Bush under fire over Sharon invitation

[JoFerret]

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2709796

Thank-you Gerald Kaufman

<<A senior Jewish MP today launched an attack on US President George Bush’s decision to invite Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the White House.

The invitation amounted to a “presidential seal of approval” for Sharon’s Likud Government, which was responsible for “indiscriminate” killings of Palestinians, said Mr Kaufman.

He called for economic sanctions against Israel to bring Likud to the negotiating table.

Speaking today at the Rusholme branch of the Labour Party in Manchester, Mr Kaufman said: “By inviting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the White House, President George W. Bush has given his presidential seal of approval to Israel’s Likud government

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[jpgray]

1. Clearly Kaufman is an anti-Semite... hey wait a minute!

:D

[Zhade]

8. HAHAHAHA! Good one!

It's like Israel's ambassador to Sweden telling me that the International Solidarity Movement is anti-Semitic...when a large number of ISM members are Jews or Israelis! :eyes:

Besides, anti-Semitism extends to all of Semitic origin. That includes, to the chagrin of those who use it as an attack, Arabs of Semitic origin. D'oh!

:D

25. actually

I just discovered the other day that while Semitic means Arabs, Jews etc. Anti-semitics is only anti-jewish. Strange but true. Check this out.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=semite&x=9&y=13
Main Entry: Sem·ite
Pronunciation: 'se-"mIt, esp British 'sE-"mIt
Function: noun
Etymology: French sémite, from Semitic Shem, from Late Latin, from Greek SEm, from Hebrew ShEm
1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs b : a descendant of these peoples
2 : a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language


http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
Main Entry: an·ti-Sem·i·tism
Pronunciation: "an-ti-'se-m&-"ti-z&m, "an-"tI-
Function: noun
: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
- an·ti-Se·mit·ic /-s&-'mi-tik/ adjective
- an·ti-Sem·ite /-'se-"mIt/ noun

[Broadslidin]

2. Feeding The Fires Of Hatred Against The U.S.

Why does this question continue to incubate in my mind?

Will our leader find it necessary to declare martial law
before November?

[Judi Lynn]

3. This should be special....

A chance to see _Bush as a major world figure, capable of statesman-like functions:

The White House announced on Friday that a long-mooted meeting between Bush and Sharon would take place on April 14 and cover “the war on terror and the search for Israeli-Palestinian peace”.

The session is scheduled two days after Bush is to welcome Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to his Texas ranch. A week later, on April 21, Bush will meet Jordan’s King Abdullah at the White House.

[susu369]

4. Wonder if Condoliesalot will be at meeting

since Sharon "finds it difficult to concentrate on what National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice says because she has 'nice legs'."

No, I did not make that up!

[DulceDecorum]

6. Consider Condoleeza's legs a national treasure?

Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon once mentioned that he finds it difficult to concentrate on what National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice says because she has "nice legs." Members of the 'if you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em' school of diplomacy might, for this reason, consider Condoleeza's legs a national treasure. I, however, would just as soon see them kept covered — as a gesture of respect both to her and to Sharon.
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2001/04/24/opinion/3026.shtml

In the words of the immortal David Chappelle,
"mmm mmm bitch."

[Joanne98]

5. I hate Sharon I hope he gets protested.........

PIG GO HOME

[smartass]

7. Israelis supports him cause he's not a pussy and he's not gonna

back down to Arafat and Hamas terrorism. I like Ariel!!

And so what if he thinks Condi has nice legs, he's a man with needs.

[Zhade]

9. Agreed. He's no pussy.

Just a murdering war criminal, but gosh no he's not a coward.

Except, of course, morally.

(I expect this will be locked and moved to I/P pretty fast.)

[BeHereNow]

10. Facts- Not Opinions- "IfAmericansKnew.org"

"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the
world’s major sources of instability.

Americans are directly connected to this
conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its
devastation.

It is the goal of If Americans Knew to provide
full and accurate information on this critical
issue, and on our power and duty
to bring a resolution.
Below are charts of eight little known statistics.
Please click on any statistic for the source and more information."

Please visit and read the statistics link here:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

BHN

[cloudSeven]

12. ifamericansknew.org lets the suicude bombers off the hook

What a disgusting site.

[IndianaGreen]

17. It's the Occupation, stupid!

Get out of the West Bank, Golan, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, and you might make a case about poor little bloody Israel being an innocent victim. You can't make that case for as long as there is an Occupation.

[cloudSeven]

20. No excuse for terrorism

None. Nada.

[IndianaGreen]

23. The Occupation is terrorism

End the Occupation and build the wall on the Green Line, and terrorism will end (from both sides).

[ParanoidPat]

26. Have to agree with you there! Why does Israel continue to engage in it?

Why does Israel continue to ignore more UN resolutions than even Saddam Husein and still have credibility with this administration as opposed to being invaded by the US for a forced regime change?
There's a reason 'collective punishment' has been outlawed worldwide as part of the Geneva Conventions so why do they continue to engage in it?
Sharon and his ilk are indeed terrorists and I sincerely hope Israel rids herself of them for their own sake and the sake of their children. :evilfrown:

[cloudSeven]

27. Sharon will leave when the terrorists stop their terror

The terrorists started the hate and they will end it or die.

[IndianaGreen]

28. Sharon is the biggest terrorist in the region

Once the slob joins Slobo at The Hague, peace and justice will reign again!

[cloudSeven]

29. I must disagree

If Sharon was blowing up busses and trying to kill innocents then your words may hold water but it's the Pali-terrorists that are targeting innocents.

[dax]

30. So why does Israel assassinate or mow down a village when shooting stops?

Professor Niva at Evergreen has charted suicide bombings since they began in 1994-he says whenever there is a ceasefire, Israel either assassinates someone or bulldozes some houses, followed by a suicide bombing. There is evidence -I read along time ago I don't have a link-that Mossad set up Hizbollah to contain terrorists in an organization they had control over and it got out of hand. Maybe even some of their agents changed sides, I am not sure (kind of like Al Quaida!). Anyway they deliberately provoke bombing to keep the base energized. They deliberately push every boundary to elicit sympathy from other countries and demonize the Palestinians. I am not anti-semitic but the policies that maintain the lack of peace are on both sides. If Israel quit farming like agribusiness they wouldn't need the water on the Palestinian land. If they found industries that didn't require so much oil, and lived more consistently with the environment in stead of trying to make the desert like New York City, they could peacefully co-exist. WHen you take land people have lived with for generations, and offer no alternative, no jobs, no place to live and work or raise kids, you create the kind of desperation that leads to terrorism. Religious lands that belong to more than one religion must be shared. period. having been displaced doesnt entitle a people to displace others.

[ParanoidPat]

31. Sharon is a war criminal as is Bush*.....

.....and you fool no one here! :evilgrin:

You ever hear that two wrongs don't make a right?

I do hope President Kerry uses the precedent set in Haiti to invade Israel and depose their despotic, lawless regime due to their actually having WMD's, (nukes) their having stated that they will kill Americans on American soil, their repeated espionage against the government of the United States and their continued use of terrorism against other countries.

It seems to me that the Palestinians were there on that land long before Israel was created by the UN or did I miss something? :shrug:

To me it's a case of "it all started when he hit me back!" ;-)

[BeHereNow]

24. Rather than resort to rhetorical dismissals

which, by the way, is a right wing radio talk show host
technique to try and invalidate opposing viewpoints,
please explain why the site is disgusting to you and what
you think the statistics given there show?
BHN

[IndianaGreen]

13. Sharon is another butcher like the ones we fought against during WWII

Sharon is murderous creature from Hades itself, that should be sharing a cell with Milosevic.

Shame on Bush for inviting that pig to the White House.

[cloudSeven]

11. How do you feel about arafat and hamas?

pig go home or worse?

[IndianaGreen]

19. Perhaps G_d will do us all a favor and make Sharon's plane

disappear into the Bermuda Triangle. Then we could watch "The Disappearance of Sharon's Flight" together with "The Disappearance of Flight 19" on the History Channel.


Flight 19

[Scurrilous]

14. Sharon Visit Marred By Prospect Of Indictment

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2004/march/03_29_1.html

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"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's efforts to win U.S. support for an Israeli unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip appears jeopardized by plans for his indictment on bribery charges.

Israeli officials said Sharon could be forced to cancel his visit to the United States and even resign from office if a formal recommendation for his indictment is released over the next few weeks. On April 14, Sharon has scheduled a meeting with President George Bush in Washington.

"Once there is an indictment, it's all over," a senior Israeli official said. "The question is whether Sharon can postpone any formal recommendation until after the Bush meeting."

Israeli media outlets reported that a state prosecution team has decided to indict Sharon on bribery charges. They said the recommendation must be approved by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, who will begin his examination this week."

[IndianaGreen]

18. Hopefully Sharon will be indicted, and Bush is impeached

and then we can get the right person in the White House who will spend the next 4 years cleaning up the mess that was made in the last four.

I can't imagine a President Kerry being as stupid and insensitive as to invite the criminal Sharon to the White House.

[myomy]

15. Liars and crooks seem to hang together.

.

[IndianaGreen]

16. Bush and Sharon are both murderers of innocent civilians

They should both be prosecuted for war crimes.

My question is, after Bush kisses Sharon's ass, who else will?

[The Zanti Regent]

22. You know the answer

The American Whore Press will line up right behind Bush to kiss Sharon's ass!

[peacetalksforall]

21. See, Barbara is right...George doesn't read the papers....he

doesn't know about the push to impeach Sharon for corruption.