Comments on: The Night Yasser Arafat Kissed Me http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/ Walter Russell Mead's Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Logan http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/#comment-63101 Logan Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:07:01 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=3216#comment-63101 humanity is the key, to both our destruction; and salvation!! Just because someone believes differently, does not make either party any less wrong or right! The truth is, that every side is to blame in some way or another..EVERYONE!! On the brink of darkness there shall be a new light.. But that light will never arrive for anyone, unless the entire world can give peace a chance, to give eachother a chance! we must put asside our pride and our prejudice towards one another, not just to people in our "circle" but to all!!! only then can we ever bring about a true era of peace, only then will we truly have made progress or begin to evolve.. If anyone has anythought humanity is the key, to both our destruction; and salvation!! Just because someone believes differently, does not make either party any less wrong or right! The truth is, that every side is to blame in some way or another..EVERYONE!! On the brink of darkness there shall be a new light.. But that light will never arrive for anyone, unless the entire world can give peace a chance, to give eachother a chance! we must put asside our pride and our prejudice towards one another, not just to people in our “circle” but to all!!! only then can we ever bring about a true era of peace, only then will we truly have made progress or begin to evolve.. If anyone has anythought

]]> By: Robert G http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/#comment-3544 Robert G Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:55:26 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=3216#comment-3544 It hurts me to have come to the conclusion that there will never be peace in the Middle East. There is absolutely no chance that the enemies of Israel, both soft and hard, will ever give up the philosophy that |srael has no right to exist. And as a result of that axiom, Israel will never give up its right to exist. All kidding aside, Israel is strong enough to destroy the whole worlds as are another 5 or 6 nations. Israel will not be going down aithout the entire Muslim world so whats the sense in the long run. Jokingly, a billiom muslims looking for 72 virgins each might finally get the point across because obviously the fact that Israel is nuclear and determined to survive hasn't I'm not going to be around to see how this thing moves along, but in this era of technological growth at exponential speed, its going to be interesting to watch my neighbors in the west bank beating their donkeys as they continue to truck their manure uphill, while Israel creates the next wave of non-oil cars...i'll miss it Best of luck to those dreamers who still believe in a Palestinian Israeli peace process while the great grandchildren of the Naqba still sit in squalor.....it just aint gonna happen !! It hurts me to have come to the conclusion that there will never be peace in the Middle East.

There is absolutely no chance that the enemies of Israel, both soft and hard, will ever give up the philosophy that |srael has no right to exist. And as a result of that axiom, Israel will never give up its right to exist.

All kidding aside, Israel is strong enough to destroy the whole worlds as are another 5 or 6 nations. Israel will not be going down aithout the entire Muslim world so whats the sense in the long run. Jokingly, a billiom muslims looking for 72 virgins each might finally get the point across because obviously the fact that Israel is nuclear and determined to survive hasn’t

I’m not going to be around to see how this thing moves along, but in this era of technological growth at exponential speed, its going to be interesting to watch my neighbors in the west bank beating their donkeys as they continue to truck their manure uphill, while Israel creates the next wave of non-oil cars…i’ll miss it

Best of luck to those dreamers who still believe in a Palestinian Israeli peace process while the great grandchildren of the Naqba still sit in squalor…..it just aint gonna happen !!

]]> By: Juan Corazon http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/#comment-3481 Juan Corazon Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:52:14 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=3216#comment-3481 "I looked the man in the eye," "I was able to get a sense of his soul." GW Bush on V. Putin 2001. Evil tyrants are experts at pretending to be good. “I looked the man in the eye,” “I was able to get a sense of his soul.” GW Bush on V. Putin 2001.

Evil tyrants are experts at pretending to be good.

]]> By: Obama and the Jacksonian Zionists - Walter Russell Mead's Blog - The American Interest http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/#comment-3364 Obama and the Jacksonian Zionists - Walter Russell Mead's Blog - The American Interest Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:34:08 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=3216#comment-3364 [...] like AIPAC than it is in the strong support for Israel well beyond the Beltway.  I’ve been writing a series of posts over the last week about this; it is the gentile supporters of Israel, not [...] [...] like AIPAC than it is in the strong support for Israel well beyond the Beltway.  I’ve been writing a series of posts over the last week about this; it is the gentile supporters of Israel, not [...]

]]> By: AKUS http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/#comment-3338 AKUS Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:38:57 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=3216#comment-3338 By the way - Aaron David Miller commented on his attempts to avoid a kiss from Arafat when the latter arrived at the abortive Camp David talks. But I think he was no more successful than you - Arafat was, apparently, a determined kisser. By the way – Aaron David Miller commented on his attempts to avoid a kiss from Arafat when the latter arrived at the abortive Camp David talks. But I think he was no more successful than you – Arafat was, apparently, a determined kisser.

]]> By: AKUS http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/#comment-3337 AKUS Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:36:35 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=3216#comment-3337 I came across this excellent article while reading <a href="http://cifwatch.com/2010/03/15/red-lines-for-the-left/" rel="nofollow">Red Lines for the Left</a> on CiFWatch, whose mandate is to track obsessive anti-Israeli and anti-Semite commentary in the UK Guardian. Your words mirror exactly the criticism CiFWacth and commenters like me have of the endless articles pouring out anti-Israeli bias in a way that no other country or people are addressed in what was once a fine newspaper, with commentary by readers adorned with a liberal helping of anti-Semitism and, if not quite Holocaust denial, attempts to downplay the extent and significance of both. This article needs to be more broadly disseminated through the mainstream press. I came across this excellent article while reading Red Lines for the Left on CiFWatch, whose mandate is to track obsessive anti-Israeli and anti-Semite commentary in the UK Guardian.

Your words mirror exactly the criticism CiFWacth and commenters like me have of the endless articles pouring out anti-Israeli bias in a way that no other country or people are addressed in what was once a fine newspaper, with commentary by readers adorned with a liberal helping of anti-Semitism and, if not quite Holocaust denial, attempts to downplay the extent and significance of both.

This article needs to be more broadly disseminated through the mainstream press.

]]> By: Jelperman http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/#comment-3212 Jelperman Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:39:11 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=3216#comment-3212 Since when is <i>tu quoque</i> an argument? More sophistry from Israel's [...] apologists. Since when is tu quoque an argument?

More sophistry from Israel’s [...] apologists.

]]> By: Boucle du 12 mars - La Boucle d’Occam - Blog LeMonde.fr http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/#comment-3207 Boucle du 12 mars - La Boucle d’Occam - Blog LeMonde.fr Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:55:43 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=3216#comment-3207 [...] about the world’s treatment of Israel. In his blog at The American Interest Online, Mead writes that he is “genuinely puzzled why people who in other contexts have quite interesting things [...] [...] about the world’s treatment of Israel. In his blog at The American Interest Online, Mead writes that he is “genuinely puzzled why people who in other contexts have quite interesting things [...]

]]> By: UtterlyDisgusted http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/#comment-3193 UtterlyDisgusted Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:42:48 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=3216#comment-3193 Writing about the "South", SC Mike, notes above: "Some time ago the topic of Israel came up in a conversation with several friends who all belong to a hunt club. (They are proud members of diverse club and will tell you that in the membership is not only a Jew, but a bona fide Frenchy!) Their take was distinctly, dare I say, Jacksonian: the Jews needed a country, started one fair and square, seem to run it fairly and freely, even give Arab citizens the vote during regular elections, and should be given a fair amount of leeway in protecting their country from enemies domestic and foreign." Let's see: The white-settler Afrikaners needed a country (apartheid SA), started one "fair and square", seem to run it fairly and freely, even gave some non-whites ("Coloured") people the vote during regular elections, and should have been given a fair amount of leeway in protecting their coutry (er: privilaged status compared to indegenous natives) from enemies domestic and foreign. Heck, let's bring back Jim Crow... What's wrong with that? Writing about the “South”, SC Mike, notes above: “Some time ago the topic of Israel came up in a conversation with several friends who all belong to a hunt club. (They are proud members of diverse club and will tell you that in the membership is not only a Jew, but a bona fide Frenchy!) Their take was distinctly, dare I say, Jacksonian: the Jews needed a country, started one fair and square, seem to run it fairly and freely, even give Arab citizens the vote during regular elections, and should be given a fair amount of leeway in protecting their country from enemies domestic and foreign.”

Let’s see: The white-settler Afrikaners needed a country (apartheid SA), started one “fair and square”, seem to run it fairly and freely, even gave some non-whites (“Coloured”) people the vote during regular elections, and should have been given a fair amount of leeway in protecting their coutry (er: privilaged status compared to indegenous natives) from enemies domestic and foreign. Heck, let’s bring back Jim Crow… What’s wrong with that?

]]> By: Marc R http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/03/09/the-night-yasser-arafat-kissed-me/#comment-3190 Marc R Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:18:30 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=3216#comment-3190 I don't disagree with anything you have said here, but I think there is an additional reason that the Palestinian cause has been so popular. Spectacular terrorism. Blowing up airplanes and killing Olympians gets the whole world talking about you and inspires the anti-imperialists. I don’t disagree with anything you have said here, but I think there is an additional reason that the Palestinian cause has been so popular.

Spectacular terrorism. Blowing up airplanes and killing Olympians gets the whole world talking about you and inspires the anti-imperialists.

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