Good news on Gaza passage

The United States has kept its distance from the Israeli-Palestinian struggle for so long that Tuesday’s big news from the region was as much about the deal maker, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as it was the deal — to allow Palestinians in Gaza more freedom of movement and trade. What actions follow the accord will be crucial, but it’s good to see the Bush administration fully engaged in the process. And the closer the Israelis and Palestinians can move toward peaceful co-existence, the less likely their differences will fuel trouble elsewhere in the region.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

9 Comments

  1. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 15, 2005 at 1:46 pm | Permalink

    What a joke. Bush is so far in the dumpster, to prop him up as some sort of peacemaker in an insult to the American people. A Pure Karl Rove PR move to gain some good press. Well, here we are, and, of course I so impressed, impressed enough to want to cry. Wait for it,… sniff sniff, sniff sniff…….

  2. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 15, 2005 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

    Israelis and Palestinians have been dying needlessly because Bush has not brokered a solution.

    Israel cannot broker a solution by itself, and the Palestinians have no power to do anything.

    There are enough Israelis and Palestinians who what peace to make it happen. Over 200,000 Israelis demonstrated this week.

    Bush is not doing his job.

    PR is next to nothing.

  3. TRACY
    Posted November 16, 2005 at 6:20 am | Permalink

    This one’s for you Ed.Write all you want.

  4. Ben Huie
    Posted November 16, 2005 at 8:31 am | Permalink

    The West Bank is the key to the future. Right now Palestinians only “control” 10% of that territory and their control even there is illusory. Ariel Sharon has signaled his intention of annexing large swaths of that territory including Hebron and its hundreds of thousands of Palestinian citizens. Unless these plans are reversed there can be no peaceful settlement.

  5. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 16, 2005 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

    Ben

    Ariel Sharon is in violation of international law and 32 UN Resolutions in doing so.

    Without big-time US muscle to stop him, that creep will continue to butcher and land-grab, creating an explosive situation in the Middle East.

    BTW, It’s nice to have someone comment who had a brain between their ears for a change.

  6. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 16, 2005 at 2:07 pm | Permalink

    Case in point: Just about you is part of the clique of little worms giving instructions no less.

    The gall.

  7. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 17, 2005 at 1:38 pm | Permalink

    ” Bush administration fully engaged in the process.”

    The Bush administration is fully engaged, alright, fully engaged in helping Israel violate international law.

    And the darling of AIPAC, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making an overly big deal out of releasing Israel’s death grip on Palestinian trade { as if that should ever happen in the first place }.

    Bush and Rice offer propaganda instead of results in easily solving the whole problem.

    But, what do you expect from 2-bit crap like those two besides death. destruction and lies.

  8. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 17, 2005 at 2:03 pm | Permalink

    Israel brags about being the only democracy in the Middle East.

    Isn’t free speech necessary for democracy to work? Well, the Zionists managed to push through a law in Australia that to question the holocaust is a crime, punishable by 20 years in jail.

    British historian David Irving arrested in Austria on “Holocaust denial” charges. The author challenged the number of people killed, although there are serious questions about population figures that do not reflect six million missing Jews from before and after the war. But to jail somebody for questioning addition and subtraction? That’s sick. And we give billions to these people?

    Don’t believe me. Read it for yourself, right from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

    BTW, Haaretz may well be the best newspaper in the world. They tell the truth and let the chips fall wherever they may. They have my respect.

    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/646909.html

  9. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 17, 2005 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

    Correction: Not Australia but Austria