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Posted by . on January 31, 19102 at 16:08:19:
In Reply to: As an Mensa member , you can handle it . posted by Harta Barta on January 31, 19102 at 15:59:27:
::: http://www.jordantimes.com/Wed/opinion/opinion2.htm
:::
:::'A dose of sober-mindedness'
:::By George S. Hishmeh
:::
:::
:::WASHINGTON — These are heady days for George W. Bush. The American president
:::must feel intoxicated with the praise he has been given at home for his
swift
:::success in Afghanistan, where the American-led war has led to the ouster of
::the
:::extremist Taleban regime and the dissipation of Osama Ben Laden's Al Qaeda.
::And
:::Hamid Karzai, the new appreciative leader in Kabul, was here for the State
of
:::the Union address, always an occasion marked by abundant patriotism,
:::exaggerated achievements and promises.
:::The distracters, however, may point out that the Taleban's Mullah Omar or Al
:::Qaeda's Ben Laden are still at large. Or, more to the point, this
celebratory
:::occasion in Washington has been marred by the downward spiralling of the
:::Palestinian-Israeli war of attrition which saw, for the first time, a woman
:::suicide bomber who was a university student.
:::Yet, President Bush continues to mix apples and oranges in his fight against
:::international terrorism after the horrific events of last September in New
::York
:::City, Washington and the fields of Pennsylvania. He and his vice president,
:::Dick Cheney, lambasted the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, for failing to
:::make “a 100 per cent good-faith effort to put an end to terrorism”, without
:::once recognising the dilapidating effect of the Israeli occupation.
President
:::Bush went a step further and accused Arafat of “enhancing terror”, and
:pressed
:::him to accept responsibility for the arms-smuggling operation. Talk has been
:::rife here that the US may even sever its ties with the Palestinian
:leadership.
:::The single-mindedness of the American president and his unabashed support of
:::the hawkish Israeli government has puzzled many observers here. An
intriguing
:::report circulated by the Religion News Service may shed new light on this
:::mystery.
:::There are an estimated 98 million Christian evangelicals in the United
:States,
:::but of concern here is its sub-group, known as Christian Zionists. They
::believe
:::that Jews are God's chosen people and have a divine deed to their contested
:::land, in accordance with a covenant described in the first book of the
Bible.
:::But Christian Zionism is about more than private belief. “Its `anything for
:::Israel' theology has the potential to affect US foreign policy in the same
:way
:::that the Christian Right has influenced (US) domestic issues through
:political
:::pressure,” the lengthy feature, written by Mark O'Keefe, pointed out.
:::“One intriguing question, posed frequently in Israeli government and US
:::evangelical circles,” O'Keefe continued, “is whether President Bush, who has
:::been outspoken in his evangelical beliefs, privately holds Christian Zionist
:::views.”
:::“It's one of the common explanations (of) ... why and how Bush is
sympathetic
:::to Israel and its cause,” Moshe Fox of the Israeli embassy admitted to
:::O'Keefe. “I haven't had a chance to talk to the president about this, but
:that
:::view is out there, and it is quite common.”
:::The White House would not comment on whether Bush's religious beliefs might
:::affect his actions towards Israel, insisting that he makes policy
:::decisions “based on policy factors”.
:::Bush's single-track approach does not sit well with many former officials.
:For
:::one, Robert Malley, who was special assistant for Arab-Israeli affairs in
:::President Clinton's White House, has described current US policy vis-ý-vis
:the
:::Palestinian-Israeli conflict as a “recipe for catastrophe”.
:::He wrote in The New York Times last Friday: “Of course, the United States is
:::justified in pressuring Chairman Arafat to act against Palestinian
:terrorists.
:::But so, too, must it admonish Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease those
:::policies that inflame the Palestinian public and paralyse its security
::service:
:::the targeted assassinations, home demolitions, suffocating closures and
:::creeping reoccupation.”
:::He added: “By his actions ... Mr Sharon has done all in his power to make it
:::unfeasible for (the Palestinians) to meet their obligations.”
:::The point here is that the more the US and Israel humiliate the Palestinian
:::leader, now confined to his headquarters compound in Ramallah, the more the
:::Palestinian people are likely to rally to his support. In other words,
:::dismissing the Palestinian leader as “irrelevant”, a point now adopted by
:some
:::key American politicians, only underlines the empty-headedness of these
::Israeli
:::copycats.
:::One is tempted to echo the remarks of the Swedish foreign minister, Anna
::Lindh,
:::who described Bush's policy as “stupid” and “crazy”. Regardless, isn't it
::quite
:::obvious that neither the Bush administration's threats, which in its latest
:::manifestation has only yielded some foul and inelegant language against the
:::Palestinian leader from the new American peace envoy, nor the Israeli stress
::on
:::security above everything else has produced a workable solution. This Israel
:::rendition has actually camouflaged Zionist expansionist objectives; since
:::assuming office a year ago, Sharon has reportedly established 26 illegal
:::settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
:::In their upcoming get-together, the fourth in a year, both Bush and Sharon
::need
:::a good dose of sober-mindedness or else hell may break loose.
:::