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January 15, 2009
A Certain Lack Of Solidarity
A protest against Israeli operations in Gaza was called off because not enough Palestinians showed up. RAMALLAH - It's quiet in Ramallah. At the northern entrance to the city, not far from the mall, a new fountain spouts water. Next to it lies a sign in English: "Gaza under fire." But it seems the Gaza Strip has never been so far away. Tel Aviv, meanwhile, feels closer than ever. Almost every day at 1 P.M., a demonstration leaves Manara Square in the city center, expressing support for the residents of the Gaza Strip. The number of participants has declined, however, on a daily basis, and on Wednesday the demonstration was called off for a lack of protesters.What explains this lack of solidarity? Walid Omari, the Al-Jazeera bureau chief for the Palestinian Authority and Israel, thinks he knows. Omari explains that the quiet all over the West Bank in the face of the events in Gaza stems mainly from disappointment and frustration with the leadership of Hamas and Fatah.In other words " I'm not having any of what they are having." A wise move. Perhaps Israel has sufficiently demoralized the Palestinians to the point that they are becoming willing to deal. And speaking of deal how is the truce deal that Egypt is negotiating coming along? After 19 days of fighting and more than 1,000 Palestinian fatalities, the first significant signs that Hamas is breaking could be seen Wednesday night. Hamas representatives to talks with Egypt announced an agreement in principle on Wednesday to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal. They also demanded several clarifications, primarily from Israel.So Walid seems to have it right. A lot of blood and destruction for no gain. And as I have said before Israel has some surprising allies in this war. Arab League officials announced Wednesday night that they still did not have the necessary legal quorum to convene an emergency Arab League summit in Doha on Friday to discuss Israel's offensive in Gaza.So the Arabs don't seem to have a sense of urgency about the discussions. Advantage Israel. So what are the Saudis and Egyptians up to? Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday called for its own emergency meeting of Gulf Countries in Riyadh to discuss the IDF operation in Gaza on Thursday.So not only are the Saudis and others dragging their feet, but the meeting on Gaza will be a side show to more pressing business - an economic summit. What we are seeing is a realignment of Middle East interests. One other place the alignment is changing is Turkey, and in this case it is moving away from Israel. A decade ago, Western and Israeli leaders could count on Turkey as an ally. A solid NATO member, Ankara took decisions based on pragmatic calculations of interest - and erred on the side of caution if at all. But under the rule of the Islamic conservative AKP, this has changed.Turkey has land borders on its Middle East Side with Syria, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and Georgia. And on the Black sea it borders a number of countries including Russia with whom it seems to have formed an understanding if not an alignment. Ankara's position on Iran has been similarly equivocal. When in Washington recently, Erdogan observed that "those who ask Iran not to produce nuclear weapons should give up their own nuclear weapons first" - a position that fits neither with Turkey's membership in the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NATO.So what does the future hold for the Middle East? The only certainty is that the countries of the region will find new and exciting ways to damage their own interests. The only exception to this rule seems to be Israel. At least for as long as George Bush has been in office. Bush's policy has been to isolate Syria and Iran. Obama is interested in making overtures to Syria and Iran. U.S. president-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday said that he is going to work toward a comprehensive peace in the Middle East "on day one" of presidency on January 20, and that would include Iran and Syria.In other words he intends to sell out the Israelis. He won't be the first US President to pull that trick. What I would like to know is what kind of campaign donations Obama got from the Syria/Iran axis? I'd guess that some one knows the answer and is holding the information until it can do Obama the most damage. We shall see. But I can say one thing. I don't think Obama has ever played politics at this level. If Blagojevich can roll him he doesn't stand a chance in the Middle East. They have had thousands of years practice in perfecting the art of the double cross. Cross Posted at Power and Control Welcome Instapundit readers. For something a little different how about: Good Journalism which discusses the coming collapse of Mexico. Or a free copy of the Readers Digest version of The Road To Serfdom or why the Nazis are left wing. posted by Simon on 01.15.09 at 09:25 AM
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Maybe Obama can dispatch magical rainbow unicorns to make it all better. Cappy · January 15, 2009 10:21 PM Despite his upbringing in Chicago politics, Obama has always struck me as being naive. Donna B. · January 16, 2009 01:00 AM It appears it is getting time for a military coup in Turkey... GW Crawford · January 16, 2009 01:21 PM >>Get Evil to sign a document and they will cease being evil, right? Right? Of course. I mean, we stopped Hitler in his tracks in 1938 with that Munich Agreement. Thank goodness! That was a close one. Jim · January 16, 2009 01:38 PM Gringo: We'd elect his buddy to the Presidency. David Ross · January 16, 2009 01:50 PM > I don't think Obama has ever played You said it. Between Putin and the Arabs, Obama is well on his way to becoming a squeaky chew toy for the wolves to shake and tear apart at their pleasure. adam d. · January 16, 2009 02:03 PM The proposed conference site is amusing for another reason. The Kuwaitis have little love for the Palestinians, because Palestinians in Kuwait during the 1990-91 Gulf War proved active collaborators with Saddam Hussain and his band of uruk-hai when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Kind of like hosting a conference to discuss mistreatment of Confederates in Lawrence, Kansas in 1875. Mark L · January 16, 2009 02:06 PM One minor quibble to an excellent article: Turkey does not currently border Russia though does it borders the historic imperial sphere of Russia (Armenia and Georgia). On a side note too is that Turkey is constrained to an extent by history as neither the Arab nor Iranian world has forgotten the Turkish imperial history. Chad · January 16, 2009 03:08 PM Chad, I suppose I could have been clearer about the Black Sea connection. Or have included a map link. M. Simon · January 16, 2009 03:51 PM Why doesn't Israel issue terms of surrender to individual Hamas rank and file and see how many of them bite? The sight of hundreds or thousands of Hamas fighter giving up would destroy the organization permanently. Then whenever someone asks an Israeli official about a "cease fire" or the "peace process", they can say that they are too busy managing the "surrender process." That would certainly be a change! jms · January 17, 2009 09:21 AM My Jewish friend Josef opposing the ZioNazi-war against the Palestinian and war-crimes in Gaza said: “We are back in 1940”. My explanation to Josef was: Yes Josef you are fully right. We really are back in 1940. I lost 40 members of my family in Holland in that year and later more because we were hiding Jews for the SS and Gestapo in our houses to save them for the Nazi-concentration camps/gas chambers and they fought in the resistance against the occupation by those Nazi-rats as the Hamas-fighters do now against the ZioNazi occupation. A lot of those SS/Gestapo-rats were AskeNAZI Zionist or better ZioNazi. Now again it are NAZI and ZIONAZI of the next generations. In those years up to now the Catholic and Lutheran Church collaborated with Hitler/Nazi-Germany and helped them to collect Jews for the gas chambers in Germany and nearly all occupied countries. The worst they did was helping around 30,000 SS/Gestapo-agents to escape to America before the end of the war and just after the war. Then the traitor Alan Dulles flooded his CIA with around 5,000 SS/Gestapo-agents of the Gestapo under command of General Ghelen. In and after 1945 they all took over the CIA and US-government piece by piece and Ghelen returned in 1946 as head of the secret service in Germany and continued with their Nazi/Gestapo-agents there. No wonder Catholic/Lutheran Germany is extremely ZioNazi- and Israel-friendly and again (as in Lebanon) cannot wait to help ZioNazi Israel to destroy Hamas with blocking the boundaries of the concentration-camp Gaza. The international community should not allow those ZioNazi in Germany to continue with their War Crimes in Gaza, Lebanon as well in Iraq and Afghanistan and should be tried together with all War Criminals in the US. All War Criminals of the BushCo camp should be tried for their continuing war crimes in other countries being a long list since 1945 (for example just some of them are Vietnam, Cambodja, Laos, Ost Timor, Chili, Yougoslavia). Beside that there is a long list of crimes against humanity by the same Nazi and ZioNazi crooks/criminals. Those Nazi/ZioNazi criminals and murder stole after 1945 also Palestine from the Palestinian and grounded Israel as a ZioNazi Terror-State. What you see since 1945 in Palestine is the result of the continuing activities of the same new generation NAZI and ZIONAZI RATS, MASS MURDER and WAR CRIMINALS which are also cheating real honest Jews. No wonder real honest Jews resist those ZioNazi and they must continue and remove that ZioNazi in Israel because they are Nazi-breed from Nazi-Germany covering behind Jewish people and Jewish history and believe. No wonder that the over 2000-year longtime peace and living together between 2 brother’s as Jews and Palestinian were intentionally disturbed by torture, terror, murder and robbery and other crimes by those ZioNazi to create hate and war for ever. This is the real style of the evil ZioNazi Rothschild- and Rockefellers-families which practice such already for centuries and did now the same in Palestine as everywhere just for extreme profits meanwhile hiding behind their puppets. Any doubts about all this. Study history carefully and the real deeds of the mega-WAR CRIMINAL and NAZI CRIME FAMILIES BUSH, KISINGER, SCHULTZ and a lot of other ZioNazi in the secret US-Government being the secret services like CIA, FBI,NSA,ION and so on. They control and owns Conclusion : The REAL AXIS OF EVIL and STATE-TERROR is the US- , UK (the traitor and war criminal Blair) and Israel. Mike Honest · January 17, 2009 01:06 PM Dishonest Mike, Nice bit of propaganda you got there. Did you know that it is a war crime to intentionally attack civilians with suicide bombers and rockets? You probably missed that. Did you know that it is a war crime for fighters to intermingle with civilians populations and use them as human shields? You probably missed that. Egypt warned Hamas that they should stop the rockets. Evidently the folks at Hamas were hard of hearing. Most unfortunate. M. Simon · January 17, 2009 02:13 PM Cappy: with Chicago politics in his background Obama is dumb like a skunk, not a fox Spencer Tracy · January 18, 2009 02:09 PM |
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