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Syria-Lebanon
Syria blames Israel for bad US relations
2003-07-28
Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa accused Israel Sunday of trying to undermine Syrian relations with the United States. "The United States does not want to have good relations with Syria because of Israeli pressures," al-Sharaa told Syrian journalists.
"It ain't us. It couldn't possibly be anything we did. It has to be them Jews!"
Many Arabs accuse the United States of being biased in favor of Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians and dealings with other Arab states.
Probably because most of them aren't nutbags...
Syrian-U.S. relations have been strained over American accusations that Syria supported the ousted Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and sheltered members of his Baath Party during and after the war, charges that Syria denied. Speaking at a joint news conference last week, President Bush accused Syria of continuing to harbor terrorists. Under U.S. pressure, Syria recently closed the offices of militant Palestinian groups, but most of their officials continue to work from their homes in Damascus or from neighboring Lebanon.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#13  NMM,so you like"bobbin a circumsised knob"due you.That certainly explains alot.
Posted by: raptor   2003-7-29 9:23:28 AM  

#12  PS tu3031 Ya pissed because ya don't have a rich boyfriend?
Posted by: Not Mike Moore   2003-7-29 12:43:47 AM  

#11  tu3031 more personal attacks? He's not rich--actually works for a living unlike you GWB sycophants--and you should pay his malpractice insurance
Posted by: Not Mike Moore   2003-7-29 12:19:05 AM  

#10  NMM: Did your rich doctor boyfriend tell you he bought that bridge in Brooklyn for you? Bet that put stars in your eyes...
Posted by: tu3031   2003-7-28 11:04:11 PM  

#9  BWAHAHAHA Washington Times--the Rev'rund Moonbat's Paper? or the WSJ--the corporate world's mouthpiece?! If you honestly think those are unbiased sources--please buy that bridge from me in Brooklyn!
Posted by: Not Mike Moore   2003-7-28 10:55:23 PM  

#8  Listen Farouk, when you call for a Jihad against the U.S. it tends to sour realtions. I would have thought that the Iraqi lesson would help you stupid Arabs, but maybe we need a second 'example'. Hold still and this will be quick.....
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2003-7-28 4:25:51 PM  

#7  Dorf - you're right. I owe an apology to clowns everywhere.
Posted by: Dakotah   2003-7-28 12:55:14 PM  

#6  .....yet this clown wants to blame Israel ......

I thought Clowns were supposed to be funny?

dorf
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-7-28 12:21:53 PM  

#5  "Not Mike Moore"?

Sure fooled me.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-7-28 11:46:01 AM  

#4  NMM - Either you are an Arab, or you're trying to impress your Arab boyfriend, or you do not know fuck-all about Arabs. Given your writing style, only the first one can be considered suspect. You don't have any personal knowledge or experience - you get all your miracles second-hand, as Twain once said - and your chosen sources feed you a gruel of predigested tripe, which you swallow whole. You're not smart enough to realize that, since it's a matter of survival, those "Joooos" that scare you so badly are the absolute world experts on accurately assessing the available intelligence. More than likely, you have done absolutely nothing to deserve the life you enjoy and, for obviously perverse reasons, this spurs you to try to tear down your own world. The world that would dawn, were you and your ilk successful in crippling or destroying or preventing America from defending itself, would snuff you out of hand.

You're a classic phool tool troll.
Posted by: PD   2003-7-28 10:58:09 AM  

#3  Just keep sending 30% of your foreign aid budget to Israel and shut up--you stupid American goyim!

That's just the direct foreign aid budget. Not Mike Moore the Jew-basher always conveniently forgets that not a single American soldier has ever died in Israel's defense. This is not the case with our other allies.* Our aid to Europe during two World Wars and for the Marshall Plan dwarfs our aid to Israel, which, by the way started only about 20+ years ago. Apart from the huge sums and hundreds of thousands of lives we've spent defending Europe and Asia, our additional indirect aid (let's face it - dollars are dollars, whether direct or not) to Europe and our Asian allies runs into the tens of billions of dollars annually.

More importantly, an alliance in Israel gives us a footprint in the region if things ever go sour in a big way, and all of the Arab emirates decided to deny us basing rights. Israel is the ideal ally for several reasons - (1) we agree with them on many things (democracy, human rights, etc.), (2) they are a reliable ally (unlike France or South Korea), (3) they occupy an important spot in a volatile but strategic region and (4) they tie down no US forces in their defense, unlike Europe, South Korea or Japan. We provide them with funds for what we would otherwise have to do for them. I think it's a fair trade.

* Heck, we expended more lives defending the Chinese during the Sino-Japanese War, which began in 1933.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2003-7-28 9:37:06 AM  

#2  A truly pithy argument ya got there, NMM.
Posted by: mojo   2003-7-28 2:13:52 AM  

#1  The J Post?! Now that's an unbiased source! Just keep sending 30% of your foreign aid budget to Israel and shut up--you stupid American goyim! Any Arab country is wrong and we're right!
Posted by: Not Mike Moore   2003-7-28 1:28:52 AM  

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