James Baker is shaping up to be the Republican Party’s next Pat Buchanan. You want me to vote Republican? Shyeah. Because of tactics like this? Right.
WASHINGTON - According to Thursday’s issue of the conservative Washington Times’ Insight magazine, the White House was looking into proposal by former Secretary of State James Baker to hold a Middle East peace conference without Israel .
According to the report, the United States government was going to consider the possibility of having a second Madrid Conference in which Arab states would participate, including Syria and Iran, but with without Israel being invited to participate.
As reported by the magazine, officials said the conference would be promoted as a forum to discuss Iraq’s future, but actually focus on Arab demands for Israel to withdraw from territories captured in the 1967 war.
A source in the US government was quoted in the report as saying, “As Baker sees this, the conference would provide a unique opportunity for the US to strike a deal without Jewish pressure. This has become the hottest proposal examined by the foreign policy people over the last month.”
Other sources in the government told the magazine that the proposal was supported by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Under Secretary of Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, and National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.
So, they want to exclude Israel from a conference that affects her future directly, and they want to do this because of those horrible Jews, who have the nerve to have an interest in the outcome of matters that concern the land of Israel—land of their origin.
And they want all this, because—and this is the kicker—it will affect the war in Iraq.
No, it won’t. Iraqi Shi’ites aren’t murdering Iraqi Sunnis because of Israel’s treatment of the palestinians. Syria isn’t supplying arms and terrorists to Iraq because of Israel’s treatment of the palestinians. Iran isn’t supplying arms and soldiers to Iraq because of Israel’s treatment of the palestinians. All of these things will continue, even if Israel gives back every inch of land she got in 1967.
It’s the Islamism, stupid.
Yasser Arafat was given the best shot at a palestinian state, and he turned it down—because Israel is on an Islamic “waqf” and Islamists will never acknowledge that the land is no longer theirs.
Eff you, Baker, and eff your cohorts at State who think this is a good idea. It is reprehensible and blatantly anti-Semitic to exclude Israel because of “Jewish pressure.” But then, we already knew Baker doesn’t like Jews.
No other country in the world would stand for agreeing to the outcome of a conference that didn’t include it. I don’t believe Israel is going to agree to whatever this “conference” comes up with.