The Dancing Bear

[Violet_Crumble]

by Uri Avnery
February 25, 2004

"And so it will continue, until Sharon gets tired of this act, too. Then he will invent a new one. After all, the main thing is for the bear to keep on dancing."

Once upon a time there was a popular kind of street show: a bear would dance for the amusement of passers by, who would throw coins into his box. The bear was big and frightening, but his clumsy movements made people laugh. He was much stronger than his master, who kept him on a chain, but submitted to him completely. A wonder to behold.

The national symbol of the United States is the eagle. The bear, as everybody knows, is the national symbol of Russia. But looking at the Sharon-Bush relationship, it is the old master-and-bear show that inevitably springs to mind.

Ariel Sharon plays games with the American bear. He makes him dance, jump, lie down and get up again, turn around and perform somersaults, much to the amusement of the Israeli public.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=22&ItemID=5041

[I AM SPARTACUS]

1. hmm...once in a conversation with Joycelyn Elders...

(former US Surgeon General)...she described a situation to be "like slow-dancing with a bear...you can't stop until the bear wants you to stop."

[JasonDeter]

2. I get so much amusement reading these stories

The stories are all different but they all have the same theme, "The Rock Blaming The Glass For Breaking."

And this is priceless revisionist history:

(Never mind that the 1947 UN resolution establishing Israel included this, (this being: "Two States for Two Peoples") and that Israeli and Palestinian peace activists had been preaching this idea for decades. The bear's brain works slowly, and, as the saying goes, better late than never.)

Uh, excuse me but the Arab people walked away from that deal leaving the poor Palestinian people as usual helpless and hopeless. But thats the modus operadi of the wealthy Arab's isn't it?

How tiring to keep hearing the Arab's and those who a l w a y ' s blame Israel for making them make such lousy choices! LOL! And not one mention of arafat in the failed Arab policy re: Israel in this whole fairytale. Amazing.

[packerssuck]

3. I guess that the Saudis, Egyptians, Iraq under Sadaam, Arab league etc.

have no roles to play in the failure to bring peace to the region. You know, there was no peace before Sharon. Arafat made sure of that.