July 17, 2006

A Straight-Forward Truth

I wish that diplomatic niceties allowed President Bush to make such a statement publicly, rather than confining it to a private conversation.

President Bush cursed Hezbollah's attacks against Israel in private conversations with foreign leaders Monday that were picked up by a microphone.

Bush expressed his frustration with the United Nations and his disgust with the militant Islamic group and its backers in Syria as he talked to British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the closing lunch at the Group of Eight summit.

"See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this (expletive) and it's over," Bush told Blair as he chewed on a buttered roll.

He told Blair he felt like telling U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who visited the gathered leaders "to get on the phone with (Syrian President Bashar) Assad, make something happen."

That will not, of course happen. Diplomacy is a formal dance with specific rules of etiquette. And the UN, rife with anti-Semitism for many years, will keep on trying to condemn Israel rather than the terrorists who have triggered the crisis in the Middle East.

Hube points us to the video.

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Posted by: Greg at 01:43 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 One at least hopes Greg realizes throwing the anti-Semite label at opponents of Israeli oppression lost much if not most of its
efficacy in Europe;(it did use to work there quite well circa 1950-1990). Matt Drudge
mentioned on his national radio show last nite, while he did not agree,more and more Americans across the political spectrum believe the US must distance itself from Israel if it is to maintain a vestige of respect in the Middle East. Unlike Greg, he got through this analysis
without using epithets meant to cast scorn on realists.

Posted by: Ken Hoop at Mon Jul 17 05:18:59 2006 (DZbll)

2 Yeah, but then again, you deny the Holocaust, Ken, so the anti-Semite label applies.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Mon Jul 17 05:52:02 2006 (cy5P4)

3 we all know that "denying the Holocaust" has become more offensive than denying the Divinity, and that the former can get you locked up in certain European countries. also, the Iranian
president pointed this out, quite correctly,as evidence the West had lost sense of its own
metaphysical foundation.

but what this translates to on the droll level is if one teaches as Jewish Princeton Univ. Professor of History Arno Mayer does, that one million dead is far more accurate than six million....he better not utter it in certain European countries which were hmmmm "liberated" to be come "democratic" refuges of "free speech."

At least he wouldn't get the stake like Servetus as a result of Michel's violation of orthodox doctrine of his age.

Posted by: Ken Hoop at Mon Jul 17 08:31:48 2006 (DZbll)

4 Oh, a Holocaust denier who is happy one can "discuss" criticism of Israel w/o being called anti-Semitic?

Boy, Greg, you sure seem to be attracting some reprehensible a-holes here!!

Posted by: Hube at Mon Jul 17 10:38:31 2006 (FHyyt)

5 As a matter of fact,Hube, I still have a degree of angst over the fact that dissenters like Norman Finklestein anf Noam Chomsky cannot criticise Israel or the Holocaust Lobby without being viciously and unfairly called "self-hating Jews," by your type of hypocrite, still in abundance more in America than Europe.

Posted by: Ken Hoop at Mon Jul 17 11:45:57 2006 (DZbll)

6 No, Hube, just one reprehensible assholle.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Mon Jul 17 12:14:48 2006 (979VY)

7 In other words, you consider it a horrendous injustice that, while Chomsky and Finkelstein can freely espouse their malignant views in this ountry with no fear of government oppression, those who oppose their lies are also permitted to speak freely.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Mon Jul 17 12:20:58 2006 (979VY)

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