Press examine US-Israel difference

[Colorado Blue]

Oh - good stuff!

"The discussions at the Bush farm highlighted the gap between Israel, where there is still a debate over the withdrawal from Gaza, and the rest of the world, which is already anticipating the next withdrawal. The talk about terrorist infrastructures on the Palestinian side is barely heard, if at all... That gap is worrisome. It raises the question of why Sharon even bothered to make the trip. What did he expect to achieve there?... Bush is from Mars, Sharon is from Venus."*

Aluf Benn in Israel's Haaretz

{*Listen, everything's relative:)!}

Uh oh - see below:

"The discord between Bush and Sharon shows that the latter will not succumb to the former. Thus, any solution in the region must not depend on US pressure on Israel but rather on the regional leaders themselves. Egypt could play an important role in this that might start with deploying its forces on the Egyptian- Palestinian border."

Hani Habib in Palestinian Al-Ayyam

more...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4439775.stm

[Democrats_win]

1. Birds of a feather....Treacherous liars, spillers of innocent blood.

[Coastie for Truth]

2. There's treachery and lying - but you got it wrong

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x89261#89275

Buoyed by high oil prices, ExxonMobil Corp. had a record-breaking year in 2004 and chairman and chief executive, Lee R. Raymond, shared in the company's success with a $38 million compensation package.

ExxonMobil, the largest U.S. oil company, disclosed Wednesday that Raymond, 66, was paid $7.5 million in salary and bonus plus restricted stock worth $28 million and nearly $2.6 million more in other compensation and incentives

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1392201

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D89EKD1G1.html

ExxonMobil CEO Lee R. Raymond and TexacoChevron CEO David O'Reilly are the problem, as is George Walker Bush and his buddie Saudi Prince Bandar. See House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties by Craig Unger.

Caterpillar, Abbas, Sharon - mere bit players - and the Palestinian people and the Israeli people - the proletariat - the REAL victims - are small players in a horrible giga-Euro, giga-Dollar, giga-barrel, game of "Petroleum Politics", pawns on the sidelines of "Petroleum Politics" playing the hands they were dealt 90 years ago by the Sykes-Picot Agreement (which deliberately screwed the Lebanese, the Israelis, and the Palestinians for generations -- all for "Petroleum Power Politics" and "Balance of Power" and British hegemony in the Eastern Mediterranean).

Again, read Engdahl, A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order.

[Colorado Blue]

3. Coastie is right. We need to keep looking at the big picture.

We need to look at the GLOBAL geo-political situation, at all the big players involved, as well as the historical perspective on these issues.

And, we need to look behind the scenes. The more you study it, the more you start seeing a pattern involving two essential factors: geographical location and oil.

There's an article I added elsewhere in this forum, attached to an article put up by Newyorican, subject antisemitism.

The link concerns Central Asia, and is fascinating because it illuminates the shadow wars, little incidents fueled - the author surmises - by Saudi Arabia. The motive? To prevent a pipeline that would carry Central Asian oil either west, to the Mediterranean, or south, through India.

Either way there is a lot going on here. And NONE of us, involved as we are in the use of oil and the enjoyment of American power and security, is innocent.

And by the way, "shedders of innocent blood" would apply equally well to the terrorists, and to the perpetrators of all the wars which have been raging in this region - for decades. What we see now is merely the continuation of a very long play, with little people and little countries, the victims.

Now they've kidnapped a local guy, a man with four kids, in Iraq. His crime? He's an American, working to rebuild Iraq.