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#1  Daily alotted bandwidth all used up for today. *sniff*
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Pull the plug on the UNRWA Paleo Enabling Trough
From Jewish World Review online.
By Jonathan Tobin

Halting aid to the P.A. means nothing if funds shift to the ‘humanitarian’ front

The current debate over a cutoff of aid to the Palestinian Authority is a classic case of good news and bad news coming together in the same package.
Like a flaming paper bag of poo on your doorstep.
The good news is that the United States appears to be holding firm on its refusal to keep money flowing to the P.A. once the recently elected Hamas terrorists are in charge.
We will need vigilance on this one to keep State from blowing it or whimping out.
Though many thought Washington would quickly fold on this issue, the administration is sticking to its hard line against sending a cent to Hamas. And Congress is poised to enact aid restrictions that may act as a break on any State Department impulse to weaken on the issue.
Good. At least Congress is doing something right. Mark that on the calendar.
But along with this comes the bad news. The United States and the European Union (which is also considering an aid cutoff to the P.A.) will be diverting a lot of the money that supported the P.A. kleptocracy to humanitarian aid. That way, it is reasoned, innocent Palestinians won't be forced to suffer from the crimes of their new masters.
Innocent Paleos need to suffer from the crimes of their masters and the decisions that they make. It is Cause meet Effect 101. It is the ONLY WAY that they have a chance to learn. So far, there are NO consequences for their actions, other than some occasional hellfires taking out the moron leadership.
That rationale sounds compassionate and logical. The only problem is that the humanitarian group that will receive the lion's share of the aid is one of the most thoroughly politicized and terrorist-infiltrated organizations in the world: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Maybe Congress needs to examine the purse strings to the UNRWA, like they are doing with State.
For 56 years, UNRWA has been the symbol of the world's double standard about the war on Israel by the Arab world.
While the United Nations deals with the rest of the world's refugees with a single agency — the U.N. High Commission for Refugees — the Palestinian refugees have their very own agency — UNRWA — with a particular mission.
Pretty good scam so far. Let the UN finance your war against Israel. PT Barnum would be proud
Unfortunately, unlike virtually every other refugee aid group (including those that dealt with the hundreds of thousands of Jews who fled Arab lands in the aftermath of Israel's independence), UNRWA's primary mission has never been to help the Palestinians deal with the reality of the post-1948 world. Resettling the Palestinians wasn't the point. UNRWA exists to keep the Palestinians alive exactly where they are, so they can serve as justification for continued conflict with Israel.

A TERROR STRONGHOLD
As detailed in a new Jewish Telegraphic Agency series of reports on the topic, UNRWA's record is one of complicity not only with the political ends of the Palestinian movement, but with its violent tactics as well.
Many of UNRWA's employees are members not only of mainstream Palestinian terror factions such as Fatah, but of the Islamist Hamas group as well. UNRWA suffered a major embarrassment when its former director, the Norwegian bureaucrat Peter Hansen, admitted as much two years ago, saying it was no big deal. Indeed, in the recent Palestinian election, a number of UNRWA workers were Hamas parliamentary candidates.
Good offices be damned! We will support losers, terrorists, and other ne'erdowells.
Of course, why should Hansen — who helped spread the lie that Israeli forces had committed a massacre of civilians in the Jenin refugee camp in 2002 — worry about terrorist infiltration?
The man lied not only about the casualties of Jenin, in which Hamas and Fatah gunmen fought pitched battles against Israelis who were seeking to destroy terror bases after Palestinian suicide bombings, but also told tales about the fact that this and other UNRWA camps were, in fact, longstanding U.N.-subsidized strongholds of Palestinian terror groups.
Hansen and UNRWA have used the prestige of their "humanitarian" perch to routinely bash Israel for its attacks on the camps, but almost never mention the fact that Israel is reacting to Palestinian terror. But again, this is because the U.N. has always turned a blind eye to the fact that the camps under its jurisdiction were the places where terrorist atrocities are planned and launched.
I can't see yuuuu...I can't hear yuuuu.....lalalalalalalala!
UNRWA employees have used its facilities to shield terrorists from Israel, and even used its ambulances to transport both the killers and the weapons. Hamas also operates its new television station from the relative safety of a mosque in the UNRWA Jabalya camp.
In dire need of and EMP burst to blow the electronics and transmitter of hate.
And if nothing else serves to alert the world to the reality of the UNRWA camps, the steady toll of Palestinian casualties from "work accidents" [As documented in detail on the Rantburg News Network.] — mishaps with explosives during the manufacture of terrorist bombs — at these places ought to pierce the illusions of even the most gullible foreign observers.
But not all, not even by a long shot!
COMPLETE OVERHAUL NEEDED
What should the United States do about this? Let's start with the fact that the plentiful cash that flows from the United States Treasury to UNRWA (30 percent of the agency's $400 million budget comes courtesy of American taxpayers) is actually a violation of U.S. law. The U.S. Foreign Assistance Act requires UNRWA to assure that American money does not go to terrorists. That is an assurance that UNRWA cannot credibly give.
Hell, requesting the info from UNRWA and reviewing it could be a process that could take geologic time, with all the back and forth action. A slow, deliberate bureaucracy is our friend in this fight. We do not say no, we just review it until all of our bureaucrats die of natural causes.
Superficial reforms of the group won't work. Given the almost complete infiltration of UNRWA's bureaucracy by terrorist supporters, nothing short of a complete overhaul will do.
Correction: nothing short of complete dismantling will do. There. That reads better. Jeeze, I'm cynical......
Can the plug be pulled on UNRWA? Given the current pressure on the Bush administration to mend fences with the Arab world, it's unlikely. But if this cause gets a bipartisan push from Congress, it might help the White House focus on the way the agency is spending our money on reinforcing terrorist strongholds. Congress must follow up its legislation on aid to the P.A. with further hearings and action to halt subsidies to UNRWA.
Now there is something useful to do for Congress.
Sadly, it may take another Palestinian terror offensive — in which UNRWA camps will again serve as bases for suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks on Israeli civilians — to remind the world of the "humanitarian" fraud it's been subsidizing. Even then, the Palestinian propaganda machine, of which UNRWA is an integral part, will do its utmost to prevent the truth from being heard.
The mainstream world will ignore it, and that is the sad, tragic truth. Much of the world thinks that Israel is the problem, and that the Israelis are expendable.
But Americans have no excuse for continuing to be complicit in this deception. We — the funders of this half-century-old U.N. fiasco — must face up to the fact that this monster must be decapitated, and then rebuilt as a genuine humanitarian group.
Decapitate the monster, then wait for the second task for some concrete sign of commitment from the Paleos.
That may seem like an impossible task. But if the pain and grief that UNRWA helps inflict on the region is to be stopped, both the White House and Congress must stop buying into the myth of UNRWA's lies.
Posted by: Alaska Paul back home again || 03/15/2006 14:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Amen. I hope Henry Hyde and other equally ballsy Pub House members see this.
Posted by: Glert Thetch2165 || 03/15/2006 16:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Many of UNRWA's employees are members not only of mainstream Palestinian terror factions such as Fatah, but of the Islamist Hamas group as well.

So, what's the difference between them and the home office? Both are corrupt in the extreme and consistently abet anti-Semitism. Not one American cent should be released to either of these maggots.
Posted by: Zenster || 03/15/2006 19:25 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The fragile Euro-US 'alliance' on Iran
As the United States began making the case in the United Nations Security Council this week for what its Ambassador John Bolton calls "painful consequences" if Iran continues with its controversial nuclear program, Washington is facing a familiar dilemma: what to do if the rest of the world refuses to go along?

Unlike in the debate preceding the war in Iraq, the US and much of the world seem to agree that something must be done to restrain Tehran. However, there is no consensus on the question of just how "painful" the consequences should be. And while its allies across the Atlantic have recently joined the US in issuing strong statements about Iran's activities, Europe remains largely divided on how far it will follow Washington's line.

The five veto-holding UN Security Council powers are struggling this week to come up with text the council can issue aimed at curtailing Iran's nuclear program without threatening sanctions or other punitive measures. Russia and China oppose a proposal from the US, Britain and France for a presidential statement that would express "serious concern" and urge Tehran to abide by resolutions from the International Atomic Energy Agency. An alternative is to call on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment efforts, which the West believes are a cover for a program to make nuclear weapons.

In the US, the recent rapprochement between the US and Europe has been cited with we-told-you-so vindication. But according to observers in Europe, the Euro-US convergence on Iran is much thinner than it appears. Europe's willingness to present a united front with the US on Iran is driven by a number of factors, they say, including mounting concern for the US predicament in Iraq, the disappointing outcomes of its negotiations with Iran, and the fear that further destabilization in the Middle East will have serious consequences for European security.

None of these factors, however, means that Europe sees Iran as an "enemy that must be vanquished" - or that it views Washington's "war on terror" with anything less than skepticism. And solving the Iranian crisis, say these observers, will likely hinge more on how far Washington is willing to move toward a European position rather than vice-versa.

Tim Guldimann, a former Swiss ambassador to Iran and currently a professor at the University of Frankfurt who co-authored a recent report on the Iranian nuclear situation by the International Crisis Group (ICG), argues that the best way out of the impasse is to forge an agreement that recognizes an Iranian nuclear-fuel program as a fait accompli.

"For two and a half years now, Iran has been perfectly clear about its intentions to have an enrichment program. But the EU-3 [Germany, France and Britain] ignored this, arguing that offering incentives and threatening sanctions would eventually get Iran to stop its enrichment program," Guldimann said. "Not surprisingly, the Iranians rejected out of hand this approach when it was proposed by the Europeans last August."

Instead of insisting that Iran relinquish enrichment, says Guldimann, negotiators should propose a "delayed limited enrichment program" as a potential compromise.

According to the ICG report, under such a program, "The wider international community, and the West in particular, would explicitly accept that Iran cannot only produce peaceful nuclear energy but has the 'right to enrich' domestically; in return, Iran would agree to a several-year delay in the commencement of its enrichment program, major limitations on its initial size and scope, and a highly intrusive inspections regime."

The problem with this, says Guldimann, is that the US will never get on board as long it remains steadfastly opposed to any enrichment program. In Europe, on the other hand, the reaction to the ICG report has been at least cautiously curious.

Ultimately, says Guldimann, what Iran seems to be pushing for is not the bomb itself, but the capability to produce a bomb if the need should arise. "The goal, which has not been officially recognized, is to have the military option, but not a bomb," he said. "The Iranians were attacked by Iraq with weapons of mass destruction; 600,000 died. When that happened they stood alone, without the support from outside. That history is critical in Iranian considerations."

Mohammad-Reza Djalili, an Iranian-born professor of history at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, agrees. Djalili, who compares Iran's ambitions to Israel's policy of nuclear "opacity" - neither confirming nor denying the existence of its arsenal - says that while Iran might seek a nuclear weapons capability, it is not in its interest actually to have the bomb.

"The theoretical possibility of having a nuclear arsenal goes a long way to giving Iran standing both globally and regionally. At the same time, by refraining from actually producing weapons, Iran wouldn't provide sufficient rationale for its neighbors [including Turkey and Saudi Arabia] to build their own arsenals."

The author of the 2005 book Geopolitique de l'Iran, Djalili argues that Europe and the US need to view the Iranian nuclear program within the larger context of Tehran's evolving grand strategies, which traditionally have included a "European strategy" aimed at building relations with Europe to counterbalance US antagonism and an "Eastern strategy" intended to develop economic relations with India, Russia and China.

Both strategies, says Djalili, have at their root Iran's preoccupation with the United States, which has been a core concern since the Islamic revolution.

In part because of the growing nuclear crisis, he said, "what we are now witnessing is the ultimate failure of the European strategy, as Europe adopts a harder stance and aligns itself closer to the United States".

How far Europe is willing to go to block an Iranian enrichment program, he said, is another matter altogether. While Europe and the United States might agree on sanctions, it is hard to imagine Europe supporting the use of force, "the option pushed by some in the United States".

"My biggest concern is that this impasse will drive some policymakers in the United States to adopt the view pushed by neo-conservatives - that is, to try to destabilize Iran by supporting internal rebellions among different ethnic, religious and political factions," he concluded. "This would be disastrous, leading to still further balkanization in the region, more conflict, and more bloodshed."

Other observers note that Europe should not be viewed as a monolithic block, even if there has been widespread consensus in support of the EU-3 negotiating efforts. Not only are there opposing political currents among states on the continent, there are competing agendas within individual countries.

According to Jean Brincmont, a Belgian theoretical physicist and author of Imperialisme Humanitaire (2005), "There is a struggle in Europe between pro and anti-US opinions."

Further, many countries, such as France, have shown a strong willingness to go it alone in their foreign policies, which was seen in President Jacques Chirac's recent declarations about changes in his country's nuclear posture. Citing the example of the pro-US and enormously influential French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarcozy, Brincmont argued that "France may sometimes be divided over issues like Iran, but it is by no means subservient to US positions".

The potential for fissures in the European position was exhibited early this month in the wake of allegations that Moscow had floated a proposal to allow Iran to enrich a small amount of uranium on its soil in exchange for delaying for several years larger-scale production.

According to the March 6 New York Times, European diplomats said the proposal was "driving a wedge into what had been a relatively united front on uranium enrichment in Iran". Germany is cautiously supportive of Russia, they said, while France and Britain are siding with the US.

Russia later disavowed the proposal. But the Russian case highlights another complication in any trans-Atlantic effort to resolve the crisis - that Western powers do not hold all the cards.

"The West hasn't yet fully realized that the world has changed," said Guldimann. "The economic development of Asia, rising oil prices, the emergence of Russia as a key negotiating partner - all these things work against the idea that we can impose an end to the enrichment program, which is the preferred solution."

In contrast to US Vice President Dick Cheney's statement that the "international community is prepared to impose meaningful consequences", Guldimann contended that while most countries may pay lip service to the idea that Iran should not have an enrichment program, "when you put sanctions on the table things will fall apart. China won't go along, nor will Russia or India, or presumably Japan."

Brincmont agreed, but said that ultimately, the nuclear-power states have themselves to blame. "As long as the great powers want to keep their bombs, smaller powers will emerge asking for the same."
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#1  cut the Gordian Knot and deal with finese later.
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The phantom menace enemy and the West’s identity crisis
Tehran Times -By our staff writer
Who likely is a Yale student...
The identity crisis in international relations is closely interlinked with the issue of political enemies and rivals.
Brilliant! Such insight! Cuts right to the heart of the matter with a statment of the patently obvious!
Hostilities between nations date back to time immemorial.
Almost immemorial. The first wall of Jericho dates to about 8000 B.C. Presumably it was built to keep bad guyz out, rather than the local Natufians in.
In ancient times, we saw epic confrontations, such as the wars between the Persians and the Greeks and the Punic Wars between the Romans and the Carthaginians. Later, the Crusades became one of the most relentless symbols of hostility in history.
stuck in the Middle Ages, as always.
They're jealous. They missed out on the 100 Years War, the 30 Years War, and the 7 Years War. They didn't get to go to war over Jenkins' Ear. Having delusions of adequacy, they think that their war's more important than the other ones, just because they were involved...
Shortly afterwards, the Mongol invasions of Iran, Iraq, and Europe injected a great sense of horror and hostility into the history of humanity. The main question that arises is: Why have enmity and war always existed?
"Ogg not like Grook! Ogg conk Grook!"
Furthermore, why have some societies felt compelled to define their identity through their enemies?
because Allan told us to???
I think it's kind of the reverse the vampire phenomenon, where if they didn't have the reflection they'd lack any substance at all.
Do opposition of interests or lack of resources cause animosity?
"Ogg not have woman! Ogg conk Grook and take Oola!"
Is the existence of an enemy, or, if one does not exist, the creation of a phantom menace enemy, a vital necessity for all societies in the world? Although their enemies actually do take violent and hostile measures, in their quest for an identity, nations usually attribute negative characteristics like cowardice, violence, lust, and dishonesty to their enemies but regard themselves as free of such deficiencies.
Maybe because it's those enemies who seem hellbent on taking violent and hostile measures?
"Ogg not cowardly, violent, lustful and dishonest! Ogg merely sneak up on Grook, conk him, rape Oola, and then deny whole thing!"
Unfortunately, societies often do define their identity through their enemies, and a great number of societies experience an identity crisis when they have no enemy.
"We have no enemies!"
"We are nothing!"
"Help! Help! I'm declining!"
"I'm fallllllinnnnnggggg!"
In order to resolve their identity crises, nations actually use the concept of the enemy to define their policies and objectives.
Sounds like a good description for most Islamic countries these days
... whether it makes any sense or not.
For example, the existence of an enemy of any kind was a constructive necessity for the Romans.
"Aye, Crassus! I find those Gauls to be a constructive necessity!... By the way, would you like something to eat? You've got a lean and hungry look!"
The endurance and scope of the Roman Empire was in large part due to its constant conflicts with enemies.
"And inshallah our empire will last even longer!!!"
When the existence of an enemy becomes a constructive element for a society, real and illusory enemies arise.
Like Ostrogoths and Muslims...
Yet there are different kinds of hostility.
No! Reeeeeally?
The clash between Greece and Iran in ancient times was an authentic animosity, whereas the animosity between North Korea and South Korea is in some ways illusory, since the citizens of the two countries belong to the same ethnic group and have a common cultural background.
ah, yes .. if only those recalcitrant southern Koreans had realized this - what's a little tyranny among friends?
Meanwhile, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, although based on the ideological differences of the two sides, was also defined by certain cultural differences. They actually could have posed no threat to each other.
Damn. You mean my husband spent a career in the Air Force defending against a strategic nuclear threat for no good reason. Hell - his mother was right, he should have gone to medical school instead. Just think how much richer we'd be right now. Man am I pissed ....
However, when each side advocated the superiority of its political theories and challenged the other’s definitions of certain fundamental economic and social concepts, hostilities arose, triggering an identity crisis in each country. Later, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States could no longer justify its military presence in the Persian Gulf and other parts of the globe. Thus, the West felt obliged to create an enemy for itself. At first, differences between the Islamic and Western civilizations were exaggerated.
I mean, what's a little beheading among friends? Why all the fuss about stoning women to death for being raped? And really, those Americans are WAY too uptight about sermons calling for their destruction.
This facilitated U.S. efforts to fabricate an illusory enemy.
"Simkins! Conjure me an illusory enemy! Have him in my office by 10 o'clock!"
Then 9/11 provided a vague but new enemy for the United States.
"Mr. President! The twin towers have collapsed and 3000 people are dead! The Pentagon was attacked! Muslims are dancing in the streets in celebration!"
"Hmmm... Sounds like a vague but new enemy, Karl!"
Although terrorism is a great threat for the West, and particularly for the United States, it is at the same time the best kind of enemy, in that it helps the West define its identity.
"We may have our faults, but we don't lop people's heads off!"
"Kinda the definition of our side, isn't it, Karl?"
Terrorism is also the best pretext for U.S. intervention in any country.
It'll do for a start.
He's conflating "pretext" and "reason," a condition known as "conflatulence."
By magnifying the threat of terrorism and introducing it as not only the enemy of the United States but rather as the enemy of all humanity, the U.S. thus justifies its policy of aggression.
Since everybody's head comes off in pretty much the same manner, I don't see how it's not the enemy of all humanity.
This act has helped some nations and governments temporarily overcome their identity crises. The introduction of the phantom menace enemy has also created a seemingly endless global war with no clear goals, an astronomical rise in the U.S. defense budget, and windfall profits for the U.S. military-industrial complex, which may have been the original goal in the first place.
And that's just the opening moves, buddy.
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#1  Written by a child, a moron, or a Democrat?

YOU BE THE JUDGE!
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 03/15/2006 5:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Redundant?
Posted by: no mo uro || 03/15/2006 6:51 Comments || Top||

#3  It does read like something I might've written - back in the 6th Grade after completing the SRI series.
Posted by: Glert Thetch2165 || 03/15/2006 7:29 Comments || Top||

#4  RC, I think you've almost got it.
Written FOR a child, a moron, or a Democrat?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/15/2006 8:31 Comments || Top||

#5 
could have a picture of Senator Palpatine in the article
Posted by: mhw || 03/15/2006 9:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Just Curious works for the Teheran Times?
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/15/2006 10:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Strange indeed.... he never mentioned or lashed out at Jews once. He most certainly must be distracted to the absolute extreme.
Posted by: Visitor || 03/15/2006 11:15 Comments || Top||

#8  the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, although based on the ideological differences of the two sides, was also defined by certain cultural differences. They actually could have posed no threat to each other.

Well, I'll admit that no soviet ever strapped a bomb on his person and blew up a nightclub in NY, but there was the matter of several thousand multi-megaton nuclear weapons we had pointed at each other for about 40 years.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 03/15/2006 12:46 Comments || Top||

#9  Details. Mere details.
Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2006 13:22 Comments || Top||

#10  This treatise is just the preamble of a greater multi-volume rant. You will find, that in either installment 2 or 3 that it will go heavily into the Jooooos and why they poisoned the soup of the ME by their mere presence.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/15/2006 22:00 Comments || Top||



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