Re: There must be something wrong with the moon

"Passerby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> All the lunatics are crawling out of their holes...

If only we could stuff them back in.
You'd think they would have learned from Oslo & Wye...

Susan
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> You have got to hand it to Yossi Beilin. Whatever one thinks of his
> political views, or his incessant desire to sell Israel down the river, he
> certainly knows how to put on a good show.
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> Monday's gathering in Switzerland to launch the Geneva Accord had all the
> trappings of first-rate political theater: Israelis and Palestinians
coming
> together amid support from former heads of state, criticism from current
> leaders, last-minute glitches, and even an olive tree onstage.
> Had it not been such a sad display of ideological weakness, it might
> actually have been entertaining.
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> After all, how often does one get to see people as brilliant as Beilin,
> Amnon Lipkin-Shahak and Amram Mitzna act so downright foolish?
> Despite three years of unrelenting Palestinian violence and terror,
despite
> 898 Israelis killed and 6,003 others injured, despite ongoing incitement
in
> the Palestinian media, this self-indulgent band of has-beens continues to
> cling to their failed vision of caprice, capitulation and cowardice.
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> Oslo may have collapsed, nearly taking the State of Israel down with it,
but
> that does not deter our friendly-neighborhood peacemakers, who think they
> know better than their own government and their own people. They plunge
> ahead, oblivious to the facts, unmindful of the damage they are doing, and
> uncaring about the consequences of their actions.
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> I am sure the psychiatric literature is replete with terms to describe
such
> a phenomenon, but I prefer a far more conventional explanation: Frankly, I
> think these guys are nuts. It is one thing to pursue peace, to love it and

> desire it with all one's heart, but it is quite another to toss caution to
> the wind, over and over, in its reckless pursuit.
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> It was therefore especially fitting that Beilin and his colleagues chose
to
> invite former US president Jimmy Carter to take part in the Geneva
ceremony.
> More than anyone else, Carter embodies the conceit and failure which so
> typify their approach.
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> Ever since being tossed out of office in 1980, Carter has devoted much of
> his time to undermining his own country's foreign policy, coddling its
foes
> and seeking to impose solutions on it from the outside. Does any of this
> sound familiar?
> Take, for example, Carter's unauthorized trip to North Korea in 1994, at
the
> height of a crisis between the Stalinist state and the Clinton
> administration over its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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> After some polite fawning, in which he described the country's dictator as
a
> "vigorous and intelligent" man, Carter proceeded to forge a deal without
> having any authority or mandate to do so.
> He got the North Koreans to promise that they would stop trying to build
> nuclear weapons in exchange, essentially, for a bribe from the West, which
> included fuel shipments and the construction of two nuclear reactors at US
> expense. Clinton, looking for any way out of the confrontation, embraced
the
> deal, despite its dubious reliance on the word of a dictator.
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> Eventually, however, the shortsightedness of it became apparent, when the
> North Koreans announced in October 2002 that they had been cheating all
> along, covertly pursuing their nuclear program even as the West continued
to
> pour in the cash.
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> AND SO, thanks to Carter's unwarranted intervention, the US now finds
itself
> confronting a nuclear-armed madman on the Korean Peninsula. The year 1994
> also saw Carter stick his nose into the Yugoslav conflict, again defying
his
> own government in a bid to intrude on the country's foreign policy.
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> So rash were his actions, in which he coddled Serbian war-crimes suspects
> such as Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic, that it led The
Washington
> Post to editorialize that "Jimmy Carter has used his own personal standing
> and negotiating skills and others' pessimism and fatigue to insert himself
> into a deadly stalemate in a manner defying order and accountability. He
has
> only his reputation to lose. Others have much more. It is incredible that
he
> should have gone so far."
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> "Jimmy Carter is a man of peace," continued the paper, "He has also all
too
> often been a loose cannon" (Washington Post, December 21, 1994).
> Indeed, Carter has made a career out of subverting his own country's
> interests for the sake of furthering his personal agenda. Prior to the
1991
> Gulf War, Carter wrote to member states on the UN Security Council, urging
> them to vote against US plans to liberate Kuwait. He criticized US
President
> George W. Bush over the Iraq war last year, and even traveled to Cuba in
May
> 2002, where he defended Fidel Castro against charges of building
biological
> weapons.
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> What's more, Carter and Beilin both share an inexplicable liking for the
> Palestinian leadership. In his biography of Carter, entitled An Unfinished
> Presidency, historian Douglas Brinkley notes that Carter did not hesitate
to
> serve as an unofficial speechwriter for Yasser Arafat.
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> Carter, Brinkley says, "felt certain affinities with the Palestinian"
> leader, and on one occasion even "drafted on his home computer the
strategy
> and wording for a generic speech Arafat was to deliver soon for Western
> ears."
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> Who better, then, to stand alongside Beilin and friends in Geneva?
Meddling,
> after all, is what Beilin, a former academic, and Carter, a former peanut
> farmer, are all about.
> But rather than fret about it, perhaps it would just be better to ignore
> them. The nuts and the peanuts, it seems, make for a perfect mix.
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> The writer served as deputy director of Communications & Policy Planning
in
> the Prime Minister's Office under former premier Binyamin Netanyahu.
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