Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Israel: We Have A Problem

"Palestinian people's voices and aspirations must be at the centre of post-crisis governance in Gaza -- unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority."
"We continue to believe that a negotiated two-state solution along the 1967 lines with mutually agreed-to swaps is the best way to advance a sustainable peace."
"Beyond any military operation, defeating Hamas requires defeating an idea, which is why it is critical to present a clear vision of a better future and a path to achieve that vision."
U.S.Embassy, Jerusalem, spokesperson
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden.  Susan Walsh / AP file

Mindless pap. That ship sailed so long ago, there isn't even a wake. Do these diplomats study nothing? Thinking that whatever pops into their minds must be a solution, and that their position qualifies them to dictate to a state under existential threat how it must respond, what it must accept because this is the wish of the United States that bills itself as Israel's 'greatest friend and benefactor', supplier of funding and weaponry?
 
According to this spokesperson, Palestinian leadership for the future remains "a question for the Palestinian people". Fine. The Palestinian people view Hamas as their favourite leadership option. And as far as the Palestinian Authority is concerned (Fatah) it comes a distant second in popularity. Palestinians in Gaza consider Hamas to be their champions, despite knowing full well its performance on October 7 in Israel, raping, mutilating, killing over 1,200 Israeli children, men, women and elderly.
 
Three-quarters of Palestinians admire and support their very own terrorist group. In very fact, when Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad broke down the barrier between Gaza and Israel in their planned invasion, hundreds if not thousands of ordinary Palestinian citizens entered after them, and indulged themselves in the general melee of rape and murder and abductions. Of the 240 abducted children, women, men and soldiers, not all are in the hands of Hamas; PIJ maintains some of the hostages and so do 'ordinary' Palestinians. 

These are the people whom the United States administration and its diplomats feel will continue to make good neighbours for Israel, entitled to decide who it is they wish to be governed by. And although three-quarters of Palestinians in Gaza admire and trust Hamas, a much greater number, closer to 90 percent in the West Bank, cleave to Hamas, while rejecting the Palestinian Authority. What's the diplomatic solution from the U.S. side on that? Would they accept that if Canada, say, reflected a similar threat to the U.S.?

Two weeks ago U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Gaza Strip must be given over to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, once 'hostilities' are over. That the solution to governing the territories "must include Palestinian-led governance and Gaza unified with the West Bank under the P.A." He too has a short memory, having conveniently forgotten up on a high memory shelf the civil war that broke out between Fatah and Hamas when the latter fought the former in Gaza, in a not very collegial manner.

U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby clarified that Washington is engaged in support of a P.A. that "has the support of all Palestinians so that they can effectively help with post-conflict governance, particularly in Gaza". What world do these people live in? If the ordinary news reader in countries far from the Middle East can read verified accounts of what is happening there that describe a situation totally unlike what these diplomats speak of, their 'solutions' are utterly risible.

In the very last election held in the territories in 2006, Hamas won the majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament, and it is obvious from polls taken by a credible West Bank polling group that were elections to be held again, Hamas, despite all that has happened, most particularly its willingness to provoke a situation that would inevitably result in tens of thousands of Palestinians being 'martyred' while Hamas invites the Israel Defense Forces to retaliate when missiles are launched from crowded civilian enclaves, would be re-elected.

It seems that Palestinians too, like the declarations made by Islamists, jihadists and Hamas and Fatah, love death more than others love life. So as long as Palestinians are satisfied to keep presenting themselves as martyrs for the greater cause of destroying Israel, Hamas and Fatah and Islamic Jihad will continue their deadly assaults against Israel, unless and until Israel finally destroys them first. 
 
As for ideas being harder to destroy than people's lives, that's completely true. And the Koran is full of such 'ideas', fertilizing the fervently psychopathic minds of Palestinians who love to portray themselves as victims.
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posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

So: Will They Or Won't They?

"This is not a court of law. And intelligence does not work that way. The common-sense test says he is responsible for this. He should be held to account."
Denis McDonough, White House chief of staff, Washington
Anti-war demonstrators in Washington protest against possible U.S. military action in Syria in front of the White House Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Anti-war demonstrations in Washington protest against possible U.S. action in Syria before the White House on Saturday, September 7, 2013 ... AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

A strenuous, even strident effort mounting a major support push to win assent from a divided Congress and support from the American public for a limited military strike on Syria doesn't appear to be moving many minds in the direction sought by the U.S. administration supporting President Barack Obama. Mr. McDonough admits that "irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence" is lacking in the White House persuasive arsenal. Common sense conclusions are there aplenty.

Sarin gas was most certainly used in the August 21 attack outside Damascus. And, according to American statistics, 1,429 people died as a result of that chemical gas attack, among them 426 Syrian children of all ages. Head of the press office at the anti-Assad Syrian Coalition, Khalid Saleh, insists that those numbers are  higher, that many others who had been hospitalized as a result of the chemical attack, have since died.

U.S. journalist Charlie Rose was informed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an interview that conclusive evidence is missing. But he knows and will once again attest, that it was the rebels who mounted that attack. As well as other, previous such chemical gas attacks, though killing far fewer people. Validating his claims that he has mounted for years that terrorists will stop at nothing to gain the advantage to build an Islamist Sharia country out of Syria.

As a patriot and one upon whom ultimate responsibility for the welfare of all Syrians falls, he will not permit the terrorists to prevail. It is his duty and his determination to fight them by all and any means required and surmount all difficulties that his country is now facing. His job would be far easier if it were not for the West funding and arming the terrorists, the al-Qaeda militias.

If American interviewers can give President Assad free reign to voice his point of view, the President of the United States will have his opportunity as well since six network interviews were scheduled for Monday as well as a nationally televised speech from the White House planned for Tuesday. And then, on to persuade Congress. The Senate led by the president's own party will be first to vote.

The resolution to authorize the "limited and specified use" of U.S. armed forces for no longer than 90 days, and, of course, barring American ground troops from combat is the issue. By week's end the result should be clear. In the Republican-majority House of Representatives a vote will be cast the following week. An Associated Press survey indicates a 6-1 margin against adopting the resolution.

"Lobbing a few Tomahawk missiles will not restore our credibility overseas", grumbled Representative Loretta Sanchez, a Democrat from California. "For the president to say that this is just a very quick thing and we're out of there, that's how long wars start." Perhaps she recalls former President George W. Bush declaring the war in Iraq ended a year into the occupation which ended up lasting another ten years at a cost of trillions to the U.S. Treasury.

"The world is watching, and Syrians are wondering: When is the international community going to act and intervene to protect them?" said Khalid Saleh, of the Syrian Coalition, in Washington to lobby lawmakers to back their president, even while almost half of the 433-member House of Representatives and a third of the 100-member Senate remain undecided.

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posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, September 10, 2013

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