arri
| | Joined: 10/5/2005
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| | Tell Your Senator: Don’t Sign the AIPAC LetterPage 1 of 1 | AIPAC is currently holding its annual policy conference in D.C. and 4,000 members are about to flood Congressional offices to lobby on behalf of a nasty anti-Palestinian letter addressed to Sec. of State Rice.
"AIPAC is asking senators to sign a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The letter, which urges Rice to maintain and expand sanctions against the Palestinian Authority, is expected to be one of the central "asks" Tuesday, when AIPAC supporters come to the Hill in conjunction with the annual AIPAC policy conference. Senators Nelson (D-FL) and Ensign (R-NV) are circulating the letter.
The letter's key request of Secretary Rice, buried in the fifth paragraph:
We urge you to continue to hold firm and insist that these very basic international principles do not change - no direct aid and no contacts with any members of a Palestinian Authority that does not explicitly and unequivocally recognize Israel's right to exist, renounce terror, and accept previous agreements.
With this "ask," Senators will be on the record urging the Administration to cut off all contact with President Abbas and any other Fatah members (or independents) that become part of a future Palestinian national unity government. Once Members of Congress are “on record” with this demand, they will find it difficult to oppose efforts to turn this non-binding letter into law.
At a time when there is growing recognition in Congress that engagement - even with objectionable partners - is vital to U.S. national security interests in the Middle East and around the world, it makes no sense for the Senate to urge a wholesale U.S. boycott of contacts with longtime Palestinian interlocutors who recognize Israel, reject violence and terror, and are clearly committed to trying to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace based on two states living side by side in peace and with security.
This is bad policy and should be rejected, both in this letter and in any subsequent legislation that might follow.
Please contact your Senators. Urge them to refuse to sign this letter in its current form. | |
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| Tell Your Senator: Don’t Sign the AIPAC Letter
Posted: 3/12/2007 10:09:39 PM |
We urge you to continue to hold firm and insist that these very basic international principles do not change - no direct aid and no contacts with any members of a Palestinian Authority that does not explicitly and unequivocally recognize Israel's right to exist, renounce terror, and accept previous agreements.
This is obviously addressed to holding firm with Hamas, and I see Nothing different or wrong with it!
Same ole, same ole....nothing new here at all! | |
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arri
| | Joined: 10/5/2005
Msg: 4 | |
| Tell Your Senator: Don’t Sign the AIPAC Letter
Posted: 3/13/2007 8:33:54 AM | There is a lot different and wrong with this.
First of all, recognition of Israel's right to exist and renouncing terror is just the window dressing. The acceptance of previous agreements is main issue and this is diplomacy through starvation.
A US law that would boycott the entire Palestinian Authority has only one aim. Fracture the Palestinian unity government and entice a civil war, that is the aim of the Israelis anyway. Over the past year, Israel and US shipped 6000 rifles and funnelled millions to Fatah just to do that.
The middle east is not the same anymore and this unity government was brokered by the Saudis. As a result, it has the patronage of the Saudis. Saudis have a trillion dollars of America's debt and planning on spending 650 Billion in new infrastructure investments. That gives the Saudis a big leverage.
This bill will force the Saudis the break from the status qua of siding with US/Israel policies as they have in the past. Arab honor will force them to insure the continuation of Palestinian unity government and that would only bring them closer to the Iranians.
Half the problems in Iraq are the result of US disjointed foreign policy anyway. | |
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| Tell Your Senator: Don’t Sign the AIPAC Letter
Posted: 3/13/2007 2:17:24 PM |
There is a lot different and wrong with this.
First of all, recognition of Israel's right to exist and renouncing terror is just the window dressing. The acceptance of previous agreements is main issue and this is diplomacy through starvation.
Window dressing? The peace and of Israel is Nothing? It is the refusal of Hamas to follow past peace agreements and recognise Israel that is Starving the Palestinian people! How hard can it be to note that Israel does in fact Exist?
Many Arab governments have already crossed that invisible line into the 21st Century..
A US law that would boycott the entire Palestinian Authority has only one aim. Fracture the Palestinian unity government and entice a civil war, that is the aim of the Israelis anyway. Over the past year, Israel and US shipped 6000 rifles and funnelled millions to Fatah just to do that.
There Is No "Unity Government" to fracture, because of Hamas Denial of said "Window Dressing" that is halting Money-flow back into Palestine.
Plainly, The US and Israel are Backing Fatah and also sending a message to the Palestinian voters and Hamas, that Time is running out! The Israelis have better sense than to arm an Enemy, and I see no secret plan to inflame a Civil war, but I do see an attempt to prop up Fatah, which IS for long-term Peace with Israel.
Obviously Israel is willing to chance those weapons being turned against themselves in order to assure the balance of power stays with the peace-makers, not the anti-Israel radicals.
This is an Internal Palestinian problem that Must be handled by themselves.. Would you rather Israel Invaded to do it themselves?
Finally Israel and the US are trying a different approach, and the Saudis are acting as mediators, but are also weary of Hamas Stonewalling and acting like children.
Its time for new elections and hopefully the people have learned better than supporting Terrorists.
Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran share the agenda of destroying Israel, and it ain't gonna happen! Its past-time for those groups to join the world. | |
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arri
| | Joined: 10/5/2005
Msg: 6 | |
| Tell Your Senator: Don’t Sign the AIPAC Letter
Posted: 3/13/2007 4:20:46 PM | @ countryslim0
Don't fall for the sound bites. Try to connect the dots.
All I am saying is that "This is a bad deal for the United States"
Like I said, middle east is not the same as it was 5 years ago and we are slowly learning that religion has become "highly politicized". The Saudis don't want sectarian violence to spread and the new king is smart enough to know when their own survival is at stake.
Larijani (Condoleeza Rice of Iran) had been going back and forth to Saudi Arabia for weeks prior to fatah/Hamas meeting with the king to cement the Palestinian unity government deal. The deal in Lebanon is made too. They'll have their unity government too. Even my Lebanese butcher knows. He told me the Iranians told the Syrians to shut up and take it. Then Ahmadinejad shows up in Saudi Arabia to hold hands and exchange a couple of wet kisses with the king. Then the Hamas leader shows up in Tehran to thank the iranians and get a public grantee for funding. Fatah and hamas are one now with fatah under the Saudi patronage and Hamas under the Iranian.
This bill will force the Saudi to take sides and they can't afford to take the US's side this time, and that wouldn't be a good thing.
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| Tell Your Senator: Don’t Sign the AIPAC Letter
Posted: 3/13/2007 4:23:23 PM | (Msg. 5) countryslim01 wrote:
<div class="quote">Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran share the agenda of destroying Israel, and it ain't gonna happen! Its past-time for those groups to join the world.When making such "off the wall" statements it's in the best interest of the thread for you to list a source ...
PLEASE ... give fellow thread posters a good "site" in which they can read how HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, and IRAN are "planning" to destroy Israel.
This ought to be interesting.
OT ...
I will be glad to send a letter to my Senators here in Florida ... this kind of stuff just has to stop if we don't want still another civil war in the Middle East. | |
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