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Petraeus has history of being anti-Israel
[Petraeus also on record as against torture and Gitmo.}
Pyjamas Media - June 2009
[..] Petraeus is a respected man, whose opinions are highly valued and held in high esteem — which makes his recent comment about the terrorist group Hezbollah all the more surprising. Just prior to the Lebanese elections — elections that Hezbollah lost, thank goodness — Gen. Petraeus spoke with the Arabic-language al-Hayat newspaper, published by the Lebanese Daily Star, and blamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the existence of Hezbollah. “Hezbollah’s justifications for existence will become void,” Petraeus said, “if the Palestinian cause is resolved.”
It is unclear what Petraeus meant by this statement. While he has earned the benefit of the doubt, if Petraeus truly meant what he apparently said, this is a highly discouraging revelation. The idea that the Palestinian “plight” is Hezbollah’s casus belli is so far from the truth, and so detached from reality, it is hard to believe Petraeus actually thinks this. Perhaps there was a mistranslation? Perhaps Petraeus was making shrewd statements for domestic Lebanese consumption — attempting to undermine Hezbollah by painting them as more concerned for Palestinians than the Lebanese people, just ahead of Lebanon’s elections? All of this is possible.
But what if these explanations aren’t the case? What if Gen. Petraeus literally believes the alleviation of the Palestinian grievance is the key to regional counterterrorism?
Just because Gen. Petraeus is a brilliant military mastermind does not automatically make his views on Middle Eastern geopolitics beyond question. Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed, Iranian-financed, Iranian-armed jihadist organization that was created by the Islamic Republic in the early 1980s and sent to Lebanon to kill and intimidate those in Lebanon who oppose theocracy and fascism. Hezbollah terrorists have killed more Americans than any other terrorist group in the world, save al-Qaeda one Tuesday morning eight years ago. They have conducted attacks on innocents and civilian targets in the Middle East, in Latin America, in Asia; they have bases all over the world. They answer to the supreme leader of Iran and constitute the elite of the elite of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. [..]
Hillary Clinton: “Israel must prove commitment to peace.”
Loathsome, vile creature.
Israel has made innumerable sacrifices for peace, ranging from ill-considered unilateral territorial concessions to insane releases of Palestinians who have murdered Jewish children.
Your Palestinian allies have reciprocated Israel’s good will gestures with homicidal terrorist acts and vows of eternal hatred.
Yet you are so demented with anti-Semitism that you have inverted reality to create an alternative universe where those who want peace are the victimizers and those who crave blood are the victims.
You make endless demands upon the Jews. As each demand is met, you issue new demands.
You make no demands upon the Palestinians. Quite the contrary - you are their silent accomplice to murder.
No act of Jewish virtue goes uncriticized.
No act of Palestinian depravity is condemned.
And after all that - after you have proven to the satisfaction of every thinking person that you are an amoral fraud who opposes the civilized while facilitating the barbaric - you have the chutzpah to claim Israel has not demonstrated a commitment to peace.
Chutzpah.
That’s a Jew word, Hillary.
In this case, it means that you suck.
Comment by ayn reagan — March 17, 2010 @ 1:43 am
Netanyahu is in full sycophantic mode so this won’t happen, but when he attends the AIPAC meeting he should give a bare bones two minute Gettysburg-style Address that basically lays out the case, and then conclude with the following:
“I must now return home to Israel, where I am charged with the responsibility of protecting my nation from the predations of sincere enemies and the treachery of false friends.”
Comment by ayn reagan — March 17, 2010 @ 1:57 am
If he were to say that 2/3rds of AIPAC would quit. Then again nobody would feel their loss. Go For It!
Comment by yamit82 — March 17, 2010 @ 2:06 am