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by Linda Emmons for TCC
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I am listening to a live press conference being held by our president and Israeli PM Olmert, straight from The Holy Land. They should be holding this conference on Mars, or maybe Damascus.

My head is spinning. The Israelis are asking Pres. Bush questions about Iran. While important, I can’t help but wonder– aren’t they even a teensy-weensie tiny little bit curious about our push for a garage sale on Israeli cities—yes, cities, not settlements or outposts—and land giveaway, even half of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, some say. Well, it isn’t even a garage sale, because no one is paying Israel for the economic and emotional cost for the displacement of all those people, soon to be homeless and jobless, nor for the loss of commerce and industry in the “outposts.” The implication of the increased importation and validation for armed thugs even closer to their homes and neighborhoods is staggering. The bad guys fire rockets into Israel, a country about the size of New Jersey, every day. Surely with closer positions, even the murderous goofs might be able to hit more targets and fulfill their self-stated mission to kill as many Jewish people as possible. Tell me again, why do we want to help them do that?

There was one question about the land giveaway. Bush replied that the outposts were illegal and had to go. See, that is straight from Damascus and begs a series of other questions. Who decides whether it is legal to live and build in Israel but Israelis? That is a domestic zoning issue and none of our business. Are they referring to Oslo on this—what about the list of common sense tasks the PA was given, and has yet to take a single step towards implementing? Those were to be done first and in tandem with Israel doing anything. You know, such hard-to-reach goals as stop arming and paying terrorists, recruiting and paying families of homicide bombers, stop indoctrinating hatred for Jewish people, recognize Israel’s right to exist…a peace partner who can’t do those basic things? I am confused. Some reports even indicated these peaceful folk were encouraging their people to meet Pres Bush with bombs, not flowers when he arrives there.

And where is our much-vaunted desire for diversity? The PA has made themselves clear; no Jewish people will be allowed to live in “their” areas, which may include Judea and Hebron. Do you understand the irony there?  “Israel’s good ally” — that’s us and our elected officials–may try to force Israel to give up the Golan Heights, the source for water and, military folks say, the best place to launch rocket attacks. As a co-opt of the Jewish law of return, they are also demanding that any Arab who wants to live in Israel must be allowed in as a citizen. Check out for yourselves how many rights Jews and Christians have in Arab-dominated countries. Start your search with “dhimmitude” and then meander around to see what happened as Bethlehem, for instance, came under PA control, the desecration of churches and synagogues abandoned as the Jewish and Christian people fled for safety. If you have the stomach for it, look back throughout Islam’s relatively short history and you will see that pattern repeated everywhere they go. If you are as bewildered as I feel, research killer ants. They build a hive and work to dominate and destroy all other life around them. Maybe that will clarify this issue for you.

Olmert chided his countrymen for thinking they could expect the PA to keep their commitments if Israel didn’t keep all of theirs. Deafening in its absence was any mention of how many commitments the PA has kept. That couldn’t have been a time constraint, because the only commitment they have attempted to uphold is to murder Israelis and drive them into the sea. I would like to see them keep their side of Oslo, sure, but also return kidnapped Israelis - alive, and untortured.  Olmert then gushed over Bush like Oprah blessing Obama. Olmert actually said when he looks at Bush and all he has had to go through, he feels good to have him on their side. Perhaps Olmert should run by “all you’ve had to go through” to the families sitting Shiva for murdered loved ones, or those permanently maimed or crippled by terrorists with bad aim. Here in the US, we vowed to fight terrorism, and the speech where he promised to ferret the little weasels out was one of Bush’s finest moments…how is it then they we reward them in the midst of Israel? We are working hard to undermine the only real friend we have in that part of the world and the only democracy. Why try to build democracy in Iraq only to destroy one in Israel confuses me. Building a state based on terrorism out of a democratic one confuses me even more.

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