The United States refrained from condemning the killing of a top Hamas leader by Israel on Saturday and limited its criticism of the assassination …
Bush stood with Ariel Sharon three days ago and welcomed the Israeli leader’s plan…
In avoiding a condemnation of the Israeli strike, the statement reflected a formula the Washington routinely uses when Israel targets a Palestinian militant :
In Saturday’s statement, the White House said, “Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorist attacks”…
Meanwhile,
– The European Union condemned the killing as unlawful and “not conducive to lowering tension.”
– A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the assassination violated international law and could lead to more violence in the Middle East.
– Pope John Paul II said the killing of Abdelaziz Rantissi and the hostage-takings in Iraq were “inhuman acts”.
– Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie accused the United States of giving a green light to the assassination.
– The outrage in the Arab world at U.S. policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is helping fuel support across the region for an insurgency against American occupation in Iraq.
[via Je Blog]
They fire a missile and blue someone up to bits; this is an
It’s an endless cycle of violence, that is always restarted by Israel.
Unless the Israeli administration change the way they look at things and seriously consider peace, the cycle will continue and keep growing.
Did you delete my comment? I wrote a pretty lengthy one. 🙁 Either you thought what I said was stupid or I didn’t click on POST.
Hi Jenn,
Nope, didn’t delete your post.
I never delete any user comments unless they’re about viagra, porn sites or organ enlargement 😛
I don’t think you posted anything like that, or did you? 😛
Anyway, if you can, please post your comment again. I’d like to read what you have to say about this.
Although I’ve never met George W. in my life, I have reason to believe that I somehow REALLY pissed him off one day and now he’s doing everything in his power to get back at me. There is NOT ONE political move he has done in his almost 4 years in office that I do not strongly oppose. It’s as if after every briefing he’ll ask, “Hm… But where does Jenn stand on this? … Oh really? Yeah… Let’s do the exact OPPOSITE of that then.” I’m telling you… EVERY issue! I can’t help but think that he’s targeting me and that I am somehow responsible for all that has gone wrong in the last few years. I mean, seriously! Once he’s all done screwing around with the Middle East, it’s really going to be my children who are going to have to suffer for the bad relations we will have with them and they’re going to have to clean up his mess and ask for the Middle Eastern countries for forgiveness for having pricks for leaders in the past.
I am absolutely appalled that George W. is condoning such an unlawful assassination committed by Ariel Sharon! Peace CANNOT be achieved by killing the opposing leaders. That’s just not how it works! Of course, it’s hard to convince the C-average college student (George W.) that. He’s probably never even passed a psychology course in his life (and I mean REALLY pass, not the Daddy-Pays-Off-The-Teacher kind of pass). And plus! I don’t see how assassinating this man would help at all! For one, these men are not afraid of death. And two, they’re considered martyrs when they’re assassinated. You’re just riling up the Palestinians and you’re sure as hell pissing them off!
Look, here’s how it is (or should be)…
Israelis need to learn how to share (and to stop the bloodshed), and Palestinians deserve their own country. The UN will head the talks between the two countries until some sort of agreement is made. Bush will have nothing to do with the talks, since he is so obviously biased, plus he’s a moron. Once an agreement has been made, the two nations will STRICTLY prohibit any more aggression towards the other nation. The UN will help Palestinians to construct a nation and the US will contribute AT LEAST as much money it is giving to Israel (if not more). I am tired of my tax dollars contributing to “state-sponsored terrorism”, as Michael Moore put it so well. Seriously, with over 30 million Americans without health insurance, it amazes me that Bush can give so much to Israel and then has the nerve to ask Congress for more money for the wrongful war in Iraq. I know this conflict is much more complicated and that this is just a simple solution, but c’mon! This plan sounds a lot better than launching more bombs, killing more children, and terrorizing more people, no?
I’m not quite sure if this is what I wrote before. Probably something like this saying that I was outraged.
I don’t think he’s doing this because of you, I believe it’s more because of me. Everytime I think things can’t get any worse, He goes off and puts the extra effort to prove me wrong.
Anyway, I believe that this long conflict will only end if the leaders calm down, change their way of thinking and just follow the obvious simple solutions.
It’s not so hard to see that violence won’t take anyone anywhere. The only way out is Peace and understanding.
What amazes me though is that everyone but the leaders knows that.