Following Israel's Lead.

So I read this article today at the New York Times online site. This is just an excerpt:

Israel and Hamas Agree to a Cease-Fire, Egypt Says

JERUSALEM — Israel and the Islamist group Hamas have agreed on a mutual cease-fire to take effect Thursday following negotiations brokered by Egypt, Egyptian state media announced on Tuesday.

The official Egyptian state-owned news agency MENA and state-run television quoted an unidentified senior Egyptian official as saying that the truce would start at 6 a.m. Thursday. Israeli officials would not immediately confirm or deny that any agreement had been reached.

Talks, brokered by Egypt, have been proceeding intensively between Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza. Both sides have appeared keen on achieving a cease-fire, but until the truce comes into effect neither side is likely to stop exchanges, and on Tuesday three Israeli airstrikes hit targets in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Army said.

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So, I seem to remember John McCain and other Republicans condemning Barack Obama as naive and foolish for explaining that he would talk with anyone including Hamas. He was denounced as stupid and naive. Jimmy Carter was denounced as a traitor for meeting with them as well. We were told that we were selling out our Israeli allies, negotiating with terrorists, etc.
Now, lo and behold it turns out that the Israelis were speaking with Hamas the entire time..... hmm interesting. So I guess the Israelis must be naive and traitors to their own nation for talking with Hamas....? It goes to show how distorted and asinine American politics and way too many American politicians are. Israel is doing the exact thing that Obama was called a traitor for doing or worse, some even suggested he was anti-Semitic. Well I wonder McCain and the rest of the Christianist End-of-World politicians are saying now? Is Israel foolish? Uh oh, I think McCain and the Christianists must be anti-Semites because they called people anti-Israel and foolish who would speak with Hamas and that label clearly extends to the Israeli government and Israeli Army... I guess that is the definition of a self-loathing Jew huh?
The fact is, despite killing and back and forth, Israel must speak with the Palestinians if there is ever going to be a permanent end to the bloodshed. It's been almost 100 years now (not thousands like the ignorati pretend it is)- 100 years of conflict because the British decided to divide and conquer the Middle East by putting two formally peaceable communities Arabs and Jews at each other's throats. Thanks Churchill!

posted by travellinguist @ 10:29 AM