Bush to Shun Hamas Until it Changes Israel Stance
Rest assured, that Reuters headline will bring lots of howls from liberals. Who cares, right? After President rightly required the Palestinians to do certain things to proceed on his roadmap, it’s only right that he puts demands on Hamas, too.
After all, President Bush refused to meet with Arafat at the White House essentially because he was a terrorist and the leader of a very bloody intifadah. That’s proof that President Bush won’t meet with someone just because they’re elected. It sends the message that he’ll meet, but only after the violence is repudiated. I’d bet the ranch that Hamas won’t repudiate their role in the intifadah and I’d bet that President Bush will continue putting pressure on them in various forms.
Why should he cut Hamas any slack? After all, they’re part of the suicide soldiers, along with the ’soldiers’ of the al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade. It isn’t like they haven’t sabotged every peace effort that’s ever been undertaken between Israel and Arafat/abu Mazen. The best they’ve ever offered was that they’d call a ceasefire against Israel. And that only happened when Israel went on the offensive against Hamas’s terrorists.
How will the final chapter of this saga read? I don’t know but I suspect that the ‘middle chapters’ won’t be pretty.
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing
January 26th, 2006 at 8:15 am
Having studied ME history back when I was younger and covering the period up until the 70’s, I’m always a bit surprised when certain hard liberals (not your more common moderate liberal or simple moderate) goes on about how the Israelis are terrorists and the Palestinians are this poor down-trodden group of refugees. Sure, Israel hasn’t always done the smart thing once they’d become a force to be reckoned with but let’s be real. I suppose you might blame university professors for this view but, in my experience, they tend to present the facts and history pretty well. I can only imagine that there are those who willfully choose to remain ignorant.
January 26th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Lots of those that willfully choose to remain ignorant contribute articles to this site……Support the Troops and bring them Home.