The Dubai insult is at last breaking down the doors of the American discourse. Maybe those Palestinians aren’t so crazy? Israeli Palestinian Ahmad Tibi is printed in the Times. Oh: that’s The Washington Times, breaking the news about Jim Crow:
We are entering a time period similar to that faced by the United States 50 years ago. Then, at long last, some American allies finally were waking up to the reality of Jim Crow discrimination in the American South and not liking what they saw. Israel’s policies are putting it in league with the West’s most notoriously racist governments of the past five decades. So far this year, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has warned of Israel becoming "an apartheid state," and Mr. Baker expressed concern that if Israel did not find a "negotiated peace" it could become "an apartheid type of nation." Neither man thought that day had arrived yet, but we Palestinians see it every day with the separation wall running through the West Bank and East Jerusalem and different Israeli laws for Jews and Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Israel’s response to its declining international standing, however, is to put out propaganda rather than wrestle with the fundamental injustices meted out to Palestinians every day.
And Amjad Atallah, Palestinian-American, is printed in the Times. Wait, that’s The LA Times.
Israeli-Arab peace is an over-riding American national security objective, but it is also a hot-button issue domestically. Those who think Israel’s borders are set by divine fiat probably can’t be won over. But they are not the majority, and those who are worried about Israel’s security can be convinced of the need to move forward. The majority of American Jews (including the 78% who voted for Obama), and the majority of American Muslims, American Christians and American Arabs all agree with the president’s reading of this conflict. But the president needs to energize them to be his support network as he presses for an agreement.
This conflict remains an impediment to America’s interests in the Middle East. We have no choice but to engage fully in ending it.
In fairness: Amjad Atallah is on the New York Times website, too. With the usual neocontext.
RE: “But the president needs to energize them to be his support network as he presses for an agreement.”
Obama is doing nothing. In fact he is doing much less than nothing since his Cairo Speech. He is part of the problem. Rahm is a major hurdle to be overcome–his favorite dreams show when he was cobbling new shoes for the Merkvah tanks. If you think Obama is not very American, what do you think of Rahm (and Axlerod)?
I can’t really speak for Axlerod, but I know the idea of Rahm Emmanuel pulling the levers in the White House, after he chose to go to Israel while the United States was embroiled in a conflict?
I’d say his family ties, being the son of an Irgun terrorist, shouldn’t be relevant were it not for the fact that Rahm has shown that his loyalties certainly don’t lie with the American people. Just look at the way he actively torpedoed health care reform and attacked Howard Dean — Howard Dean, of all people, whose Fifty State Strategy is the real reason Obama is in the White House today.
Who is Rahm Emanuel?
link to midwestfreepress.com
AMERICA FIRST- As much as I detest Rahm Emanuel, I find it curious that you provide a link to a website on which one of the videos refers to Rahm as a “commie” because he advocates gun control. Perchance, are you a right-wing advocate of armed militias to defend the USA from some international conspiracy such as the UN?
journalists need to start asking the following question in public forums of our leaders who support israel:
“Do you favor the same policies in israel as you do for America in terms of gun rights, racial laws, military service requirements, and economic independece?”
Ask a politician if they think it is okay for Zionists, still waiting to make their aliyah, to be making any political decisions for the US concerning the Middle East.
Shlomo Sand, author of The Invention of the Jewish People,” is deeply concerned about the position of the Israeli Palestinian Arabs. It is only a matter of time before they demand equal rights and they are faced with a Jewish majority that would have no compunction about using that occasion to eliminate their Palestinian minority.