Palestine
Posted at 8:35pm on Nov. 28, 2007 "Occupation" and a Lack of Defensible Borders: President Bush uses the stage at Annapolis to side with Israel’s enemies
The Quixotic Quest for Legacy Qontinues
By Jeff Emanuel
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As predicted earlier this week (and as deconstructed today by my colleague Dan McLaughlin), President Bush -- formerly (and arguably) the strongest supporter of Israel to inhabit the White House in years -- used his address at Tuesday's Annapolis Conference on Palestinian Statehood to renege on his 2004 promise of "defensible borders" to the then-Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, and to demand that the Jewish state retreat to its pre-1967 borders as a show of good faith in its peace negotiations with the Palestinian government.
Three years ago, Bush wrote to Sharon that "as part of a final peace settlement, Israel must have secure and recognized borders." He continued:
In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli populations centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949, and all previous efforts to negotiate a two-state solution have reached the same conclusion. It is realistic to expect that any final status agreement will only be achieved on the basis of mutually agreed changes that reflect these realities.
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Posted at 2:51pm on Nov. 28, 2007 You Can Negotiate With Terrorists, But You Can't Negotiate About Terrorism
A Refresher on Timeless Lessons
By Dan McLaughlin
With the Bush Administration back in the business of seeking "peace in our time" between Israel and its sworn enemies neighbors, it may be worth repeating something here I have written before on the topic of the "Middle East Peace Process", but which remains true:
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Posted at 5:03pm on Nov. 27, 2007 I've got it: It was President Bush, in Annapolis, with the Knife. (Comments Enabled)
By Jeff Emanuel
And so the game of Clue!™ ends, with the culprit having been made clear. As predicted (despite the loyal opposition of some longtime RedStaters), President Bush used his address at today's Annapolis Conference on Palestinian Statehood to renege on his 2004 promise of "defensible borders" to the then-Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, and to demand that the Jewish state retreat to its pre-1967 borders as a show of good faith in its peace negotiations with the Palestinian government.
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Posted at 1:35pm on Nov. 27, 2007 Israeli apartheid?
By Paul J Cella
A new round of Israeli-Arab peace talks is under way. Whether something enduring will come of it seems rather unlikely, though even some normally skeptical observers have expressed guarded hope.
There is one curiosity here worth expounding: Thanks to Jimmy Carter, you’ll probably need both your hands to count the number of times the charge of APARTHEID will be hurled against Israel, sometimes with the esteemed former president actually cited, during interviews of Arab PR men. “Apartheid system,” “apartheid regime,” “apartheid state,” “apartheid government,” possibly even the infelicitous phrase “apartheid occupation” — over and over and over: these guys are suckers repetition of striking phrases. And while we’ve heard the apartheid accusation before, it is Carter’s recent book has vastly increased its currency.
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Posted at 8:01pm on Oct. 29, 2007 It’s Legacy Time Again
George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice seek their own Palestinian peace plan, and bring Carter and Clinton along for the ride
By Jeff Emanuel
If the dinner conversation at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is focused on a Palestinian state and a ‘Middle Eastern peace plan’ built on Israel’s giving away both land and sovereignty, then it’s a pretty safe guess that it is currently year seven or eight of a two-term American presidency. Like clockwork, as the time for him to leave office draws near, President Bush, like Bill Clinton before him, has turned a hopeful eye to the Levant as a solution to his “legacy” problem. This problem is namely the fact that, like his predecessor, Bush's presidency (short of a miracle solution to the myriad challenges currently facing America) stands to be remembered largely for its poor choices, bad policy, and abysmal public relations, rather than for any large successes in the domestic or foreign policy realms.
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