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State Department double-speak
George Vandor Kirkland Washington U.S.A. ( 8 Nov 2002)
gvandor@yahoo.com
Well, the CIA--if we are to believe that it was indeed the Agency and not the Pentagon--has successfully carried out the first targeted killing, but in trying to differentiate between the U.S. firing a lethal missile against terrorists operating from another country, Yemen, and the Israelis firing one against terrorist masterminds in the West Bank, the State Department straightfacedly explained that it is found in the context. According to Colin Powell's spokesman Richard Boucher, when the Israelis do it, it is wrong because "it harms the prospects for peace negotiations".
If there was the slightest doubt in anyone's mind about where the SD stands in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this latest example should provide the ultimate proof. In State's logic the virtually daily Palestinians terrorist attacks against innocent Israeli civilians have become an accepted component of a "peace process" that by now survives only in the stubbornly anti-Israeli policy of Colin Powell's minions and their accomplices on the Israeli and American Left.
Friends of Israel all over the world should be watching how Benjamin Netanyahu will tackle this prickly problem. The man enjoys enormous respect in the now solidly Republican and conservative Congress: clearly, an early visit to Washington and appearances on the tv network circuit, should be one of his top priorities.
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