[Maxwell I agree with you. It is my view that George Bush is continuing along a path that *ANY* American President will follow into the future and that is to ultimately get rid of Israel – just like they got rid of us whites in Africa – as a political and military force.

It is my view that they’re doing this as a LONG TERM SOLUTION TO BRING PEACE TO THE REGION – and that is the THEORY that their fools in Govt believe will work.

It is like Africa: The theory was that if you got rid of whites there’d be (a) Progress (b) No more war and no conflict.

The reality after the destruction of Colonialism was:-
(a) No more progress any more – in fact wholesale collapse.
(b) There’s no racial conflict but there is MUCH WORSE BLACK on BLACK conflict (which did not exist under Colonial rule). The Black on Black conflict is slaughtering a 1,000 or 10,000 times more blacks than any previous black/white racial conflict.

I believe that Bush and other American leaders and all their “intellectual advisors” believe that the destruction of Israel will solve the problems of the Middle East for once and for all.

I very much doubt that. Look at the “Palestinians” killing each other as Arafat’s lot fight with Hamas.

Israel and the Jews ARE JUST AN EXCUSE FOR WAR BY THE ARABS. Nothing more. Israel and the Jews are no problem nor a threat. The Israelis are a boon to the region and if the region had any brains they’d co-operate with Israel, its scientists and engineers and amazing things would be done. But its the Arabs who want that tiny piece of land that the Jews are living on and are making a great success of.

Its all just jealousy and hate – nothing more. There is no real reasonable excuse for the Arabs not to want to co-exist with the Jews. It was the same with blacks and whites in Africa. Jan]

Maxwell wrote:-
Why the heck are we hammering Israel? How about Hezbollah’s human rights abuses of using Lebanon as a shield so that they can use it as a base of operations and initiate the recent conflict? This is just another disappointment for me with President Bush that he’s no better than Carter or Clinton when it comes to the Middle East “peace process”:

US: Israel Likely Violated Cluster Bomb Agreement During Hezbollah War
January 29, 2007

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a 155mm shells across the Israeli-Lebanese border 12 July 2006
The Bush administration has told Congress that Israel likely violated U.S. arms export agreements with its use of cluster munitions against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon last year. The State Department says a preliminary report on the issue has been sent to Congress. VOA™s David Gollust reports from the State Department.

Reports of Israel™s widespread use of the cluster munitions during the 34-day conflict drew international criticism and triggered a State Department-led investigation, a preliminary report on which has now been sent to relevant committees of the U.S. Congress.

Cluster munitions are anti-personnel weapons, including artillery shells, rockets and gravity bombs, that scatter tiny bomblets over a wide area.

Since the brief war between Israel and Hezbollah ended last August, scores of civilians in southern Lebanon have been killed or wounded by leftover bomblets despite a costly clean-up effort by the United Nations and other agencies.

The precise terms of the agreements under which the United States has provided cluster weapons to Israel are classified, but officials here have said the weapons are not supposed to be used in populated areas, partly because of the lingering risk of unexploded bomblets.

In a talk with reporters, State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said the report on the department™s preliminary investigation of the case was sent to Congress Monday, and that it concludes that Israel probably violated those understandings:

œIt™s a set of preliminary findings. And as I said, the law requires that if after some period of investigation, we believe there was a likely violation of the use agreements, then we send the reports, he said. You can conclude from the fact that we sent the report that there are some questions about it.

McCormack said that Israel has been very responsive and transparent in providing information to investigators on its use of the munitions.

A spokesman for the Israeli embassy in Washington said the weapons were used to counter unprovoked Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli population centers, and that Israel acted as any country would have in self-defense.

Israel says that before firing at suspected rocket launching sites in Lebanese towns, its forces dropped leaflets warning civilians of the attacks.

Spokesman McCormack stressed that the report, prepared by outgoing State Department arms control chief Robert Joseph was not a final judgment. He declined to speculate on what punitive action, if any, might be taken against Israel if a violation is confirmed.

The U.S. government has investigated several complaints of Israeli misuse of American-supplied military hardware over the years.

The Reagan administration imposed a six-year ban on cluster-weapon sales to Israel after a congressional probe found that Israel has used the weapons in civilian areas in its 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

The United States and Israel have also sparred over Israeli sales to China of weapons systems containing U.S.-derived technology. In 2000, the United States blocked a lucrative deal under which Israel was to have sold China an advanced airborne early-warning radar system.

Source: voa
URL: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/01/29/us-israel…/p>