Worth Quoting: Death of the Bush Doctrine

But it is the Bush Doctrine that has been shelved. In its hunger for Arab support against Iran — and perhaps in a quest for a historic “legacy” — the administration has dropped “with us or with the terrorists.” It is hellbent instead on bestowing statehood upon a regime that stands unequivocally with the terrorists. “Frankly, it’s time for the establishment of a Palestinian state,” Rice says.

When George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton, he was determined not to replicate his predecessor’s blunders in the Middle East, a determination that intensified after 9/11. Yet he too has succumbed to the messianism that leads US presidents to imagine they can resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clinton ‘s legacy in this arena was the second intifada, which drenched the region in blood. To what fresh hell will Bush’s diplomacy lead?

read it all at …The Jerusalem Connection International: Death of the Bush Doctrine

H/T: Center for Vigilant Freedom

Words Worth Quoting

Bush’s ignorance about the true nature of Islam has put all of the West in harms way.

Bush makes some very glib, naive (very Western) assumptions that are quite false: “I believe, deep in the soul of every man, woman, and child on the face of this Earth is the desire to live in a free society. And I also believe free societies yield peace. And, therefore, this notion of two states living side by side in peace is based upon the universality of freedom, and if given a chance, the Palestinian people will work for freedom.”

This very commonly held assumption ignores religion and ideology and their power. The Islamic vision is not one of freedom — which is, in a way, actually anathema to religious Muslims. Islam is about submission. (Islam in Arabic means surrender!) And radical Islam is about imposing that submission. Palestinians passionately committed to their Islam and the word of Muhammad are more concerned with driving out the Jews and controlling the land they believe is theirs than with instituting “freedoms.”

To establish policy without this essential understanding is to miss the boat entirely and to generate an unstable situation.

Arlene from Israel

Dear George and Condi,

Dear George and Condi,

Looks like stabbing Israel in the back is really working out well for you. And all of the billions in American treasure that you have freely rendered to the “Palestinians” are, obviously, so very much appreciated.

Yeah, can’t wait for the next Annapolis. It’s always such a heartwarming experience to watch America being raped by the feral friends that you two damnable fools drag in.

Burning American flags, thousands of Palestinian protesters took to the Gaza streets this afternoon to protest against the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush. The protesters, amassed by Hamas, brandished banners which defined Bush “assassin and vampire”. During the rally puppets of the American president were raised and then burned. Israeli flags were also burned. Eye witnesses reported at least 20,000 participants in the rally, promoted for several days also through appeals launched in the mosques. “Bush is not welcome,” a Hamas representative repeated from the platform. Members of the extremist movement pointed out that since his arrival at the Ben Gurion airport of Tel Aviv today, President Bush “made sure in his speech encouraging and backing the rights of Israel, without saying a single word on the Palestinian victims and on our rights”. Bush will meet tomorrow in Ramallah in the West Bank Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), who is in open conflict with Hamas, whereas he will not visit the Gaza Strip.

Source: Jihad Watch

Bhutto’s Requests for Security Help Unmet

Slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto had tried to hire Israeli security personnel.

Relatives of Bhutto, who was assassinated last week in a shooting and bombing attack, had asked Israel to supply her with Shin Bet bodyguards, Ma’ariv reported Sunday.

The idea of supplying Bhutto with Israeli government agents was immediately ruled out in Jerusalem, which has no formal ties with Islamabad. But there were alternative proposals to put her in touch with private Israeli security companies or retired personnel from the Shin Bet or Mossad intelligence agencies.

“We could have been more sensitive and quicker, but we dragged our feet on this Bhutto issue, and that’s a shame,” Ma’ariv quoted an unnamed Israeli diplomatic official as saying.

Similar requests that Bhutto made to U.S. and British security agencies also went unmet.

Breaking News – JTA, Jewish & Israel News

Reverse Rape-ism?

How can people who think like this function in the real world? It is a racist act for an Israeli soldier to refrain from raping a Palestinian woman. And such idiocy is rewarded.

Hebrew University has just awarded a research prize to a graduate student’s essay in which she claims that Israeli soldiers are “racists for not raping Arab women.”(See http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124674 )

This is no joke—anyway, who could make this up? The graduate student is a woman named Tal Nitzan. Her anthropological essay has been published by the Hebrew University’s “Shaine Center.”

Nitzan writes that the “lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose.” Since Israel fears the Palestinians demographically, IDF soldiers have been trained not to rape the women in order to avoid creating new Palestinians and little intifaders. (Has Nitzan never heard about Palestinian honor killings in which pregnant-out-of-wedlock or adulterous women are murdered by their families who love them too much?) Nitzan alleges that the “lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences—just as organized military rape would have done.”

Thus, Israeli racism, which “de-humanizes” Palestinian women, suppresses Jewish male lust—which proves that Israeli soldiers are racist oppressors. As the only army that does not, apparently, rape, Nitzan fails to grapple with other reasons for this, including the possibility that Israeli soldiers are acting in an ethical and civilized manner.

Chesler Chronicles: Refusing to Rape=Racism if you are an Israeli Soldier

Drive-By Posts, Jewish Refugees, and Princeton Brownshirts

Note: One of the reasons that it became difficult for me to post regularly is that I have been taking on freelance blogger assignments. I refer to myself as the inadvertent blogger. Long story made short…

My several years of blogging to RoadSassy (SpicedSass) led to an offer, in 2003, from a local boat broker to develop a blog for boaters in the region. It proved to be an education, given that blogging had not even begun to enter the public consciousness. Be that as it may, I have always loved writing and I can get lost in research. So it was with great delight that I began delving into river lore, burying myself in the boating life, visiting harbors, interviewing the colorful denizens who make their living working on the vital waterways that are critical to the commerce of this nation. It was a three year labor of love. Sadly, the owners became embroiled in money disputes which lead to the destruction of the company and the loss of all of our jobs.

However, I was determined to continue trying to earn a living from writing online. A prior bout of cancer had totally derailed a career as a personal trainer, throwing me into the horror of being unable to earn a living. It is a story for another time but, suffice to say, I was, and am, determined to find a way to earn a dollar from a hospital bed should my old enemy ever return. I never again wanted to become dependent on any outside agency or a become a burden to my family.

Fortunately, the Internet opens an entire world of opportunities that did not exist a mere decade ago. I hardly have the “credentials” to make a living as a blogger. I have no geek in me, find the Web 2.0/social networking brouhaha to be annoying and far too self-congratulatory -and that would probably be because I am not of the ‘x’ or ‘y’ generations, who, more or less, own the net – so to speak.

But I do have a certain way with words that, so far, has earned me a living. Like all freelance, nothing is certain. For the past year I was so buried in work, there wasn’t any time or energy left for this site. Then, out of nowhere, the dude I freelanced for went AWOL. Boom. No work. The daily quota of posts that I contracted for had consumed the majority of my time and I hadn’t made any efforts to secure other sources of income.

So, finally having some time, I took the opportunity to move this site off of B2 and on to WordPress. A move I am well pleased with, by the way – I highly recommend WordPress. There are a few years of archives that need to go up yet, but I have managed to crank out a few posts between looking for new assignments. Ligneus will soon be adding his wit into the mix and, hopefully, Road Sassy will truly be back on the road.

Fortunately, I have secured some more work, but I am determined not to let RoadSassy suffer as a result. Thus, I am introducing “Drive-by Posts”. As I research my other work, I am always running into items I would love to post here, but time prevents my giving any one item a comprehensive treatment. Well, who says every bloody post has to be a damn essay. So, I am going to begin experimenting with just quick quotes and see if I like the results.

How’s that for a long winded intro to the item that I post below. I think we are all well aware that freedom of speech is under severe threat from the left and Islam. We know too well of the censure that conservative students face on campuses across the nation. The war on Christians is rolling along as steadfastly as ever, but the pronounced rise in anti-semitism continues to , well, just frankly blow me away. I mean, good Lord, just look at this:

I’d Make a Lousy Jew

I support Israel. Period. End of story. But I’d make a lousy Jew. I don’t know quite how to describe this ongoing, haunting sense of loss that I have come to find that I live with everyday. But I imagine that an Israel Jew knows loss intimately, and yet, they fight on. I, I stand here benumbed, horrified at the seemingly inexorable erasure of America. I don’t even begin to know how to live with the knowledge that all that I cherish in my heart, all that I cherished for my children’s future is at grave risk. Yet, a Jew will have the courage to raise his family in Israel while her borders are besieged and a ravenous enemy chants for the death of his children.

Before 911, I never understood that so much of the faith that I have had in my ability to chart my own course in life, to win and lose on my own terms, to grab for brass rings, to envision a bright and shining future for my children….all those dreams that gave me succor were premised on a free and strong America. Yep, a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Founding fathers, Fourth of July America…. I have believed in all of it, even when as a callow youth, I scorned it. Yet, even then, I believed the surety of America’s promise would continue to be there for me and my children, just as surely as the mantle wraps the earth to it’s core. I never once imagined that America would fail to safely house our future. I never allowed that it was possible for America to be suborned so handily from within and betrayed so readily by her leaders.

But a Jew must be used to all of that. The horror that I feel as I understand that Bush has no intention of protecting our borders is nothing compared to what an Israeli Jew must feel as Israel is repeatedly raped by her leaders and supposed allies. Imagine our government allowing Mexico to lay claim to portions of the Southwest. That is the only way I can imagine the sense of violation a Jew must feel as they watch the machinations of Bush and Rice and Olmert.

The following summation of Annapolis, sadly, rings true.

Recently, I suggested that the US Administration reached a separate peace agreement with Iran. According to the US-Iran peace deal, Iran winded down its support for Iraqi guerrillas, and the US guaranteed it won’t bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran made good on its promise, and allowed the US Administration a tactical PR victory of reduced casualties in Iraq. The US Administration waited with fulfilling its part of the game until after the Annapolis peace show. Refusing to attack Iran over its nuclear program earlier would have likely derailed Israeli commitment to the Annapolis peace parley.