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<<<<<After decades of abstention, the United States is back in the coup d'état business.>>>> What f*cking universe has this guy been living in for the last 20 years!!! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Steve Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: "Now it's official. Bush is Ariel Sharon's bitch." [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Date sent: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 00:47:18 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------- > > >http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/home/story/ucru/cm_top_top/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=/020627/7/1rho8.html > > DEATH OF A PEACE SALESMAN: > Thu Jun 27, 7:01 PM ET > By Ted Rall > > Bush's Palestinian Putsch > > SAN FRANCISCO-Now it's official. Bush is Ariel Sharon's bitch. > > When the Israeli prime minister began demanding that the Palestinian > Authority jettison Yasser Arafat as its leader a few months back, even > his fans knew he'd crossed the line. Israel was in no position to give > the Palestinians this much advice. Sure, Bush had refused to even shake > Arafat's hand, but the administration hadn't yet endorsed Sharon's > ridiculous bid to beat the Palestinians by turning their leader into an > Israeli puppet. > > "(Washington) is not an honest broker or a neutral intermediary; it > stands completely behind Israel," Hamas politburo member Mousa Abu > Marzouk told Reuters in Damascus on June 10. Then, in a speech > seemingly tailor-made to confirm that intifadist statement, George W. > Bush dangled the possibility of American support for the creation of a > Palestinian state on the West Bank in exchange for Arafat's ouster: > "Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a > Palestinian state can be born," he said on June 24. Presumably that > "new leadership" would be friendly to both American and Israeli > interests. > > After decades of abstention, the United States is back in the coup > d'état business. And with the exception of an embarrassingly inept > attempt to unseat Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez a few months back, > Bush's back-to-the-'50s retro imperialism is working out fairly > well...for now. > > The administration rigged Afghanistan's loya jirga to install > ex-Unocal executive Hamid Karzai as the head of a nation where few > people had ever heard of him. It converted former Taliban cabana boy > Gen. Pervez Musharraf into our wholly-owned Pakistani subsidiary. And > it owes its own existence to the first successful domestic coup d'état > in American history. Why not, regime tinkerers Rumsfeld and Cheney > obviously asked themselves, pull off a Palestinian putsch too? > > The Palestinians could obviously do better than Mohammed Abdel-Raouf > Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. A once-brilliant, charismatic tactician > whose leadership of the PLO forced the West to consider Palestinian > independence, 73 years of hard living and Israeli shelling have reduced > Arafat to a quivering wreck tottering on the brink of senility. Though > Israel has exaggerated the generosity of the deal he turned down over > the Jerusalem issue, Arafat clearly failed to understand that the > favorable tide of Western opinion had crested. He should have signed up > then and later asked for more-East Jerusalem, a corridor connecting > Gaza to the West Bank. > > Arafat's undemocratic moderation has become both too strident for the > West and too soft for his increasingly radicalized people. But he's all > they've got. He's the Palestinians' George Washington, a military > leader striving to carve out a state which will someday stamp his > googly-eyed image on its coins and stamps. At this point his possible > successors-Mahmoud Abbas, Ahmed Korei, Jibril Rajoub, Mohammed > Dahlan-just aren't popular enough to run this landlocked hellhole. > Marwan Barghouthi, a popular Fatah leader currently in jail, wouldn't > be acceptable to Israel. An independent Palestine can do without > Arafat, but only after he's served one term leading to a free election. > > > But none of that matters. If another nation attempted to topple > George W. Bush, I would be the first to fight to defend my country from > foreign interference. Illegitimate and harmful though Bush obviously > is, it's up to Americans to decide whether he should stay in office. > The same goes for the Palestinians. Getting rid of Arafat may be a good > decision, but it has to be a Palestinian decision; neither the U.S. or > Israel has the right to impose new leadership. Certainly neither > country has the moral authority to do so. > > George W. Bush has made it official: He'll go along with whatever > Ariel Sharon wants him to do, no matter how immoral, impractical or > insane. Wait a minute. Who's paying who $3 billion a year, anyway? Bad > enough we toady up to a country we ought to own, but now the U.S. no > longer bothers to give even lip service to the principles of national > sovereignty and self-determination-especially in regard to Muslim > countries next to or on top of major oil reserves. Yeah, yeah, yeah. > We're the biggest, baddest bully on the block right now, but look > out-the people we're stomping on in Pakistan, Afghanistan and now, > Palestine, will be waiting to get even with us down the road. > ____________________ > (Ted Rall's new book, a graphic travelogue about his recent coverage of > the Afghan war titled "To Afghanistan and Back," is out now. Ordering > and review-copy information are available at <http://www.nbmpub.com>) > > > ===== > Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace. Weekly peace walks around Lake Merritt >in Oakland. For directions & > public transportation info go to > http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP/where_when.htm > Every Sunday at 3 P.M. Info: (510)763-8712, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or >http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > --------------------------- > ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST > > --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
