Today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer carried Jan Jarboe Russell's column DeLay poisons Mideast peace process Russell says that:
DeLay, a fundamentalist Christian who is by definition unreasonable, is not interested in any modern maps of the Mideastas opposed, I suppose, to the reasonable fundamentalist Muslims whose modern map of the Mideast looks like this one.
When DeLay went to Israel and spoke to the Knesset, he criticized Bush's proposal for a Palestinian homeland. In addition, he compared the Palestinians' current capital to Auschwitz, Pyongyang and the Gulag.Hey, give DeLay more credit. He also appropriately compared Ramallah to Havana, Tehran, Beijing, Baghdad and Damascus.
[DeLay] also supports what Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon calls the "transfer" of Palestinians from the West Bank, a provocative move that many Arabs compare to ethnic cleansing.It's funny how Russell associates the concept of "transfer" to Ariel Sharon, because even though Ariel Sharon calls "transfer" "transfer" he does not support "transfer". Kind of like when Jan Jarboe Russell calls "Tom DeLay" "Tom DeLay" even though she doesn't support Tom DeLay. On the other hand, Tom DeLay may or may not support what Jan Jarboe Russell calls "transfer". I can't find any public statements where Tom DeLay expresses his support for "transfer", only a number of loony-left opinion pieces that stem from a single news article which reported that Tom DeLay gave a speech at an event where one of the subsequent speakers expressed support for "transfer".
Perhaps Jan Jarboe Russell is most disturbed by the fact that DeLay is one of the rare American politicians who is unafraid to be realistic about the Middle East:
"In my opinion, you've got to change a generation before you can have a peaceful state that can live side by side with Israel," DeLay declared.Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 14, 2003 12:35 PM
Compare DeLay's clear appraisal of the Israeli/Palestinian situation to the endless prattling by folks who think there's a 'peace process' under way. They refer to PP as if it's part of the playground director's book of immutable rules, but only one side is regarded as civilized enough to be assessed penalties. The other side, well, they just can't help their behavior, so we'll just beat up the Israelis in the media for more concessions.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on August 14, 2003 01:14 PMThis whole piece by Jan Jarboe Russell indicates a seething bias. No rational discussion could be possible with him (her?). Particularly upsetting to me was the statement that because DeLay spoke of the Middle East:
. . . how many more generations of Israelis and Palestinians will be condemned to violence and death?