The U.S. Secretary of State fancies himself as a Winston Churchill when, in fact, there is a closer analogy with Neville Chamberlain.
skip
The Powell belief system reinforces the State Department's essence that the United States must be an "honest broker." This reduces America to the status of referee at a boxing match, although in this particular fight, we are not dealing with two equally moral players who follow the same rules or have the same goals. The truth is that the present Palestinians are made up of largely anti-American, pro-terrorist people led by the founder of modern terrorism Yasser Arafat, versus the Israelis who represent a struggling democracy modeled after America. Of course these two groups must be treated differently, despite the EU rhetoric.
Powell has embraced a European mentality that Jews not be permitted to fight terrorism in the same manner as everyone else. There must be a "negotiated" cease-fire with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and al Aqsa. And if Jews dare kill terrorist leaders, that will somehow hinder peace talks. Powell and Straw are the immoral diplomatic twins, who truly behave in a similar manner. When Syria lashed out at Powell for his comments about their harboring Iraqis, the American "statesman" was speechless. Jack Straw could suddenly find no words for Iran when they raked him over the coals recently. A deafening silence by two leaders who usually love to hear themselves.
http://www.jewsweek.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El512&enZone=Opinions&enVersion=0&He is a problem. I will leave it at that.