Bush Pressured Israel For Broader Withdrawal

Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator

The attached article by Nicholas Kralev reveals how the Bush Administration pressured Israel to withdraw from Gaza and then broadened the withdrawal to include parts of Judea and Samaria.

For several year I have been writing about the nations gathering as pall bearers for the Jewish nation of Israel. This includes both our dedicated enemies and our occasional friends who have a divided mind about Israel’s continue existence.

In the following article by Nicholas Kralev in the WASHINGTON TIMES, August 13th, you will see and sense the perfidy IF you read between the lines. You will see the fingerprints of the Bush Dynasty, including James Baker and his gaggle of Jew boys (Dennis Ross, Aaron Miller, Dan Kurtzer and later Martin Indyk). As Court Jews, they were always ready to undercut the Jewish nation in deference to their boss and Yassir Arafat.

You will also see the shadow of the Saudis in the planning - always in deep collaboration with the oil maggots and the pro-Arab State Department which is carefully building the scaffold on which to hang the Jewish nation. Add the Europeans (the E.U.), the U.N. and Russia as the rest of the ‘Quartet’ who re-vamped the Bush Road Map so it was deadly to the Jewish nation. Look for Kofi Annan’s dirty fingers, always a helpful ally to whomever would take Israel down. With shame and embarrassment, we also have our Jews or rather non-Jewish Jews of the Left who eagerly join the cabal to first reduce Israel in size, followed by weakening her will to resist and finally bailing out to save themselves - like the proverbial rats who leave a sinking ship. The Leftists who can afford it have been purchasing apartments in England, America and other places elsewhere, outside of Israel, just in case their European and Arab allies succeed in dismantling the Jewish State.

Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel (Arik) Sharon is the biggest and most gullible appeaser of all. He has swallowed the bait that creating a truncated Israel will appease the Palestinians, the Arab nations and their numerous proxy terrorist organizations. Somehow a shrunken Israel is supposed to pacify the rabid terrorists and nations who support them, especially Syria and Iran.

Sharon and his gang of small-minded politicos believe that a fully established Fence will keep terrorists out when they are already tunneling under it and lobbing rockets over it. It is not the Wall that is minimizing Terror attacks right now. It is the IDF cleaning out the rat’s nests on the ground and pin-point bombing the terrorist leaders from above. As long as they are running from Israeli troops, the killing and suicide bombing is down. But, Sharon is planning to withdraw those troops, road patrols and check points in order to force out the Jewish Pioneering Settlers.

Sharon’s propagandists are telling the Israeli people: "See, casualties are down because of the Wall." What Sharon is NOT telling the people is that, when Gaza (first) is turned over to the mix of radical Islamic terrorists (‘Mujahadin’), and they get organized, the Wall will not stop the missiles, nor the hundreds, perhaps thousands of tunnels. That Wall is not tall enough to keep out determined hordes of radical Islamic Terrorists. Sharon’s folly (The Wall) will bring the radical Arab Muslim Palestinians and foreign Muslim Terrorists in hordes to their side of the Wall which is right next to Israel’s population centers.

Sharon’s folly (The Wall) is taking food out the mouths of children and the elderly living below the poverty level. It is costing Billions of dollars.

Sharon will tell you that he will cross over and punish the Arab Palestinian Terrorists IF they attack Israel - except this time the terrorists will better organized and prepared with better, deadlier and more sophisticated weapons. The current tunnels into Gaza from Egypt (with President Hosni Mubarak’s cooperation) will no longer be necessary because soon they can truck, fly or ship in large missiles, artillery and even armor. Sharon propagates the lie that somehow Israel will maintain a watch on the Gaza borders and hold down the smuggling of arms.

Sharon’s flimsy Wall will be no better (probably worse) than the Bar Lev line in the Sinai at the Suez Canal which was overrun by the Egyptians in a day.

Meanwhile, Israel’s enemies and erstwhile friends will insist that full scale counter-attacks and re-taking of territory cannot be allowed - regardless of the provocation. Jews, always anxious to be loved and accepted are too easily euchred with false promises given by both enemies and their sometime friends. So, the Army will be thwarted by having moved out the civilians and creating another State of Palestine that will be considered sovereign and untouchable by the rest of the world.

In the end the Quartet, that is the U.S. State Department, the E.U., the U.N. and Russia , are only interested in their own interests, not Israel’s. They already know that the Muslim pagans cannot be pacified or re-educated away from strict Koranic Sharia’a law which orders them to displace the infidel. They know that the backward Arab Muslims will never give a thriving nation of Jews one day of peace.

So, for the good of the majority, it is better for Israel to vanish - in the hope that a sacrifice of this magnitude will dampen down the radical Muslims’ thirst for Global Terrorism and world domination. What? Have they (we) learned nothing? The radical Arab Muslims won’t unlearn all their weapons’ technology nor will they reduce their inventories. Nor will they lower their goals for world domination by Islam. As you cannot de-program a trained attack dog, neither can you de-program a terrorist - particularly those educated to hate and kill Jews since the age of 3.

Those countries and influentials in the Free West who are pro-Arab have evolved the philosophy that ‘maybe they will return to the day when Terror was not so well organized’. Or ‘maybe they’ll be pacified’, or so goes their wishful thinking.

In the meantime, almost every nation of size in the Free West has experienced a growing state of terror by radical Muslim terrorists. These are NOT what the media calls ‘extremists’, ‘militias’, or ‘freedom fighters’, but actually radical Muslim terrorists killing for Allah as Sharia’ah law requires. No political or media double talk will change the fact that Islam has declared war on the civilized world. Perhaps that will only come clear when there is another 9/11 or 3/11 or Iran develops operational Nuclear Bombs while the (so-called) Free West dithers.

Of course, they need to keep the Jews in a stupor of false hope so they go quietly to their next execution, in spite of this horrific reality facing all nations. .

There are none so blind as those who do not wish to see.

Please read the following article:

White House urged broader withdrawal By Nicholas Kralev
The Washington Times

The Bush administration played a major behind-the-scenes role in pressing Israel to broaden a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to include four Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon said yesterday. That and other changes were the price Israel had to pay for securing President Bush's written endorsement of the plan in a letter he presented to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Washington in April, Mr. Ayalon said "We were thinking just of Gaza. They suggested [some withdrawal] from the West Bank. I think this is a very major change," the ambassador told The Washington Times in an interview at the Israeli Embassy.

"We agreed to modify our plan ... so they really had their imprint," he said. Mr. Ayalon said that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, her deputy Stephen Hadley, and Elliott Abrams, senior director for Near East and North African affairs at the National Security Council, were deeply engaged in negotiating the plan's final version.

"They didn't give us a blank check and endorse the plan without careful studies and questions -- they sent their people to Israel," Mr. Ayalon said.

Another Israeli official, who asked not to be named, said the first time the plan was discussed officially with the United States was in Rome in November. That happened during a previously undisclosed meeting between Mr. Sharon, who was on a visit to Italy, and Mr. Abrams, who flew in from London, the official said.

Dennis Ross, the top Middle East envoy in both the first Bush administration and the Clinton administration, said yesterday that the final plan was chosen from several options discussed by the Israelis. Mr. Ross said the White House was correct in demanding modifications to the plan given the "explicit" endorsement Israel subsequently received from the United States.

The Israeli official later explained that at least three options were on the table when the plan was first discussed internally: a withdrawal from a large part of the West Bank, a pullout from Gaza only, and a pullout from Gaza and a small part of the West Bank.

The official said the Bush administration deserves credit for pressuring Israel to adopt the third option. Although Mr. Bush called the plan "bold and courageous," its critics in the Arab world and Europe initially saw it as an official U.S. endorsement of the Jewish settlements that will remain in the West Bank.

Official U.S. policy has been for decades that settlements are an impediment to peace, although successive administrations have tolerated them.

After initial skepticism, the plan was accepted by the European Union, Russia and the United Nations. Mr. Sharon's deputy, Ehud Olmert, yesterday told settler leaders in Israel that even more settlements would have to be removed from the West Bank. "In the future, there will be a need to evacuate more settlements in Judea and Samaria -- not because it's just, but because there is no choice if we want to remain a Jewish and democratic state," Mr. Olmert said, using the biblical names for parts of the West Bank. Mr. Olmert's comments reportedly irritated Mr. Sharon.

The Bush administration has been widely criticized for not being engaged enough in the peace process. Mr. Ayalon took issue with that assertion, but he said intense American involvement is not always necessary. "Nobody could have been more involved than President Clinton, and it didn't work. It's not a matter of American involvement that is a major factor in success," he said. "It's a matter of having a partner."

"Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is no longer a partner", Mr. Ayalon said, "and many Palestinians are beginning to realize it." "There is a growing realization among the Palestinians that the Arafat system is not the solution but the problem," he said. "They are becoming more and more emboldened."

He said an internal conflict among the Palestinians is inevitable because of widespread dissatisfaction with Mr. Arafat's leadership, although Israel would not like to see a civil war.

Mr. Ayalon also said that "Israel is pleased with its war on terrorism," noting that "a fence being built to separate Israel from parts of the West Bank has reduced attacks".

"The mission can never be accomplished, because it's an ongoing war, but we are prevailing, and the results are less fatalities, less successful attempts by the terrorists and, I think, there is a growing realization on the other side that terror cannot succeed," he said.

"We could not have done this without the great help of the United States, which has supported us morally and politically," Mr. Ayalon said.

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