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Transcript: An interview with Chris Ware
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"Israel has flaws, notably the settlements, but it has shown a willingness to negotiate WHEN not being attacked."

The problem with Israel's policy for achieving peace is that, as in any conflict, you have to deal with the differing viewpoints and policies of multiple actors. Israel's insistence on not negotiating until ALL violence stops is unrealistic (we have been trying it for how many years now?). When violence does occur, it responds with such brutality that the voices of reason are drowned out in the anger and hatred that is aroused with the deaths of innocent civilians (200 and counting in Lebanon so far). Israel needs to either pursue the peace process with people like Abu Mazen (instead of marginalizing the one person, and party, interested in peaceful negotiation of a two state solution), regardless of the position taken by Hamas, or it needs to strengthen Fateh's hand in enforcing peace and security by not butchering innocent women and children with its heavy handed response every time a Hamas rocket is fired into Israel.

Then again, a person who chooses to go by "Islamofascism" would probably be more comfortable clinging to the simplistic and moronic philosophy promoted by the Bush administration and its neo-con backers.

The Islamofascists want to cover the middle east (and as much of the world as the West will allow) with their dark cloud of religious intolerance and hate.
The Palestinian question is simply a convenient mechanism for them to leverage.

Despite the mindless chant of "end the occupation", everyone knows that Israel is an established fact. Rather than accept that, the collective Arab nation has tried to eradicate Israel innumerable times -- of course, whimpering for the international community to come to their support after they have been whipped each time. How is it that a country with 1% of the population of the mighty Arab nation has repeatedly defeated them? The Israelis drop leaflets in an effort to avoid civilian casualties while the Arabs celebrate each Israeli/US death. These are people that we should respect or support?

That is why there is no way the Israelis would or should allow themselves to become a single state w/the Palestinians. Why would they want to absorb a group that has shown itself intolerant and untrustworthy? Compare the condition of Israeli Arabs with the citizens of other Arab countries -- who has democratic rights and freeedom? Instead of taking the opportunity afforded by Gaza withdrawal to negotiate and improve internal conditions for the Palestinian people, Hamas continues to plot and fire rockets. Just like Arafat refused a state. Just like Hizbollah has brought down the Israeli wrath on the recuperating state of Lebanon.

Israel has flaws, notably the settlements, but it has shown a willingness to negotiate WHEN not being attacked.

Finally, let's address the attempt to try and separate the alliance of Israel and US -- known as "Little Satan" and "Big Satan" in the enlightened Arab world.
While I deplore the tactics of Bush (invasion of Iraw, torture, illegal wiretappings, Gitmo, etc, etc), he is correct on the strategic scale -- it is absolutely in the US interest to confront the Islamofascists. Remember, they wish to kill as many Americans and Israelis as they can...and will do it as frequently and as mercilessly as they are allowed.

There is only one way to deal with the Islamofascists -- hit them as hard as possible! Make it apparent to the majority of the Arab world that it is in their interest to separate themselves from those who preach hate and intolerance, using their people as pawns and human shields.

I never thought I'd say such a thing, but if Mr. Moubayed represents the future face of Arab democracy, then maybe the United States should shift its Middle East policy and try to bring back Nasserism. At least then we knew exactly what we were dealing with.

ET go home.

Israel's very creation through ethnic cleansing and genocide is the root cause for the conflict in the middle east. Everything else is a derivitive work of the evil that zionism brought to that poor region of the world, starting with the very first car bomb and acts of terrorism carried out by Jewish terrorists who later became the leaders of the jewish state that are still actors today. How can the Arabs negotiate with terrorist leaders and terrorist rogue states that are religiously based and armed with WMD like Israel and its nuclear aresenal if we in the US are unwilling to do the same?

I say no to supporting religious ideologies like Zionism that are founded on facist ideals like ethnicide and genocide to support the creation of a jewish only state on the backs of the arabs and which requires the continued subjugation of the region just so Israel can prosper. Supporting Israel is not in the US's interests and I say we can end the conflict once and for all by supporting the return of Palestinians to their original homes in Palestine (now Israel) and pressuring Israel to become the true democracy that it claims to be, not the Nazi-Facist-Zionist-Jewish-only state that is its founding charter.

ET.

Do you think the "minutemen" should be surgically removed as well, or should Mexico invade the U.S. to rid us of this nuisance?

I also recall a counter rally just as large calling for Syria to get out and an indirect call for Hezbullah to fall in line. The fact is you cannot claim to be a sovereign nation with an armed militia holding ONLY 20 seats of parliament calling the shots which serve the purpose of external entities at the price of Lebanon. Hezbullah is a cancer for the Lebanese and should be surgically removed (which coincidentally Israel is trying to do and hopefully will succeed in doing)

ET.

Is that why in 2005, Hezbollah was able to get a million people to turnout for a rally in less than two days notice?

Do you realize the population of Lebanon is only about 3.5 million people? 1 million of which were Syrian workers, many of whom left after the tensions following Hariri's death?

That's quite a bit of support.... which debunks your attempt to divide the Lebanese people into "The Lebanese vs. Hezbollah."

Hezbollah is not only an armed group, whose mission is to defend Lebanon against Israel, but it is also a political party with over 20 seats in the 100 or so seat parliament.

By the way, what do you think of the "Minutemen" down in Southern California and Texas, who are walking around with guns in the name of protecting the U.S. border with Mexico? You are ok with their acts of terror against Mexican emigrants on behalf of the American population?

It should be said that in spite of Hezbullah Lebanon was thriving, to the credit of the entrepreneurial spirit of the Lebanese people who have a long such history. The providing of basic civil services hardly qualifies as the progress for benefit of mankind and the only "protection" Hezbullah provided was against its own poorly calculated endeavors.
So I think my answer is quite obvious.

Wait a second, ET.

Are you talking about Hezbollah, or the United States under Neo-conservative "leadership"?

In fact, under Hezbollah (up until the latest round of Israeli war crimes) Lebanon has recovered and was thriving: hospitals and schools were built, and the society was protected from illegal assaults from southern "neighbors". As you know, Hezbollah is a Muslim organization, so your assertion that "a collective feeling of accomplishment" is an "idea foreign" to Muslim nations is stillborn.

On the other hand, in the United States, science is under attacked, an ideology that puts foreign (i.e. Israeli) interests before our own is manifested in our current administration, and what progress we've made during the past 30-40 years is being rolled back by a hateful throng of so-called "conservative" masses who hate their country so much that they would curtail the press, threaten the lives of our judiciary, and generally restrict the rights of citizens rather than expand them.

So what, good sir, are you talking about?

What kind of patriotism is it that requires an imported fundamentalist ideology, a foreign supported militia that threatens the very existence of the fragile state that it exists in and a group that if in power will subjugate a large portion of its own society, to manifest itelf???
Real patriotism is a collective feeling of accomplishment for a society that has contributed to the greater mankind through science and progress, this unfortunately is an idea foreign to many muslim nations.

IT IS THE OCCUPATION.

I begin my message with this phrase, in all capital letters, because it is often ignored that the OCCUPATION of Palestine by Israel is the sole root cause of all the hostility directed at Israel, notwithstanding the entirely vacuous comments coming out of the American administration currently.

An anonymous coward writes:

"Even the Saudi Arabians have acknowledged that Hizbollah attacked the Israelis on the Israeli side of the Blue Line. They were the aggressors."

The Saudis will say whatever benefits their dealer-user relationship with the United States. The Saudi family is selflishly concerned with their own power, priorities and perogatives, and in the end they always take their diktats from their American masters. Recognizing this, the people of the Middle East afford the Saudi royal family close to zero credibility. Of course you wouldn't understand this because your comprehension of the societies and culture of the Middle East is cursory at best, and at any rate is based on the drivel you skim from extremist anti-Arab blogs.

Colorado dude writes:

"The Isreali's are ready to give up the territory in Southern Lebanon and Gaza not to mention parts of the west bank."

How generous of them. So if I come and annex your backyard as my own, then some years later "generously" offer to give you back part of the yard (the part with the weeds) would you think better of me?

"It is time for the Arabs to give something for peace unless all they really want is war."

The Arabs have made NUMEROUS overtures to enter into negotiations with Israel and settle all the relevant issues, several in fact since 2000, but they've all been rebuffed with prejudice by Israel. Do you propose that they continue this masochistic practice of banging their head against a wall?

When are we Americans going to finally realize that we must take our destiny into their own hands? Our safety and security is tied directly to our unconditional and hypocritical support for Israel, which is one of the world's most egregiously bellicose regimes, thanks mostly to our encouragement. We must demand, in no uncertain terms, that our cowardly leaders, who currently would not dare level one iota of criticism against Israel, need to finally grow some spine and make some concrete changes, including:

1) Cutting off ALL aid, particularly military, to ALL countries in the Middle East, especially Israel;

2) Apply economic sanctions to all Middle East countries, in particular Israel, over their refusal to implement ALL UN Security Council resolutions concerning the Middle East. Since there are already sanctions against Syria and Iraq, their workload is much reduced and confined to the numerous resolutions (194, 242, 338, ad nauseum) that Israel has been ignoring in violation of international law;

3) Force Israel into FAITHFUL negotiations with the Palestinians, to create either two states "living side by side in peace", or a single, secular state consisting of all inhabitants of what is currently Israel as well as the occupied Palestinian territories, and carry through until a concrete, measurable implementation of the agreement has occured, with US and UN monitors on the ground to flag and rectify violations.

We, the US, are the greatest super power ever on the planet Earth, yet we are held hostage by the policies and conduct of one puny little nation in the Middle East that we foolishly helped to establish.

The Middle East will never know stability and peace until this issue is resolved, and resolved fairly, and by extension niether will America. This will only happen with the elimination of the extreme and total bias towards Israel that the US has increasingly displayed since the tragically comical Bush administration took office. In fact, the Bush administration should have no part in this process. The US Congress should assert its power and dictate to the "President" exactly what the terms of the peace agreement shall be.

The first step in this process is to ban AIPAC and any foreign agent from operating in Washington. Then the debate can being.

IT IS THE OCCUPATION.

End the occupation of Palestine and peace will follow.

IT IS THE OCCUPATION.

End the occupation of Palestine and America will be safe.

IT IS THE OCCUPATION.

It is very simple. As long as Israel is occupying the Palestinian people, as long as it is threatening Syria and Iran, as long as it is flying over Lebanese air space and going in and out of Lebanese territory in the South, there will be war. Someone asked me the other day, "If you were an Israeli, what would you do to ensure peace for the Jewish people?" Without hestitation, my reply was, "Give the Palestinians a state, so I can have legitimacy." If the Palestinians and Israelis resolve the land and water issues, and there is a settlement-free Palestinian state, perhaps Israel can now engage in trade with its 20+ Arab neighbors, etc. It is in everyone's interest there, to have a stable economy, to promote tourism, etc. The other Arab countries cannot demand for the Palestinians more than what the Palestinians accepted (as their territorial boundaries).

The reason this will not happen is because you do not have patriotic Israelis running the government. You have greedy warmongers, who are not willing to budge... which is why they offered them a "state" that looked more like the illegal redistricting lines that took place in the South in the 60s here in the U.S. It was not a true and meaningful offer back at Camp David.

The other problem is that Israel cannot control it's own outlaws, the Israeli settlers. The settlers are the right-wingers who come from New York and elsewhere, who want to live in the Palestinian territories, and ONLY in the Palestinian territories. Why? Because "God said it was mine." Armed with Uzi's, these folks shoot at innocent Palestinian civilians often. Their food and supplies are shipped to them by Israeli army helicopters. Their religious extremism is annoying to the everyday Jew living in Israel "proper", if you will.

If Israel cannot control it's settlers, should the Hamas invade, bomb, and attack Israel's infrastructure? As one writer from the Guardian put it, imagine this were France bombing England because England could not control a few Al-Qaeda members inside England from committing terrorist attacks on France.

Israel does not want peace - it wants instability, war, and the destruction of a prosperous Arab country. It wants the world to think it is a victim, even though it is the fourth strongest military country in the world, with nuclear weapons and a strong army.

Colorado Dude, you are wondering "what are the Arabs ready to give for peace???"

What do the Arabs have to give? They haven't taken anything that belongs to Ierael.

Where did you hear that "the Isreali's are ready to give up the territory in Southern Lebanon and Gaza not to mention parts of the west bank"? If it's true, then why haven't they, at the very least, taken up Syria's on its numerous requests to re-start negotiations?

Get it? Israel doesn't want to negotiate because Israel doesn't HAVE to negotiate. There logic is as simple minded as yours. "There's nothing to get in return for the land we stole, so why give it back?"

Apparantly, Hizballah and Hamas understands this language. So they took soldiers. Israel wants them back. Israel has in the past given something in return for their soldiers.

"It is time for the Arabs to give something for peace unless all they really want is war." I guess now the same can be said for Israel... no?

Hizballah and Hamas learned their lessons from Israel. See how it works?

Hizballah has done nothing but carried out on its promises, as it always does. It is the only entity in the Arab world, all the governments included, that has been able to remain true to its word through action and military successes, even though unbalanced. It's too bad that they're as far right and conservative as they are, but as long as they liberate Arab territory, as they did all of South Lebanon, and successfully free Arab prisoners, as they did in 2004 through negotiations with Israel, they will forever have the overwhelming backing of the Arab people. Credibility is not in question when one mentions Hizballah.

What is truly interesting to me is why Israel puts such a high price on its failed objectives. What has been achieved by continuing to occupy the small sliver of Lebanese land called the Shebaa Farms and three Lebanese (not to mention hundreds of Palestinian) "prisoners" (I put that in quotes since only in Israel, and now recently in the US, are people held in jails without charges or trials and called prinsoners rather than hostages)? Surely not peace and surely not security.

Peace is in Israel hands and only in Israel hands. Hizballah's reasons for resistance could have been readily extinguished by ending the Israeli occupation of the small sliver of Lebanese land that they insist on holding on to, and releasing three Lebanese "prisoners". How is it justifiable, in any sense, that what is happening now is worth this very low cost? Had Israel done so, we would be writing now about the transformation of Hizballah into a purely political entity, the rebuilding of the Lebanese army with Hizballah's arms, and the immense increase in stability of the Lebanese government bringing a better life to Arabs and Israelis.

But time and again the Israeli Government has shown that it prefers the instability and weakness of all Arab governments, and has done everything to maintain this status quo, including getting America to fight its wars. Today Hizballah has shown the price we will all pay for Israel's arrogance and wrong-headed policies.

what are the Arabs ready to give for peace???

The Isreali's are ready to give up the territory in Southern Lebanon and Gaza not to mention parts of the west bank.

It seems like the only thing the Arab's are willing for is to eliminate the Isreali's.

It is time for the Arabs to give something for peace unless all they really want is war.

We do not understand why are there so many terror strikes going on accross the world and why are always people sharing a identical religion doing it. They need a real srugical treatment.

What a sad commentary this is. Hezbollah and Hamas leaders reading it could only conclude that Mr. Moubayed's tepid and heavily qualified criticism of them is just pro forma, so his Western friends don't start to doubt his "independence" of the Syrian government. What his Lebanese friends think his fervent admiration of the men who brought all this destruction down on their country without asking them beforehand means...well, I guess it depends on who his friends are.

How can we take anything this individual writes seriously. It seems nearly comical to write of Israel's antipathy towards the Arabs and then write this line:
"Mainly, this is out of conviction
shared by many Arab nationalists
that their war with Israel is about
the existence of the Jewish State,
and not about specific targets like
the Golan Heights and the Shebaa
Farms."
So what is Moubayed trying to say? That Israel should acquiese to those nations and organizations that seek its demise? And commit national suicide? They should do this because it fulfills some Islamic prophecy. Sorry... No.
Furthermore, how would Moubayed expect Israel to respond, when the attitude he expressed in this quote is shared by so many in the Islamic world?
"When news broke out on July 12 that
Nasrallah had carried out a heroic
operation and killed 8 Israelis,
wounded 24, and captured 2 soldiers,
I could not but smile with pride and
pleasure."

Even the Saudi Arabians have acknowledged that Hizbollah attacked the Israelis on the Israeli side of the Blue Line. They were the aggressors.

Praising Nasrallah as not a hypocrite is tantamount to saying the same thing about Osama Bin Laden or any other Islamofascist who celebrates murder of innocents.

I find it ironic that the writer is honest enough to note that Islamofascists are indeed bent on the destruction of Israel, but follows that up by telling us the Israelis are "aggressive by nature" against Arabs. It seems to me that most people would be aggressive towards someone who is trying to eradicate you.