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Originally posted by Undertoad
Wait until you see what he said today -- you'll have to swallow your tongue. I think you'll enjoy the new take - a sudden shift in your direction.

No doubt there is a change in George Jr's actions. He has finally relented and got involved - after every EU country (an ironic reverse) begged him to get involved. George Jr said he wanted to get involved many days ago, but was waiting for the right time. Others say the last Sunday bombing and the 18 year old Palestinian girl suicide bomber was what changed his mind. So where was he all week? Why the stall?

Again, if we are to take Charlies Gibson's ABC News report, George Jr was stalling to give the Israelis more time. Charlie then noted how long Powell will take to arrive in the Middle East - more time for the Israelis to do at they want.

Yes, George Jr may have mentioned 242 and Oslo (as I suggested), although he has been rather quiet about this fundamental requirement for peace. IOW he has permitted, indeed encouraged, the final destruction of the Oslo Peace Accords - either out of ignorance or intentionally. However the final act would be to remove Arafat. George Jr stopped at letting that happen. Had George not said anything, we all but know that Arafat would have been removed or murdered. The international response would have been too much even for Geroge Jr - despite what Rumsfeld and Ashcroft were probably saying. This is probably where Colin Powell just saved either Arafat's life or the last remaining shred of the Oslo Accords.

The fact remains in spades from the time Sharon started the Intafada in Sept 2000, that the entire purpose has been one - to make the Oslo Accords and UN 242 irrelevant. There can be no doubt that Ariel Sharon wants to annex the West Bank and Gaza strip. Too much proof of that has been posted in The Cellar and even in this thread. Ariel Sharon has started the violence and escalated the violence to one end - destroy the peace process and make those resolutions and accords irrelevant by military force. This amounts to ethnic cleansing.

Furthermore, lets take last night's Nightline. The report was quite explicit. 200 Israeli demonstrators were before the US embassy in Tel Aviv demanding the US get involved and end this massacre. The Israeli police did not just break up the demonstration without warning and for no legal reason. They attacked the demonstarators with violence that even the deep south 1960 police would never have done. The Nightline reporter next said that if this is the acceptable violence where the press exists, then how much more violent are the Israelis in those areas where the press is being removed (by firing live ammunition at press and their vehicles)? Previously, the Israeli army at least read a statement before they removed the press - which is unacceptable anywhere the warrior is honest. But now the Israelis fire their weapons instead of ever reading the statement.

How violent and racist? In the same ABC News boardcast, an American women living in Ramallah talks about how Isreali troops marching into her home and ransacked it. She told them up front that she was an American and that they had no right to do these actions. So instead, the Israeli troops pissed on her floors. What can we expect from a racist nation. They outrightly too out their penises and pissed on her floor.

It is quite obvious that the world's most racist nation is Israel. Furthemore it is obvious that Sharon's plan to destroy the peace process and the Oslo Accords is right on track. Escalate the violence and then blame the victim for that escalation. That is not just Sharon's current plan. It is what Sharon has done all his life. Did we mention his long history of insubordination and outright lying? Did we mention the suspected massacre of Egyptian prisoners by Sharon during the 1967 war?

Sharon's outright lying over the decades has been so consistent that any Palestinian 'document' relating Arafat with terrorists must be doubted. As too many US reporters keep reminding us - the authenticity of that document cannot be verified. It is not that they have not tried. US press is saying they can't trust the authencity of the Ariel Sharon's proof - for obvious reasons.

As too many others also note, Sharon's purpose is to destroy the peace process. George Jr has successfully contributed to that effort - either intentionally or because he is a mental midget with advisors as right wing extremist as Sharon.