no longer FLIP-FLOPS -- now it's a "policy shift"

[radfringe]

Bush Backs Israel on West Bank
In Policy Shift, President Says Some Disputed Settlements Should Remain
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13124-2004Apr14.html
By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 15, 2004; Page A01


President Bush yesterday endorsed Israel's claim to parts of the West Bank seized in the 1967 Middle East war and asserted that Palestinian refugees cannot expect to return to their homes inside Israel, an explicit shift in U.S. policy immediately attacked by Palestinian political leaders

Standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the White House, Bush said it would be "unrealistic" to return to the region's prewar boundaries, affirming that some large Israeli settlements long considered illegal by American and international diplomats would be allowed to remain.

Bush stopped short of specifying which settlements Israel could keep, but, in publicly backing an Israeli strategy developed without Palestinian input, he set aside years of U.S. policy that deemed the West Bank settlements obstacles to peace in the region. The shape of the border and the fate of refugees were to be settled in final negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

[REP]

1. Ah, Shit

Trust Asswipe to find a way to make a bad situation worse.

I have no specific ideas on what should be done to end the horror and tragedy for both sides, but I sure as hell know that Asshole making this statement was not a step in the right direction for either side.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. He's declaring war on Palestinians with that

All hope will be dashed now. If the Palestinians were not already desperate, at least they thought that perhaps they might appeal to the International community and the US's alleged need to appear compassionate. They just received a big FUCK YOU from Bush so now there will be no hope until after the US elections, and perhaps not even then.

I say this is proof that he and Sharon are working together to foment violence in the region and perhaps it also exposes their common desire to kill their perceived enemies off as quickly as possible - flush them out, mow them down. It's comparible to Hitler's final solution and the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII, IMHO. Wall them off, make them illegal, move them around, work them till they drop and find an efficient way to dispose of those that don't make it.

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