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Powell’s mission can be viewed as a success or failure
depending on whom you ask. The Israeli’s obviously see it as a
great success because it made them look stronger and
independent. On the other hand, the Arab world, who want nothing
more than for the Palestinian people to have their own land, saw
it as a complete failure. The question is how the Bush
administration views this mission.
It is my contention that the Bush administration accomplished
what it set out to do: pretend that they were concerned about
the Arab plight, and talk tough to Sharon and Israel without
enforcing a withdrawal. Even though we planned on getting tough
on Israel, we surely had no intention of making them withdraw
from the previously occupied land of the Palestinians. This was
a puppet show, with Bush being the master puppeteer. Israel
plays the role of star puppet, as they continue to monitor the
tenuous area and ensure the U.S. interests are protected. Bush
accomplished exactly what he intended: nothing. His continued
reference to Sharon as a "man of peace" is not only
insulting to the open-minded, progressive thinker, but has
infuriated Arab leaders and pushed them further away from a
coalition badly needed to fight our war on terrorism.
As a liberal who is disgusted with the one-sided view of
terrorism, I understand the incredible hypocrisy that exists in
our foreign policy. The Israeli government/army is equipped with
all the latest technological weapons that the U.S. could supply,
and because they are so militarily advanced it is difficult for
our country to view their deeds as terrorism. Terrorism has come
to be associated with guerilla warfare, solely the deeds from
people who are not technically advanced to defend themselves
through advanced means. Palestinians have had their homes taken
away from them, have seen their children killed through Israeli
aggression, and have seen the West continuing to disrespect
their religion and culture have become so desperate for a
solution, that they are willing to kill themselves in order to
progress their cause. And this our government views as terrorism
when all the while the Israeli government is the true
aggressors. Since 1948 when the U.N. gave this land to them they
expelled more than 600,000 Palestinians from their homeland and
since that time thousands more Palestinians were expelled, put
in refugee camps, or killed.
A terrorist expert has recently defined terrorist as a person
who attacks civilians for political or religious gain. Israel’s
"war on terrorism" is a political charade that hides
Sharon’s real intentions; to gain as much Palestinian land as
possible before any peace process can begin. Sharon has never
been shy about this goal. He has always been militant about the
expulsion of Arabs from "greater Israel" and he has
shown by his evil deeds of the 1980’s and 90’s that he is
willing to do it by any means possible; or at least by any means
that the U.S. will allow of him. By this definition, it is
obvious that members of Israeli’s government (not Israel) are
terrorists. Sharon has never given us reason to believe that he
intends to live harmoniously with the Palestinians. In fact, we
have every reason to believe that if he had it his way, he would
commit the greatest genocide since Nazi Germany.
So Powell is home acting dejected, but hopeful. He is
a liberal masquerading as a Republican, a black man ignoring his
heart, a man forgetting his allegiances, and he is doing this
all for political gain. But I too, am hopeful. I am hopeful that
someday he will come home to his Party, and to his conscience,
and to begin to do the real work of negotiating peace. The work
of the Democrats.
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