Laura Bush, wife of the notorious war criminal George Bush, tried to put the best face on her embarrassing visit to occupied Palestine over the weekend as she arrived in Cairo. “These are very, very emotional places. They’re sacred places to religions,” Bush told the corporate media, either completely missing or ignoring the reality of the situation. “Everyone knows how high the tensions are and believe me, I was very, very welcomed by most people,” said Bush from the Arab Israeli village of Abu Ghosh near Jerusalem. Indeed, tensions are high, thanks to Ariel Sharon and the policies of her husband, George the Lesser. “There are thousands of years of fighting and hatred, but what I’m hoping is … that it can be our generation that puts that aside so that we can all come to the Holy Land in peace,” she told reporters in the gardens of the 12th-century Church of the Resurrection.
Obviously, Laura Bush was not making reference to generic “fighting and hatred,” old as humanity itself, but was talking about the fighting and hatred in the so-called Holy Land, and not the genocidal violence portrayed in the Hebrew and Christian Bible, or the organized violence of the Crusades, but rather violence between Zionist settlers and Palestinians, a violence and hatred less than a hundred years old. In the current context, one we are asked to believe Laura Bush’s “weekend visit to Jerusalem holy sites” obviates, the violence is facilitated by the Israeli state with ample assistance of the United States, currently led (thanks to bogus elections) by Laura’s warm and fuzzy mass murdering husband. It apparently disturbs Mrs. Bush that she cannot “come to the Holy Land in peace,” that is to say a Holy Land effectively controlled by Israel, with docile Palestinians, Stepford Palestinians who have accepted their role as the “hewers of wood and drawers of water” (as dictated by the Hebrew bible), a rather unreasonable assumption, to say the least, considering the historical struggle of people against tyranny and occupation down through the millennium.
She wrapped up her Holy Land trip in Abu Ghosh with an appeal for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, the aim of the diplomatic “road map” sponsored by her husband, which has been stalled by non-compliance and regular violence.
In other words, it is all the fault of those damn Palestinians, “beasts walking on two legs,” as the former PM of Israel, Menachim Begin, elected by the wonderful people of Israel, so forthrightly called a couple million indigenous Arabs who happened to live on the land for centuries. Naturally, the Palestinians have all the reason in the world to by cynical about “peace deals” brokered by the United States (and now the so-called Quartet: the United States, United Nations, the European Union and Russia) because such deals end up inflicting more misery on the Palestinians. “The first attempt at genuine peace between the Arabs and the Israelis, the Camp David Accords brokered by President Carter, turned out to be a disaster that has lingered on for thirty years,” notes Michael S. Ladah, an Arab American, “to the surprise and disappointment of Arab and U.S. negotiators, the Israeli negotiators imbedded various escape clauses, relieving Israel from a real commitment to peace.” In short, the Israelis are not interested in peace with the Palestinians, they will do everything in their power to short circuit any meaningful negotiations. Laura’s husband concurs. “In a significant policy shift, Mr. Bush relaxed Washington’s objections to Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and attempts by Israel to dictate the terms of a final settlement with the Palestinians,” Suzanne Goldenberg wrote for the Guardian on April 15, 2004, the same day I forked over a large part of my income to the illegitimate government here in the United States, a substantial sum of which is gift-wrapped and handed over to the Zionist state, no strings attached. In short, regardless of Laura Bush’s tea parties with Palestinian women, there is no “road map” and there never will be, so long as Bush and the Christian Zionists rule (with more than a little help from their friends in the Senate).
“None of you belong here,” a Palestinian screamed at Bush and her entourage of Israeli security goons and Secret Service agents as they entered Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock mosque (not far from the al-Aqsa mosque, the third most holy shrine in Islam, which the Zionists, many Orthodox Jews, and Christian Zionists in Israel and the United States want to destroy so they can re-build the Temple of Solomon). According to the Israeli and United States governments, however, the outraged Palestinian had it wrong: as the Zionists would have it, Palestinians do not belong in Palestine and the Israelis have worked hard and long to get rid of them (4,082,300 Palestinians are registered as refugees with UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, including the descendants of refugees from the 1948 “war,” thus reducing an astounding 46% of all Palestinians homeless).
As if to demonstrate what a good “friends” many Israelis are to America, as Bush visited the adjacent Western Wall complex, dozens “of nationalist Jews demanding Washington free convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard” harangued the unelected U.S. president’s wife. Pollard is the former United States Navy intelligence officer who was convicted of spying for Israel. Pollard pleaded guilty to espionage on June 4, 1986 and in 1987 and received life in prison. “In 1998, Israel admitted in a statement from then-Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Pollard had been an Israeli spy,” notes Wikipedia. “In recent years, many have claimed that Pollard’s punishment is too harsh, including Caspar Weinberger, who was a major force behind his original sentencing.” In other words, there is one standard for spies working for Israel and another for all other spies. As one Jonathan Pollard apologia site put it, “Pollard discovered that information [intelligence on Syrian, Iraqi, Libyan and Iranian nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare capabilities] vital to Israel’s security was being deliberately withheld by certain elements within the U.S. national security establishment… [and] Israel was legally entitled to this vital security information according to a 1983 Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries,” so the Israelis decided to steal it. In other words, if I told you I wanted to sell my house to you and then decided against this, you’d have all the right in the world to steal it. But then Zionists in Israel and America are expert second-story men.
Finally, Laura Bush’s little tarriance to the “Holy Land” is less than worthless, little more than an ill-conceived public relations stunt, because it does absolutely nothing to solve the problems between the Palestinians and Israelis, problems that would be solved in short order if the Zionist state of Israel would simply stop stealing Palestinian land and reducing the remainder to a Bantustan open-air prison where more than one-fifth of young Palestinian children are malnourished and more than 50% of Palestinian adults are unemployed. Laura Bush taking tea with Palestinian women (likely hand-picked well in advance) is not only an absurdity, it is an arrogant smack in the face to millions of Palestinians.