Stalin called, he wants another glass of ice water :)
Posted on 12/06/2006 12:36:09 PM PST by SJackson
U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) said it would be “dangerously naive” to link the revival of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks with progress on Iraq. Speaking Monday to a gathering of the Israel Policy Forum in New York, the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee responded to news reports that the Baker-Hamilton Commission is set to recommend reinvigorating American involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian track as a means to win moderate Arab support for stabilizing Iraq.
“Israeli-Palestinian peace should be pursued aggressively on its own merits, period, not as some sort of diplomatic price to make the Arab states feel good so they will help us in Iraq,” Biden said.
The Baker-Hamilton Commission, also known as the Iraq Study Group, is scheduled to present its recommendations Wednesday.
Well, thank God and Israel for that. If it takes political pressure to make the US Congress and the US President behave in an honorable way consistent with our values, then again thank God for the Israeli lobby. Those who abandon friends for expediency soon have none.
Stalin called, he wants another glass of ice water :)
How the voters keep electing this moron is beyound my thinking.
Baker is in the pocket of the Gulf States oligarchy.
I'm speechless........
Except the Gulf States are Arabs and Sunnis, and they dislike/fear Iran which is Persian and Shia.
"F*ck the Jews; they never voted for us anyway"
- James Baker
Come on Yanks. Make nice with a country that kidnapped your countrymen and held them hostages for over 400 days. They have been sponsoring the murder of Americans, all over this globe, for over 27 years. Make nice with these nasty Iranians so Mr. Baker can collect more gifts from these crafty Saudis.
And you wonder why we don't jump to help in every war that the US gets involved in? We just hate to be abandoned when it’s politically convenient for the US.
The Vietnamese paid with a million lives, how many Jews must be sacrificed to satisfy the Arabs?
The Saudis could have settled the Palestinian problem by advocating that the Palis be settled in Arab states. Obviously what they want is Israel to disappear.
Biden sounds like he is plagiarizing McCain.
Thanks, I'm glad to see a Republican agrees. Actually, it's a nonsensical linkage, which will be rejected by many across party lines.
I am totally surprised by his comment.
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