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Israelis
prepare to vote; Palestinians prepare to fight
by Khaled Abu Toameh
• March 16, 2015 at 5:00 am
For some
Palestinians, the election is not about removing Netanyahu from power.
Rather, it is about removing Israel from the face of the earth and replacing
it with an Islamist empire.
Kerry's
statement about the revival of the peace process shows that he remains
oblivious to the reality in the Middle East, particularly with regards to the
Palestinians.
Kerry is
ignoring the fact that the Palestinians are today divided into two camps; one
that wants to destroy Israel through terrorism and jihad and another that is
working hard to delegitimize and isolate Israel with the hope of forcing it
to its knees.
As Kerry
was talking about the revival of the peace process, Hamas announced that it
has completed preparations for the next confrontation with Israel.
Abbas
will come to the talks with the same demands he and his predecessor have made
over the past two decades, namely a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967
lines. And when Israel does not accept all his demands, he will again walk
out and demand international intervention to impose a solution on Israel.
Talk
about the resumption of the peace process is nothing but a silly joke.
As Israeli voters head to the ballot boxes to elect their new
representatives, Palestinians say they are preparing for another war with
Israel.
The preparations came even as US Secretary of State John Kerry and some
Israeli candidates, especially Zionist Camp leaders Isaac Herzog and Tzipi
Livni, continue to talk about the need to revive the Israeli-Palestinian
peace process after the election.
For some Palestinians, the election is not about removing Likud leader
Binyamin Netanyahu from power. Rather, it is about removing Israel from the
face of the earth and replacing it with an Islamist empire.
Why Did Russia
Invade Ukraine?
by Peter Huessy
• March 16, 2015 at 4:00 am
Stephen
M. Walt is apparently trying to clinch his case: that President Ronald
Reagan's supposedly illegal war in Nicaragua established a precedent, which,
some 35 years later, Russia's Vladimir Putin simply followed by invading
Ukraine.
Walt's
thesis has it exactly backwards. Putin is not channeling Reagan. Putin is
channeling is former Communist bosses Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko.
The
Soviet invasion of the Americas was not done to protect the hemisphere from
harm. The Sandinistas in Nicaragua were full Soviet and Cuban proxies seeking
the overthrow of a number of sovereign nations in Central and South America,
including El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Colombia.
The
Soviet campaign of terror then was launched precisely to change governments
so that various countries would become Soviet allies.
The
government of Ukraine posed no military threat to Moscow. The
"threat" from Ukraine is that its democratic character might
"infect" the Russian people.
Putin
invades Ukraine. On cue, Walt blames America.
Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt, in "What Putin Learned From
Reagan," complains that the United States has only itself to blame for
President Vladimir Putin's aggression against Ukraine. The professor notes,
"Russia's power play for Ukraine takes a page out of the Gipper's
playbook," and that Putin's "conduct is not that different from the
actions of venerated leaders like Ronald Reagan."
Walt's thesis is that America's support during the Reagan administration
for the democratic resistance in Nicaragua, popularly known as "the
contras," although unwarranted, was emblematic of what "big
powers" such as America do.
He ridicules the idea that there was a threat from a group of
"ragtag Sandinistas" in Nicaragua. Nicaragua, Walt explains, was a
"tiny country, with hardly any military capability of its own" and
at best of miniscule value "as a possible Soviet base."
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