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Beth Goodtree Beth Goodtree is a writer specializing in political commentary, Islamism and the Middle East and also writes the occasional science and humor articles. She has a background in advertising and works as a consultant on Islamism and terrorism to a security firm. Website:
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By Beth Goodtree
April 8, 2005
President Bush, despite pronouncements to the contrary, is showing himself to be no friend of Israel. His plans, voiced through his toady, Condoleezza Rice, calls for Israel to be cut in two, give up her natural resources necessary for survival, be surrounded by hostile enemies, and not to allow for natural growth. And he is demanding that Israel's strengths be given to those bent upon her destruction.
The idea that Bush is hell-bent on turning the state of Israel into two non-viable ghettos leading to pogroms was hammered home to me in his latest pronouncement. He doesn't want Israel to build new housing on land that is clearly her territory: Maaleh Adumim.
Couple that with the announcement recently from Condoleeza Rice that Israel must cede land to make way for the second Palestinian State (the first one being Jordan) to be contiguous at the expense of Israel's contiguity. According to Ms. (Hypocrite) Rice, it is 'not reasonable' to expect the Arabs to have a viable state on non-contiguous pieces of land. However, she has demanded that Israel make itself into two and possibly three non-contiguous ghettos for the sake of the terrorist and murder-inciting Arabs demanding yet a second homeland.
Add to that, the fact that Bush has been forcing Israel to give away pieces of her territory that contain her major agricultural centers and aquifers.
In addition Bush, again through Rice, recently demanded that Israel give up her only defensive deterrent: her nuclear weapons.
What you have left are two (or possibly three) tiny islands of Jews who have limited resources and no defenses in an ocean of murderous enemies. The words 'ghetto' and 'pogrom' come immediately to mind. Curiously, both words have their foundations in the oppression of Jews. The following definitions are from the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
GHETTO: Etymology: Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live, literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr to cast, from Latin jactare to throw.
1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live.
2: a quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure.
3 a: an isolated group.
b: a situation that resembles a ghetto especially in conferring inferior status or limiting opportunity.
POGROM: Etymology: Yiddish, from Russian, literally, devastation: an organized massacre of helpless people; specifically: such a massacre of Jews
It all started with the 'Roadmap' imposed upon Israel by that gang-of-four -- the US, the EU, Russia, and the UN. The Roadmap allows for unlimited expansion by the Arabs but restricts any expansion by Jews in territories retained by Israel in the West Bank. The Roadmap bullies say that the Arabs must be allowed to have 'natural' expansion, but the Jews must not. Already it was starting to sound like they wanted to turn Israel into a restrictive ghetto of limited births and population.
Now, with the non-contiguity being forced upon Israel through Condoleeza Rice, Israel will become two tiny, indefensible islands, ripe for a pogrom -- better known as an organized massacre. Even the Israeli government knows this. Recently, Israel Television Channel Two News reported that Israel is preparing for the rocket attacks that are expected to hit Ashkelon after Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip.
Then there is Bush's idea of pouring hard-earned American tax dollars into helping an entire population of hate-mongering Arabs establish a legitimate base from which to launch their attacks. At the same time he is denying Israel any financial help to turn herself into his dreamed-of Jewish ghetto, ripe for attacking. In effect, Bush wants the Jews to pay for their own destruction, in much the same way that the Germans used the gold fillings, art works, silver and furnishings from Jewish victims to further fuel their genocidal war machine.
According to an Associated Press report, "Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Israel would ask the United States for money to help with the withdrawal. Rice said Tuesday that she was not ready to commit the United States to foot part of the bill."
Yet Bush cannot wait to give the Arabs upwards of a billion dollars to help them make yet another Arab country (and a second Palestinian state) based upon the winked-at democratic values of 'no Jews allowed upon penalty of death.'
And lastly, a warning to Ariel Sharon. In anticipation of his scheduled visit to the president's ranch next week, I wish to remind him of something:
The first time a Jew talked to a 'Bush,' it ended up with the Jewish people forced to wander homeless for 40 years.
Bad enough that the homeland they finally found was surrounded by enemies and the only piece of turf in the entire Middle East that had no oil.
Now the oilman Bush appears burning to take even that away.
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