Comments on: U.S. Gives Wink and Nod to Gaza Invasion

By: roba

roba — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:06:54 +0000

Speaking of King Abdullah trip to the States, M. Thomas Eisenstadt has a provocative post today about the King and Asst. Sec. of State Thomas Callahan. Turns out they may have been frat buddies at Dartmouth. Worth looking into....
http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com/2008/03/07/animal-house-and-the-king-how-the-plagiarism-scandal-leads-to-very-strange-places/

By: domajot

domajot — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:38:27 +0000

I have to agree with Rudi: neither side wants peace.
They want revenge. Maybe only battle fatique, and that does happen, will bring this condfict to an end.

At his point, it's useless to reiterate the pros and cons of each side. What determines events is that each side has its own narrative line, and whether right or wrong, those narratIves are deeply believed and are mutually exclusive. No amount of kiling will cause a change of mind, except only if they get exhausted from the effort.
Stalemate.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:18:05 +0000

Peace will come to Israel and Hamas when both want peace. At this time, neither side really wants peace. This includes the hawks here at home.

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:54:27 +0000

Condi Rice's huge error was jawboning Israel & Fatah into allowing Hamas to participate in the '06 elections. Now she is being lambasted as somehow a hawk. The Middle East is so full of resentments and millennial hatreds that no one is ever going to reach a peace as long as Hamas promotes genocide of the Jews. And of course, of Shi'ites. And the Sunni Hamas do hate Christians too. Hamas has a laundry list of those to be exterminated—or put under submission of sharia law.

By: U.S. Gives Wink and Nod to Gaza Invasion · One Looking

U.S. Gives Wink and Nod to Gaza Invasion · One Looking — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:19:57 +0000

[...] PC Free Zone wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptU.S. Gives Wink and Nod to Gaza Invasion March 6th, 2008 by WILLIAM KERN [IMG [Guardian Unlimited, U.K.]] Is the Bush Administration hoping for or perhaps even egging Israel on – to invade the Gaza strip and destroy Hamas’ power base there? Political Commentator Maria Appakova writes for Russia’s Novosti, ‘Sixty four percent of Israelis consider it necessary to hold a dialogue with Hamas to obtain a truce. But this is hardly in the interests of the United States. Nor is a truce likely to le [...]

By: U.S. Gives Wink and Nod to Gaza Invasion · SmokeSignalz

U.S. Gives Wink and Nod to Gaza Invasion · SmokeSignalz — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:05:34 +0000

[...] Anorak News | Anorak News wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptU.S. Gives Wink and Nod to Gaza Invasion March 6th, 2008 by WILLIAM KERN [IMG [Guardian Unlimited, U.K.]] Is the Bush Administration hoping for or perhaps even egging Israel on – to invade the Gaza strip and destroy Hamas’ power base there? Political Commentator Maria Appakova writes for Russia’s Novosti, ‘Sixty four percent of Israelis consider it necessary to hold a dialogue with Hamas to obtain a truce. But this is hardly in the interests of the United States. Nor is a truce likely to le [...]