“No one should have been surprised by President Bush’s let-Israel-fight policy in the current Middle East conflict. Bush is consistent. The essentials of his approach to Israel and its enemies were adopted four years ago when the president ostracized then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and called for democracy and reform in the Arab countries. Bush’s policy is pro-Israel in that it is based on his belief that Israel wants peace with its neighbors, but some of them don’t want peace with Israel. So Israel stands on higher moral ground Of course for Bush and those who make it their profession to engage in apologetics for his regime, such as Barnes and his ilk, terms like “democracy”, “reform” and “peace” bear little resemblance to most dictionary definitions. The “higher moral ground” on which Israel stands in the conflict with Lebanon is littered with corpses..
2006-08-04
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