OUTRAGEOUS, Outrageous, and Outrageous

June 16, 2008 – This weekend the Israelis again spit in the face of the American Secretary of State…and of the entire world.

Even as Condoleeza Rice was one more time visiting Israel and proclaiming the virtues of “the peace process”, the Israelis shamelessly announced a major expansion of settlements throughout the Jerusalem area, most especially in the areas across “the green line” once thought to be where crucial parts of the Palestinian State would be.

Condoleeza Rice

It’s not the first time the Israelis have done things of this kind; but each time it seems it is done more and more with an in-your-face attitude.

Moreover the very policy itself, regardless of Israeli rhetoric and crafty P.R., seems purposefully designed to make a real and dignified Palestinian State all but impossible, to discredit the very U.S.-backed Palestinian “moderates” involved in “negotiations”, and to further escalate tensions toward a greater Palestinian civil war.

I was just in the Israel and the Palestinian “occupied territories”.

And I extensively toured the greater Jerusalem area including those critical places where the Israelis are now still further expanding their settlements.

What I learned about and saw for myself was nothing short of outrageous and disgraceful. What the Israelis have just done this weekend only exacerbates the outrage.

In the days and weeks ahead I’ll be detailing what I learned in my visit to Israel, Palestine, and three other critical countries in the Middle East.

And in the days and weeks ahead I’ll be publishing short excerpts and showing short video clips from the many interviews and discussions I had on the trip.

Tony Blair and George Bush

But there’s more. The outrage doesn’t’ end with the Israelis.

Today in London, just hours after the Israelis did what they did with the Secretary of State right there meekly criticizing them, President Bush and Prime Minister Blair concluded lengthy discussions and held a joint Press Conference. They began with an outline of the many things they had discussed and the many things about which they are concerned — Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan, energy prices, the food crisis. They both continually threw in rhetorical flourishes about “freedom” and “democracy”. But not a word about how the Israelis keep undermining the so-much-now-discredited “Peace Process”, and not a word about how Israelis policies for so long have fueled what has today become for many a ‘Clash of Civilizations’. And remember, Tony Blair is now the appointed leader for the Palestinian/Israel solution!

This is outrageous. Our political leaders have lost so much of their own credibility by continually glossing over Israel’s terrible treatment of the Palestinian people on top of all the Israeli lies and deceptions when it comes to the “Peace Process”.

And sadly the “independent media” is not much better.

Thanks to BBC I was able to watch the first 25-minutes of the Bush/Blair joint News Conference. Not one question about the blatant Israeli disregard — demonstrated in such a big way once again just hours before — for the “Peace Process”, for the “Roadmap”, for “The Quartet”, and for the visiting American Secretary of State.

This too is outrageous.

It seems we just can’t count on our government officials nor on our “independent media” when it comes to Israel.

Ehud Olmert

Well Citizen Paul has had enough of all this pandering and complicity.

It’s time to take the gloves off, call it straight, tell the whole truth, and advocate what is just and right.

I’ll be doing so regularly and in many ways from now on.

Stay with me as I reveal the truth and show how America and turn things around — if you help me exercise Citizen Power!

Yes, we can do it!

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