The American Government has abandoned its arab citizens

US warns Palestinian Americans of delays in Israel

State Department says Israeli authorities may question US Palestinians on arrival in Jewish state, require them to obtain PA travel documents. US Arab groups: Bush administration saying in effect that Arab Americans are second-class citizens

Israeli authorities may question Palestinian Americans on arrival in Israel and require them to obtain a Palestinian Authority travel documents, the US State Department said on Wednesday.

The comments drew quick criticism from an Arab American group that argued the Bush administration was acquiescing in Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Americans as second-class US citizens.
“American citizens whom Israeli authorities judge may be of Palestinian origin are likely to face additional, and often time consuming, questioning by immigration and border authorities,” the State Department said in a “travel warning” to US citizens.

“If judged to have, or judged to have a claim to, residency status in the West Bank or Gaza, such American citizens may be required by the Government of Israel to use a Palestinian Authority travel document to transit Israel to enter the West Bank or Gaza,” it added.

“In addition, American citizens considered to have or to be eligible for a Palestinian Authority ID who entered Israel via Ben-Gurion Airport might be required to depart via the Allenby Bridge to Jordan,” it said, advising such people to ask Israeli authorities where they are required to depart.

‘A pattern of discrimination’
James Zogby, the president of the Washington-based Arab American Institute, said the State Department had accurately diagnosed the problem for Palestinian Americans traveling to Israel but had not done enough correct it.

“What they are in effect saying is that Arab Americans are second-class citizens,” Zogby said in a telephone interview.

“The State Department is allowing Israel to define how they view the American citizenship of persons of Arab, and in particular, Palestinian Arab, descent. That is not the right of the Government of Israel. It is our government that defines what American citizenship is.”

The State Department said it “seeks equal treatment for all American citizens regardless of national origin or ethnicity” and urged Americans who encounter difficulties to contact the US embassy in Tel Aviv or the consulate in Jerusalem.
The Arab American Institute on Monday released a letter it sent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urging her to ensure Israel treats Americans of Palestinian descent fairly.

“The treatment of American citizens traveling to (the West Bank and Gaza Strip) frequently involves burdensome bureaucratic requirements, if not outright harassment and humiliation, and indicates a pattern of discrimination and practices intended to deter visitors,” the letter said.

Reuters: Published: 03.20.08, 06:58 / Israel News

Where is the uproar about this? American Citizens being racially profiled when entering an allied nation!

American Citizens being forced to leave through another country!

Should we next sew a yellow A on our shoulders and carry special ID cards?

Clash of civilizations or simply democracy failing

In Hebrew

In English

In Arabic

When you actually speak to the people you find out what they truly want, its not what the media feeds you or what some blogger writes about, it is the people. So when you hear that a majority of Israeli’s want to have meetings with Hamas and a majority of Palestinians want to meet with the Israeli’s one would think that this would make the news, even influence their leadership.

When you read blogs from either side of the spectrum you feel as though peace is not achievable, these are the extremes. They represent the same fundamentalism that first brought on the world’s problems and do nothing to change it.

How can we as a nation advocate the spread of democracy in other countries when our own elected officials publicly declare that public polls mean nothing to them.

White Man’s Burden and Manifest Destiny

Vanity Fair has a lovely article explaining that Dubya and (his favorite Uncle Tom) Condi Rice were responsible to Hamas taking over Gaza. The Bush administration has been waging a dirty war. The United States has been attempting to create a Palestinian civil war and its backfiring.

Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. The plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power

But the secret plan backfired, resulting in a further setback for American foreign policy under Bush. Instead of driving its enemies out of power, the U.S.-backed Fatah fighters inadvertently provoked Hamas to seize total control of Gaza

Some sources call the scheme “Iran-contra 2.0,” recalling that Abrams was convicted (and later pardoned) for withholding information from Congress during the original Iran-contra scandal under President Reagan. There are echoes of other past misadventures as well: the C.I.A.’s 1953 ouster of an elected prime minister in Iran, which set the stage for the 1979 Islamic revolution there; the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, which gave Fidel Castro an excuse to solidify his hold on Cuba; and the contemporary tragedy in Iraq.

Arafat died in November 2004, and Abbas, his replacement as Fatah leader, was elected president in January 2005. Elections for the Palestinian parliament, known officially as the Legislative Council, were originally set for July 2005, but later postponed by Abbas until January 2006.

Dahlan says he warned his friends in the Bush administration that Fatah still wasn’t ready for elections in January. Decades of self-preservationist rule by Arafat had turned the party into a symbol of corruption and inefficiency—a perception Hamas found it easy to exploit. Splits within Fatah weakened its position further: in many places, a single Hamas candidate ran against several from Fatah.

“Everyone was against the elections,” Dahlan says. Everyone except Bush. “Bush decided, ‘I need an election. I want elections in the Palestinian Authority.’ Everyone is following him in the American administration, and everyone is nagging Abbas, telling him, ‘The president wants elections.’ Fine. For what purpose?”

The elections went forward as scheduled. On January 25, Hamas won 56 percent of the seats in the Legislative Council.

Is it only a democracy when your side wins? What is it about the West that requires them to meddle in the affairs of others? I have no doubt that the Australians and “American” over at “Tizona” will have some commentary about how both I and Vanity fair are communist anti-semites. But the issue is why people like them feel the need to meddle in the affairs of others.

Lets look at the track record of western interference in the world

1953 we overthrow a democracy in Iran. This leads to 1979 revolution and Iran becoming an “enemy.”

1961 we have the Bay of Pigs fiasco and instead of getting rid of a non threatening leader we consolidate power under Castro

1980’s we arm and train the Mujahadeen and the Taliban to fight against the Russians and place them in power when they win. I wonder how that turned out.

In the 1980’s we arm Saddam Hussein to fight the mistakes we made in Iran. Saddam eventually invades Kuwait and gasses civilians.

Oh we have done well haven’t we. Even now we continue to elect idiots to office who claim democratically elected officials are dictators (Ahmedinajad). Before the U.S. campaign against him his ratings were worse than Bush’s, but now? Now he is popular and could see re-election in his future.

Hamas was democratically elected in an election forced by and monitored by the United States. Hamas was willing to moderate as well.

Some analysts argued that Hamas had a substantial moderate wing that could be strengthened if America coaxed it into the peace process. Notable Israelis—such as Ephraim Halevy, the former head of the Mossad intelligence agency—shared this view. But if America paused to consider giving Hamas the benefit of the doubt, the moment was “milliseconds long,” says a senior State Department official.

Maybe that is the problem with Western Society, they don’t think. Are we really that disillusioned by Manifest Destiny, must the “anglo-saxon” race invade and “civilize” all nations?  Oh those poor savages, we must convert the heathens.

And to my friends in Australia, I’m sure the Aborigenes love what you have done for them. Poverty, drug addiction, the systematic kidnapping of children to “westernize” them.

HILLARY CLINTON IS AN ANTI-SEMITE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE WHO WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!!!

 Hillary must be a terrorist sympathizer! I mean look at how she is dressed? I wonder if she went to a madrassa in afghanorabiastan. I bet she was behind 9/11 and the USS Cole. She hate Israel and is a an anti-semite, the nazi!!!

 (Lets see if this works)

Israeli Settlers say hello to Bush

A group of Israeli settlers living illegally in the Palestinian territory, the West Bank, attempted to establish a new colony in the area outside Hebron on Wednesday. They said the outpost was meant to give a message to George Bush, who has previously given his wholehearted support to Israel’s settlement policy

Although Bush gave a nonchalant statement that “Outposts, yeah, they ought to go”, during his Jerusalem press conference on Wednesday, he made no firm commitment to challenge Israel’s policy of expansion in any meaningful way.

In fact, U.S. policy under Bush has been to promote Israel and give approval to Israeli settlement expansion, as a 2003 letter to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon demonstrates. In that letter, during the height of the current open conflict, Bush praised Israel’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the frenzied settlement expansion going on at that time.

The Israeli settlers in Hebron, known to be the most violent and extreme in the West Bank, marched onto land owned by Palestinian farmer Mahmoud Jabir, and began erecting tents. The settlers blocked the road with stones and prevented the Palestinian residents of the area from passing.

Ironically, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated, at a press conference with George Bush, almost at the same time the colony was being erected, “The Palestinians too, know that there is no new construction or confiscation of land” by Israel. But Olmert failed to mention the 16 new settlements that have been established by Israelis on stolen Palestinian land in the last two weeks alone.

Olmert did assert Israel’s claim over the “settlement blocs and Jerusalem”, which “Palestinians know” have a different status that the rest of the West Bank. By this statement, he laid claim to a huge swath of land that has been taken over by force since 1967 in direct violation of international law. The Fourth Geneva Convention, which Israel signed in 1953, bans the takeover of militarily-occupied land by the occupying force. It also bans the transfer of civilian populations onto land seized in this way. Over 500,000 Israelis live as settlers on land illegally seized from Palestinians since 1967.

Hebron Governor Hussain Al-A’raj stated, “Settlers in Hebron have sent a welcome message to George Bush telling him that settlement construction is still ongoing. As long as there is one single settlement on Palestinian land, there will be no peace in the region. These settlement activities reveal the real intentions of the Israeli government to go ahead with settlement expansion.”

 IMEMC

He said “occupation”!

Granted George W. Bush may go down in history as the worst American president ever, he does have one redeeming quality: He called Israel’s colonial rule exactly what it is - occupation.

The hopes of solving the conflict are simply that, hopes. To achieve a long lasting peace in a region that as the “leader of the free world” you have only visited once during eight years in office is biting off more than you can chew (or in Bush’s case: drink).  He hopes that all this will be done in a 12 month span, he also hoped to catch Bin Laden and bring about democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq and we all know how well that has gone.

The president urged a Palestinian state that did not look like “Swiss cheese” and wanted two democratic states living in peace. The trouble is that Israel has not stopped building settlements on Palestinian land, has not stopped building the apartheid wall on Palestinian land and refuses to speak with the democratically elected government that has (retardedly) taken control of Gaza. He also stressed that the PA must disarm the terrorist groups while Israel has demanded that all acts of terror (At least the ones it is not responsible for) stop. The problem is that Israel (with its army of kids from Long Island) cannot stop terrorist attacks so how can it expect an occupied people with a police force that is periodically arrested by Israeli forces to stop terrorists? Worse even is that after Israel’s “withdrawal” from Gaza there still continues to be regular Israeli attacks on the densely populated area.

Nelson Mandela on Israeli apartheid:

“The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”.