. Reports in the Kurdish media show that he is forced to sing songs proclaiming that he is a "proud Arab," a "fedayeen of the Arab cause," striving for Arab unity. Things only get worse for him as an adult if he does not buy into this Arabization process. The Kurds, by the way, are thirty million strong, but are still deemed unworthy of even one state while a hypocritical world insists that Arabs have two dozen. There is no Roadmap to Kurdistan on the horizon. And while they are the most (if not only) loyal and reliable allies America has in Iraq, the Foggy Folks are prepared to sell out and sacrifice them yet again in the Iraq mess. They've done it, disgracefully, several times before, as Iraqi Arabs gassed and butchered them for well over a half century. And then there's Egypt's Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the UN's Sixth Secretary General, writing earlier that if Israel (one half of whose Jews were refugees themselves from the "Arab" world) sought "acceptance" in the "Arab" Middle East, it too would have to yield to the Arabization process. Ghali is a Copt. Pathetic...
Given all the above -- and much, much more -- it is truly disappointing that the American president chose to publicly single out Israel for its "humiliating" sins. A nation that goes out of its way, risking the lives of its own young soldiers, to specifically target the murderers of its people, after busloads and restaurants filled with its own innocents have been deliberately targeted for massacre, deserves much better. Its American friend is too strong (and guilty of its own imperfections) to have to kowtow to the world body of hypocrites this way.
While for those who care about Israel's future, Dubya still appears to be the better choice given that the Arabs and their supporters, both in America and around the world, want the other guy to win, actions such as his United Nations' remarks make the choice -- in terms of Middle Eastern policy, at least -- more difficult than it could or should otherwise be.
While Israel has its imperfections like other nations (and probably much less than most), the hypocritical double standards the rest of the world -- especially those "enlightened" Europeans -- subject it to are nauseating to any objective observer. The billion Arabs and other Muslims, represented by dozens of states, and the influence their oil wealth has on others helps to insure that Israel can be assured of very "special" treatment, indeed, on the world scene.
And so it was truly disappointing to hear Dubya join the chorus of international Jew-haters and baiters by speaking of so-called Israeli "humiliations" of Arabs during his presentation. While individual problems undoubtedly do arise along these lines, any fair assessment of how Israel has dealt with those who reject its very right to exist and deliberately target and disembowel its kids would show that the Jews have bent over backwards in trying to accommodate the rights and feelings of their enemies. Checkpoints, body searches, the security fence and other "humiliating" facts on the ground are a direct result of Arab rejectionist attitudes and terrorism towards Jews. Israel did not deserve such treatment from its "best friend."
Having been offered an opportunity, repeatedly, over the last century to have their 22nd or 23rd state, Arabs have rejected any compromise solution which would allow for a viable Jewish State to still exist on the morrow. Given these circumstances, what would any other nation do with an enemy that delights in targeting the most innocent or playing with the body parts of its soldiers before television cameras? Practically any response to such things would be justified.
On the eve of the presidential election here in America, Dubya didn't have to court international support for his Iraq policies by offering the Jews up as his sacrificial lamb. To many an observer, that is how it appeared.
Back in April, he said the magic words before the cameras when, standing alongside Prime Minister Sharon, he announced that Arab refugees -- real and fudged -- should not expect to flood Israel proper to overwhelm the Jews, and that Israel should not have to return to the 1949, UN-imposed armistice lines, which, among other things, made it a mere nine miles wide. UN Resolution #242 said the same thing in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War. But there Dubya was, complaining before the UN about Israeli settlements that were built on the very territory Israel would need to rectify those earlier territorial injustices he alluded to earlier. The territories in question are in unapportioned areas (with a long Jewish history) of the original Palestinian Mandate, open to settlement by all residents of the Mandate, not just Arabs. And massive numbers of Arabs poured into these disputed lands themselves from all over the Middle East and North Africa. More "native Palestinians"...
Keep in mind that this is the same United Nations that for decades ignored an Arab war of genocide launched against Black Africans in the southern Sudan, involving murdering, enslaving, raping and displacing victims in the millions. Similarly, earlier reports of Black slaves working the oil fields of Arabia had been ignored. The very same UN that remains deaf, dumb and blind as native, non-Arab Egyptian Copts see their churches burned down by Arabs (along with other humiliations) and does likewise as the majority Berber population of "Arab" North Africa has its very culture and language "outlawed" in the ongoing forced Arabization process, never misses a chance to put Israel under the high power lens of scrutiny. By the way, Arabic is the second official language of the State of Israel, and Arabs who side with Hamas belong to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. (Who says Jews are smart?)
While Dubya spoke at the UN, here was the reality for a Kurdish child going to school in Syria. Reports in the Kurdish media show that he is forced to sing songs proclaiming that he is a "proud Arab," a "fedayeen of the Arab cause," striving for Arab unity. Things only get worse for him as an adult if he does not buy into this Arabization process. The Kurds, by the way, are thirty million strong, but are still deemed unworthy of even one state while a hypocritical world insists that Arabs have two dozen. There is no Roadmap to Kurdistan on the horizon. And while they are the most (if not only) loyal and reliable allies America has in Iraq, the Foggy Folks are prepared to sell out and sacrifice them yet again in the Iraq mess. They've done it, disgracefully, several times before, as Iraqi Arabs gassed and butchered them for well over a half century. And then there's Egypt's Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the UN's Sixth Secretary General, writing earlier that if Israel (one half of whose Jews were refugees themselves from the "Arab" world) sought "acceptance" in the "Arab" Middle East, it too would have to yield to the Arabization process. Ghali is a Copt. Pathetic...
Given all the above -- and much, much more -- it is truly disappointing that the American president chose to publicly single out Israel for its "humiliating" sins. A nation that goes out of its way, risking the lives of its own young soldiers, to specifically target the murderers of its people, after busloads and restaurants filled with its own innocents have been deliberately targeted for massacre, deserves much better. Its American friend is too strong (and guilty of its own imperfections) to have to kowtow to the world body of hypocrites this way.
While for those who care about Israel's future, Dubya still appears to be the better choice given that the Arabs and their supporters, both in America and around the world, want the other guy to win, actions such as his United Nations' remarks make the choice -- in terms of Middle Eastern policy, at least -- more difficult than it could or should otherwise be.