Taki’s Mideast Peace Plan
Gstaad - Here, at last, is the Taki plan to save George W. Bush’s presidency from the disaster it has been turned into by his neocon advisers. Yes, the Iraq war is a failure, but pulling out now will turn it into a geopolitical catastrophe of incalculable consequences. What W needs is a great big fat win which will overshadow Iraq, hog the headlines, and catapult him in the polls. The operative word is Palestine. Let’s take it from the top:
His latest call for an international conference, one that is supposed to give birth to a contiguous Palestinian state, is a good start. The trouble is Israel. Throughout the last forty years, countless speeches, initiatives and UN resolutions, Israel has continued building illegal settlements in order that future efforts toward peace will collide with harder realities on the ground. Hence Palestinians no longer believe a word either Arab, Israeli or American politicians say. One example of this is Gaza. The West insisted on free elections, but once the results were in, the winners were pronounced terrorists, the borders were closed, and funds were refused. Western reaction to this free election has done more to harm Palestinian trust of the West than even the Iraq war.
Worse, it has played into the hands of extremists. “They talk about freedom and democracy as long as it suits them,” goes the saying in the camps and on the Arab street. Radical Islamists always time their attacks to occur just before major events, such as Israeli redeployments. Equally, Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by an Israeli extremist, putting an end to the Oslo process. What George Bush has to do is read the riot act to Israel’s right wing, force the only democracy in the Middle East to revert to its 1967 borders, swap lands equal in size and quality to ensure territorial contiguity for both Israelis and Palestinians, and then, finally, ignore the provocations and terrorist acts by both sides until a viable independent Palestinian state is born. Most important of all is for Bush to use the stick where settlement activity is concerned.
Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? But just imagine if Bush forces the Israeli hand and ignores warmongers like the two fat Kagan brothers and the clown Podhoretz, whose latest initiative is for us to Dresdenise Iran. (His even more repulsive son has just written a beauty, about how right we were to incinerate Germans in Dresden at the closing days of the war.) Just think if Bush manages to bring peace to the Holy Land what it will do for his reputation, now lower than even that of my hero Richard Nixon. The Arab world would have to shut up for once. Ronald Reagan tried and failed, Bush senior promised to stop the settlements and lost to Bill Clinton for his efforts, and Bubba went for the Nobel Prize, shook a lot of hands and made a lot of promises but came up with zilch.
The good news is that in Israel proper there are serious, respected people who have had enough of having their chain pulled by mostly American-born extremist settlers. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, is a zinger. Using mostly Israeli official sources, he methodically traces the entire period when pre-state Zionist leaders planned to forcibly expel the locals in order to create the Jewish state. Pappe’s figures don’t lie. Over 90 percent of the land was Palestinian in the early 20th century, and by 1948 the Jewish minority owned only 5.8 percent of the land. The ethnic cleansing came under the name of Plan Dalet, and it included files on every Arab village and its inhabitants which would allow Jewish militias to attack them and drive them off their lands.
The result was that 800,000 Palestinians became refugees. We in the West pride ourselves for fairness and compassion. As do the Jewish people everywhere. Where’s the fairness here after all these years? As reported in The New Yorker, Avraham Burg, a former speaker of the Knesset, leader of the World Zionist Organisation and the Jewish Agency for Israel, calls present-day Israel a “Holocaust-obsessed, militaristic, xenophobic, and, like Germany in the 1930’s, vulnerable to an extremist minority.” Even more important, he writes that “Israel, having ceased to care about the children of the Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centres of Israeli escapism.”
Imagine if anyone said something like this on the Senate floor in D.C. He or she would be out of a job quicker than you can say Bill Kristol, with that grotesque careerist personally leading the charge. In order for the Taki plan (just kidding, of course) to work, Bush has to forget that AIPAC exists—all it does is subordinate American policy to Israeli interests and by so doing radicalises public opinion in the Arab world—get rid of the creeps who have manipulated him for so long, read the riot act to the Saudis (who have never stopped financing terror) force the Israelis to dismantle the settlements, force through bribes the Palestinians to sit down and sign, and presto—Taki receives the Nobel Prize, Bush is declared the greatest president since Lincoln, and the Podhoretzes, Kristols, Frums and Kagans of this world are assigned federal jobs in the Florida swamps guarding alligators against rampaging Eskimos. Mind you, I will not be holding my breath for Stockholm to ring with the good news.
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Why just kidding. Sounds like a brilliant, and quite moderate plan. If I were Jewish I would support it forthwith. Also as a Briton (not a Brit mind you) I would look forward to hearing America’s loud sigh of relief as they became Americans again and stopped churning up world hatred against themselves and us. Also maybe we’ll hear “Aw shucks” again instead of “suck” and “sucks” everywhere.
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“...if Bush manages to bring peace to the Holy Land...”
LOL - realistically the Muslims would just pocket the gains and step up attacks on Israel, demanding the ‘right of return’. Bush would have lost neocon and Christian zionist support, all for nothing.
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In order for the Taki plan (just kidding, of course) to work, Bush has to… .
Small order!
Anyway, it’s a bit late in the day for Bush to save the world when all he’s been doing these last six and a half years is trash it.
Best thing that could happen is that someone kidnaps the real bush, smuggles in a lookalike, prisoner of Zenda style (a chimpanzee would do) who reverses bush’s disastrous policies in the middle east.
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Why save evil?
Let the neocon set dig its own grave.
Even if I had a plan like Taki’s I’d keep shut about
it.
Communism in Europe crubled because of its own inside
rot. So will neoconism. And Bush will be remembered as
the idiot he was (is).
Sic transit gloria mundi…
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Please tell me it isn’t so! Now even Taki has become a Wilsonian?
Here is a better plan for how to fix the modern Apartheid State – abandon it. The guy breaking up the fight always ends up getting punched in the process. In this case our long- term, unilaterally beneficial friendship with Israel has directly, and indirectly, led to the attack on the USS Liberty, the treason of Jonathan Pollard, and 9/11, to name just a few.
Stop all foreign aid as Ron Paul proposes. No money to Israel, Egypt or any other corrupt regime. Bring the troops home now. Let some other 3rd party get mired in the useless sands of the region and let that same 3rd party be on the receiving end of Islamic rage. Our border ends 200 miles off our coast, not where Jordan’s western edge begins.
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Taki, of course, is trying to provoke us into commenting on stale ideas which everybody knew they were there for the last half a century.
What Taki forgets is that he is advising a man who has long ago declared Ariel Sharon a ‘Man of Peace’.
We do have the Sharon Peace, Taki, the only problem is what to do with Palestinians who wont accept it.
And,the whole idea would be a waste of time when our Sharon’s ‘Partner for Peace’ is so busy preparing us another war.
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Taki, Bush has proven himself to be highly incompent
at what he attempts, so why do you expect him to solve
the situation in Palestine in any way satisfactory?
Haven’t you seen any Three Stooges shorts? Haven’t you
learned that anything in the charge of incompetents
turns to disaster?
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within the neocon stratagem to conquer and divide in the middle east are the seeds of their own destruction...they will succeed in bringing into the limelight “the zionist question”. the myths they have built are crumbling like the potemkin villages built by their cousins in russia.
they (aipac) and the drivers of that policy have tried and succeeded in keeping their identity out of sight of the american public.
we will all see how americans will feel when they discover that their govt officials are bullied into obeyeing the demands of these neocons and their dual allegience comrades.
sadly this seems to be the only way that we here in the states can liberate ourselves from these chains that have us bound.
so let them force this issue to the limelight as they appear to be doing.
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Dear Taki,
There are so many problems with your article that it’s hard to know where to begin.
You have indeed become a Wilsonian, a very naïve one at that. Meddling in the Middle East for the last sixty odd years is what has gotten the United States into this mess. In your estimation, what we need is more meddling! All the US has to do is:
read the riot act to Israel’s right wing, force the only democracy in the Middle East to revert to its 1967 borders, swap lands equal in size and quality to ensure territorial contiguity for both Israelis and Palestinians, and then, finally, ignore the provocations and terrorist acts by both sides until a viable independent Palestinian state is born. Most important of all is for Bush to use the stick where settlement activity is concerned.
Is that all Taki?
Here’s a much more modest proposal that requires no sticks, carrots or muscle flexing,
“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”
So simply put, the US should get out of the Middle East, stop giving Israel billions in aid per annum, and otherwise stop pretending that it has any right to tell other people how to live their lives.
And while we’re at it, why the old neocon saw that the US can’t pull out now because it will only get worse? Taki, you cannot know what will happen if the US pulls out unless you have a very good crystal ball. Maybe things would get worse or maybe they would get better. I do know for certain that US soldiers would stop being maimed and killed.
What a strange article from someone who usually sounds like he is of the Old Right.
Respectfully,
John McKerrow
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i forgot to mention that the forces of support are already in place for them here in america....the christian zionist lobby has been cultivated and will provide support and apologize for them, but for how long.
i can already see that there will be a great divide here in the states with the christian zionist acting like fox news and ostracizing those who do not support israel as anti god, and the cause of all the wrong that may be occuring.
there is nothing like coffee to wake up the scenses.
except maybe truth.
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Bush can not even bring domestic peace in his household. To expect hi to pioneer a peace process its a gargantuan epic for someone who chokes on a pretzel. A president of the USA does not conceive, nor make policies; the president “follows” instructions and proceeds with the assurance of a sleepwalker in the fulfillment of chapter and verse scripted by the one’s who have their hands on the real levers of power. The basic problem is that the piece of real estate called holy land is not sufficiently large to contain two distinct racial types. Elementary. There is only room for one group; the strongest.
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Taki sed: “...his (Bush2) reputation, now lower than even that of my hero Richard Nixon.”
Nixon is my hero as well. It was really Nixon and his
“Silent Majority” that birthed the decades of
Republican Party rule, not Ronald Reagan, who just
picked up the coalition that Wall Street orchestrated
and financed Coup d’état that dethroned him.
Taki, because of this, I now forgive you for your indiscreet remarks that
Bush2 was basically a nice guy mislead by his advisors.
The Bush family has been a cancer on American since
it skimmed it’s first kickback in the early 20th Century.
See Kevin Phillips’ book on the Bush Dynasty.
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Taki, please have your webmaster fix this crazy Post A
Comment Box, in which the typing goes outside of the box
and makes the task of commenting on TakiMag so
frustrating!
No, I didn’t mean what I just wrote. I meant that
Reagan inherited the “Silent Majority” that Nixon
created, and it’s Nixon, as much as Reagan that deserves the
the credit for the last 3 decades of Democrats voting
for Republican presidents and Congressmen.
American, and the Middle Class that sustains it, lost
the best supporter of their interests since Andrew
Jackson, when Nixon was deposed.
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I have no idea as to the advisability of Taki’s plan. It sounds good. On the other hand, maybe it’s time the proven foreign policy/war incompetents (Gringos) just pull up and pull out (or be voted out as were Wilson and Chamberlain and the last Czar, or forced out as Louis N. Buonaparte) and follow Washington’s foreign policy—George Washington’s.
Gringoville was never very good in foreign policy or war anyway. Heck, Gringos know NOTHING about foreign countries, foreign languages, foreign customs—and they don’t want to know. They go to Europe, demand “Caffe Americano” at he bar and palatial sized (or Holiday Inn sized) rooms in the hotel, and a place to park their big cars. The eat in McDonald’s and stay at the Hilton. Foreign ways just don’t fetch the Yankee Yahoo. So in foreign policy they wring their hands, sing songs about “give peace a chance”, or send in the Marines. In serious war, when not lynching a tiny country, the Gringo takes a mob with him into battle. The last three world wars were won by Gringos just by being bigger, not smarter. Gringos had only three great men in Foreign Policy, J. Adams (who nonetheless blew it with the Alien and Sedition Acts), his son (American’s best), and Polk (whose major achievement, after standing up to the Brits) is now being repealed by Mexicans who are taking back what was once theirs).
In passing: As long as Israel has (1) a border with a high fence, a DMZ the range of small artillery, metal detectors, bomb-sniffing dogs; (2) massive and bloody reprisals for scud attacks and long range artillery; and (3) nukes, then Israel will do just fine, free from 4th Gen War and “conventional” war. Why the Neocons don’t realize this beats me.
Judging from replies, it’s time for another prophecy: Paleoconservatism is dead, and it died with Sam Francis. What’s left of the old Paleocon leadership of the 90s is a few dyspeptic, bitter, shrill old men on the way to the old folk’s home, deaf to any constructive suggestions. What’s left of the movement are two groups who are just discovering that they don’t have anything to do with each other. Soon they will file for divorce. High time. These two groups are:
(1) The Brown Shirts and other Bismarckian blood and soil Nationalists, found (among other places) at the American Renaissance, The Occidental Quarterly, Vdare, and the Balkan diaspora; and doubtless receiving daily appeals from The National Alliance to join it. Maybe the Browns will get off the ground a form a big movement, call it “populism”, and recruit out of work textile and furniture workers. On that day, there will be good reason for the hype on Fox News and CNN.
(2) Real Blanc (Legitimists, Carlists, Jacobites with some Ultramontanes and Christian Democrats thrown in for good measure), and Blue (High Tories, folk John Lukacs calls “patriots”, and Taki-esque types). I pray John Ball joins us here.
Another prophecy: sit back and just watch the Browns throw a tantrum of piercing squeals from their cribs after reading my post, before they cry themselves to sleep.
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It is just amazing to me how little we are willing to accept in this country as the designated enemy of the state. Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union(our WWII allies), we haven’t had an enemy of any significance. We have been reduced into trying to build hysteria over a handfull of nuts in turbans but more and more people are just not buying into it. My fear isn’t “radical Islam” but someone pulling a false flag attack and blaming it on “radical Islam”. I just don’t feel that Arabs have the wherewital to pull off anything of any importance.
But Taki where do you get off trying to pull the plug on any incentive for these guys? Don’t you have any sympathy for the guys making body armor and troop carriers? What will become of these billionaires? What will happen to our veteran’s hospitals and monument industries to say nothing of Haliburton et al? I can only imagine them forced to sell global cooling devices or air dropping huge chunks of ice on the artic to fight global warming.
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Cassandra, just wondering, exactly what is it you are proposing? You list a number of characteristics of a group you refer to as the Brownshirts that should divorce themselves from the rest of the group without really identifying what characterstics of this group make them undesirable. I can only imagine the ... I guess formerly paleoconservative movement, having become too large was only due to splinter eventually anyway. Forgive me that I hadn’t heard that we(if I may use that term here) already were running with such an excess of membership. I find myself heartened that we, if I may be so bold, are in such an enviable position with zero money and national recognition.
That things have progressed so well so quickly is indeed a wonderfull thing and we can only hope that Taki’s dream of being in a position to dictate the terms of a middle east peace to Bush are coming shortly.
So are we, if we be those remaining after the departure of those Brownshirts and their plethora of unnamed sins, now called the neo-paleo-conservatives?
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Here’s MY plan:
Walk away.
willb
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“LOL - realistically the Muslims would just pocket the gains and step up attacks on Israel, demanding the ‘right of return’.
they deserve it. and bush would give them half of it under this plan!
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Bluestone sed: “Pop him in the balls, Joe”
Thank you Mr. Bluestone, I think I will. “Golden Crown of Thorns” Ball and his ilk ain’t much better then Bush2 himself, wrapping themselves in the flag and the bible while engaging in all sorts of evil doing.
What exactly is the legacy of American “Conservativism”? It’s not pretty I can tell you. First, the sell out America’s economic sovereignty to Wall Street profiteers. How about working to undermine American free labor with unrestrained immigration of desperate economic refugees of Wall Street Finance Capitalism while shipping their jobs to Communist China? Of course the most famous is their tendency to ignore the actual Gospel of Jesus while focusing on the lunatic “ranting n’ raving” interpretation of the Book of Revelations, ironically to further the interests of Israel, and a conspiracy of international financiers that bankroll the AIPAC and it’s octopus of front groups and media infiltrators.
Ball and his so-called “conservative” movement needs to understand the REAL American Populist creed. They are the values of the American Working Class! Religious Faith. Community and Family. Work Ethic. Love of Country.
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Taki, the only solution is the conversion of the world to Jesus Christ. By that I mean conversion to His Mystical Body, the Catholic Church. Anything else is nothing more than hot air and continuing tragedy. History is a cogent witness to this fact ever since the Protestant revolt.
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Taki? did you neglect to take into acound the fact that you gonna be, for sure, automatically, labeled as a furious anti-semitist by those «smart» guys? You dont care about your career Taki? About your future?
If you ensewer NO to those , then you are brave men Taki.
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The US should withdraw its forces from the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, and cease all foreign aid and arms sales. Doesn’t anyone find a bit arrogant the assumption of the American elite and most of the American people that it is up to the US to micro-manage all the problems of the world? Some claim the US is too big to mind its own business, but this argument is never advanced with respect to say India or China. If it’s size which condemns the US to endless warfare to solve all the problems of the world, while smaller countries can live in peace at least some of the time, that strikes me as a good argument to downsize the US into its component states. The evil empire dedicated to spreading democracy, secularism, liberalism, and a couple of dozen other evil ideologies throughout the world is the US.
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Really, guys.
Why not just sticking to the subject of the column and leave Brownshirts, Hitler and zeppelin-sized egos out of it?
Taki has very kindly allowed us to comment on his columns here. That means we’re his guests. It further means we should BEHAVE like his guests.
We don’t have to agree with Taki or among ourselves, but we should behave in a civilized and constrained manner. Just like we would if Taki invited us to dinner, wouldn’t we?
In a discussion or debate that means we do not utilize branding people this or that. “If you like your eggs hard boiled, that means you’re a nazi!”.
Yeah, sure. Some overwhelming piece of logic there…
Please guys, be decent, show some style, and lessen the impressions.
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I totally agree Rin-tin-tin. Let’s clean up our discourse and guarantee that we continue to have it instead of throwing labels out that will put people on the defensive.
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I can’t believe you wrote this. It’s so brilliant it might eventually get you whacked. Who does your hair? I suggest you run for the Senate next to Ron Paul on many issues in a red [UncleJoeStalin] state. Wake up a few rednecks in the process. [I’m redneck on both sides, so please don’t get insulted.] Pardone moi’, but if Hillary can pretend to be from NY and push her version of tyranny, Taki and his friends can target a state or twenty for freedom, liberation and justice.
It scares me how easily the American people have been cowed into a Soviet-style surveillance state. The key to making this MEPP work, and Taki the Great becoming a reality, is of course to find enough righteous Hebs to back it. [I’m Heb on my Dad’s side so ….] Of course, … where to find them? Well, you should have those friends within a clique’ or two needed to create a chain reaction in consciousness. So … make it so. You don’t need three hundred and you should have a hell of a lot more. Go on. You show ‘em how.
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Funny how each and every person who agitates for a Palestinian state - from the paleoconservative right to the nutbucket left - asks everything of Israel and very little of the Palestinians and the Islamic countries that will immediately become a future State o’ Palestine’s financial and military backers.
As far as I’m concerned, the Palestinians can go **** fuck themselves. If I could go back in time and change one thing in the course of history, I’d go back to 1967 and make the Israeli government annex the West Bank and declare Jerusalem as its new capital.
GO ISRAEL! NUKE ARAB ASS!
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Add the New American “ass” etc., last comment, to “suck” and “sucks”, see #1 above. I’m sick of this language, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
And, still on previous comment, what have the poor suffering Palestinians ever done to warrant such outrage? Your New World Order is amoral, atheist and therefore ironically bound to bring down the recently erected state of Israel (just a year older than their statist cousins in the Near East: Pakistan).
Taki’s fresh ideas on the subject are well worth considering which is why we read his work.
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Sorry, a year younger.
Pakistan 1947.
Israel 1948.
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Taki’s advice is sound, but it will be wasted if it
is given to Bush. It would make more sense to try to
sell it to Hillary. Sure, she is evil, but she is
not stupid, and if she thought she would profit by it,
she would embrace.
No such intelligent behavior can be found in our prsent
Dunce-in-Chief, whose only characteristic is stubborness
disguised as principle.
J.D. Peron said once, that an idiot is more harmful
than a wicked man, and that is true, because a wicked
man will know when he is cutting his own throat.
Or as the Talmud said “Evil may repent, but Stupid is
forever”
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The mistake with Taki’s argument is to assume that a two states solution was ever seriously considered by the Israeli government.It never has been.
Long before Israel was even established, Zionists were already planning on the possibility of a “Greater Israel” that contained not only all of Palestine but parts of all of the surrounding countries that now border Israel. This was an integral part of their plan going back to the time of Herzl in the late 19th century.
Over the years the idea of a “two state solution” was only proposed in english language Israeli media meant for consumption in the west. Hebrew language media meant for Israeli citizens themselves never seriously mentioned this idea.
Israeli author Israel Shahak clearly detailed this duplicity in his books. Shahak also warns that the proposals for a “two state solution’ serve in effect to divert criticism away from Israel by making people think that such a solution might be possible. It isn’t now and it never has been.
I am afraid that the only solution is for the US to cut off all aid and support for Israel. As time passes the particularly dangerous fundamentalist elements in Israel grow in strength simply because of their much higher birth rates. Now imagine if you will a new Israeli leader out of the tradition of a Meir Kahane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane)assuming power over all of Israel’s nuclear weapons and you see the potential for disaster. This idea isn’t a wild fantasy. Demographics make it inevitable. Whatever link Israel once had had in the past with our western liberal traditions erodes daily as the fundamentalists grow in strength and assert their power there with the eventual hope of making Israel into a strictly theocratic state much like Saudi Arabia.
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As sweet Bard rid himself o’ Jack,
Bluestone discards the bilious Ball.
And, as I am a kindly stone,
This magic I here abjure, and say
Be free, J Ball, and fare thou well!
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Dear Sir,
Why not swap Greater Albania (Mulsim Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia) for Israel? That way neither Islam nor the Judeo-Christian worlds will have enemies behind the lines. And, the greater total land mass would offset the valuable infrastructure lost in the deal by the Israelis.
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Ok, so it has finally come to
death threats.
This site was a gallant effort, Taki.
Sorry to say but the weevils have
moved in.
Last comment, ever.
FROM EDITOR: The offending comment has been removed and the poster notified as to why.
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Dear editor:
As you removed the post form John Ball for his threat
against Bluestone, you might want to consider the
previous post which provoqued the reaction
Joe Pop v. the Bilious Ball –
How did a bloke named Ball become Taki’s square? Pop him in the balls, Joe
Posted by Bluestone on Aug 16, 2007.
As you can see, it was an incitemenat to serious
bodity harm, the crushing of a testicle (or both), an
inherently violent act.
If you erase John Ball response, you should also erase
the previous offending post, as I do not think that you
consider assault of fellow blogger’s genitals to be a
form of civilized discourse.
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Done, Adriana. Thanks!
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realistically the Muslims would just pocket the gains and step up attacks on Israel, demanding the ‘right of return’
Any Jew in the world (even the descendants of converts) have the right of return to Israel after 2000 years but Palestinians don’t after 60 years? Remember, not 1 Palestinian ever emigrated to Palestine. How many Israelis can say the same?
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A new radical approach is needed to solve the Middle East Crisis that differs from the two state solution approach that the Quartet has been pushing for the last few years.
The “Quartet’s” Road Map to Peace is doomed for failure because all parties know that the Road Map has no adequate final solution regarding the city of Jerusalem. The “Quartet’s Road Map to Peace does not adequately address security of the Israeli nation and fails to solve the isolation and destitution of the Palestinian nation. Peace in the Middle East region will not happen until we have a resolution solving the Israeli/Palestinian dispute and resolve the internal problems in Lebanon. Peace will never take hold until all the different parties are integrated and learn to live together and the economic hardships in Palestine and Lebanon are alleviated. For peace to take place, the three major religions of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity that hold Jerusalem to be a holy city need to be involved in the peace process solution. The areas of Israel, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights, and Lebanon should be incorporated as one entity known as the United Nations of Jerusalem (UNJ). The United Nations of Jerusalem will consist of three nations; The Nation of Israel (Jewish Government), The Nation of Palestine (Islamic Government of Palestinian Muslims and Lebanese Muslims), and the Nation of Lebanon (Christian Government).
The United Nations of Jerusalem will be one territory where all Jews, Muslims, and Christians have the right to live anywhere they desire. This will address the concerns of the Palestinian people regarding their right to return to their homeland from which they were exiled and will give the Jews territories of their ancestral homeland. The United Nations of Jerusalem will be one geographic territory occupied by three nations, where the city of Jerusalem will be the national capital of Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon. The United Nations of Jerusalem will consist of three nations that operate as one government. For any law to pass, a minimum of two of the three nations (religious governments) need to approve the legislation. Each nation will consist of a president, vice president, cabinet, and a congress. So there will be an Israeli Nation consisting of a Jewish President and a Jewish Congress, a Palestinian Nation consisting of an Islamic President and an Islamic Congress, and a Lebanese Nation consisting of a Christian President and a Christian Congress. The three nations will meet in joint session with their members present to discuss issues of importance. After the joint session, each nation will go to its own chamber to discuss and vote on the matter. For any law to pass, it takes a minimum of two of the three nations to approve the legislation.
Each nation will function in a similar manner as the United States government operates concerning the executive and legislative branches of government. Security of the United Nations of Jerusalem shall be secured by a peace treaty with the European Union of Nations and the United States stating that these nations shall defend any of the three UNJ Nations if so attacked. The Israeli President would have sole authority of the UNJ Defense Force for the external defense of the United Nations of Jerusalem and would have sole control of the armed forces and of its armaments designated for that defense purpose for the first three years. UNJ Defense Forces shall gradually be integrated with Muslims and Christians. During the fourth year, the UNJ Defense Forces shall be under the sole control of the Palestinian President then on the fifth year the Defense Forces shall be under the sole control of the Lebanese President. Starting on the sixth year, annual rotations will be made on which National President shall be in charge of the UNJ Defense Forces.
The UNJ Internal Forces (police and national guard) would be under the control of all three nations. During the first three years of the existence of the United Nations of Jerusalem, an international coalition of armed forces from the United States, European Union, and other interested nations will help in the creation, formation, and maintenance of this new internal army. During the formation of the UNJ Internal Force, the Nation of Israel will be responsible for its own defense within the pre-1967 borders for the first two years to enable its own security while the rule of law is being established in Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories by the international forces. By the third year the UNJ internal forces shall be placed within the pre-1967 borders of Israel. By the fourth year, all of the international coalition forces shall reduce the level of troops within the United Nations of Jerusalem, but that the European Union of Nations and the United States shall always maintain bases in the UNJ. The Internal Forces of the UNJ shall be an integrated force of different religious groups working as one. There shall be no segregated militia groups based on religion. Militant militias such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad will be disarmed. The UNJ Internal Forces shall answer to all three nations. The Internal Forces will answer to the three defense ministers (cabinet members). The action of the UNJ Internal Forces will only occur when at least a minimum of two of the three defense ministers approve such action. There will be an Israeli Defense Minister, Palestinian Defense Minister, and Lebanese Defense Minister. Each of these defense ministers answer to their own national president and may be removed by their respective president. Each nation’s cabinet members shall be appointed by their respective national president along with the majority consent of their respective nation’s congress (Note, judges shall be selected in the same manner). Any cabinet member may be removed by their respective national president as that president sees fit (Note, judges may only be removed by a 2/3 vote of their respective nation’s congress).
The judicial system in the United Nations of Jerusalem would be represented by the three nations. The Supreme Court shall consist of three Jews selected by the Nation of Israel, three Muslims selected by the Nation of Palestine, and three Christians selected by the Nation of Lebanon. The United Nations of Jerusalem shall be governed by a doctrine of “Freedom of Religion” (one’s right to choose their religion freely). Each lower court shall consist of three judges; one Jewish judge, one Muslim judge, one Christian judge. The jury of any trial shall consist of three Jews, three Muslims, and three Christians. A decision or conviction by a jury shall take place only upon a vote of two-thirds (6/9) or more.
The election process shall be overseen by the three election commission ministers (cabinet positions). Again, an international coalition shall oversee the election process during the first four years. All United Nations of Jerusalem citizens shall register under their religious affiliations as either a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian (subject to approval of election commission). All poling places throughout the United Nations of Jerusalem shall contain voting facilities for Jews, Muslims, and Christians no matter what the population size of that religious group shall be in a particular area. For example if a person is a Muslim, they will only vote for the Palestinian President, Palestinian Vice President, and Palestinian Congress. Each national presidential and vice presidential term shall be four years. National congressional terms shall be four years. Each national congress shall be elected on an at-large basis where each citizen votes for a political party. Each political party will receive its pro-rata share of congressional seats based on the percentage of votes received. Congressional elections will be based on the model that the Israelis use in electing Knesset Members. Such an election process ensures that minority factions will obtain seats in their respective national congress.
Many innocent people are suffering and dying over a conflict that can be settled. History tends to show that two sided conflicts are not easily resolved and usually result in bloody wars. The peace plan presented is a novel approach of creating a political process where there can be no stalemate. This situation creates an atmosphere of dialogue whereby all three nations know that they must compromise or be endangered of being left out if the other two nations vote against them.
A peace process referendum should be put to a vote to all peoples located in Israel, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights, and Lebanon. Also, all the citizens of Lebanon who emigrated from that country since 1975 at the onset of the Lebanese Civil War should be part of the voting process concerning the “United Nations of Jerusalem” peace proposal and that these people should be allowed the choice to repatriate. The estimate of Lebanese leaving since 1975 is 70% Christian and 30% Muslim. Also, Christian minorities throughout the Middle East should be allowed to emigrate to the United Nations of Jerusalem (Such as the Assyrians, Copts, and other Arab Christians).
Peace is a real possibility if people put an effort in attaining it. Pray that there may be a solution for peace and that the suffering will cease for all Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Let everyone pray for the peace in this area of the world and pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Jon Dolen
Green Valley, IL USA
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Who was it who said, “After laying waste to Europe, they fled to the sunny climes of Palestine?” Anyway, it’s Custer’s last stand for the Zionists/ communists.
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wa ko kasabot mother fucker shit
could you please direct to the point coz i’m starting to become mad
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