Barack Obama has been busy – offering the Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a flattering video for the President’s Conference in Jerusalem and another for Yitzhak Rabin’s memorial rally. Only Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah surpasses him in terms of sheer output of recorded remarks.
In all the videos, Obama heaps sticky-sweet praise on Israel, even though he has spent nearly a year fruitlessly lobbying for Israel to be so kind as to do something, anything – even just a temporary freeze on settlement building – to advance the peace process.
Before no other country on the planet does the United States kneel and plead like this. In other trouble spots, America takes a different tone. It bombs in Afghanistan, invades Iraq and threatens sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Did anyone in Washington consider begging Saddam Hussein to withdraw from occupied territory in Kuwait?
But Israel the occupier, the stubborn contrarian that continues to mock America and the world by building settlements and abusing the Palestinians, receives different treatment. Another massage to the national ego in one video, more embarrassing praise in another.
#43 You said:
“there were no Palestinians before the Zionists created agriculture in the region in the 19th century. There were Syrians.”
Palestine has been there as it means Land of The Philistines. So there has ALWAYS been Palestinians.
Since the fall of the Ottomans, it was mostly Arab, Jew, Christian and other various peoples.
The idea that Palestine is ONLY what the British made of it is hogwash. It goes way back. And the Zionists only had been mucking about in the region until AFTER 1890. That fits your 19th century by only a decade. And you don’t make much progress in a decade.
What you ascribe to is revisionist history by the Zionists.
#44 Jopa,
You do realise that the promised land of the Jews was set to be from the east side of the Nile to the West side of the Euphrates?
So why aren’t Israelis trying to take back Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, parts of Egypt and Iraq?
How come they are not crying out for all these lands as it is their birth right? It was promised to Abraham’s children.
Of course the Arabs are ALSO Abraham’s children. And the Jews and Arabs are all semitic. But hey it muddies the water when you call someone whom is anti-arab an anti-Semite. Many Israelis are anti-Semitic.
And Arabs were in the promised land from the get go. As the promised land stretched to the Euphrates.
So Arabs have been there all along. Arab Jews and Arab Christians and then later Arab Muslims.
So what changed? Why is their now a conflict between people that have lived with each other since at least 600 BCE?
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Since you are so blinded by your hatred of Israel, let me clarify my statement of no Palestinians before the Zionist agriculture of the 19th century. The few Arabs that did live in the area identified themselves as Syrians. There, is that better for you? Oh, and what did an Arab funded researcher find in a book published in 1984, much to the chagrin of the Arabs, but that the land used by the Zionists for agriculture was PURCHASED! Wow, what a stunner.
Moral equivalencies are ridiculous and may become the downfall of Western civilization.
#44 Well Jopa, I have to give you credit for acknowledging the crazies on the Jewish side.