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| Palestinian 'humiliation'? |
| 2006-10-28 |
| Condi needs to quit the State Dept Arabist line and face reality In a keynote speech earlier this month to the American Task Force on Palestine, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sounded very unlike President Bush on the Middle East, lavishing praise on Palestinians and implicitly attacking Israel. While the words she chose have invited criticism, much more concerning is that the top U.S. diplomat has the same fundamental misunderstanding of the Middle East that most do, namely that Palestinians are ready to coexist peacefully next to a Jewish state. This conventional diplomatic wisdom, however, ignores the history of the region since the Oslo accords in 1993: The once largely secular Palestinian society has become increasingly Islamic-and deeply radicalized. Comparing the Palestinian cause to her own civil rights struggle growing up in "segregated Birmingham, Alabama," Miss Rice reminded the activist audience that if she could overcome such tremendous odds to become Secretary of State, Palestinians could achieve their dream of statehood. She based this belief on "the commitment of the Palestinian people to a better future." |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 That's her gig. In this case, you should definitely blame Bush. It is his chess strategy which is pissing you off and firing boggle photons at your serenity. ;-) |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-28 14:19 |
| #2 She could quit excusing their disgusting death cult and quit treating them as equals to the Joooos. They aren't and won't be for generations, if ever. Cut off all aid and let them stew in their shithole |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-28 14:16 |
| #1 Apologies, Frank - I'm in a rambling / actionable mood today... an odd mix of speculative weirdness coupled with the desire, as the bored vulture said, "Fuck this waiting shit, I'm gonna go kill something..." There's a timeless quality to the humiliation thingy. I'm beginning to suspect that one of nature's most ingenious neural devices, habituation, has somehow been erased from the genetic code of certain populations. Recall the Princess and the Pea? Well, in reality as most intelligent people know it, repeated exposure to a stimulus tends to reduce the response, over time. It's commonly referred to as habituation - and is one of those thematic thingys which fascinates me. Perhaps, the loss of this biological necessity, buried somewhere in the genome, causes some of that "junk" DNA to activate - rendering the individual suddenly immune to logic. In parallel, perhaps it also renders the individual susceptible to Islam. Goshdarnit, there is nothing that Bush or Condi or even the Great Master, Rummy, can do about it. I'm just sayin... |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-28 13:41 |