The reference in the title shouldn’t require much clarification, but let me just give you a brief reminder that a week can be a very long time in international politics.
Less than a week ago, George W. Bush gave a speech to Knesset during his tour of the Middle-East (the main purpose of the tour was to beg for more Saudi oil production, a request that was rebuffed). Bush made controversial remarks that caused quite an uproar.
WHEN HE hinted to the Israeli Knesset this week that Barack Obama was an appeaser for being willing to talk to Iran, President Bush broke an unwritten rule against partisan politicking on foreign shores. He also displayed confusion about his own policies – and about the cause of his calamitous foreign policy failures.
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“Some seem to believe,” Bush told the Knesset, “that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.” He was comparing unnamed appeasers of today to isolationists who thought they could negotiate with Nazi Germany and keep the United States out of World War II. Bush implied that Obama would be just that naive.
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And now, look; see what those traitorous, appeasing Israeli politicians are up to! Their Prime Minister, no less.
Olmert confirms peace talks with Syria
Israel and Syria are holding indirect peace talks, with Turkey acting as a mediator, a spokesman for Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, confirmed for the first time today.
Both countries have “indicated they want to lead these negotiations in a serious spirit so as to reach a comprehensive peace agreement”, Olmert’s spokesman said.
The brief statement marks the first official confirmation from Israel that it is talking to Syria again over the tangled issue of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in the 1967 war.
This must be treason! There are talks ongoing “in good faith and openly”. This can’t possibly be good, it may result in a peace agreement. More than 40 years of a state of war between Israel and Syria may go down the drain.
Israel confirms talks with Syria
Israel says it is holding indirect talks with Syria to reach a comprehensive peace agreement.
A statement by the Israeli prime minister’s office said both sides were talking “in good faith and openly”.
The statement is the first official confirmation of reports in recent months of Turkish-mediated talks.
And that’s not all! You all know that the Middle-East is full of traitors, and look now what those ungrateful Lebanese we helped get democratically elected a couple of years ago are up to:
Lebanon rivals agree crisis deal
Rival Lebanese leaders have reached agreement on steps to end the political deadlock that has led to the worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war.
The agreement brokered by Arab states covers the formation of a new national unity government and electoral reforms. It paves the way for parliament to elect a new president, a position that has been empty since last November.
Correspondents say the deal is a major triumph for the opposition Hezbollah, whose key demands were met.
In a speech at the ceremony in the Qatari capital Doha to sign the agreement, Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said it was an exceptional agreement for an exceptional time.
Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh said there were “no losers” under the deal.
What’s the world coming to?
Sorry for the snark!
Olmert warns of Syria concessions
painful concessions sound like good news to me. A sign of substantive negotiations that make progress.
Don’t forget the Iraq Study Group. The Poland of the Coalition of Appeasement needs some love too.
If we’re not too careful, peace will break out all over.
the funniest part about this news is not only that Israel is now an appeaser, but the US is as well. After all, A senior official in Mr. Olmert’s office, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the talks with Syria and the decision to make them public had been coordinated and agreed with the United States.
Someone get George and John an umbrella.
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(TIME) – At the sun-bleached airport, [U.S. President George] Bush was greeted with the Gulf’s signature mix of garish oil wealth and tinpot amateurism. A large retinue of royalty watched as a band played an off-key version of the U.S. national anthem. George Bush walked through the cavernous air terminal to his motorcade and drove to the monarch’s “farm” at al Janadriyah. Through the enormous gates and along alleys of dying shrubs and trees fed by miles of futile drip hoses, he made his way to the King’s “villa,” a marble-clad, poured concrete palace. Through a foyer with a statue of a cheetah felling an antelope and anterooms full of attendants, Bush strolled deep into Abdullah’s inner sanctum, past the portly King’s private exercise pool, his Stair-Master and his “Vibromass” anti-cellulite belt-massager, to his personal study, where a console of 24 small TVs filled one wall and two overstuffed chairs coddled the leaders.
It was there, after much pomp and circumstance, that Bush made his request. And it was there that the King still said no. That was the sum result, anyway, of Bush’s efforts to ease your gas bills on his visit to Saudi Arabia.
Putin and Bush at St. Petersburg …
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."ewwwwwwwww
I can’t remember if I’ve ever troll rated a post, but for this I might have to make an exception. Not because I disagree with it, but because now I’m going to have to go to the bathroom and bleach my eyeballs.
Yup! That is one ugly, nauseating image…