Friday, November 30, 2007

Back door woman


Not peace -Caroline Glick

[I]n accordance with Saudi demands, the Americans prohibited Israeli representatives from entering the hall through the same door as the Arabs.

At the meeting of foreign ministers, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called her Arab counterparts to task for their discriminatory treatment. "Why doesn't anyone want to shake my hand? Why doesn't anyone want to be seen speaking to me?" she asked pointedly.

Israel's humiliated foreign minister did not receive support from her American counterpart. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who spent her childhood years in the segregated American South, sided with the Arabs. As she put it, "I know what it is like to hear that you cannot go on a road or through a checkpoint because you are a Palestinian. I understand the feeling of humiliation and powerlessness."

[F]or the Secretary of State there is no difference between Israelis trying to defend themselves from a jihadist Palestinian society which supports the destruction of the Jewish state and bigoted white Southerners who oppressed African Americans because of the color of their skin.

[A]s far as Rice is concerned, the Palestinians are the innocent victims. They are the ones who are discriminated against and humiliated, not Livni, who was forced - by Rice - to enter the conference through the service entrance.
[Jerusalem Post]

2 comments:

LHwrites said...

For the Israelis to have boycotted this summit when Arabs were coming was not prudent. But more and more we see why this was not a good idea for Israel and why the US should be taken to task for doing this to them.
And Rice should be ashamed of herself, and like Powell, will never be able to rise above what she has allowed the Bush administration to turn her into, and do to her reputation.

A.M. Moore said...

Rice fits both of these definitions;"uncle tom" and the Arabian word abead.