Bush Doesn’t Get It
Category: Dr. Mike Evans, J.W.N. ExclusivesBy MICHAEL D. EVANS
During his first visit to Israel in January as leader of the free world, President George W. Bush made the expected rhetorical endorsements of Israel as the Jewish state and even prodded Israel to remove unauthorized settler outposts in the West Bank.
But the very next day, on the first visit by an American president to the Palestinian Authority, Bush glibly repeated the Palestinian party line on the so-called “right of return,” thereby encouraging the perpetuation of one of the greatest frauds of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a Palestinian strategy aimed at the ultimate destruction of Israel.
Bush urged Palestinian authorities to halt rocket attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip – which continued without interruption during his three-day visit – and he issued a sharp warning to Iran following a naval incident in the Persian Gulf. He also announced the appointment of Lt. Gen. William Fraser to monitor the implementation of the 2002 Israeli-Palestinian Roadmap for peace plan – which has remained stalled for the past five years. One reason for this is the unfulfilled first stage of the plan: the cessation of Palestinian terrorism.
“The only way to have lasting peace, the only way for an agreement to mean anything, is for the two parties to come together and make the difficult choices,” Bush told a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, “But we’ll help, and we want to help.”
How helpful can the United States be if it supports Israel’s existence as a Jewish state one day, then parrots Palestinian strategy to flood Israel with “refugees” who will be able to vote it out of existence as a Jewish state? Bush and his advisers suggested that the purpose of the presidential visit was to prompt Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to get to work on “core issues” such as the future status of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees. Mention of Jerusalem – before halting terrorism – was enough to evoke a threat by the religious Shas Party to withdraw from the coalition and bring down Olmert’s government.
This was surely not Bush’s intention, but neither should have been his reference to the so-called “right of return” claimed by the great-grandchildren of Arab refugees misplaced by a war begun by Arab states in an effort to destroy the nascent state of Israel in 1948. The president of the United States is a busy man and relies on his advisers to keep him informed. Here’s what Bush’s advisers failed to tell him:
In 1948, two refugee populations were created as a result of the Arab states’ war against the newly established State of Israel: the Palestinian Arabs and the Jews from Arab countries. In fact, more Jews were expelled by or fled Arab countries – some 850,000 – than were Palestinians who became refugees – about 750,000.
But while Jewish refugees were absorbed into Israel and granted citizenship, the Palestinian refugees were, with the exception of Jordan, forced to remain in camps for the past 60 years by their host Arab countries, to cynically perpetuate their “refugee” status and use this as a weapon against Israel. Both issues must be dealt with in peace negotiations. The Jews who were forced out of their homes by Arab governments, which then confiscated their property, were the victims of the same aggression carried out by the Arab states against the newly founded State of Israel.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has spent billions of dollars to maintain the Palestinian “refugees” in their camps for more than half a century, in the process making them the only “refugees” in the world who are able to transmit their “refugee” status to their fourth-generation offspring.
When the Palestinian Authority claims a “right of return” for Palestinians whose great-grandparents once lived in what has become Israel, it is only with the cynical intention of inundating the country with enough Palestinians to eliminate it as the world’s only Jewish state.
Bush said that, “We need to look to the establishment of a Palestinian state and new international mechanisms, including compensation, to resolve the refugee issue.” It is perhaps no coincidence that previous US estimates have put the cost of compensation at $100 billion to $150 billion. This is also the conservative estimate of the value of property left behind by the Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
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I am not an informed person on this planet, but even I realize and know that the Palestinians are lying, murdering thieves intent on the destruction of Israel. President Bush should have understood this, I am disappointed at his intention to divide Jerusalem.
“This was surely not Bush’s intention” … You want to bet!? - As the Native American says: ‘Great White Father speaks with forked tongue!” … In the same way that Bush and Congress give lip service to sealing United States from the invasion of illegal immigration from Mexico - then fails to spend the money appropriated to seal the border, build a fence, or increase the number of Border Patrol agents — and the meanwhile asking for amnesty for all the illegals here, and still to come — Bush is doing the SAME thing in the United States: “innundating United States with enough illegal immigrants from Mexico and to effectively disolve our national soveriegnty” and merge this country with Mexico, as per and via NAFTA, WITHOUT Congresssional, Supreme Court, or citizen approval! - If Bush will do this to the United States, what makes the writer of this article think he wouldn’t INTENTIONALLY do the same thing to Israel ???!!!
You are doing a great work of God, Mike. Do not ever be discouraged. God is with you. He wil not fail you nor forsake you. No man shall stand before you all the days of your life. As He was with Moses, so shall He be with you. Joshua 1:5
Bush doesn’t get it ! I say, oh yes he does. The biggest chess game is going on and lines up with scripture. to deny that is to deny His Word. After all it is written, that ALL Nations go against Israel. Some say oh just the ones surrounding Her. I say that is putting the cart before the horse. The first part of Ezekiel lets us know they will attack her soon, Egypt is not any friend. I say Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia will soon attack her..In response rather than be destroyed, Israel will do the Solomon act and destroy Damascus..Isaiah 17. After all she is not feeling safe, is not the wealthest nation, is not acceped by the rest of the world, and the wall is still up..she will become wealthy too because I think she will hit oil. How else could she be the wealthyest nation on earth. When all hell breaks loose soon, she will beccome peaceful as they fake peace brought on by antichrist..and then when she feels safe, builds the temple, that is when old Russia brings all Persia against Her..Antichrist scripture tells us doesn’t like women. Does that ring a bell for anyone..In the Muslim world they treat them like dogs. And I am so sick of hearing about global warming. it is global warning..and no matter what the world does, G-d says HE is the one who controls the weather. In the meantime the church is in great apostasy with another gospel, another Jesus, Jeshua if you will,, follow the Catholic to Rome, Even tho G-d said HIS KINGDOM is not of this world, and HE also said, they hated me and they will hate you. Just the fact people love old Rick Warren and His new age, mixing all relgions together and love, love unity, diversity, tollarance and all that garbage in the sence it is NOT what is acceptable to the L-rd,,They have thrown out the power of the gospel and need to repent, or they too will be punished along with all the rest left behind. G-d is a G-d of justice…and if He will punish His first born, how much more would He punsih us..Gen 12 will be forever..and it started with the curse and will end in redemption for Israel..