Ibleedburgundy
06-05-2009, 01:44 PM
An admirable sentiment. It applies to everyone -- Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syria, even Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: "a stop to settlements -- not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions."
What's the issue? No "natural growth" means strangling to death the thriving towns close to the 1949 armistice line, many of them suburbs of Jerusalem, that every negotiation over the past decade has envisioned Israel retaining. It means no increase in population. Which means no babies. Or if you have babies, no housing for them -- not even within the existing town boundaries. Which means for every child born, someone has to move out. No community can survive like that. The obvious objective is to undermine and destroy these towns -- even before negotiations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/04/AR2009060403811.html
Wow. I get that the Washington Post strives to be balanced, and therefor having a few die hard Republicans on the editorial page is warranted. There's also something to be said for writers who think outside the box and aren't afraid to say something controversial. But this goes well beyond that IMO. It's the equivalent of columnist trolling. How does this guy have a job?
What's the issue? No "natural growth" means strangling to death the thriving towns close to the 1949 armistice line, many of them suburbs of Jerusalem, that every negotiation over the past decade has envisioned Israel retaining. It means no increase in population. Which means no babies. Or if you have babies, no housing for them -- not even within the existing town boundaries. Which means for every child born, someone has to move out. No community can survive like that. The obvious objective is to undermine and destroy these towns -- even before negotiations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/04/AR2009060403811.html
Wow. I get that the Washington Post strives to be balanced, and therefor having a few die hard Republicans on the editorial page is warranted. There's also something to be said for writers who think outside the box and aren't afraid to say something controversial. But this goes well beyond that IMO. It's the equivalent of columnist trolling. How does this guy have a job?