So United States President George Bush tears up the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan and that's okay. Israeli settlements for Jews and Jews only on the West Bank. That's okay. Taking land from Palestinians who have owned that land for generations, that's okay.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 says that land cannot be acquired by war. Forget it. That's okay. What does this mean? That Bush cares more about his re-election than he does about the Middle East? Or that Bush is more frightened of the Israeli lobby than he is of his own electorate? Fear not, it is the latter.
His language, his narrative, his discourse on history, has been such a lie these past three weeks that I wonder why we bother to listen to his boring press conferences. Ariel Sharon, the perpetrator of the Sabra and Chatila massacre (1 700 Palestinian civilians dead), is a "man of peace" - even though the official 1993 Israeli report on the massacre said he was "personally responsible" for it.
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Now Bush is praising Sharon's plan to steal yet more Palestinian land as a "historic and courageous act".
Heaven spare us all Heaven spare us all. Give up the puny illegal Jewish settlements in Gaza and everything's okay: the theft of land by colonial settlers, the denial of any right of return to Israel by those Palestinians who live there, that's okay.
Bush, who claimed he changed the Middle East by invading Iraq, says he is now changing the world by invading Iraq! Okay! Is there no one to cry "Stop! Enough!"?
A few nights ago, Bush, talked about "freedom in Iraq". Not "democracy" in Iraq. No, "democracy" was no longer mentioned. "Democracy" was simply left out of the equation.
Now it was just "freedom" - freedom from Saddam rather than freedom to have elections. And what is this "freedom" supposed to involve? One group of US-appointed Iraqis will cede power to another group of US-appointed Iraqis.
Is Bush a criminal? Can he be charged with abetting a criminal act?
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